The Congress on Saturday introduced 45 names in its fourth record of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls whereas one seat for the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) in Rajasthan. Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh will contest the Rajgarh seat within the State whereas Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai has been fielded from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s seat of Varanasi. Chhattisgarh Congress chief and sitting member from Bastar, Deepak Baij, has been dropped because the occasion named Kawasi Lakhma from the seat.
Electoral bonds linked to venture clearances by BRS authorities in Telangana
The buy of electoral bonds and subsequent encashment by the then ruling occasion in Telangana, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), appeared to be carefully linked to the award of contracts and opening of recent items by donor firms, if the report submitted to the Election Commission (EC) is to be believed .In Telangana, the BRS encashed the bonds donated by IRB Infra, which have been bought a couple of weeks after the Outer Ring Road (ORR) contract was awarded to the corporate. The BRS authorities gave a Letter of Acceptance (LoA) to IRB Infra on April 27, 2023, leasing out the ORR for 30 years for upkeep.
BJP made ‘bribes’ authorized through electoral bonds: Congress
Alleging that the electoral bond (EB) scheme ensured that “prepaid, postpaid, and post-raid bribes” might be routed by way of common banking channels, the Congress on March 23 reiterated its demand for a Supreme Court-monitored investigation into the scheme .Addressing a press convention at occasion headquarters, Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh mentioned that an evaluation of lately printed State Bank of India (SBI) knowledge has revealed that 38 company teams acquired 179 authorities contracts and tasks price ₹3.8 lakh crore after donating electoral bonds to the BJP.
AAP raises concern with CEC as Delhi Police block occasion workplace
Alleging that the Delhi police have blocked all routes to the Aam Aadmi Party’s workplace within the nationwide capital after the arrest of the occasion’s nationwide convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the AAP wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on March 23 in search of a gathering to current their pressing grievances.
Winter lacks chunk in Munnar as frost provides the hill station a miss this yr
Munnar, the hill station famed for its misty mornings from December to February, has deviated from its typical winter sample this yr. Officials say winter was marked by a complete lack of frost, a primary up to now twenty years, which is unprecedented .Data from the United Planters Association of South India tea analysis centre in Munnar present that no sub-zero temperature was reported this yr in Munnar city. “The lowest recorded temperature was 2°C on January 18 and 19 at Silent Valley Estate under Kanan Devan Plantations in Munnar. “This year, there was an absence of frosty conditions in Munnar compared to the past 20 years,” says a supply.
Nitish shortlists JD(U) candidates for 16 seats in Bihar, lots of them are sitting MPs
With the primary part of the upcoming Lok Sabha election lower than a month away, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ally, the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), has shortlisted candidates for its 16 constituencies in Bihar primarily based on seat-sharing throughout the alliance. Barring a couple of seats, occasion president and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, it’s mentioned, has opted to repeat a number of candidates.
Now, Karnataka knocks on Supreme Court’s door in search of drought aid from Centre
As repeated appeals in search of funds underneath the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) from the Centre haven’t yielded outcomes, the Congress authorities in Karnataka has filed a petition within the Supreme Court in opposition to the Union authorities for denying monetary help for drought administration within the State .The transfer is anticipated to set off a recent political debate within the run-up to the two-phase Lok Sabha elections within the State. Earlier too, Karnataka raised the problem of “discrimination” by the Centre in devolution of funds, clearances to tasks and monetary help for schemes.
Continuing to keep up an ambivalent stance in the direction of forging an alliance with the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) president Prakash Ambedkar on Saturday mentioned his occasion would announce its choice on March 26 on whether or not it might contest the Lok Sabha election independently or go together with the MVA. Mr. Ambedkar once more claimed that the MVA events (which embrace Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena UBT, the Congress, and Sharad Pawar’s NCP-SP) had but to resolve their seat-sharing issues and that it was unsuitable to level fingers on the VBA for performing as a roadblock in seat-sharing discussions.
2024 Lok Sabha election: U.P. BJP to depute minority occasion employees to counter ‘bogus’ voting
In a primary of its sort transfer, the Uttar Pradesh wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will depute ladies members from the Muslim group as brokers on minority dominant polling cubicles to maintain a verify on bogus voters for the upcoming Lok Sabha election. The BJP Minority Morcha, which deliberate this initiative, mentioned the main focus will likely be on components of Western U.P. from the place the occasion claims to have acquired reviews of bogus voting in earlier elections.
Andre Russel’s all-round effort headlined Kolkata Knight Riders’ sweaty four-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad of their IPL match right here on Saturday .Russell’s brutal unbeaten 64 off 25 balls with three fours and 7 sixes and Phil Salt’s extra pragmatic 54 off 40 balls guided KKR to 208 for seven. Left-arm pacer T Natarajan was their most profitable bowler with a three-wicket haul (3/32). At a number of factors, SRH threatened to chase 208 down, significantly when Heinrich Klaasen (63, 29b, 8x6s) went berserk within the backend of the innings.
Hong Kong lawmakers handed a new nationwide safety legislation on Tuesday that grants the federal government extra energy to quash dissent, broadly seen as the most recent step in a sweeping political crackdown that was triggered by pro-democracy protests in 2019. The legislature handed the Safeguarding National Security Law throughout a particular session Tuesday. It comes on high of an identical legislation imposed by Beijing 4 years in the past, which has already largely silenced opposition voices within the monetary hub.
BJP ends alliance with SKM; to contest Lok Sabha, Assembly polls in Sikkim alone
The BJP on March 23 referred to as off its alliance with the ruling Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) and introduced that the occasion would go alone within the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections within the Himalayan State. The SKM, then again, didn’t rule out the potential of a post-poll alliance with the BJP on the strains of an identical association made after the 2019 polls. The announcement to battle the upcoming polls alone was made by State BJP president D.R. Thapa, who returned to Sikkim after attending a gathering with the occasion’s central management in Delhi on seat-sharing with SKM.
Israel says 170 Gaza gunmen killed in hospital raid
Israeli forces combating in Gaza have killed greater than 170 gunmen throughout their days-long raid on the Palestinian enclave’s fundamental hospital, the army mentioned on Saturday .Israeli troops entered Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City within the early hours of March 18 morning and have been combing by way of the sprawling complicated, which the army says is linked to a tunnel community used as a base for Hamas and different Palestinian fighters. “Thus far, the forces eliminated more than 170 terrorists in the area of the hospital, questioned over 800 suspects, and located numerous weapons and terror infrastructure,” the army mentioned.
A neighborhood courtroom has directed authorities to protect CCTV digicam footage on a plea filed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in search of the elimination of a Delhi Police officer deployed for safety within the courtroom for alleged misconduct .“Application has been filed on behalf of the accused [Kejriwal] stating that the security staff/in-charge responsible for bringing him for production before the court, namely ACP [Assistant Commissioner of Police] A.K. Singh, is unnecessarily harsh and mishandled the people around the courtroom,” Special Judge Kaveri Baweja famous.
The 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, that are set to start from April 19, will see the nation vote in seven phases as simultaneous elections additionally happen for 4 State Assemblies — Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh .A complete of 102 Parliamentary constituencies in 21 States and Union Territories (UTs) will go to the polls within the first part on April 19. The final date of nominations in Phase 1 for all 20 States and UTs aside from Bihar is March 27. For Bihar, it’s March 28 as a result of a pageant.
