/ 0 12 # %'"(3# ("(3#3 !"# 2+5+25 12"34 2,4 %# ;( ! 52 2 4 !2 0 2 22 / 2 ; !< 0 ! 0 /5 06 / 2 ! / ) 0 ! 0 0 ! ) 0 0 =0 > 4 = ! *7 78 9 #%# $ % & '%'('()* "+ . ) ( ! !" # %###%# R & # #' Central poll panel to pick two # #! candidates for the March 26 ( #& ') # haking off his 18-year-long Rajya Sabha elections to three *+,+++!- SCongress legacy, Jyotiraditya seats in the State, a senior %. ith 10 new coronavirus Scindia on Wednesday joined leader said. The names of &/ # Wcases — eight in Kerala the BJP saying he has come to Satyanarayan Jatiya and and one each in Delhi and the “parivar” (family) as his Prabhat Jha, both sitting Rajya Rajasthan — the total number previous organisation is seized Sabha members from the State, free (unlike the Congress) to of confirmed cases in India with “inertia and out of sync also figure in the list. Thus, the serve the party as he liked as “ rose to 60, including 16 Italian with reality” and the country’s move to elevate and accom- BJP is a very democratic party”. tourists, the Government on future is “fully secure in Prime modate an “outsider” may “Entry of Jyotiraditya Scindia Wednesday suspended all Minister Narendra Modi’s already have led to some dis- in the BJP is like a family mem- visas, except a few categories hands”. quiet in Madhya Pradesh. ber coming”, ( % ) ) such as diplomatic and While BJP president JP Awarding Scindia, who lost Nadda added. & * & ' #*' employment, till April 15. Nadda described him as part of his Lok Sabha seat to the BJP The decision was taken at the ideological “blood family” in 2019, from Guna, could not a meeting of a group of min- !" recalling the association of his go well with the core workers. isters held here under the grandmother Vijayaraje Scindia Guna has gone back to the BJP P chairmanship of Health The Government also +" $ with ‘Bharatiya Jana Sangh’ after two decades, even though Minister Harsh Vardhan. “All geared up its health system and and the “very democratic” BJP, the party’s candidate was an existing visas, except diplo- stepped up tougher border ,- the party announced him as outsider. Incidentally, the BJP matic, official, measures since most of the one of the candidates from had last won the seat in 1999, UN/International organisa- patients have a travel history to Mumbai: Maharashtra Health Madhya Pradesh for Rajya when Rajmata Vijaya Raje going a similar grind in the party is also being attributed to tions, employment and project affected countries. Minister Rajesh Tope on Sabha, denial of which was one Scindia - Jyotiraditya’s grand- party. his failure in getting heard by visas, stand suspended till 15th The Union Health Wednesday said the of the reasons for his parting mother - won it. n a day it lost Jyotiraditya While the Congress chose Rahul. April 2020. This will come into Ministry asked overseas firms Government has two options: company with the Congress. BJP leaders, however, OScindia, one of its most to ignore Scindia, former party “He was with me in col- effect from 1200 GMT on to initiate ‘work from home either postpone IPL matches But then, the entry of maintain that it was necessary promising and prominent chief Rahul Gandhi said, “He lege,” Rahul said, breaking his 13th March 2020 at the port of facilities’ to its employees com- or limit them to TV audience Scindia with his loyalist MLAs to induct leaders of influence young leaders, to the BJP and was the only chap who could silence on the exit of Scindia departure,” the statement ing from a few virus-hit coun- only in view of the coron- could create uneasiness to the from the Opposition into the its Government in Madhya enter my home anytime.” from the party. Rahul also said. tries for 14 days. avirus situation in the State. homegrown BJP leaders and party to achieve a “Congress- Pradesh runs the risk of losing Scindia used to assist the shared a photo of December 13, legislators, some of whom had mukt” India, a pet theme of power after the 19 party MLAs Gandhi scion by prompting rel- 2018 of him with Scindia and lost Assembly polls contesting Prime Minister Narendra reiterated their loyalty to the evant points during debates in Kamal Nath ahead of the delib- against the Congress in Modi. “Maharaj”, the Congress on Parliament and used to share erations over nomination of December 2018 in Madhya As Congress removed Wednesday chose to speak on chits to Rahul to speak at chief ministership in Madhya Pradesh. The BJP as also Prime Scindia’s nameplate from falling crude oil prices even as times. Scindia’s exit from the Pradesh. Minister Narendra Modi will Parliament House (as Deputy the threat of many others fol- have to do the fine balancing leader of the party in Lok lowing in Scindia’s footsteps is act as they accommodate Sabha) , Scindia quietly “moved being sounded from within Scindia both in the on” and joined the saffron the Congress camp Government and the party lest party in its headquarters here itself. it ruffles feathers of party’s old saying it was no longer possi- If four-term Congress guards. Scindia may be given a ble to serve public by being in MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi has Cabinet berth in the reshuffle the Congress. He said the openly asserted that devoted esides Jyotiraditya Scindia, on card anytime from now and Congress was no longer the leaders across the country are ! Bthe BJP named eight other his camp followers in Madhya same party as it was earlier and feeling “alienated, wasted and candidates — including two Pradesh may be fitted in the “inertia” has set in and leader- discontented”, those like Sachin !"# from its allies — for the March ‘new BJP Government’, as and ship has neither courage nor Pilot — another restive leader 26 Rajya Sabha elections to 55 when it happens. vision to face the “realty” on the caught in the generational clash $ seats across 17 States. The Madhya Pradesh BJP ground. with Rajasthan CM Ashok BJP’s alliance partner had, understandably, sent a The BJP president who Gehlot — has warned against %R ' Janata Dal(United) also list of around 22 names, includ- welcomed him as part of “pari- ignoring party faithful for can- announced that it would field ing national general secretaries var” recalling his grandmoth- didature for Rajya Sabha seat Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Ram Madhav and Kailash er’s contribution to establishing from the State. Pilot, like #$ Harivansh and MP Ram Nath Vijayvargiya, to the party’s the BJS and the BJP, said he was Scindia, too has been under- % & ' !" mid a political crisis trig- Thakur, whose terms end next Agered by former Guna MP ,- - month, for the upcoming elec- Jyotiraditya Scindia's exit from !" tion to the Upper House. the party, the Congress on Other candidates named ! Wednesday afternoon flew its from the party and at least 22 by the BJP included remaining 88 MLAs from MLAs close to him announced Bhubaneswar Kalita from Bhopal to Jaipur in order to to withdraw support from the Assam, Vivek Thakur from “Jagannathnka Paisa Khaila prevent poaching by the BJP. Nath Government. Bihar, Udayanraje Bhosale "# $ Kie”. Unable to run the pro- The MLAs, who were In 2018 Assembly results, from Maharashtra and ceedings of the House, Speaker received by Rajasthan Chief the Congress, which won 114 Rajendra Gehlot from Surjya Narayan Patro adjourned Minister Ashok Gehlot at the seats in the 230-member Rajasthan. Abhay Bhardwaj regard written by State Finance issue necessary instruction to the House at 10.41 am till 12.30 airport, are likely to stay at the Assembly formed the and Ramilaben Bara from Minister Niranjan Pujari to the Reserve Bank of India to 0 pm and again till 3 pm. Buena Vista Resort in Jaipur. Government with the support Gujarat, Deepak Prakash from Sitharaman. allow release of the deposit However, the House func- Two MLAs of the BSP, one of four Independent MLAs Jharkhand and Leishemba Prasanna Acharya told relating to SJTA in the Yes Bank he State Assembly witnessed tioned normally during after- from SP and independent and two BSP MLAs and a leg- Sanajaoba from Manipur were reporters that the Union in the interest of millions of Tadjournments and couldn’t noon houses. accompanied the Congress leg- islator from the Samajwadi also named by the party as its 0 Finance Minister assured the devotees of Lord Jagannath. conduct businesses in morning Raising the issue again, islators. Party (SP). The BJP had Rajya Sabha nominees. Prakash hours on the first day of its sec- Congress member Santosh The BJP MLAs are staying secured 109 seats in the State is the State party president. our BJD MPs on ond phase of the Budget Session Singh Saluja demanded that put in ITC Grand Bharat in Assembly. The BJP also said it has FWednesday met on Wednesday as Congress Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Manesar in Haryana. While there are clear indi- allotted two seats to its allies Union Finance members protested parking of make a statement regarding Around 20 rebel Congress cation that the present Nath with Dalit leader and Union Minister Nirmala 545 crore belonging to the safety of the Lord Jagannath’s MLAs have been lodged in a Government would not survive Minister Ramdas Athawale get- Sitharaman in New Jagannath Temple, Puri in the fund. He said people feel inse- resort in Bengaluru. They have for want of the required num- ting renominated from Delhi seeking release private Yes Bank. curity when the Lords’ money claimed to have resigned from ber of MLAs, Congress leader Maharashtra and Biswajit of the fund of 545 Soon after Obituary refer- is unsafe.