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Kerala Assembly Election 2021 Latest updates: A day after she resigned as Mahila Congress chief and tonsured her head in protest following denial of ticket, Lathika Subhash on Monday quit the party and decided to contest as an Independent for the April 6 assembly election from Ettumanoor in Kottayam. The West Bengal government on Monday appointed IPS officer Gyanwant Singh as the new director security in place of Vivek Sahay who was removed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the incident in Nandigram in which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was injured, an official told news agency PTI. Continuing his party’s attack on the Congress ahead of the Assembly polls, BJP chief JP Nadda at a rally said, “We’re not against the word ‘Congress’, but against its policies, its karm (deeds) and its ’niyat’. What have they done in seven years? One leader of the Congress came and gave five guarantees. I don’t know what will happen to those five guarantees, but I can guarantee you one thing: ‘Congress aayegi toh ghotala hi karegi’ (If the Congress comes to power, there will only be scams). " Suvendu Adhikari, the BJP candidate against Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram, Monday said he has sought rejection of the nomination of the West Bengal chief minister for not declaring six criminal cases against her while filing her papers. Noted actor and two-time TMC MLA Debashree Roy on Monday quit the party after being denied a ticket for the upcoming Assembly elections. The Raidighi legislator, in a letter to TMC state chief Subrata Bakshi, said she will no longer be associated with the party. Tamil Nadu chief minister E Palaniswami, MNM chief Kamal Haasan and AMMK leader TTV Dhinakaran filed their nominations on Monday. The chief minister will contest from Edapaddi, the MNM chief from Coimbatore South while Dhinakaran is in the fray from Kovilpatti “I am a little late today because of some glitch in my helicopter but I won’t call it a conspiracy,” says Union Home Minister Amit Shah in a jibe at West Bnegal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, at a rally in Ranibandh. Your votes will decide which party forms government in the state for the next five years, he says. Addressing the rally in a wheelchair, the chief minister also hit out at the BJP, saying the the party is increasing gas and fuel prices while the TMC is engaged in development Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Monday asserted that her party will contest the assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry on its own, saying the BSP has had a bitter experience of aligning with other parties in the past. She also stated that her party will go alone in the UP Assembly elections next year. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is contesting the April 6 Assembly polls in the state from Dharmadam constituency , filed his nomination papers on Monday morning. Meanwhile, DMK president MK Stalin filed his nomination for the 6 April Tamil Nadu Assembly polls from the Chennai’s Kolathur constituency, from where he is seeking a third term. True to her street fighter image, Mamata Banerjee was back on the roads of Kolkata on Sunday, four days after being injured at the hustings in Nandigram, leading a TMC march on a wheelchair and declaring an injured tiger is far more dangerous. Accompanied by senior TMC leaders, Banerjee was seen greeting the crowd with folded hands, with security personnel pushing her wheelchair.Banerjee joined the five km roadshow from Mayo Road to Hazra More as part of observation of Nandigram Diwas to commemorate the killing of 14 villagers in police firing during the anti-land acquisition protest in 2007. Banerjee is contesting the high-profile Nandigram seat for the first time against former confidante-turned-adversary Suvendu Adhikari, the sitting MLA, who resigned and switched over to the BJP. Addressing the gathering after the hour-long march, Banerjee said attempts to incapacitate her to stop her from campaigning have failed, and asserted she will canvass for TMC candidates across the state on wheelchair. “I have faced a lot of attacks in my life but I have never surrendered before anyone. I will never bow my head. An injured tiger gets more dangerous,” she asserted. Banerjee was injured in her left leg, head and chest while campaigning in Nandigram on 10 March after filing her nomination, an incident the ruling TMC claimed was a “BJP conspiracy to take her life”. The Election Commission, however, ruled out that there was any attack on the West Bengal chief minister and the ruling Trinamool Congress leader after reviewing the reports sent by its two special poll observers and the state government. The Commission concluded that Banerjee sustained injuries due to lapse on part of her security in charge. The poll panel Sunday ordered that Director (Security) Vivek Sahay, an IPS officer, be removed from his post and placed under suspension immediately. The Superintendent of Police of Purba Medinipur Pravin Prakash was also suspended, while District Magistrate Vibhu Goel was transferred. “Doctors advised me against going out for campaign today. But I felt that I should participate in today’s rally as we have already lost a few days due to my injury.” “My pain is not greater than the suffering of people as democracy is being trampled through dictatorship. If I sit at home for such a long time that will serve the agenda of the conspirators. They will be successful,” the fiesty TMC supremo said. Banerjee said she chose Hazra as the point to end the Kolkata rally as she had been subjected to “many physical attacks at this spot” in her political career. TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, her nephew, said at the start of the rally his party will not bow before “outsiders” and asserted she will win the election battle no matter what challenges are thrown before her. He also urged people to put up a united fight against the CPM and its ally, the Congress, and claimed that the communist regime had perpetrated atrocities on the poor farmers of the state, citing the Nandigram movement of 2007. “We will not bow before the BJP, we will not bow before the outsiders,” he asserted. Shouting slogans such as ‘Modi babu ashe Modi babu Jay, Bangla nijer meyeke chay’ (PM Modi may come and go, Bengal wants its daughter to rule the state), the Diamond Harbour MP said, “Despite her serious foot injury, our leader has joined the rally. She will conquer the battle with her broken foot.” Carrying posters and placards hailing Banerjee as the “daughter of Bengal”, TMC supporters raised slogans against the BJP and called for “defeating the outsiders” in the Assembly elections. The TMC activists also chanted the slogan “Bhanga Paye Khela Hobe!” (Will play with broken leg), a reference to Banerjee’s leg injury. “We will continue to fight boldly! I’m still in a lot of pain, but I feel the pain of my people even more. In this fight to protect our revered land, we have suffered a lot and will suffer more but we will NEVER bow down to COWARDICE!” Banerjee had earlier tweeted minutes before arriving for the march.
Assembly Election 2021 updates: Will continue to fight, says Mamata; Amit Shah targets Bengal CM over 'killing' of BJP workers
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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Update
Tamil Nadu CM is ’lying to people’: MK Stalin
In a poll rally in Tamil Nadu’s Thiruvarir, DMK chief MK Stalin accused Chief Minister K Palaniswami of “lying to people”.
“He said Karunanidhi and MK Stalin are responsible for Jayalalithaa’s death. If you (the CM) claim that we are the reason behind her death, then lodge a case against me and I’ll face it legally,” Stalin added.
Puducherry Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Update
AMMK releases candidate list for Puducherry polls
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AIMIM announces candidates for Tamil Nadu polls
The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM on Monday announced candidates for the three seats it is contesting in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.
The party named T S Vakeel Ahmed (Vaniyambadi), B M Aminullah Ahmed (Krishnagiri) and M Mujib ur Rahman (Sankarapuram) as its candidates, AIMIM said on twitter. The AIMIM has tied up with TTV Dhinakaran’s AMMK for the Tamil Nadu elections.
Kerala Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Update
All political fronts failed miserably in giving seats to women, says CPI’s Annie Raja
CPI leader and general secretary of the National Federation of Indian women Annie Raja on Monday hit out at the political fronts in Kerala, saying they had “miserably failed” in giving seats to women. “The candidate lists show that all the political fronts have failed miserably in giving seats to women.It seems like while deciding candidates, there is a revengeful mentality towards women,” she said, reacting to the tonsure protest by former Mahila Congress president Lathika Subhash. Some leaders think that this much is enough for women and Parliament and Assembly seats are only for men,she told reporters in New Delhi.
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Lathika Subhash resigns from Congress
A day after she resigned as Mahila Congress chief and tonsured her head in protest following denial of ticket, Lathika Subhash on Monday quit the party and decided to contest as an Independent for the April 6 assembly election from Ettumanoor in Kottayam Fiftysix-year-old Subhash, an AICC member, said she had sent in her resignation letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran. In the letter to Gandhi, Subhash said: “Congress had miserably failed to understand the feeling of Mahila Congress and its workers. As a woman, I feel this is a planned neglect against us.” “None of the Mahila Congress representatives had got the ticket to contest in the election,” she alleged.
At a gathering of her well-wishers at Ettumanoor, her home townthis evening, Subhash announced she would contest as an independent and that she took the decision respecting the sentiments of her followers and well-wishers.
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West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
Amit Shah launches BJP’s social media campaign in Guwahati
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, after launching the BJP’s social media campaign ‘Selfie with development’ in Guwahati, said the saffron camp will bank on five pillars to fight the Assembly polls — ‘Suraksha aur Samman’ (protection and respect), ‘Samriddhi aur Judao’ (prosperity and connection), ‘Sanskriti aur Sabhyata’ (culture and civilisation), ‘Shanti aur Samvad’ (peace and dialogue) and ‘Swanirbharta aur Atmanirbharta’ (Self-reliance).
“Assam elections will not just ensure that the BJP stays in power, but will also guarantee preservation of the state’s culture, traditions and civilisation,” he stated. The Union minister urged the saffron partys social media volunteers to act as ‘marg-darshaks’ (guide) as it is “your responsibility to create awareness on our mission to build golden Assam”.
As part of the social media campaign, volunteers will take a selfie against the backdrop of a development work undertaken by the BJP government in the state over the last five years and upload it on networking websites.
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There should be a nationalist government in Assam, says Amit Shah
“There should be a nationalist government in Assam that works not for just Assam but for entire North East. Our aim is to establish prosperous Assam and a culture that connects North-East India’s regional communities, ANI quotes Amit Shah as saying in Guwahati. According to the news agency, Shah also said, “‘Andolan-Mukt’ Assam is what we aim for. In five years, BJP worked to free Assam from agitations and those who were part of the agitations, today stand with Congress to eat into our vote base.”
Puducherry Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
N Rangasamy files nomination from Thattanchavady
Founder of AINRC and Opposition Leader in the outgoing Assembly N Rangasamy filed nomination on Monday seeking election from Thattanchavady
constituency. Rangasamy contested from Kadirkamam constituency in the last poll held in 2016. Now, he seeks to contest from Thattanchavady which was his
pocketborough in the past. He told reporters after filing nomination that the NDA, headed by AINRC in the Union Territory, would romp home in the poll. He said he would also file nomination on Wednesday in the lone segment in Yanam, an enclave of Puducherry, in Andhra Pradesh.
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Kerala Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
After ally KC(M) decides to give up seat, CPM announces candidate in Kuttiyadi
The ruling CPM in Kerala on Monday announced its own candidate for Kuttiyadi seat in Kozhikode district, allotted earlier to Kerala Congress (M), after the latter decided to return it considering the political situation prevailing there. Hundreds of CPI(M) workers had taken to the streets of Kuttiyadi on Wednesday in protest against the party leadership’s decision to offer the seat to its ally KC(M), which joined the LDF a few months ago. The protesting CPM cadres had demanded that the party retain the seat instead of handing it over to the KC(M).
In a party statement on Sunday, KC(M) chairman Jose K Mani said the decision to return the seat to the CPM was taken to protect the unity in the LDF. PK Kunhammed Kutty Master, the party’s Kozhikode district secretariat member, would contest as the LDF candidate from Kuttiyadi, a statement said. “The State Committee has accepted the district committee’s direction in this regard,” it said.
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West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
More people watch ‘JCB ki khudai’ than crowd at Shah’s rally: Abhishek Banerjee
Launching a stinging attack on Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the cancellation of his Jhargram rally due to “technical glitches”, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee on Monday said more people watch excavation work by an earthmover or sip tea at a shop than those attending the senior BJP leader’s public meeting. Slamming the BJP, he said when the saffron party could not turn states ruled by it like UP, Gujarat or Assam golden, how can it deliver the promise of making West Bengal ‘Sonar Bangla’ (golden Bengal). The parliamentarian from Diamond Harbour constituency, also Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew, wondered whether the BJP was planning to make ‘Sonar Bangla’ by extracting gold from cow milk, alluding to an earlier statement by state BJP Dilip Ghosh that had triggered outrage and ridicule.
“Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s scheduled rally at Jhargram was cancelled due to some technical glitch, it seems. Anyways, the photos of the rally that I have received show very few people. More people watch excavation work done by an earthmover or sip tea at a village shop than those present at the senior BJP leader’s public meeting. On the other hand, the massive participation of people in the TMC’s rallies indicate that the party will return to power in the state on 2 May by bagging over 250 seats,” he said at a rally at Chandrakona in Paschim Medinipur district.
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West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
Gyanwant Singh appointed as new Director of Security
The West Bengal government on Monday appointed IPS officer Gyanwant Singh as the new director security in place of Vivek Sahay who was removed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the incident in Nandigram in which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was injured, an official told news agency PTI.
The chief minister was injured on 10 March during campaigning in Nandigram constituency in Purba MedinipurAdistrict, from where she is contesting the assembly election. The ECI suspended and removed Sahay “for grossly failing in discharge of his primary duty as Director Security to protect the Z+ protectee”. The IPS officer was also suspended by the poll panel.
Assam Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
Only BJP can unite all communities in Assam, says Amit Shah
‘Only BJP can unite all the communities in Assam. Since Assam voted BJP to power, we have formed governments in every NE state." News18 quotes Shah as saying.
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Amit Shah reiterates promise of making Assam flood-free
“We will make Assam flood free in the next five years. Floods cause 70-80 lakhs worth of damage every year. If this is prevented it will free up funds for the development of Assam,” says Amit Shah at a rally at Guwahati’s Town Hall. “The ones who speak about the pride of Assam have always failed to control Illegal immigration in the state, News18 quotes Shah as saying. “If you can’t stop infiltrators, how will you save Assam’s ‘asmita’ (pride),” he asks. Shah again targeted the Congress over its alliance with Badruddin Ajmal’s AIUDF. With AIUDF seated on its lap, Congress shamelessly talking of secularism and culture preservation, PTI quotes Shah as saying.
Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
Twitter announces initiatives to tackle polls-related misinformation
Ahead of assembly Elections, Twitter on Monday announced a slew of initiatives in a bid to protect public conversation and tackle poll-related misinformation. Announcing the multilingual initiatives, the microblogging platform pledged its commitment to “facilitating meaningful political debate, driving civic participation during elections”, in real-time. “With the Assembly Elections2021 taking place in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Puducherry, Twitter announced a series of initiatives focussed on encouraging informed and healthy conversations between candidates, political parties, citizens, media, and society,” it said in a statement.
The measures include an information search prompt with the Election Commission of India (@ECISVEEP) and State Election Commissions to provide reliable information around the elections, a custom emoji to encourage participation, a series of pre-bunks and debunks to tackle election-related misinformation, and a youth discussion series titled #DemocracyAdda aimed at voter literacy and civic participation among young Indians for the upcoming elections. These will be activated across six languages including English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Assamese and Malayalam, in order to cater to audiences across India
West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
Rajnath Singh to campaign in West Bengal tomorrow
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said he will address three public meetings in West Bengal on Tuesday — in Daspur ar 12.20 pm, in Sabang constituency at 1.40 pm and in Salboni at 3.10 pm.
West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
TMC chief takes dig at Amit Shah over cancellation of Jhargram rally
Taking a dig at Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the cancellation of his first public meeting of the day at Jhargram, Mamata Banerjee, insinuating that the rally was called off due to lack of attendees, said, “Had he requested, we would have sent some people to the venue,” she says.
Earlier, Shah had addressed the rally virtually, citing a snag in his helicopter.
West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
Mamata Banerjee mocks BJP’s rath yatra
Launching a scathing attack on the BJP for nominating its sitting MPs from several Assembly seats in Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sought to know if they would be “spreading lies and engineering riots” after the elections. Banerjee, while addressing a rally in Purulia district, mocked the BJP’s ‘rath yatra’, and said she has always known that chariots are taken out for Lord Jagannath and his divine siblings.
“Some BJP leaders are moving around in so-called ‘rath’, but we have always known that Lord Jagannath and his divine siblings travel in chariots. Are they (BJP leaders) bigger than God?” the chief minister, who is still recuperating from the injuries she sustained last week in Nandigram, said. “Some of the 18 BJP MPs nominated by the BJP have done nothing for the state. What they will do if they win? Spread lies and engineer riots?” Banerjee asked
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Assam Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
‘If Congress comes to power, there’ll only be scams’: JP Nadda
Continuing his party’s attack of the Congress ahead of the Assembly polls, BJP chief JP Nadda at a rally said, “We’re not against the word ‘Congress’, but against its policies, its karm (deeds) and its ‘niyat’. What have they done in seven years? One leader of the Congress had come and given five guarantees. I don’t know what will happen to those five guarantees, but I can guarantee you one thing: ‘Congress aayegi toh ghotala hi karegi’ (If the Congress comes to power, there will only be scams). "
" Its up to you whether you want guarantee of roads, medical colleges and AIIMS or guarantee of scams. Theire mission is commission while we work for a mission. We are dedicated to working for Assam’s culture, security and prosperity,” he said.
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Suvendu seeks rejection of Mamata’s nomination
Suvendu Adhikari, the BJP candidate against Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram, Monday said he has sought rejection of the nomination of the West Bengal chief minister for not declaring six criminal cases against her while filing her papers, reports PTI
In his complaint to the Election Commission, Adhikari, a former confidante of Banerjee, claimed she suppressed the information about five cases filed against her in Assam and another lodged by the CBI in West Bengal.
He said he has mentioned the case numbers in his complaint but did not elaborate on the offences allegedly committed by the TMC supremo, sources in the office of the state’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said.
“The TMC candidate for the Nandigram assembly constituency, the honourable chief minister, in her affidavit has not mentioned at least six cases which are under trial against her. One is a CBI case and five others are in Assam.
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BSP to contest Assembly polls in three states, UT on its own
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Monday asserted that her party will contest the assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry on its own, saying the BSP has had a bitter experience of aligning with other parties in the past.
She also stated that her party will go alone in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year.
“We are working internally on the elections. We do not reveal our strategy. The BSP will contest on all the 403 assembly seats in UP, and will perform well. The performance of the party will be good in the panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh,” she told reporters at an event to pay tributes to BSP founder Kanshi Ram on his 87th birth anniversary.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said her party has had a bitter experience of aligning with other parties in the past.
Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
Tamil Nadu CM Palaniswami files nomination from Edapadi constituency
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK top leader K Palaniswami on Monday filed nomination from his native Edappadi in this district for the 6 April assembly elections, seeking a hat-trick of wins, reports PTI.
Palaniswami, declared the chief ministerial candidate of the AIADMK-led alliance, had won from Edappadi four times (1989, 1991, 2011 and 2016) and the region in Western Tamil Nadu is among the strongholds of the ruling party.
The chief minister got down from his car about 100 metres away from the local Taluk office, walked alone and submitted his nomination papers to the returning officer, strictly adhering to the Election Commission’s directives as part of measures to avoid crowding in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Later, addressing reporters, the 67-year-old Palaniswami listed out the various welfare initiatives implemented in his constituency, including in transport, energy, education and health sectors, for the benefit of the people.
Assam Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
‘Sixty months of Sonowal led BJP govt more impactful than Congress’ 60 yrs’: Nadda
“Sixty months of Sarbananda Sonowal-led BJP government were more impactful than Congress’ 60 years. Construction of Bhogibheel bridge kept getting delayed but under Modi and Sonowal’s leadership, the bridge was built,” ANI quotes BJP president JP Nadda as saying at a rally in Assam’s Sonitpur.
West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
Centre has allocated Rs 33,000 cr to Bengal under Sagarmala project, says Gadkari
Gadkari said that the people of West Bengal have given chances to Congress, CPM and TMC to govern the state but all of them failed. “Now, people of the state have decided to usher in change and bring BJP to power. I am sure that BJP will form the next government in West Bengal,” he said. The state will develop under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as with BJP in power here, the government at the state and the Centre will be the same, Gadkari said.
The minister said that the Centre has also allocated Rs 33,000 crore to the state as a part of the Sagarmala project, meant for modernisation of the ports, improving connectivity and creating port-led industrial development.
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TMC govt did not cooperate on Tajpur port, alleges Gadkari
Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday claimed that the West Bengal government did not cooperate with the Centre over the proposed port at Tajpur, besides driving away an automobile company from the state. Addressing an election rally at Egra in the Purba Medinipur district, the senior BJP leader said the parties that ruled the state failed to meet the aspirations of the people, and to eradicate poverty and unemployment. “As the transport minister, I had taken the initiative to bring a big automobile firm to Nandigram but the Trinamool Congress government drove the company away,” Gadkari said. He said that during his as tenure as the shipping minister, he had taken the initiative to build the port at Tajpur in the district. “Had the port been functional now, thousands of youths
would have got employment. But we did not receive any cooperation from the West Bengal government,” Gadkari alleged.
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TMC MLA Debasree Roy quits party
Noted actor and two-time TMC MLA Debashree Roy on Monday quit the party after being denied a ticket for the upcoming Assembly elections. The Raidighi legislator, in a letter to TMC state chief Subrata Bakshi, said she will no longer be associated with the party. “Although, I don’t hold any post in the party, but I felt it is necessary to write this letter as I wanted to inform the leadership that I don’t want to be associated with the TMC anymore,” she said. When asked about her future plans, Roy said she will concentrate on acting but is open to joining any other party if there is a “concrete proposal”.
Roy was scheduled to join the BJP in 2019 but her plans got scuttled after TMC turncoat and former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee and his friend Baisakhi Bandopadhyay opposed her induction into the saffron camp. Incidentally, Chatterjee resigned from the BJP on Sunday after he was denied a poll ticket.
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Assam Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
For 60 yrs, Congress only indulged in corruption, alleges Nadda
“For 60 years, Congress leaders only indulged in corruption and so for the last five years, we had to fill up pot-holes, repair roads and convert double lane highways to four and six-lanes”, the BJP president said. It is the BJP which has a mission and the “Congress is only interested in commission”, the BJP chief alleged.
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Nadda attacks Congress, says party can only provide ‘corruption guarantee’
At a rally in Assam’s Dhaukuakhana, BJP national president JP Nadda credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi with joining Assam and the Northeast with “mainstream India”. He also attacked the Congress, saying the party believes in ‘latkana’ (hanging), ‘atkana’ (stalling) ‘bhatkana’ (mislead) and added that Modi believes in ‘jodna’ (joining). “Congress can provide only ‘corruption guarantee’ wherever they come to power; it only has ‘mission for commission,” PTI quotes Nadda as saying.
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Assam Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
Nadda attacks Congress, says party can only provide ‘corruption guarantee’
At a rally in Assam’s Dhaukhana BJP national president JP Nadda credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi with joining Assam and the Northeast with “mainstream India”. He also attacked the Congress, saying the party believes in ‘latkana’ (hanging), ‘atkana’ (stalling) ‘bhatkana’ (mislead) and added that Modi believes in ‘jodna’ (joining). “Congress can provide only ‘corruption guarantee’ wherever they come to power,” PTI quotes Nadda as saying.
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BJP will not get Bengal, says Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday said no conspiracy can stop her from campaigning ahead of the Assembly polls in
the state and will continue to fight against the BJP. Addressing her first rally in a district after being injured at the hustings in Nandigram, Banerjee said as long as she has her voice and her heart functions, she will continue to fight. “Wait for a few days, my legs will be better. I will see whether your legs move freely on Bengal’s soil,” Banerjee said without naming anyone.
She also said the BJP has come from Delhi with many of its leaders to win the Assembly elections. “But I say you will not get Bengal,” she said, claiming that her government has done a lot of development and welfare works in the state in its 10-year rule. “No other government in the world has been able to do as much work as ours. Their (BJP) prime minister cannot run the country, totally incompetent,” she said.
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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
TTV Dhinakaran files nomination for Kovilpatti seat
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‘Congress following in Jinnah’s footsteps’: Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Naharkatia
Instead of following Mahatma Gandhi, the Congress was following in “Jinnah’s footsteps”, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Monday, asserting that it would “destroy” the country. Addressing a rally in Naharkatia in poll-bound Assam’s Dibrugarh district, the senior BJP leader said that the Congress has failed to carry out any developmental work in the Northeastern states since Independence.
“Congress is not following in Mahatma Gandhi’s footsteps. Congress and Rahul Gandhi are following in Jinnah’s footsteps. And Jinnah’s steps will destroy Assam and India,” Chouhan said, referring to the Opposition party’s alliance with AIUDF in Assam, ISF in West Bengal and IUML in Kerala. “Congress has allied with Badruddin Ajmal, who has filled Assam with infiltration… He has a perfume business, but is spreading poison in the society… If ‘naagraj’ and ‘saapraj’ ally, then Assam cannot be developed,” Chouhan alleged.
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Kamal Haasan files nomination for Coimabatore South
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Watch: Mamata Banerjee at Purulia rally
West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 LATEST Updates
TMC calls Mamata’s injury ‘conspiracy’, EC says it was an accident: Amit Shah
“Mamata Ji has a leg injury, it’s not known how she got it. TMC calls it a conspiracy, but EC says it was an accident,” says Amit Shah at Bankura rally. “But what about the pain of families of BJP workers killed in TMC’s rule,” PTI quotes Shah as saying.
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Amit Shah attacks TMC
“The people of Bengal removed the Communists and brought in the TMC government. People voted for ‘Ma Mati Manush’ sarkar, they thought our troubles will get over, political violence will come to an end, expected political violence to end, but the opposite happened. Violence and corruption increased, they started calling the communists good and even poor tribals have to pay Rs 100 for getting certificate,” Shah alleges. Bring in the BJP government and adivasi people won’t have to pay Rs 100 for their certificate.", he says. He alleges that the relief money sent for Amphan relief was taken by ‘TMC goons’.
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Late because of helicopter glicth, but won’t call it a conspiracy, says Amit Shah
“I am a little late today because of some glitch in my helicopter but I won’t call it a conspiracy,” says Union Home Minister Amit Shah in a jibe at West Bnegal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, at a rally in Ranibandh. Your votes will decide which party forms government in the state for the next five years, he said. “You have two options: On the one hand there is Mamata didi who has ruled the state for 10 years and asked for “cut-money” even in providing tribals theirs rights. On the other hand, is the BJP under the leadership of Modi, he says.
Mamata Banerjee promises doorstep delivery of ration
“The TMC government will remain, you will continue to get free ration. We will deliver ration at your doorstep. You don’t have to come to shop after May, ANI quotes Banerjee as saying at the Purulia rally, According to News18, the TMC chief also said the state govt is trying to provide education in English to tribal students, apart from their mother tongue. “The amount of welfare schemes we are running in Bengal, I doubt any government in the world can match to us,” News18 quotes her as saying.
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Mamata Banerjee addresses rally in Purulia
The pain of the people is greater than my pain, says West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at a rally in Purulia. “We are engaged in development and the BJP is increasing prices of fuel and gas. They are selling off everything,” NDTV quotes her as saying.
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BSP to contest polls in three states, Puducherry on its own: Mayawati
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Monday asserted that her party will contest the assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry on its own, saying the BSP has had a bitter experience of aligning with other parties in the past. She also stated that her party will go alone in the UP Assembly elections next year.
“The experience of our party forging an alliance with others has not been good. Our party leaders, workers and voters are highly disciplined. This is not the case with other parties of the country. In an alliance, our votes are transferred to the other party, but the votes of the other party are not transferred to us,” she said. “This has been a very bad and bitter experience. In future also, we will not forge any alliance with any party,” she added.
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