Modi to address rallies on May 8 and 10 in Hry
Five top leaders of the BJP including Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be holding 12 rallies and road shows during the last four days of the campaigning in Haryana. Modi will address three rallies visiting the state on Wednesday and Friday – the last day of campaigning. He will address rallies at Kurukshetra in Kurukshetra Lok Sabha constituency (Naib Saini) and Fatehabad in Sirsa Lok Sabha constituency on May 8 and at Rohtak on May 10. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will visit the state on Tuesday and hold a road show and rally at Jind falling in Sonipat Lok Sabha constituency and Ismailpur in Faridabad parliamentary constituency. Three rallies will be held by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday at Gurugram, Bhiwani and in Atrena village near Rai in Sonipat Lok Sabha constituency. Actor turned politician, Sunny Deol, who himself is contesting from the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat in neighbouring Punjab, will hold two roadshows on Thursday at Sirsa and Yamunanagar.
Hooda launches counter-attack against Shah
Former Chief Minister and Sonipat Congress candidate Bhupinder Singh Hooda launched a strong counter attack against BJP national president Amit Shah, saying those who are themselves involved in criminal cases, should not preach others. Hooda hit out at the BJP and said, everyone in the state and the country is aware of the misdeeds of the BJP government. “While the entire country is aware of what they have done at the national level, BJP’s State Government has broken all limits of corruption and mis-governance. Before preaching moral sermons to others, the BJP president should give his views on the mining scam, staff selection scam, auction scam and above all Aravali land scam where the Supreme Court had to intervene, Hooda said. Honesty is a great word but it is beyond the BJP to run an honest government,” he added.
‘BJP failed to implement PM Awas Yojana’
Congress city candidate, Pawan Kumar Bansal on Monday slammed the BJP candidate and outgoing MP Kirron Kher for her statement on having already make the PM Awas Yojana success in Chandigarh. Bansal said, so far even the land hasn’t been finalized on which the dwelling units for daily wagers will be erected, let alone providing houses to them. “A simple RTI query has revealed that so far not even the land has been allocated for building new houses. How can our MP lie so blatantly? Is she just reading out a script given to her by someone? Does she have any idea what she’s talking about?” Bansal said. He added that those few who recently got small flats was actually under Small Flats Scheme introduced during Congress stint.
‘INDIRA GAVECREDIT OF PAK’S DIVISION TO ARMY’
Lambasting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for trying to take personal credit for the Balakot air strikes, Capt Amarinder on Monday said that the Prime Minister had not done anything. “Was he there in 1965, 1975 or Kargil?” asked the Chief Minister, pointing out that it was Indira Gandhi who did ‘tukdas’ (pieces) of Pakistan by breaking it into two pieces in 1971 and gave full credit to the Indian Army and Field Marshal Manekshaw, which is what Modi should have done now, he added. “Surgical strikes is just a new jargon (a jumla like others the BJP had come out with) for the cross-border raids which had been happening since the last 70 years. Modi is simply trying to usurp the courageous acts of the country’s defence services,” he said adding that it was India’s Army and nobody’s personal possession.
CONG SEEKS FIR AGAINST DEOL
Senior Congress leader and Batala’s former MLA Ashwani Sekhri on Monday filed a police complaint against the SAD-BJP combine candidate and Bollywood superstar Sunny Deol seeking registration of a FIR against him for “hurting religious sentiments of Hindus and Sikhs”. Sekhri has also sent a copy of the complaint to the Election Commission. It has been learnt that Batala Senior Superintendent of Police has also ordered the probe, maintaining that the case will be registered after the receipt of inquiry report. Sekhri had stated that Sunny had hurt the religious sentiments of both Hindus and Sikhs by showing disrespect to a picture of Lord Shiva and siropa (robe of honour), which was bestowed upon him during his visit to Gurdwara Dera Baba Nanak. In a picture, which is being widely circulated on social media, Sunny is seen sitting atop the truck with his feet resting on a framed photograph of Lord Shiva and a saffron siropa (robe of honour) lying beside his feet during his road show past week.
AAP’S BATHINDA CANDIDATE’S UNCLE JOINS SAD
The uncle of Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Talwandi Sabo MLA and Lok Sabha candidate from Bathinda Prof Baljinder Kaur on Monday joined the Shiromani Akali Dal. , Jaswinder Singh Zaildaar, along with four panchayat members and a dozen supporters, joined the Akali Dal, wherein the Union Minister and SAD-BJP combine candidate Harsimrat Kaur Badal warmly welcomed them with siropa (robe of honour).
PENSIONERS’ askS SUKHBIR TO VOICE THEIR DEMANDS
A delegation of Punjab pensioners’ outfit on Monday met the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal and assured its full support to the party in the forthcoming parliamentary elections. It also apprised the SAD chief about their pending demands, and urging him to force the Congress Government to fulfil them by voicing their concerns at appropriate fronts.
AAP BLAMES AKALI, CONG FOR FARMERS’ PLIGHT
AAP’s Punjab Kisan wing chief and MLA Kultar Singh Sandhwan on Monday blamed both the previous BJP-SAD combine and Congress governments in the state for plight of sate’s farmers due to lack of vision for the community. Sandhwan said that both the parties were now indulging in a fresh blame-game slugfest accusing each other leading to undue delay in the procurement process due to acute shortage of gunny bags. “Both are responsible for delaying wheat procurement process and they are simply trying to save their skin by indulging themselves into a slugfest of allegations and counter-allegations, thus further delaying the process wheat procurement,” he said.