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Modi woos Millenials, urges them to 'select nation' (2nd Lead)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made a passionate appeal to the millennial generation exhorting them to select the nation above everything else while exercising their first-ever vote in the 2019 elections.
Priyanka holds LS campaign road show in Bijnor
With just two days to go for the first phase of polling, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday held a road show here to seek votes for her party's candidate for the Lok Sabha elections.
Congress manifesto is for Nehru-Gandhi family: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said election manifesto of Congress was aimed at securing the fourth generation of Nehru-Gandhi family while the one released by the BJP was development-oriented.
Sonia Gandhi to file nomination on Thursday
Congress leader and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will file her nomination for the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. Sonia Gandhi, who has been representing the seat since 2004, will contest against Dinesh Pratap Singh, who had recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party after leaving the Congress. The Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party have not fielded any candidate in the Congress bastion. Rae Bareli goes to polls on May 6 in the fifth phase of the general election. Sonia Gandhi had won the seat in 2004, 2006 (bypolls), 2009 and 2014. In 2014, there were 15.94 lakh voters in the constituency and the poll percentage was 51.73 per cent, in which Sonia Gandhi had got 5,26,434 votes. Since 1957, the Congress has won the seat 19 times, including three by-elections, and lost the seat only three times -- 1977, 1996 and 1998. In 1977, after Emergency, Bharatiya Lok Dal's Raj Narain had defeated the then prime minister Indira Gandhi. In 1996 and 1998, BJP ...
MP CM's aide dubs I-T raids as "political action"
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath's former Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Praveen Kakkar has alleged that the Income Tax raids at his premises were politically motivated, and claimed nothing objectionable was found against him in the two-day operation. The I-T Department on Monday had said it detected a "widespread and well-organised" racket of collection of unaccounted cash of about Rs 281 crore during raids against close aides of Nath and others. It said the sleuths recovered Rs 14.6 crore of "unaccounted" cash and seized diaries and computer files of suspect payments made between Madhya Pradesh and Delhi. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said the department also detected a trail of Rs 20 crore suspect cash allegedly being moved to the "headquarters of a major political party in Delhi" from the house of an important person who lives on Tughlaq Road, home to many VIPs. However, Kakkar refuted the claims, saying he had nothing to do with 'hawala' or funding of any ...
IT raids over, MP Police's SHO, DSP misbehaved with CRPF officials: MS Verma
The Income Tax raids at the premises of Ashwin Sharma, an associate of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath's OSD Praveen Kakkar are over, said CRPF Commandant MS Verma, adding that a SHO and DSP of the state police misbehaved with the paramilitary force."State police did not know that such operation is going to take place. SHO might have been insecure. He asked us why we are carrying out an operation in his area without his permission," Verma told media here."All I could tell him, it is not about jurisdiction. We were following government orders. Raids are now over. Madhya Pradesh Police's SHO Chouhan and DSP misbehaved with CRPF and hurled abuses at us. Since the matter has gone to a higher level, if I am asked about it, I will definitely tell them," he added.Raid was also being carried out at the residence of Praveen Kakkar who is also the private secretary to the Chief Minister. Raids started on Sunday at the residences of Kakkar in Indore and Nath's former advisor RK Miglani .
Modi to first-time voters: Dedicate vote for 'air strike' men
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday appeared treading on sensitive ground, as he asked first-time voters to dedicate their vote to those who carried out the air strike in Balakot. "Can your first vote be dedicated to those who carried out the air strike," Modi said, appealing to first-time voters at a poll rally here in Latur district of Maharashtra. "I want to tell the first-time voters: can your first vote be dedicated to the veer jawans (valiant soldiers) who carried out the air strike in Pakistan). "Can your first vote be dedicated to the veer shaheed (brave martyrs) of Pulwama (terror attack)," Modi said. The PM said the first-time voters should remember that their first vote is something which they will remember for the rest of their lives. "You will always remember to whom did you vote and in which election," Modi said. "Can your first vote be dedicated to (the cause of) providing pucca houses to the poor. Should not your first vote go for providing water in farms
Indian, Israeli leaders showing moral bankruptcy to win elections: PM Imran Khan
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said that leaders in India and Israel are defying the international laws and showcasing moral bankruptcy to win elections in their country."When ldrs in Israel & India show a moral bankruptcy in their readiness to annex occupied West Bank & IOK in defiance of int law, UNSC resolutions & their own Constitution for votes, don't their ppl feel a sense of outrage & wonder how far they will go simply to win an election?" Khan tweeted.The prime minister even wondered why the citizens of Israel and India do not feel a sense of outrage against their leaders and how far will the leaders go simply to win an election?On April 6, Khan said that the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP) "attempt to win elections through whipping up war hysteria" has backfired. He was referring to the US-magazine Foreign Policy's article which claimed that all F-16s sold to Pakistan were accounted for indicating that India's claim of shooting down F-16 may
MP CM Kamal Nath, son file poll nominations
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath and his son Nakul Nath Tuesday filed their nominations for the state Assembly bypoll and Lok Sabha election, respectively, from Chhindwara. Nath, 73, dressed in a white kurta-pyjama, was accompanied by his wife Alka Nath and son while filing his papers for the Chhindwara Assembly seat by-election. Minutes later, Nakul Nath, dressed in a similar attire, accompanied by his parents and wife, also submitted his papers to contest the Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency. Before heading to file their nominations, the Naths offered prayers at a Hanuman temple close to their bungalow in Shikarpur area. After filing the papers, the family prayed at the famous Ram temple, located near Shyam Talkies here, and thereafter reached the Dussehra Maidan where the procession culminated. The chief minister, who is also the MP Congress president, has represented the Chhindwara Lok Sabha seat nine times. He is contesting the bypoll because, as per rules, he needs to ..
Democrat Swalwell adds to crowded 2020 presidential pool
Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, a vocal critic of US President Donald Trump, on Monday announced he was running for the White House, joining an already crowded pool of 2020 hopefuls from his party. The 38-year-old member of the House of Representatives announced his campaign on The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS. "I've already done a lot but I can do more," said Swalwell, who sits on the House Intelligence Committee and the House Judiciary Committee. "I've been in Congress for six years. I've defended our country from the Intelligence Committee while democracy has been on the ropes." Gun control reform is a key issue for the four-term lawmaker, whose district is in the San Francisco Bay Area. "I've talked to kids who sit in their classroom afraid that they'll be the next victim of gun violence," he told Colbert. "I see Washington do nothing about it after the moments of silence. And I see lawmakers who love their guns more than they love our kids." "I'm ready to ...
Iran president says US 'leader of world terrorism'
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that the United States was the real "leader of world terrorism" after Washington blacklisted Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a "foreign terrorist organisation". "Who are you to label revolutionary institutions as terrorists?" Rouhani asked in a speech broadcast live by state television. Speaking at a ceremony to mark Iran's national nuclear technology day in Tehran, Rouhani defended the Revolutionary Guards as a force that has fought terrorism ever since its creation in 1979. In contrast, the Islamic republic's president accused US forces of having always been directly or indirectly involved with terrorist groups or acts of terrorism. "You want to use terrorist groups as tools against the nations of the region... you are the leader of world terrorism. "Who is propagating and encouraging terrorism in today's world? Who wanted to use ISIS (the Islamic State group) as a tool?" Rouhani asked, saying that the US is harbouring the leaders of the .
Rahul Gandhi's Kandhamal rally cancelled
Congress president Rahul Gandhi's scheduled visit to Odisha's Kandhamal district on Tuesday was cancelled, party sources said. Rahul Gandhi's visit was cancelled in view of a possible thunderstorm in Kandhamal area on Tuesday evening, a party communication said, adding that Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik and Chhattishgarh health minister T S Singhdeo will attend the programme. Gandhi was supposed to address a public rally and participate in several programmes during his visit to Phulbani in the district. Polling for the Lok Sabha and the Odisha assembly in the district will be held on April 18.
Upset over Mayawati's remarks, Bhim Army to support Cong's Saharanpur candidate
In a move which can upset the BSP-SP-RLD alliance in the state, Dalit group Bhim Army, which has a considerable following in western Uttar Pradesh, has appealed to members of the community to vote for Congress' Saharanpur Lok Sabha candidate Imran Masood. The move comes days after Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati described Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar Azad as a "BJP agent" and accused him of trying to divide Dalit votes. The call to support Masood, who had hogged headlines during the 2014 general elections for his controversial remarks against Narendra Modi, was taken late Monday night. The BSP-SP-RLD alliance has fielded Faizul Rehman from the seat. Sitting BJP MP Raghav Lakhanpal is seeking re-election from the constituency. At a joint rally in Deoband in the constituency on Sunday, Mayawati had appealed to Muslim voters to consolidate behind Rehman and ensure that their votes do not get split. A Bhim Army leader alleged that BSP-SP activists manhandled a number of Dalits ...
Who will win 2019?
With an upswing of about 4 per cent in vote share, as reported in recent polls/surveys, can the Congress tide over its lowest ebb (44 MPs in the 16th Lok Sabha) and dethrone the incumbent? Perhaps a deep dive into two latest surveys -- CSDS-Lokniti and Times Now-VMR -- will serve the purpose.
Vijayan dismisses election surveys as 'big bluff'
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday dismissed election surveys as "big bluffs" far from the reality, adding that his Left government will win 18 of the 20 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Scared of debating me on corruption: Rahul asks Modi
Congress president Rahul Gandhi asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday if he was "scared" of debating with him on corruption and suggested that they could go "open book" for it. Gandhi has been repeatedly daring Modi to debate with him on issues of national security, especially the Rafale fighter jets deal, asserting that when it happens, the truth will be out in the open. The BJP has scoffed at the idea and described the Congress chief as an ignorant politician. "Dear PM, Scared of debating me on corruption? I can make it easier for you. Let's go open book, so you can prepare: 1. RAFALE+Anil Ambani, 2. Nirav Modi, 3. Amit Shah+Demonetisation," Gandhi tweeted with #Scared2Debate. After releasing the Congress manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls earlier this month, Gandhi had challenged the prime minister to debate with him on the issues of national security, corruption and foreign policy. The Congress has also accused Modi of helping industrialist Anil Ambani make a profit of Rs ..
Modi woos Millenials, urges them to 'select nation'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made a passionate appeal to the millennial generation and exhorted them to select the nation above everything else while exercising their first-ever vote in the 2019 elections.
Saudi hails US terror blacklisting of Iran Guards
Riyadh welcomed Tuesday Washington's blacklisting of arch-rival Tehran's elite Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation, state media reported. "The US decision (follows) the kingdom's repeated demands to the international community to address the issue of Iranian-backed terrorism," the official Saudi Press Agency quoted a foreign ministry source as saying. The source welcomed the US move as a "practical and serious step" in curbing what the kingdom describes as Iranian meddling in the region. Washington's decision on Monday marks the first time that the US has branded an arm of a foreign government a terrorist group. It effectively means that anyone who deals with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps could face prison in the United States. President Donald Trump called the corps -- which has some 125,000 troops and vast interests across the Iranian economy -- Tehran's "primary means of directing and implementing its global terrorist campaign." Tehran swiftly retaliated by ...
Mob lynching is Modi's legacy: Owaisi
AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said mob lynchings were a legacy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Sikh leaders condemn 'Gurdwara sacrilege' in J&K
Sikh religious leaders of Kashmir on Tuesday condemned the reported sacrilege at a Gurdwara, a Sikh religious place, in Leh district of Jammu and Kashmir.