Modi needles Modi in BJP

June 20, 2012

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Patna, June 20: Shortly after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asked his alliance partner, the BJP, to name a prime-ministerial candidate with secular credentials before the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, senior BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi toed Nitish’s line and virtually rejected Narendra Modi’s name as the alliance candidate for the “top post”.

Nitish, who has assiduously cultivated his “secular and development-oriented” image over the years, was quite categorical in his interview to a national daily when he said:

“The leader of the coalition should have secular credentials and liberal frame of mind. He should be someone who has absolute faith in democratic values in a multi-religious and multi-lingual country like ours.”

Such is Nitish’s antipathy for Narendra Modi that he ensured Bihar remained out of bounds for the Gujarat leader during 2010 Assembly elections.

Sushil Modi on Tuesday said that it would be better if the BJP-led alliance names its “widely acceptable” prime-ministerial candidate, someone like Vajpayee, much ahead of 2014 polls so that the people of the country could get time to judge and decide.

But the comments from both the top leaders of Bihar drew sharp criticism from the saffron party. “Who will give the certificate of secularism? The stature of Narendra Modi is so tall that he does not need any certificate from anyone,” Animal Husbandry Minister (of the BJP) Giriraj Singh minced no words in slamming the JD (U) strongman without naming him.

“The timing of raking up this issue is horribly wrong. At a time when the NDA is mulling over names of presidential candidate, bringing up the issue of prime-ministerial candidate for 2014 polls makes no sense,” remarked senior BJP MLA from Nokha, Ram Naresh Chaurasia. “Instead,” he opined, “the focus of the person (ruling Bihar) should be on fast development of the state, rather than frequent display of his antipathy towards his Gujarat counterpart.”

Meanwhile, JD (U) president Sharad Yadav is reported to have counselled Nitish to focus on Bihar’s governance. “As and when the time comes, we will decide on the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate,” he is believed to have said. Sharad’s attempt to douse the flames comes after Nitish said he would walk out of the BJP-led alliance if the Gujarat chief minister were to be projected as the prime minister. “I have cordial relations with Bihar BJP. But if external forces are bent on spoiling this relationship, I cannot help,” Nitish reportedly said.

But his bete noire Lalu Prasad on Tuesday took a dig at Nitish and said, “He should first clarify whether there is anyone in the BJP with secular image. Kaheen pe nigahein, kaheen pe nishana. (Eyeing something, targeting someone else?) Is he trying to build a consensus on his name within the NDA?”, he wondered.


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June 6,2020

New Delhi, Jun 6: Military commanders of India and China are scheduled to meet today at Moldo on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), to discuss the ongoing dispute along the LAC in Eastern Ladakh.

The Commander of the Leh-based 14 Corps of the Indian Army Commander Lieutenant Gen Harinder Singh will meet his Chinese equivalent Maj Gen Liu Lin, who is the commander of South Xinjiang Military Region of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) to address the ongoing tussle in Eastern Ladakh between the two countries over the heavy military build-up by the People's Liberation Army along the LAC there.

The two sides have held close to a dozen rounds of talks since the first week of May when the Chinese sent over 5,000 troops to the LAC.

On Friday, officials of India and China interacted through video-conferencing with the two sides agreeing that they should handle "their differences through peaceful discussion" while respecting each other's sensitivities and concerns and not allowing them to become disputes in accordance with the guidance provided by the leadership.

In the last few days, there has not been any major movement of the People's Liberation Army troops at the multiple sites where it has stationed itself along the LAC opposite Indian forces.

India and China have been locked in a dispute over the heavy military build-up by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) where they have brought in more than 5,000 troops along with the Eastern Ladakh sector.

The Chinese Army's intent to carry out deeper incursions was checked by the Indian security forces by quick deployment. The Chinese have also brought in heavy vehicles with artillery guns and infantry combat vehicles in their rear positions close to the Indian territory.

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February 18,2020

New Delhi, Feb 18: A Delhi court today sent Sharjeel Imam, who has been named as an "instigator" by the Delhi Police in its chargesheet on violent protests against the amended citizenship act at New Friends Colony near Jamia in Delhi last year, to judicial custody till March 3.

Sharjeel Imam was arrested on sedition charges last month.

The Delhi Police has filed a chargesheet before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gurmohina Kaur, naming Sharjeel Imam as an instigator of the violence.

It said it has attached CCTV footage, call detail records and statements of over 100 witnesses as evidence in the chargesheet.

The court had on Monday sent Sharjeel Imam to one-day custody of Delhi Police in the case.

Protestors had torched four public buses and two police vehicles as they clashed with police in New Friends Colony near Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi during the demonstration against the CAA on December 15, leaving nearly 60 people including students, cops and fire fighters injured.

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January 9,2020

Noida, Jan 6: A fire broke out at the ESIC Hospital in Noida on Thursday morning and firefighting was underway, officials said.

The blaze broke out in the basement of the seven-storey hospital building located in Sector 24, a police official said.

Fire tenders were rushed to the spot after the Fire Department was alerted about it around 8 am, the official said.

After that, a search was done to see if anyone was trapped in the building, he said.

The cooling process is now underway.

He said the fire had engulfed the ground, first and second floors of the building, except the basement.

Police said they received information about fire at Kaveri printing press at 2:45 am, when the manager Yogesh called them. The press owners have been identified as Atul and Anuj Goyal, residents of Sukhdev Vihar, they said.

The man who died in the fire has been identified as Phool Dev, from Bihar, who used to work as a help there. Dev went inside the building in the night to sleep before the fire started and died due to suffocation, the fire department official said.

The body has been kept at Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital and the post-mortem will be done once the family reaches here, police said.

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