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All India Mahila Empowerment Party launches election campaign in Bagalkot

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Newly launched All India Mahila Empowerment Party’s (MEP), leader Dr. Nowhera Shaik kickstarted her party’s drive for the Assembly elections in Bagalkot, challenging the political bigwigs on her campaign.

Dr. Shaikh announced that MEP will be contesting in all the 224 assembly constituencies in the state, and said that the party will also contest elections across the lengths and breadths of India in the coming years.

Dr. Shaikh clarified that although her party’s name is All India Mahila Empowerment Party, however, her party is not only for women but for every gender and every religion. She said that her party’s objective is to get justice for everyone and remove the cancer of corruption and communalism from society.

11 of 31 CMs charged with crimes, 25 are crorepatis: Report

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New Delhi: As many as 11 out of a total number of 31 Chief Ministers of various states and union territories (UTs) in India have crminal cases against them while 25 of them are crorepatis, an analysis of their self-sworn affidavits furnished during the assembly elections has revelaed.

The analysis, by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch, found that of the 11 Chief Ministers with criminal cases, eight (26 per cent) have declared serious criminal cases including cases related to murder, attempt to murder, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, criminal intimidation etc.

The Chief Ministers having various criminal charges against them include Yogi Adityanath of Uttar Pradesh (BJP), Devendra Fadnavis of Maharashtra (BJP), Raghubar Das of Jharkhand (BJP), Nitish Kumar of Bihar (JD-U), Chandrababu Naidu of Andhra Pradesh (TDP), K. Chandrasekhar Rao of Telangana (TRS), Amarinder Singh of Punjab (Congress), Pinarayi Vijayan of Kerala (CPI-M), Mehbooba Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir (PDP), Arvind Kejriwal of Delhi (AAP) and V. Narayanasamy of Puducherry (Congress).

Although 25 (81 per cent) of Chief Ministers are crorepatis (multi-millionaires), three leaders who top the chart are Naidu with a net worth of more than Rs 177 crore, Pema Khandu of Arunachal Pradesh with Rs 129 crore assets and Amarinder Singh with total assets worth more than Rs 48 crore.

The three Chief Ministers with lowest assets are Manik Sarkar of Tripura with assets worth Rs 26 lakh, Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal with Rs 30 lakhs and Mehbooba Mufti with assets worth around Rs 55 lakh.

(IANS)

Kannada writer Chandrashekhara Kambara elected Sahitya Akademi president

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Bengaluru: Eminent Kannada writer and Jnanpith recipient Chandrashekar Kambara has been elected as the president of the national academy of letters defeating his nearest rival Pratibha Ray.

Dr Kambar has become the third Kannada writer after Vinayaka Krishna Gokak and U R Ananthamurthy to head the academy. Ruling BJP had fielded Odiya novelist and Jnanpith recipient Pratibha Ray.

Chandrashekhara Kambara is a prominent Kannada poet, playwright, folklorist, film director and the founder-vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi. He is known for effective adaptation of the North Karnataka dialect of the Kannada language in his plays, and poems.

The other contestant for the post was Marathi writer Bhalchandra V Nemade.

As vice-president of the Akademi, Chandrashekar Kambara was closely associated with the literary and cultural world of both southern and northern parts of India.

(Agencies)

BSP slams RSS over Mohan Bhagwat’s comment on army

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Lucknow: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Tuesday condemned a statement of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat that they were ready, before the Indian Army, to take on Pakistan if the need arises.

In a statement, party supremo Mayawati said the statement was not only an insult to the country’s armed forces but also reflected the ‘militant swayam sevaks’ that RSS nurtured.

“If the RSS is so confident of its cadres, why has Mohan Bhagwat and its other senior functionaries taken the protection of NSG and police commandos” the four-time Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister asked.

She further said it was shameful that the RSS chief had tried to run down the armed forces at a speech in Muzaffarpur in Bihar recently.

“The statement will dampen the spirits and morale of the Indian Army,” she said.

The BSP supremo also sought an unqualified apology from the RSS chief.

The Dalit leader said the RSS should also come out of the belief that it was a social organisation as it was, through its activities, fast turning into a political entity.

“You are no more a social organisation but one which all the time is engaged in political activities and are trying to help in all possible ways the BJP in electoral politics,” Mayawati added.

(IANS)

Why silence on death of Muslims in J&K attack: Owaisi

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New Delhi: Citing the five Kashmiri Muslims, including soldiers, killed in the terror attack on a Jammu Army camp, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on

Tuesday slammed those who question the patriotism of Muslims, asking why they were silent on this issue.

“Every day at 9 p.m. on television the nationalism of Muslims is questioned and questions are also raised on Kashmiris.

“Out of the seven killed in Jammu, five were Kashmiri Muslims including a woman who was pregnant. Now everybody is silent on their death,” Owaisi said, asking “why such silence on this issue”?

The Hyderabad MP said the people “who question the integrity of Muslims and those who call Muslims Pakistani” will have to take a lesson from this.

“We (Muslims) are giving our lives but the terrorists are killing us too as they are not discriminating anybody on the basis of religion. They treat everyone as Indian. But there are many such people in the country who still question our integrity,” Owaisi added.

He was referring to the death of seven persons, including six soldiers and a civilian, in the Sunjuwan military camp terror attack.

On February 10, a group of heavily armed Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) terrorists entered the camp after hurling grenades and using automatic weapons.

Ten others, including six women and children, were injured in the attack.

(IANS)

Myanmar: Security forces face ‘action’ over killings

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Ten Rohingya Muslim men with their hands bound kneel as members of the Myanmar security forces stand guard in Inn Din village [Reuters]

by Al Jazeera

Members of Myanmar’s security forces will face legal action over the hacking and shooting deaths of Rohingya Muslims in restive Rakhine state, a government spokesman said.

The killings of 10 Rohingya men occurred in the village of Inn Din in September last year and the bodies were buried in a mass grave after they were hacked to death or shot and killed by Buddhist neighbours and Myanmar soldiers.

“Action according to the law” will be taken against seven soldiers, three policemen, and six villagers as part of an army investigation, said government spokesman Zaw Htay on Sunday.

The military said in January the 10 slain Rohingya men belonged to a group of 200 “terrorists” who had attacked security forces. Buddhist villagers attacked some of them with swords and soldiers shot the others dead, it said.

But the military’s version of events was contradicted by accounts given to Reuters news agency by Rakhine Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim witnesses.

Buddhist villagers reported no rebel attack on security forces took place in Inn Din, and Rohingya witnesses told the news agency soldiers seized the 10 men from among hundreds of people who had sought safety on a nearby beach.

Nearly 690,000 Rohingya have fled Rakhine and crossed into southern Bangladesh since August, when attacks on security posts by rebels triggered a military crackdown that the United Nations has said may amount to genocide.

Myanmar’s government has denied the allegations.

UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson met Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday in the capital, Naypyidaw, to discuss how hundreds of thousands of Rohingya can be safely repatriated.

Suu Kyi – a Nobel Peace Prize laureate – has faced a barrage of international criticism for failing to halt the violence against the Rohingya.

Kohli-Led India Aim To Create History In 5th ODI

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Port Elizabeth (South Africa), Feb 12 (IANS) Failing to maintain their triumphant run after a defeat in the fourth One-Day International (ODI), India will aim to clinch their maiden bilateral 50-overs series against the Proteas in South African conditions in the fifth encounter here on Tuesday.

India started on the front foot clinching the first three matches by a comprehensive margins. South Africa, however, bolstered by their victory in the last tie will have an opportunity to end the six-match series on an even note.

The recent history which has seen India losing against the Proteas in the 50-over format at the South African conditions could change under the flamboyant captaincy of Virat Kohli.

In 2013-14, India were outclassed by South Africa 0-2 while in 2010-11 the visitors gave a tough fight but failed to get hold of the series, losing it by a slender 2-3 margin.

Kohli, with 393 runs in the ODI series so far, which contains two centuries and identical numbers of unbeaten knocks, has led India from the front to heap trouble on the already depleted hosts.

Alongside the skipper, opener Shikhar Dhawan has looked in fine nick throughout the series and will be the key to give India a dominant total on board in the encounter on Tuesday.

There is also a strong possibility of Kohli dropping opener Rohit Sharma, who has failed to get going in the series, scoring merely 40 runs in the four matches.

The skipper in that case, might fall in the trouble of selecting from plenty amongst Dinesh Karthik, Manish Pandey or Kedar Jadhav.

Equally well complimented bowling department, led by the wrist spinning pair of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal, who have been difficult to be picked up by South Africa throughout the series, will continue to be the lethal weapons for India.

However, for South Africa wicket-keeper batsman Heinrich Klaasen, who played his first match of the series and assured them a comprehensive victory in the rain-curtailed encounter in Johannesburg, had looked to tackle the Indian wrist spinners well.

Batsmen Hashim Amla, Jean-Paul Duminy, AB de Villiers and David Miller, who can win their side a match single-handedly on a given day, might also look to come hard on the formidable Indian side, with nothing to loose.

In the bowling, all eyes will be on pacers Kagiso Rabada and Lungisani Ngidi to provide their side with flurry of wickets at the St George’s Park.

However, the weather department has forecast rain to hit the city and it may affect the team composition.

Squad:

India: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk), Ajinkya Rahane, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Mohammed Shami, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel.

South Africa: Aiden Markram (captain), Jean-Paul Duminy, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, Morne Morkel, David Miller, Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Andile Phehlukwayo, Lungisani Ngidi, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Imran Tahir, Farhaan Behardien, Khaya Zondo, Tabraiz Shamsi.

(IANS)

Alliance with Rajini unlikely if his colour is saffron: Kamal Haasan

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Cambridge: Movie actor- turned-politician Kamal Haasan has made it clear that any political alliance with superstar Rajinikanth is unlikely if his colour is “saffron”, in an apparent reference to the BJP. Haasan, who had recently announced his foray into the electoral politics, said that his “true purpose today is to challenge the status quo and mediocrity in politics, that is plaguing the state of Tamil Nadu.”

Responding to a question on Rajinikanth joining politics, Haasan did not rule out an electoral alliance with him if there is some commonality of thoughts and ideas between them and similarities in their manifestos. But, he quickly referred to the sharp differences between them on religion and on ‘saffron’, which was interpreted as the BJP.

“I hope Rajini’s colour is not saffron. Alliance with Rajini is unlikely if his colour is saffron,” Haasan said at the annual Indian conference of the prestigious Harvard University. “I cannot see a clear understanding now,” Haasan said when pressed by moderator Barkha Dutt on the sharp ideological differences he has with Rajinikanth.

But he kept the doors open. “If necessary (I will hold hands with others),” Haasan said, noting that this is unlikely to be the case. He also ruled out a post-poll alliance. “If there is no majority, its the people’s verdict. Then I would not have to sit but stand and wait for the next time,” he said, indicating that he would prefer to be in the Opposition if his party does not get a majority.

“The reason that I have started a new political party itself shows that I want to walk with the people and not politicians,” he said. “All is not well with Tamil Nadu,” he said, slamming the current lot of political class in his state.

The entry of the two top Tamil film stars comes against the backdrop of a perceived vacuum in Tamil Nadu politics after former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s death in 2016 and the ill-health of DMK chief M Karunanidhi for over a year following which he was inactive in politics.

Responding to a question on the so-called love jihad, the actor said, “I think that a new revolution is on its way. I do not know about jihad, but love would triumph hate.” Haasan said Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party head Arvind Kejriwal had met him in Chennai and offered an alliance with his party.

“I intend to take it (the experience) not only from Mr Kejriwal but from others as well,” he said. In his keynote address, Haasan rued that there is status quo and mediocrity in Tamil Nadu. Confident of raising funds for the elections, Haasan called upon the Tamil community across the world to come up with ideas. He will a major announcement on February 21.

He also announced to adopt a village each in every district of the state as part of his objective to reimagining and rebuilding Tamil Nadu. “I am announcing a plan of adopting a village in every district of Tail Nadu… With the vision of making them the best villages in the world,” he said. Hasan said that he will begin with one village and then scale up it to every district of Tamil Nadu. The film star quoted Mahatma Gandhi’s idea of a self- reliant and self-sustainable village.

(PTI)

Salman Nadvi acting at behest of Modi: Owaisi

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Hyderabad: MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday alleged that Moulana Salman Hussaini Nadvi is acting at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to create rift in All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB).

He also called for social boycott of those calling for giving up Babri Masjid.

“Some people are dancing at the tune of Modi,” said the Hyderabad MP without naming Nadvi, who was removed from the board on Sunday for mooting a proposal to handover the land of demolished Babri Masjid in Ayodhya for construction of Ram temple.

Addressing a public meeting organised by the board at the end of its three-day plenary, Owaisi launched a bitter attack on Nadvi for going against the board’s stand that there can be no compromise on Babri Masjid.

On the eve of the 26th plenary which began on Friday, Nadvi met Sri Sri Ravishankar in Bengaluru and mooted the formula that the land on which Babri Masjid stood till December 6, 1992 should be handed to Ram temple in exchange for an alternate land to build a mosque and a university.

“He (Nadvi) is saying that his proposal is to ensure peace and unity in the country. Should we also give up Masjid-e-Aqsa (Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem) for unity in Arab,” asked Owaisi.

The MP claimed that Nadvi was one of the clerics who signed a ‘fatwa’ in 2001 that a mosque remains a mosque for eternity and hence Muslims can’t give up Babri Masjid.

He also alleged that Nadvi had also given a fatwa in support of terror group IS, which is responsible for massacre of Muslims in Syria, Iraq and other countries. ”

“Modi you are giving political patronage to those who had given fatwa in favour of IS,” said Owaisi.

The MIM chief said Modi using some people to create a rift in AIMPLB by suggesting that Muslims give up Babri Masjid.

He said the prime minister and those dancing at his tunes will not succeed in their attempts as the board is a symbol of Indian Muslims and united platform of all Islamic schools of thought.

(IANS)

BJP MLA’s audio seeking leadership change in Rajasthan goes viral

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Jaipur: As Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje presents her government’s final budget before the polls, a recorded telephonic conversation of BJP MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja seeking change in the party leadership in Rajasthan has gone viral.

Ahuja, in conversation with a party worker, is heard saying that he “has already predicted the results” and “requested the organisational General Secretary in Delhi to change the leadership in Rajasthan”.

The audio clip has been leaked at a time when a letter sent by BJP leader Ashok Choudhary to BJP President Amit Shah asking for a change in leadership in Rajasthan continues to make news.

Ahuja, who represents the Ramgarh constituency, is heard singing a song “Jaisa kiya hai tune waisa hi tu bharega (As shall you sow, so shall you reap)” in the audio clip.

“This is government’s defeat, not our defeat,” Ahuja is heard telling the party worker.

In the audio clip, the BJP MLA also says that though “We have been defeated by 40,000 votes, I am still smiling as I knew this was bound to happen.”

Ahuja tells the other caller that on January 25, he wrote a letter to organisation General Secretary Ram Lal where he has clearly mentioned that BJP will be a loser if Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and BJP State President Ashok Parnami are not changed.

The caller on the other side is heard saying that the same message should be sent to higher authorities or else “we will all collapse badly in the ensuing elections.”

Ahuja while singing a song seems all the more happy in the audio.

IANS tried to contact Ahuja for a comment, but he was unavailable.

(IANS)

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