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Lok Sabha polls: Auto-rickshaw drivers demand regulation of cab aggregators, increase in fare
Raise in fare, extension of CNG subsidy and better regulation of cab aggregators are the key demands of the city's auto-rickshaw drivers this election season. There are nearly over lakh auto-rickshaw drivers in the national capital and they have played a key role in canvassing for political parties --- be it wrapping political banners on the vehicle's rear portion or taking part in rallies and meetings. In the 2013 and 2015 Assembly polls, auto-rickshaw drivers could be seen across the city canvassing support for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), with a section rooting for it. Even for the Lok Sabha polls, many of them allowed their vehicles to be used for promotional activities of political parties. Ram Sanjeevan, a 49-year-old driver from Burari, said the government had promised to revise the fare in April every year but that has not happened. "If they increase the fare regularly, we would not ask for more money from customers and will take genuine fare as per meter," Sanjeevan said. He, ..
Re-poll to be held in single booth Monday
Re-poll would be heldMonday in booth no: 10 in the Kamaraj Nagar constituency as ordered by the Election Commission of India. The re-poll would be held from 7 am to 6 pm. A total of 952 voters (473 men and 479 women) is expected to exercise their franchise, an official of the election department here told PTI. The repoll became necessary because during the mock poll of parliamentary election on April 18, the voting slips in the VVPAT compartment were not removed before the commencement of polling, the official said. When the polling was underway that day in the booth, the polling staff had opened the VVPAT compartment and removed the mock poll voting slips which 'vitiated the sanctity of the polling process,' he said The matter was taken to the notice of the Election Commission which had ordered the conduct of the repoll, he said. Necessary arrangements are in place for the conduct of the repoll, the official said.
World is saying BJP is dangerous for democracy: Akhilesh
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Saturday said the world has now started saying the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is dangerous for democracy. "Today the world has started saying that the BJP is dangerous for democracy. The world's biggest magazine has written that these are the very people who have divided society," Yadav said, referring to the cover story of the Time magazine. "BJP people were talking about 'achhe din', which did not come. The very foundation of BJP is based on lies and hatred and the alliance will rock it," he said. Addressing rally for Ram Bhuwal Nishad, the alliance candidate from the prestigious Gorakhpur seat, Akhilesh said the BJP, which ran the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, has been wiped out off Uttar Pradesh by the people in the five phases of polling so far. "Polling in Gorakhpur is slated for the seventh phase. This is the phase of the alliance. I do not see BJP opening its account," he said. The SP president said the prime minister is charging the ...
LS polls: BJP to defend 45 seats in phase six
The penultimate phase of Lok Sabha elections on Sunday will see 59 parliamentary constituencies spread over seven states going to the polls with the BJP having maximum at stake as it has to defend 45 seats it won in 2014.
Three ex-CMs failed to do any significant works for native
BJP president Amit Shah Saturday alleged that though the Santhal pargana region has given three chief ministers to Jharkhand they failed to do any significant works for tribals whereas the present government of Raghubar Das has done a lot for them. Shah said this without taking names of ex-CMs- Shibu Soren, Hemant Soren (of the JMM) and Babulal Marandi, the president of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik). But, the Raghubar Das government has done many significant works for them, he added. The Santhal pragana region has three Lok Sabha seats--- Dumka (ST), Rajmahal (ST) and Godda, polling for which is slated for May 19. Fledgling Jharkhand state which came into being in 2000 is broadly divided into Santhal pargana and Chotanagpur for adminstrative purposes. Appealing people to vote for BJP candidate Hemlal Murmu from Rajmahal during his election rally at Hiranpur in Pakur district in Rajmahal constituency, Shah said while the Modi regime was successful in rooting ..
I belong to caste of the poor" Modii
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday came down heavily on the opposition alliance in Uttar Pradesh for raising questions on his caste, asserting that he belongs to the caste of all poor countrymen. Addressing an election rally here, Modi continued to attack the Congress over its leader Sam Pitroda's hua to hua (It happened, so what?) remark on the anti-Sikh riots in 1984. National security also figured prominently. Modi accused a previous coalition government of weakening the intelligence agencies and recalled that the Pokhran nuclear tests took place on this day 21 years back. "They have destroyed Uttar Pradesh and now the SP and the BJP have come together to save themselves from destruction, he said, calling their alliance mahamilawati or adulterated. They have started a new thing about my caste, he said, in an apparent reference to Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati's jibe that he is a farzi backward -- a fake OBC leader. I want to tell them that Modi belongs to just one caste -
Rahul Gandhi wants to defeat Modi with 'love'
Reverting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attack on his family, Congress President Rahul Gandhi here on Saturday said he would "never hate Modi" as he believed the "PM can be defeated only with love".
Writer who called PM Modi as 'divider-in-chief' is a Pakistani citizen, says Sambit Patra
BJP's national spokesperson Sambit Patra on Saturday said that the article in the TIME magazine depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "divider in chief" was written by a Pakistani as they hate the Prime Minister because of surgical strikes and Balakot air strike on JeM terror camps.Addressing media persons here, Patra said: "The man who called Prime Minister Modi 'divider in chief' is a Pakistani citizen. They hate Narendra Modi because he did the surgical strikes and Balakot air strike on them.""Before 2014 Lok Sabha polls, articles were also written against PM Modi and the same thing is happening again," added Patra.The BJP leader said: "Prime Minister Modi is a unifier as he implemented Good and Services Tax (GST) which unifies 17 taxes."Hitting out at Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, the BJP leader said, "Sidhu did not say anything on Sam Pitrod's remarks on 1984 anti-Sikh riots.""Sidhu has joined hands with Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath who is also an accused in
Sidhu calls BJP 'Kale Angrez', Patra hits back
Congress leader and Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu stirred a controversy on Saturday by calling the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) "Kale Angrez" (black Englishmen) and likening Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a bride who pretends to do work.
BJP crosses 11 million followers on Twitter
Hitting a new milestone amid the hotly fought Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) now has over 11 million followers on Twitter - more than double the number its arch-rival Congress Party has on the social media platform.
Rajnath mocks Rahul Gandhi's promise to eradicate poverty
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Saturday mocked Congress president Rahul Gandhi's promise to eradicate poverty through NYAY scheme, saying the grand old party right from days of Jawaharlal Nehru to Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi has been "befooling" countrymen in the name of ending poverty. On the other hand, the Narendra Modi government has demonstrated its resolve to pull out all those living below the poverty line, Singh said and claimed that there will not be a single family below the poverty line in next few years. While replying to those who sought to know the number of terrorists killed in Balakot airstrike in Pakistan to avenge killing of 40 CRPF jawans, Singh referred to a foreign journalists write up which claimed that 170 terrorists were killed in the IAF operation on terror camps. Congress was in power for 55 years at the centre but it befooled the people of the country in the name of eradicating poverty right from first PM Jawaharlal Nehru to Indira Gandhi
AAP gives ticket to people in exchange for money: Congress
In a direct attack to Aam Aadmi Party, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera on Saturday said the party gives tickets to people in exchange for money."It is clear now that where the money for its call centre operations is coming from? AAP engages in this practice in Rajya Sabha, Vidhan Sabha and even in Municipal Corporations. The so-called honest party is actually corrupt," said Pawan Khera.Earlier in the day, Uday Jakhar, who is the son of West Delhi AAP candidate Balbir Singh Jakhar, alleged that AAP had taken Rs 6 crore from his father to let him contest the parliamentary elections.Delhi goes to poll in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections on May 12. The counting of votes will take place on May 23.
PM Modi: SP-BSP hugging each other to save themselves, they don't speak about their policies for country
Attacking SP-BSP chiefs who have got together in an alliance in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Modi on Saturday said that those who wanted to send each other to jail were now contesting the elections in an alliance to save themselves from getting destroyed."SP-BSP, who first ruined UP, are now hugging each other to save themselves from falling apart. Those who wanted to send each other to jail now want to send them to the palace today. The leaders of SP and BSP do not tell people what is their policy for the nation. Whatever they talk about, abusing Modi is at the top of it," the Prime Minister said while addressing an election rally here."What will be their strategy to deal with terrorism, Naamdar, Behen ji and Babua ji will not speak anything about this," he said.Arch-rivals in Uttar Pradesh, the SP amd BSP have forged an alliance after the BJP swept Lok Polls in 2014 and registered landslide victory in Assembly elections of 2017.Reiterating his poll campaign of 'helpless ...
'We will make them search for chillums at Yogi's house'
Taking a swipe at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Saturday that when he comes to power, he will make the same officers who had searched for missing water faucets at his official residence, search for "chillums" or smoking pipes at Adityanath's house.
PM Modi lives for the country, says Amit Shah
BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the leader who lives for the country and there is no comparison between him and Congress president Rahul Gandhi."The country is seeing this, a politician who is not living for himself but for the country. The country has never seen such a leader in the last 70 years. He works for 18 hours out of 24 and has been working for the last 20 years. There is no comparison between him and Rahul Gandhi who go for vacations abroad when the temperature starts soaring," said Shah while addressing an election rally here.He challenged Rahul Gandhi of sending the account of works and achievements of the Congress of the last 55 years of its rule, asserting that Prime Minister Modi government's work of last 5 years will far surpass what was done in the last 55 years."Your four generations have ruled the country. Send me the account of works done by you in 55 years and I will send the account of work done by Narendra Modi ...
Never speak ill of any PM: Rajnath amid political slugfest on PM's remarks on Rajiv Gandhi
Amid the ongoing political slugfest over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comments on former PM Rajiv Gandhi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said he never used foul language for any of India's premiers, irrespective of their political affiliations."I never use foul language for any Prime Minister irrespective of the political party they may belong to. Prime Minister, President are not individuals, they are institutions," Singh said at an election rally here.He appealed people to work towards strengthening the institutions of the President and the Prime Minister.He said, "It is the duty of every party and citizen to strengthen these institutions because if these institutions start weakening, democracy will weaken, and if democracy is weak then no power in the world can save the country from a partition.""I would not say that a party did nothing for the development of the country. Every party does something. It is just that their working styles are different," he further ...
Bengal LS polls: Tribal belt, Midnapore ready for phase 6
An exciting battle is on the cards to capture West Bengal's tribal heartland as well as the seats in Junglemahal, once a hotbed of Maoists, in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on Sunday with eight parliamentary constituencies up for grabs.
Modi has hatred for my family, only love can defeat him: Rahul
Congress president Rahul Gandhi Saturday alleged that the BJP, RSS and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have hatred towards his family, but he does not harbour the same feelings for the PM. He said that although Modi repeatedly attacked him, his father Rajiv Gandhi, grandmother Indira Gandhi and great grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru, he gave him a hug. The Congress chief's remarks came a week after Modi said in a rally that former PM Rajiv Gandhi "was termed 'Mr Clean' by his courtiers, but his life ended as 'Bhrashtachari No 1' (corrupt number 1)". Modi had also alleged that Rajiv Gandhi and his family had used the INS Viraat as a "personal taxi" for 10 days while they were vacationing at an island in Lakshadweep in the late 80s. "BJP, RSS and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hatred for my family and our job is to remove it. Narendra Modi attacks me. He speaks with hatred about my father, my grandmother and my great grandfather. He speaks in anger, but I go and give him a 'jhappi' (hug)," ..
Guna: Scindia the 'spider' versus BJP 'rider'
Shivpuri, once the summer capital of the Scindia royals, is again bracing for an electoral contest involving scion Jyotiraditya Scindia who believes his "spider" act of creating a web of development in the area would sail him through the fifth time against his former aide who is being called a "BJP rider". A number of voters in the Guna constituency comprising Guna, Shivpuri and Ashok Nagar districts, a pocket borough of the Scindias for decades, say the Congress candidate is very strong owing to his deep family ties in the region, whereas the BJP has fielded a lightweight candidate in K P Yadav, an MBBS doctor. The 48-year-old Congress general secretary is, however, leaving no stone unturned and holding as many as 9-10 election meetings every day to ensure a higher winning margin, that dipped by over a lakh in the last polls. "I have created a web of good roads for you like a spider...not a single voter should be left out this time and you should ensure that this area creates history
BJP looking at Bengal for votes after poor show in other
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday said that BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are looking at the state for votes as the party has fared badly in the last five phases of Lok Sabha polls. Modi is losing confidence as he is sure to lose the election, she said and urged the electorate not to vote for BJP. "Where will BJP get the numbers from ? In Uttar Pradesh, its count will reduce from 73 to 13 or 17. In other states like Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajashthan, Punjab and Odisha the party will draw a blank. Its seats will reduce in Madhya Pradesh also", Banerjee said at a public meeting here in support of Trinamool Congress candidate Nusrat Jahan. Urging voters not to vote for the saffron party, she said "We do not want BJP. Show the door to the party through votes. In Bengal, Trinamool Congress should win all the 42 seats which will help it to have some control in the formation of the new government at the Centre". She alleged ...