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IMPHAL MONDAY 27 OCTOBER 2014
Shiv Sena offers Rs 21,000 cash to Hindu
families with 10 or more children
Akhilesh
sacks 82 MoS
NEW DELHI, Oct 26: Reactions flowed on Sunday on reports
of Shiv Sena's Uttar Pradesh unit to felicitate Hindu families with
10 or more children.
The Uttar Pradesh unit of Shiv Sena reportedly is offering
Rs 21,000 in cash to each Hindu family having 10 or more
children as according to them its an effort to counter the
“growing influence of other communities”.
Reports say the party would hold a programme in November-end to reward these families along with an appreciation
certificate with a message, “Rashtra hit me Hinduon ki
jansankhya badhane ke liye (For increasing population of
Hindus in the interest of the nation).”
Congress leader Rashid Alvi said that Shiv Sena always
tries to divide the society on basis of religion.
Another Congress leader JP Agarwal said that such remarks and actions are very rude to society as a whole. SP
leader Rajendra Chaudhary said that such actions are against
democracy and slammed Shiv Sena for trying to promote
division in society.
Meanwhile, Shahi Imam of Masjid Fatehpuri, Mufti
Mukarram said that no community thinks on these lines to
increase its population and condemned Shiv Sena for its remark.
LUCKNOW, Oct 26: Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav Saturday
evening sacked 82 persons
holding minister-of-state rank,
including advisors and chairmen of various corporations.
This mass sacking has rattled the supporters of the
ruling Samajwadi Party (SP).
However, N.C. Bajpayi
(deputy chairman, State
Planning Commission), poet
Gopal Das Neeraj (chairman,
Hindi Bhasha Sansthan) and
former party MP Uday
Pratap Singh (chairman,
Hindi Academy) have been
spared.
The cracking of the whip
was long overdue as the
party leadership had made up
its mind to axe these persons
after the humiliating defeat of
the party in the Lok Sabha
elections, said party insiders.
Agencies
BJP may contest without ally in Jharkhand
RANCHI, Oct 26: After winning 12 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in
Jharkhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is determined to go it
alone in the upcoming assembly elections.
BJP national vice president Raghubar Das said, "Our party
will contest on its own strength in the assembly polls. There
is no question of forging an alliance with any party.
"People of the state are with the BJP. This was evident in
the Lok Sabha election."
Jharkhand will witness a five-phase poll on Nov 25 and
Dec 2, 9, 14 and 20.
The BJP fought the 2009 assembly polls in alliance with
the Janata Dal-United (JD-U). It won 18 seats.
This was far less than the 33 seats it had won in 2000,
which slipped to 30 in 2005. The Jharkhand BJP is divided
in two groups. One favours an alliance with the All Jharkhand
Students Union (AJSU) while the other wants to go it alone.
BJP national vice president Raghubar Das, a former state
president and a former deputy chief minister, is against any
alliance. Another senior leader, Yashwant Sinha, is also opposed to alliances.
"Why should we go for any alliance when people are with
us?" Sinha asked recently. "The Modi factor is enough." he
said, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The BJP is working on a mission to win 55 of the 81 seats
in the state. In the Lok Sabha battle, the BJP led in 58
assembly segments.
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By-election loss sparks conflicts in
BJP, Congress in Odisha
BHUBANESWAR, Oct 26:
The defeat in the Kandhamal
Lok Sabha by-election has
triggered intra-party conflicts
in the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) and the Congress in
Odisha.
While a section of Congress leaders want a new
state leaderships, the BJP has
suspended one of its leaders
after he tweeted that the party
must introspect why the
Modi wave was diluted in
the state.
The ruling Biju Janata
Dal`s (BJD) Pratyusha
Rajeswari Singh won from
Kandhamal by nearly three
lakh votes over her nearest
rival -- BJP`s Rudra Madhav
Ray. She secured 477,529
votes and Ray 178,661 votes.
Congress
candidate
Abhimanyu Behera stood
third with 90,536 votes. The
Oct 15 election followed the
death of BJD`s Hemendra
Chandra Singh. Rajeswari is
his widow.
Former minister and sen-
ior
Congress
leader
Dolagovinda Pradhan said he
had written to party president
Sonia Gandhi seeking an immediate change in the state
leadership.
"It was because of the
weak state leaderships that
people are distancing themselves from the party. The
Congress has not only fared
poorly in Kandhamal but our
candidate lost his security
deposit," he said.
The Congress is the main
opposition party in the state.
In the BJP, Ashok Sahu,
a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer who held
the post of state vice president and spokesman in
2009-13, said the party`s
state unit required immediate
surgery.
"The Kandhamal by-poll
result is a lesson for the BJP
to introspect why Modi wave
is diluted in Odisha unlike
other parts in the country,"
Sahu said, referring to Prime
Minister Narendra Modi.
Muslim man arranges
cremation of Hindu 'sister'
RAMPUR, Oct 26: In a heartwarming display of communal
harmony, a Muslim man in a village near here made the
arrangements for the cremation of a Hindu widow, whom he
treated as his sister and had been supporting for a long time.
The unique story is from Moondha Pandey village, about
10 km from here. After the death of her husband, Yashodra
Devi had been living in a hut with her mother and son in an
extremely pitiable condition in Maualagarh in Moondha
Pandey, according to reports in the village.
Moved by her ordeal, Aslam Beg of the same village made
Yashodra her 'rakhi sister' and urged her to treat him as her
elder brother.
Thereafter, Aslam arranged a house for Yashodha's family
and even provided her with financial assistance. For 15 years,
the two shared the relationship and participated in each other's
festivities, they said.
However, yesterday, while Aslam was about to go to
Yashodha's house for 'Bhai Dooj', she passed away due to
illness.
Yashodha's relatives had planned to cremate her at
Maulagarh itself, but Aslam insisted on taking the body to
Garhmukteshwar. Bearing all expenses, Aslam took
Yashodha's body and her relatives to the banks of Ganga in
Garhmukteshwar and got her last rites performed there.
––PTI
"The BJP in Odisha, as it
appears, requires immediate
surgery. It is unfortunate that
some in the BJP are celebrating it as an achievement," he
said.
"This euphoria," Sahu
added, "does not augur well
for the party. We, in the BJP,
both leaders at the state level
and the workers, have to do
a lot at the ground level..."
The BJP suspended Sahu
Thursday and served him a
show cause notice asking
him to explain why he
should not be expelled.
A day after his suspension, Sahu hit back saying
the action against him was
whimsical. He said the BJP
leaderships in Odisha was
weak and corrupt.
Sahu also alleged that state
BJP chief K.V. Singh Deo
had close links with the mining mafia.
He called some former
ministers now in the BJP as
corrupt.
Agencies
Woman harassed and thrown
out of a running train
MUZAFFARNAGAR, Oct 26: A 26-year-old woman was
allegedly harassed and thrown out of a running train by a youth in
the neighbouring Shamli district, Government Railway Police said
today.
The incident took place yesterday when the victim was
travelling to Rewari in Ajmer-Haridwar train, after a tour of
Uttarakhand with her friends, Dy SP Ranjna Tyagi said.
The unidentified youth eve-teased and also tried to loot the
woman, police said, adding that when she resisted the harassment, she was thrown out of the train by him.
The injured girl was later rushed to the hospital in a serious
condition, the GRP said. An inquiry has been initiated into the
incident and the GRP are on a lookout for the absconding
accused.
Railway police have registered a case against the accused.
9 killed, 24 injured in road accident
NAGAON, Oct 26: At least nine persons, including five women,
were killed and 24 injured when a bus in which they were travelling
fell into a roadside ditch at Uluani in Nagaon district on Sunday.
The incident occurred when the bus ferrying passengers
from Lakhimpur district to Guwahati for a train journey to
Delhi hit the railing of a small bridge before rolling down into
a ditch at around 1.30 am, Superintendent of Police Arabinda
Kalita said. Eight persons, including the bus driver, died on
the spot, while a woman succumbed to her wounds in hospital, he said. The injured passengers were admitted to hospital.
Five critically injured persons were referred to the Gauhati
Medical College Hospital, Kalita said.
The surviving passengers said the chartered bus was carrying 35 people from Lakhimpur district to Guwahati so that
they could board a train this morning for their onward journey
to Delhi.