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  • BJP govt seeking to grab away rights of commonplace other folks: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday took a dig on the BJP-led govt on the Centre for its try to introduce the Nationwide Sign in of Electorate (NRC) and Nationwide Inhabitants Sign in (NPR) within the nation and stated it used to be an try to “grab away” the rights of the typical guy.

    She stated the Centre is promoting off the rustic by way of disinvesting governmental considerations and expressed worry over a lot of the folks within the state of affairs.

    “Farmers don’t seem to be getting the minimal toughen worth they usually (the Centre) are promoting Railways, SAIL, Air India, Coal India and the whole lot. If the rustic itself is bought, then how will its other folks continue to exist?,” Banerjee stated at a state govt programme the place freehold name deeds had been passed over to eligible refugee households.

    Maintaining her condemnation of the BJP, the TMC supremo, who’s one in all its strident critics, stated “They (the BJP) don’t give other folks their rights, to the contrary take them away within the identify of NRC and NPR. We (TMC) don’t grab away the rights of the folks as a result of we imagine that it’s the Charter which has given it,” she added.

    Banerjee stated that folks within the nation weren’t getting justice and makes an attempt had been being performed to “modify” the rustic’s historical past and demolish its heritage.

    “Folks don’t get justice…They’re being instructed lies. The historical past of the rustic is being altered abruptly, heritage is being demolished. Ladies, minorities, SCs, STs and OBCs are being tortured. There are makes an attempt to make other folks overlook the unique root of the Hindu faith,” she stated.

    The manager minister used to be additionally crucial concerning the Centre’s position in fighting Covid-19 and alleged that the countrywide vaccination power used to be not on time by way of it.

    “You (Centre) don’t seem to be ashamed that such a lot of lives had been misplaced within the pandemic. You not on time offering vaccines to the folks. At the certificate for Covid vaccinations you might be printing (PM) Modiji’s images. After which you’re taking credit score for vaccinating the folks!” she stated.

    Wondering the spending of the PM Care Fund has been spent, Banerjee stated that the Centre used to be now not paying the states their dues.

    “You (the Centre) give price range to the state from the taxpayers’ cash and that still behind schedule. We (Bengal) are but to obtain Rs 80,000-90,000 crore,” she stated.

    The feisty chief additionally fired a contemporary salvo on the Centre’s central vista mission and the hologram statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on the India Gate in New Delhi, which she stated, has long past “lacking”.

    “In Delhi the BJP is destroying the whole lot. That they had lately publish a hologram statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose however now even that’s not there,” she mocked.

  • Bail to Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son in Lakhimpur Kheri violence case: Rakesh Tikait says BJP’s ‘petty politics’

    By way of PTI

    NOIDA: Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) leader Jayant Chaudhary hit out on the “device” on Thursday for granting bail to Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra, an accused within the Lakhimpur Kheri violence that claimed 8 lives together with that of 4 farmers, inside 4 months of the incident.

    Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait dubbed the advance because the “BJP’s petty politics” and mentioned farmers would attraction in opposition to the verdict to grant bail to Ashish Mishra in the next court docket.

    Tikait, the spokesperson of the BKU and a outstanding face of the farmers’ agitation, is assumed to have brokered a truce between the native villagers and govt government within the aftermath of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.

    “Kya vyavastha hai!! Char kisano ko raunda, char mahine mein zamanat…(What a device! Mowed down 4 farmers, were given bail in 4 months),” Chaudhary mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.

    The RLD president had met the households of the 4 farmers who have been killed on October 3, 2021 within the Tikunia space of Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh once they have been knocked down by means of a jeep.

    Ashish Mishra, an accused within the case, was once granted bail by means of the Allahabad Top Court docket on Thursday.

    “Minister Ajay Teni’s son Ashish has were given bail within the Lakhimpur Kheri homicide case. That is simply an instance of the BJP’s petty politics. We think about the justice device. Will attraction in the next court docket. We will be able to make farmers and children around the nation acutely aware of the atrocities and injustices being dedicated on farmers,” Tikait tweeted in Hindi.

    BKU spokesperson Saurabh Upadhyay described the court docket order granting bail to the minister’s son as an “undemocratic assault” at the “democracy” within the nation.

    “Is it that straightforward for other people charged with homicide to get bail?” he requested and hit out on the Centre for no longer asking the minister to step down from his put up.

    “When will the farmers of the rustic get justice?” Upadhyay requested whilst noting that the federal government is but to ship at the guarantees it had made to farmers, who ended their year-long anti-farm rules protest in December 2021.

    Opposition events and farmers’ teams were tough the resignation of Ajay Mishra because the Union minister of state for house affairs within the wake of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.

    They have got additionally voiced their apprehension that being a Union minister, Mishra may just affect the investigation within the case by which 8 other people — 4 farmers, two BJP employees, a motive force and a journalist — have been killed.

  • Why paper leak circumstances in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana now not given to CBI: Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot asks BJP

    Via PTI

    JAIPUR: Condemning the behaviour of the BJP within the meeting at the REET factor, Rajasthan Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday requested the Saffron birthday party why the paper leak circumstances in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana weren’t given to CBI.

    The BJP is tough the CBI inquiry within the REET paper leak and saved growing an uproar within the Space with the call for, resulting in 4 adjournments.

    Later, 4 BJP MLAs have been additionally suspended for the remainder of the consultation because of the ruckus on Thursday.

    The manager minister stated the BJP does now not need dialogue on construction problems, subsequently, growing disruption within the court cases of the Space.

    “BJP leaders of the state are repeatedly growing ruckus on the behest of somebody in order that well timed recruitments aren’t executed and they may be able to defame the federal government. On this means, as a substitute of discussing the problems of construction of the state, the opposition is doing the paintings of tarnishing the honour of the home,” he tweeted in Hindi.

    The CM stated the BJP instigated the youths and created one of those violent surroundings because of which the REET Stage 2 examination used to be cancelled by means of the federal government.

    “I stated previous additionally that arranged gangs of paper leaks, making pretend levels and so on., in several states are inflicting issues in all examinations, ” he stated.

    Gehlot stated papers of Police Constable examination in Haryana, SDO, RAEO and Nurse Recruitment Examination in Madhya Pradesh, Daroga Recruitment in UP, UPPCL Recruitment, UP Decrease Subordinate Examination, Village Building Officer, UP PAT, UP TET Examination, UGC NET 2021, NEET performed by means of Central Executive, SSC-CGL recruitment, basic accountability recruitment within the Military, and so on., have been leaked and the entire examinations needed to be cancelled.

    “Simplest the businesses there investigated the paper leaks within the states. BJP will have to inform why the investigation of some of these recruitments used to be now not given to CBI?” he requested.

    The REET examination used to be held in September closing yr.

    After it got here to mild that the paper used to be leaked, the BJP raised the call for for the CBI inquiry, whilst alleging the involvement of a few ministers and bureaucrats within the leak.

    Particular Operation Crew of Rajasthan Police is carrying out the investigation within the case and has arrested round 38 individuals up to now.

    The state govt just lately cancelled degree 2 of the REET -2021.

    Gehlot additionally stated that the Non-Secretariat Clerk examination proposed on thirteenth February in Gujarat has been postponed these days.

    He stated this examination has been postponed 3 times in 4 years.

  • Make a choice executive with warning as you do whilst solving marriage: Nadda tells UP electorate

    Through PTI

    BISWAN: As Uttar Pradesh voted for the primary segment of the meeting polls, BJP president J P Nadda on Thursday stated electorate will have to make a selection a central authority in accordance with previous performances moderately than guarantees, simply as marriages are fastened after making an intensive enquiry.

    Addressing a rally within the Biswan house of Sitapur district, Nadda claimed that the BJP is the one nationwide celebration left within the nation, whilst the others had been diminished to a circle of relatives or a area.

    “Electorate will have to no longer pass judgement on political events through what they promise however moderately through what they have got performed up to now.”

    “While you cross to mend a wedding, you do it after enquiring the whole lot. So if you find yourself deciding on a central authority for 5 years, you should in finding out concerning the celebration this is coming to energy,” Nadda stated.

    Taking a swipe at political competitors, he stated, “Inform me whether or not the Nationwide Convention and the PDP are events of households or no longer? In Haryana, is not the Lok Dal a celebration of a circle of relatives? In Uttar Pradesh, is not the Samajwadi Birthday celebration of 1 circle of relatives?” “Is not the RJD in Bihar a celebration of a circle of relatives? In West Bengal, the celebration of Mamata (Banerjee) belongs to a circle of relatives, is it no longer,” he additional requested.

    Nadda then went on to call the Biju Janata Dal in Odisha, the TDP and the YSR Congress in Andhra Pradesh, KCR’s celebration in Telangana, the DMK in Tamil Nadu, but even so the Shiv Sena and the NCP in Maharashtra.

    The India Nationwide Congress has been confined to a couple states, he added.

    “It’s not a countrywide celebration. It has grow to be the celebration of brother and sister,” Nadda stated in a jibe on the celebration.

    Whilst different political events search votes at the foundation of caste and area, BJP is the one celebration that talks of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas”, he stated.

    “We by no means requested for any person’s caste prior to opening their Jan Dhan accounts or offering loose fuel cylinders underneath the Ujjawala scheme. We have now additionally constructed homes and supplied possession of those space to ladies. We have now performed ladies empowerment through doing so,” Nadda stated.

    He stated the BJP has arrange two All India Institutes of Scientific Research in Uttar Pradesh.

    But even so, Uttar Pradesh is the one state with 5 world airports, he stated, including that the celebration should be elected to energy once more to make sure this developmental paintings continues.

    “We have now additionally asserted that we will be able to stay the state freed from riots, terrorists and people who improve them,” he stated, relating to the saffron celebration’s manifesto for the state.

    Anti-terrorist coaching centres are being built in Deoband, Meerut, Kanpur, Azamgarh and Bahraich to make sure that other people reside in a terror-free surroundings, the BJP leader added.

    He stated loads of riots took place underneath the Samajwadi Birthday celebration executive however none came about within the final 5 years underneath the management of Yogi Adityanath with blessings of Narendra Modi.

    Speaking concerning the Muzaffarnagar riots, Nadda stated 93 other people have been killed in it, and the court docket had stated that the legislation and order had failed to forestall it.

    “Akhilesh Yadav known as the primary accused of the ones riots and attempted to avoid wasting them at the route of Azam Khan,” he alleged.

    Hitting out at Yadav, Nadda stated as leader minister, he had taken again circumstances towards the accused for the bomb blasts in Gorakhpur.

    In every other incident, a CRPF camp in Rampur was once attacked during which seven infantrymen have been killed.

    Seven other people have been arrested within the case however Akhilesh Yadav attempted to take again the case towards them at the route of the one who is these days preventing the election from prison, Nadda claimed, it seems that relating to Azam Khan.

    “Akhilesh safeguarded terrorists regardless of taking oath of the Charter. The guideline of the SP was once a dismal segment for Uttar Pradesh,” he claimed.

  • Amid JDU vs BJP standoff, Bihar MP calls for particular class standing for state

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: JD(U) MP Chandeshwar Prasad demanded the standing of particular class state (SCS) for Bihar whilst lauding the federal government for the Union Finances, at the same time as Congress MP Mohammad Jawed hit out on the Centre over the lowered allocations in schooling and farming sectors.

    Taking part within the debate at the funds within the Lok Sabha, Prasad mentioned the funds lead the way for India to emerge as a pacesetter within the world marketplace.

    YSRCP MP Kuruva Gorantla Madhav accused the federal government of turning a “blind eye” in opposition to the desires of Andhra Pradesh and mentioned after the state’s bifurcation, it anticipated extra allocations.

    “We’re caught at this level the place we can’t make a decision wether to toughen the funds or no longer,” he mentioned.

    Prasad additionally demanded that his constituency Jahanabad be incorporated within the record of aspirational districts and the rivers there be introduced beneath the Namami Gange scheme.

    “There was a historical build up in infrastructure allocations and this may occasionally be sure India emerges as a pacesetter within the world marketplace,” he mentioned.

    Congress’ Jawed alleged that all through the tenure of this executive whilst 70 lakh MSMEs had closed down, 9 lakh professional Indians renounced their citizenships.

    “The 3 backbones of a rustic, schooling, farming and employment, were omitted. The focal point of this executive is to win elections via no matter manner. A lie does no longer transform the reality, unsuitable does not transform proper and evil does no longer transform just right as a result of it’s supported by way of the bulk,” he mentioned.

    He demanded that the Centre unencumber the price range allotted for the Aligarh Muslim College (AMU), a central college in Kishanganj (Bihar) which has been pending for a while.

    Shiv Sena MP Rahul Shewale alleged that the funds has been unfair to Mumbai whilst benefitting Ahmedabad.

    He steered the railway minister to withdraw the notices despatched to slum dwellers residing on railway land and supply them housing beneath the Pradhan Mantri Awaz Yojana.

    He additionally demanded that the federal government amplify the Atal Pension Scheme to incorporate extra senior voters as it’s estimated that by way of 2026 India could have 17.3 crore other people above the age of 60 years.

    TMC MP Pratima Mandal mentioned the funds didn’t have any direct receive advantages for the typical other people and in addition demanded that the MPLAD price range be hiked.

  • Punjab polls: Congress didn’t ship justice to sufferers of 1984 riots, says Smriti Irani

    Through PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Union minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday attacked the Congress, accusing it of now not handing over justice to the sufferers of 1984 anti-Sikh riots and mentioned it was once the BJP executive which put the responsible at the back of bars.

    Irani additionally hit out at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for allegedly supporting those that gave the slogan of “dividing the rustic” and mentioned vote casting for the birthday celebration approach vote casting for individuals who need to divide the rustic.

    Addressing a meeting in Ludhiana, Irani mentioned the Congress, when it was once in energy on the Centre, failed to make sure justice to the sufferers of 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

    “Relating to justice, who can overlook 1984 riots? For 30 years, those that misplaced their very own members of the family waited for justice. They saved looking ahead to the punishment for individuals who had been desirous about it,” she mentioned.

    The minister requested the Congress why it might now not ship those that had been desirous about 1984 anti-Sikh riots to prison.

    “For 30 years, the justice, which the Congress may now not ship, was once delivered by way of the BJP executive,” she mentioned.

    She mentioned 300 instances had been reopened and chargesheets had been filed and added, “The ones leaders who stood shoulder to shoulder with the Gandhi circle of relatives after the riots are as of late at the back of bars.”

    Irani accused Gandhi of supporting the ones individuals who gave a slogan of dividing the rustic.

    She additional mentioned for this reason High Minister Narendra Modi mentioned in Parliament that Congress’ scenario is such that it has develop into the chief of the ‘tukde tukde gang’.

    With out naming Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, she mentioned the Congress gave the command of its state unit to an individual who hugged the executive of the enemy military.

    She was once regarding the 2018 incident when Sidhu had courted controversy by way of hugging Pakistan Military Leader Qamar Javed Bajwa all over his consult with to Pakistan for the swearing-in rite of Imran Khan because the top minister.

    Taking a jibe at Sidhu, she mentioned, “His goals of changing into the chief (Congress’s leader ministerial face) had been shattered by way of his personal leaders.”

    The Congress had declared Charanjit Singh Channi as its leader ministerial candidate for the approaching state meeting polls.

    Sidhu was once additionally the contender for turning into the CM face.

    It seems that regarding the method of declaration of the CM face, she mentioned, within the Congress birthday celebration, a “particular circle of relatives” chooses who’s to be the chief (CM face).

    “They (Congress leaders) imagine a circle of relatives as their birthday celebration,” she mentioned.

  • BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari desires to go back to our birthday party: Trinamool Congress spokesman Kunal Ghosh

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh on Wednesday claimed that Chief of the Opposition in West Bengal meeting, Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP, is raring to go back to the TMC, discovering himself suffocated within the saffron birthday party.

    Then again, the TMC won’t take him again as a result of his “abusive feedback” in opposition to state Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee and TMC nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee after becoming a member of the BJP, Ghosh informed journalists.

    In reaction, Adhikari who had surrender the TMC and joined the BJP in December 2020 forward of the meeting election stated that he does now not respond to remarks of individuals who had been accused in graft instances.

    Describing Sabyasachi Datta, a TMC candidate within the Bidhannagar Municipal Company election, as a ‘chameleon’, Adhikari not too long ago stated it used to be a mistake at the a part of the BJP to offer him price ticket for the meeting polls.

    Dutta surrender the TMC in 2019, unsuccessfully contested as a BJP candidate within the 2021 meeting polls and returned to his former birthday party later.

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    Requested to touch upon Adhikari’s grievance of Dutta, Ghosh stated, “Suvendu is affected by super psychological melancholy as his goals at the back of becoming a member of the BJP were beaten. We have now data that he desires to come back again to the TMC at the side of two-three different leaders he had taken alongside “However our doorways aren’t open for individuals like Suvendu.”

    Ghosh additionally claimed that Adhikari had left the TMC to keep away from raids by way of central making an investment companies as his identify had surfaced in ponzi scams. Responding to Ghosh’s claims, Adhikari stated, “I do not respond to feedback by way of other people accused in graft instances and imprisoned previously.”

    Ghosh, a journalist-turned-TMC chief, used to be arrested within the Saradha chit fund rip-off in 2013 and were imprisoned. He were given bail in 2016 and used to be appointed the state birthday party spokesperson in 2020.

  • Samajwadi Birthday party vows to make UP farmers debt-free via 2025, BJP guarantees 3 crore jobs

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    LUCKNOW:  Two days earlier than the primary vote is solid within the Uttar Pradesh elections, the ruling BJP and the Samajwadi Birthday party, the largest avid gamers within the ring, promised numerous freebies essentially centered at farmers, girls and the marginalised sections. The BJP, after all, garnished its providing with Hindutva.

    In all, the BJP’s manifesto had 130 guarantees as towards 200 in 2017, 92% of which it claimed it had fulfilled. Each events courted farmers in a large method, the BJP to tamp down their anger and the SP to maximize its agrarian vote doable. Each introduced loose energy for cultivation, the minimal reinforce value regime and fee to cane farmers inside a fortnight. The SP went many paces forward to vow making farmers debt-free via 2025.

    In a similar way, each events introduced two LPG cylinders loose for each and every connection once a year, with the BJP specifying when they’ll be equipped — on Holi and Diwali, injecting a refined Hindutva component. 
    To counter the narrative of hovering unemployment, the BJP promised 3 crore jobs, together with a role to a member of each and every circle of relatives, within the subsequent 5 years.

    To attract younger electorate, the BJP promised loose Scooty to university going meritorious women. It additionally promised two crore drugs and good telephones to graduate and Magnificence 12 scholars and loose training to these making ready for aggressive tests. But even so, loose go back and forth in all govt buses to girls above 60 years of age was once promised.

    As for the SP, it confident 33% reservation to girls in govt jobs, together with within the police division. The birthday party’s manifesto additionally promised loose schooling for ladies from number one categories until post-graduation. Laptops to all clearing their Magnificence 12 Forums with extra cash doles to ladies who achieve this have been a part of the wishlist.

    The BJP’s arduous Hindutva was once mirrored within the promise to prison violators of the state’s ‘love jihad’ legislation for 10 years. It additionally promised to arrange a Ramayan College for analysis on tradition, shastras and Lord Ram in Ayodhya. A board for welfare schemes for saints, clergymen and purohits was once additionally promised.

    Who’s providing what

    Bharatiya Janata Birthday party
    Unfastened go back and forth to girls over 60 years of age
    To double the selection of girls group of workers in UPPSC and different executive jobs
    Modernisation of 30,000 secondary faculties and faculties
    No less than one activity/activity alternative to each and every circle of relatives
    Filling of all vacancies in executive sector
    Hiring 6,000 medical doctors, 10,000 para meds
    Clinical faculty in each and every district

    Samajwadi Birthday party
    Farmers to be made debt-free via 2025
    Households of farmers killed all through farm agitation gets Rs 25 lakh each and every
    City employment ensure Act to be introduced in at the traces of the MGNREGS
    Rs 36,000 one-time dole to ladies clearing Magnificence 12 Forums
    Samajwadi Pension Yojana of Rs 18,000 according to annum for 1 crore households
    Samajwadi Canteen to supply Rs 10 thali

  • Suvendu Adhikari’s brother Soumendu now not given BJP price ticket in West Bengal municipal ballot

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: BJP has now not given price ticket to Soumendu Adhikari, who had joined the saffron birthday celebration following the footsteps of his elder brother and Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, for the February 27 municipal ballot in Kanthi elevating eyebrows in political circles in West Bengal.

    With this Kanthi municipality in Purba Medinipur district won’t have a contestant from the Adhikari circle of relatives for the primary time in 3 a long time.

    Soumendu Adhikari used to be a former chairman of the municipality sooner than he joined BJP in January 2021.

    He have been its administrator until 2020 after the civic frame’s time period had expired a 12 months in the past.

    Soumendu, who’s the secretary of BJP’s Kanthi organisational committee, rubbished speculations in political circles about his now not being fielded via the birthday celebration.

    “We (BJP) do not consider within the tradition of vesting the accountability of working a municipalty to the similar circle of relatives eternally. For me this is dynastic politics and BJP does now not consider in it,” he mentioned.

    Taking a swipe on the ruling TMC, Soumendu mentioned “We (BJP) don’t seem to be a non-public restricted corporate like any other birthday celebration. We can win Kanthi if there’s no intimidation or terror on election day”.

    Throughout the marketing campaign for the 2021 state ballot BJP had regularly described TMC as a non-public restricted corporate run via its supremo Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and birthday celebration basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

    Soumendu’s father Sisir Adhikari, an MP, used to be the chairman of Kanthi municipality from 1990 to 2005 and Suvendu Adhikari occupied the submit from 2006 to 2010.

    Soumendu have been on the helm of the civic frame since then to 2020.

    Senior TMC chief Firhad Hakim when requested mentioned, “Merely put he’s fearful of shedding. Therefore he does now not need to contest”.

  • Congress family-centric birthday celebration, most effective BJP works for all sections of society: JP Nadda tells Uttarakhand electorate

    JP Nadda mentioned BJP works for all sections of society and appealed to other people to vote it again to energy in Uttarakhand for uninterrupted construction.