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BJP campaigning on communal lines, says Mallikarjun Kharge in Gujarat
Before Kharge addressed the mediapersons in Ahmedabad after BJP senior leader Jaynarayan Vyas joined the Congress. Kharge and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot welcomed Vyas in the party. While speaking with the mediapersons Kharge said, "Congress has prepared India's development roadmap in the 70 years, and the party that has come to power recently, knows only one language to attack political opponents, it has no vision to take ahead the country."
Shivpal Yadav's security scaled down
This is being seen as a direct fallout of his support to Dimple Yadav, the Samajwadi candidate in Mainpuri Lok Sabha by election. In a letter to the Lucknow Police Commissioner and other concerned officials, Superintendent of Police (Security) Etawah Vaibhav Krishna said that the decision to scale down the security was taken at a recent review meeting regarding threat perception to Shivpal Yadav
Share of candidates with criminal records goes up in Gujarat polls
The number of crorepati candidates has also increased in the state as out of the 833 candidates, 245 (29 per cent) are crorepatis whereas in 2017 Gujarat Assembly Elections phase II, out of 822 candidates 199 (24 per cent) were crorepatis. As per a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), out of 833 candidates analyzed, 163 (20 per cent) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves
After furore for slurring women, Swami Ramdev regrets and apologises
Ramdev has sent an email to the effect to the Maharashtra State Commission for Women Chairperson Rupali Chakankar, in response to her missive of Friday demanding an explanation for his utterances within 72 hours. Confirming the developments, the MSCW head informed that Ramdev has sent the response to her, expressing both regrets and tendering an apology, but also claiming that his remarks were allegedly twisted out of context
Telangana BJP chief placed under house arrest to foil march
The police stopped Sanjay on way to Bhainsa on Sunday night and sent him back to Karimnagar as the permission was denied for his march due to apprehension of breach of peace. Large number of police personnel were deployed around Sanjay's house to prevent him from heading towards the town.
BJP releases 'Delhi Ka Ladka' cartoon series to showcase work done by MCD
Addressing a press conference, BJPO's MCD election management committee chief Ashish Sood said: "In response to the paid campaign of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), this creative cartoon series will tell Delhiites as to what has happened in the last eight years in the national capital." Sood alleged that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been "deceiving" the people of the city for the last eight years with his 'propaganda'.
Telangana police stop state BJP Chief ahead of 'padayatra'
After denying permission for the yatra and the public meeting in Bhainsa town of Nirmal district, police stopped Bandi Sanjay and other leaders and party workers accompanying him and sent them back. The convoy of Sanjay, who is also a Member of Parliament, was forced to stop near Tatipalli in Jagtiyal mandal. The police asked him to return citing lack of permission for the padyatra.
Day-dreaming has a limit, Mehbooba Mufti crosses that today: BJP spokesman
Reacting to the remarks made by the PDP chief during a youth convention in Srinagar, Thakur said that day-dreaming too has a limit and that has been crossed by Mehbooba Mufti by making false promises about bringing back Article 370, which was "buried several feet under the ground on August 5, 2019".
MP leg of Bharat Jodo Yatra raises political temperature in poll-bound state
In the 2018 Asembly elections, the Congress won 114 out of 230 seats, while the BJP bagged 109 seats- there was a difference of only five seats between them. Since both the parties could not get absolute majority in the elections, they have been working on a new strategy for the polls to be held in 2023.
Shrikant Tyagi campaigns against BJP in UP's Khatauli
Talking to reporters, Shrikant Tyagi said, "The government has already done enough work of criminalising the Tyagi community. The community is angry and this time in Khatauli bypoll, Tyagis will not vote for the BJP. People will only vote for the candidate willing to take on the BJP's candidate."
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