Archives for March 2019

Tumakuru, Karnataka, Mar 23: The JDS-Congress putting up united fight in the General Election may receive a setback in Tumakuru segment in Karnataka as sitting Congress Lok Sabha member Muddu Hanumegowda vowed to file his nomination papers on Monday.
Congress had alotted Tumakuru seat to JD(S) as part of pre-poll understanding though it had a sitting member in Mr Hanumegowda. Former Prime Minister H D Devegowda in all probability to contesting from this seat.
“I still have confidence of senior Congress leaders convincing Mr Devegowda and JD(s) to give up this seat in favour of Congress and giving me the ticket to contest. If I did not get the ticket I will file nomination as Congress candidate on Monday,” Mr Hanumegowda told crowded press conference here on Saturday.
JDS-Congress which joined hands to form the Government to keep BJP at bay, had decided to put up united fight in the General Election to the Lok Sabha in an attempt to deny BJP winning more seat in the State.
However, despite appeal by Deputy Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Dr G Parameshwara to allow Mr Muddu Hanumegowda to contest as per decision taken in the State Screening Committee to allow all the sitting Congress members to contest. However, Dr Parameshwara had also announced that he has no objection if Mr Devegowda himself decides contest from Tamakuru and had assured that Congress and JDS workers would work for his (Mr Devegowda) victory.
Since Mr Devegowda is yet to announce his candidature for the Tumakuru seat, Mr Hanumegowda is still hopping of his party senior leaders convincing him and wait till Monday for the decision of the leaders.
“Let me wait for the official decision of the leaders. I am confident of getting Congress ticket, even otherwise I will file my nomination on Monday on Congress ticket,” Mr Hanumegowda said.

Mysuru, Mar 23 : Senior BJP leader V Srinivas Prasad will be filing his nomination from the Chamarajanagar constituency on March 26.
Speaking newsmen on Saturday he said, ?Battle lines are drawn and I will not not rest until I win this election and strengthen the BJP. We will get 16 days for campaigning and the preparations are already on.?
He said NDA retain power as the Congress has become weaker and given away eight seats to JD(S) fearing backlash. The coalition government has a lot of issues. People are confident about BJP and the party will surely win more number of seats than last time, he said.
Mr Prasad, a former union and Karnataka minister had won from Chamarajanagara five times in the past and twice was an MLA, all from Congress party. Later he shifted to the BJP.
Responding to B S Yeddyurappa’s diary row, for union minister said this will have no impact and no one has taken it seriously as it was fake and concocted document. He said that the BJP too can make such allegations and they don’t want to stoop down to such level.
Responding to the teacher-student relationship between him and Dhruvanarayan, the sitting Congress MP, Mr Prasad said he was not in BJP and that means he was a political rival. But as a junior in politics, the personal relationship was not affected. But there is no such relationship in politics. It is the people who will decide everything in democracy and said there has been a lot of changes in politics in the last couple of years.
Referring to Mandya constituency, he said BJP had fielded a candidate and whether it would deeply affect the Congress or help independent candidate Sumalata, all steps have been taken according to a plan.
”BJP central leadership will take the final decision. The situation in Congress in Mandya is bad and they are suspending their party members. Our leaders will take the right decision at the right time,? he added.

Bengaluru, Mar 23 : With the campaign for Lok Sabha election is picking up in Karnataka, an incident of pelting stone on the house of Kannada cine star Darshan, supporting Independent candidate in hotly contested Mandya segment, was reported today.

Sources said Darshan’s house was stoned by some miscreants in the city when he was not home, on Saturday.
Kannada cine actors Darshan and Yash are backing independent candidate Sumalata, wife of former union minister late Ambareesh, in a challegnge to JD(S) official candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy, son of chief minister H D Kumaraswamy.
According to police sources, a complaint of stone throwing by some unknown miscreants on the house of actor Darshan was received and a case has been registered and FIR filed.
During the incident a high end car parked inside the compound belonging to the cinema actor was damaged.
The ‘political attack’ comes in the wake after Darshan, had openly extended his support to Ms Sumalatha, the wife of Ambharish who had announced to contest as an independent candidate, against Nikhil Kumarasawmy, the son of Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in the sugar belt of Karnataka.
The Rajarajeshwari Nagar Police visited the Actor’s house and investigating into the incident, police said.

New Delhi, March 23 (Nasheman News) The BJP on Saturday declared the names of 36 candidates for the coming Lok Sabha polls with the party deciding to field its spokesman Sambit Patra from the Puri parliamentary constituency in Odisha.

The list was declared after a marathon meeting of the Central Election Committee presided over by Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah and attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and other senior BJP leader.

The 36 candidates comprise 23 from Andhra Pradesh, six from Maharashtra, five from Odisha and one each from Meghalaya and Assam.

It also released the list of candidates for 51 Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh and 22 Assembly seats in Odisha.

In Maharashtra, the party has fielded Smita Uday Wagh from Jalgaon, Pratap Chikkalkar from Nanded, Dr. Bharat Pawar from Dindori, Girish Bapat from Pune, Kanchan Kul from Baramati and Dr. Jaysidheshvar Swami from Solapur.

By fielding Patra from the Puri Lok Sabha constituency, the party has put an end to the speculation that Modi would contest from the pilgrim town.

Odisha BJP President Basant Kumar Panda has been declared the party’s candidate for Kalahandi, Suresh Pujari for Bargarh, Nitesh Ganga Deb for Sambalpur and Jayaram Pangi for Koraput parliamentary constituency.

Among the 22 Assembly seats declared by the party, Shisir Gamang, son of former Chief Minister Giridhar Gamang, has been fielded from Gunpur assembly constituency.

Earlier, the party had declared first list of candidates for 185 Lok Sabha constituencies that included the names of Modi (Varanasi), Rajnath Singh (Lucknow), Nitin Gadkari (Nagpur) and Shah (Gandhinagar).

Talking to the media after releasing the list, Union Minister J. P. Nadda said the party would like to clear the candidates for first and second phase as soon as possible.

Lucknow, March 23 (Nasheman News) Launching a blistering attack on the BJP here on Saturday, Samajwadi Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said the party suppressed the Dalits and the backward communities and the people are ready to give their reply in the elections.

Yadav’s comments came soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused political parties that claim to be followers of socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia, of betraying his (Lohia’s) principles.

“They (BJP) should remember that the Dalits and the backward community are aware of their mindset. And people are now ready to give their reply in the Lok Sabha polls.

“When the BJP came to power it said it will hug the backward community. But they have suppressed the Dalits and the backward community,” he said.

Referring to the incident of burning his and BSP chief Mayawati’s photos during the Holika dahan ceremony in Barabanki district, Yadav said: “In a democracy to oppose (against something), effigies are burnt, but by burning someone’s picture on the day of a festival, I want to ask the BJP, what kind of nationalism and social justice was that.”

On Sam Pitroda’s controversial statement over the Balakot air strikes by the Indian Air Force, he said: “The BJP cannot issue the certificate of nationalism to people. For the sacrifices and valour of the armed forces, we always have respect.”

The Samajwadi Party leader also asked for the reason behind the intelligence failure in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama. “When the Opposition parties want to know how there was such a big intelligence failure, the government does not want to answer. And that’s why I have said a number of times that the BJP knows how to divert the attention of people from real issues.”

He also said that earlier the entire debate was on ‘chaiwala’, but now it is on ‘chowkidaar’.

He added that the BJP has failed to keep its promises.

Accusing the BJP of not giving employment to the youth, he said that due to demonetisation and GST crores of youth lost their jobs. “They promised to bring ‘achhe din’, but they brought ‘bure din’ for the people.”

On when he will file his nomination papers for the Azamgarh parliamentary constituency, he said, “Will do that soon if people are demanding. And will also decide on Dimple Yadav’s (his wife) candidature from Kannauj as people are asking her to contest.”

He added that the candidate for Varanasi will be announced soon along with the candidates for the other parliamentary constituencies.

On Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath kicking off the BJP campaign in the state, he said: “Don’t tell me about the CM.

“We have heard that he (Yogi Adityanath) played Holi wearing a rain coat. Holi is the festival of colours, and if the colours are not smeared on your face then it is not Holi.

Commenting on the many public meetings of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in the state, he said: “We want him to go to the people and tell them about the work of his government in the last two years.”

The SP leader described the social media team of the BJP as “Internet terrorists” and demanded action against them.

“The kind of language they use is not good and we do not want to use such language,” he added.

Lucknow, March 23 (Nasheman News) Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Saturday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s greeting to his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan on the occasion of their National Day as “cheating” and accused him of double speak for votes.

“On one hand, for vote bank politics several statements were made against Pakistan and strict public stand was taken. But on the other hand, a secret letter is sent to Pakistan Prime Minister. (Is) such act by Modi to cheat 130 crore people correct? People need to remain alert,” she tweeted.

Her remarks came a day after Khan claimed that Modi greeted him on their National Day following weeks of heightened tension between India and Pakistan triggered by the Pulwama terror attack.

“Received message from PM Modi: ‘I extend my greetings and best wishes to the people of Pakistan on the National Day of Pakistan. It is time that people of the sub-continent work together for a democratic, peaceful, progressive and prosperous region, in an atmosphere free of terror and violence’,” the former cricketer-turned-politician tweeted.

Khan’s tweet came on a day when the Indian government boycotted Pakistan’s National Day event in Delhi and the Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad also announced that he would not be attending the event there.

Pakistan National Day is celebrated on March 23 every year to mark the Lahore Resolution.

New Delhi, Mar 23 : Eastern Naval command Flag Officer Commanding in Chief (FOC-in-C) Vice Admiral Karambir Singh will be the next chief of Indian Naval Staff.
He will be replacing current Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba as he retires on May 31.
In a tweet, the ministry of defence said, “Government appoints Vice Admiral Karambir Singh, PVSM, AVSM, FOC-in-C Eastern Naval Command as the next chief of naval staff vice Admiral Sunil Lanba, PVSM, AVSM, ADC, who vacates the office on 31 May 2019.”
VAdm Singh is an alumnus of National Defence Academy, Pune; Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and College of Naval Warfare, Mumbai.
VAdm Singh was commissioned into the Indian Navy in July 1980 and earned his wings as an helicopter pilot in 1982.
He has extensive experience in flying the HAL Chetak and Kamov Ka-25 helicopters.
He has commanded numerous ships including ICGS Chand Bibi, INS Vijaydurg, INS Rana and INS Delhi.
He has also served as the Fleet Operations Officer of the Western Fleet; Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command; Chief of Staff, Andaman and Nicobar Command; Flag Officer Maharashtra and Gujarat Area (FOMAG); Joint Director Naval Air Staff at Naval HQ; Captain Air and Officer-in-Charge of the Naval Air Station, Mumbai.
His other appointments include member of the Aircrew Instrument Rating and Categorisation Board (AIRCATS); Director General Project Seabird, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff and Vice Chief of the Naval Staff.
During his career spanning over 37 years, he has been awarded the Ati Vishist Seva Medal and Param Vishist Seva Medal (2018) for his service.