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After pushing entire family into crime, UP gangster Atiq Ahmed suffers blow with son's death

Atiq’s first interface with the police goes back to 1984 when he was booked for attempting a murder in Prayagraj

LUCKNOW: Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, awarded a life term in the Umesh Pal abduction case on March 28, got the biggest blow of his life when his third son, Asad, was killed in a police encounter on Thursday. It is the first personal loss he has suffered in his criminal history spanning four decades.

Police authorities said the murder of Umesh Pal hardly gave any tangible gain to Atiq and his gang. It was only a bid by his henchmen to re-establish fear among the people of Prayagraj. However, the move backfired big time. While Asad, 19, has now been killed, Atiq’s wife Shaista Parveen is still absconding. The third of the couple’s five sons, Asad was a first-year student at a law college.

The couple’s two elder sons -- Ali and Umar -- are jailed in other cases, while two minor ones are housed by the authorities in a shelter home.

Atiq’s first interface with the police goes back to 1984 when he was booked for attempting a murder in Prayagraj.

Five years later, he took the electoral plunge winning his first election as an MLA from Allahabad West, as an Independent in 1989. He retained his seat in the next two Assembly elections as well, also as an Independent.

In 1995, Atiq joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) and came to notice when the guesthouse where the then BSP general secretary Mayawati was staying with her party MLAs was attacked. MLAs and workers of the SP allegedly surrounded the guest-house and went on a rampage, angry over the BSP having broken ties with them.

In 1996, Atiq won from Allahabad West for the fourth time, as an SP candidate. Three years later, he joined Apna Dal, and in 2002, again won the seat. In 2004, he contested from Phulpur Lok Sabha seat on an SP ticket and got elected.

In 2004, in the bypoll held for the Allahabad West seat, after Atiq had moved to the Lok Sabha, BSP candidate Raju Pal defeated his brother Ashraf, fighting on an SP ticket. In January 2005, Raju Pal was gunned down, along with two of his associates, and Atiq was named as an accused along with Ashraf and others. While Atiq now has over 100 cases lodged against him, his brother Ashraf has 52 cases against him and is currently lodged in a Bareilly jail.

With the SP in power in the state at the time, on the Supreme Court’s orders, the case was transferred to the CBI. It filed a chargesheet in 2019 against 10 people.

Subsequently, Atiq got booked for a 2018 incident involving the alleged abduction of a businessman Mohit Jaiswal, who was taken to Deoria district jail, where Atiq was lodged at the time. Jaiswal claimed he was forced to sign documents for property worth Rs 48 crore in favour of his associates.

In the course of his journey into the world of crime and establishing himself as the head of a crime syndicate registered in police records as IS 227, Atiq pushed his entire family into it. His eldest son Mohammad Umar, who is currently lodged in a Lucknow district jail, is a co-accused in the Jaiswal case. His second son, Mohammad Ali Ahmad, is currently in Naini jail for alleged involvement in a case of assault on a property dealer in December 2021.

Apart from the Umesh Pal killing, his wife Shaista Parveen has had at least three other cases registered against her since 2019 under forgery and illegal arms at the Colonelganj police station in Prayagraj. The cases are pending in court, said a police officer.

While on the run, Shaista Parveen moved a local court in Prayagraj saying that the police had “illegally” taken away two of her minor sons – apart from the three named in police cases or in jail – on the evening of February 24 and that she had no information about them. The police later told a local court that the boys had been found in Prayagraj and were admitted to a child protection home.

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BJP vs कांग्रेस, SP vs BSP... लखनऊ की 9 विधानसभा सीटों पर किसने किसे उतारा? देखें लिस्ट

BJP vs कांग्रेस, SP vs BSP… लखनऊ की 9 विधानसभा सीटों पर किसने किसे उतारा? देखें लिस्ट

लखनऊ: उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा चुनाव (UP Assembly Election 2022) के मतदान की तारीख नजदीक आते ही सियासी सरगर्मियां चरम पर हैं। भारतीय जनता पार्टी, समाजवादी पार्टी, बहुजन समाज पार्टी और कांग्रेस के बीच उम्मीदवारों (Assembly Election 2022 Candidates list) को लेकर भी नूरा-कुश्ती जारी है। अब चौथे चरण के चुनाव के लिए नामांकन की अंतिम तारीख से महज एक दिन पहले मंगलवार को सपा और बीजेपी (BJP Candidate List…

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All eyes on Lakhimpur Kheri as countdown for the fourth phase of polling in UP begins

With hours to go for the fourth phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh, all eyes are on Lakhimpur Kheri, which witnessed the mowing down of the protesting farmers allegedly by Ashish Mishra(Teni), son of the minister of state for Home, Ajay Mishra. The accused son's walking out of the jail after he secured bail had generated a massive political heat in the region.  In 2017, the BJP had won the Lakhimpur seat with a strong margin of over 36000 votes.  Stakes are high for both BJP and Union Minister, Ajay Mishra in this region.

For the fourth phase, 624 candidates across 59 assembly constituencies are set to battle it out. Riding on the Modi wave in 2017, BJP had won 51 of 59 assembly seats in 2017. BJP ally, Apna Dal(S) had won one, four went to SP  while two seats were won by Congress and another two by the BSP.

Also read:  Third phase of elections--tough for SP and a close fight in Punjab

The State Capital, Lucknow with nine assembly segments will also vote in this phase. Of the nine assembly seats, BJP had won eight in 2017. The districts going to poll in the fourth phase include Pilibhit, Sitapur, Hardoi, Unnao, Rae Bareli, Banda, Fatehpur besides Lucknow and Lakhimpur.

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BSP Fields SC Candidates Against Akhilesh Yadav, Shivpal Yadav

BSP Fields SC Candidates Against Akhilesh Yadav, Shivpal Yadav

File pic: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav with uncle Shivpal Yadav in Lucknow. (File Photo: Twitter/ @yadavakhiles) Apart from the two candidates, the party also declared 51 other names for the third phase of the UP Assembly elections. PTI Lucknow Last Updated:January 27, 2022, 21:40 IST FOLLOW US ON: The BSP on Thursday fielded Scheduled Castes candidates from Karhal and Jaswant Nagar, the seats from…

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BJP lets go of Rajya Sabha seat to cosy up to BSP, be seen as Dalit-friendly

NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW: In what is seen as a shift from its “take-no-prisoners” approach, BJP decided to forego one Rajya Sabha berth it could have bagged in UP to facilitate the of BSP’s national coordinator, Ramji Lal Gautam to the upper House — a move which can help it resist being cast as “anti-Dalit” and can potentially change equations in the most populous state. The switch from the approach so far to maximise its returns has already fetched it dividends in the form of BSP chief Mayawati softening her stance towards the “secular” formation. Although she emphasised BSP’s ideological opposition to BJP, the former UP chief minister made it clear that for her, it is now SP which is the main opponent: a recalibration of threat perception which will ensure that BJP is not presented with an opposition phalanx in the next assembly polls. “As I have said earlier, BSP will vote in favour of BJP to ensure defeat of Samajwadi Party candidates,” Mayawati said soon after Rajya Sabha poll results were announced in which her party nominee Gautam was declared elected unopposed with nine others in UP. Gautam was elected despite having the assured support of just nine MLAs because of BJP’s surprise decision not to field a candidate for the seat despite having a surplus 22 votes, including nine belonging to its ally Apna Dal and three Independents.

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BSP to Contest All 8 Seats in UP Assembly Bypolls: Here's Why This is Politically Important

BSP to Contest All 8 Seats in UP Assembly Bypolls: Here’s Why This is Politically Important

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If the BSP fields its candidates on these eight assembly seats, it will turn this into an interesting multi-cornered contest with the BJP, SP and Congress also raring to go.

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Lucknow:The dates for by-elections on eight assembly seats…

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2019 LS polls: Red sign for PM Modi as Akhilesh-Mayawati alliance to contest in UP

Lucknow : Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has announced their alliance in Uttar Pradesh for contesting 2019 Lok Sabha polls by sharing 38 seats each out of the state’s 80 parliamentary constituencies.

The parties kept the Congress out of the alliance, but said they will not field candidates in Amethi and Rae Bareli, represented by Congress president Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. The alliance left two more seats for smaller allies.

Making the announcement at a joint press conference with SP president Akhilesh Yadav here, BSP chief Mayawati said that the alliance will rob Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah of their sleep.

“The BJP taught us how to do ginti (arithmetic),” said Mr. Yadav on Friday, claiming that despite having a superior record on development, his party had lost out on the arithmetic.

A result of this strategy was seen in Gorakhpur, Phulpur and Kairana where the BJP lost its in by-polls as the grand-alliance tested waters successfully. Mr. Yadav said the number of alliances stitched up by the BJP to win elections had gone unnoticed.

The proximity between the two old rivals, the SP and BSP, started soon after the drubbing in the 2017 Assembly election in which the BJP and its allies secured 325 seats out 403.

The BJP played down the potential of the SP-BSP alliance, with CM Yogi Adityanath calling it a “desperate attempt to save their existence.” “Public knows the truth and they will give the reply when time comes,” he said.

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Mayawati Dubs Chandrashekhar Azad's Arrest as 'Staged' Act to Dent BSP's Voter Base

Mayawati Dubs Chandrashekhar Azad’s Arrest as ‘Staged’ Act to Dent BSP’s Voter Base

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Lucknow: After Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad was arrested after hours of standoff with Delhi Police on December 21, BSP supremo Mayawati has accused him of playing in the hands of ‘rival parties’ and said he is trying to dent BSP’s voter base in Delhi.

Last week, Azad had said that his party would field candidates in 15 Dalit and Muslim Assembly seats in the upcoming election…

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BSP-BJP alliance not possible, ideologies opposite: Mayawati

LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati asserted on Monday that her party would never enter into an alliance with the BJP in the assembly or the Lok Sabha elections, highlighting that the ideology of the two parties were “opposite”. Her clarification came amid speculation over her last week’s statement that the BSP would vote for the BJP or any other party’s candidate to ensure defeat of the Samajwadi Party contenders in future elections, including those of the Uttar Pradesh legislative council and the Rajya Sabha. Mayawati alleged that the SP and the Congress were misusing her recent statement so that the Muslim community distances itself from the BSP. “The alliance of the BJP with the BSP is not possible in any polls in the future. The BSP cannot contest with the communal party,” she said in a media briefing. “Our ideology is of ‘sarvajan sarva dharma hitay’ (benefit of everyone and all religions)’ and is opposite to the BJP’s ideology,” she said. “The BSP cannot enter into an alliance with those having communal, casteist and capitalist ideology.” Mayawati said she would rather take ‘sanyas’ (retirement) from politics than ally with such parties. “I will fight on all fronts with the communal, casteist and capitalist forces, and not going to bow before anyone,” she added. The BSP leader reiterated that her party would ensure the defeat of the SP’s second candidate in future Uttar Pradesh legislative council polls. “Our party will support the candidate of any party, including the BJP, which is strong to defeat the second candidate of the SP,” she said. “I stand by my earlier statement, which is misused by the SP and the Congress for political gains so that the Muslim community distances itself from the party.” She accused the SP and the Congress of trying to ensure that Muslims did not vote for the BSP in the bypolls to seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, adding that they would not be successful in this endeavour. “Everyone knows that the BSP is party of an ideology and movement, and I never compromised it even when I formed the government with the BJP,” Mayawati said, adding that she had “sacrificed” her government but never harmed the Muslim community. “There was no Hindu-Muslim riots in my regime. History is witness to it. Under the SP and the Congress governments, there were many Hindu-Muslim riots,” she said. Mayawati underscored that she gave adequate representation to the Muslims when her party was in power, as she also pointed out that the party had given tickets to two candidates from the community in the by-elections.

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Mayawati re-elected to BSP president in UP

Mayawati has once again been elected the national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). This decision was taken unanimously at the BSP national meeting. Apart from this, it was decided to contest all the seats in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly by-election. Along with this, the names of the candidates were also announced. On Wednesday, BSP supremo Mayawati called a meeting of zonal and divisional in-charges. In this meeting of the BSP National Executive held in Lucknow, it was decided to make Mayawati once again the president of BSP. Mayawati will now declare the party’s national executive afresh. BSP national general secretary and MP Satish Chandra Mishra completed all the necessary procedures. After this, all the people present in the meeting applauded and welcomed Mayawati’s election as national president. On this, Mayawati expressed her gratitude to all the leaders of the party. Along with this, the preparations for the assembly by-election were also reviewed. BSP supremo Mayawati directed to form the first assembly, sector formation as well as the brotherhood committee in the by-elections. The names of the candidates of the assembly by-elections were stamped in the meeting. It was decided in the meeting that the BSP will contest all the 13 seats in the assembly by-elections. Read the full article

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Lok Sabha 2019: Meet the movers and shapers of Indian politics - Nation Information

http://tinyurl.com/y35yu9l4 On a December morning in 2016, Dimple Yadav, Lok Sabha MP from the Samajwadi Social gathering (SP) and spouse of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, obtained a name from Aditi Singh, the Congress MLA from Rae Bareli. Singh had a particular request for her good friend Dimple, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra needed to satisfy her. Dimple fortunately agreed and later launched Priyanka to not solely Akhilesh however SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. A month later, the SP and the Congress introduced their alliance for the 2017 meeting election, a deal that fructified primarily via the efforts of Priyanka and Dimple. Lower to the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Whereas the SP has tied up with the Bahujan Samaj Social gathering (BSP), formally discarding the Congress, Dimple and Priyanka, now the Congress normal secretary accountable for jap UP, met once more in Lucknow earlier this month. The 2 are working to strategically place their contests to minimise electoral injury to their respective events. With the Lok Sabha election simply a few months away, there’s not a uninteresting day for the movers and shapers of Indian politics, as they work extra time to formulate methods, gauge the general public temper, fill of their central management with important information and knowledge and fine-tune the battle plan for the do-or-die seats. They could possibly be essentially the most seen faces of their events or staunch loyalists or reclusive backroom operators. However what all of them have in frequent is the power to interrupt logjams and attain out to leaders throughout events, stroll the additional mile to strike a tough cut price. They’ve the braveness to take unconventional paths and have confirmed observe information of delivering. Within the BJP, Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar is one such workhorse. Whereas get together president Amit Shah, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray have been the faces of the renewed alliance between the 2 events, it was Javadekar who labored behind the scenes to sweeten the deal for the estranged allies. He was appointed the BJP’s negotiator with the Shiv Sena as a result of he had expertise of coping with Sena leaders, from his days as late BJP chief Pramod Mahajan’s right-hand man. In the middle of two months, Javadekar held 5 conferences with Thackeray and Subhash Desai, a senior Sena minister in Maharashtra, earlier than Fadnavis joined the negotiations. To keep away from media consideration, Javadekar travelled to Thackeray’s Mumbai house, Matoshree, in a personal car. One among Thackeray’s predominant grudges had been that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah had been out of bounds. With the Sena brass reluctant to take care of the BJP on the state management stage alone, Fadnavis had satisfied Shah to pay Thackeray a private go to at his Mumbai house in June final 12 months. Shah acquired a way that Thackeray most well-liked a dialogue with a senior BJP chief and never the 48-year-old Fadnavis and put Javadekar on the job. Javadekar retains a low profile. His easygoing method and previous equation helped nurse bruised egos, says a BJP chief. Javadekar’s greater problem, although, is to maximise the BJP’s beneficial properties in Karnataka, the place it didn’t type the federal government final 12 months regardless of rising as the one largest get together. The BJP want to see the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) pre-poll alliance falter because it threatens to cut back the BJP’s 2014 Lok Sabha tally of 17. Because the get together’s ballot in-charge in Karnataka, Javadekar’s problem might be to earn the arrogance of JD(S) patriarch H.D. Deve Gowda and chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. The BJP, although, has made some invisible breaches down south. The get together’s nationwide secretary Ram Madhav has opened channels with YSR Congress (YSRC) chief Jaganmohan Reddy in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief Okay. Chandrashekar Rao in Telangana. The BJP is a marginal participant in each states. By way of Reddy and Rao have categorically stated no to any pre-poll alliance, the BJP is believed to be pursuing them for assurances of assist within the occasion it falls wanting a majority after the Lok Sabha election. A few circumstantial developments helped the BJP. Election strategist Prashant Kishor, who performed a key position in Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha election technique in 2014 and later parted methods, has joined the get together’s ally Janata Dal (United) because the de facto no. 2. Kishor’s organisation I-PAC, or the Indian Political Motion Committee, has been getting ready the YSRC’s election technique for the previous three years and he was not too long ago roped in by the Shiv Sena too. It’s believed Kishor’s assembly with Thackeray on February 5 supplied a much-needed increase to the BJP-Sena alliance. Thackeray’s son Aditya organized the assembly and Kishor defined to the father-son duo how the arithmetic labored in favour of the alliance. The shaper of the BJP’s pre-poll alliance with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in Tamil Nadu is Union minister for railways Piyush Goyal. Because the get together’s ballot in-charge within the state, Goyal began out with just a few handicaps. He didn’t have any previous equation with the AIADMK leaders. Language was one other barrier, however the Tamil-speaking Union minister of state for finance Pon Radhakrishnan helped Goyal out. Collectively, they impressed upon Tamil Nadu chief minister E.Okay. Palaniswami and his deputy O. Panneerselvam that to return to energy in Tamil Nadu in 2021, the AIADMK would do effectively to have the backing of the central authorities by way of budgetary assist for sops. Furthermore, with the Congress-DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) alliance going robust, there could be no place for the AIADMK in a Congress-led authorities on the Centre. What provides extra worth to the deal brokered by Goyal is the addition of the Paattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) within the mega alliance. It’s anticipated to spice up the alliance’s prospects in northern Tamil Nadu in addition to the western and southern districts. The PMK was earlier toying with the concept of becoming a member of the Congress-DMK coalition. Nonetheless, the BJP has a number of worries within the essential state of UP (80 Lok Sabha seats) and in West Bengal (42 seats). In UP, the SP-BSP alliance threatens to considerably cut back the BJP’s 2014 Lok Sabha tally of 71 seats. The BJP’s key man right here is organisation secretary Sunil Bansal, who’s busy mapping every constituency to select winnable candidates towards the rising Opposition forcesthe SP-BSP alliance, which is able to goal backward and Dalit votes and the Congress, which can dent the BJP’s higher caste vote share. Again channel negotiations are additionally onUnion finance minister Arun Jaitley has been working his cellphone with BSP second-in-command Satish Mishra to influence Mayawati to stroll out of the alliance with the SP. Congress insiders declare Mayawati’s opposition to the inclusion of their get together within the SP-BSP alliance was instigated by the veiled menace of CBI investigations’ towards the BSP supremo. In West Bengal, the BJP faces challenges from two frontsthe Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Congress-CPI(M) alliance. Opposite to Shah’s goal of 23 Lok Sabha seats, inner surveys point out 8-15 seats, at finest, for the BJP. Aside from working a high-decibel marketing campaign led by Modi and Shah, the BJP has been attempting to poach robust candidates from rival events. Whereas Mukul Roy, as soon as a trusted lieutenant of Mamata Banerjee, has emerged as a key participant within the BJP’s sport plan for West Bengal, Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan engineered TMC MP Saumitra Khan’s switchover to the BJP in January. If the BJP’s movers and shapers are working the electoral chessboard, the Congress and different events are additionally attempting to get their permutations and mixtures proper. In Congress, Ahmed Patel is burning the midnight oil. Late into the night time, the Congress treasurer both works his cellphone or holds conferences with get together leaders at his 23, Willingdon Crescent Street residence in New Delhi. For a lot of opposition leaders, Patel is the popular level of contact in Congress. Mamata Banerjee recurrently retains in contact with Patel despite the fact that she has direct entry to Sonia Gandhi. Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is extra snug coping with Patel, regardless of his equation with Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Nonetheless, of late, Patel, a veteran Gandhi household loyalist, has confronted disappointment from two potential allies. Regardless of sustaining a wonderful rapport with Mayawati, he has didn’t persuade her to workforce up with the Congress in current elections. Within the December meeting election, Maya-wati declined to hitch fingers with the get together in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Her Lok Sabha alliance with the SP in UP, too, has shut out the Congress. Mayawati believes Congress votes is not going to switch to the BSP. Patel’s different failure was in Meghalaya the place he couldn’t win over the Nationwide Folks’s Social gathering (NPP), a BJP ally. When Meghalaya chief minister and NPP chief Conrad Sangma protested towards the Centre’s try to move the Citizenship Modification Invoice, 2016, which seeks to offer citizenship to non-Muslim unlawful migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, Patel reached out to him. Conrad’s father P.A. Sangma, a former Congress chief, was near Patel and his sister Agatha was a part of the UPA authorities. Nonetheless, Conrad refused a pre-Lok Sabha ballot alliance with the Congress. CONRAD’S REFUSAL IS comprehensible given the agency grip of Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on nearly all non-Congress events within the Northeast. Sarma, a former protégé of Patel, has continued to hang-out the Congress since 2015 when he converted to the BJP. He has been the prime pressure behind the BJP’s success in wresting six of the eight northeastern states. For Sarma, nearly all leaders throughout events within the area are a cellphone name away. If the Congress’s Takam Sanjoy in Arunachal Pradesh is a detailed good friend, Sarma is on equally good phrases with Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio and Rio’s predecessor and rival T.R. Zeliang. The BJP has given Sarma the duty of profitable no less than 15 of the 25 seats within the Northeast. These 25 seats are the explanation why Patel, on Mamata’s recommendation, has been planning a rally of opposition events in Guwahati in March to draw potential allies within the area. Mamata Banerjee believes opposition events ought to maintain such rallies in numerous components of the nation to not solely create a buzz but in addition encourage confidence among the many fence-sitting events, says a senior Congress chief. Aside from Patel, the opposite Congress brainstormers are Okay. Raju, Ashok Gehlot, Randeep Singh Surjewala and Okay.C. Venugopal. Raju, a former bureaucrat from Andhra Pradesh and now in-charge of Rahul Gandhi’s workplace, retains a low profile at the same time as he offers important inputs to Rahul on a number of points. His position is commonly likened to Patel’s when he was Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary. However Raju features in a extra formal and clear means and in sync with Patel. The Raju-Patel equation nearly nullified the outdated versus new debate within the Congress, says a Congress normal secretary. It introduced in much-needed coordination throughout the get together. Patel’s shut confidant Ashok Gehlot has emerged because the chief political advisor to Rahul. Gehlot’s fairness elevated when, as normal secretary in-charge of Gujarat, he helped the Congress give a troublesome struggle to the BJP on Modi and Shah’s house turf. In Karnataka, the place the BJP emerged as the one largest get together, Gehlot performed a key position in convincing outgoing chief minister Siddaramaiah to conform to the Congress proposal of giving the chief ministerial place to junior associate JD(S). On the similar time, Patel’s protégé in Karnataka, D.Okay. Shivakumar, has ensured that the BJP is unable to poach Congress MLAs. Shivakumar has been tasked with maintaining a tally of disgruntled legislators being wooed by the BJP. In February, when the BJP launched Operation Lotus’, he was fast to make sure that all of the Congress legislators, barring 4 rebels, had been current in the identical resort. Later, he satisfied even the rebels to return to the get together fold. He performed an important position within the parliamentary bypolls in Karnataka final 12 months, wresting Ballari from the BJP after 14 years. He additionally ensured that Congress votes transferred to the JD(S) candidate within the Ramanagara meeting bypoll, for which the 2 events had a pre-poll alliance. Shivakumar is now assured of shaping a Congress-JD(S) alliance for the Lok Sabha contest. This alliance will work and we’ll win no less than 20-22 seats, he informed INDIA TODAY. Congress communication in-charge Surjewala’s affect within the get together could be assessed from the truth that he has typically satisfied the get together to vary tack on necessary points. Inside hours of the suicide bomb assault on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama on February 14, Surjewala had questioned the Modi authorities’s safety set-up in Kashmir. The subsequent day, prodded by senior leaders, Rahul modified the get together’s place and declared that it could stand by the federal government on no matter motion it takes towards the assault. However, in lower than every week, Surjewala satisfied Rahul to nook the Modi authorities on safety lapses in Kashmir. When the federal government introduced the air strike on terror camps in Pakistan within the pre-dawn hours of February 26, each Rahul and Surjewala despatched out tweets saluting the pilots. One chief whose affect in Congress has grown dramatically of late is Okay.C. Venugopal, a Lok Sabha MP from Kerala. Venugopal has not solely been inducted into the get together’s highest physique, the Congress Working Committee but in addition been made normal secretary in-charge of the organisation, a publish until not too long ago held by Gehlot. Many leaders attribute this sudden rise to his strategic location’within the Lok Sabha, his seat is subsequent to Rahul’s and in Delhi, his official house is subsequent to Priyanka’s. Such aspersions aside, he performed a significant position within the Congress-JD(S) authorities formation in Karnataka, because of his private chemistry with Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy. That is thought of to have helped hold the alliance intact regardless of Kumaraswamy’s periodic outbursts and the BJP’s alleged makes an attempt to engineer defections amongst Congress MLAs. Curiously, Venugopal, who changed Digvijaya Singh as Congress normal secretary in-charge of Karnataka, was the AICC observer for Goa in 2017. Digvijaya was normal secretary in-charge of Goa at the moment and the 2 leaders had didn’t instal a Congress authorities within the state regardless of the get together profitable the biggest variety of seats. Now, within the run-up to the Lok Sabha election, Venugopal is coordinating between Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and the Congress’s Maharashtra chief Ashok Chavan. Although the Congress-NCP pre-poll tie-up in Maharashtra has been finalised, variations have been rising over seat-sharing and choice of candidates. What has made Venugopal’s job straightforward is that Pawar shares a heat relationship with Rahul? The ice-breaker, although, was Chavan’s initiative to shed previous hostilities and want Pawar on his 77th birthday on December 12 final 12 months. Given full freedom to function, Somen Mitra, chief of the Congress unit in West Bengal, has labored onerous in the direction of the get together’s proposed alliance with the Left Entrance, headed by the CPI(M). Aiding Mitra’s efforts was the truth that Rahul values the political counsel of CPI(M) chief Sitaram Yechury, even addressing him as boss’. Mitra and Congress veteran Abdul Mannan are in fixed contact with Left leaders, equivalent to Surjya Mishra and Rabin Deb, to take the alliance ahead. Deb has been attempting to get different members of the Left Frontthe CPI, Ahead Bloc and the Revolutionary Socialist Social gathering (RSP)into the alliance. The Congress has requested for 20 seats whereas the Left sees something lower than 26 for the Entrance companions as unacceptable. The friction over seat-sharing has posed the largest problem to the joint efforts of Mitra and Deb. The CPI(M) has managed to deliver the RSP and the CPI on board for seat-sharing with the Congress. Nonetheless, the Ahead Bloc remains to be not able to toe the road because the get together is eager on contesting the Purulia, Coochbehar and Barasat Lok Sabha seats, the place the Congress too desires to discipline candidates. Except both of the 2 events blinks, the proposed alliance is prone to collapse. Some Congress leaders have already raised a clamour to go it alone in West Bengal. Not like the BJP and Congress, the networkers within the regional events are sometimes constrained by bosses accustomed to exercising absolute management and micro-managing all electoral technique and communication with different events. Whereas Derek O’Brien of the TMC and Manoj Jha of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) have emerged as their respective events’ faces in conventional and social media, they largely execute the instructions of their management. They don’t have direct entry to the highest brass of different events both. As an illustration, if O’Brien has to speak with Pawar, he should undergo Praful Patel. Whether it is with the DMK’s M.Okay. Stalin, he must get in contact with Kanimozhi. Nonetheless, one exception is Sanjay Yadav of the RJD. The 35-year-old MBA from Haryana has been a detailed good friend of Tejashwi Yadav from his cricketing days in Delhi. He has now emerged because the equal of Prashant Kishor within the RJD. From mapping constituencies to giving communication tricks to Tejashwi to dealing with Lalu Prasad’s Twitter account, Sanjay performs a key position in formulating the electoral technique of the RJD. Considerably, it was he who introduced Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s anti-reservation quote in 2015 to Lalu’s discover and suggested the RJD boss to assault the BJP aggressively. As events gear up for the mom of all battles this summer season, their commanders are sweating it out to get the arithmetic proper. Ultimately, it is going to be as much as the citizens to guage if the mathematics provides up. PIYUSH GOYAL Union Minister for Railways THE HARD BARGAINER Present task: Ballot in-charge of Tamil Nadu Core power: The unofficial BJP treasurer, he’s the get together’s bridge between industrialists and merchants and, as Arun Jaitley’s protégé, has a hotline to Shah and Modi Deal delivered: Satisfied the AIADMK to contest solely in 22 of the 39 LS seats within the state, leaving 5 to BJP and relaxation to different NDA allies Social media quotient: 5 million followers on Twitter DEVENDRA FADNAVIS Chief Minister, Maharashtra Maratha Supervisor His grasp’s man: The blue-eyed boy of Narendra Modi, he has satisfied the prime minister to make a number of political amends, together with the choice to resume ties with the Shiv Sena Deal delivered: Labored out the nuts and bolts of the seat-sharing settlement with the Shiv Sena; persuaded BJP president Amit Shah to pay a courtesy go to to Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray at his residence in Mumbai final 12 months; as CM of Maharashtra took a number of administrative choices fulfilling the needs of Sena management Social media quotient: Has three million Twitter followers; personally writes and posts the tweets Communication quotient: Responds to all textual content messages he considers necessary PRAKASH JAVADEKAR Union Minister for Human Useful resource Improvement THE SMOOTH OPERATOR Present task: Ballot in-charge of Rajasthan and Karnataka Deal delivered: He was the important thing negotiator within the renewed alliance between the BJP and Shiv Sena; held a number of rounds of talks with Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray Social media quotient: Has 1.5 million followers on Twitter; typically responds to public grievances The survivor: In Rajasthan, the BJP was thrown out of energy. In Karnataka, regardless of rising because the single-largest get together, it didn’t type the federal government. But Javadekar escaped blame Who knew? When Modi first picked him as minister and later gave him a Cupboard rank, many had been stunned: he was a protégé of the late Pramod Mahajan who needed Modi ousted as Gujarat chief minister following the 2002 riots within the state. SUNIL BANSAL BJP Common Secretary (Organisation), Uttar Pradesh Chanakya of Lucknow Present task: To arrange a listing of profitable candidates in Uttar Pradesh; additionally work with contacts in SP and BSP to interrupt the SP and BSP alliance Core power: Absolute management over the organisation; executes plans quick Sore level: Doesn’t share a great rapport with UP CM Yogi Adityanath Social media quotient: Has 600,000 followers on Twitter; has constructed up a robust social media workforce in Uttar Pradesh prior to now two years RAM MADHAV Nationwide Common Secretary, BJP HIMANTA BISWA SARMA Cupboard Minister, Assam; Convenor, Northeast Democratic Alliance NORTHEAST MANAGERS Present task: Whereas Ram Madhav is the get together in-charge of the Northeast, Sarma is the person on floor, who stitches alliances and chalks out native technique. As NEDA convenor, Sarma has stored all non-Congress political events within the area united underneath the NDA fold regardless of the protests over the Citizenship (Modification) Invoice, 2016. Madhav is working to deliver estranged ally AGP again to the NDA with the assistance of NPP head and Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma; the duo hopes to win 20 out of 25 seats within the Northeast for the NDA Cross-party pals: Sarma’s velocity dial checklist consists of all heads of political events lively within the Northeast; additionally some members of the CWC of the Congress Communication quotient: Madhav is accessible over cellphone to a choose few; Sarma will get calls from high leaders to grassroots staff and holds political rendezvous even at dhabas, or wherever crucial PRIYANKA GANDHI VADRA Congress Common Secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh East THE ALTER EGO Present task: To maximise Congress seats in UP; has already met Dimple Yadav, spouse of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav Advisor-in-chief: Is the last word sounding board for Congress president Rahul Gandhi; helped him finalise the CM names for the three states received by the Congress in December 2018; satisfied him to assault the Modi authorities over Pulwama assault Fingers-on: By way of working model, she is the precise reverse of Rahul; is spontaneous, takes instantaneous choices, doesn’t consider in processes however ensures she isn’t seen as a counterforce to Rahul Social media quotient: Has 200,000 followers on Twitter; has not tweeted but AHMED PATEL Treasurer, Congress The Troubleshooter Present task: To generate assets for the 2019 Lok Sabha ballot, hold line of communication open with possible allies; working together with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on a number of proposed rallies of all opposition events at totally different areas within the nation Man for all seasons: He has the ear of the outdated in addition to the brand new guard within the get together. He’s the popular Congress contact of a number of get together leaders equivalent to Mamata Banerjee, Mayawati, N. Chandrababu Naidu, M.Okay. Stalin and Farooq Abdullah Man in command: He has loyal colleagues and protégés in nearly each stateKamal Nath in Madhya Pradesh, Ashok Gehlot in Rajasthan, Ashok Chavan in Maharashtra, D.Okay. Shivakumar in Karnataka Social media quotient: A reluctant newbie; he’s now lively on Twitter; has 600,000 followers. THE NEW LIEUTENANTS RANDEEP SINGH SURJEWALA Congress Communication In-charge Okay.C. VENUGOPAL Congress Common Secretary (Organisation) He decides on the get together’s public stand on key points. On Pulwama, he opted to go after the Modi authorities from the very first day despite the fact that Rahul Gandhi didn’t need to and later acquired Priyanka Gandhi on board to make Rahul change his thoughts Rahul’s new favorite; shares an amazing equation with H.D. Deve Gowda and his son and Karnataka CM H.D. Kumaraswamy; retains the Congress-JD (S) alliance working; finalised seat-sharing deal in Maharashtra with NCP; one of many key negotiators with DMK THE TRUSTED DUO Okay. RAJU Head of Rahul Gandhi’s workplace Rahul Gandhi’s gatekeeper-in-chief advises him on nearly all the things underneath the solar; his phrase is last on Dalit points; works in shut coordination with Ahmed Patel ASHOK GEHLOT Chief Minister, Rajasthan Rahul values his political recommendation. As an illustration, although Okay.C. Venugopal is Karnataka normal secretary in-charge, Gehlot’s phrases matter lots within the state, contemplating his equation with former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah PRASHANT KISHOR Vice-president, Janata Dal (United) The Service Supplier Present task: Although a JD(U) chief, his organisation IPAC has been taking care of the election technique of Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSRC. The Shiv Sena has additionally sought his assist. Had a number of rounds of debate with Modi and Amit Shah on election technique; Kishor was one in all Modi’s key strategists within the 2014 Lok Sabha ballot Cross-party pals: Has pals in lots of events, from Priyanka Gandhi and Amarinder Singh within the Congress and Modi and Amit Shah within the BJP to Aditya Thackeray within the Shiv Sena and Lalu Yadav within the RJD Communication quotient: Accessible on WhatsApp, prefers WhatsApp calls over common ones Who knew? Kishor suggested Nitish Kumar to take again his chair from Jitan Ram Manjhi THE OUTSIDE SUPPORT Present task: Has been travelling round Bihar to grasp the region-wise, micro-level dynamics of state politics and put together the RJD for the 2019 Lok Sabha election; additionally evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the alliance candidates Previous efficiency: Within the run-up to the Bihar meeting ballot in 2015, he dug out Mohan Bhagwat’s assertion looking for a evaluate of reservations and helped the RJD management make it a giant electoral situation; this explicit Bhagwat interview had nearly gone unnoticed Information defence: When the BJP attacked the RJD’s previous regime as jungle raj’, which at all times put the RJD males on the defensive, Sanjay dug out the GDP and crime information from 1961 to show that Lalu Prasad Yadav’s tenure was not so unhealthy SANJAY YADAV Political advisor to RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav; social and political scientist The Dutiful Spouse DIMPLE YADAV Samajwadi Social gathering MP and spouse of get together chief Akhilesh Yadav Present task: Coordinating with Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi on the casual tactical understanding between Congress and SP for the 2019 Lok Sabha ballot Deal delivered: Within the 2017 meeting ballot, she satisfied Akhilesh to tie up with the Congress after Priyanka had met together with her Communication quotient: A commerce graduate, Dimple is fluent in each English and Hindi, in contrast to most SP leaders; she is among the star campaigners for the get together Cross-party pals: Has good rapport with Congress ladies leaders from UP, equivalent to Aradhana Misra, MLA from Rampur Khas, and Aditi Singh, MLA from Rae Bareli Social media quotient: Has extra that 200,000 followers on Twitter; tweets herself SATISH CHANDRA MISHRA BSP Rajya Sabha MP The Silent Social Engineer Deal delivered: He was the BSP’s chief negotiator within the SP-BSP alliance for the Lok Sabha ballot The occasion supervisor: Earlier than each public look of Mayawati, Mishra prepares the speech, takes care of the safety and finalises the leaders to be seated on the dais Cross-party pals: Has a great rapport with Arun Jaitley The Frequent Good friend RABIN DEB Central Committee Member, CPI(M) Present task: Coordinating with Congress leaders on seat-sharing between the 2 events in West Bengal Mr Wikipedia: At all times prepared with dates and occasion particulars Cross-party pals: Has many pals within the Congress, TMC and BJP Who knew? Deb may be very keen on pocket transistor radios. With Jeemon Jacob, Aravind Gowda Kiran D. Tare, Rahul Noronha, Romita Datta Ashish Misra and Amarnath Okay. Menon Source link

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The Congress in Chhattisgarh has hit out at Mayawati-led BSP for allying with former chief minister Ajit Jogi’s party for the upcoming state assembly election and claimed the pre-poll tie-up has the support of the ruling BJP. The Congress was hoping for an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party to take on the BJP in upcoming polls. It said the BSP has allied with Jogi, an ex-Congressman, as it was facing heat from central government agencies. The Congress said the alliance between the BSP and Jogi’s Janta Congress Chhattisgarh has the support of the BJP, which is ruling the state since 2003. The alliance between the BSP and the JCC was announced in Lucknow Thursday by Mayawati, who said Jogi will be its chief ministerial candidate. According to her, the BSP will contest 35 seats and the JCC 55 in the 90-member House. “Pressure from the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate on the BSP has led to the creation of this alliance. “This alliance had been formed with the BJP’s support and the people of the state had an understanding of it,” state Congress chief Bhupesh Baghel said Thursday. He claimed the BSP had been fielding candidates on the direction of the BJP in all elections in the state so far.The Rediff.com : 21st. Sept,18

CONGRESS PARTY SLAMMED MAYAWATI-LED BSP OVER ALLIANCE WITH AJIT JOGI’s PARTY : The Congress in Chhattisgarh has hit out at Mayawati-led BSP for allying with former chief minister Ajit Jogi's party for the upcoming state assembly election and claimed the pre-poll tie-up has the support of the ruling BJP.

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In setback to Congress, Mayawati joins hands with Ajit Jogi for Chhattisgarh polls

Lucknow: In a setback to the Congress, BSP supremo Mayawati on Thursday announced an alliance with Ajit Jogi’s Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (JCC) for Chhattisgarh elections and declared him the chief ministerial candidate.

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will contest 35 seats and the Janta Congress Chhattisgarh 55 in the 90-member Assembly.

“We have decided to forge an alliance with the Janata Congress Chhattisgarh. Ajit Jogi will be the chief ministerial candidate,” Mayawati said at a press conference here.

“My views on alliance with other parties are clear. We will go for an alliance if our party gets a respectable number of seats and if the ideologies match,” she said.

Mayawati said the BSP and the JCC will soon launch a joint election campaign and a plan for conducting rallies will be finalised soon.

Replying to a question, she said, “Both the parties are capable of stopping the BJP in the state. If some other regional parties want to join us, we will take their help.”

She alleged that the BJP government in Chhattisgarh did nothing for the state in the past 15 years and that a “strong regional representation” was necessary to ensure that it is not neglected.

In Chhattisgarh, the Dalit population plays an important role in determining election results in regions such as Janjgir-Champa, Raigarh and Bastar.

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Voting for Rajya Sabha polls begins across six states

Voting for Rajya Sabha seats has begun across six states.

For the 58 Rajya Sabha seats to be filled, 33 candidates from 10 states have been unanimously elected. Voting for the remaining 25 seats is being held in six states: Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Telangana.

The Rajya Sabha vacancies next month include 17 from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and 12 from the Congress.

Three nominated members - actress Rekha, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, and social worker Anu Aga - will retire in April.

The BJP has filed 18 candidates for the biennial polls. They include Anil Baluni, the national head of the BJP's media wing, from Uttarakhand and Saroj Pandey, BJP general secretary, from Chhattisgarh.

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda has filed nomination papers as the BJP candidate from Himachal Pradesh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will contest from Uttar Pradesh and Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from Bihar.

The BJP has also fielded Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot from Madhya Pradesh for another Rajya Sabha term.

Union Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Mansukh L. Mandaviya and Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Parshottam Rupala will contest from Gujarat.

In Congress, Naranbhai Rathwa and Amee Yajnik will contest from Gujarat and Dhiraj Prasad will contest from Jharkhand.

Akhilesh Prasad Singh and Lekhram Sahu will contest from Bihar and Chhattisgarh respectively, while Rajmani Patel, Kumar Ketkar, Porika Bairam Naik and Abhishek Manu Singhvi are contesting from Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana and West Bengal, respectively.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee earlier said the Trinamool Congress would back Singhvi.

Mahendra Prasad Singh and Bashistha Narain Singh are the Janata Dal (United) candidates for the polls.

Counting of votes will begin from 5 pm onwards on Friday. Results are expected to will be announced the same evening. 

  Lucknow: Visuals from Uttar Pradesh Assembly; CM Yogi Adityanath meets party MLAs, Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma also present. #RajyaSabhaElections pic.twitter.com/DwSfe53Aqj

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  I have voted for BJP, I don't know about the rest: Anil Singh, BSP MLA #RajyaSabhaElections pic.twitter.com/28R7njmfnP

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  BJP will win all the nine Rajya Sabha seats where we have fielded our candidates. Nine more BJP candidates will make entry to #RajyaSabha from #UttarPradesh this time: Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya pic.twitter.com/7w4IWoWFRW

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SP's prestige at stake in capital Lucknow's 9 seats

SP’s prestige at stake in capital Lucknow’s 9 seats

Lucknow: Ruling Samajwadi Party is facing a tough battle as it tries to retain the seven Assembly seats it had won last time out of nine in Uttar Pradesh capital, while BJP and BSP queer the pitch.

The two other seats were shared by BJP and Congress.

The SP candidates include Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav and three ministers, one of whom was recently sacked.

BJP has preferred…

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Uttarakhand votes tomorrow, 2nd phase in Uttar Pradesh

LUCKNOW/DEHRADUN:  Polling will be held tomorrow in 67 Assembly constituencies of western Uttar Pradesh in the second of seven phases and in 69 Assembly seats in Uttarakhand.

The ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pardesh had in 2012 won 34 of these seats spread across 11 districts. It has tied-up with Congress this time in the contest against BJP and BSP.

720 candidates are in the fray in this…