Modi condoles J&K jawans’ death
Chennai: Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Tuesday condoled the death of Major Mukund Varadarajan and sepoy Vikram Singh, who lost their lives in an encounter with militants in Kashmir on Friday last. “The nation will never forget the sacrifices of Major Mukund Varadarajan and Sepoy Vikram Singh. My condolences to the bereaved families”, Modi said in microblogging site twitter.
4 found guilty of paid news by EC
Mumbai: An Election Commission panel has held four lok Sabha election candidates in Maharashtra guilty of resorting to paid news. In all, 84 complaints of paid news were received by a committee specially set up to keep a watch on paid news. Complaints against Congress candidates - Union Minister of State for Shipping and IT Milind Deora (Mumbai South), Sanjay Nirupam (Mumbai North), Vishwajit Kadam (Pune) - and BJP candidate from Pune Deepak Shirole have been found true,sources in the State Election Office said. The candidates were found guilty by the district committee set up by the poll body to keep a watch on paid news and this decision (of finding four candidates guilty) has been upheld by the state committee of the election office, sources said.
MSY will be PM, says Akhilesh
lucknow: Reiterating that Third Front will form the next Government at the Centre, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said that the Samajwadi Party would sweep Uttar Pradesh which in turn will help Mulayam Singh Yadav to become Prime Minister of the country. “People have rejected both the Congress and the BJP as they believe in divisive politics. The last three phases of polling has made it clear that the SP has emerged as the first choice of people. They have liked the work our Government is doing. The hard work we put in will show results in this election,” Yadav said while addressing an election rally in Motigarpur in Sultanpur here on Tuesday.
“Uttar Pradesh has maximum 80 seats and if the SP sweeps elections in Uttar Pradesh SP will emerge as the biggest partner in Third Front,” he said.
Sultanpur goes to polls on April 30.
Ahmedabad: Rs1 discount on petrol Ahmedabad: In a bid to motivate people to vote, a group of city-based petrol pumps has announced an incentive to provide petrol cheaper by Rs1 per litre after verifying the indelible ink finger mark of every consumer. The scheme will be implemented for a day on Wednesday when polling will be held for 26 lok Sabha seats in Gujarat. “To motivate the voters, our association has decided to provide one rupee cheaper petrol per litre for tomorrow only,” said Harin Thakkar, honorary secretary of Federation of Gujarat Petroleum Dealers Associations.
Madhubani: Three injured in blast
Madhubani: Three persons were critically injured when a bomb exploded at Katma village in Bihar’s Madhubani district on Tuesday, a day before the fourth phase of polling in Bihar. A woman named Shanti Devi was injured when she picked up from the ground the crude bomb mistaking it for an interesting object and it exploded in her hand. Her husband and a neighbour’s boy standing nearby were also wounded. All the three injured were admitted to hospital.