Udit Raj may join BJP today
lucknow: Failing to get any public response after forming his political outfit Justice Party in 2003, bureaucrat-turned-dalit politician Udit Raj is set to join the BJP on Monday. Party spokesperson Vijay Bahadur Pathak said here on Sunday that Udit Raj is expected to join the BJP at party office in New Delhi in presence of party president Rajnath Singh.
‘Pawar behind attack on aap party office’
Mumbai: Aam Aadmi Party leader Anjali Damania on Sunday alleged that NCP chief and Union Minister Sharad Pawar and spokesman Nawab Malik were responsible for the attack on the AAP State party office in Mumbai on Saturday. Damania told reporters in Nagpur that barely three days ago, the AAP had exposed an alleged scam in the power department headed by Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister and Sharad Pawar’s nephew Ajit Pawar. We exposed their power scam. They (Sharad Pawar and Malik) seem to have got angry and instigated the attack on our office,”
Damania said.
Apna Dal may join hands with BJP
lucknow: New political configurations could emerge in Uttar Pradesh pre-lok Sabha elections as Apna Dal, a strong political outfit of the Kurmi backward caste in Uttar Pradesh, may ally with the Bharatiya Janata Party in the State. While the BJP leaders claim that they will contest all the 80 seats in the State and other parties will have to merge with BJP to get their share, but the Apna Dal leader ruled out merger but did not rule out possibility of of alliance with BJP.
GJM holds rallies demanding Gorkhaland
Darjeeling: The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) on Sunday held rallies in three hill sub-divisions of Darjeeling district demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland. The rallies were held in Darjeeling, Kurseong and Kalimpong sub-divisions. However, no top level leaders were seen in the three rallies. The GJM’s demand for Gorkhaland resurfaced after both Houses of Parliament passed the Telangana bill for creation of a separate state of Telangana carved out of Andhra Pradesh.
A GJM team is going to New Delhi soon to meet the President, Prime Minister, leaders of the Opposition in the lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and other major central leaders
to press for their demand of Gorkhaland, party
sources added.
UP: Rahul may take out padyatra on Feb 28
lucknow: With an aim to reach out to the masses, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is expected to hold a padyatra in Uttar Pradesh on February 28 while Congress president Sonia Gandhi would be visiting her parliamentary constituency of Rae Bareli for two days from Monday. According to the party sources the Congress vice-president would take out a padyatra from Devasharif shrine on February 28. A meeting was held between UP Congress president Nirmal Khatri and Barabanki Congress MP Pl Punia at the State party headquarters here on Sunday.