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  • BJP takes out rally in Mahua Moitra’s constituency, seeks her arrest for remarks on Goddess Kali

    By way of PTI

    KRISHNA NAGAR: Chief of Opposition in Bengal and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari on Monday took out a rally in TMC MP Mahua Moitra’s Krishnanagar constituency to protest in opposition to her fresh remarks on Goddess Kali.

    Adhikari and several other BJP leaders, throughout the rally, raised slogans in opposition to Moitra and sought her arrest for “hurting sentiments” of Hindu devotees.

    Addressing the rally, he stated, “Regardless of a number of court cases, the police and the state management were mute spectators. The folk of this nation and the Hindu devotees would possibly not tolerate the insult of Goddess Kali.”

    “The TMC govt and the state police were very energetic in in quest of motion in opposition to Nupur Sharma. However they have got no longer taken any step in opposition to Moitra. There cannot be a unique algorithm for BJP and TMC leaders. We can stay up for a couple of days after which transfer the courtroom,” the saffron camp MLA stated.

    The parliamentarian brought about an argument remaining week as she stated that she had each proper as a person to consider Goddess Kali as a meat-eating and alcohol-accepting goddess, and that each and every particular person had his or distinctive means of providing prayers.

    The TMC had condemned the statement and stated that it didn’t endorse the TMC MP’s perspectives in any respect.

    Moitra is a first-time MP from the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha seat.

    Taking to Twitter later within the day, Adhikari stated, “We reverentially worship Goddess Kaali as Shakti, primordial, nurturing, damaging (in opposition to evil forces) additionally loving & benevolent. @AITCofficial MP Mohua Moitra’s abhorrent feedback & her obnoxious portrayal & characterization of Maa Kaali has angry all Hindus devotees.”

    He claimed that the police inactiveness in opposition to Moitra went on to turn Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee and her birthday celebration’s “put out of your mind for Hindu Bengali sentiments”.

    “@WBPolice’s inactiveness in opposition to her proves @MamataOfficial’s acquiescence & brazen put out of your mind for Hindu Bengali sentiments. To protest in opposition to disrespect to Maa Kaali & shielding Ms Moitra, led a procession & addressed a rally lately at Krishnanagar; Nadia, her Electoral Constituency.” Adhikari wrote.

    Responding to the allegations, senior TMC chief Kunal Ghosh stated the saffron camp was once looking to politicise the problem.

    “The birthday celebration has condemned Moitra’s statement and has mentioned that it does not beef up it. The BJP continues to be looking to politicise the problem by way of blending faith with politics,” he added.

    On Sunday, too, BJP’s IT cellular leader and the birthday celebration’s Bengal unit co-incharge Amit Malviya accused the CM of protecting Moitra’s “obnoxious portrayal” of the deity.

    The Krishnanagar MP, with out taking any title, had hit again announcing that she “would advise BJP Troll-In-Fee for Bengal to inform his masters to forestall commenting on issues they have got no clue about”.

    on Monday advised BJP to forestall politicising the problem and chorus from blending faith with politics.

    The BJP then puzzled why no disciplinary motion was once taken in opposition to Moitra for her remark made on July 5 that that she had each proper as a person to consider Goddess Kali as a meat-eating and alcohol-accepting deity, as each and every particular person had their distinctive means of providing prayers.

    The altercation between the 2 events started afresh after the BJP’s IT leader Amit Malviya on Sunday stated High Minister Narendra Modi speaks reverentially concerning the goddess, whilst “a TMC MP insults her” and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, as an alternative of performing in opposition to her, defends her “obnoxious portrayal” of Maa Kali.

    Whilst just about addressing a programme of Ramakrishna Project on Sunday, Modi stated Goddess Kali’s blessings are at all times with the rustic, which is transferring forward with a non secular power for the welfare of the arena.

    In a while after Malviya posted his commentary on Twitter, Moitra hit again with out naming any individual.

    “Would advise BJP Troll-In-Fee for Bengal to inform his masters to forestall commenting on issues they have got no clue about. Didi O Didi were given them the boot. Now Maa O Maa gets them a foot on their chest,” she tweeted.

    She was once regarding the “Didi o Didi” taunt utilized by BJP leaders to mock West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, who’s usually known as Didi (elder sister) by way of her supporters, throughout the campaigning for the 2021 meeting polls.

    In a recent tweet, Malviya who may be West Bengal’s co-in-charge, then claimed that Moitra isn’t obeying the birthday celebration’s diktat at the factor.

    The TMC has previous condemned the MP’s debatable remark.

    “Smarting underneath public rebuke from Mamata Banerjee, TMC MP is the usage of repeat defiance at the factor of Maa Kaali to humiliate her, diminish her stature as a pace-setter, understanding totally neatly that she would not have the ability to act in opposition to her, for worry of angering her Muslim vote financial institution,” he tweeted.

    Senior TMC MP Sougata Roy on Monday requested who’s Malviya to remark in this subject.

    “The birthday celebration has already condemned what Moitra had stated. The birthday celebration does no longer beef up what she stated. However we are not looking for courses from the BJP. They will have to forestall blending faith with politics,” Sougata Roy stated.

    West Bengal BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya puzzled why the TMC is but to take any disciplinary motion in opposition to Moitra.

    “Neither Mahua Moitra has been summoned by way of the police nor any disciplinary motion being taken in opposition to her. It kind of feels the TMC has issued a commentary condemning her remarks is a farce,” he stated.

    Moitra made the debatable remarks at a conclave on July 5.

    She was once responding to a query in reference to the outrage over a movie poster, which presentations a girl dressed because the deity smoking a cigarette and preserving a pleasure flag.

    Police court cases were made in opposition to Moitra for the remarks in more than a few states.

  • As Digambar Kamat meets Pramod Sawant, defection of Goa Congress MLAs in BJP approaching

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    BELAGAVI: The defection of 5 to 8 MLAs of the Congress celebration to the BJP in Goa turns out approaching faster than later given the best way political trends spread out within the coastal state within the closing two days.

    After 5 Congress MLAs headed via former Leader Minister Digambar Kamat met Goa CM Pramod Sawant on Sunday, the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee submitted a petition to the Goa Meeting Speaker on Monday for disqualification of Kamat and MLA Michael Lobo, accusing them of hatching a conspiracy to sign up for the BJP.

    In a determined try to straighten up issues, the Goa Congress passed over a letter to the Goa Meeting Speaker pointing out that MLA Michael Lobo has been got rid of because the chief of the Congress Legislative Celebration and in addition sought the disqualification of Lobo and Kamat.

    In the meantime, the AICC has rushed Member of Parliament Mukul Wasnik to Goa to call a brand new CLP chief on Monday afternoon however Kamat and Lobo persisted to say that they’re with the Congress and not conspired to modify to the BJP.

    Resources stated the crowd of 5 BJP MLAs together with Kamat and Lobo was once looking to get 2/third of celebration MLAs to modify to the BJP at the same time as six of the 11 Congress MLAs within the state had been not likely to surrender the Congress. The breakaway crew of 5 MLAs lacked the desired numbers to steer clear of motion underneath the anti-defection regulation, leaving it unclear how they plan to hold ahead their break up, resources stated including that the defection of no less than 8 legislators of the Congress to the BJP would happen, however no longer right away.

    On Monday, Goa Congress President Amit Patkar, Deputy CLP chief Sankalp Amonkar, Running President and MLA Yuri Alemao, Altone D’Costa, suggest Carlos Alvares Ferreira, Rajesh Faldessai and Rudolf Fernandes met Goa Legislative Meeting Speaker urging him to switch seating preparations within the Area as in step with the CLP answer disposing of Michael Lobo because the CLP chief.

    A political analyst from Goa Kishore Naik Gaonkar stated, “The primary try via a bunch of Congress MLAs to modify to the BJP has failed and that the BJP would no longer take the chance of making an attempt any other spherical of “operation” to rope within the rival celebration MLAs so quickly. Alternatively, I’m certain that 5 to 8 of the Congress MLAs in Goa will transfer to the BJP given their frame language lately. The defection of 5 to 8 MLAs of the Congress to the BJP will occur any second,” stated Gaonkar.

    senior celebration chief P Chidambaram on Monday advised the folks of the state to show defectors a lesson via no longer electing them ever once more.

    He stated Goans will have to “take rate of democracy” and get rid of this unsightly stain of defections as soon as and for all.

    Chidambaram stated within the closing meeting elections in Goa, the folks voted the BJP to shape executive and voted the Congress to sit down within the Opposition.

    “The Congress accredited the decision of the folks.

    Why is the BJP not able to just accept the folks’s mandate,” he requested in a sequence of tweets.

    “It’s because it’s within the nature of BJP to arrogate to itself all powers.

    As a result of it’s within the nature of BJP to trample on democratic norms,” he alleged.

    The senior Congress chief stated Goa isn’t the primary example and except the folks get up to the risk, it’ll no longer be the closing example.

    “The malaise that has gripped Goa within the closing 30 years will also be eliminated provided that the folks of Goa vow to get rid of this unsightly stain as soon as and for all,” the previous Union minister stated.

    “Goans should unravel to punish a defector and unravel to by no means elect her or him once more. By no means elect a defector once more,” he stated.

    Chidambaram stated Goans can’t go away democracy to the nice sense of the political events.

    “Goans should take rate of democracy in Goa”.

    He stated his affect was once that Goans made that unravel in Would possibly 2022.

    “When the time comes, I’m certain the folks of Goa will specific themselves loud and transparent,” he stated.

    Chidambaram was once senior observer for the 2022 Goa meeting polls, and forward of elections he were given all the ones given Congress tickets to take a pledge that they wouldn’t defect to another celebration, if they’re elected.

    The Congress is now dealing with a break up within the Goa unit with a few of its MLAs going incommunicado.

    The grand previous celebration seems to have prevented a conceivable break up in its legislative wing in Goa in the intervening time because it claimed the fortify of 7 of the 11 celebration MLAs within the BJP-ruled state which noticed meeting polls simply 4 months in the past.

    An afternoon after 5 out of the 11 MLAs went incommunicado, Goa Congress leader Amit Patkar stated the selection of MLAs with the celebration has risen to seven — two greater than the Sunday’s depend — and the celebration has additionally sought disqualification of a few legislators.

    Those ‘out of achieve’ MLAs attended the monsoon consultation of the state meeting which started on Monday and claimed there was once “not anything flawed” within the opposition celebration.

    (With PTI Inputs)

  • Abe killing issues to conceivable pitfalls of Agnipath scheme: TMC 

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress has cautioned the Central govt in opposition to the Agnipath scheme, pointing to the truth that Japan’s former High Minister Shinzo Abe used to be assassinated through a short-service ex-serviceman.

    The birthday celebration claimed that the killing underlined the conceivable pitfalls of the debatable defence recruitment programme. The state BJP, on the other hand, rejected the apprehension pronouncing no Indian ex-servicemen had ever been excited by this sort of incident.

    “The demise of Abe by the hands of an ex-serviceman has best validated the fears of the folk over the Agnipath scheme,” the TMC’s mouthpiece ‘Jago Bangla’ (Get up, Bengal) mentioned in a piece of writing on Saturday.

    The attacker misplaced his activity within the Jap Maritime Self-Defence Power after 3 years of carrier and he used to be no longer getting any pension, it claimed. Agniveers too would no longer get any pension after their four-year carrier duration is over, the thing identified.

    “The BJP is enjoying with fireplace within the title of the Agnipath scheme. We’ve got observed what has came about in Japan. An ex-serviceman killed the previous High Minister,” TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh mentioned on Sunday.

    The BJP mentioned that such apprehensions are baseless. “We’ve got by no means heard of this sort of incident during which an ex-serviceman of our nation is concerned. The TMC is simply seeking to politicise the subject,” state BJP spokesperson Samik Samik Bhattacharya mentioned.

  • BJP minister takes umbrage at transfers cleared via him being overruled via Nitish

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    PATNA: A BJP minister in Bihar on Sunday expressed indignation over a bulk of transfers and postings, which he had cleared, being placed on grasp via Leader Minister Nitish Kumar who it seems that took notice of allegations of irregularities.

    Transfers and postings of a number of officers of the income and land reforms division have been cleared overdue final month via Ram Surat Rai, the minister involved, best to be vetoed via the CM’s administrative center a couple of days later.

    Allegations surfaced in a bit of the click that some officers got plum postings in spite of taints of corruption and plenty of have been transferred in spite of having served for lower than 3 years at their present puts of posting.

    “I had cleared the transfers and postings exercising the powers vested in me because the minister. It’s the leader minister’s prerogative to permit or reject those,” Rai advised newshounds with an air of dejection.

    The minister denied allegations of tainted officers being favoured however admitted that many have been granted transfers out of flip following requests they made themselves or via some MLA.

    “We ministers also are public representatives. If some respectable manner us immediately or sends a phrase via an MLA, asking for that she or he be given a posting in a district with regards to where the place his or her partner is operating, we need to act on such requests,” mentioned Rai who has earned a name for outspokenness within the lower than two years he has been a minister.

    He mentioned that he understood the “particular privilege” the manager minister enjoys and has exercised however minced no phrases in describing the “thes” (harm) he felt over being overruled.

    When some reporters requested him, if, within the gentle of allegations of irregularities, he feared dropping his ministerial submit, Rai snapped announcing “this chair isn’t someone’s ancestral belongings. If the federal government thinks I don’t should proceed, I want it easiest of success to seek out any individual extra worthy than I’m”.

    To a query whether or not he idea ministers belonging to the BJP felt “dabaav” (power) below the overbearing management of the manager minister, who belongs to JD(U), Rai mentioned with a swagger, “Folks in BJP have no idea the best way to buckle below power.”

    On the other hand, he hastened so as to add “no person within the executive purposes below any form of power. Even JD(U) ministers serve as freely”.

    In the meantime, the BJP for which the JD(U)’s antagonistic stance over Agnipath has rung alarm bells, sought to distance itself from the subject involving the manager minister and his cupboard colleague.

    “The celebration believes the problem will likely be amicably resolved as soon as the manager minister has a phrase with Ram Surat Rai,” BJP spokesperson Arvind Kumar Singh mentioned in a observation.

    Even though a bit of BJP leaders in Bihar gloat over the truth that it has extra numbers within the meeting than the JD(U), and that it additionally laws the Centre, many appear averse to tense Kumar, the de facto chief of the JD(U) which is these days the NDA’s second-largest best friend.

    The celebration has, particularly, maintained a telling silence over the JD(U)’s contemporary belligerence in opposition to “BJP sympathisers” like former spokesman Ajay Alok, who has been expelled, and previous nationwide president RCP Singh who misplaced his berth in Union cupboard upon denial of any other time period in Rajya Sabha.

  • ‘Repair plaque mentioning Sonia laid Atal Tunnel’s basis stone’: Congress’ ultimatum to Himachal govt

    In a press remark issued right here Sunday, Himachal Pradesh Congress president Pratibha Singh stated Gandhi had laid the basis stone of the tunnel on June 23, 2010.

  • Nationally dominant, BJP prepares for southern march forward of 2024 Lok Sabha polls

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    NEW DELHI: Declining fortunes of the Congress, which even in its previous dangerous runs retained cast presence in south India, weakening of historically robust regional events and its persisted nationwide consolidation have given the BJP the hope that the following Lok Sabha election in 2024 can see it wreck new flooring within the southern area very similar to its display in West Bengal and Odisha in 2019.

    The BJP most sensible brass on the celebration’s nationwide government in Hyderabad centered south India, the place barring Karnataka it gained simplest 4 out of 101 seats of 4 states in 2019, because the area for its subsequent spherical of expansion.

    A couple of days later the High Minister Narendra Modi-led govt picked 4 eminent individuals from as many southern states as its collection of nominated Rajya Sabha MPs, leaving little to the creativeness in regards to the politics at the back of this.

    The BJP’s back-to-back sweep of north and west India has powered its giant win within the 2014 and 2019 polls, and the celebration has repeatedly attempted to make bigger its footprint in east and south India to make sure that any drop in its tally in its strongholds does now not mar its nationwide ambition.

    It has damaged new flooring in jap states like West Bengal and Odisha and swept the Northeast however the box past the Vindhyas has up to now proved much less fertile.

    Whilst Karnataka has remained a BJP stronghold, extra so in Lok Sabha polls, the rest 4 states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu had been in large part untouched through the saffron wave which rode on Modi’s attraction to carry the celebration two again to again wins, a feat closing accomplished through the Congress in 1984.

    Stipulations for the BJP, its leaders imagine, are riper than ever within the area, with historically robust events just like the TDP in Andhra Pradesh and the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu left weakened and suffering to mount a robust problem to the federal government headed through the YSR Congress and the DMK respectively.

    This coupled with the Congress being now not able to supply a countrywide choice has additionally opened new probabilities for the BJP, together with within the Left-ruled Kerala the place the presence of round 45 in line with cent minorities had made the state a specifically difficult nut to crack for the celebration.

    The BJP’s contemporary push in peninsular India comes after it gave the impression for just about twenty years that its southern march had did not upward push past the borders of Karnataka the place it first got here to energy in 2008.

    The absence of sturdy state leaders and the strategy of deferring to regional allies as a substitute of creating on its base right through the sooner section of its ascent within the Vajpayee-Advani generation of the past due 90s and early 2000s had stalled the BJP within the then undivided state of Andhra Pradesh, the place it had gained 9 seats in 1999 in alliance with the TDP, and Tamil Nadu, the place it bagged 4 individuals in the similar 12 months.

    This stays its best possible display within the two states.

    Southern India, which fares higher than maximum Indian states on socio-economic signs, has been much less receptive to the BJP’s welfarism type up to now whilst the celebration’s any other plank of Hindutva has additionally now not labored as successfully there as in different areas.

    In its extra competitive and bold avatar, the BJP has been increase its state presidents Bandi Sanjay Kumar and Okay Annamalai in Telangana and Tamil Nadu respectively to tackle its opponents.

    It let pass of the TDP as an best friend in Andhra Pradesh and has labored to construct itself in Telangana with consistent marketing campaign in opposition to the ruling TRS.

    It is helping that the BJP is now in a a lot more at ease place in Parliament than it was once when then PM A B Vajpayee relied on allies.

    The BJP has stepped forward on its low base.

    It had gained just one seat within the 2018 meeting polls however within the closing Lok Sabha polls gained 4 of 17 seats and adopted up with a win in a few high-stakes bypolls but even so placing up a robust display within the Higher Hyderabad Municipal Company election.

    “In each and every of the 4 states, there may be numerous vacant opposition area and we’re in the most productive place to fill it,” a BJP chief, who didn’t need to be named, stated.

    On the other hand, it is going to be a steep climb if the celebration has to make a major mark within the area in 2024.

    The entire 4 Lok Sabha seats in those 4 states it gained in 2019 got here from Telangana and its tally was once zilch in Andhra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

    Political observers imagine that ruling regional events in states like Tamil Nadu and Telangana have begun cleverly taking part in up the regional identification and accusing the BJP of pushing its hegemonic non secular and language time table of their bid to the touch a chord with electorate.

    This was once a technique constructed round ethnic sub-nationalism the Trinamool Congress led through Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee used successfully to quell the saffron problem within the 2021 meeting polls.

    The absence of sturdy state leaders has been observed as a key explanation why at the back of the BJP’s failure to show its fortunes round in those states, and the celebration turns out to have learnt its classes.

    Kumar has been casting off ‘Praja Sangrama Yatra’, 3rd section of which can quickly be introduced, to rally give a boost to for the BJP.

    Each Kumar (50) and Annamalai (38), a former IPS officer, have a knack of being in information with their robust feedback, deemed arguable now and then.

    Of all of the 4 states, Telangana seems to be best possible wager for the celebration as of now.

    The win of former minister within the Rao govt, Eatala Rajender, on a BJP price ticket from the Huzurabad seat in opposition to an enormous marketing campaign through the TRS closing 12 months following its wonder victory within the Dubbak bypoll has given important momentum to the celebration’s marketing campaign.

    The verdict to carry its nationwide government in Hyderabad adopted through a large public assembly the place its most sensible brass was once provide with Modi being the important thing speaker indicated the BJP’s all out efforts to unseat the TRS within the meeting elections scheduled for subsequent 12 months.

    And, unsurprisingly, it was once the decision for a “double engine” govt, a connection with the similar celebration ruling the state which is in energy on the Centre, which rang loudest, together with in Modi’s speech at “Vijay Sankalp Sabha”.

    However defeating the TRS, which has had a digital monopoly at the state politics since its delivery, stays an uphill process.

    BJP leader spokesperson in Telangana Okay Krishna Sagar Rao informed PTI that in comparison to different southern states, Telangana appears a extra promising prospect for the celebration’s electoral upward push as the expansion in its vote base and seat percentage within the closing parliamentary elections was once significantly excessive compared to Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

    He stated that it is going to be an enormous ask for the BJP to extend its power from 3 to 60 MLAs, the bulk mark, however asserted folks see his celebration as a substitute and it’s positive of receiving the huge swing in common mandate had to finish the TRS reign.

    The BJP’s efforts to realize some foothold in Tamil Nadu politics ruled through Dravidian events met partial luck within the the native frame polls and Annamalai has now claimed that his celebration would win 25 Lok Sabha seats in 2024.

    Not too long ago, the celebration held a state-wide starvation strike in opposition to the ruling DMK and Union Minister of State V Okay Singh chaired a gathering of its individuals in southern Tamil Nadu on July 6.

    After the DMK captured energy in 2021, political watchers say the BJP has made efforts to take at the ruling celebration with the foremost opposition AIADMK mired in inside variations and now not taking at the state govt successfully.

    The BJP hopes that the nomination of song maestro Ilaiyarajaa as a Rajya Sabha MP will lend a hand it ring a bell with Tamil electorate.

    Early this 12 months, the BJP, which fought the native polls by myself, outperformed regional gamers and gained 22 seats in municipal companies, 56 in municipalities and 230 on the town panchayats.

    Within the 2021 Meeting election, as a junior spouse of the AIADMK, the BJP had gained 4 meeting seats.

    The BJP’s political push in Kerala had just about stalled after it did not win a unmarried seat within the closing meeting polls.

    It hopes the Rajya Sabha nomination of mythical athlete P T Usha will generate the political tailwind it must make bigger its footprint.

    BJP state basic secretary George Kurian, on the other hand, performed down its political import.

    “Do you assume Usha has any politics? No. Her RS nomination is a message. It’s true that High Minister Narendra Modi has all the time gained the hearts of folks thru such certain messages,” he stated, including whether or not the federal government’s motion would have any political have an effect on in long run is a unique subject.

    The Modi govt has taken into consideration her illustrious occupation, he stated.

    Kerala’s ruling CPI(M) and opposition Congress stated makes an attempt to make political achieve thru Usha’s nomination won’t paintings, at the same time as they lauded the verdict.

    CPI (M) politbureau member M A Child stated, “Other people will make a decision whether or not to increase their give a boost to to the BJP now not in keeping with the individuals they’re nominating to Rajya Sabha however in keeping with their efficiency in ruling the rustic.

    ” As then BJP president, Amit Shah, now Union house minister, had stitched up an bold plan to make bigger the celebration’s footprints in “Coromandel” states, a connection with states alongside the south and jap coasts.

    This met partial luck because the celebration publish its best possible ever display through profitable 17 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal in 2019.

    It additionally gained 8 of the 21 seats in Odisha, a state the place it had declined significantly after the ruling BJD snapped ties with the celebration, but even so 4 of 17 in Telangana.

    Whether or not its Coromandel plan will carry it a harvest within the southern states in 2024 very similar to what it did in West Bengal and Odisha in 2019 shall be keenly watched.

  • As an alternative of taking over BJP, Congress hurting BSP in Rajasthan by means of indulging in horse-trading: Mayawati

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  • Congress MP Ranjeet Ranjan accuses BJP of ‘shut hyperlinks’ with folks stuck in terror actions

    By way of PTI

    GUWAHATI: Congress MP Ranjeet Ranjan on Saturday accused the ruling BJP of keeping up ‘shut hyperlinks’ with folks stuck in terror actions, together with in Assam.

    She maintained that whilst the BJP loses no alternative to evangelise nationalism to Indians, the affiliation with such folks has led Congress to query the saffron celebration.

    “The Congress does now not imagine in taking part in politics over severe nationwide problems like terrorism,” Ranjan mentioned, addressing a press convention right here.

    “Alternatively a couple of revelations of shut hyperlinks between the BJP and folks stuck in terror actions power us to invite some instantly questions of a ruling celebration that loses no alternative to evangelise to Indians about nationalism,” the Rajya Sabha member added.

    She pointed that militant-turned-politician Niranjan Hojai is these days a BJP chief within the state, even if he was once convicted via an NIA courtroom in 2017 in a case on the subject of diverting govt cash to fund terror actions.

    Ranjan mentioned there have been a lot of such folks related with the saffron celebration, together with the most-recent example of a BJP employee Mohammad Riyaz Attari turning out to be probably the most accused within the Kanhaiya Lal homicide in Udaipur.

    “He had joined the BJP within the presence of a senior native chief. Media studies state that Attari was once hired via the son-in-law of the BJP’s Chief of the Opposition within the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha, Gulab Chand Kataria,” she claimed.

    A Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Talib Hussain Shah, who were captured via locals, was once published to be a BJP office-bearer in Jammu and Kashmir, she identified.

    When arrested, he were making plans assaults at the Amarnath Yatra, the Congress chief claimed.

    “In 2017, the Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested the BJP IT Mobile member Dhruv Saxena in conjunction with 10 accomplices for spying for the Inter Products and services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate. The secret agent ring had arrange an unlawful phone alternate to facilitate espionage,” Ranjan mentioned.

    Two years later Balram Singh, a Bajrang Dal chief from Madhya Pradesh, was once arrested in a fear investment case, she added.

    The Congress chief additionally accused the BJP of knowingly giving a price ticket to Masood Azhar’s acolyte Mohammad Farooq Khan to contest the Srinagar municipal election.

    She additionally identified that dreaded terrorist Masood Azhar who was once launched via the BJP-led govt in 1999 all through the Kandahar hijacking.

    Azhar went on to search out the Jaish-e-Muhammad terror staff that was once accountable for the 2001 Parliament assault and the 2008 Mumbai assaults.

    “The Jaish additionally masterminded for the 2019 Pulwama assault through which 44 CRPF group of workers died after 200 kg of prime explosive together with RDX by hook or by crook made its well past a couple of safety checkpoints. Why an inquiry into Pulwama has now not been held stays a thriller,” the Congress chief querried.

  • ‘Why will have to we again Murmu in presidential ballot?’ Trinamool MP on BJP letter searching for beef up

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: Veteran TMC MP Saugata Roy on Friday stated that he and different parliamentarians of his birthday celebration have won a letter from the Bengal BJP management, searching for their beef up for NDA presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu.

    Roy, in the similar breath, additionally stated that lawmakers of his birthday celebration would vote for joint non-BJP candidate Yashwant Sinha.

    Murmu, who were traveling states for electioneering, is scheduled to talk over with Kolkata to fulfill BJP MPs and MLAs from West Bengal.

    “We’ve won a letter signed by means of BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar and Chief of the opposition in West Bengal meeting Suvendu Adhikari, urging us (TMC MPs) to beef up NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu for presidential polls. They’ve claimed that Murmu’s victory is bound, and all of us will have to vote for her to enhance democratic and constitutional norms,” Roy stated.

    The veteran TMC MP, then again, dominated out any chance of backing Murmu.

    “Why will have to we beef up the NDA candidate when the opposition events in combination have fielded Yashwant Sinha? We will be able to vote for Sinha,” he stated.

    Final month, Majumdar and Adhikari had written to Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, urging her to beef up Murmu within the July 18 presidential ballot.

    The Bengal BJP had in June introduced that it could write to the entire TMC MPs and MLAs, searching for their beef up for the NDA nominee.

    Final week, Banerjee had stated that Murmu, a tribal BJP chief from Odisha, may have been a consensus candidate had the saffron birthday celebration mentioned with the opposition events prior to fielding her.

  • Opposition harmony shatters in Uttar Pradesh forward of presidential polls

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    LUCKNOW: The opposition harmony gained a large jolt on Friday when Samajwadi Birthday party leader Akhilesh Yadav’s uncle Shivpal Yadav and SP best friend OP Rajbhar, leader of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Birthday party (SBSP), arrived at UP CM Yogi Aditynath’s respectable place of dwelling to wait the dinner hosted through him in honour of NDA’s presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu on Friday night time.

    Murmu had arrived in Lucknow on Friday afternoon to satisfy the MLAs and muster fortify for her.

    Additionally, but even so the BJP and its allies together with Apna Dal (S) and NISHAD celebration, Jansatta Dal leader Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya and BSP’s lone MLA Umashankar Singh have been additionally provide within the dinner committing fortify to Murmu.

    Whilst Jansatta Dal has two MLAs, BSP leader Mayawati had already dedicated fortify of her lone MLA to Murmu an afternoon after the announcement of her candidature through the NDA.

    Alternatively, the presence of Shivpal Yadav and OP Rajbhar is being witnessed as a large jolt to opposition harmony within the state forward of the presidential elections due on July 18.

    Whilst Shivpal had received the Jaswantnagar Meeting seat at the SP price tag, Rajbhar’s SBSP had contested the Meeting elections in alliance with the Samajwadi Birthday party, successful six seats. Considerably, each Shivpal and OP Rajbhar were sulking for fairly a while and going public with their perspectives towards the SP management.

    The instant flashpoint in SP-SBSP ties reached after Rajbhar was once no longer invited to the assembly known as through Akhilesh Yadav to drum up fortify for the opposition’s presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha who was once in Lucknow on Thursday.

    As consistent with the extremely positioned assets, SP stored the SBSP leader ready whilst inviting Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Jayant Chaudhury to the assembly.

    In the meantime, a senior SP chief downplayed Rajbhar’s presence within the NDA camp pronouncing that it was once a lot anticipated because the SBSP leader had met the BJP leaders 4 days again and that was once the rationale he was once no longer invited to the assembly convened through the SP leader on Thursday.

    Alternatively, the Friday construction might pass a ways in converting the flavor of UP politics forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections because the SP-led alliance appears to be at the rocks.