Politics

An auxiliary polling station has been set up at the Dari old-age home to facilitate 24 elderly inmates to cast their votes in Dharamshala.

A total of 9.57 lakh voters are expected to participate in the bypolls being held in Vattiyoorkavu (Thiruvananthapuram), Aroor (Alapuzha), Konni (Pathnamthitta), Ernakulam and Manjeshwaram (Kasaragod) in Kerala.

He assured that the Haryana Police had made elaborate security arrangements for fair, peaceful and incident-free conduct of the assembly elections, in which over 1.83 people are eligible to vote.

A founder leader of the CPI(M), Velikkakath Sankaran Achuthanandan, popularly known as VS Achutanandan, whose life has been linked to the history of Communist movement in the state.

In a column in Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana', party's Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut also claimed that the poll plunge of Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray's son Aaditya Thackeray will change the state's 'political dynamics' in coming years.

Deoband's Gajraj Rana said that he was confident that the Supreme Court's verdict would be in favour of the Ram temple, and swords could be useful in their protection.

As part of election preparedness, the neighbouring states will also deploy maximum force in their territory to ensure sealing of inter-state borders before the polls.

TMC also hit out at the BJP government at the Centre for allegedly trying to drive out Bengalis from Assam in the name of implementation of the National Register of Citizens.

When asked if the government in power was using central agencies like the CBI and ED to silence the opposition, Shah pointed out that a lot of FIRs against leaders were in fact, filed under the UPA government.

In the latest editorial on its mouthpiece People's Democracy, the party called the government 'hindutva rulers' and said it was trying to create a communal division.

The Samajwadi Party leader said he was paying the price for protecting the interests of the people of Rampur.

The party also asked the RBI to strengthen its inspection processes by deploying more skilled staff. The insurance cover for deposits should be increased from Rs one lakh to Rs five lakh, the party said.

At a recent public meeting in the poll-bound Maharashtra, Mayawati had said she would convert to Buddhism at an appropriate time.

The CPI leaders who expressed unhappiness over the ‘adamant attitude’ of the government towards the striking employees accused of them failing to address the issue.

'This (BJP) is not the Congress party and nobody can run it from behind the scene,' party chief Amit Shah said.

'J&K and Ladakh are moving on path of trust and development and credit for this does not go to Modi, but it goes to 130 crore people of this country.' Mod said.