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Please stop fooling people in the name of Ram: Shiv Sena to BJP

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October 22, 2018

Pune, Oct 22: Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray has dared the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to come clean and confess before the public that building the Ram temple at Ayodhya is not possible for them.

“Since 1989, the party has been giving slogans for erecting a Ram temple at Ayodhya. Sena supremo Bal Thackeray had helped the BJP by evoking enthusiasm for the temple in Maharashtra. Yet, after all these years, why is the project still in limbo?” Mr. Thackeray said at a rally of Shiv Sainiks in the temple town of Shirdi in Ahmednagar district.

The rally marks Mr. Thackeray’s start of campaigning for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. “Why keep deceiving people on the Ram temple issue? Like all false promises of the Modi government, it ought to acknowledge that the one on Ram temple construction, too, is false.”

The Sena chief, whose visit comes on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Shirdi tour last week, said the PM only sought the blessings of Sai Baba to stay in power for the next five years. “I have no craving for position. I have prayed for the welfare of the public. Before my visit, someone else [Mr. Modi] had come to seek Sai Baba’s blessings, but what has he done with that? There has been no improvement in the situation of the common man and the poor in this country,” he said.

Mr. Modi had offered worship at Sai Baba temple during the closing ceremony of the Sai Baba Samadhi centenary celebrations. He had also handed over keys to houses to nearly 40,000 beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Gramin (PMAY- G).

Mocking Mr. Modi’s conversations with PMAY beneficiaries, Mr. Thackeray said the PM’s attempt to win hearts and minds by interacting with villagers in the vernacular language is a sham as people in the State have not benefited by the schemes of the BJP government.

“In many cases, beneficiaries are being tutored by the BJP government. But has the situation improved from what it was during earlier governments? The State has also been hoodwinking people with its farm loan waiver scheme,” he said.

The Sena president defended the party’s actions in criticising the BJP despite being part of the ruling coalition in the State and at the Centre.

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March 8,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 8: Five more people from

Kerala have tested positive for coronavirus, Health minister, K K Shailaja said on Sunday.

All the five hail from Pathnamthitta district.

While three of them had returned from Italy on February 29, two others were their relatives, the minister said.

All the five have been isolated in Pathnamathitta general hospital and are under observation.

Their tests were confirmed on Saturday night.

Earlier, India's first three positive cases had been reported from the state.

All the three patients, medical students from Wuhan, have been treated and discharged from hospitals.

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February 8,2020

New Delhi, Feb 8: A 26-year-old woman sub-inspector (SI) of the Delhi Police was shot dead near Rohini East Metro station on Friday night, officials said.

The SI, Preeti Ahlawat, was posted in Patparganj Industrial Area Police Station, police said.

A call about the incident was received around 9.30 pm, they said, adding she received gunshot wounds on her head.

"We have identified the suspects and CCTV footage of the area has been collected," said SD Mishra, Additional Commissioner of Police (Rohini).

Three empty cartridges were found from the spot, the officer said, adding a case has been registered and a probe is on.

Personal enmity is suspected to be the reason behind the killing, the officer said.

Ahlawat joined the Delhi Police in 2018.

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May 30,2020

New Delhi, May 30: The Congress on Friday described the first year of the Modi government as a "year of disappointment, disastrous management and diabolical pain".

Congress leader K C Venugopal said the six years of the Modi dispensation have seen fraying of bonds of empathy, fraternity and brotherhood with increase in acts of communal and sectarian violence.

Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that at the end of six years, it appears the Modi government is at war with its people and is inflicting wounds on them, instead of healing them.

"It is inflicting wounds on Mother India," he said.

"This government is trying to fill coffers of the select rich and is inflicting pain on the poor," Surjewala said.

On the BJP's charge of the Congress playing politics over the COVID-19 crisis, Venugopal said the opposition party did not indulge in any politics and gave suggestions instead.

"Being a responsible opposition, it is our duty to raise the problems faced by the common people. As opposition, we highlighted the failures of the government," he said.

Venugopal said the government "is totally insensitive" to the plight of migrant labourers and farmers.

Surjewala also demanded that a virtual session of Parliament be convened immediately to discuss pressing issues and the due process be set in motion for holding of meetings of various parliamentary committees.

Modi and his cabinet had taken oath on this day last year for a second term in office.

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