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RSS picked Pragya Thakur for Bhopal battle, Trial still on, Bar Sadhvi from polls; Malegaon victim’s father

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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) writ ran large in the selection of Malegaon blast-accused Pragya Thakur as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. Thakur, out on bail after serving nine years in jail in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blast that killed six people, has long been the poster girl of the Sangh’s Hindutva campaign and is also used to exemplify what the organisation sees as the Congress’s “witch hunt of the RSS and the Hindus”. “The…

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Top promises in BJP manifesto for 2019 Lok Sabha elections

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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday released its Sankalp Patra, the poll manifesto for the seven-phased 2019 Lok Sabha elections beginning April 11.The document, while focusing on nationalism, farm sector, infrastructure and governance, lays stress on youth with several promises for their welfare. Here is the BJP manifesto summed up in 15 points: Zero tolerance approach to terrorismThe manifesto says: “Our security doctrine will be guided by our national security interest only. This is exemplied by the surgical strikes and the air strikes carried out recently. We will firmly continue…

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After polls, Chowkidar will be behind bars: Rahul Gandhi

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At a massive election rally in Nagpur on Thursday evening, Gandhi said if the Congress and its allies come to power, an inquiry will be conducted against Modi over his alleged involvement in the Rafale deal A day after Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi said in Gondia that Opposition leaders will be in Delhi’s Tihar jail after the polls, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that all those who “claim to be chowkidars will find themselves in jail after the elections”. At a massive election rally in Nagpur on…

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Scrap sedition law and Kashmir policy from Congress manifesto become Arun Jaitley’s targets

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The Congress has said it will review force deployment in Kashmir and omit the sedition law Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, who was deployed by the BJP today to counter the Congress’s manifesto, said the promises made by Rahul Gandhi were “unimplementable” and “dangerous”. He reinforced his party’s focus on national security, the main campaign plank of the BJP, by focusing largely on sections in the manifesto that were on Jammu and Kashmir and on omitting Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code that defines the offence of sedition. The…

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Don’t vote for BJP, Over 100 Filmmakers urge people

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“Let your mandate be to choose a government that respects the Constitution of India, protects our freedom of speech and expression”, the artists wrote. More than 100 members of the filmmaking industry have released a statement urging people not to vote for the BJP. Most of the signatories are independent filmmakers, who released the statement under the umbrella of “Save Democracy”. The signatories include well-known names like Anand Patwardhan, Q, Sanalkumar Sasidharan, Pushpendra Singh, Sudevan, Q, Vetri Maaran, Deepa Dhanraj, Gurvinder Singh, Kabir Singh Chowdhry, Praveen Morchhale, Anjali Monteiro, Devashish…

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Tej Bahadur Yadav, sacked BSF jawan says he will contest LS polls against PM Modi from Varanasi

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Ex-BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav, who was sacked from service after he uploaded a video complaining of bad quality food being served to the forces, on Friday said he will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi constituency in Uttar Pradesh against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Yadav, a resident of Rewari in Haryana, claimed he was approached by several parties to join them but chose to contest as an independent candidate. He said by contesting the elections he would raise the issue of corruption in the forces. “My motive…

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Modi not my enemy but Rahul Gandhi acknowledged torture I was facing in BJP: Shatrughan Sinha

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Shatrughan Sinha said his attacks on BJP were not aimed at any individual. He said he never spoke against an individual but only on issues. “No individual is above the party.” Rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shatrughan Sinha, who is set to join the Congress, has said he is still “officially” part of the BJP but is on the “right track”. In an exclusively interview with India Today TV, Shatrughan Sinha, the present Lok Sabha MP from Patna Sahib, said he is “disappointed” on being denied ticket from Patna…

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BJP told him not to contest, Murli Manohar Joshi revels in a letter to voters

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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi will not contest from the Kanpur Lok Sabha seat, the BJP confirmed on Tuesday after a letter from the party veteran emerged informing people of the city that he had been asked by the party not to contest from here or elsewhere. In the letter, Joshi, who was insistent on contesting the seat for a second time, said the party’s organisational secretary Ram Lal had conveyed to him that he would not be contesting from Kanpur or elsewhere. BJP’s city president Surendra Maithani…

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BJP denies ticket to trusted ‘Chowkidar’ Shahnawaz Hussain

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BJP has ignored its trusted ‘Chowkidar’ Shahnawaz Hussain, the national spokesperson of the party , who lost marginally from Bhagalpur during 2014 LS poll. The party has denied a ticket to him although he has been the most loyal Chowkidar throughout his entire political career. Hussain has been very loyal to the party despite being almost sidelined in the last five years of the Narendra Modi government and not considered for Rajya Sabha after defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha seat unlike many losers of the party like Smriti Irani…

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‘Did we really attack’: Sam Pitroda questions Balakot strike, ‘People will not forgive Oppn’: Modi slams Sam Pitroda

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Close confidant of Rahul Gandhi and Chairman of the Overseas Indian National Congress questioned the death toll in the Balakot airstrike conducted by the Indian Air Force in Pakistan in retaliation to the Pulwama terror attack. “If they (IAF) killed 300, its ok. All I am saying is can you give me more facts and prove it,” said Pitroda in a wide-ranging interview to ANI. When asked on his views on the airstrike against the Jaish-e-Mohammad camp in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, he added that international news outlets had an…

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