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  • My three generations never paid farm electricity bills: Shiv Sena MP

    Union minister and Shiv Sena leader Prataprao Jadhav on Saturday claimed his three generations, including himself, never paid farm electricity bills.

    “I am a farmer. We haven’t paid bills for the last three generations. My grandfather’s (water) pumps are still there. “Neither my grandfather and my father, nor I paid the farm electricity bills,” said the Minister of State for Ayush and Health and Family Welfare.

    He was speaking at an event on a farm electricity bills waiver scheme, one of the flagship initiatives launched by the Eknath Shinde government. Jadhav, who represents Buldhana Lok Sabha constituency, said if the distribution panel (DP) burnt, he would give Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,000 to the engineer concerned to install a new one.

    The Chief Minister Baliraja Free Electricity Scheme 2024 provides free electricity to farmers who use agricultural pumps with a capacity of up to 7.5 horsepower.

  • Amit Shah flags off BJP Parivartan Yatra in Jharkhand

    New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday flagged off BJP’s Parivartan Yatra in Jharkhand ahead of the assembly elections. The party will launch six yatras from six regions of the state which will culminate on October 2 in Ranchi, when the party will organize a rally. These yatras will cover all the 81 assembly segments in 24 districts. Several national and state level leaders will participate in the different phases of the yatra.

    Speaking at a public meeting in Sahibganj, Shah attacked the Hemant Soren government over corruption and appealed to the people of Jharkhand to vote for the BJP. “The change is not just about bringing the BJP government in place of JMM and Congress. The change is to remove this corrupt government and bring a government that will stop corruption.”

    Shah emphasized that the state needs a BJP government which can work for the welfare of farmers and generate employment in the state so that tribal people are not forced to go outside to get a job.Shah raised the issue of infiltration from Bangladesh and said that it is destroying the demography of the state. Shah alleged that the JMM government is silent on infiltrators as they are their vote bank.

  • Arvind Kejriwal to join AAP’s Haryana poll campaign with roadshow in Jagadhri

    New Delhi: AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal will join the party’s campaign in pollbound Haryana with a roadshow in the Jagadhri constituency on September 20, AAP national general secretary (organisation) Sandeep Pathak said on Thursday. He will also participate in 13 events across 11 districts, covering the Dabwali, Rania, Bhiwani, Meham, Kalayat, Assandh and Ballabhgarh constituencies, among others, in the coming days, Pathak said at a press conference.

    “AAP national convenor Kejriwal has come out of jail after defeating the BJP’s conspiracy. Now he is fully prepared for the election campaign in Haryana and will start on September 20,” he said.

    His further campaign schedule will be announced later, he added. Kejriwal resigned as Delhi chief minister after being released from Tihar jail last week in the excise policy case. He will have a hectic campaign schedule in Haryana, which goes to the polls on October 5.

    The AAP is contesting all 90 seats in Haryana after talks with the Congress over a seatshare agreement broke down.

    It is clear that “the BJP is going to be completely wiped out from Haryana”, Pathak claimed. The BJP has governed Haryana since 2014. “The BJP itself did not trust its chief minister, so they removed Manohar Lal Khattar and made Nayab Singh Saini the new chief minister. The question that arises is why did the BJP need to bring in a new chief minister in the last year (of its term)?” Pathak asked.

    Alleging that unemployment was at its peak in Haryana and inflation was recordbreaking, he stressed that there was rampant “misgovernance” in the state.

    “Haryana first gave a chance to one party for five years, then to another for 10 years and then 10 years to a third party. Haryana gave a chance to all the parties, there is no party in Haryana that can say they have not got A chance. No one can complain,” Pathak said.

    Claiming that the other parties failed to serve the people, he said the voters were fed up with all the outfits.

    “This time, for the first time, Arvind Kejriwal has come to Haryana with AAP. So, a new and great option for change is in front of the people of Haryana. They have seen the work done by AAP in Punjab, and have seen the government of Delhi. After seeing everything, the people will go for a change and vote for Arvind Kejriwal’s new and honest politics,” he said.

    Elections to the 90member Haryana Assembly will be held on October 5 and the results declared on October 8.

  • Amit Shah reviews Manipur status regularly: Officials

    New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah has been regularly reviewing the security situation in Manipur, ensuring necessary action in the past 100 days, government officials said, adding that dialogues are being held with both the Meitei and Kuki communities to restore peace in the region. as soon as possible.

    As per the officials, two battalions of the CRPF have been deployed in Manipur, in addition to about 200 teams of central police forces.

    Meanwhile, the central government has ended the Free Movement Regime along the IndiaMyanmar border. The Cabinet Committee on Security has in principle approved the construction of border fencing and roads along the 1,610kilometre international border between India and Myanmar at a cost of about Rs 31,000 crore. About 10 km of fencing has been completed over Moreh, and work is underway to fence another 21 km of the border in other areas of Manipur, said people in the know.

  • Vande Bharat trains: Third eye: New trains and an MLA on track, let’s see who’s prayers are heard, and no showcasing of show cause

    New trains and an MLA on track: While PM Narendra Modi flagged off several Vande Bharat trains on Sunday from Jamshedpur, some MPs and MLAs decided to flag off the trains on their arrival at stations falling in their constituencies. When newly launched Agra Varanasi Vande Bharat Express reached Etawah junction, BJP and Samajwadi Party leaders started jostling to flag off the train and get pictures clicked. In this, Etawah Sadar BJP MLA Sarita Bhadoria fell on the railway track. The loco pilot was immediately informed to stop the train and the MLA was pulled up to safety by party workers.Let’s see who’s prayers are heardMaharashtra minister Shambhuraj Desai and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Ambadas Danve met each other when they came almost at the same time to pray at Dagdusheth Ganpati Temple in Pune a few days back. Desai later claimed that he prayed for Eknath Shinde to be the next chief minister again. Danve, in turn, claimed that the people of the state are wishing for Uddhav to be the next chief minister.No showcasing of show causeWith Disciplinary Action Committee of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee’s show causing five leaders, including three MLAs, for breach of party discipline. Irritating the leaders and its supporters, the party has decided to refrain from publicly announcing such show cause decisions. APCC president Bhupen Kumar Borah said this was an internal matter, and it is quite disappointing to know that this surfaced before the media. The party has now mandated such show cause notice will remain an internal matter and there will be no press statement.

  • Following positive talks with Bengal CM, docs to make final call after discussions

    Kolkata: The meeting between the junior doctors who were agitating over the RG Kar Hospital issue and the state administration, led by the chief minister, ended on a positive note, according to people privy to the developments. The chief minister is said to have appealed to the junior doctors to resume work at the earliest. However, the doctors have said that they will take a final call only after discussions.

    The state has agreed to address issues related to strengthening the health infrastructure and providing necessary infrastructure for doctors, people in the know have said. The junior doctors submitted a memorandum to chief minister Mamata Banerjee during their meeting which started at around 7 pm and continued for almost three hours. Mamata Banerjee, Chief Secretary Manoj Pant, Director General of Police Rajeev Kumar and Junior Health Minister (MoS) Chandrima Bhattacharya were present at Monday’s meeting.

    However, the state government officials said that the junior doctors’ demand seeking the resignations of the Commissioner of Police, Director of Medical Education (DME) and Health Secretary, involved an administrative process.The chief minister allowed two stenographers who accompanied the junior doctors to be present at the meeting to record the minutes, heeding to the medics’ demand.

    It may be recalled that the doctors’ stir over the rape and murder of an RG Kar Hospital medical student on August 9 entered the 38th day on Monday. On Monday morning, the Bengal government invited the junior doctors to the chief minister’s residence in Kalighat to end the impasse over the protest in front of State Health Department Headquarters ‘Swasthya Bhawan’. Two earlier efforts to convene the meeting had failed.

    Manoj Pant has said in his letter that “…This is the fifth and final time we are reaching out to you for a meeting between the chief minister and your delegates…In view of the Honorable Supreme Court order dated 9th September 2024 directing junior doctors to resume duties by 5 pm on the 10th September 2024, it is our bound duty, as lawabiding citizens, to follow and adhere to the apex court’s directive”.In response to the Chief Secretary’s mail, the West Bengal Junior Doctor’s Front emphasized on the meeting being videographed by separate videographers by both the parties. The doctors said that if that demand was not met, the minutes of the meeting with the full transcript be recorded and formulated by both the parties.”We have been fighting for justice. We are taking the fight forward. We will not take any decision at the meeting. If the meeting needs to be extended, we will do,” Kinjal Nandi, one of the junior doctors, said.

    “We would like to reiterate that after the last proposed meeting two significant developments happened. First, the arrest of Sandip Ghosh in a case related to the rape and murder of Abhaya. Second, the arrest of Tala police station OC. These two new developments increase the significance of transparency of the meeting even more than before,” the doctors wrote.

  • Third Eye: Aligning political stars of Delhi & Jharkhand; rains spoil the roadshow

    Jharkhand and Delhi seem to be matching politically in quite a few aspects and are likely to share a similar poll calendar as 2025 ushers in. The fate of their chief ministers is also similar with both having landed in jail. One key difference however remains Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren resigned before his arrest while Champai Soren kept his seat warm until he got bail while as Kejriwal stayed put in the hot seat and has chosen to resign only after he was granted bail.

    Jharkhand and Delhi seem to be matching politically in quite a few aspects and are likely to share a similar poll calendar as 2025 ushers in. The fate of their chief ministers is also similar with both having landed in jail. One key difference however remains Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren resigned before his arrest while Champai Soren kept his seat warm until he got bail while as Kejriwal stayed put in the hot seat and has chosen to resign only after he was granted bail.

    Rains Spoil the Roadshow Apart from a rally, the BJP had also planned a roadshow for PM Narendra Modi in Jamshedpur. However, the party had to cancel the program as it started raining heavily in Jamshedpur. The PM had to directly reach the rally ground and addressed the rally instead of the roadshow planned earlier.

  • J&K’s Kishtwar encounter: Indian security forces neutralize 3 terrorists, recover massive cache of arms

    In a major success ahead of Assembly polls, security forces shot dead three militants two of them suspected to be Pakistanis in a gun battle in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on September 14. The Commander of Army’s 10 Sector Rashtriya Rifles, Brigadier Sanjay Kannoth, while briefing about the operation in north Kashmir said that for some time now they were receiving inputs about the movement of unidentified terrorists in the general area of ​​Kreeri in Baramulla district.

  • Congress hampering Assam eviction drive by inciting people: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

    Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said fundamentalism has entered the eviction drive in Kosutoli locality of Sonapur area, and that slogans raised in Bangladesh were used by the protesters.

    Sarma alleged that the Congress party incited the people, following which there was violence during the eviction drive on Thursday. Two people were killed and several others were injured in a clash between police and the protesters.

    “Congress and other fundamentalist forces instigated the encroachers,” Sarma said. “They attacked the police. The slogan that was being used in Bangladesh; they are using the same slogan here now. After the action of Assam Police, the area has become peaceful again and the eviction work is going on.”He said, ” “We are running a special campaign against the encroachers who have illegally occupied the land of the tribals in Sonapur. On Thursday, the Congress held a press conference and expressed sympathy for the intruders, after which the same intruders attacked the police.”

    Assam Director General of Police GP Singh visited the site on Friday. He said the area is tribal land and is protected by a law of 1886. “The people staying there did not belong to the protected class of people. There was a direction from the government to act,” said Singh. “There were announcements for seven days that those people residing here are illegally residing.”

    He said eviction started on September 9. “It was going on smoothly. However, on September 12, a section targeted the police. I have directed the officers to register a case as there is conspiracy and instigation involved in the fourdayold drive that suddenly became violent,” Singh said. In a post on X, Singh said 248 bighas of government land has been cleared of encroachment.

  • PM visit at CJI residence should have been avoided, says Kapil Sibal

    New Delhi: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Kapil Sibal said he was taken back by the video showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Ganesh puja at Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud’s home.

    Addressing a press conference on Thursday, he said those who held the highest office should not publicize a private event.

    “I am sure that maybe the CJI may not have known that this was being publicized, that is sad. The second thing is that the prime minister of India should never have shown his interest to go to such a private event because the prime minister and those he must have consulted should and must have told him that this may send a wrong signal,” Sibal added.