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17-yr-old girl alleges sexual assault by father, SP and BSP leaders in Lalitpur

17-yr-old girl alleges sexual assault by father, SP and BSP leaders in Lalitpur

KANPUR A Class 11 student in UP’s Lalitpur district lodged an FIR against 28 people, including her father, some close relatives and district presidents of the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, accusing them of outraging her modesty over the last five years. The FIR was registered with the Sadar Kotwali police under relevant sections of the IPC and Pocso Act and the cops had started…

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BJP rigged UP bypolls, will give details after results are out: Akhilesh

LUCKNOW: A day before the announcement of the results for bye-elections to seven Assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday accused the BJP of rigging the elections in its favour. He, however, did not elaborate on the accusation, and said he would provide detailed information after the results are out on Tuesday. At a press conference after a number of former lawmakers from the BSP and the Congress joined the party, Yadav said, “The BJP has done ‘dhandhli’ (rigging), ‘dhokha’ (fraud) and whatever it could by (misusing) the administration. The government had made such an arrangement that the voters could not come out (to exercise their franchise).” “I will give detailed information after the results of the bye-election are declared on November 10,” he said. About the Bihar elections, the SP president exuded confidence that the exit polls predicting an edge for the RJD-led opposition alliance over the ruling NDA would be correct and that the tenure of those who “started spreading hatred in the society” was coming to an end. Even abroad, those who wanted to rule by dividing the society have been ousted by the people, he said. “I am happy that there is a group of journalists there (in the US), which claimed that in past four years there, a president lied more than 22 thousand times. If the journalists here count the lies of the UP chief minister and the prime minister, then it will come out in lakhs.” On demonetisation, he said those who had no black money suffered a lot and those with black money left the country. “The BJP is responsible for the condition of the country’s economy. The result of demonetisation is that, till date, the economy of the country has not been able to recover. It not only ended the big businessmen, but also the small traders, small farmers and the poor,” Yadav said. “By demonetisation, BJP won in Uttar Pradesh. It was done so that BJP could win in UP. Not only demonetisation, whatever decisions the government has taken have disappointed the people. The BJP has broken the trust of the people of the entire country,” he added. The leaders who joined the SP were former Bahujan Samaj Party MPs Kailash Nath Singh Yadav and Kaiser Jahan, former Congress MP Bal Kumar Patel, and former MLAs Ram Singh Patel, Sunil Kumar Yadav, Ramesh Rahi and Dhirendra Prakash. The Samajwadi Party chief also celebrated the birthday of Khazanchi Nath- the child who was born while his mother was standing in a bank queue in Kanpur dehat post-demonetisation in 2016- by cutting a cake and giving him gifts. The SP celebrates his birthday every year to mark the “failure” of the BJP government’s demonitisation move.

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‘Prahlad Joshi ready to debate’: Home Minister Amit Shah replies to Rahul Gandhi - india news

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday challenged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to prove that the Citizenship Amendment Act would take away citizenship from Indian Muslims, as he advised him to read the act completely.Terming those against CAA as “anti-Dalits”, Shah said that there was no clause in the new act that takes away citizenship of Muslims, and accused the Congress and Rahul Gandhi of trying to create confusion.“I challenge Rahul Gandhi...read the CAA completely, if you find anything that takes away citizenship of Indian Muslims....our Pralhad Joshi (Parliamentary Affairs Minister) is ready to debate with you,” Shah said.Addressing a public meeting here on the CAA as part of BJP’s nationwide ‘Jan Jagran Abhiyan’, he accused the Congress of dividing the country on the basis of religion.The BJP national president also accused the Congress, the Communist party, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the JDS, BSP, and SP of indulging in vote bank politicson CAA.Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, Union minister Pralhad Joshi and several BJP leaders attended the rally. Read the full article

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Forget past differences, work for victory of all SP-BSP candidates:

Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati on Tuesday said that the alliance between her party and the Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections was giving the ruling BJP “sleepless nights”.

“This year my birthday has come at a time when the Lok Sabha elections are very near. And keeping the elections in mind, my party has formed an alliance with the SP which is giving sleepless nights to the BJP and also others,” she told the media as she turned 63.

On January 12, Mayawati and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav announced that they will contest 38 Lok Sabha seats each in Uttar Pradesh of the total 80. The SP and BSP won’t put up candidates in Rae Bareli and Amethi, the constituencies of Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

The Congress had otherwise been kept out of the alliance.

The Bahujan Samaj Party supremo also said that it was Uttar Pradesh which decides which party will form a government at the Centre. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP won a whopping 71 seats while an ally bagged two more.

Appealing to party workers to vote for the alliance and forget past differences, Mayawati said: “To make this alliance a success, I appeal to all the workers of SP and BSP to forget the past differences and work for the victory of both parties’ candidates. This would be the biggest gift on my birthday.”

She also warned the party workers that the BJP was capable of spreading confusion and rumours and urged them to remain alert.

Slamming both the Centre and the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, the four-time Chief Minister said the BJP had lost support of the people of the state as they did not fulfil promises made in 2014.

She said it would have been beneficial to the farmers if the Modi government had implemented the Swmainathan Commission’s recommendations.

The BSP leader accused the BJP and Congress governments of corruption since independence.

“Due to the corruption, farmers, Dalits and tribals did not get opportunities to progress in life. So we had to form the BSP after getting disillusioned,” she added.

At the event, Mayawati released the 14th edition of her “Blue Book”, which details her struggles as the BSP leader.

She also wished Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple, an MP from Kannauj, on her birthday, which also falls on Tuesday.

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BSP-BJP alliance not possible, ideologies opposite: Mayawati

LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati asserted on Monday that her party would never enter into an alliance with the BJP in the assembly or the Lok Sabha elections, highlighting that the ideology of the two parties were “opposite”. Her clarification came amid speculation over her last week’s statement that the BSP would vote for the BJP or any other party’s candidate to ensure defeat of the Samajwadi Party contenders in future elections, including those of the Uttar Pradesh legislative council and the Rajya Sabha. Mayawati alleged that the SP and the Congress were misusing her recent statement so that the Muslim community distances itself from the BSP. “The alliance of the BJP with the BSP is not possible in any polls in the future. The BSP cannot contest with the communal party,” she said in a media briefing. “Our ideology is of ‘sarvajan sarva dharma hitay’ (benefit of everyone and all religions)’ and is opposite to the BJP’s ideology,” she said. “The BSP cannot enter into an alliance with those having communal, casteist and capitalist ideology.” Mayawati said she would rather take ‘sanyas’ (retirement) from politics than ally with such parties. “I will fight on all fronts with the communal, casteist and capitalist forces, and not going to bow before anyone,” she added. The BSP leader reiterated that her party would ensure the defeat of the SP’s second candidate in future Uttar Pradesh legislative council polls. “Our party will support the candidate of any party, including the BJP, which is strong to defeat the second candidate of the SP,” she said. “I stand by my earlier statement, which is misused by the SP and the Congress for political gains so that the Muslim community distances itself from the party.” She accused the SP and the Congress of trying to ensure that Muslims did not vote for the BSP in the bypolls to seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, adding that they would not be successful in this endeavour. “Everyone knows that the BSP is party of an ideology and movement, and I never compromised it even when I formed the government with the BJP,” Mayawati said, adding that she had “sacrificed” her government but never harmed the Muslim community. “There was no Hindu-Muslim riots in my regime. History is witness to it. Under the SP and the Congress governments, there were many Hindu-Muslim riots,” she said. Mayawati underscored that she gave adequate representation to the Muslims when her party was in power, as she also pointed out that the party had given tickets to two candidates from the community in the by-elections.

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Illegal mining case: CBI rais at UP Ex min. Gayatri Prajapati’s location

The CBI carried out searches at over 22 locations in Uttar Pradesh, including the residence of former state minister Gayatri Prajapati in connection with a case of illegal sand mining between 2012 and 2016, officials said. The CBI started investigating the case on the directions of the Allahabad High Court in January this year. A senior Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official told Media, “Several CBI teams started the searches at over 22 places in Uttar Pradesh this morning. The CBI team also raided three residential premises of former UP minister Prajapati in Amethi.” The agency had on 2nd January registered a case against 11 people under sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act. The agency has named former Hamirpur District Magistrate B. Chandrakala, miner Adil Khan, geologist/mining officer Moinuddin, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Ramesh Kumar Mishra and his brother Dinesh Kumar Mishra among the accused. Also named are former Mining Department clerks Ram Ashray Prajapati and Ram Avtar Singh, as well as Sanjay Dikshit, who contested the 2017 Assembly polls on Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket, and his father Satyadeo Dikshit. On 5th January, the CBI carried out searches on 14 locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, including the residences of Chandrakala as well as a SP and a Bahujan Samaj Party leader in connection with the case. Read the full article

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The parable of a monolith - Nation Information

http://tinyurl.com/yyfvd3zo Mumduha Majid Saheba, an govt member of the All-India Muslim Private Regulation Board, had lengthy been a insurgent in her neighborhood. Daughter of an officer who labored on the Indian embassy in Iraq for 20 years, she by no means wore a burqa, inspired different Muslim girls to empower themselves by training and talent growth, ran an NGO for them in Delhi and a faculty in Odisha, her house state. The ulema (clergy) would typically take offence to her ideas and actions. Shia mosques had been out of bounds for her, a Sunni. But, earlier this 12 months, when she travelled to Hyderabad, she was allowed to enter a Shia mosque. The ulema now give her a affected person listening to. She now finds various Muslim groups-earlier bitterly opposed to every other-reaching out for dialogue and a unified stand on points associated to Islam. Mumduha is now satisfied that Muslims within the nation are getting united and the catalyst is an existential concern. “The previous 5 years underneath Narendra Modi have been a testing time for Muslims. That is why I preserve joking that Modi is essentially the most unifying chief within the nation. He has not solely received Mulayam and Mayawati collectively but additionally introduced various Muslim teams underneath one umbrella,” she says. The umbrella Mumduha is referring to is termed the ‘Muslim vote financial institution’ in election-speak. It’s primarily based on the idea that Muslims vote en bloc throughout the nation for a specific agenda. In latest occasions, that agenda has been to defeat the BJP. It’s on this pursuit that Bahujan Samaj Social gathering chief Mayawati is interesting to them to vote for the alliance she has fashioned with the Samajwadi Social gathering and the Rashtriya Lok Dal in Uttar Pradesh. Although different events are much less open about their motives, all anti-BJP forces are hoping to nook a share of the Muslim vote. However do Muslims actually vote as a homogenous group? Muslims represent greater than 20 per cent of the inhabitants in 100 districts or 80 of the Lok Sabha’s 543 constituencies. (Graphics: Tanmoy Chakraborty) Political students use empirical information to bust the parable of the Muslim vote financial institution. The neighborhood, they are saying, is geographically dispersed throughout the nation and isn’t a monolithic group. They’ve by no means voted with a singular nationwide Muslim aspiration. Muslims represent not less than 20 per cent of the inhabitants in 80 of India’s 543 Lok Sabha constituencies. In 2014, Hindu candidates received in 59 of those 80 seats. The BJP, which is perceived to be an anti-Muslim social gathering, received 38 of those seats. Of the 882 Muslim candidates who contested within the nation, solely 23 received. “Muslims have at all times voted primarily based on native points and candidates and never as a block. The parable of a Muslim vote financial institution will not be supported by information or historic patterns,” says Mohammad Khan, assistant professor of political science at Ashoka College. Ali Hossain Ghusi, 78, Milk dealer in Palta, Barrackpore, West Bengal stated, “There is not any Muslim chief who has thought of us or voiced our considerations. We do not assist Muslim leaders like Azam Khan, who’s a disgrace for the neighborhood.” (Picture: Subir Halder) The Muslim voter, many argue, is pushed by constituency-level politics, not the narrative of concern created by anti-Muslim rhetoric and incidents. Just like the Hindus, the Muslim identification on the bottom can also be extremely fragmented, various with spiritual denomination, language, caste and sophistication. Whereas the previous few elections have seen a consolidation of Hindu votes underneath the BJP, Muslims votes have remained break up between the Congress and powerful regional events. In states the place the Congress is in direct competitors with the BJP, it will get nearly all of the Muslim votes. In others the place there are sturdy regional parties-UP, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam and Delhi-the general Muslim assist for the Congress has considerably dropped and moved to the strongest regional participant. “A Muslim chief would not must be a Muslim by faith. Anybody who fights for the constitutional rights of Muslims is their chief”– Aman Wadud, 34, lawyer, Gauhati Excessive Courtroom. (Picture: Mintu Boro) A number of political specialists imagine that 2019 will probably be a defining 12 months for the Muslim citizens. The quite a few incidents of lynching over cow slaughter, the bans on beef commerce and consumption, narratives corresponding to ghar wapasi and love jihad and vitriolic feedback by political leaders corresponding to UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who turned the electoral battle into one between Ali and Bajrang Bali, have bred an unprecedented sense of isolation inside the Muslims. “I might anticipate a coordinated voting sample this time. They may maybe again the social gathering or candidate who can defeat the BJP in each area,” says Gilles Verniers, assistant professor of political science on the Ashoka College. However the larger dilemma earlier than the Muslims is that there is no such thing as a social gathering to signify their considerations. The larger political events are in an unstated competitors to woo the Hindu vote. If Congress president Rahul Gandhi has declared himself a janeudhari Shiv bhakt and has been publicly temple-hopping since 2015, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s response to the BJP’s Ram temple rhetoric has been the promise of an enormous Vishnu temple and a metropolis named Vishnu Nagar close to house turf Etawah. A 60 ft statue of Lord Krishna has already come up in Etawah. “The events and leaders do not even discuss giving rights to Muslims,” says Syed Arshad Madani, president, Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Hind. “The Nehru-Gandhis by no means talked about faith. However right now they’re making a show of their Hindu identification.” Muslims have largely backed secular formations just like the Congress, SP, BSP, RJD and TMC, however have been denied proportional illustration. (Supply: Lokniti-CSDS) That is seen as a direct response to the RSS-BJP accusation of “secular events” taking part in “Muslim appeasement” politics. This has helped the BJP consolidate the Hindu vote and made different events cautious of risking the Hindu majority vote. “The BJP is sweet at creating pressured binaries, and different events have fallen into this lure. That is why the Congress has brazenly stated it must dispel the notion that it is pro-Muslim,” says Verniers. However Muslim leaders maintain the Congress equally answerable for creating this binary. “Throughout UPA rule, when Shivraj Patil was house minister, there have been many blasts and the federal government blamed HuJi (Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami) and SIMI (College students Islamic Motion of India). A number of Muslims had been rounded up and the impression created was that Muslims are terrorists. It’s the most damaging factor the Congress has performed to Muslims in 60 years,” says Madani. Most political observers agree the pathetic socio-economic situation of the Muslims is a results of sustained apathy of the political class in the direction of their points. “The so-called secular events and the Muslim political elite who declare to signify the neighborhood, exaggerate identity-based victimhood and ignore the true points. Muslims, like another neighborhood, are extra involved about poverty, employment and training. The menace to spiritual identification does have an effect on them psychologically however would not solely decide their aspirations as residents,” says Hilal Ahmed, affiliate professor on the Centre for the Examine of Creating Societies in Delhi. “The BJP is ideologically communal and the Congress opportunistic,” stated Arshia Ahmed Ayub, 51, Battle administration counsellor in Hyderabad. (Picture: A Prabhakar Rao) WHITHER MUSLIM LEADERS? In 2012, whereas interacting with a gaggle of Muslim youth, Rahul Gandhi requested them why the neighborhood has been unable to supply a pacesetter of the stature of India’s first training minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. To reply the query, his social gathering, too, must share a big a part of the blame, say political observers. “There was a deficit of elites amongst Muslims since Partition when most of them left for Pakistan. This has been compounded by two different elements. The Congress, which dominated the post-Independence electoral panorama, was able to take Muslim votes however unwilling to supply them satisfactory illustration. This pattern lasted a number of many years,” says Verniers. Asaduddin Owaisi, chief of the All-India-Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), agrees: “A pacesetter can’t emerge out of the blue from the sky or the bottom, he has to evolve. Political events are usually not prepared to provide Muslims house and tickets. Then how can now we have Muslim leaders with a pan-India enchantment?” Since Independence, Indian Muslims have largely backed secular formations such because the Congress, SP, BSP, Trinamool and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). However whereas these events have talked about defending Muslim pursuits, they’ve been much less forthcoming in giving them proportional illustration. Muslim illustration in Parliament within the Congress-dominated years of 1952-1977 was 2-7 per cent. The very best it touched was in 1980 when it reached 10 per cent, nonetheless lower than the share of Muslims within the general inhabitants. In UP, Muslim illustration within the meeting touched the highest-17.1 per cent-in 2012, underneath the SP, however was wanting its complete share of the inhabitants. In Bihar, dominated largely by the Congress, Janata Dal (United) and RJD, the best illustration was 10.46 per cent in 1985. The lack of religion within the Congress and the following failure of regional secular events has resulted within the progress of a number of Muslim-centric events such because the AIMIM, the Indian Union Muslim League and the All-India United Democratic Entrance. However these events have remained region-specific. AIMIM often is the most vocal about Muslim points and making an attempt to increase its footprint into Maharashtra, UP and Bihar, however has remained a Hyderabad-based social gathering. On the identical time, the start of a number of Muslim events after 2008 has led to an extra fragmentation of the Muslim vote. There’s additionally discontent over Muslim leaders failing to spotlight the true points confronting the neighborhood. “The Muslim leaders in several events are usually not consultant of the Muslims as a result of they typically toe the social gathering line as an alternative of elevating considerations about Muslims,” says Navaid Hamid, president, All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, a physique of 16 Muslim organisations. Although he categorically says he isn’t a Muslim chief, Owaisi has emerged as the most important star in Muslim politics right now. He and his social gathering at the moment are in enlargement mode-two AIMIM candidates received within the Maharashtra election and dozens had been elected in municipal elections. To broaden his base past the Muslims, he has created an alliance-the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi-with the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh, led by Prakash Ambedkar, grandson of B.R. Ambedkar. “I’m working with Prakash Ambedkar as a result of the problems confronted by the Muslims are the identical as these the Dalits face. It’s good in a democracy if the marginalised come collectively to tackle right-wing politics and those that are discriminating towards us,” says Owaisi, who’s regularly attracting the eye of the younger and upwardly cell Muslims. “The BJP is working to safe its Hindu vote financial institution like different events do to get Muslim votes. Nevertheless, the situation of Madrasas in UP has improved through the BJP regime,” stated Mohammad Ashfaq Quraishi, 50, Meat store proprietor in Lucknow. Picture: Maneesh Agnihotri) MUSLIMS AND THE BJP In 2014, the BJP got here to energy with not even one elected Muslim member of Parliament. The social gathering received 71 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP-a state the place one-fifth of the inhabitants is Muslim-without fielding a single Muslim candidate; not one of the 55 Muslim candidates from different events received. Within the 2017 UP election, the BJP once more didn’t subject a single Muslim candidate, but received 325 of the 403 seats. Curiously, Muslim consolidation, or the impression of Muslim consolidation, even helps the BJP not directly. A examine by Congress information cell head Praveen Chakravarty reveals that the BJP’s vote share really will increase in districts which have considerably extra (1.5 occasions or extra) Muslims than the common in that state. The distinction in vote share, too, is important sufficient to swing elections. Deoband, the place 70 per cent of the inhabitants is Muslim, is a traditional instance. The BJP’s Hindu candidate, Brijesh Singh, received in 2017 with a 46 per cent vote share whereas the Muslim candidates fielded by the SP and BSP received 31 per cent and 24 per cent of the votes, respectively. It’s on this context that BJP leaders really feel that the BSP’s aggressive marketing campaign for Muslim assist may finally assist their social gathering. “By instantly interesting to the Muslims to vote for his or her events, massive opposition leaders are doing a terrific disservice to the neighborhood. This provides the bulk Hindu voters a sense that the appeasement of minorities will proceed within the title of secularism. They may, in fact, vote for the BJP,” says BJP chief Shazia Ilmi. Whereas the BJP might not be the social gathering of alternative for many Muslims, one in each 10 votes in 2014 was from the neighborhood. The social gathering hopes for additional beneficial properties it claims have ensued from its welfare schemes and the assist of Muslim girls on triple talaq. “Can anybody say that the advantages of welfare schemes launched by the Modi authorities haven’t reached the Muslims?” asks Ilmi. There are a number of myths in regards to the voting behaviour of Indian Muslims-how clerics affect their alternative and the way they’re extra involved about spiritual points whereas voting. This 12 months, too, round 700 ulema, representing totally different sects, have requested the Muslim citizens to vote for “secular events” to defeat the BJP. This sort of politics, nevertheless, misplaced its significance within the period of coalition politics because it grew to become troublesome for spiritual leaders to interpret the region-specific fragmentation of the Muslim electoral opinion. Varied research additionally point out that although Muslims defer to the ulema’s opinion in issues of faith, their participation in political discourse will not be welcome. A 2015 CSDS examine says that 43 per cent of Muslims disapprove of spiritual leaders supporting political events. Sensing this transformation, Syed Ahmad Bukhari, the Shahi Imam of the Jama Masjid in Delhi who is thought for his election sermons, has determined to not supply assist to any political social gathering this Lok Sabha ballot. The triple talaq debate in Parliament additionally highlighted how “secular” political events have began distancing themselves from spiritual discourse to maintain tempo with the favored narrative. Owaisi recounts how the Congress didn’t let its Muslim member communicate on the topic in Parliament. “Throughout the first debate in December 2017, solely 4 of the 23 Muslim MPs spoke on this. For the Congress, there was the late Maulana Mohammad Asrarul Haque Qasmi, a scholar from Deoband and president of the All India Milli Council. After I requested him why he didn’t participate within the debate, he stated that the Congress didn’t permit him,” he says. There have additionally been requires introspection from inside the neighborhood. Former vice-president Hamid Ansari has criticised Indian Muslims for having a culturally defensive mindset that hinders self-advancement. Mufti Mohammad Mukarram Ahmad, the Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Fatehpuri mosque, agrees: “As a neighborhood, if we have to prosper, we should transfer past religiosity. The most effective device to empowerment is training. Let’s entry it the place it’s accessible and demand it the place it’s not. “What’s encouraging, although, is that the low illustration in Parliament and assemblies and the numerical drawback haven’t bothered the Muslim voters, who typically outnumber their Hindu counterparts in participation within the electoral course of. “The communal violence and stress of the ’90s didn’t result in the radicalisation of Indian Muslims, it elevated their participation within the electoral course of as voters and as candidates,” says Verniers. In 2019, too, Indian Muslims are gearing as much as make their considerations and anguish felt with their vote. This political engagement is essential for the survival and strengthening of Indian democracy. (With inputs from Amarnath Okay. Menon, Romita Dutta, Ashish Misra) Source link

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CBI questions Gehlot’s OSD in suicide case of Rajasthan police officer

NEW DELHI: The CBI on Tuesday questioned Deva Ram Saini, OSD to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, in connection with the alleged suicide by state police officer Vishnudutt Vishnoi in Churu on May 23, officials said. A team of special crime unit of the CBI from Delhi is in Jaipur to record statements in connection with the death of Vishnoi, who was SHO of Rajgarh. His body was found hanging from the ceiling of his official residence in Churu, officials said. The move comes at a time when the Rajasthan government is facing political turmoil after Sachin Pilot’s rebellion and his subsequent sacking as deputy chief minister. Sources, however, made it clear that the agency is conducting investigation in a professional manner in a case handed over to it by the state government itself. The agency had on Monday evening questioned Congress MLA Krishna Poonia for nearly three hours at her home in Jaipur, they said. The sources said people are being examined to know various aspects of the case and it does not mean that they are accused as a final picture will emerge only after completion of probe. The Rajasthan Government had handed over the probe to the CBI in the case. Bishnoi’s brother had filed a complaint with the Rajasthan police alleging he was under pressure which led him to take this drastic step, they said. Two suicide notes were recovered from Vishnoi– one addressed to his parents and the other to the Superintendent of Police of the district. In the suicide note to the SP, Vishnoi had said he was not able to bear the pressure put on him. In his suicide note, he had also said that he tried to give his best to the Rajasthan Police. A screenshot of a purported WhatsApp chat that Vishnoi had with one of his activist friends, in which the police officer talked about being trapped in dirty politics, had also gone viral. The leaders of the BJP and the BSP have alleged that the officer, who was known for his honesty and hardwork, was being pressured by Congress MLA Poonia, a charge that she has denied. Poonia represents Sadulpur constituency in Rajasthan.

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via Today Bharat The BJP has written a letter to Madhya Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel and asked for a special session of the state assembly, claiming that the Kamal Nath-led Congress government in the state doesnrsquo;t have a majority. "We are sending a letter to the Governor requesting an assembly session as there are a lot of issues... It (the Madhya Pradesh government) will fall on its own. I don't believe in horse-trading but I feel its time has come and it will have to go soon," Madhya Pradesh Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Gopal Bhargava was quoted as saying by news agencynbsp;ANI. He also said he wants "to discuss important issues and test the Congress governments strength". "I am writing a letter to the Governor for convening a special session of MP Assembly shortly. We want discussion on important issues like farm loan waiver and (to) test the government strength," Bhargava toldnbsp;PTI. The Congress retaliated by accusing the BJP of attempting to destabilise the Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh through use of "corrupt practices" and said in doing so they are trying to negate the mandate of people of the state. Congress general secretary in-charge of Madhya Pradesh Deepak Babariya said the people of the state had rejected the BJP and voted them out in the assembly elections. "The BJP is trying to destabilise the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh through corrupt practices. They are trying to negate the mandate of people of Madhya Pradesh given in favour of the Congress in assembly elections held a few months ago and people will not forgive them for this," he told PTI. Babariya said the people had rejected the BJP government's policies and had voted them out of power due to their "malgovernance". In elections for the 230-member Assembly last year, the Congress won 114 seats and the BJP coming a close second with 109. The Bahujan Samaj Party has two seats, the Samajwadi Party one and e Independents four seats. The Congress had captured power from the BJP after the assembly polls. Two short of the majority mark on its own, the Congress has the support of BSP and SP in the House. The BJP demand comes a day after exit poll projectoins that predicted a thumping victory for the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Rakesh Singh, BJP: Their govt(MP)won't go on. Theirs is minority govt standing on crutches. It'll collapse due to its internal conflicts. But today we're focussing on elections resultsamp;forming govt at centre. Today we aren't discussing whose govt will be or won't be there in MP. pic.twitter.com/jQgNSHFIft mdash; ANI (@ANI) May 20, 2019

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NEW DELHI: Three powerful women politicians, each from a very different section of Indian society, may pose a big threat to the chances of Prime Minister Narendra Modi winning a second term in a general election due by May.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, part of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has ruled India for much of the time since its independence from the British in 1947, joined the struggle in January, when the opposition Congress party made her its face in the nation’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.

Two other senior female politicians – the firebrand chief minister of West Bengal state, Mamata Banerjee, and Mayawati, a former Uttar Pradesh chief minister – are also plotting to unseat Modi’s ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition by forming big opposition groupings, though there is no firm agreement between them as yet.

“The opposition has more powerful women leaders than the NDA, and therefore they will be able to carry conviction with voters generally, and with women voters, in particular,” said Yashwant Sinha, 81, a former finance minister who quit Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which dominates the NDA, last year.

“They should be very worried, especially after the defeat in the three major Hindi heartland states,” he said, referring to BJP’s losses in recent state elections.

The entry of Priyanka – she is usually referred to by just her first name – into the political fray drew a gushing reaction from much of the Indian media.

There were pictures of elated supporters dancing, a lot of talk of the 47-year-old’s resemblance to her grandmother, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and comments about her gifts as a speaker able to connect with voters. That contrasts with her brother, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who in the past has been criticized for lacking the common touch.

TRIPLE CHALLENGE

The other two women seen threatening Modi’s grip on power have a lot more experience than Priyanka, and both could be seen as potential prime ministerial candidates in a coalition government.

Mayawati, a 63-year-old former teacher who goes by just the one name, last month formed an alliance between her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) – which mainly represents Hinduism’s lowest caste, the Dalits – and its once bitter foes, the Samajwadi Party that tends to draw support from other lower castes and Muslims.

Then there is 64-year-old Banerjee, who has twice been railways minister in federal governments. Last month, Banerjee – who built her All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) party after leaving Congress in 1997 – organised an anti-BJP rally in Kolkata that attracted hundreds of thousands.

Party colleagues of the three women leaders said they were not available for comment.

To be sure, Modi remains, for now, the most popular leader in the country, opinion polls show.

Modi also cannot be accused of ignoring women’s issues during his first term. He has launched a government campaign – Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, or “Save the Daughter, Educate the Daughter” – and called for the eradication of female foeticide. His campaigns to provide toilets and subsidised gas cylinders for poorer Indians are often promoted as ways to empower women.

He has six women in his 26-strong cabinet, though a lot of power is centralised with Modi and a couple of senior male lieutenants.

The BJP said it would seek votes on the basis of achievements under Modi and the opposition did not have a “positive alternative to the government, and its activities”.

PERSONAL TIES

Congress has said it wants to form a post-poll partnership with Mayawati’s BSP and SP alliance, though it will be fighting against it in 78 seats. The alliance will not contest two Gandhi strongholds won multiple times by Rahul and his mother Sonia.

Mayawati told a press conference announcing the alliance with the SP that Congress was not part of it because they did not think “there would be much benefit in having them with us before the election”.

The BSP, however, backs Congress-led governments in the northern states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

There is no formal alliance between Banerjee and Congress, though she does know Rahul and Priyanka.

Dinesh Trivedi, a former federal minister and a close aide to Banerjee, said she enjoys a good personal relationship with Sonia Gandhi, the matriarch of the dynasty and a former Congress president, and so working with her two children would not be a problem.

“In terms of experience, Mamata Banerjee is far ahead,” Trivedi said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if Rahul Gandhi or Priyanka Gandhi would look at Mamata Banerjee as somebody who could really inspire them.”

The strength of Priyanka, Mayawati and Banerjee as a potential opposition alliance is that they can appeal to different parts of the electorate.

Two Congress sources said the formal entry into politics of Priyanka could help rejuvenate the party in Uttar Pradesh, where it is a marginal player. Coming from what is India’s first family, they said she could appeal to upper caste voters in the state who typically vote for the pro-business BJP.

A Congress leader close to the Gandhis said she would attract women, young people, and floating voters.

Priyanka is far from a political neophyte, having supported her brother and mother during previous election campaigns. She has also experienced political and personal tragedy, as Rahul Gandhi stressed in a speech last week.

“You have to understand my relationship with my sister – we have been through a hell of a lot together,” he said.

“Everybody is like ‘look, you come from this illustrious family, and everything is easy’. Actually it’s not so easy. My father was assassinated, my grandmother was assassinated, huge political battles, wins in political battles, losses in political battles.”

“NATIONAL LEADER”

BSP spokesman Sudhindra Bhadoria said Mayawati’s gender did not matter.

“She has managed a party from scratch to this level. The important fact is that she has organised large numbers, both men and women, Dalits, other backward castes, the poor, minorities,” Bhadoria said. “I don’t fit them in the straightjacket of male-female. I think she’s a national leader.”

She is regarded as ambitious. A U.S. diplomatic cable in 2008, among many thousands leaked by Wikileaks two years later, described her as “first-rate egomaniac” who “is obsessed with becoming prime minister”.

But Mayawati has also been credited with empowering oppressed lower caste Hindus.

Banerjee, who defeated a 34-year-old communist government in West Bengal in an election in 2011, is known for her streetwise political skills and portrays herself as a secular leader in a country polarised under the BJP.

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Karnataka Elections: BJP down, Congress second fiddle, Opposition counts gains

Faced with a growing BJP, Opposition leaders across party lines welcomed the developments in Karnataka Saturday. Apart from stopping the BJP juggernaut, parties such as the BSP, Samajwadi Party, TDP and Trinamool Congress see the Congress willingness to pay second fiddle to the JD(S) in the state as a positive development on way to 2019.

There were indications that several Opposition leaders would attend the swearing-in of the JD(S)-Congress government, with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tweeting that she had been invited.

BSP chief Mayawati, whose party fought the Karnataka polls in alliance with the JD(S) and won one seat, Kollegal, said the entire Opposition had remained united to foil the BJP designs in the state. Addressing the media after the BJP conceded defeat before the trust vote in Karnataka, she accused the Narendra Modi government of misusing government machinery to “capture power in states despite being in minority”. The party had failed to do in Karnataka “because of Opposition unity”, Mayawati said, adding that this might prompt the BJP to change its strategy for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. She did not spell out what that change would be.

The BSP chief also thanked the Supreme Court “for taking a firm stand” during the Karnataka crisis. Alleging that governors appointed by the Modi government were under pressure, she said, “They should resign if not able to function freely.”

Going one step further, SP president Akhilesh Yadav sought resignation of the Modi government “on moral grounds”. He tweeted: “It is a day of win of public mandate over money power in Indian politics. Those who think they could buy anyone, they have got a lesson today that there are still people who do not take politics as business.”

Addressing a press conference at Khajuraho, Akhilesh also hailed the Supreme Court for its role in the Karnataka crisis, saying it had protected democracy.

Mamata Banerjee tweeted to say that the fall of the short-lived BJP government in Karnataka was “a victory of the regional front and democracy”. The use of words by the Trinamool Congress leader was significant, hinting at a federal outfit instead of a broad grouping anchored by the Congress. Mamata has of late been trying to put together such a front, reaching out to her Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana counterparts.

TDP president and former BJP ally N Chandrababu Naidu’s office issued a statement on his behalf, calling the Karnataka developments “a victory of democracy”. “As a chief minister and as someone who believes in democracy, I am welcoming this. Everyone in the country will be happy about this development,” the Andhra Pradesh CM said.

Naidu, who was said to have helped the Congress and JD(S) in the recent elections, added, “(The) Prime Minister and BJP national president have tried to deride democracy… What message have the Prime Minister and BJP president combine given to the nation by encouraging the corrupt? What is the message they are giving to the youth?”

Drawing a parallel with Tamil Nadu, where the DMK has accused the BJP of propping up the AIADMK government, Naidu said, “The BJP brought back Gali Janardhan Reddy who looted the mineral wealth of the country to the forefront and did politics… On the lines of Tamil Nadu, they tried to misuse the institution of the governor in Karnataka too.”

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav tweeted: “Truth can never be defeated! Truth will always defeat a lie or liar!” Tejashwi had led a delegation of the RJD, Congress, CPI-ML and HAM leaders to Bihar Raj Bhavan Friday to ask Governor Satya Pal Malik to invite them to form a government in the state as the RJD, like the BJP in Karnataka, was the single largest party.

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Akhilesh on KASAB remark: BJP coining petty acronyms fearing defeat

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today accused BJP leaders of coining petty acronyms for the fear of defeat in the the Assembly polls.

The Samajwadi Party leader also took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for attacking him, saying he holds “such a high position but fights with me” and “indulges in such a petty talk which does not suit him”.

Referring to the acronym ‘KASAB’ coined by Shah for Congress, SP and BSP yesterday, Akhilesh said,

“BJP people have lost the battle on the ground and so their language has changed.”

Taking a dig at the BJP chief, he said, “We used to study that it was ‘KA se kabutar’ but these people are teaching something else. This time round, people are going to set your ‘kabutar’ (pigeons) free.”

Addressing another rally at Pechpedva, Akhilesh said, “They (BJP leaders) seem to be indulging in petty talk in view of their bad showing in the elections.”

He wondered on what course BJP wants to take the polls and said the SP only wanted to take it on the path of development.

Shah had yesterday used the acronym ‘KASAB’, saying ‘Ka’ (in Hindi) stands for Congress, ‘Sa’ for Samajwadi Party and ‘Ba’ for BSP. He had said that till KASAB is laid to rest, UP will not have development.

Kasab was the Pakistani terrorist who was arrested during the 26/11 Mumbai attack and hanged in 2012.

Attacking Modi, Akhilesh said, “The Prime Minister is sitting on such a high post and indulging in such a petty talk which does not suit him.”

Taking a dig at Modi, he said, “it seems he does not like staying in Delhi and is moving about all over UP…if he so desires, he can swap places with me.”

He added, “Piqued are only those who are faced with defeat…only those who are left behind talk about the past.”

On Modi’s remark that he is an “adopted son” of UP, the Chief Minister said, “PMji do not confuse our Uttar Pradesh… if you are the adopted son of UP, then we belong to this place…who is going to adopt us”.

He said if the Prime Minister wants a debate, he should not talk about other issues. “I say this openly that if he (PM) wants a debate with me on development issues I am ready for it…we ask what you have done for UP and we will also tell what all we have done,” he said.

On the foreign trips of Prime Minister, he said, “The PM has toured so many countries, has he brought anything for the country he should tell?”

“We in UP have tried to emulate the policing system in the US and developed UP-100…now policemen cannot misbehave with the public,” he said.

On the prime minister’s allegations that police stations are run by SP people, Akhilesh said he does not know that it is also run through UP-100.

“We admit that there had been some shortcomings, but it will improve with UP-100 and the anomalies in the police working will be addressed,” he said.

Attacking the BJP, he said when SP had decided to distribute laptops they called it “jhunjhuna” (toy) but later went on to include it in their manifesto.

“Why they allege that we discriminated in its distribution…you people can go out and ask whether meritorious students have not got it,” he added.