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15 held for rioting in Jalna, Poorna
Maharashtra poll: Dalits hold the
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SP nominees for 2 LS, 8 Assembly seats
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Andhra to see another
sonrise
6 BJP posers to Cong on Savarkar
issue
Gangster held at
Haldwani
Aiyar unfazed by Shiv Sena’s agitation
Bahamas wants more information from CBI about Quattrocchi
Chaos at Chhatra Parisad meeting
5 of family stabbed to
death
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15 held for rioting in Jalna, Poorna
Mumbai, August 29 According to Jalna district police sources, 14 persons were arrested for the post-blast rioting and arson in the town, while Parbhani district police, under whose jurisdiction the Poorna town comes, has arrested one person for rioting. However, no one has been arrested so far in both towns in connection with the blasts that occurred when people had gathered at the mosques for Friday prayers. Prohibitory orders restricting movement of people were imposed by the police in Jalna and Poorna towns last night as a precautionary measure although situaton has returned to normal, control room sources from both districts told PTI on phone. Parbhani town, which also witnessed violent incidents as a fall out of the blast that occurred in neighbouring Poorna town, also remained peaceful and prohibitory orders were relaxed last night, the sources said. Aurangabad Special Inspector General of Police (IGP), B.D. More is camping in Jalna, supervising situation along with Jalna Superintendent of Police, Dilp Srirao, while his counter part from Nanded, IGP B.N. Raut is in Parbhani town. Parbhani SP, Rajesh Mor is camping in Poorna, state police control sources said. Sangli: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President and Union Minister Sharad Pawar has said the bomb blasts in Jalna and Poorna towns in Marathwada and subsequent violence were the handiwork of communal forces, aimed at creating trouble before elections. Addressing a press conference at Atapadi town in the district yesterday, Mr Pawar asserted that these forces would not be allowed to succeed in disturbing peace and communal amity in the state. He hinted at ‘’minor’’ changes in the allotment of Assembly seats between the NCP and its ally Congress for the October 13 elections. The two parties had fought the 1999 elections separately. — PTI, UNI |
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Maharashtra poll: Dalits hold the
key
Mumbai, August 29 The different factions of the RPI and the BSP are locked in a pitched battle for the legacy of Babasaheb Ambedkar and threaten to play the spoiler for the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance. Leaders of the RPI scored a major victory this week when NCP President Sharad Pawar refused to tie up with the BSP without consulting the former. Three factions of the RPI are part of the Democratic Front government in Maharashtra headed by the Congress and the NCP. However, the BSP threatens to spoil the party for the secular outfits with its ability to cut into their votes in at least 70 of the 288 seats in Maharashtra. “We will look at the forthcoming election to enhance our party’s strength without bothering about who is going to be benefited by our contesting the election,” says BSP President Vilas Garud ominiously. The BSP, which has made major inroads in the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of Maharashtra, bagged 3 per cent of the votes in the Lok Sabha polls spoiling the chances of Congress-NCP candidates in as many as 11 of the 48 seats. Understandably, Sharad Pawar, who is stitching up the secular alliance in Maharashtra, is working hard to prevent the non-Hindutva votes from splitting. “We don’t want to lose traditional partners for new ones,” states NCP chief and Pawar acolyte R.R. Patil. Meanwhile, efforts are on to bring the factions of the RPI and the BSP on board the secular alliance. Acording to sources, Pawar’s emissaries are in touch with Mayawati and RPI leaders like Ramdas Athvale and Prakash Ambedkar to come together on one platform. |
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SP nominees for 2 LS, 8 Assembly seats
Lucknow, August 29 The SP candidates for the eight Assembly constituencies are: Mr Shyam Prakash (Ahirouri Hardoi), the Ram Chandra Yadav (Milkipur-Faizabad), Ms Nandita Shukla (Mujehna-Gonda), Ms Sharaddha Devi (Mariyahun-Jaunpur), Mr Ujjwal Singh (Karchhana-Allahabad), Mohd Ashraf (Allahabad (West) and Mr Rajnath Yadav (Saidpur-Ghazipur). Mr Ujjwal Singh, the candidate from Karchhana is the son of Mr Rewati Raman Singh, a former state Transport Minister. The candidate from Madiyahun, Ms Shraddha Devi, has been selected to replace her husband, Mr Paras Nath Yadav, who has also joined the Lok Sabha. Likewise, Mr Mohd Ashraf (Allahabad West) is the younger brother of Mr Ateeq Ahmad. |
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Andhra to see another
sonrise
Hyderabad, August 29 Vivekananda submitted his resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Friday, apparently to fulfil the wishes of the family to accommodate his brother’s son. With the latest development,
Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, son of Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR), is all set to make a grand entry into electoral politics by contesting from the Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency, the traditional stronghold of the family. Vivekananda Reddy had earlier announced his intention to vacate the seat for personal reasons. The Chief Minister, who himself had won the Kadapa Lok Sabha seat first in 1989, then in 1991, 1996 and 1998, almost supported the view when he told reporters that there was a possibility of his son stepping into the shoes of his brother. Confirming that Vivekananda Reddy was planning to quit politics, YSR had said, “It is true that he has been contemplating such a move. It’s because he wants to settle down in the US where his daughter resides.” But it is now clear that Vivekananda was not leaving the country, but had vacated the seat only to promote
Jagan. Vivekananda Reddy was apparently against contesting in the recent polls, but was prevailed upon to stay put as it was felt by the family that a greenhorn like Jagan might not be able to stand up to Dr V. Mysoora Reddy, YSR’s bete noir and a long-standing Congressman who had switched sides to the TDP just before the elections. A businessman by profession, Jagan Mohan Reddy, who owns mini-hydel projects in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, has been in the thick of political action during the recent Assembly and Parliament polls, helping the family romp home. Though the son was raring to jump headlong into the electoral fray YSR was said to have opposed the move, asking him to concentrate instead on the business ventures of the family. Especially after he became the CM, YSR was particular that his son should not dabble in politics, as it might provide grist to his enemies both within and outside the party. However, with Jagan’s insistence on his interest in politics and the family supporting his decision, the Chief Minister is said to have succumbed to the pressure of formally allowing his entry through the Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency. Jagan’s power projects and his alleged involvement in Rayalaseema faction feuds had rocked the Assembly several times during the TDP’s regime. The latest move is likely to create more controversies involving the son in the coming days, what with the Opposition TDP desperately looking for chinks in YSR’s
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6 BJP posers to Cong on Savarkar
issue
Chennai, August 29 He said senior Congress leader and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had reportedly said the party did not agree with Mr Aiyar’s views or action, which indicated that the party’s views on Savarkar were different. Through his six questions Mr Naidu wanted to know why Congress President Ms Sonia Gandhi had opposed the unveiling of Savarkar’s portrait in the Central Hall of Parliament last year and written to President
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam not to participate in the unveiling function and to the then Speaker, Mr Manohar Joshi, not to have the portrait in Parliament. He also asked why she had mentioned in her letters that it would “give credibility” to the activities and “divisive policies” of Savarkar if the President graced the function and it would be a “great tragedy” if the portrait was installed in the Central Hall of Parliament.. He asked whether Ms. Gandhi’s stand was different from that of Mr. Aiyar and wanted to know if her opposition to the unveiling of Savarkar’s portrait was “in her personal capacity”. Mr Naidu asked: “If the Congress party today says ‘we do not agree with him’, is it ready to declare that we do not agree with Ms. Gandhi too”? Mr Naidu had earlier posed six questions on the controversial issue related to former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti, who has been remanded in judicial custody in Karnataka. He criticised what he described as the “confrontationist” attitude of the Congress-led government at the Centre, which has completed 100 days in office. Mr Naidu said: “They have not consulted the Opposition on any major issue, be it Manipur, or Kashmir or the Punjab government’s unilateral decision to abrogate the water sharing agreements or inflation.” Referring to Dr. Manmohan Singh not accepting the opposition’s memorandum containing suggestions on the Finance Bill, he said. “It was the height of confrontation”. He demanded to know how the government could hold consultations with the Left parties but ignore the BJP while Parliament was in session. The BJP would organise a week-long “satyagraha” in Bangalore from September 1 during which batches of party leaders and workers would court arrest on each day in support of three demands.The demands were removal of the “tainted” Union Ministers, withdrawal of the cases against Ms Uma Bharti at Hubli and restoration of the plaque containing Savarkar’s words at the Port Blair memorial. |
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Gangster held at
Haldwani
Dehradun, August 29 The police nabbed him when he, along with two others was on his way to kidnap a businessman from the Bareilly Road area. The police had seized a Maruti car and some drugs from the gangsters. The police had arrested two of Khan’s accomplices — Akbar Ali and Dilshad — when they came to collect ransom from a businessman, Shakil Ahmed, alias KK, on Thursday night. The gang had been threatening the businessman for the past few days, the police said. According to Mr Vijay Shankhare, SSP Nainital, the arrest of his accomplices led Khan to believe that the businessman had informed the police and cheated him. Khan along with his brother, Niyaz Khan, and two others, Sher Ali and Lal Singh, decided to kidnap the businessman. The four were at a hideout waiting for sunset to execute the crime when the police, on a tipoff, reached the site. After an exchange of fire in the forest, the police arrested them. Gulzar Khan and his brother, Niyaz Khan, had created terror in Haldwani and there were 16 cases, including kidnapping, murder and extortion, pending against Gulzar Khan in Haldwani alone, Mr Shankhare said. Besides Uttaranchal, Khan operated in UP and Delhi, the SSP said, adding that he had been awarded life imprisonment before he was released on parole. Khan had received Rs 12 lakh as ransom in cases of kidnapping, the police said. |
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Aiyar unfazed by Shiv Sena’s agitation
New Delhi, August 29 Brushing aside the agitation against him, Mr Aiyar told a private TV channel here that everyone had a right to protest in a democracy. Hoping to reap electoral dividend out of the Savarkar issue in the coming assembly elections in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Friday had launched “jode maro” agitation against Mr Ayiar for his allegedly ordering the removal of a plaque from the Cellular Jail in Andaman, which contained the freedom fighter’s quotes on it. The Congress leaders at the Centre and in Maharashtra, however, said Mr Ayiar did not take the decision as a minister but in the capacity of the chairman of a trust, which had decided to place the plaque in the Cellular jail during the tenure of his predecessor Ram Naik. |
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Bahamas wants more information from
New Delhi, August 29 The CBI has received a communication from Bahamas authorities in response to a letters rogatory issued by a special court here earlier for probing the alleged money transactions by Quattrocchi in the island nation, the sources said. The letters rogatory was issued by the court on February 24 this year through Indian mission in Bahamas. CBI, which has so far been unsussessful in getting Quattrocchi extradited to India to face trial in the Rs 64 crore pay off case, was a key accused along with three Europe-based Hiduja brothers who are presently facing trial in the two-decade-old scam. CBI had sought details from Bahamas about the accounts in AES bank, from where the money was allegedly transferred to a London bank account of Quattrocchi, which the agency had managed to freez on the basis of a separate letters rogatory to Britain. The CBI sources said the information to be supplied to Bahamas authorities would be processed soon and would be communicated to them accordingly. The agency, which had still been probing the route of the illegal pay off to middlemen in the Bofors deal, signed in 1986 with Swedish company AB Bofors, had been pursuing the extradition of Quattrocchi at various levels even as the Interpol has issued red corner alert about him. |
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Chaos at Chhatra Parisad meeting
Kolkata, August 29 At both meetings there was utter chaos and pandemonium over their legal rights in the holding of the celebrations. At the meeting at Mohammed Ali Park, which was the venue of the TMC function, the two groups threw chairs, stones and brickbats, at each other injuring several people. Ms Mamata Banerjee, who was to inaugurate the function there, did not turn up. At the meeting at Mahataji Sadan, Union Minister Pranab Mukherjee, WBPCC (I) chief Priya Dasmunshi and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot were among those who addressed the gathering. |
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5 of family stabbed to
death
Lucknow, August 29 He said Durgadutt was a native of Nepal and used to work as a peon in the RTO office here. The IG said the murders reportedly took place after midnight and possibly someone known to the family was involved in the crime since the house was open with an open and a lock along with the key was found hanging on the front door. The IG said a blood-stained knife was found in a water bucket in the house. The exact cause of the killings was yet to be ascertained. Investigations were on even as dog squads had been roped in to collect the vital clues about the killers. The bodies have been sent for a post-mortem, Mr Sulkhan Singh said. — UNI |
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