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BJP all set to get 2nd consecutive term in Tripura

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Agartala: The BJP surged ahead of the Opposition CPI-M-Congress, winning 28 (of total 60 seats) and leading in four seats as the counting of votes in Tripura was underway on Thursday, almost ensuring itself a second consecutive term.
The counting of votes was underway at 21 locations across the state under tight security measures. The election was held on February 16.
According to the latest trends and announcements of results, the tribal-based Tipra Motha Party (TMP), which for the first time contested the Assembly election in 42 seats, won 12 seats and had secured a lead in one seat.
The CPI-M won six seats and was leading in five seats, while the Congress won two seats and was ahead in one seat.
The candidate of BJP ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) won the Jolaibari seat in southern Tripura.
All the top BJP leaders, including Chief Minister Manik Saha and Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma were re-elected from Town Bordowali and Charilam seats, respectively.
BJP candidate and Union Minister Pratima Bhowmik elected to the state assembly for the first time from Dhanpur seat while state ministers Rampada Jamatia (Bagma seat), Sushanta Chowdhury (Majlishpur), Ratan Lal Nath (Mohanpur), Ram Prasad Paul (Surjyamaninagar), state assembly speaker Ratan Chakraborty (Khayerpur), Surajit Datta (Ramnagar) were re-elected to the state assembly.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) candidates either won or were leading in 11 seats, including Pratapgarh, Khowai, Kadamtala-Kurt, Sabroom, Sonamura, Bamutia, Hrishamukh, Jubarajnagar, Belonia, Boxanaga and Barjala.

Among the important CPI-M candidates leading are state party Secretary Jitendra Chowdhury (Sabroom seat), Sudip Sarkar (Barjala), Dipankar Sen (Belonia), Shyamal Chakraborty (Sonamura).Congress, which contested the February 16 Assembly elections in seat sharing adjustments with the Left parties, won the Agartala and Kailashahar seats and leading in Banamalipur seat.
The Congress candidates leading in the counting of votes include Sudip Roy Barman in Agartala seat, Gopal Chandra Roy in Banamalipur seat and state Congress President Birajit Sinha in Kailashahar seat.
Among the important TMP candidates who won their seats include Chitta Ranjan Debbarma (Ambassa seat), Pathan Lal Jamatia (Ampinagar), Animesh Debbarma (Asharambari) and Paul Dangshu (Karamchara).
In the February 16 elections to the 60-seat Tripura Assembly, 89.95 per cent of the 28.14 lakh voters exercised their franchise and will decide the fate of 259 candidates, including 31 women.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 2, 2023
Former Jagtial municipal chairperson Boga Sravani joins BJP

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Hyderabad: Former Jagtial municipal chairperson Boga Sravani joined the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) along with her husband Praveen, five days after she resigned from BRS (Bharat Rashtra Samithi).
Union minister of Labour and Employment Bupender Yadav was present at the ceremony which took place in New Delhi.
Sravani was accompanied by Nizamabad MP Dharmapuri Aravind, BJP national vice president DK Aruna and national executive member G Vivek.
BJP MLA Eatala Rajender had recently met Sravani in Jagtial and invited her to join the party after she resigned from both, the post of municipal chairperson and BRS, alleging harassment by MLA Sanjay Kumar.
She alleged that the BRS MLA insulted her many times and the BRS high command turned a deaf ear to her complaint, Sravani said that she decided to join BJP.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 2, 2023
Hindenburg report: Cong chalking out social media strategy to corner BJP

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New Delhi: The Congress, which has launched a series of agitational programmes over the Hindenburg report on the Adani Group, is now planning a wider social media campaign to reach out to the public and corner the BJP government at the Centre on this issue.
Senior Congress leader K.C. Venugopal has enlisted a series of programmes for the block-level leaders and workers, who have been asked to share their agitational programmes with him via e-mail.
“Our uncompromising fight shall continue for the next three months and a detailed social media campaign to expose the government-Adani nexus will follow soon,” he said.
The Congress has planned a series of agitations in front of nationalised banks and LIC offices at the block level from March 6-10, before holding a ‘Chalo Raj Bhavan’ march in different states on March 13.
“District-level ‘Parda Fash’ rallies will be held in all the states will be end in the end of March, which will continue in April. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and other top leaders of the party will address these meetings,” Venugopal said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 1, 2023
BJP to go alone in Telangana polls: Bandi Sanjay

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Hyderabad: The BJP will go alone in the Telangana Assembly elections scheduled to be held towards the end of this year, party’s state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar said on Wednesday.
A day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president J.P. Nadda and other central leaders held a crucial meeting with the party’s state leaders in Delhi, Sanjay made it clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will have no alliance with any party in the state.
He reiterated that the BJP will come to power in Telangana as the people want a change and see the BJP as the only alternative to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
Sanjay was addressing the BJP Mahila Morcha meeting at the party’s state headquarters on Wednesday.
He claimed that Telangana state had become a reality with the support of the BJP. He said people were asking if Telangana state was carved out for the family of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR).
Sanjay, who is also a Member of Parliament, dared KCR to come forward for a debate on the development of Telangana under his rule.
The BJP leader alleged that people were surprised over the financial position of the state. He alleged that KCR has put a debt burden of Rs 6 lakh on every family.
“A situation has come wherein the government has no money to pay salaries to employees,” he said.

Sanjay also slammed the BRS government for its indifference to the growing number of murders and rapes in the state. People doubt whether the state has a home minister, he said.
The BJP leader called for checking consumption of liquor in the state, saying this is the main cause of murders and rapes.
Sanjay said that while BJP made tribal woman Droupadi Murmu President of India, BRS was responsible for the death of tribal woman Dr. Preethi.
He was referring to the suicide of post-graduate student Preethi of Kakatiya Medical College in Warangal due to alleged by her senior Dr. M.A. Saif.
“If the BJP comes to power in Telangana, bulldozers will be used on those who commit crime against women, as crimes are used in Uttar Pradesh,” he said.
Branding state minister K.T. Rama Rao as ‘Twitter Tillu’, Sanjay said the BRS leader was unable to digest the fact that a corporator had become president of the BJP’s state unit.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 1, 2023
Shah expresses displeasure over factionalism in Telangana BJP

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Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah in a meeting held with BJP’s Telangana leaders and the national leaders associated with the state’s Assembly election campaign expressed strong displeasure over the ongoing factionalism in the state unit.
Leaders, including party’s national organisation Secretary B.L. Santhosh, General Secretary Sunil Bansal, who monitors and coordinates the work of the party in Telangana, state in-charge and national General Secretary Tarun Chugh, state chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, D.K. Aruna, national President of BJP OBC Morcha K. Laxman among others were present in the meeting held at party J.P. Nadda’s residence here on Tuesday.
Telangana is the second state after Karnataka in South India where the saffron party is confident of winning, due to which the BJP high command has been busy preparing extensively for the Legislative Assembly elections to be held later this year.
Sources said that Shah instructed state chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar to refrain from mutual factionalism and disputes and work together with all leaders through better coordination.
He asked that the leaders of Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS), who had joined the BJP, be included in the decisions and programmes of the party.
On behalf of the BJP high command, all the leaders of Telangana have been clearly asked to work under the collective leadership in the state by ending factionalism.
In order to establish better coordination among the leaders in the state, Kumar has also been instructed to hold coordination meetings.
The BJP has been engaged in inducting leaders from other parties, especially strong leaders of the ruling BRS, into its fold.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 1, 2023
AAP is synonymous with ‘cut, commission and corruption’: BJP

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New Delhi: Targeting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) after the Supreme Court declined to entertain a plea filed by Manish Sisodia challenging his arrest by the CBI in connection with the 2021-22 Delhi liquor policy case, the BJP alleged on Tuesday that now the AAP has become synonymous with “cut, commission and corruption”.
The BJP will now raise the issue of corruption by AAP across the country and tell the people that AAP leaders have not got any relief in the matter from the Supreme Court.
Addressing the media at the party headquarters here, senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the Supreme Court did not give any relief to Anna Hazare’s ‘great disciple’ Manish Sisodia in connection with the liquor policy case, which he termed as a ‘text book’ case of corruption.
“These people had claimed to fight corruption before coming to power in Delhi. But after assuming charge of the government, these same people worngfully gave away liquor contracts, reduced the drinking age and made a profit of Rs 100 crore. These people made people drink liquor by promising to open schools,” Prasad said.
Prasad also said that Sisodia and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had claimed that they are the torch-bearers of transparency in the country, but now they have maligned the legacy of Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption movement.
Holding Kejriwal directly responsible for the liquor policy case, the BJP leader said: “Can any minister dare to work in the Delhi government without asking Kejriwal? Now even the Punjab government functions only on his directions.”
Launching a scathing attack against AAP, Prasad said that he used to think that ‘cut and commission’ is the legacy of only one party, but today it has to be said that ‘3Cs’, i.e., ‘cut, commission and corruption’ are also synonymous with Kejriwal’s party.
“Sisodia must disclose why he changed 16 phones, why did he destroy evidence,” Prasad said.

The BJP leader also accused Kejriwal of lying repeatedly, adding that Kejriwal’s ministers, who had levelled allegations against the CBI and the Central government, are currently lodged in jail.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 28, 2023
Exit Polls: BJP to retain Tripura, Meghalaya sees four-cornered contest

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New Delhi: With voting for the assembly polls in Meghalaya and Nagaland ending on Monday amid tight security, all eyes are now on the results.
In Meghalaya, polling was held at 3,419 polling stations across 59 Assembly constituencies, while in Nagaland voting was held in 59 out of 60 Assembly constituencies.
The Matrize exit poll for Meghalaya predicted 21-26 seats for the NPP, 6-11 seats to the BJP, 8-13 to the TMC, 3-6 for the Congress and 10-19 for others.
In Meghalaya, it continued to be a four-cornered contest. In the last Assembly polls, although the Congress had emerged as the single largest party winning 21 seats, the Conrad Sangma-led National People’s Party, which had won 20 seats, had managed to form the government following an alliance with the BJP.
However, this time, with no pre-poll alliance in place, the Congress, BJP, NPP and TMC are looking to win a majority on their own.
In Nagaland, in 2018 the NDPP-BJP alliance had formed the government. The Naga People’s Front (NPF), which had emerged as the single largest party in the last Assembly polls, faces a tough time as many of its leaders have since quit to join the NDPP.
The Matrize exit poll predicts the BJP+NDPP will win 35-43 seats, the Congress will get 1-3 seats, the NPF might get 2-5, the NPP 1 and 6-11 for the others in Nagaland.
Tripura voted on February 16, recording nearly 88 per cent polling.

The India Today exit poll has predicted that the BJP will win 36-45 seats in the Tripura Assembly. The BJP-led alliance is likely to retain power, shows the India Today-Axis My India poll.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 27, 2023
Hyderabad: Suspended BJP MLA Raja Singh gets new bulletproof car

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Hyderabad: The city police department replaced the BR (bulletproof) vehicle of Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh and provided him with a white coloured Fortuner bullet resistant vehicle on Monday. The vehicle was sent to his residence.
However, the MLA is out of town on some personal work and police department officials communicated to him about the decision to replace his old black car with a white coloured vehicle. BJP Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh, who is currently still under suspension, is reportedly also exploring all options including contesting as ondependent candidate from Amberpet constituency once held by Union Minister G Kishan Reddy.
Earlier, Raja Singh held a protest demanding his vehicle be replaced because it is developing snags. In early February, Raja Singh held a protest outside chief minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s official residence Pragathi Bhavan. The Goshamahal left his car there after one of the tyres came-off while he was commuting. The next day, he went to the Legislative Assembly on his motorcycle.
Raja Singh reportedly faces a security threat and has been provided with a BR vehicle and has also been extended with a 2 + 2 security cover. Raja Singh is also currently facing a gag order from the Telangana high court, which doesn’t allow him to hold rallies or public events in the state.
With state elections approaching in the next six months, Raja Singh has managed to circumvent the gag order by participating in Hindutva rallies outside the state. He has been doing the same from the last few weeks in Maharashtra. It has been learnt that the two-time Goshamahal MLA is reportedly exploring all options, including contesting as an independent candidate from Amberpet constituency that was earlier held by Union Minister G Kishan Reddy in Hyderabad.
BJP looking at other faces for Goshamahal?
Sources closer to the MLA said Raja Singh is quite confident of his win from Goshamahal or Amberpet seat in 2023 assembly elections. The Goshamahal constituency has six sitting BJP corporators and at least two of them are aspiring to get an MLA ticket from the party because already Raja Singh contested twice.
Raj Singh is currently out on bail after he was arrested for his derogatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad last year, which led to several protests. While quashing Singh’s detention in jail under the PD Act last year, the High Court, as part of its bail order, warned the BJP MLA was told not to make provocative speeches or speak in public.
So far, a case has already been registered against him in recent times for violating the court orders (with the Mangalhat police station). He was served another notice by the Hyderabad police on January 29 for a hate speech in Mumbai. Raja Singh is currently unable to carry out political campaigns or hold public rallies as he would have ideally done in the run-up to the polls. It is unsure how the state judiciary will react to him making speeches outside, with the logic that it is beyond the HC’s jurisdiction.

BJP exploring other options?
On the other hand, sources also told Siasat.com that the BJP state leadership reportedly interacted some members of the Lodh Kshatriya community, which Raja Singh belongs to. Sources said at least two members of the community had evinced interest in contesting the elections this year from Goshamahal if the party gives them a ticket. Nevertheless, community elders however said they don’t want any conflict in the community over politics.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 27, 2023
Maha: BJP MLA ‘resurrects’ demand to rename Ahmednagar as ‘Ahilyanagar’

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Mumbai: A BJP MLA in Maharashtra has resurrected his demand to rename Ahmednagar as ‘Ahilyanagar’ – after the legendary warrior queen, ‘Punyashlok’ Ahilyadevi Holkar, here on Monday.
BJP MLA Gopichand Padalkar raised the plea on grounds that Ahilyadevi Holkar (1725-1795) was born in Chaundi village in Ahmednagar district to a Marathi family, and later went onto become the queen of the Malwa state (from 1767 till her death).
Speaking to mediapersons, Padalkar expressed confidence that under Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ leadership, the decision would be taken soon.
Earlier in June 2022, Padalkar had written to then Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray with a similar plea, even as the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena had wanted Ahmednagar to be rechristened as ‘Ambikanagar’.
The demand comes close on the heels of the recent renaming of Aurangabad as ‘Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar’ and Osmanabad as ‘Dharashiv’.
Another a clamour to rename Pune as ‘Jijaunagar’ — in the memory of Jijamata, the mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj — was raised last month by Nationalist Congress Party MLC, Amol Mitkari.
Incidentally, former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan had authored a book titled ‘Matoshree’ on Ahilyadevi Holkar, the Indore airport has been named as ‘Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport’, two universities have been named after her in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra (Solapur), several roads, buildings, public places have been named in her memory, a statue of her stands in the Parliament complex, busts and statues have been put up in different parts of India, among others. She has also been immortalised in several films, documentaries and television serials.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 27, 2023
HC’s Agnipath verdict exposes Opposition’s negative politics: BJP

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New Delhi: With the Delhi High Court upholding the short-term military recruitment scheme Agnipath, the BJP asserted on Monday that the verdict has exposed the Opposition’s negative politics yet again.
BJP chief spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Anil Baluni also demanded apology from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his “derogatory” comments on the scheme.
He accused opposition parties of being “hell-bent on creating hurdles in the development-oriented initiatives of the Modi government”.
A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad earlier in the day dismissed a batch of petitions challenging the scheme for short-term recruitment in armed forces and said there was no reason to interfere with it.
The court said the scheme was made in national interest and to ensure that the armed forces are better equipped.
Baluni said the court’s observations have vindicated the central government’s progressive approach towards modernising the armed forces.
He said, “It exposes the anti-development and anti-progressive face of opposition parties. It also exposes Congress leader Rahul Gandhi yet again who tried to mislead our youth. Rahul Gandhi should apologise to the nation, particularly to the youth, for his highly derogatory and negative statements on the Agniveer scheme.”
Those recruited under the Agnipath scheme are called “Agniveers”.

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February 27, 2023