MY fight only against cong: smrita mahajan
Indore: BJP candidate Smitra Mahajan who filed her nomination papers on Friday denied that she was locked in a tri-angular fight in Indore. Disapproving of any influence of Aaam Admi Party in Indore, Mahajan said that her fight is only against the Congress party. She was talking to media persons after filing her nomination papers at the collectorate here on Friday. This is for the eighth consecutive time that Mahajan is looking forward to get elected from Indore parliamentary seat. Earlier in the morning, Mahajan accompanied by her two sons and daughter-in-laws wen to Khajrana temple where she offered her prayer before lord Ganesh. From there she drove straight to Rajwada where a large number of party workers and leaders were waiting for her arrival. After reaching Rajwada, Sumitra who is also known as ‘Tai' among her party workers, offered prayer before the statue of Ahilya Mata and addressed huge gathering of the party workers.
Speaking on the occasion, Mahajan said that people of Indore have always supported the BJP as they believe in development. She said it was the BJP which laid foundation for Indore's development and whatever development Indore has witnessed over the years, it is all due to the BJP.
Describing the present election as crucial, she said today the Congress party is finding itself encircled with peoples' problems, while it is the people who are fighting elections for us and would emerge victorious. Expressing confidence over the BJP's victory, she said formation of the Narendra Modi-led BJP government. It is only that we need convey message to the people that if they want to see strong and prosperous India, the BJP will have to be sent to the power and make Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of the country. Sumitra Mahajan is pitted against Satyanarayan Patel of the Congress. Though Aaam Admi Party has also fielded its candidate Anil Trivedi from Indore, it will hardly have any impact on the poll outcome.
District admin raids Bhaiya book store
Indore: The district administration raided the Bhaiya store book seller at Khajuri Bazaar, Indore and booked him for violating IPC Section 144. Bhaiya store was selling the books in form of complete set for some big schools of Indore. District education officer Sanjay Goyal and Tehsildar Rajkumar Haldhar reached on Bhaiya store situated at Khajuri Bazaar Indore and inspected and found the books and notebooks tied in form of complete set for fixed classes. The officers when asked the customers, they narrated the whole story. The books of Emerald Heights International School and others schools were found packed in form of set for different classes. The guardian of the students purchasing the books told the officers that the school administration has instructed them to purchase the books from Bhaiya store. At other books shops the books of concerned writers and publication is not available which are taught in the schools.
The officers prepared a panchnama of the book sets and recorded the statement of the parents. Indore has become an education hub and more than 3,000 schools and colleges are in Indore district. With the beginning of the new education session the school owners and book sellers have developed a partnership to earn the high profit from the parents. The book sellers give a commission of more than 35 per cent to the school owners of total sale. The school owners in greed of commission force the parents to buy the school books set and uniform from the fixed shop indicated by them. The shopkeepers in turn dupe the parents with high prices. The books set of the classes nursery starts from Rs2,600 and reach up to Rs4,000 for higher classes and other Rs4,000 for school uniform. The parents demanded the administration that Section 144 is not enough to control this black-marketing of books and criminal cases should be registered against the shopkeepers and school owners.
‘state Farmers yet to get compensation’
Sagar: Alleging that no bracket in Madhya Pradesh is benefitting from the National Food Security Scheme, Minister of State for Power Jyotiraditya Scindia today said the State's farmers are yet to receive compensation for crops damaged by hail.
He further alleged, “The Bharatiya Janata Party regime is interested in only getting the advertisements published. A sum of Rs500 crore provided by the Centre has also not been disbursed. Until the peasants are compensated, I will neither wear garlands nor accept formal welcomes. I will sport a black band as a mark of protest.”
The visiting politician addressed meetings in this divisional headquarters, Shamshabad and Nariyawali. “The State's law and order situation is in shambles. Ten per cent of the total crimes committed in the country are perpetrated in Madhya Pradesh. As many as 14 per cent of the rapes and 40 per cent of female foeticide take place in the state. The Chief Minister (Shivraj Singh Chouhan) only makes announcements. Of the 7,000 announcements made, 5,000 are on the backburner,” Scindia said.
Cong’s Guddu pays obeisance at Ganesh temple
Indore: Ujjain's outgoing Congress parliamentarian Premchand Guddu on Friday paid obeisance at the Khajrana Ganesh Temple here prior to submitting his nomination papers in the same constituency.
“In my present capacity, I did a considerable amount of work for Ujjain and expect that the people would repose faith in me again on that basis and provide an opportunity to do more work,” he told media after offering puja.
No IPl matches in picturesque Dharamshala
Shimla: Amid increasing conflict between the State Government and Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA), the State has been devoid of the thrill of high voltage T20 cricket matches in India’s most picturesque stadium at Dharamshala.HPCA headed by former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal’s son Anurag Thakur has been facing series of inquiries on alleged irregularities ordered by the Congress Government in the State and chargesheet against the father-son duo will be submitted in the court in a couple of daysHPCA press secretary Mohit Sood said on Friday that schedule for seventh edition of IPl was released on Friday and Himachal Pradesh has not been allotted any match.