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Cong releases 7th list of 35 candidates for LS polls

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New Delhi, Mar 23 : Congress party late night on Friday released its seventh list of 35 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, including names of Dr Karan Singh’s son Vikramaditya Singh from Udhampur, UPCC Chief Raj Babbar from Fatehpur Sikri and senior party leader Renuka Chowdhary from Khammam in Telangana.

The list cleared by the Central election committee of the congress and released by AICC General secretary Mukul Wasnik, includes names of candidates of four seats from Chhattisgarh, three from Jammu and Kashmir, five from Maharashtra, two from Odisha, eight from Tamil Nadu, one from Telangana, two from Tripura, nine from Uttar Pradesh (including two replacements) and one from Puducherry,

Prominent among the names that feature in the list are of Dr Karan Singh’s son Vikramaditya Singh from Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir, senior party leader Renuka Chowdhary from Khammam in Telangana, former BSP leader Nasimuddin Siddiqui from Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh ) and M Vasanthakumar from Kanniyakumari (Tamil Nadu ).

UPCC Chief Raj Babbar, who was earlier fielded from Moradabad, will now contest from Fatehpur Sikri. Imran Pratapgarhi has been fielded from Moradabad.

With Friday’s list, the party has declared its 44 candidates for Uttar Pradesh, four for Gujarat, 17 for Maharashtra, 10 seats in Assam, two from Meghalaya, one each from Nagaland, Sikkim, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshwadeep and Pudduchery, 17 from Telangana, 14 from Kerala, 25 candidates from Andhra Pradesh, eight from Tamil Nadu, eight from Odisha, 11 from West Bengal, two seats in Arunachal Pradesh, three seats from Jammu and Kashmir, two from Tripura and nine seats from Chhattisgarh.

Rahul should apologise for Pitroda’s remarks: Shah

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[Nasheman news]New Delhi  BJP chief Amit Shah on Saturday said that Congress President Rahul Gandhi should apologise for his chief advisor Sam Pitroda’s statement on the February 14 Pulwama attack.

“I demand from the Congress President that he must apologise to the families of the slain troopers,” Shah told the media here.

Shah’s statement came in response to Pitroda’s comments that incidents like the Pulwama suicide bombing that killed 40 CRPF troopers, “happen all the time” and that the UPA government also could have sent planes to Pakistan after the 2008 Mumbai terror attack but “that is not the right approach”.

Shah questioned whether the Congress considered heinous attacks as a normal phenomenon. 

“At a time when the country is growing rapidly towards the general election and the issue of national security is important for the voters, the statement of Sam Pitroda is very unfortunate,” he said. 

He slammed the Congress saying that doubting the Indian Air Force was not right for any party’s national president. 

He said that the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre has adopted a zero tolerance policy towards terrorism.

Trinamool removes ‘Congress’ from its logo

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[Nasheman news] Kolkata  West Bengal’s ruling All India Trinamool Congress has dropped the ‘Congress’ from its new logo earlier this month and added dollops of blue, white and green colour to it besides giving it a catchy slogan in a bid to make the party one with the people of the eastern state.

Observers said it could also be Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s way of distancing her party completely from the Indian National Congress.

The Trinamool was formed on January 1, 1998, by Banerjee who came out of the Congress complaining that it was “hand-in-glove with the CPI-M-led Left Front” then in power in Bengal.

Thereafter, Banerjee and her new party went hammer and tongs at the CPI-M for over a decade and finally managed to ride to power by allying with the Congress and defeating the Left Front in the 2011 Assembly polls.

All these years, Banerjee never shied away from harping on her Congress past, and instead repeatedly projected her party as the “real Congress”.

Despite tying up with the Congress twice — briefly before the 2001 Assembly polls and also between 2009 and 2011 — Banerjee aggressively expanded her party’s base across the state, mainly at the cost of her old party.

Many of the one-time heavyweights of the Congress are now with the Trinamool and occupy important positions.

Banerjee’s close associates point out that no other leaders in the past were able to decimate the Congress in their respective states the way she has done in Bengal.

“The name Trinamool is enough. It resonates in the hearts of all our workers and supporters,” said a Trinamool Lok Sabha member.

Another party leader pointed out that it was only Indira Gandhi who was successful in splitting the Congress and ensuring that her party emerges as the real Congress.

“As such, Banerjee does not need the Congress background any more. She is very much a leader in her own right and the Trinamool has its own identity,” he said.

Banerjee has time and again spoken about a non-Congress, non-BJP Federal Front over the past two years, stressing on a greater role for the regional parties after the Lok Sabha polls.

The logo has used a blue-white colour combination in a big way surrounding the party’s twin flower symbol. There is also a very careful use of green colour in composing the font of the word ‘Trinamool’.

“Blue-white is Banerjee’s favourite colour. All government buildings, police stations and bus stands have this colour combination. The use of the same combination in the logo makes it an extension of the theme Bengal,” said the leader.

“Trinamool is a vibrant party, a party of the future, of the youth. The colour green signifies that. Blue-white is now Bengal’s theme colour,” the MP said.

The slogan “Amar, Apnar, Banglar” (mine, yours, Bengal’s) is said to be an effort to project the party as the representative of Bengal, and the only political outfit capable of fulfilling the wishes and desires of all sections of people in the state.

Trinamool leaders said the party would continue to be registered as the All India Trinamool Congress with the Election Commission.

Congress announces eight LS candidates from TN

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[Nasheman news] Chennai Maintaining silence over its candidate for Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga Lok Sabha constituency, the Congress on Saturday declared eight names for the April 18 polls.

The names featured in the party’s list of 34 Lok Sabha seats that was released earlier in the day.

The Tamil Nadu candidates include two former state party heads, Su. Thirunavukkarasar and E.V.K.S. Elangovan.

The obvious miss in the list was it candidate from the Sivaganga constituency.

In 2014, Karti Chidambaram, the son of former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, fought and lost in Sivaganga.

In the 2009 and 2004 elections. P. Chidambaram represented the constituency.

There were speculations that someone from the Chidambaram family was likely to be given a Congress ticket.

Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded its National Secretary H. Raja for Sivaganga.

The Congress has also fielded one woman candidate, Jothimani for the Karur constituency.

The other candidates are: K. Jayakumar (Tiruvallur), A. Chellakumar (Krishnagiri), Manickam Tagore (Virudhunagar), H. Vasanthakumar (Kanniyakumari).

V. Vaithilingam will represent the lone Puducherry seat.

As part of of the DMK-led alliance, Congress got a total of 10 Lok Sabha seats — nine in Tamil Nadu and the lone Puducherry seat.

Modi stays with Varanasi, Shah in fray from Gandhinagar

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[Nasheman news] New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight to retain his Varanasi seat while BJP President Amit Shah will make his debut in Lok Sabha polls from Gandhinagar, BJP leader J.P. Nadda announced on Thursday.

The Gandhinagar seat is currently held by veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, who has been winning the seat consecutively from 1998.

Among the prominent leaders announced in BJP’s first list, which had 184 names across 20 states, were Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, who will contest again from Lucknow, Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur, Gen. V. K. Singh (retd) from Ghaziabad, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Jaipur Rural), Satyapal Singh (Baghpat), and D.V. Sadananda Gowda (Bengaluru North). 

All are sitting MPs from these seats.

Union Minister Smriti Irani will again face Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, while film actress-turned politician Hema Malini will contest from her Mathura seat.

Union Minister Babul Supriyo will fight to retain his Asanol seat, where he will face Trinamool Congress’s Moon Moon Sen. The BJP has also fielded Bengali film actress Locket Chatterjee from Hooghly. 

BJP’s Kerala strongman Kummanam Rajasekharan, who recently quit as Mizoram Governor, will fight against Congress’s Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvanthapuram, while Union Minister K.J. Alphons will contest from Ernakulam. 

The BJP also fielded its Tamil Nadu unit chief Tamilisai Soundararajan from Thoothukudi from where DMK’s K. Kanimozhi is contesting.

Nadda, who had announced that Minister of State from Home Kiren Rijiju will contest from Arunanchal East, later corrected himself, saying he would be contesting from Arunachal West. 

The BJP also fielded Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda, who had quit Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal to join it, from Kendrapara.

Nadda also announced that candidates for all the 17 seats it will contest in Bihar have been cleared by the party’s Central Election Committee and sent to the state election panel. 

BJP leader Yeddyurappa strongly denies the charges of corruption

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Bengaluru, Mar 22 : Strongly denying the report on the alleged payment of Rs 1800 crore to top BJP leaders, Opposition leader in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and BJP State President B S Yeddyurappa, said that he will explore legal options for filing defamation case for making baseless charges against him.
In a statement here on Friday, the former Chief Minister said that the charges have made a false charges and the said dairy which was made public was a fake. “It is a bundle of lies and most irrelevant”.
“Unable to stomach the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Mod, the Congress leaders are making false charges” he said.

Actor Prakash Raj files nomination as Independent

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Bengaluru, March 22 (Nasheman News) South Indian multi-lingual actor Prakash Raj on Friday filed his nomination to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Bangalore Central constituency as an Independent.

Raj, 53, who hails from this tech city, is a popular actor in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films.

“National parties like BJP and Congress have failed the people. I would like to be the voice of the people,” Raj told the media after filing his nomination.

The actor will be contesting from the seat against BJP’s outgoing MP P.C. Mohan, who too filed his nomination from Bangalore Central seat on Friday.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate from the constituency.

Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced its support to Prakash Raj.

Advocates of monarchy in politics exposed: Adityanath

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Lucknow, March 22 (Nasheman News) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday hit out at the Congress for doubting the bravery of security forces, saying those who advocate “monarchy in our democratic set-up” have been “exposed” by one of the family loyalists.

“Congress’ royal dynast family which advocates monarchy in our democratic set-up has been exposed by one of the family loyalists who happen to be Congress President’s conscious keeper,” he said in a series of tweets attacking Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s chief advisor Sam Pitroda.

“The family enterprise had doubts about the bravery and valor of our armed forces when they were in power, but today New India stand with its soldiers to defeat forces of terror,” he said.

Yogi was referring to Pitroda’s remarks, after the February 14 terrorist bombing in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama on a CRPF convoy in which 40 troopers were killed, that such incidents “happen all the time” and that the previous UPA government could also have sent planes across the border after the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, but “that is not the right approach” to deal with the world.

His remarks came soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the opposition of insulting the defence forces and of being the “natural habitat of terror apologists and questioners” of the country’s armed forces.

Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister said in a tweet: “Loyal courtier of Congress’ royal dynasty admits what the nation already knew — Congress was unwilling to respond to forces of terror. This is a New India — we will answer terrorists in a language they understand and with interest.”

Curtains Down for L K Advani

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The electoral journey of L K Advani, the man who built the party came to an end, with the BJP announcing its list of candidates to fight the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. L K Advani The BJP fielded Amit Shah from Gandhinagar, a seat represented by Advani six times. Following the announcement, the Congress was quick to react. Party spokesperson, Randeep Surjewala said, ” first Advani was forcibly sent to the Margdarshak Mandal. Now even his parliamentary seat has been snatched. When Modi does not respect elders, how will he honour the trust of the people.”

The BJP in a late night development announced its list of 184 candidates. Prime Minister Narendra Modi would contest from Varanasi, the seat he had won in 2014. However there is no word as yet on whether Modi would contest from a second seat. Full list of BJP candidates for Lok Sabha Elections 2019 In the 2014 elections, Advani had won the Gandhinagar seat by a huge margin of 4.83 lakh votes. He defeated Kirit Patel of the Congress. However the victory was largely attributed to the Modi wave in 2014.

In 2014 there was speculation that Advani may be shifted to Bhopal, while Shah would be given the Gandhinagar seat. Advani who led the Ramjanmabhoomi movement had put the party in a commendable position. The party it may be recalled had won just two seats in the 1984 elections.

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Karnataka building collapse death toll reaches 14

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Bengaluru, March 22 (Nasheman News) The death toll in the building collapse in Karnataka’s Dharwad on Tuesday rose to 14, whereas 60 people have been rescued so far, officials said on Friday.

A man was rescued on Friday morning after being trapped for nearly 60 hours. 

“A total of 14 people have died. Two people were rescued on Thursday,” Dharwad Deputy Commissioner M. Deepa told the media at the accident site, about 400 km northwest of here.

Three people were still suspected to be trapped in the debris, Assistant Commissioner of Police A.S. Bhoomareddy said.

“Oxygen and oral rehydration solutions were given to those still trapped,” Bhoomareddy told IANS from Dharwad.

Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy announced Rs 2 lakh compensation to the kin of the deceased. 

All four owners of the building under construction surrendered before the police on Thursday night after a case was registered against them. The building’s engineer was also taken into police custody.

A magisterial inquiry, to be headed by a Deputy Commissioner, was ordered into the accident.

Personnel from the National Disaster Response Force, the State Disaster Response Force and fire and emergency services are conducting the rescue work.

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