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  • J&Ok polls in AAP’s radar subsequent? Celebration says ‘will struggle meeting elections with seriousness’

    By means of PTI

    JAMMU: Senior AAP chief and Punjab minister Harjot Singh Bains on Saturday stated his celebration goes to struggle the following meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir with all seriousness to make sure excellent governance within the Union Territory.

    Bains, who’s J&Ok election incharge of his celebration, stated winds of exchange are sweeping the area as other people from all walks of lifestyles are becoming a member of the celebration.

    “We’re assigned the duty to construct a powerful group. The paintings has already began with the becoming a member of of many distinguished faces. We can paintings to give a boost to the group and can struggle the meeting elections critically,” Bains informed journalists right here.

    He stated the celebration will determine ‘excellent applicants’ and won’t disappoint the folk.

    “We wish to reflect the great governance of Delhi and Punjab in Jammu and Kashmir. We’re certain to supply a corruption loose management, high quality schooling, well being products and services and task alternatives for the unemployed formative years,” he stated.

    Expressing happiness over the nice and cozy welcome accorded to him from Kathua to Jammu, he stated the persons are ready impatiently for the elections to occur.

    “We’ve got a construction pushed schedule and we’re going to reflect the Delhi fashion in Punjab and J&Ok as neatly. In Punjab, which may be a border state like Jammu and Kashmir and face threats of terrorism and drone incursions from around the border, has began witnessing a good construction,” he stated.

    He stated he sees winds of exchange blowing in favour of AAP in Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and in addition in Jammu and Kashmir.

  • No choice but on becoming a member of BJP or AAP: Hardik Patel

    By way of PTI

    AHMEDABAD: An afternoon after resigning from the Congress, Patidar chief Hardik Patel on Thursday stated he has no longer taken any choice but on becoming a member of every other birthday party, be it the ruling BJP in Gujarat or the brand new entrant AAP.

    Addressing a press convention right here, Patel (28) claimed the Congress had no imaginative and prescient and that leaders of the birthday party have been biased in opposition to Gujarati other people.

    Forward of the Gujarat Meeting polls due later this yr, Patel on Wednesday resigned from the Congress, claiming best leaders of the birthday party have been distracted by way of their cell phones and that Gujarat Congress leaders have been extra eager about arranging rooster sandwiches for them.

    Requested if he would sign up for the BJP or the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Celebration, Patel on Thursday stated, “I’ve no longer taken any choice as of now on becoming a member of any political birthday party, be it the BJP or AAP.”

    Hitting out on the Congress, he stated the birthday party by no means speaks anything else at the problems regarding Hindus, such because the CAA (Citizenship Modification Act) or at the factor of a ‘Shivling’ (stated to be) present in a mosque in Varanasi.

    “Additionally, the Gujarat Congress is an excessive amount of into caste-based politics. I wasted my 3 years on this birthday party,” Patel stated.

    He claimed the Congress had no imaginative and prescient and that leaders of the birthday party have been biased in opposition to Gujarati other people, like “Adani and Ambani”.

    On Wednesday, in his resignation letter to Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, he had accused the birthday party’s best management of behaving as though they hated Gujarat and Gujaratis, and stated he used to be quitting because the state Congress running president and from the birthday party’s number one club.

    Patel had received prominence in 2015 after he led the agitation looking for reservation for the Patidar group within the state.

    He used to be made the Gujarat Congress running president in July 2020.

  • Uttarakhand: AAP’s CM face in meeting polls, former running president surrender from birthday party

    By means of PTI

    DEHRADUN/NEW DELHI: Two senior AAP leaders in Uttarakhand — Colonel Ajay Kothiyal (retd) who was once leader ministerial candidate in 2022 meeting polls and previous running president of its state unit Bhoopesh Upadhyay — resigned from the birthday party on Wednesday.

    Each the leaders tendered their resignations one at a time to Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) convener and Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

    The previous military officer introduced his determination to hand over the birthday party on Twitter, posting a comfortable replica of his resignation letter at the microblogging website online.

    The AAP had suffered a rout on the hustings with Kothiyal shedding his deposit from the Gangotri meeting seat.

    “I’ve been a member of the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration from April 19, 2021 to Would possibly 18, 2022. Conserving the emotions of ex-soldiers, ex para-military group of workers, the elders, girls, youths and the intellectuals, I’m sending you my resignation on Would possibly 18,” Col Kothiyal stated in his letter addressed to Kejriwal.

    On the other hand, Upadhyay, who had joined the birthday party as a member on August 24, 2021, attributed his resignation to his disillusionment with the birthday party’s ideology.

    “After turning into the running president of AAP, I realised it was once some distance got rid of from the ideology and dealing taste it professes, ” Upadhyay stated in his letter to Kejriwal.

    He additionally described the birthday party’s provide in-charge and co-in-charge for Uttarakhand as “imposed” at the birthday party and accused them of working it just like the “brokers of East India Corporate” to reach their very own finish.

    Kothiyal is claimed to were unsatisfied with the way in which he was once being handled via the birthday party submit his electoral defeat.

    He had no longer been invited to a birthday party assembly held in New Delhi just lately to analyse its efficiency in Uttarakhand.

    AAP chief Jost Singh Bisht, who broke off his lengthy ties with the Congress just lately to sign up for the Kejriwal-led birthday party, stated Col Kothiyal’s determination to hand over the birthday party was once private.

    “He (Kothiyal) was once a number of the senior leaders of the birthday party. His determination to surrender is private as he has discussed no causes for it. Our just right needs for him for a vivid long run,” stated Bisht, who’s coordinator of the state unit of AAP.

    Saying the identify of Kothiyal for his birthday party’s leader ministerial candidate in August remaining yr, Kejriwal had then stated the verdict to select the previous military officer because the birthday party’s CM face was once in keeping with the comments gained from folks of the state.

    The AAP had large plans for Uttarakhand because it fielded applicants on the entire 70 meeting seats within the state and promised a slew of freebies to woo electorate.

    On the other hand, the birthday party may no longer open its account within the state.

  • Omission of lesson on Bhagat Singh from Karnataka college guide insult to martyr: Arvind Kejriwal

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Hitting out on the BJP govt in Karnataka over reviews about elimination of a lesson on Bhagat Singh from a faculty textbook, Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday mentioned it is an insult to the sacrifice made by means of the long-lasting freedom fighter, and demanded a roll again of the verdict.

    Taking to Twitter, the AAP nationwide convenor mentioned the rustic won’t tolerate such insult of its martyrs, and requested the BJP why “its folks” hate Bhagat Singh such a lot.

    Kejriwal’s response got here an afternoon after some organisations, together with All-India Democratic Scholars Organisation (AIDSO) and All-India Save Schooling Committee (AISEC), claimed that the Karnataka govt has unnoticed a lesson on freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and integrated a speech by means of RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in a revised Kannada textbook for college students of sophistication X.

    शहीद ए आज़म भगत सिंह जी से BJP की नफरत सबके सामने आ गई

    कम उम्र में देश के लिए जान देकर इंकलाब की लौ जलाने वाले सरदार भगत सिंह को पढ़ कर आज भी युवाओं में देशभक्ति की लहर दौड़ जाती है

    देश भक्ति के इसी जज़्बे से डर के मारे BJP की रूह कांपती है https://t.co/QH4w764rcM

    — Bhagwant Mann (@BhagwantMann) Might 17, 2022

    “Why do BJP folks hate Amar Shaheed Sardar Bhagat Singh ji such a lot? Elimination of Sardar Bhagat Singh ji’s identify from college books is an insult to the sacrifice of the amar shaheed. The rustic won’t tolerate such humiliation of its martyrs in any respect. The BJP govt should take again this resolution,” Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi.

    The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) referred to as the elimination of the bankruptcy on Bhagat Singh from the Kannada textbook “shameful” and demanded that the Karnataka govt repair the lesson within the college textbook.

    SHAMEFUL

    BJP’s Karnataka government REMOVES bankruptcy on Bhagat Singh ji from College Books!

    Why does BJP hate Shaheed-E-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh ji such a lot?

    BJP will have to take again this resolution. India won’t tolerate such humiliation of our Freedom Combatants!https://t.co/5kz9lbpOKc

    — AAP (@AamAadmiParty) Might 17, 2022

    “SHAMEFUL. BJP’s Karnataka government REMOVES bankruptcy on Bhagat Singh ji from College Books. Why does BJP hate Shaheed-E-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh ji such a lot? BJP will have to take again this resolution. India won’t tolerate such humiliation of our freedom combatants,” the celebration tweeted from its respectable Twitter deal with.

    Karnataka Number one and Secondary Schooling Minister BC Nagesh has defended the inclusion of a speech by means of Hedgewar in a revised Kannada textbook for college students of sophistication X.

    Nagesh has mentioned the textbook does no longer comprise anything else about Hedgewar or RSS, however most effective his speech on what will have to be an inspiration to folks, particularly the formative years, and that those that have raised objections have no longer long past throughout the textbook.

  • Punjab Congress to release statewide marketing campaign to “wake” AAP government from its ‘honeymoon shut eye’

    By means of PTI

    CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Congress on Monday stated it’s going to quickly release a statewide marketing campaign to “wake” the AAP executive from its “honeymoon shut eye” and remind the birthday celebration of its pre-poll guarantees.

    After presiding over a gathering of the birthday celebration’s mayors, senior deputy mayors and deputy mayors, the Congress’ state unit running president Bharat Bhushan Ashu claimed that individuals had been offended with this executive.

    Consistent with a Congress commentary, he accused the AAP executive of “doing not anything except for indulging in hole talks”.

    “However we can get it of their minds that they’re in energy and now it’s time to ship at the guarantees,” Ashu stated, including the Congress will move to any extent to convey this executive out of its “honeymoon shut eye”.

    Concerning the assembly on Monday, Ashu stated the birthday celebration sought after to take comments from the mayors, senior deputy mayors and deputy mayors concerning the scenario within the state, in particular its towns.

    He stated other people had been totally “alienated and upset” with the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration executive because it had “failed” in all its guarantees and commitments made prior to the elections.

    “What are we able to discuss unfastened energy. Even within the city spaces other people don’t seem to be getting paid energy whilst the agricultural spaces are totally drowned in darkness on this sizzling summer time,” Ashu stated.

    The Congress will quickly release a statewide marketing campaign to remind the federal government of its guarantees because the “honeymoon length” is already over, he stated.

    In the meantime, SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday slammed the AAP executive over the alleged breakdown of legislation and order in Punjab because it got here to energy two months in the past and stated he was once stunned on the approach during which the state was once being “misgoverned”.

    “Punjab has witnessed 27 murders. As many as 24 farmers have dedicated suicide and 61 youths have misplaced their lives because of drug overdose. As a substitute of offering succour to the typical guy and making sure the rule of thumb of legislation prevails. Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann is conserving phony photo-ops in Chandigarh,” the Shiromani Akali Dal leader alleged in a commentary right here.

    “If that is the alternate the AAP had promised, then Punjabis are in for probably the most worst stages within the historical past of the state,” he stated.

    Badal additionally accused the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration of deceptive the folk of the state to protected their votes.

    He alleged the birthday celebration had no aim of tackling the drug risk.

    Badal additional demanded that the Centre elevate the ban at the export of wheat.

    He claimed farmers had been being victimised and being denied the advantage of upper export costs.

    It appears, the similar good judgment was once now not implemented to metal and cement exports, he stated.

    “Now we have witnessed a steep build up in metal and cement costs after their export was once allowed by means of the Centre, which has benefitted corporates.

    However wheat isn’t being allowed to be exported as a result of farmers don’t have any voice within the executive,” he added.

    Badal stated permitting the export of wheat would have allowed farmers to get better the losses suffered because of low yields because of unseasonal rains and prime temperatures.

    He stated the AAP executive has did not get the phenomenon declared as a herbal calamity.

    The state executive must take in the reason for farmers forcefully with the Centre and insist a reimbursement of Rs 500 in line with quintal for them.

    “No longer doing so may have an hostile have an effect on at the agricultural financial system of the state and impact all stakeholders,” he added.

    India has banned wheat exports as a part of measures to keep watch over emerging home costs.

    The Directorate Basic of International Business (DGFT) stated in a notification dated Might 13, “The export coverage of wheat is against the law with speedy impact.”

    On the other hand, the export shipments for which irrevocable letters of credit score (LoC) were issued on or prior to the date of this notification shall be allowed, the DGFT stated.

  • Kejriwal looking to ‘scare, blackmail’ other people over the anti-encroachment pressure: BJP

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Delhi BJP Monday accused Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal of looking to “scare and blackmail” other people over the civic our bodies’ anti-encroachment pressure, and stated town’s bona fide citizens is probably not harmed even supposing they reside in unauthorised colonies or slum clusters.

    Then again, Bangladeshis, Rohingyas, rioters and the ones interested by unlawful actions, “who’re safe via the Aam Aadmi Celebration”, is probably not spared, he stated.

    His observation got here after Kejriwal claimed at a press briefing that the BJP-ruled municipal firms have deliberate to demolish homes and retail outlets which might be regarded as unlawful, and that may render 63 lakh other people homeless.

    In reaction, Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta addressed a press convention, accusing Kejriwal of “merely feigning lack of knowledge”, and “mendacity, as soon as once more”. “Kejriawal has expressed his ache so I need to guarantee that no Bangladeshis, Rohingyas, rioters and the ones interested by unlawful actions and who’re safe via AAP, shall be spared,” he stated.

    However no bona fide Delhiite dwelling in unauthorised colonies or slum clusters had to fear because the BJP and the Modi executive stand with them, he stated.

    Kejriwal does now not need to face the reality over the anti-encroachment pressure, he stated. “As soon as once more, Kejriwal has attempted to scare the folks of Delhi. This blackmailing is not going to proceed Kejriwal ji, other people understand how giant a liar you’re! There don’t seem to be 63 lakh homes in Delhi as you might have claimed,” he stated.

    The Modi executive has given possession rights to 40 lakh other people in uanuthorised colonies, which the AAP may just now not do regardless of being in energy for over seven years, he stated.

    “The Kejriwal executive saved the report for regularisation of unauthorised colonies and Jahan Jhuggi Wahan Makan scheme information for 3-4 years,” he charged. He stated the BJP helped other people and labored for the advance of town throughout the birthday celebration’s 15-year rule within the 3 municipal firms.

    Gupta additionally charged that AAP MLAs and volunteers have been tough cash from other people via “scaring them and promising assist” in saving their homes from demolition.

    “I’ve won lawsuits from Paschim Vihar and Burari. AAP MLAs are indulged on this reprehensible factor asking volunteers of the birthday celebration to visit other people to inform them that their homes shall be demolished and insist cash from them to avoid wasting them,” he alleged.

    Gupta charged the Kejriwal executive sat over the ‘Jahan Jhuggi Wahan Makan’, or in-situ slum rehabilitation, scheme for 4 years, ahead of the Centre took it ahead and readied 15,000 homes to this point.

    In his press convention previous, Kejriwal had slammed the anti-encroachment pressure being performed in more than a few portions of town via the BJP-ruled municipal firms, announcing if bulldozers raze retail outlets and homes of 63 lakh other people in Delhi which might be regarded as unlawful it’ll be the “largest destruction” in unbiased India.

    At a gathering with Aam Aadmi Celebration MLAs at the subject, he instructed them that they must oppose the anti-encroachment pressure even supposing that supposed going to the prison.

  • Mundka fireplace: Oppn calls for probe into alleged extend in firefighting, needs reimbursement raised

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Opposition BJP and Congress on Saturday demanded a high-level inquiry into the Mundka fireplace tragedy and an building up within the reimbursement to the households of the sufferers.

    The Delhi BJP sought a probe through a retired excessive courtroom pass judgement on because it alleged laxity at the a part of companies involved and a extend in offering well timed assist.

    The birthday party’s Delhi unit president Adesh Gupta stated if the hearth tenders had reached the spot on time, many lives would had been stored. Thus far, 27 deaths had been reported within the blaze and officers stated the toll may just upward push. “If cranes and ladders had arrived on time, folks do not have jumped from the roof,” Gupta claimed.

    Officers of Delhi Fireplace Products and services stated that the firefighting and rescue paintings used to be affected because of heavy site visitors and the congested location of the construction that used to be engulfed in fireplace.

    Chief of Opposition in Delhi meeting Ramvir Singh Bidhuri additionally requested for a probe into the alleged extend through fireplace tenders in achieving there and different violations.

    “It will have to be investigated why the hearth brigade arrived overdue. Whilst the details about the incident used to be given at 4:40 PM on Friday, the folks provide there stated that the hearth brigade got here overdue through an hour. Even the police needed to perform the rescue operation with the assistance of native folks,” Bidhuri claimed.

    The BJP leaders, together with Gupta, visited the web site of the hearth incident and met the family members of the deceased and injured. Birthday celebration MLA Vijender Gupta and native MP Hans Raj Hans additionally visited the realm.

    Gupta claimed that about 100 folks had been feared lifeless within the fireplace on the construction the place a minimum of 200 folks had been provide on the time of the incident.

    Delhi Congress leaders demanded that the AAP govt building up the reimbursement quantity for the households of the deceased to Rs 25 lakh and for the injured to Rs 5 lakh.

    Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal who visited Mundka introduced a reimbursement of Rs 10 lakh to the family members of the deceased and Rs 50,000 for the injured. He additionally directed a magisterial probe into the incident.

    Chairman of the communications division of the Delhi Congress Anil Bhardwaj demanded elevating the reimbursement quantity and stated that the Delhi govt will have to grasp an inquiry as well timed motion will have stored many lives.

    Birthday celebration chief Parvez Alam alleged that corruption perceived to have taken position in giving the finishing touch certificates to the construction. “If there used to be no fireplace clearance, how used to be the construction allowed to serve as as a industrial hub,” he stated.

  • Kejriwal guarantees loose pilgrimage, loose energy if AAP bureaucracy government in Gujarat

    Through PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration convener and Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday promised loose pilgrimage for senior electorate to more than a few spiritual puts, together with Ayodhya, if the AAP was once voted to energy in Gujarat, and accused the ruling BJP of “failure” on more than one fronts in spite of being in energy within the state for almost 3 many years.

    He additionally promised loose electrical energy, higher colleges and hospitals if the AAP bureaucracy the following govt in Gujarat, the place the Meeting polls are due through the year-end.

    Addressing a rally in Rajkot town, Kejriwal accused the BJP of “failing” on training, well being and employment fronts in Gujarat all the way through its lengthy rule within the state.

    “Even though the BJP is in energy for 27 years in Gujarat, it hasn’t ever despatched a unmarried particular person on pilgrimage. In Delhi, we despatched 50,000 individuals on pilgrimage in 3 years below our scheme. If voted to energy right here (in Gujarat), we will be able to take each aged citizen to spiritual puts free of charge,” stated Kejriwal.

    The AAP chief, whose celebration just lately shaped its govt in Punjab, requested the folks of Gujarat to offer his outfit an opportunity to manipulate the state, a BJP stronghold.

    “The AAP is a celebration of trained, fair and patriotic other people. I beg the folks to offer us one likelihood, a minimum of to wreck the ego of the BJP. If you don’t to find our paintings enough, you might be loose to select another celebration afterwards,” he added.

  • ‘AAP will have won investment from Khalistani chief’, alleges HP Congress chief

    Via PTI

    SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh Congress president Pratibha Singh on Tuesday alleged that Khalistani chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun may have performed a very powerful function in investment the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP).

    Pratibha Singh in a remark requested the AAP to show its resources of investment.

    Terming her remark “unlucky”, state AAP spokesperson Gaurav Sharma stated, “Individuals who are living in homes of glass, don’t throw stones at others homes.”

    “AAP’s reputation and base is on the upward push in Himachal Pradesh, this is the reason each, the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress, are feeling insecure,” he stated. “For this reason, Pratibha Singh is issuing baseless remark referring to AAP’s investment which doesn’t go well with her,” Sharma stated.

    Pratibha Singh additionally expressed worry over ‘Sikh For Justice’ Normal Suggest Gurpatwant Singh Pannun’s danger to Himachal Pradesh in an audio message and referred to as for his instant arrest. She stated it was once “shameful” that the foreign-based extremist is issuing open threats to the rustic and the state, however the govt was once “doing not anything”.

    Pratibha Singh, an MP from Mandi, stated Pannun has previous additionally threatened the state govt however not anything was once finished even then.

    Disregarding her fees as futile, Sharma stated there was once a wish to care for “the anti-national forces” jointly within the “nationwide and the state pastime”. He stated that AAP has been challenging Pannun’s arrest for a very long time.

    Previous, Pannun in an audio messages threatened the state leader minister of violence within the state if he stops the elevating of the Khalistani flag in Dharamshala.

    In his message, he boasted in regards to the Monday RPG assault at Punjab Police intelligence headquarters in Mohali, and stated “it would had been Shimla additionally”.

  • BJP chief hotels grievance with Punjab Police towards Kejriwal for objectionable remarks towards PM

    By means of PTI

    CHANDIGARGH: BJP chief and previous IAS officer Jagmohan Singh Raju on Tuesday stated he has lodged a grievance with the Punjab Police towards AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly making objectionable remarks towards Top Minister Narendra Modi.

    In his grievance lodged with police in Mohali, Raju stated he got here throughout a video on social media wherein Kejriwal made “extremely hectic, surprising and seditious” remarks towards the high minister throughout a rally. Raju had unsuccessfully fought the 2022 state meeting polls from the Amritsar East constituency.

    In his grievance, Raju claimed that Kejriwal, in his remarks, had accused PM Modi of getting an working out with Pakistan and alleged that the AAP chief was once making an attempt to carry hatred, contempt, disaffection towards the elected govt along with his remarks.

    “Such statements, being made to the general public at massive are extremely provocative, insinuating and willfully instigative through an incumbent leader minister of the capital of this nation,” stated Raju in his grievance.

    “Such unfairly and unfoundedly allegations against the high minister have upper bearing of inflicting instability and team spirit and that too through an individual who’s the executive minister and his assertions might raise weight within the minds of people that differently might forget about such statements made through an unusual baby-kisser,” stated Raju. He steered the police to do so towards the Delhi leader minister.