Regional 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. Gas Today KHUMBONG INDANE Booking upto ---------- 03-10-14 Valid From ------------- 03-09-14 Stock --------------------- 306 Time - 7:30 am to 10:00 am M/S RONGMEI SK INDANE, WANGOI Booking upto ---------- 30-08-14 Valid From ------------- 25-08-14 Stock --------------------- 306 Time - 6:30 am to 10:00 am TDK GAS Booking upto ---------- 08-07-14 Valid From ------------- 03-07-14 Stock --------------------- 612 Time - 7:30 am to 10:30 am MANIPUR POLICE GAS SERVICE Booking upto ---------- 26-08-14 Valid From ------------- 25-08-14 Stock --------------------- 306 Time - 10:00 am to 1:00 pm 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.
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