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  • GOP Senate Contenders Inform Rural Counties Their Votes Rely, Not like In City Counties

    Scaring other people about meant election fraud isn’t a really perfect technique for motivating them to vote, as Donald Trump and his allies found out after Democrats flipped the state of Georgia blue within the 2020 presidential election after which went directly to win a couple of Senate runoff elections there.

    Trump’s repeated lies about voter fraud if truth be told dampened turnout in Republican spaces of Georgia, GOP officers stated, serving to to price his birthday party now not best the White Space however keep an eye on of the U.S. Senate.

    Now, some Republican Senate contenders are in search of to steer clear of that calamity of their races by means of absurdly claiming that best city Democratic spaces revel in voter fraud, while rural GOP counties are completely secure from it.

    “Our worry is Milwaukee. …That is this type of large Democrat strongholds that simply can’t appear to get their votes counted till they know precisely what number of votes they want,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) mentioned right through a tele-town corridor on Wednesday. “Whether or not anything else’s taking place or now not, this simply appears to be like suspicious.”

    Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) recently called Milwaukee "one of these big Democrat strongholds that just can’t seem to get their votes counted until they know exactly how many votes they need.”
    Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) not too long ago referred to as Milwaukee “this type of large Democrat strongholds that simply can’t appear to get their votes counted till they know precisely what number of votes they want.”

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    The Wisconsin Republican, who’s up for reelection this yr, then praised election directors in rural spaces of the state, together with in his place of birth of Oshkosh, in keeping with Heartland Sign.

    Milwaukee is essentially the most numerous town in Wisconsin, and white electorate are within the minority there. It’s additionally been a widespread goal of Trump and his allies, who’ve sown mistrust in elections with their lies about voter fraud. Trump himself nonetheless falsely maintains he received Wisconsin in 2020.

    In Nevada, GOP Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt, who not too long ago served because the state’s lawyer basic, is operating the similar playbook.

    All over occasions at the marketing campaign path, Laxalt has sought to reassure supporters that their votes will rely this yr whilst he has railed about election lack of confidence and made bogus claims of voter fraud.

    “The votes are being counted in Elko County. Those elections listed below are legit,” Laxalt mentioned at an tournament in Republican-heavy Elko County not too long ago, in keeping with audio bought by means of NBC Information.

    “Clark County? We were given primary issues down there. And we’ve were given to struggle that,” he added, relating to the state’s maximum populous and closely Democratic county, which contains Las Vegas.

    “I do assume votes rely right here. I do assume votes rely in a minimum of 15 counties,” Laxalt mentioned at any other tournament, in keeping with the audiotape. “Washoe County could be a little squirrelly.”

    Adam Laxalt said he thinks votes count in "at least 15 counties" in Nevada, a state where there are more than 15 counties.
    Adam Laxalt mentioned he thinks votes rely in “a minimum of 15 counties” in Nevada, a state the place there are greater than 15 counties.

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    The Twitter account of Washoe County, the second-most populous house of the state, answered: “We’re operating our tails off and now we have our squirrels in a row to run an out there, truthful, clear election. Each and every vote counts.”

    The Nevada Democratic Celebration, in the meantime, denounced Laxalt’s remarks in a observation, calling him “Trump’s best lackey” in Nevada and announcing “there’s in reality no backside for this cynical, failed baby-kisser.”

  • BJP taking nation against ‘risk’, desires just one ideology to rule in nation: Rahul

    Via PTI

    RAIPUR: In a scathing assault at the BJP, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused the saffron celebration of taking the rustic against “risk” and stated that in conjunction with the RSS, it desires just one ideology to rule over all states, languages and historical past which will by no means occur.

    Reiterating what he stated in Lok Sabha an afternoon in the past, Gandhi stated the “grave risk” is that the BJP is dividing the country into two international locations — one belonging to make a choice billionaires and the opposite to the crores of not unusual other people.

    “I made a speech in Lok Sabha the day prior to this through which I talked in regards to the two-three demanding situations dealing with the rustic. The BJP and its ideology are taking our nation against risk. What’s the risk — the primary grave risk is that the BJP is dividing the rustic into two international locations,” he stated whilst addressing a serve as at Science Faculty floor in Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur.

    “One nation is of decided on billionaires, the place there’s the whole thing together with planes, wealth and prime generation, whilst the second is of crores of the folks of the rustic,” he stated.

    “They believe that by means of making two international locations, the rustic which belongs to the deficient is powerless and can stay quiet. They believe the deficient of the rustic are afraid. However the deficient of the rustic don’t seem to be terrified of any person, slightly they’re those who’ve constructed the rustic,” Gandhi stated.

    “If any person has taken India so far and ensured the growth, it isn’t a celebration, however the farmers, labourers and the deficient. So when it’s requested what has took place in 70 years, it’s an insult to farmers, their folks, labourers, and small businessmen, to not the Congress celebration,” he added.

    He stated that the 100 wealthiest other people in India have more cash than 40 according to cent of the inhabitants.

    “Whilst 40 according to cent battle with starvation and poverty, 5-10 capitalist pals of the top minister amass the entire wealth, we do not want a rustic like this. We will be able to now not permit the rustic to develop into so,” Gandhi asserted.

    “If there’s growth on this nation – then everybody shall be a part of it, now not only a few industrialists. If there’s growth within the nation, then everybody will receive advantages,” he stated.

    At the instance, Gandhi introduced the Chhattisgarh govt’s ‘Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Bhoomihin Krishi Majdoor Nyay Yojana’, beneath which landless labourers in rural spaces shall be given monetary help of Rs 6,000 according to yr in 3 installments. The primary installment of Rs 2,000 was once deposited into the accounts of just about 3.55 lakh landless households of labourers, barbers, blacksmiths, monks, wooded area produce creditors and shepherds, amongst others, at the instance beneath the scheme.

    ALSO READ: Rahul Gandhi launches welfare scheme for landless labourers in Chhattisgarh

    He laid the root stone of a memorial right here that can space an everlasting flame at the traces of the ‘Amar Jawan Jyoti’ as a tribute to infantrymen and safety workforce who’ve misplaced their lives within the line of responsibility.

    Gandhi additionally laid the root stone of ‘Gandhi Sevagram’ ashram to be inbuilt Nava Raipur, very similar to the only in Wardha (Maharashtra). In his remarks, Gandhi stated this nation is sort of a bouquet and other people of various ideologies are living in it.

    “The ideology, historical past, and tradition in a single state is other from that of the opposite. But when we are saying that there shall be just one ideology in the entire nation then it’ll be mistaken,” he stated including that this may hurt the rustic.

    “The BJP and RSS need that just one ideology will have to rule over all states, languages, and historical past within the nation, which will by no means occur. For instance, other people of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh can’t inform other people of Chhattisgarh how they will have to are living, what will have to be the relation of tribals right here with forests, and what will have to be the relation of farmers right here with their land. Likewise, you can’t pass to Vidarbha and inform farmers there that ‘you will have to are living on this method,” the previous Congress leader stated.

    That is the bouquet of our nation and this sense of affection and brotherhood, is what we name India, he stated. Gandhi alleged that the BJP has been “attacking this India” and the Congress will oppose this assault and can display them the “actual India”.

    The Congress chief additionally accused the BJP of spreading hatred within the nation and making one faith battle with the opposite. 

    ALSO READ: BJP, RSS need rule of just one ideology, however it could possibly by no means occur: Rahul Gandhi

    “They’ve unfold hatred within the nation. They’re making one state battle with the opposite and one faith battle with the opposite faith. The powers outdoor India take a look at us and say that India is getting susceptible. The Chinese language military may just input Ladakh for the reason that BJP and our top minister stated after their access into our territory that nobody has entered,” he stated.

    “Our paintings and the paintings of patriotism is to reinforce the rustic, lend a hand the deficient and unite the rustic, to not unfold hatred. So this can be a combat of ideology. This isn’t a battle between one celebration and the opposite,” he stated.

    Gandhi praised the Chhattisgarh govt and stated it’s pleasant its guarantees.

    Speaking about his promise of offering Rs 2,500 to farmers, the Lok Sabha member from Wayanad stated that the state govt had fulfilled the promise of paying the real quantity for farmers’ exhausting paintings to them.

    He stated the state govt’s transfer to supply monetary help to landless labourers running in farms is a huge step against the welfare of the deficient and recommended the Chhattisgarh Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel to extend the volume to be given to labourers beneath the scheme.

    In his remarks, Baghel stated that the state controlled to protect itself from the slowdown have an effect on because it adopted the directives of Rahul Gandhi to empower the hundreds by means of placing cash of their wallet.

    Baghel stated that the farmers in Chhattisgarh have been content material at the same time as they have been protesting in different portions of India. He stated that another step has been taken against making Chhattisgarh a public welfare state.

    Gandhi additionally introduced a espresso desk e-book “Jo Kaha So Kiya” at the achievements of the Chhattisgarh govt within the closing 3 years.

    After an inspection of an exhibition at the construction within the state, Gandhi steered to the manager minister to take the “magic of Chhattisgarh” past the rustic in order that the arena will get the style of the state’s merchandise, wisdom, and historical past. Gandhi additionally attempted his hand at pottery and ‘charkha’.

  • New Yorker who dressed as a caveman throughout Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection pleads to blame to prison fee

    On this Jan. 6, 2021 report picture, supporters of President Donald Trump, together with Aaron Mostofsky, proper, who’s known in his arrest warrant, stroll down the steps out of doors the Senate Chamber within the U.S. Capitol, in Washington. Federal brokers arrested Mostofsky, the son of a New York pass judgement on, on fees that he used to be a number of the protestors who stormed the U.S. Capitol, the FBI stated on Tuesday, Jan. 12.

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    A Brooklyn guy who clashed with police, snatched officials’ equipment and broke into the Capitol throughout the Jan. 6 insurrection — all whilst dressed as a caveman — pleaded to blame to a prison civil dysfunction fee, the Division of Justice stated Wednesday.

    The person, 35-year-old Aaron Mostofsky, the son of a New York pass judgement on, additionally pleaded to blame in federal district courtroom in Washington, D.C., to misdemeanor fees of stealing govt belongings and getting into and last in a limited development, the Justice Division stated in a press liberate.

    He faces a most sentence of 5 years in the back of bars and a hefty effective for the prison fee on my own, the DOJ stated, despite the fact that his ultimate sentence could also be decrease. Mostofsky’s plea settlement notes that his attorney and prosecutors agree that federal sentencing pointers would suggest he get a jail time period throughout the vary of 1 yr to 18 months.

    The pass judgement on in Mostofsky’s case, on the other hand, additionally may just sentence him beneath or above that vary.

    Loads of former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, forcing lawmakers to escape their chambers and briefly blocking off the method of shifting energy to President Joe Biden, who received the 2020 presidential election. Most of the rioters have been spurred by means of Trump’s false statement that the election were stolen from him via common fraud.

    At the day of the assault, Mostofsky had traveled by means of bus to Capitol Hill from New York Town and had posted “DC sure stopthesteal” en direction, consistent with a DOJ courtroom submitting pointing out his offense.

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    He used to be dressed as a caveman and sporting a strolling stick, explaining to a chum at one level that “the fraud within the 2020 Presidential Election used to be so obtrusive, even a caveman would know the election used to be stolen,” the DOJ stated.

    In a while ahead of 1 p.m., Mostofsky joined a gaggle of rioters looking to drive via a police line out of doors the Capitol. “Mostofsky used his weight and power within the effort to damage the police line,” the DOJ stated.

    As he made his means up towards the doorway to the Senate wing, Mostofsky picked up and placed on a U.S. Capitol Police bullet-proof vest. He then entered the development via a door that different rioters had busted open from the interior, the DOJ stated.

    Aaron Mostofsky, son of Kings County Preferrred Courtroom Pass judgement on Shlomo Mostofsky, seems ahead of Justice of the Peace Pass judgement on Sanket J. Bulsara throughout his preliminary look in reference to the career of the U.S. Capitol, on the Jap District of New York, January 12, 2021.

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    As soon as inside of, Mostofsky temporarily grabbed an officer’s insurrection defend, then joined the mob at a staircase “the place they pursued a U.S. Capitol Police Officer upstairs” to a hall out of doors the Senate chamber, consistent with the DOJ.

    Mostofsky gave an interview to a reporter ahead of leaving the Capitol round 2:36 p.m. He used to be “stripped of the defend” by means of a Capitol police officer as he left, the DOJ stated.

    Mostofsky is ready to be sentenced on Might 6. He faces as much as 5 years in jail and a effective of $250,000 for the fee of prison civil dysfunction. Each and every of the misdemeanor fees elevate a most one-year jail time period and a $100,000 effective.

    Greater than 725 people in virtually each and every state within the U.S. have now been charged with crimes associated with the insurrection. Greater than 225 of the ones other people had been charged with assaulting or impeding legislation enforcement.

    Mostofsky’s plea provides to the greater than 165 individuals who have now pleaded to blame to federal fees stemming from the assault. The DOJ continues to research.

  • Adityanath shaken through SP-RLD alliance, remoted in his personal birthday celebration: Akhilesh 

    There used to be hypothesis that the CM is also fielded from Ayodhya, prior to the birthday celebration nominated him from his house turf Gorakhpur.

  • Majithia proclaims he’s answering the decision of responsibility through contesting from Amritsar East on my own

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    CHANDIGARH: The Amritsar (East) meeting phase is ready to look some of the high-profile contests, as Bikram Singh Majithia of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) authorized the problem posed through Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu and can contest handiest from Amritsar East and his spouse Ganieve Kaur Majithia will now contest from Majitha.

    Former minister Majithia stated he had determined to reply to the decision of responsibility and contest the approaching meeting elections from Amritsar (East) constituency and surrender the accountability of the Majitha seat to his spouse Ganieve Kaur Majithia.

    He stated he has foreseen a sense of bewilderment within the minds of the folks of Amritsar East who would rightfully really feel that he may forsake the seat if elected from two constituencies. “I’ve addressed this worry and determined to contest the following elections from Amritsar East on my own,’’ he stated.

    Majtihia stated the election was once additionally about breaking the confidence of Madhya Pradesh Congress President Navjot Sidhu. 

    “I’ve determined to show him to recognize the folks of the constituency. You’ll see that he’ll begin to love other folks through the tip of the marketing campaign. He’s going to discover ways to recognize elders. He must forestall making statements within the air and must descend all the way down to the extent of the average guy,’’ he stated.

    Saying that the folks of Amritsar East felt humiliated through Sidhu’s behaviour, the SAD chief stated, “Sidhu hasn’t ever participated in any social serve as of the constituency. He has now not long past to grieve at any individual’s passing away. He is not just unmindful of his constituents but additionally deceives them through promising tasks like sports activities stadiums and over bridges at the eve of elections and forgets about them as soon as the elections are over.” 

    “Now when he is going to fulfill the folks he’ll see for himself the state of roads and streets in his constituency. Other people will ask him why he failed to make sure even elementary amenities to them together with potable consuming water and sewerage amenities. Now the time has come for him to be answerable to his constituents,’’ he stated.

    Saying that he had come to win hearts in Amritsar East, Majithia stated, “I’ve gained the hearts of the folks of Majitha with onerous paintings and determination. I’ve been one with them and they’ve returned my affection manifold through electing me to administrative center manifold occasions. It’s with a heavy center that I’m transferring from Majitha to Amritsar East. It has now not been a very easy resolution. However I felt that infrequently in politics, cases pressure you to take such tricky selections. That is one such example. I’m thankful to the folks of Majitha in addition to my core crew for giving me permission and blessings to contest the approaching elections from Amritsar East.’’

    Majithia stated he was once assured his spouse Ganieve Majithia would serve the folks of the Majitha with utmost determination. “It isn’t a very easy resolution for her additionally however I’m assured she’s going to do her perfect to proceed the circle of relatives’s custom of provider to the folks.’’

    The SAD had fielded Majithia from two seats – Amritsar East and neighbouring Majitha.

  • Atlanta DA asks FBI for safety evaluate after Trump requires protests over probe into Georgia election meddling

    Fulton County Georgia District Lawyer Fani Willis photographed in her administrative center on Jan. 4, 2022.

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    Atlanta’s best prosecutor requested the FBI to behavior a safety evaluate and supply coverage for a courthouse and govt heart an afternoon after former President Donald Trump referred to as on supporters to carry “the most important protests we now have ever had” in puts the place he’s being investigated.

    Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis, who’s investigating Trump for conceivable felony interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election contest, stated in a letter to the FBI that “safety issues have been escalated this weekend through the rhetoric of former President Trump.” The truth TV star-turned-politician spoke at a rally Saturday in Conroe, Texas.

    “We will have to paintings in combination to stay the general public protected and make certain that we wouldn’t have a tragedy in Atlanta very similar to what came about at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021,” Willis wrote in her letter Sunday to the particular agent answerable for the FBI’s Atlanta box administrative center.

    On Jan. 6 that yr, a mob of Trump supporters invaded the Capitol and disrupted a joint consultation of Congress that was once within the technique of confirming that President Joe Biden had received the 2020 election, regardless of Trump’s false claims on the contrary.

    Willis in her letter cited the truth that Trump stated that if he runs for president in 2024 and is elected he would possibly pardon rioters for Jan. 6 crimes “as a result of they’re being handled so unfairly.”

    Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks right through a rally in Conroe, Texas, U.S., January 29, 2022.

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    Willis cited the particular grand jury and its scheduled Might 2 get started date in her letter to the FBI pronouncing, “I’ve a duty to make certain that those that paintings and seek advice from the Fulton County Courthouse, the adjacent Fulton County Executive Heart and surrounding spaces are protected.”

    She famous that the ones structures are with regards to the Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta Town Corridor, and a federal district and circuit appeals court docket, in addition to Georgia State College.

    Along with requesting a direct possibility evaluate of the county courthouse and govt heart, Willis requested the FBI to “supply protecting assets to incorporate intelligence and federal brokers.”

    She wrote that Trump at his rally made a couple of references to her probe and others.

    At that rally, Trump stated, “If those radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything else mistaken or unlawful, I’m hoping we’re going to have the most important protests we’ve got ever had in Washington, D.C., in New York, in Atlanta and somewhere else as a result of our nation and our elections are corrupt.”

    The Long island District Lawyer and the New York state Lawyer Basic’s places of work are carrying out parallel investigations into Trump’s trade practices.

    The FBI didn’t straight away touch upon Willis’ request.

    Rep. Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who’s vice chair of the make a choice Area committee investigating occasions surrounding the Jan. 6 revolt, in a tweet early Monday blasted Trump for his rhetoric on Saturday.

    “Trump makes use of language he is aware of led to the Jan 6 violence; suggests he’d pardon the Jan 6 defendants, a few of whom were charged with seditious conspiracy; threatens prosecutors; and admits he was once making an attempt to overturn the election,” Cheney stated. “He’d do all of it once more if given the risk.”

    Previous this month, a Texas guy was once arrested through federal government for allegedly posting a danger to kill a Georgia election professional and different officers simply days after Trump’s name to Georgia’s secretary of state

  • Former Manipur cop Brinda to contest polls on JD-U’s price ticket

    By way of Specific Information Provider

    GUWAHATI: Former embellished cop Thounaojam Brinda will contest the Manipur elections at the price ticket of Janata Dal (United).

    After she had joined the birthday celebration on Sunday, it used to be made up our minds to box her from the Yaiskul constituency within the Imphal valley. 

    Brinda instructed this newspaper that she believed JD-U used to be a good selection. “I took into account the native prerequisites. Folks sought after me to contest from a birthday celebration that could be a spouse of the ruling birthday celebration (BJP),” she mentioned.

    She mentioned she can have contested from the Congress but it surely didn’t have a vibrant prospect. She will likely be up in opposition to sitting MLA Thokchom Satyabrata Singh of the BJP amongst others.

    BJP chief Thangjam Arunkumar, who resigned from the birthday celebration after being denied a price ticket, additionally joined the JD-U.

  • Congress to release booklet highlighting emerging costs underneath BJP government

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday will spotlight the problem of emerging costs and can release a ‘BJP introduced inflation’ booklet in poll-bound states.

    The Congress will organise a sequence of press meetings underlining the issues confronted by means of the folk because of inflation and cling the central executive chargeable for it.

    Congress’ leader spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala will cling a press convention in Lucknow, Chhattisgarh Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel in Chandigarh, and previous Maharashtra leader minister Prithviraj Chavan in Goa.

    Former Madhya Pradesh Leader Minister Digvijay Singh will cope with a press convention in Jalandhar, Sachin Pilot in Dehradun, Hardik Patel in Meerut, and Ranjit Ranjan and Supriya Srinate in Varanasi.

    “The folk of the rustic are affected by inflation and BJP is playing. The double whammy of emerging costs and falling source of revenue has made existence tricky for folks,” AICC Secretary Pranav Jha stated.

    ALSO READ: Congress to release booklet highlighting how BJP ‘compromised’ with pursuits of defense force

    “The back-breaking costs have spoiled the finances of households. Modi ji, BJP took votes by means of serving lies of ‘acche din’ and served the poison of inflation in folks’s lives,” he stated.

    The birthday party will spotlight that the wholesale worth index has reached a 12-year top underneath BJP rule and the top excise accountability on petrol and diesel, a observation stated.

    It’ll additionally spotlight that the BJP larger rail passenger fare by means of 205 consistent with cent since January 1, 2022 and the way it has made garments, sneakers, kids’s books, chickening out cash from ATM, auto reserving from app and ordering meals, amongst different issues, dearer, the observation stated.

    ALSO READ: Congress releases booklet titled ‘Kisne Bigada Uttar Pradesh’ to sensitise employees in UP

    This would be the 3rd booklet that Congress releases in poll-bound states. Ultimate week, Congress had introduced a booklet to focus on how the BJP executive “compromised” with the pursuits of defense force and held press meetings on it.

    Prior to that, the birthday party had introduced a booklet to focus on the farmers’ plight underneath the Modi executive and held press meetings in more than a few towns.

  • Tauqeer Raza’s daughter-in-law joins BJP

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    LUCKNOW: In a now not so unexpected transfer, Nida Khan, the daughter-in-law of Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, joined the saffron brigade right here on Sunday forward of the a very powerful Uttar Pradesh elections. 

    The founding father of Ittehad-e-Millat Council, a sufferer of triple talaq, shot into limelight after she challenged the twin ideologies of her sweetheart’s father who’s a senior cleric of the Barelvi sect of Sunni Muslims. Whilst becoming a member of the BJP, Nida claimed that Muslim ladies had been protected below the BJP rule in UP.

    Particularly, Tauqeer Raza had prolonged his outfit’s toughen to the Congress final fortnight. 

    Interacting with media individuals after becoming a member of the BJP, Nida, who was once married to Sheeran Raza Khan, mentioned that the regulation in opposition to triple talaq was once the turning level in her existence. Sheeran is the son of Tauqeer Raza’s elder brother Maulana Usma Raza Khan alias Anjum Mian. Sheeran had given triple talaq to Nida after a 12 months in their marriage. Nida has been combating the case in courtroom.

    “Because of this I toughen the BJP. The BJP has achieved a exceptional process by way of bringing a regulation in opposition to triple talaq. It sort of feels that different events are simply giving slogans for girls empowerment and girls protection, however best the BJP has proved it,” she mentioned.

    Taking a jibe on the Congress, she mentioned the birthday party gave the identify of the marketing campaign ‘Ladki Hoon, Lad Sakti Hoon’ however didn’t do any paintings relating to ladies protection. She said that her sweetheart’s father had come to Congress 15 days in the past however she at all times supported the BJP. “It’s because the BJP ensured the empowerment of Muslim ladies,” she additional added.

    The BJP have been aggressively elevating the problem of Maulana Tauqeer Raza extending toughen to the Congress slamming the grand previous birthday party for selling an individual who has been accused of threatening Hindus and has additionally allegedly given derogatory feedback in opposition to High Minister Narendra Modi.

    This comes days after daughter-in-law of Samajwadi Birthday party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, Aparna Yadav joined the BJP in Delhi within the presence of senior BJP leaders. Even supposing the transfer would possibly not were politically important, it gave considerable ammunition to the BJP to assault the SP over its failure to stay its extended family in combination forward of the 2022 UP meeting polls.

  • Protests erupt in Manipur after BJP pronounces applicants’ names

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    GUWAHATI: Protestors torched BJP flags, posters and allegedly pressured the closure of its workplaces in some portions of Manipur on Sunday after their leaders have been denied birthday celebration tickets.

    The incidents have been reported from a couple of constituencies, together with Kakching and Sagolband. Protests have been additionally staged within the state capital of Imphal. Alternatively, there have been no violent incidents. Apprehending bother, the government had tightened safety throughout constituencies within the Imphal valley. 

    The BJP’s Manipur election in-charge Bhupender Yadav claimed participants with a protracted affiliation with the birthday celebration were fielded whilst two sitting MLAs have been denied tickets. 

    Numerous police commandos and staff from central paramilitary forces have remained deployed on the birthday celebration’s head place of business for roughly every week whilst the safety of partys’ state president A Sharda Devi, ministers and MLAs have been additionally tightened.

    As speedy fallout, an aspirant on the Wangkhei seat, Thangjam Arunkumar, resigned from the birthday celebration. Opposition Congress and Nationwide Other people’s Birthday party stated a number of BJP leaders, who ignored the bus, have been more likely to contest the polls on their tickets.

    After stating the names of all 60 applicants in Delhi, Yadav exuded self belief that the birthday celebration would retain energy with greater than a two-thirds majority. Within the 2017 polls, the birthday celebration had gained 21 seats in opposition to Congress’ 28 however controlled to cobble up the numbers to shape the federal government.

    Alternatively, the checklist has the names of over a dozen who had gained the remaining election contesting from the Congress and different events and later, defected to the BJP.

    3 retired IAS officials – Dinganglung Gangmei, Yengkhom Surchandra and Raghumani Singh and 3 girls – Soraisam Kebi Devi, SS Olish and Nemcha Kipgen – are some of the BJP applicants.

    Leader Minister N Biren Singh will contest from his puppy Heingang seat, Meeting Speaker Yumnam Khemchand from Singjamei and senior minister Thongam Biswajit from Thongju. The 2-phase polls will likely be hung on February 27 and March 3.