PM Modi to visit Congress stronghold of Rae Bareli today
India | Dec 16, 2018, 12:04 AM ISTHis visit comes just days after the BJP was ousted from power in three crucial states – Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh- by the Congress.
His visit comes just days after the BJP was ousted from power in three crucial states – Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh- by the Congress.
The viral video brings to focus clandestine entry of liquor and firearms in prisons, months after the sensational killing of an imprisoned mafia don inside the Baghpat jail.
The BJP chief said it did not want to give up its alliance with old time ally Shiv Sena in Maharashtra but insisted that the BJP would have no option if the Sena wanted to part ways with it.
Addressing a public meeting, Shah said Rae Bareli voted for top Congress leaders, but had not witnessed development since Independence.
Shah will also hold meetings with party workers to review the BJP’s preparedness for the 2019 general elections.
The Congress president represents Amethi in Lok Sabha while his mother Sonia Gandhi is Lok Sabha MP from Raebareli.
BJP spokesperson Anil Baluni said Rahul Gandhi should not worry about Modi and should rather be concerned about his and Sonia Gandhi's electoral fate in 2019.
Workers of both parties clashed reportedly after BJP supporters protested with banners and placards against the Congress president.
NTPC has also announced a financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the dead. The Prime Minister's Relief Fund will also give Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased.
The NTPC plant, which started generating power in 1988, has five power generating units of 210 MW each.
On June 26, five people were lynched to death by the residents of UP’s Apta village when they tried to escape after setting the house of the village pradhan on fire, police said
Six out of 10 assembly seats in Amethi and Rae Bareli parliamentary constituencies -- long considered Congress strongholds -- have gone to the BJP while two went to the Samajwadi Party, leaving the grand old party gasping with just two.
Congress and Samajwadi Party are haggling over seats in Rae Bareli and Amethi, the parliamentary turf of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul respectively.
Akhilesh Singh has won the Raebareli Sadar Assembly constituency since 1993, once as an independent and once as a Peace Party candidate, but now his daughter Aditi will contest from the seat.
Congress party clarified that Priyanka Gandhi will only campaign in Raebareli and Amethi districts of the state during UP Assembly elections.
Having played a key role in sealing a deal with Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is most likely to play a significant role in campaigning during the Assembly elections in the state.
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