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Click to read KCR's party protest in Telangana over cooking gas price increase

The demonstrators, including women, squat on roads with LPG bottles. (representative) Hyderabad: The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) held protest demonstrations across Telangana on Thursday against the increase in the price of LPG cylinders and requested the Center to reverse the increased amount. BRS ministers including T Harish Rao, Mohd Mahmood Ali, T Srinivas Yadav, V Prashant Reddy, V…

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Former Supreme Court Judge Abdul Nazeer Takes Oath As Andhra Pradesh Governor

Former Supreme Court judge Justice S. Abdul Nazeer was sworn in as Governor of Andhra Pradesh on Friday. AP High Court Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra administered the oath of office to Justice Nazeer at a ceremony held at Raj Bhavan in Vijayawada. Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, ministers, TDP chief  N. Chandrababu Naidu, judges, and top officials attended the ceremony. The leaders…

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Industries will not come in the state as long as there is KCR government: MP Arvind

BJP MP Dharmapuri Aravind lashed out at Telangana state minister Prashant Reddy. Nanganachi's words like "Arvind keeps scolding us for everything. No matter how many words he says," Nanganachi suggested that he should focus on his work first. Prashant Reddy asked KCR how much he would give to the turmeric farmers. People were told that if there is to be development in Telangana, BRS should be defeated and a double engine government should be brought. Arvind alleged that those who came to set up a turmeric refining industry in Nizamabad ran away due to fear of commissions. Arvind said that if someone comes to set up industries in the district, the sufferings of Prashant Reddy and others are not all that much. He said that no industries came here during the days of the KCR government and no cooperation was received from the government to implement central schemes.

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పార్లమెంట్ వేదికగా రాష్ట్ర విభజన సరిగ్గా జరగలేదంటున్న ప్రధాని మోడీ,హోంమంత్రి అమిత్ షా మాటల వెనుక ఆంతర్యం ఏంది..?

పార్లమెంట్ వేదికగా రాష్ట్ర విభజన సరిగ్గా జరగలేదంటున్న ప్రధాని మోడీ,హోంమంత్రి అమిత్ షా మాటల వెనుక ఆంతర్యం ఏంది..?

బాల్కొండ నియోజకవర్గంలోని వేల్పూర్,మోర్తాడ్,ఏర్గట్ల మండలాల్లో 5.11 కోట్ల వ్యయంతో చేపట్టే పలు అభివృద్ధి పనుల శంకుస్థాపన,ప్రారంభోత్సవ కార్యక్రమంలో రాష్ట్ర రోడ్లు-భవనాలు,గృహ నిర్మాణ మరియు శాసనసభ వ్యవహారాల శాఖ మంత్రి వేముల ప్రశాంత్ రెడ్డి శనివారం పాల్గొన్నారు.మంత్రి శంకుస్థాపన,ప్రారంభోత్సవం చేసిన అభివృద్ధి పనుల వివరాలు: వేల్పూర్ మండలం అక్లూర్ గ్రామంలో20 లక్షలతో నూతన గ్రామ పంచాయతీ బిల్డింగ్…

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📽PK Biography: Who is Jan Suraj's 🙏 Prashant Kishore- Early Life, 🕺 Politics, Career All Details Here

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A Little about Prashant Kishore

Knowing who is Prashant Kumar is the time demand. Let's make a knowledge on the life of this extraordinary activist in the discourse here. Political strategist and corporate tactician Prashant Kishor. Political strategist Kishor has worked for the BJP, INC, AAP, YSRCP, DMK, and TMC. In India, Prashant Kishor is a well-known election strategist. When his political effort to support then-CM of Gujarat Narendra Modi won the 2012 Assembly Elections, he rose to prominence. Kishor was trained in public health and spent eight years working for the UN before entering Indian politics. He split ways with Modi during the 2014 elections and collaborated with Nitish Kumar in 2015 to help him win a third term as chief minister of Bihar in the 2015 Assembly Elections. He was employed by the Congress party to run in the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections. Kishor was chosen to serve as a DMK strategist for the elections in Tamil Nadu and as an advisor to the All India Trinamool Congress for the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. Read: What is Agnipath Scheme 2022, Agniveer Apply Online- Eligibility, Full Details?

Contribution in Modi campaigns

The 44-year-old strategist came to the public's attention when he founded Citizens for Accountable Governance (CAG), an election campaign organisation that assisted the Bharatiya Janata Party in winning the 2014 Lok Sabha election by a landslide. For PM Modi, he created cutting-edge advertising campaigns including Chai pe Charcha, 3D rallies, Run for Unity, Manthan, and other social media initiatives. Read Also: Angel Sighting that will make you wonder about heaven- true or not?

Major activities in post 2014 Lokshava election

He changed CAG to Indian Political Action Committee after 2014 (I-PAC). Along with Bihar, Kishor and his I-PAC team collaborated with Jagan Mohan Reddy of the YSRCP in Andhra Pradesh and Captain Amarinder Singh in Punjab. His method has so far only failed once, during the 2017 election in Uttar Pradesh, when he collaborated with the Indian National Congress. He also served as the Aam Aadmi Party's strategist during the 2020 election for the Delhi Legislative Assembly, which the party was able to win with a majority of 62 seats out of 70. He is currently collaborating with Mamata Banerjee of the AITC in West Bengal and MK Stalin of the DMK in Tamil Nadu.

Party Joining Shortly

Kishor joined the Janata Dal (United) in 2018, but was kicked out in 2020 for opposing Nitish Kumar's stance in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Act. Kishor was chosen to serve as an All India Trinamool Congress advisor for the 2021 election for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. His clever plan enabled TMC to re-establish the government. For the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election that year, the DMK leader M K Stalin hired Kishor as a party strategist. The party gained 159 seats, and Stalin was elected chief minister for the first time. Kishor was awarded the position of a Cabinet Minister in March 2021 and designated as Amarinder Singh's primary advisor for a cost of Re 1. Elections for the Punjab Assembly are scheduled.

Declaration of Prashant Kishore on political retirement

Prashant Kishor declared his resignation as an electoral strategist following the victory of the TMC and DMK in the 2021 assembly elections. Kishor stated during an interview with a few new stations that "I don't want to carry on in this manner. I've accomplished enough. It's time for me to stop and move on with my life. I want to leave this room." https://youtu.be/wbuua2MJzuQ

Points to Ponder about Prashant Kishore

Date of Birth: 1978 Birthplace: Koran village, Rohtas district, Bihar. Hometown: Buxar, Bihar. Education from: Patna Science College, Bihar Caste: Brahmin Spouse: Janhavi Das (doctor) Children: Son- Diabik Father: Shrikant Pande (Doctor) Read the full article

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Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra has been sworn in as Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court

Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra has been sworn in as Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court

Judge Prashant Kumar Mishra was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh Supreme Court on Wednesday in Tummalapalli Kalakshetram in the city. The governor’s oath was made by Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan in the presence of Prime Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy after reading the approval of the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind. Later, Harichandan and Jagan Mohan Reddy greeted the Chief…

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Justice Nazeer to take oath as AP Governor today

Vijayawada: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, along with his spouse Bharathi, met AP Governor-designate Justice Abdul Nazeer and his wife Sameera Nazeer at the Raj Bhavan here on Thursday. Justice Nazeer is all set to take oath as Governor of Andhra Pradesh at a swearing-in ceremony scheduled at the Raj Bhavan on Friday at 9 am. AP High Court Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra will…

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20 IAS officers promoted to ACS in UP

Lucknow, June 18  The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh government has promoted 20 IAS officers to the post of Additional Chief Secretary (ACS). Among the IAS officers who have been promoted, nine are from the 1988 batch and 11 are from the 1989 batch. The promotion of the two batches, due in 2018, was approved by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Additional Chief Secretary, appointments, Mukul Singhal said that all officers from the two batches had been promoted to the ACS rank. The officers promoted to the ACS rank include Alok Kumar I, Rajneesh Dubey, Rajan Shukla, Navneet Kumar Sehgal, N.V.S. Rami Reddy, Manoj Kumar Singh, Turamalla Venkatesh, Arvind Kumar and S. Radha Chauhan of 1988 batch, and S.P. Goel, Devesh Chaturvedi, Monika S. Garg, Aradhana Shukla, Dimple Verma, Prashant Trivedi, Manoj Singh, Amit Mohan Prasad, Suresh Chandra, Sanjay R. Bhoosreddy and Anil Kumar of 1989 batch. Read the full article

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బండి సంజయ్ నీ మిలియన్ మార్చ్ మోడీ దగ్గర చేయి...మంత్రి వేముల ప్రశాంత్ రెడ్డి

బండి సంజయ్ నీ మిలియన్ మార్చ్ మోడీ దగ్గర చేయి…మంత్రి వేముల ప్రశాంత్ రెడ్డి

నిజామాబాద్ జిల్లా బాల్కొండ నియోజకవర్గంలో పలు అభివృద్ధి కార్యక్రమాల్లో రాష్ట్ర రోడ్లు-భవనాలు,గృహ నిర్మాణ మరియు శాసనసభ వ్యవహారాల శాఖ మంత్రి వేముల ప్రశాంత్ రెడ్డి పాల్గొన్నారు.మోతె కప్పల వాగు పై 12 కోట్ల వ్యయం తో నిర్మించే హై లెవల్ బ్రిడ్జ్,మోర్తాడ్ తక్కురివాడ పాయింట్ వద్ద పెద్దవాగు పై 9.5 కోట్ల వ్యయంతో నిర్మించే చెక్ డ్యామ్,వడ్యాట్ గ్రామంలో మోర్తాడ్ ౼ వడ్యాట్ R&B రోడ్ 1.5 కోట్లతో పునరుద్ధరణ…

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Protests erupt across India against CAA; 3 killed - india news

Two persons were killed in Mangaluru, Karnataka and one person died in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, due to gunshot wounds sustained during nationwide protests held against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed pan-India National Register of Citizens (NRC) on Thursday.Jaleel (49) and Nausheen (23) died after receiving firearm injuries, as the police sought to control protests that took place across multiple cities in Karnataka, including Mangaluru. In Lucknow, Mohd Wakeel, a resident of Hussainabad, died as police cracked down on protesters in the capital city of UP. The Director General of Police however said that the police has nothing to do with Wakeel’s death, and that an investigation will be carried out in this matter.Protests were held across 56 cities in 24 states and Union Territories on December 19, leading to the imposition of Section 144 — which prevents the gathering of four or more persons in a given place as a riot-prevention measure — in many parts of the country, including Delhi, several cities of Karnataka such as Bengaluru, Mangaluru, and Mysuru, as well as all the districts of Assam. Mobile services, voice calls and internet services were suspended in parts of the country, including in the Northeast. Police vs protestersSeveral persons, including policemen were injured in violence in parts of UP, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Gujarat during the day-long protest over the new citizenship law. Police opened fire in Mangaluru after confronted by stone-pelting protesters, as a result of which a resident of the port area, 49-year-old Jaleel and a resident of Bengre, 23-year-old Nausheen were critically injured, and later succumbed to their wounds. Manguluru police commissioner P S Harsha told the media that the police were forced to open fire in self-defence, and that 20 policemen have been seriously injured. Police have imposed curfew in the city till Friday midnight. The UP police confirmed that 112 people were arrested in Lucknow after they participated in the protests. At least 16 policemen, including ADG Lucknow SN Sabat and IG Lucknow SK Bhagat, were injured in Lucknow while two cops were injured in Sambhal, police said.Around the country, hundreds of protesters were detained. About 100 students from Maulana Azad Urdu University, Central University Hyderabad and Osmania University detained in Hyderabad; noted historian Ramachandra Guha, Congress legislator Sowmya Reddy and MLA-elect Rizwan Arshad, as well as Gandhian activist and theatre personality Prasanna were detained in Bengaluru; Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav, former Patiala Parliamentarian Dharamvir Gandhi, former National Advisory Council member Harsh Mander, lawyer activist Prashant Bhushan and social activist John Dayal were among those detained in Delhi.Various student groups, civil society groups, ordinary citizens and Opposition political parties participated in protests on Thursday to condemn the CAA, the proposed all-India NRC as well as the violence which occurred in Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), a university in Delhi, and Aligarh Muslim University on December 15. Police had entered JMI and AMU and assaulted students and fired tear gas shells at them. Over 50 JMI students were detained, and several injured. In most locations, including Delhi and Mumbai, protests were peaceful as thousands came out into the streets. In Rajasthan, a hundreds-strong protest in Jaipur progressed peacefully, a senior police officer said. Protests were also held in Sikar and Ganganagar at the call of the Left parties. The protests were peaceful and there were no reports of imposition of section 144 or suspension of internet services in the state. Peaceful protests were also held in the Jammu and Kashmir, Dehradun and Simla. In Chandigarh, Muslim outfits were joined by students and Sikh outfits to register their dissent. Protests at Parivartan Chowk, Madeyganj and Satkhanda localities in Lucknow turned violent, with demonstrators lobbing stones at the police, and the cops retaliating with batons, tear gas shells, water cannons and alleged gunfire. Violence was also reported from two other districts in UP, in Sambhal and Amroha. In Sambhal, a group of Samajwadi Party (SP) protestors set a UP Road Transport Corporation bus on fire, the police said. “One cannot indulge in violence in the name of protest. We will take strict action against such elements,” UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath said.At AMU, teachers took out a silent march. “We feel that we are fighting for the idea of India as envisaged by the founding fathers of the nation. This is not a struggle for the rights of any particular community,” AMU Teachers Association secretary, Professor Najmul Islam said.In Bihar, members of Left-wing student organisations squatted on railway tracks at Rajendra Nagar Terminus early in the morning, while hundreds of activists of Jan Adhikar Party (JAP), floated by former MP Pappu Yadav burnt tyres on an adjacent road, police said. In Jehanabad, which had been a stronghold of the ultra-Left movement in Bihar, CPI(ML) activists disrupted traffic on national highways. Violent turnThe Gujarat Police used baton-charge at Sardar Baug and Shah Alam, the two localities in Ahmedabad city, on Thursday after alleged stone pelting. Police claimed that 14 policemen were injured. “Despite repeated requests, the protestors refused to disperse and started pelting stones in which police personnel got injured. We had to use force to disperse the unruly crowd,” said Ashish Bhatia, Ahmedabad police commissioner. Protests in West Bengal, Assam and Meghalaya were largely peaceful even though rallies were taken out to oppose CAA and NRC. In Chandigarh and Jammu, the Left and Congress workers held protest rallies.Police reportedly resorted to a lathi charge to disperse a crowd after stone pelting created panic in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, said a police officer who didn’t wish to be quoted.The ruling BJP and the government maintained there won’t be any rethink on implementation of the new citizenship law. Slamming the opposition for protesting against the new law, BJP working president J P Nadda said on Thursday that the CAA will be implemented, and that the National Register of Citizens will also be brought in.“India today has the ignominy of being the largest internet shutdown in the world... This is worse than Emergency,” Sitaram Yechury, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader, who was detained in Delhi, said.Earlier this month, the Parliament passed the amended act to allow undocumented migrants from six communities — Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Christian, Parsi, and Jain — to stay in India and get citizenship if they claim religious persecution. This provision is valid for people who entered India before December 31, 2014. (With inputs from HTC in regional bureaus and agencies) Read the full article

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WEST BENGAL CM MAMATA BANERJEE HIRED POLITICAL STRATEGIST PRASHANT KISHORE :

WEST BENGAL CM MAMATA BANERJEE HIRED POLITICAL STRATEGIST PRASHANT KISHORE :

Political Strategist Prashant Kishor will officially start working with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after one month.  Banerjee, who is still smarting from losing ground to the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls, today met with the strategist Prashant Kishor, whose latest success is Jagan Mohan Reddy’s victory in Andhra Pradesh.After a two-hour meeting in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee has signed…

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The men and women behind Jagan Mohan Reddy’s long road to victory

Prashant Kishor and I-PAC are only new entrants to a small but close-knit group of family and friends that are part of the YSRCP chief’s inner circle.

Andhra Pradesh News: Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy, the man of the moment in Andhra Pradesh, has witnessed a decade-long meteoric rise in politics. As he gears up to take over as the second Chief Minister of the bifurcated state of Andhra Pradesh, the focus is on the 46-year-old who proved his political acumen by defeating the experienced 69-year-old Chandrababu Naidu.

However, as Jagan is set to take oath, it is important to name those who worked along with him for his success. The most recent being election strategist Prashant Kishor, who was roped in by the YSRCP in 2017 to help defeat Naidu’s ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

It was Prashant Kishore and his team who ensured that Jagan managed to turn his image around and always be a step ahead of the TDP; whether it was campaigning on the ground, online campaigns, cadre strength or boosting the morale of party workers.

However, Prashant and I-PAC are only new entrants to a small but close-knit group of family and friends that are part of the YSRCP chief’s inner circle.

The first being K Nagireddy, or KNR, Jagan’s Personal Assistant, often referred to as the YSRCP leader’s shadow. A former journalist and trusted confidant for over a decade, KNR is known to handle almost everything related to Jagan from his personal commitments to his media interactions and… continue reading full story

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WHO IS THE NEXT CM OF AP IN 2019

Well, according to many surveys and general public opinion, it is the current Chief-Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Hon'ble Nara Chandra Babu Naidu rising to power once again, and he will flick his enemies like a bug on forearm on his way to the prestigious chair.

His enemies,

YS Jagan: the so-called Jagananna, the son of a factionist, the grandson of another great factionist, circled around courts and jails to cover up his, his father’s and his grandfather’s illegally procured property. There is an excellent story behind then chief minister, Dr. Y S Rajashekhar Reddy's death. The "factionist's" arrogance couldn't be contained inside when he won the second term chief minister of undivided Andhra. A power dispute with Sonia Gandhi and Ambani resulted in his getting into a chopper with a retired pilot, who was about to die from an advanced stage cancer. The chopper was carefully crashed in a strategic place where it was difficult to summon immediate help: the mighty Nallamalla forest. It took two days and military and media and volunteers to find the missing Chief Minister body hanging on a branch inside the dense forest.

The black box audio was never released. While a typical passenger flight takes hours of safety check-up before it runs on the runway, what could've possibly gone wrong in a VVVIP's chopper? Why did a retired pilot who was about to die to receive the job? Was there nobody else? How did pilot's incompetent sons end up big in reliance industries just after their father's death? Why didn't the helicopter crash near highways or populous places? Why did the chopper lose contact with Air traffic control?

People believe it was a murder. The then CM was murdered just like his father: The fearsome Rajireddy. A legend goes, when YSR was studying MBBS in Karnataka, a local student gang beat him bad. When the father got to know, he sent his loyal goons to kill them. It's not uncommon in their home to kill people on a whim. They must kill to survive, they must kill for pride. And like every factionist, the mighty Rajireddy also lost his life to someone else's revenge. The point is to point out the factionist genes and upbringing that now govern Jagan's behaviour. He openly stated in a public addressing that it is okay to burn Chandra Babu Naidu in the middle of a street. Another time, a local goon made his way through the security and pushed his sword into Jagan's body. You see, Birds of a "factionist" feather, flock together.

It is very easy for him to pair up with Modi, trace the perpetrators behind his father’s death and let his "factionistic" juices flow out once he gets to power. People who grew up like him, amidst violence, revenge and stupidity, love his words and ideals. They are the people who vote for him and fortunately, they don't make the majority. The majority of the state is soft-hearted and educated.

It's no wonder mighty people get connected with more mighty people. Master strategist Mr Prashant kishor is the campaign runner for Jagan, and PK loves to follow the textbook. Jagan’s "Navarathnalu" concept was copied from Nitish's "7 Resolves" campaign in Bihar elections. Door to door campaigning similar to Punjab, Bihar and Tanzania. Jagan's sessions with ground level voters similar to Amarinder's Coffee with Captain, Modi's Chai pe charcha and Rahul Gandhi's Khaat pe charcha. They couldn't find a nice Telugu translation of those slogans so it's just happening without a name. You want to know what Jagan's next campaigning move? Just look at IPac's previous work on their official website. IPac should've been contesting for the CM of Andhra Pradesh.Some of YSR’s policies, Arogyasree, Rs.2 per kilo rice and Indiramma homes deserve a honorary mention. 108 service was the best of its time and is now adopted by 15 different states across the country.

The second enemy, the most charming contestant for Chief minister, the youth icon Mr Pawan Kalyan. His brotherly bonding with Chiranjeevi is no less than Ram-Lakshman's. Chiranjeevi stepped in films and so did his brother. Chiranjeevi conceived a party to change the fate of the state and so did his brother. Chiranjeevi earned a lot of cash and the little brother is right where the big brother was. Chiranjeevi got tired after a while and so will be the brother. These movie stars have grown too comfortable in their lavishness and it's not unusual when little brother to looks up to big brother for guidance in life. If Pawan Kalyan was so concerned with changing the state's fate, why did this concern or ambition never reflect in his movies? Why do all his movies revolve around young, pretty and fertile delicacies? Cash making right?

Now we talk about our current chief minister Mr Chandra Babu Naidu, I'll only finish with only one quality of his. He was backstabbed by a very powerful person, Mr Narendra Modi, as the prime minister's political motives changed in the course of 4 years. It takes guts and experience to stand against giants while also holding a little, under-developed baby called 'the bifurcated AndhraPradesh.' And he did his job fine. He restored the infant's self-esteem, lift up its morale and set it on a path to healthy development and happiness. It is better to entrust a new-born state to a person with "political" Curriculum Vitae instead of a factionist who might be carrying a factionist family legacy of untimely death or a Pop-actor who's most of the adult life was concerned with sleeping around pretty women.

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via Today Bharat nbsp; The incident came to light after Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao's help was sought to secure an emergency visa for the deceased Prashanth Kommireddyrsquo;s brother. nbsp; For Divya Komireddy, a resident of Dallas, Texas in the US, Wednesday was supposed to be a day of celebration. It was her birthday and she was close to delivering her second child with her husband, Prashanth Kommireddy. However, the day turned to tragedy after 38-year-old Prashanth, a native of Hyderabad, died after suffering from a stroke. Prashant, who worked for American Airlines, was in a meeting room of his office when he complained of neck pain. Though he was rushed to the hospital, he succumbed the same day. The very next day, Divya was also taken to a hospital to give birth to a baby girl. Ramesh Reddy, Orlando regional coordinator of the American Telugu Association, told The Times of India, that Divya underwent a C-section and delivered a baby girl. Divya and Prashanth have a three-year-old daughter as well. According to Telangana Today, Prashanth suffered from vertigo and was reportedly on medication. Meanwhile, donations are being raised for Prashanth's family on the fundraising website GoFundMe gofundme. So far, the campaign has raised over $380,000. The incident came to light after Prashanth's friend, Santosh Kumar, a resident of Gajwel, approached Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao's (KTR) for help through Twitter, asking him to intervene and help Prashanth's brother, Pramod secure an emergency visa. ldquo;Sir, This is NC Santosh from Gajwel, my friend Prashanth k has expired in Dallas@US few hours back due to heart stroke. His wife is expecting a baby tomorrow. My friend's brother us at US embassy in begumpet trying for Visa need your intervention to expedite the process.rdquo; (sic) nbsp; KTR✔@KTRTRSCan you please intervene amp; help as this appears to be a family emergency @USAndHyderabad @USAmbIndia https://twitter.com/ncsantoshk/status/1230441969735761921 hellip; santosh kumar@ncsantoshk@KTRTRS Sir, This is NC Santosh from Gajwel, my friend Prashanth k has expired in Dallas@US few hours back due to heart stroke. His wife is expecting a baby tommorow. My friend's brother us at US embassy in begumpet trying for Visa need your intervention to expedite the process. 1,3058:38 PM - Feb 20, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy191 people are talking about thisFollowing this, KTR contacted the US general consulate in Hyderabad and US Ambassador to India Ken Juster, to expedite the visa process. "Can you please intervene amp; help as this appears to be a family emergency @USAndHyderabad @USAmbIndia" Pramodrsquo;s visa was approved on Friday immediately after KTRrsquo;s intervention. nbsp;

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Lok Sabha 2019: Meet the movers and shapers of Indian politics - Nation Information

http://tinyurl.com/y35yu9l4 On a December morning in 2016, Dimple Yadav, Lok Sabha MP from the Samajwadi Social gathering (SP) and spouse of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, obtained a name from Aditi Singh, the Congress MLA from Rae Bareli. Singh had a particular request for her good friend Dimple, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra needed to satisfy her. Dimple fortunately agreed and later launched Priyanka to not solely Akhilesh however SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. A month later, the SP and the Congress introduced their alliance for the 2017 meeting election, a deal that fructified primarily via the efforts of Priyanka and Dimple. Lower to the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Whereas the SP has tied up with the Bahujan Samaj Social gathering (BSP), formally discarding the Congress, Dimple and Priyanka, now the Congress normal secretary accountable for jap UP, met once more in Lucknow earlier this month. The 2 are working to strategically place their contests to minimise electoral injury to their respective events. With the Lok Sabha election simply a few months away, there’s not a uninteresting day for the movers and shapers of Indian politics, as they work extra time to formulate methods, gauge the general public temper, fill of their central management with important information and knowledge and fine-tune the battle plan for the do-or-die seats. They could possibly be essentially the most seen faces of their events or staunch loyalists or reclusive backroom operators. However what all of them have in frequent is the power to interrupt logjams and attain out to leaders throughout events, stroll the additional mile to strike a tough cut price. They’ve the braveness to take unconventional paths and have confirmed observe information of delivering. Within the BJP, Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar is one such workhorse. Whereas get together president Amit Shah, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray have been the faces of the renewed alliance between the 2 events, it was Javadekar who labored behind the scenes to sweeten the deal for the estranged allies. He was appointed the BJP’s negotiator with the Shiv Sena as a result of he had expertise of coping with Sena leaders, from his days as late BJP chief Pramod Mahajan’s right-hand man. In the middle of two months, Javadekar held 5 conferences with Thackeray and Subhash Desai, a senior Sena minister in Maharashtra, earlier than Fadnavis joined the negotiations. To keep away from media consideration, Javadekar travelled to Thackeray’s Mumbai house, Matoshree, in a personal car. One among Thackeray’s predominant grudges had been that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah had been out of bounds. With the Sena brass reluctant to take care of the BJP on the state management stage alone, Fadnavis had satisfied Shah to pay Thackeray a private go to at his Mumbai house in June final 12 months. Shah acquired a way that Thackeray most well-liked a dialogue with a senior BJP chief and never the 48-year-old Fadnavis and put Javadekar on the job. Javadekar retains a low profile. His easygoing method and previous equation helped nurse bruised egos, says a BJP chief. Javadekar’s greater problem, although, is to maximise the BJP’s beneficial properties in Karnataka, the place it didn’t type the federal government final 12 months regardless of rising as the one largest get together. The BJP want to see the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) pre-poll alliance falter because it threatens to cut back the BJP’s 2014 Lok Sabha tally of 17. Because the get together’s ballot in-charge in Karnataka, Javadekar’s problem might be to earn the arrogance of JD(S) patriarch H.D. Deve Gowda and chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. The BJP, although, has made some invisible breaches down south. The get together’s nationwide secretary Ram Madhav has opened channels with YSR Congress (YSRC) chief Jaganmohan Reddy in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief Okay. Chandrashekar Rao in Telangana. The BJP is a marginal participant in each states. By way of Reddy and Rao have categorically stated no to any pre-poll alliance, the BJP is believed to be pursuing them for assurances of assist within the occasion it falls wanting a majority after the Lok Sabha election. A few circumstantial developments helped the BJP. Election strategist Prashant Kishor, who performed a key position in Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha election technique in 2014 and later parted methods, has joined the get together’s ally Janata Dal (United) because the de facto no. 2. Kishor’s organisation I-PAC, or the Indian Political Motion Committee, has been getting ready the YSRC’s election technique for the previous three years and he was not too long ago roped in by the Shiv Sena too. It’s believed Kishor’s assembly with Thackeray on February 5 supplied a much-needed increase to the BJP-Sena alliance. Thackeray’s son Aditya organized the assembly and Kishor defined to the father-son duo how the arithmetic labored in favour of the alliance. The shaper of the BJP’s pre-poll alliance with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in Tamil Nadu is Union minister for railways Piyush Goyal. Because the get together’s ballot in-charge within the state, Goyal began out with just a few handicaps. He didn’t have any previous equation with the AIADMK leaders. Language was one other barrier, however the Tamil-speaking Union minister of state for finance Pon Radhakrishnan helped Goyal out. Collectively, they impressed upon Tamil Nadu chief minister E.Okay. Palaniswami and his deputy O. Panneerselvam that to return to energy in Tamil Nadu in 2021, the AIADMK would do effectively to have the backing of the central authorities by way of budgetary assist for sops. Furthermore, with the Congress-DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) alliance going robust, there could be no place for the AIADMK in a Congress-led authorities on the Centre. What provides extra worth to the deal brokered by Goyal is the addition of the Paattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) within the mega alliance. It’s anticipated to spice up the alliance’s prospects in northern Tamil Nadu in addition to the western and southern districts. The PMK was earlier toying with the concept of becoming a member of the Congress-DMK coalition. Nonetheless, the BJP has a number of worries within the essential state of UP (80 Lok Sabha seats) and in West Bengal (42 seats). In UP, the SP-BSP alliance threatens to considerably cut back the BJP’s 2014 Lok Sabha tally of 71 seats. The BJP’s key man right here is organisation secretary Sunil Bansal, who’s busy mapping every constituency to select winnable candidates towards the rising Opposition forcesthe SP-BSP alliance, which is able to goal backward and Dalit votes and the Congress, which can dent the BJP’s higher caste vote share. Again channel negotiations are additionally onUnion finance minister Arun Jaitley has been working his cellphone with BSP second-in-command Satish Mishra to influence Mayawati to stroll out of the alliance with the SP. Congress insiders declare Mayawati’s opposition to the inclusion of their get together within the SP-BSP alliance was instigated by the veiled menace of CBI investigations’ towards the BSP supremo. In West Bengal, the BJP faces challenges from two frontsthe Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Congress-CPI(M) alliance. Opposite to Shah’s goal of 23 Lok Sabha seats, inner surveys point out 8-15 seats, at finest, for the BJP. Aside from working a high-decibel marketing campaign led by Modi and Shah, the BJP has been attempting to poach robust candidates from rival events. Whereas Mukul Roy, as soon as a trusted lieutenant of Mamata Banerjee, has emerged as a key participant within the BJP’s sport plan for West Bengal, Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan engineered TMC MP Saumitra Khan’s switchover to the BJP in January. If the BJP’s movers and shapers are working the electoral chessboard, the Congress and different events are additionally attempting to get their permutations and mixtures proper. In Congress, Ahmed Patel is burning the midnight oil. Late into the night time, the Congress treasurer both works his cellphone or holds conferences with get together leaders at his 23, Willingdon Crescent Street residence in New Delhi. For a lot of opposition leaders, Patel is the popular level of contact in Congress. Mamata Banerjee recurrently retains in contact with Patel despite the fact that she has direct entry to Sonia Gandhi. Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is extra snug coping with Patel, regardless of his equation with Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Nonetheless, of late, Patel, a veteran Gandhi household loyalist, has confronted disappointment from two potential allies. Regardless of sustaining a wonderful rapport with Mayawati, he has didn’t persuade her to workforce up with the Congress in current elections. Within the December meeting election, Maya-wati declined to hitch fingers with the get together in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Her Lok Sabha alliance with the SP in UP, too, has shut out the Congress. Mayawati believes Congress votes is not going to switch to the BSP. Patel’s different failure was in Meghalaya the place he couldn’t win over the Nationwide Folks’s Social gathering (NPP), a BJP ally. When Meghalaya chief minister and NPP chief Conrad Sangma protested towards the Centre’s try to move the Citizenship Modification Invoice, 2016, which seeks to offer citizenship to non-Muslim unlawful migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, Patel reached out to him. Conrad’s father P.A. Sangma, a former Congress chief, was near Patel and his sister Agatha was a part of the UPA authorities. Nonetheless, Conrad refused a pre-Lok Sabha ballot alliance with the Congress. CONRAD’S REFUSAL IS comprehensible given the agency grip of Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on nearly all non-Congress events within the Northeast. Sarma, a former protégé of Patel, has continued to hang-out the Congress since 2015 when he converted to the BJP. He has been the prime pressure behind the BJP’s success in wresting six of the eight northeastern states. For Sarma, nearly all leaders throughout events within the area are a cellphone name away. If the Congress’s Takam Sanjoy in Arunachal Pradesh is a detailed good friend, Sarma is on equally good phrases with Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio and Rio’s predecessor and rival T.R. Zeliang. The BJP has given Sarma the duty of profitable no less than 15 of the 25 seats within the Northeast. These 25 seats are the explanation why Patel, on Mamata’s recommendation, has been planning a rally of opposition events in Guwahati in March to draw potential allies within the area. Mamata Banerjee believes opposition events ought to maintain such rallies in numerous components of the nation to not solely create a buzz but in addition encourage confidence among the many fence-sitting events, says a senior Congress chief. Aside from Patel, the opposite Congress brainstormers are Okay. Raju, Ashok Gehlot, Randeep Singh Surjewala and Okay.C. Venugopal. Raju, a former bureaucrat from Andhra Pradesh and now in-charge of Rahul Gandhi’s workplace, retains a low profile at the same time as he offers important inputs to Rahul on a number of points. His position is commonly likened to Patel’s when he was Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary. However Raju features in a extra formal and clear means and in sync with Patel. The Raju-Patel equation nearly nullified the outdated versus new debate within the Congress, says a Congress normal secretary. It introduced in much-needed coordination throughout the get together. Patel’s shut confidant Ashok Gehlot has emerged because the chief political advisor to Rahul. Gehlot’s fairness elevated when, as normal secretary in-charge of Gujarat, he helped the Congress give a troublesome struggle to the BJP on Modi and Shah’s house turf. In Karnataka, the place the BJP emerged as the one largest get together, Gehlot performed a key position in convincing outgoing chief minister Siddaramaiah to conform to the Congress proposal of giving the chief ministerial place to junior associate JD(S). On the similar time, Patel’s protégé in Karnataka, D.Okay. Shivakumar, has ensured that the BJP is unable to poach Congress MLAs. Shivakumar has been tasked with maintaining a tally of disgruntled legislators being wooed by the BJP. In February, when the BJP launched Operation Lotus’, he was fast to make sure that all of the Congress legislators, barring 4 rebels, had been current in the identical resort. Later, he satisfied even the rebels to return to the get together fold. He performed an important position within the parliamentary bypolls in Karnataka final 12 months, wresting Ballari from the BJP after 14 years. He additionally ensured that Congress votes transferred to the JD(S) candidate within the Ramanagara meeting bypoll, for which the 2 events had a pre-poll alliance. Shivakumar is now assured of shaping a Congress-JD(S) alliance for the Lok Sabha contest. This alliance will work and we’ll win no less than 20-22 seats, he informed INDIA TODAY. Congress communication in-charge Surjewala’s affect within the get together could be assessed from the truth that he has typically satisfied the get together to vary tack on necessary points. Inside hours of the suicide bomb assault on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama on February 14, Surjewala had questioned the Modi authorities’s safety set-up in Kashmir. The subsequent day, prodded by senior leaders, Rahul modified the get together’s place and declared that it could stand by the federal government on no matter motion it takes towards the assault. However, in lower than every week, Surjewala satisfied Rahul to nook the Modi authorities on safety lapses in Kashmir. When the federal government introduced the air strike on terror camps in Pakistan within the pre-dawn hours of February 26, each Rahul and Surjewala despatched out tweets saluting the pilots. One chief whose affect in Congress has grown dramatically of late is Okay.C. Venugopal, a Lok Sabha MP from Kerala. Venugopal has not solely been inducted into the get together’s highest physique, the Congress Working Committee but in addition been made normal secretary in-charge of the organisation, a publish until not too long ago held by Gehlot. Many leaders attribute this sudden rise to his strategic location’within the Lok Sabha, his seat is subsequent to Rahul’s and in Delhi, his official house is subsequent to Priyanka’s. Such aspersions aside, he performed a significant position within the Congress-JD(S) authorities formation in Karnataka, because of his private chemistry with Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy. That is thought of to have helped hold the alliance intact regardless of Kumaraswamy’s periodic outbursts and the BJP’s alleged makes an attempt to engineer defections amongst Congress MLAs. Curiously, Venugopal, who changed Digvijaya Singh as Congress normal secretary in-charge of Karnataka, was the AICC observer for Goa in 2017. Digvijaya was normal secretary in-charge of Goa at the moment and the 2 leaders had didn’t instal a Congress authorities within the state regardless of the get together profitable the biggest variety of seats. Now, within the run-up to the Lok Sabha election, Venugopal is coordinating between Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and the Congress’s Maharashtra chief Ashok Chavan. Although the Congress-NCP pre-poll tie-up in Maharashtra has been finalised, variations have been rising over seat-sharing and choice of candidates. What has made Venugopal’s job straightforward is that Pawar shares a heat relationship with Rahul? The ice-breaker, although, was Chavan’s initiative to shed previous hostilities and want Pawar on his 77th birthday on December 12 final 12 months. Given full freedom to function, Somen Mitra, chief of the Congress unit in West Bengal, has labored onerous in the direction of the get together’s proposed alliance with the Left Entrance, headed by the CPI(M). Aiding Mitra’s efforts was the truth that Rahul values the political counsel of CPI(M) chief Sitaram Yechury, even addressing him as boss’. Mitra and Congress veteran Abdul Mannan are in fixed contact with Left leaders, equivalent to Surjya Mishra and Rabin Deb, to take the alliance ahead. Deb has been attempting to get different members of the Left Frontthe CPI, Ahead Bloc and the Revolutionary Socialist Social gathering (RSP)into the alliance. The Congress has requested for 20 seats whereas the Left sees something lower than 26 for the Entrance companions as unacceptable. The friction over seat-sharing has posed the largest problem to the joint efforts of Mitra and Deb. The CPI(M) has managed to deliver the RSP and the CPI on board for seat-sharing with the Congress. Nonetheless, the Ahead Bloc remains to be not able to toe the road because the get together is eager on contesting the Purulia, Coochbehar and Barasat Lok Sabha seats, the place the Congress too desires to discipline candidates. Except both of the 2 events blinks, the proposed alliance is prone to collapse. Some Congress leaders have already raised a clamour to go it alone in West Bengal. Not like the BJP and Congress, the networkers within the regional events are sometimes constrained by bosses accustomed to exercising absolute management and micro-managing all electoral technique and communication with different events. Whereas Derek O’Brien of the TMC and Manoj Jha of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) have emerged as their respective events’ faces in conventional and social media, they largely execute the instructions of their management. They don’t have direct entry to the highest brass of different events both. As an illustration, if O’Brien has to speak with Pawar, he should undergo Praful Patel. Whether it is with the DMK’s M.Okay. Stalin, he must get in contact with Kanimozhi. Nonetheless, one exception is Sanjay Yadav of the RJD. The 35-year-old MBA from Haryana has been a detailed good friend of Tejashwi Yadav from his cricketing days in Delhi. He has now emerged because the equal of Prashant Kishor within the RJD. From mapping constituencies to giving communication tricks to Tejashwi to dealing with Lalu Prasad’s Twitter account, Sanjay performs a key position in formulating the electoral technique of the RJD. Considerably, it was he who introduced Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s anti-reservation quote in 2015 to Lalu’s discover and suggested the RJD boss to assault the BJP aggressively. As events gear up for the mom of all battles this summer season, their commanders are sweating it out to get the arithmetic proper. Ultimately, it is going to be as much as the citizens to guage if the mathematics provides up. PIYUSH GOYAL Union Minister for Railways THE HARD BARGAINER Present task: Ballot in-charge of Tamil Nadu Core power: The unofficial BJP treasurer, he’s the get together’s bridge between industrialists and merchants and, as Arun Jaitley’s protégé, has a hotline to Shah and Modi Deal delivered: Satisfied the AIADMK to contest solely in 22 of the 39 LS seats within the state, leaving 5 to BJP and relaxation to different NDA allies Social media quotient: 5 million followers on Twitter DEVENDRA FADNAVIS Chief Minister, Maharashtra Maratha Supervisor His grasp’s man: The blue-eyed boy of Narendra Modi, he has satisfied the prime minister to make a number of political amends, together with the choice to resume ties with the Shiv Sena Deal delivered: Labored out the nuts and bolts of the seat-sharing settlement with the Shiv Sena; persuaded BJP president Amit Shah to pay a courtesy go to to Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray at his residence in Mumbai final 12 months; as CM of Maharashtra took a number of administrative choices fulfilling the needs of Sena management Social media quotient: Has three million Twitter followers; personally writes and posts the tweets Communication quotient: Responds to all textual content messages he considers necessary PRAKASH JAVADEKAR Union Minister for Human Useful resource Improvement THE SMOOTH OPERATOR Present task: Ballot in-charge of Rajasthan and Karnataka Deal delivered: He was the important thing negotiator within the renewed alliance between the BJP and Shiv Sena; held a number of rounds of talks with Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray Social media quotient: Has 1.5 million followers on Twitter; typically responds to public grievances The survivor: In Rajasthan, the BJP was thrown out of energy. In Karnataka, regardless of rising because the single-largest get together, it didn’t type the federal government. But Javadekar escaped blame Who knew? When Modi first picked him as minister and later gave him a Cupboard rank, many had been stunned: he was a protégé of the late Pramod Mahajan who needed Modi ousted as Gujarat chief minister following the 2002 riots within the state. SUNIL BANSAL BJP Common Secretary (Organisation), Uttar Pradesh Chanakya of Lucknow Present task: To arrange a listing of profitable candidates in Uttar Pradesh; additionally work with contacts in SP and BSP to interrupt the SP and BSP alliance Core power: Absolute management over the organisation; executes plans quick Sore level: Doesn’t share a great rapport with UP CM Yogi Adityanath Social media quotient: Has 600,000 followers on Twitter; has constructed up a robust social media workforce in Uttar Pradesh prior to now two years RAM MADHAV Nationwide Common Secretary, BJP HIMANTA BISWA SARMA Cupboard Minister, Assam; Convenor, Northeast Democratic Alliance NORTHEAST MANAGERS Present task: Whereas Ram Madhav is the get together in-charge of the Northeast, Sarma is the person on floor, who stitches alliances and chalks out native technique. As NEDA convenor, Sarma has stored all non-Congress political events within the area united underneath the NDA fold regardless of the protests over the Citizenship (Modification) Invoice, 2016. Madhav is working to deliver estranged ally AGP again to the NDA with the assistance of NPP head and Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma; the duo hopes to win 20 out of 25 seats within the Northeast for the NDA Cross-party pals: Sarma’s velocity dial checklist consists of all heads of political events lively within the Northeast; additionally some members of the CWC of the Congress Communication quotient: Madhav is accessible over cellphone to a choose few; Sarma will get calls from high leaders to grassroots staff and holds political rendezvous even at dhabas, or wherever crucial PRIYANKA GANDHI VADRA Congress Common Secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh East THE ALTER EGO Present task: To maximise Congress seats in UP; has already met Dimple Yadav, spouse of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav Advisor-in-chief: Is the last word sounding board for Congress president Rahul Gandhi; helped him finalise the CM names for the three states received by the Congress in December 2018; satisfied him to assault the Modi authorities over Pulwama assault Fingers-on: By way of working model, she is the precise reverse of Rahul; is spontaneous, takes instantaneous choices, doesn’t consider in processes however ensures she isn’t seen as a counterforce to Rahul Social media quotient: Has 200,000 followers on Twitter; has not tweeted but AHMED PATEL Treasurer, Congress The Troubleshooter Present task: To generate assets for the 2019 Lok Sabha ballot, hold line of communication open with possible allies; working together with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on a number of proposed rallies of all opposition events at totally different areas within the nation Man for all seasons: He has the ear of the outdated in addition to the brand new guard within the get together. He’s the popular Congress contact of a number of get together leaders equivalent to Mamata Banerjee, Mayawati, N. Chandrababu Naidu, M.Okay. Stalin and Farooq Abdullah Man in command: He has loyal colleagues and protégés in nearly each stateKamal Nath in Madhya Pradesh, Ashok Gehlot in Rajasthan, Ashok Chavan in Maharashtra, D.Okay. Shivakumar in Karnataka Social media quotient: A reluctant newbie; he’s now lively on Twitter; has 600,000 followers. THE NEW LIEUTENANTS RANDEEP SINGH SURJEWALA Congress Communication In-charge Okay.C. VENUGOPAL Congress Common Secretary (Organisation) He decides on the get together’s public stand on key points. On Pulwama, he opted to go after the Modi authorities from the very first day despite the fact that Rahul Gandhi didn’t need to and later acquired Priyanka Gandhi on board to make Rahul change his thoughts Rahul’s new favorite; shares an amazing equation with H.D. Deve Gowda and his son and Karnataka CM H.D. Kumaraswamy; retains the Congress-JD (S) alliance working; finalised seat-sharing deal in Maharashtra with NCP; one of many key negotiators with DMK THE TRUSTED DUO Okay. RAJU Head of Rahul Gandhi’s workplace Rahul Gandhi’s gatekeeper-in-chief advises him on nearly all the things underneath the solar; his phrase is last on Dalit points; works in shut coordination with Ahmed Patel ASHOK GEHLOT Chief Minister, Rajasthan Rahul values his political recommendation. As an illustration, although Okay.C. Venugopal is Karnataka normal secretary in-charge, Gehlot’s phrases matter lots within the state, contemplating his equation with former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah PRASHANT KISHOR Vice-president, Janata Dal (United) The Service Supplier Present task: Although a JD(U) chief, his organisation IPAC has been taking care of the election technique of Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSRC. The Shiv Sena has additionally sought his assist. Had a number of rounds of debate with Modi and Amit Shah on election technique; Kishor was one in all Modi’s key strategists within the 2014 Lok Sabha ballot Cross-party pals: Has pals in lots of events, from Priyanka Gandhi and Amarinder Singh within the Congress and Modi and Amit Shah within the BJP to Aditya Thackeray within the Shiv Sena and Lalu Yadav within the RJD Communication quotient: Accessible on WhatsApp, prefers WhatsApp calls over common ones Who knew? Kishor suggested Nitish Kumar to take again his chair from Jitan Ram Manjhi THE OUTSIDE SUPPORT Present task: Has been travelling round Bihar to grasp the region-wise, micro-level dynamics of state politics and put together the RJD for the 2019 Lok Sabha election; additionally evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the alliance candidates Previous efficiency: Within the run-up to the Bihar meeting ballot in 2015, he dug out Mohan Bhagwat’s assertion looking for a evaluate of reservations and helped the RJD management make it a giant electoral situation; this explicit Bhagwat interview had nearly gone unnoticed Information defence: When the BJP attacked the RJD’s previous regime as jungle raj’, which at all times put the RJD males on the defensive, Sanjay dug out the GDP and crime information from 1961 to show that Lalu Prasad Yadav’s tenure was not so unhealthy SANJAY YADAV Political advisor to RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav; social and political scientist The Dutiful Spouse DIMPLE YADAV Samajwadi Social gathering MP and spouse of get together chief Akhilesh Yadav Present task: Coordinating with Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi on the casual tactical understanding between Congress and SP for the 2019 Lok Sabha ballot Deal delivered: Within the 2017 meeting ballot, she satisfied Akhilesh to tie up with the Congress after Priyanka had met together with her Communication quotient: A commerce graduate, Dimple is fluent in each English and Hindi, in contrast to most SP leaders; she is among the star campaigners for the get together Cross-party pals: Has good rapport with Congress ladies leaders from UP, equivalent to Aradhana Misra, MLA from Rampur Khas, and Aditi Singh, MLA from Rae Bareli Social media quotient: Has extra that 200,000 followers on Twitter; tweets herself SATISH CHANDRA MISHRA BSP Rajya Sabha MP The Silent Social Engineer Deal delivered: He was the BSP’s chief negotiator within the SP-BSP alliance for the Lok Sabha ballot The occasion supervisor: Earlier than each public look of Mayawati, Mishra prepares the speech, takes care of the safety and finalises the leaders to be seated on the dais Cross-party pals: Has a great rapport with Arun Jaitley The Frequent Good friend RABIN DEB Central Committee Member, CPI(M) Present task: Coordinating with Congress leaders on seat-sharing between the 2 events in West Bengal Mr Wikipedia: At all times prepared with dates and occasion particulars Cross-party pals: Has many pals within the Congress, TMC and BJP Who knew? Deb may be very keen on pocket transistor radios. With Jeemon Jacob, Aravind Gowda Kiran D. Tare, Rahul Noronha, Romita Datta Ashish Misra and Amarnath Okay. Menon Source link

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Vivek Anand Oberoi in a still from PM Narendra Modi

This week’s new Bollywood release, director Omung Kumar B’s PM Narendra Modi, is not a biography. It is an unwittingly farcical, comical hagiography of Narendra Modi and the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), and even that is a euphemistic description. To put it simply, this is a highly fictionalised account of the present Indian prime minister’s life.

Omung Kumar’s recall value so far has come from the vastly superior Priyanka Chopra-starrer Mary Kom (2014) and the embarrassingly bad Aishwarya Rai Bachchan-starrer Sarbjit (2016). PM Narendra Modi falls into the so-bad-it-could-be-fun category, except that it is not fun at all – it is, instead, an insult to viewer intelligence and viewer knowledge. "Modi ek insaan nahin, ek soch hai (Modi is not a person, Modi is a way of thinking/a concept),” says the protagonist himself at one point. Aur Modi ke baare mein soch badalne ke liye, to change the thinking about Modi, the screenplay – co-written by Anirudh Chawla and the leading man, Vivek Anand Oberoi – runs facts through a carefully chosen sieve and presents a new, rewritten history so far removed from recorded reality, that it bears little resemblance to the actual Modi. In that sense, PM Narendra Modi reminded me of a scene in last year’s Malayalam feature Kammara Sambhavam, in which the hero watches a PR film about his life and does not recognise himself on screen. Things that did not happen in Modi’s life are in this film shown to have happened: he is shown being arrested during the Emergency, the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is shown praising him to the press during the 2002 riots, in the run-up to the 2014 election Modi is shown volunteering to do a live interview with a hostile TV journalist before an audience and acing it. In the face of such liberties with facts involving major historical events, all PM Narendra Modi’s other follies and flaws – the word “grateful” being spelt as “greatful” in the opening acknowledgements, the lazy caricature of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Modi’s corrupt government colleague in Gujarat, the false suggestion that Modi never married, other monumental exaggerations and misrepresentations in the screenplay, Hitesh Modak’s overbearing background score and the overall tackiness of the narrative – pale into insignificance. It is worth mentioning here that the aforementioned hostile journalist is a stooge of a corrupt industrialist called Aditya Reddy, played by Prashant Narayanan. Three enemies are very clearly marked out by PM Narendra Modi: Pakistan, the news media and, through the medium of the Reddy character, the dark-skinned self-serving south Indian. On Vivek Oberoi’s shoulders falls the task of playing this larger-than-life version of Modi, determined to vanquish all three. Most of Oberoi’s co-stars are comparatively irrelevant because their roles are dwarfed by his, but despite being dealt the same hand, their performances are a mixed bag. Manoj Joshi looks oddly wimpish as Amit Shah (the BJP chief’s full name is muted out in the film for some reason), but Boman Irani brings some dignity to the role of Ratan Tata as does Zarina Wahab playing Modi’s mother. In an ocean of mediocrity, Anjan Shrivastav does a reasonably good take on Vajpayee without resorting to gimmicky mimicry. As for Oberoi, well, in the actor who hams his way through this role, there is no trace of the young debutant who showed such spark under Ram Gopal Varma’s guidance in 2002’s Company. It is sad to watch an artist lose his touch. For those of us who saw something in him in Company, the only consolation is that his turn as Modi is less cringe-worthy than his performance as a horny young chap in Masti (2004), Grand Masti (2013) and Great Grand Masti (2016). If you think about it, despite the apparent contrast between them, the Masti trilogy and PM Narendra Modi both offer conventionally accepted definitions of masculinity. The Mastis used slapstick comedy as a vehicle to present us with men driven by their nether regions and their hormones as men naturally would be, or so we are given to understand. In PM Narendra Modi, the hero espouses an earnest, asexual, aggressive machoism, initially speaking of wanting to renounce the world and follow the path taken by Lord Buddha, and in the climatic moments ascribing his decisiveness – as the real life Narendra Modi has done – to a 56-inch chest. You see, his political journey is not a consequence of personal ambition, it is the answer to the public’s prayerful longing for “ek sachcha mard (a real man)” to lead them, to quote the words of a character early in the film.