Parties signal early LS poll; SP releases list of 55 UP nominees

November 17, 2012

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New Delhi, November 17: A day after the Congress asked Rahul Gandhi to lead the election campaign, its UPA ally Samajwadi Party on Friday declared names of 55 candidates for Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, adding to wide-spread speculation that the polling may take place much before 2014.

Officially, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) allies are desisting from making a statement on early elections as it would go against the Central government, but some of them, including Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Yadav, have been asking their party leaders and cadres to be prepared to face early elections.

In October, Sharad Pawar, while addressing his state level party convention, asked his colleagues to be prepared for a mid-term elections in view of “unstable situation” at the Centre. He had said that there was always a chance of “political accidents”.

The release of the first list of 55 candidates so early by the SP, which is extending outside support to the UPA government, has fuelled speculations that the party's support may not last till the current Lok Sabha's term ends.

“Mulayam has been telling the party workers to be ready for early poll and the list certainly signals that he may actually be preparing himself for it,” quipped a senior SP leader in Lucknow soon after the list was released.

The CPM, too, on Friday said the general election may be advanced as the ruling party wants to "cut its losses" in major states where it is in power.

"Their (Congress) house in not in order. All the states where they have more MPs are in a state of crisis, like in Andhra Pradesh. They may want to go in for early poll to cut their losses," senior CPM leader Sitaram Yechury told reporters.

The BJP also said it is ready for early elections.

The Congress, however, dismissed all the speculations. Information and Broadcasting Minster Manish Tewari said speculations about mid-term polls had always been there ever since UPA II came to power. “The government has been elected for five years,” he said.

Agreeing with his colleague Tiwari, Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi, however, maintained that as a political party, it is always ready for elections.

An SP leader said that Mulayam now “earnestly” wants early elections. “He wants to make hay while the sun shines. Mulayam feels that if the elections are to be held in the next few months, his party will stand to gain.''

Mulayam, however, knows only too well that Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)?supremo Mayawati may not like early poll. “Mayawati will prefer to face the electorate in 2014 as she feels that by that time, Akhilesh Yadav's charm will have vanished'', said a BSP leader.

While Mulayam's withdrawal of support from the Centre may not cause any immediate problem for the UPA, it will certainly make it more vulnerable. It remains to be seen if Mulayam was merely resorting to “pressure tactic” by early release of the list of his nominees.


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April 21,2020

New Delhi, Apr 21: Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, who has been booked by the Delhi Police for holding a religious congregation here during the lockdown, on Monday urged the followers of the organisation to pray at home in the month of Ramzan.

"I request all, both in India and abroad, to strictly follow the guidelines and instructions of the local or national governments and till the time restrictions are in place and please observe prayers at home. And even in this, we should not invite people from outside," he said in a statement.

Ramzan begins later this week.

While addressing an online briefing on Sunday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal cited the Tablighi Jamaat congregation last month, a major hotspot, and the large inflow of travellers from other countries to Delhi as the reasons for the spread of the virus, and said the city was "fighting a difficult battle".

The Delhi Police crime branch, had on March 31, lodged an FIR against seven people, including the cleric, on a complaint by the Station House Officer of Nizamuddin police station for holding the congregation in alleged violation of the orders against large gatherings to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Later, the Indian Penal Code Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) was added to the FIR.

The cleric is wanted by the Delhi Police and he responded twice to them. He is currently under home quarantine.

In an audio message released earlier this month, Kandhalvi had said he was exercising self-quarantine after several hundreds who visited the congregation at Nizamudddin Markaz tested positive for coronavirus.

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May 30,2020

New Delhi, May 30: As the NDA government completes one year of its second term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi listed several achievements and initiatives taken by his government in the past year in an audio message addressed to the people of the country.

PM Modi said, "This day last year began a golden chapter in the history of Indian democracy. It was after several decades that the people of the country voted back a full-term government with a full majority."

"Your role has played a pivotal role in creating this chapter. In such a situation, this day is an opportunity for me to bow to the citizens of the country and the democratic ethos of our nation," said PM Modi.

"Had the situation been normal, I would have got the chance to meet you. Your affection and active support in the past year have given me new energy and inspiration. During this period, the way you have shown the collective powers of democracy, they have become an example for the whole world," he added.

PM Modi talked about several important initiatives taken by his government in 2014 as well as India's demonstration of its mettle through the surgical strike and airstrike.

"Six years ago in 2014, the people of this country voted to bring a major change in the country. You voted to change the country's policy and manner. During that tenure where surgical strike and airstrike took place, one rank one pension, one nation one tax GST, and better MSP for farmers were also fulfilled. That period was dedicated to fulfilling many needs of the country."

He further said that in these years the country has seen systems coming out of the quagmire of inertia and corruption. The country has seen governance change to make life easier for the poor.

"During that period, India's stature in the world increased. By opening bank accounts of poor people, by giving them gas connections, by providing free electricity connections, by building washrooms, by building houses, the dignity of the poor has also been increased," said PM Modi.

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February 12,2020

New Delhi, Feb 12: The Centre on Wednesday said the NRC data in Assam is safe even though some technical issues were visible and that will be resolved soon.

The Union Home Ministry clarification came in view of reports that data of the final list of the National Register of Citizens has been made offline from its official website.

"The NRC data is safe. Some technical issues are in visibility on cloud. These are being resolved soon," a home ministry spokesperson said.

The data was not available for a couple of days and it created panic in the public, mostly among the people excluded from the list as the rejection certificates were yet to be issued.

NRC State Coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma accepted that the data has been made offline, but refuted the allegation of any "malafide" intent in it.

The cloud service for the huge set of data was provided by IT firm Wipro and their contract was till October 19 last year. However, this was not renewed by the previous coordinator.

So, the data got offline from December 15 after it was suspended by Wipro, Sarma said.

He said the state coordination committee had decided to do necessary formalities in its meeting on January 30 and wrote to the Wipro during the first week of February.

"Once Wipro makes the data live, it will be available for public. We hope people will be able to access it in the next 2-3 days," Sarma said.

The complete detail of exclusion and inclusion of bonafide Indian citizens in the NRC was uploaded on its official website http://www.nrcassam.nic.in after the final list was published on August 31, 2019.

The final NRC was published by excluding 19,06,657 persons. A total of 3,11,21,004 names were included out of 3,30,27,661 applicants.

After the earlier NRC State Coordinator Prateek Hajela relinquished the charge on November 11 following his transfer to home state Madhya Pradesh on a direction from the Supreme Court, Sarma was appointed in his place on November 9.

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