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BJP may not get majority in Maharashtra, Haryana: survey

October 10, 2014

New Delhi, Oct 10: The BJP is predicted to emerge the single largest party in Maharashtra and Haryana but may fall short of majority in the final outcome, says an IndiaTV-CVoter opinion poll.bjp

In the 90-seat Haryana assembly, the BJP is projected to bag 34 seats, closely followed by Om Prakash Chautala's Indian National Lok Dal with 27 seats.

The Congress, ruling the state for the last 10 years, is projected to come third with 16 seats. The Haryana Janhit Congress-Haryana Jan Chetna Party alliance may win nine seats, with the remaining four seats going to other parties and independents, says the tracking poll.

In the 2009 assembly elections in Haryana, the Congress had won 40 seats, the INLD 31, BJP four, HJC and HJP six, and "others" nine seats.

Voteshare wise, the BJP this time may get 33 percent votes followed by the INLD (28 percent), Congress (21 percent), HJC-HJP (10) and others eight percent. In Maharashtra, the India TV-CVoter poll gives a 132-142 seat range to the BJP in the 288-seat assembly, followed by the Shiv Sena (50-60 seats).

The Nationalist Congress Party has been given a seat range of 31-41 seats, and the Congress 38-48 seats. Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has been given a seat range of 8-14 seats. Smaller parties and independents may win 3 to 9 seats, says the opinion poll.

In 2009, the Congress-NCP United Progressive Alliance won 144 seats, the BJP-Shiv Sena won 90 and others got 54 seats. The survey says that if the BJP gets a four percent swing on polling day (Oct 15), its seat range may increase within 176-186 seats.

Voteshare wise, the BJP is going to get 28 percent votes, followed by Shiv Sena (19.7), NCP (13.7), Congress (21.2) and MNS 7 percent. Others may get 10.4 percent votes.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray emerged the front runner with 16.3 percent respondents saying he was the best candidate for the chief minister's post with 15.5 percent favouring incumbent Prithviraj Chavan.

Another 15.3 percent favoured BJP leader Devendra Phadnavis. 8.2 percent respondents favoured MNS chief Raj Thackeray while 7.6 percent favoured NCP leader Ajit Pawar.

Bhupinder Singh Hooda emerged the frontrunner with 24.8 percent respondents favouring him as the best candidate for the chief minister's post. Another 22 percent favoured INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala.

A total of 8.9 percent respondents favoured BJP leader Abhimanyu while 5.1 percent favoured another BJP leader, Rao Inderjit Singh. The India TV-CVoter poll is based on a random probability sample of 8,707 samples for the current week (second week of October) projections.

Long term trends are calculated based upon the cumulative tracking poll data of 20,279 respondents interviewed during last 12 weeks. The margin of error is plus/minus 3 percent at state level.

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August 4,2020

Ayodhya,  Aug 4: Various religious ceremonies have been conducted for the past 108 days by saints in Ayodhya and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part in `muhurat puja' at 12.44 pm on Wednesday as part of 'bhoomi pujan' for construction of a grand Ram temple.

PM Modi will arrive at 12:30 pm at the Ramjanmbhoomi and take part in various prayers including the main "bhoomi pujan".

Govind Giriji Maharaj, treasurer of Shri Ramjanmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, said that the religious ceremonies will begin from 8:30 am in the morning and will continue till 12:30 pm.

"The Prime Minister will arrive at 12:30 pm and he will offer `puja' for 15 minutes and take 'sankalp'. First Lord Ganesh will be worshipped then he will offer prayers of eight shilas. Some prayers at shilas we have conducted already," Giri told said.

"The muhrat of pooja is at 12: 44 pm. He will say words 'prathisthapayami' and it is crucial to be done in that muhrat," he said.

Elaborating on the rituals to be performed tomorrow by the Prime Minister, the trust member said that most important is `Kurm Shila' .

"The most important is Kurm Shila - this is right beneath the place where Ram Lalla will be seated. It is this ceremony that we are conducting tomorrow. A cone of Bakul tree wood will be kept in ceremony. This isn't an ordinary cone, it is made of various metals including gold and silver. 

A lotus with nine gems too will be part of pujan which will be offered to this cone by the Prime Minister," he said.

"These are intrinsic to main bhumi pujan. The first religious ceremony was of Devi Kali. There are two devi kalis here, `choti' and `badi'. She is kuldevi, family's goddess of Sita. Today we held Ramarchan ceremony," said Giri.

The Vedic pundits who are involved in religious ceremonies have come from Delhi, Mathura and Kashi.

Asked about the absence of Nepal's religious head of Janaki Mandir, he said that there are many, including 20 religious heads, who would not able to come because they can't leave their seat in Chaturmas.

On the design of temple, Giri said, the old design will remain as it is except a rise in height.

"The structure has become popular and we will keep it. Keeping in mind the modernisation of architecture, we have raised height from 128 feet to 161 feet and instead of three peaks we will have five peaks," he said.

Kanchi Pithadhishvar Maharaj has sent silver coins as souvenirs for every sadhu participating in it, Giri said.

Invitations have been sent to 175 people, including 135 saints of 35 religious organisations to attend the foundation stone-laying ceremony of Ram temple.

The construction of Ram temple will begin in Ayodhya after the ceremony to lay the foundation stone.

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January 30,2020

Mumbai, Jan 30: Speaking at an event, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Abu Azmi's son and businessman, Farhan Azmi said that if CM Uddhav Thackeray will build lord Ram's Temple at Ayodhya then he will build Babri Masjid there. He said, "My problem is with Uddhav Thackeray.

I respect him a lot and if in Shiv Sena somebody really deserves respect, then it is no other than Uddhav Thackeray. He never runs a government and I don't think he is running his party correctly.

If being the Chief Minister, Uddhav Thackeray says he is going to Ayodhya on 7th March, I will also go with him. He will build lord Ram's Temple and we will build Babri Masjid."

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April 24,2020

New Delhi, Apr 24: The Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC) on Friday accused Delhi Police of framing two of its members - Meeran Haider, Safoora Zargar, along with student leader Umar Khalid, as part of "an imaginary conspiracy behind the recent North East Delhi riots".

While Haider was arrested on April 2, Zargar was taken in custody on April 10 for their alleged involvement in fuelling the riots.

"These arrests by the police have little ground, and the charges seem to have no rhyme or reason. Safoora was even granted bail in the case she was initially arrested in, following which she was arrested and had heavier charges placed against her," the JCC said in a statement.

Meeran, Safoora and Umar have been charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), which allows curbing of fundamental rights in order to protect the sovereignty of India. The JCC, however, claimed that in this case, the Act is being used to suppress their voices.

"This Act has been used against many activists working to protect constitutional morality, a list which now includes members of the JCC, a wholly constitutionalist collective of students and alumni," the JCC said, defending its members.

JCC maintained it had no role in Delhi riots, but apprehended that more people will be arrested by the Delhi Police as part of its conspiracy against students and protestors.

"It is almost certain that more protesters will be framed and arrested in the conspiracy invented by the Delhi Police. JCC reiterates that it played no part in the riots, and this fact will be proved before any court of law," it said in a statement.

It also demanded political parties, and university administration take a stand for the two accused JCC members and student leader Umar Khalid.

The JCC came into existence after a violent face-off between Delhi Police and unruly anti-CAA protestors left Jamia Millia Islamia vandalised. It was after this, that a group of students from the Jamia Millia formed it to decide upon the future course of actions in protest against the CAA and the police action.

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