Shah In Chandigarh

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BJP president Amit Shah arrived here today on a day-long visit, during which he will meet SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal and two sports legends as part of his party’s “contact for support” campaign ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Shah will visit the residence of former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal here, a Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader said. Few senior SAD leaders, including Sukhbir Singh Badal and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, will be present during the meet, the leader said. Shah will visit the BJP office here and later in the day, he will meet 94-year-old hockey legend Balbir Singh Sr and legendary athlete Milkha Singh (85). He will meet them separately at their residences, a BJP spokesman said.

 

The BJP president will also visit a Gurdwara in Sector 44, he said. On his arrival at the airport, Shah was welcomed by the BJP leaders and workers. Chandigarh BJP chief Sanjay Tandon and party senior leader Swaran Salaria were among those at the airport who received Shah, whose arrival was slightly delayed.

The BJP has launched the ‘sampark for samarthan’ (contact for support) exercise to mark the fourth anniversary of the Modi government as it prepares for the 2019 polls. Around 4,000 BJP functionaries, including chief ministers and Union ministers, will contact one lakh people, who are recognised names in their fields, to inform them about the government’s achievements.

In August last year, Shah was on a three-day visit to Haryana. He had held a series of meetings and reviewed works undertaken by the Manohar Lal Khattar government. The BJP chief had also visited Chandigarh in May last year.

Even After Meeting With Shah, Shiv Sena – Ekla Chalo Re

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A day after BJP national president Amit Shah met Shiv Sena pramukh Uddhav Thackeray as a part of his ongoing ‘Sampark for Samarthan’ campaign, the junior of the ruling coalition reiterated that it will contest the next year’s general elections alone. On Wednesday evening, when Amit Shah walked into Uddhav Thackeray’s residence Matoshree in Mumbai, he knew he had a tough task at hand. BJP’s ties with Shiv Sena, its oldest ally, have grown frosty in the recent past. The relations between the two alliance partners have come to such a pass that the two parties even contested the recently held bypolls in Maharashtra against each other, and almost lost both seats. Shiv Sena has also announced that it will no longer fight the Lok Sabha elections together in 2019 or beyond.

Amit Shah met Thackeray in Mumbai in an over-hour long closed-door meeting. Shah was present at Matoshree for over two and a half hours along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Sena leaders. Shah and Thackeray then had a one-to-one meeting for around 90 minutes, reports said. However, Shah’s outreach does not appear to have mended any broken fences.

A day after the meeting between the two leaders, the Shiv Sena has made it clear that there is no shift in its stance and that it will stick to its resolution to contest elections on its own. “We know what the agenda of Amit Shah ji is but Shiv Sena has passed a resolution that we will contest all upcoming elections on our own. There will be no change in that resolution,” Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut said today.

Notably, a day ahead of the scheduled meeting between Shah and Thackeray, Raut told FinancialExpress.com that the BJP leadership’s outreach was “too little too late”. Raut had said on Tuesday that the Sena has taken a decision that contest all elections alone and attributed BJP’s move to seek an appointment with Udahav Thackeray as a fall out of the party’s loss in bypolls. “For ‘sampark’ we had to wait for four years… and to start this ‘sampark abhiyan’, BJP had to lose several bypolls,” he said, asserting that there was no change in the Shiv Sena’s stand that it will fight the 2019 Lok Sabha elections alone.

The BJP and Shiv Sena are at loggerheads for last few years. Their relationship deteriorated further last month during the bypolls. The two parties contested elections separately. In Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll, the Shiv Sena lost to the BJP, prompting its angry chief to announce that the party will contest next year’s Lok Sabha elections solo. The party was so angry that it even called the BJP its ‘biggest political enemy’.

Currently, Shiv Sena is a part of BJP government both at the Centre and in Maharashtra. While in Modi Cabinet, the party has only one representation, there are 12 ministers in the Devendra Fadnavis government.

यू पी के बाद हरियाणा में भी साइकिल पर तंवर(कांग्रेस): विज

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अम्बाला, 7 जून:

कांग्रेस पार्टी के हरियाणा प्रदेश के मुखिया अशोक तंवर ने अपने दूसरे चरण की साईकल यात्रा के समापन के बाद हरियाणा सरकार को साईकल चलाकर फिटनेस का मंत्र देने की कोशिश की है। तंवर के इस प्रस्ताव पर हरियाणा के स्वास्थ्य एवं खेल मंत्री अनिल विज ने प्रतिक्रिया देते हुए कहा कि अच्छी बात है अशोक तंवर साईकल चला रहे हैं और परमात्मा करे तंवर सारी जिंदगी यूं ही साईकल चलाते रहें। तंवर साईकल पर अच्छे लग रहे हैं। विज ने कहा कि हम अपनी फिटनेस का पूरा ख्याल रखते हैं। तंवर के साथ हमने कोई कॉम्पिटिशन नहीं करना है। तंवर साईकल पर अच्छे लग रहे हैं और परमात्मा करे वो यूं ही साईकल चलाते रहें।

 

Portrait of Nirankari head’s ‘assassin’ put up at Sikh museum in Golden Temple complex

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The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Tuesday put portraits of Gyan Singh, an alleged assassin of the Nirankari sect head Gurbachan Singh in 1980, at the Central Sikh Museum in the Golden Temple complex.

Also were put on display the portraits of former acting Akal Takht jathedar Gurdev Singh Kaunke, who was allegedly made to disappear by the Punjab Police, and journalist-activist Harnam Singh Dardi, the founder of ‘Chardi Kala’ newspaper.

Akal Takht jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh along with SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal unveiled the portraits in presence of Golden Temple head granthi Giani Jagtar Singh during a religious ceremony that also attended by families of the three. The family members were also honoured with ‘siropas’ (robes of honour) after kirtan and ardas were performed.

The caption of the Gyan Singh portrait reads, “Bhai Gyan Singh was born in 1949 at Boparai Guru Ki Ber village in Amritsar district. He was a close companion of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. He was president of Baba Deep Singh Ranjit Gatka Akhara Delhi.”

Thirteen Sikh protesters were killed during the Sikh-Nirankari clash on the Baisakhi day in 1978 in Amritsar when the former protested a congregation being organised by the then Nirankari head Gurbachan Singh.

The decision to install Kaunke’s portrait was taken during tenure of the then SGPC president Kirpal Singh Badungar on the demand SGPC member Gurcharan Singh Grewal.

Kaunke was appointed as acting jathedar of the Akal Takht with the support of pro-Khalistan groups during a ‘Sarbat Khalsa’ (Sikh congregation) held in January 1986, when militancy was at its peak in Punjab. He was arrested a number of times for his alleged support to militant groups.

Addressing the gathering, the Akal Takht jathedar termed Gyan Singh and Kaunke as “martyrs” of the Sikh community. “The SGPC has been recognising the martyrs of the community and it is praiseworthy to install their portrait in the museum.”

“These three personalities made a big contribution for Sikhs and the community will always remember them,” Longowal said.

Punjab & Haryana HC dismisses plea for default bail of 16-year-old accused

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Chandigarh

6 June, 2018:

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday dismissed the plea for default bail of the 16-year-old accused in the murder of a class II student of a prominent Gurgaon school. Justice Daya Chaudhary passed the order Wednesday morning. The accused had through his father had in March filed the plea for default bail after the same had been dismissed by Additional Sessions Judge, Gurugram.

Earlier in May, the Gurgaon court had directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file supplementary chargesheet by July 4 in connection with the murder case last year. The CBI was granted more time by Additional Sessions Judge Jasbir Singh Kundu after it took note of a fresh plea by the agency stating that the probe was underway and it needed one-and-a-half months to complete it.

On May 21, a special children’s court upheld the Juvenile Justice Board’s order and said that the 16-year-old accused will be treated as an adult during trial. The court had also dismissed an appeal filed to challenge it. “Today, the court has said that the juvenile accused will be treated as an adult during trial. Whatever legal proceedings will be initiated against him in future will consider him an adult,” Sushil Tekriwal, counsel for the seven-year-old victim’s father, had said.

In February, the CBI had filed a partial chargesheet in which the Class XI student of the same institution was named as the main accused, claiming that he had confessed to murdering the seven-year-old child on September 8 last year, in a bid to cancel the examinations and a parent-teacher meeting.

The victim’s body was found in the washroom of the school with his throat slit. School bus conductor, who was arrested by the Gurgaon Police, was given a clean chit by the probe agency saying there was no evidence to prove his involvement in the crime. The CBI took up the case from the Gurgaon police on September 22, following a nationwide uproar over the gruesome killing.

Operation Blue Star anniversary: AISSF raises pro- Khalistan slogans

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Brandishing of swords and open use of sticks was witnessed on Wednesday during a ceremony to mark the 34th anniversary of the Army’s ‘Operation Blue Star’ inside the Golden Temple complex.

The clash between radical Sikh elements and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) took place right in front of the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikh religion.

The incident took place just about 100 feet from the sanctum sanctorum ‘Harmandir Sahib’, the holiest of Sikh shrines located inside the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar.

At least one person was injured as the SGPC task force members tried to prevent the radical elements from disturbing the ceremony.

The radical elements raised pro-Khalistan (a separate Sikh homeland) and anti-India slogans.

Police personnel, present inside the shrine complex in plainclothes, tried to control the situation from getting out of hand.

“A turban was thrown on the ground in the clash,” one eyewitness toldnews men.

The SGPC officials said the situation was prevented from getting out of control due to swift action by the task force members.

Akal Takht jathedar (chief) Gurbachan Singh said the ceremony was held “peacefully” as a remembrance of the sacrifice of hundreds of people who were killed during the Army’s ‘Operation Blue Star’ in June 1984.

The Army carried out the operation to flush out heavily armed militants and radicals from inside the shrine complex between June 1-10, 1984.

Aam Aadmi Party and Congress are likely to shake hands

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New Delhi: In a major political move, Aam Aadmi Party and Congress are likely to shake hands in three states namely Delhi, Haryana and Punjab and are likely to form an alliance. 

As per top Congress sources, an offer has been extended to AAP to take 9 out of 30 seats in an alliance with Congress.

This comes 2 days after former AAP leader Kapil Mishra claimed that Kejriwal met Rahul Gandhi and hinted that he is attempting to form an alliance with Congress.

BJP on the other hand is slamming Kejriwal over the same saying “he came to power by counting the number of scams Congress has been indulged in, now if he forms an alliance with BJP, it will be betrayal”.

Congress is so far denying the claims on the record and refused to forming an alliance with Aam Aadmi Party. Now, all eyes will be on an official announcement from either of the parties.

Prostitutes better than govt officials, says BJP MLA Surendra Singh

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A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Surendra Singh has once again stoked a controversy by comparing government officials with prostitutes. Addressing a chetavni diwas (warning day)’ meeting in Ballia district on Tuesday, Singh said, “Prostitutes are better than officials. They take money and dance all night. But these officers despite taking money from the public don’t do work.”

He further urged his supporters to beat government officials if they demand a bribe. “If he does not agree to do his work, teach him a lesson by punching him and if he still does not agree, thrash him with shoes,” he said.

However, this is not the first time the BJP MLA has courted controversy with his remarks. Singh had earlier called West Bengal Chief Minister Surpanakha’ and compared opposition Congress to ‘Ravana’. “Mamata Banerjee is playing the role of Surpanakha. People are being killed and even though she is the chief minister, she is doing nothing,” Surendra Singh said. In the past too, Surender Singh had invited controversy by defending Unnao rape accused BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and also when he claimed that India will become a Hindu Rashtra by 2022.

After the recent Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpur assembly bypolls, he had blamed the ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government for the party’s humiliating defeat at both places. He said if certain ministers were not removed from the state cabinet, the ruling party’s downfall in UP was certain. Singh had said if the grievances of the poor people are not heard at police stations, tehsil offices and block offices, they will not vote for the BJP.

Ramdev’s Patanjali To Shift Food Park From UP, Blames Yogi Adityanath

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has spoken to yoga guru Baba Ramdev after Patanjali Ayurved Ltd announced that it is shifting the proposed Patanjali Food and Herbal Park from Greater Noida citing non-cooperation and a “disappointing attitude” of the BJP-ruled government in Uttar Pradesh. According to reports, the Chief Minister has assured Ramdev that he will personally look into the matter and promised that decisions will be taken at quick pace.

The Haridwar-based Patanjali Ayurved had on Tuesday announced to pull out its proposed Rs 6,000-crore mega food processing project in Greater Noida and blamed the state government for taking this decision. “The mega food park was coming up to make lives of farmers better. We had also asked for permission from the central government. There are paper work for which we requested state government. But due to their disappointing attitude, it couldn’t be done,” Acharya Balkrishna, MD, Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, told news agency ANI.

However, the government said that the project has not been cancelled yet and that Patanjali is yet to comply with the conditions required to get final approval. Food Processing Secretary JP Meena said that the company was earlier given four months to comply with certain rules required for setting up the plant and has been granted a month’s extension to meet the conditions.

“Patanjali was given four months time to meet the conditions required to get the final approval. There are four to five conditions, including land and bank loans, which any party that wants to set up mega food park has to fulfil,” the official told PTI on Tuesday. “We have given one month extension to Patanjali… they have to meet the condition. In case Patanjali does not meet the condition, we have no choice but to cancel. We have done it earlier in many projects.”

In a tweet on Tuesday evening, Patanjali MD Acharya Balkrishna said that the indifferent attitude of the state to be blamed for this decision. “Came to know about quashing of Mega Food Park, approved by the Centre, in Greater Noida. The pledge to bring prosperity to the lives of farmers in the land of Sri Ram and Krishna remained incomplete because of the indifference of the state government.”

The mega food processing project was slated to come along the Yamuna Expressway that runs between Noida and Agra. Former UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav had in 2016 laid the foundation of food park. It was to be constructed in 455 acres. According to Patanjali, one the food park when become soperational, can produce goods worth Rs 25,000 crore annually and create over 10,000 direct jobs.

3 resigned from Mamta’s Govt

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Three ministers resigned from the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal on Tuesday. Two of them paid the price for a sharp rise in the BJP’s vote bank in tribal areas of the state during the recent panchayat polls, senior leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress said.

The Bengal chief minister on Tuesday evening announced that tribal development minister James Kujur and state backward class development minister Chudamani Mahato had been relieved of their ministerial responsibilities. Abani Mohan Joardar, a minister who did not have any portfolio for a long time because of his critical illness, also resigned on Tuesday.

Banerjee, however, said the ministers had resigned on their own because they wanted to devote more time to organizational work. “They (the two ministers) expressed their desire to concentrate more on the party organization. They wrote to me, expressing their wish to resign. I have accepted their resignations,” the chief minister told the media.

A senior member of the state cabinet, who did not wish to be named, said while Joardar’s resignation was accepted in view of his ill health, Mahato and Kujur were forced to resign over their poor performance.

Senior Trinamool leaders said Banerjee was agitated with Kujur and Mahato ever since it became clear that her party has lost the confidence of tribals in Bankura, Purulia, West Midnapore and Jhargram districts, where Maoist rebels once reigned.

Once staunch supporters of the CPI(M) and other Left parties, the tribals shifted their allegiance to the Trinamool after Trinamool’s landslide victory in the 2011 assembly polls. And much of the credit for this went to the development work the government carried out in the backward regions.

In the tribal region, which is commonly referred to as Jangalmahal because of the thick forest cover and rough terrain, BJP emerged as a strong contender and wrested many seats in the three-tier local polls.

“Last week, Trinamool secretary general Partha Chatterjee went to Jhargram and held a meeting with local leaders. He heard several complaints against Mahato. He reported the matter to the chief minister. After scrutinizing the performance of the departments Mahato and Kujur were trusted with, the chief minister decided to remove them,” a cabinet minister said on condition of anonymity.

At the meeting in Jhargram, Chatterjee cautioned the district leadership and talked of strong disciplinary action against over infighting or for neglecting the organisation.