Advani slams Nitish for breaking alliance
Banka/Katihar: Senior BJP leader lK Advani on Monday hit out at Nitish Kumar's decision to split from the NDA over Narendra Modi's elevation last year saying, he had dishonoured a friendship for which he will be doomed in future. “Nitish has unilaterally snapped friendship with the BJP and launched an all out attack on the BJP. His conduct is a far cry from BJP's belief to always honour friendship with allies,” Advani told an election meeting in Banka. He said that all these years, BJP had honoured its friendship with allies and never criticised them. “But Nitish Kumar not only dumped the BJP, but criticised it too.”
NTR’s son enters AP poll fray with TDP
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam founder-president NT Rama Rao's son and Telugu film star Nandamuri Balakrishna has jumped into the poll fray for the first time as the party announced his name for Hindupur Assembly seat in Anantapuram district. Hindupur was once represented by NTR himself and later for a term by his elder son Nandamuri Harikrishna. Balakrishna will be the third from the family to contest from the seat that has been a TDP stronghold.
Smriti Irani to file papers on Apr 16
Amethi: BJP nominee from Amethi Smriti Irani is likely to file her nomination papers here on April 16 to take on Congress vice-president and sitting MP Rahul Gandhi. Irani will first visit the temple of local goddess ‘Budhan Mai' in Mishrauli near Gauriganj and will proceed from there to the collectorate of Amethi to file her nomination at around 12 noon, BJP media coordinator Ashok Patel said here.
FIR against Hema for poll code violation
Mathura: An FIR was filed on Monday against Hema Malini, the BJP candidate from the Mathura lok Sabha constituency for violation of model code of conduct. “Malini addressed an election meeting on Saturday in Sri Ji Baba Saraswati Vidya Mandir during school hours. Her audience included school students. An FIR was filed against her in this connection,” Model Code of Conduct In-charge ADM Dhirendra Sachan said. Though a permission for the election meeting was taken, however, neither the venue was specified nor was it made clear that students would also be a part of her audience in the aforesaid meeting, he said.
Ramesh accuses Modi of ‘blatant lie’
New Delhi: A day after Narendra Modi took him on in his home district of Chikmagalur, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday wrote to the BJP leader accusing him of spreading ‘blatant lie’ about his four-year-old statement made here that “India deserves a Nobel Prize for filth”. “I read in the newspapers this morning that at a rally of yours in Chikmaglur on April 13, you accused me of saying India is the dirtiest and laziest country in the world during my foreign visits. I know you make outrageous statements. However, even by your own standards, your accusation against me is bizarre. I have never said what you attribute to me,” Ramesh said.
PDP writes to EC against Abdullah
Sringar: The Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has shot a letter to Election Commission of India seeking action against Union Minister and ruling National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on his remarks linking Khrew attack with the PDP. local newspapers reported that Abdullah alleged in a speech at Chanapora on the outskirts of Srinagar that PDP was behind the attack on the youth NC leader.