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While online portal to seek views and AICC general secretary UP and also strategise on how to the opinion within the Congress expectations of people from the east and UP west respectively, run the party’s campaigns in is divided on this issue, NCP grand old party ahead of the will also be present. Opposition-ruled States like Chief Sharad Pawar is active- Lok Sabha polls. The top party The party also released its West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh ly involved in getting the two leaders have promised to make ninth list of 10 candidates for without annoying its prospec- parties together. the manifesto a comprehensive the Lok Sabha elections, field- tive post-poll allies. The issue has divided document that will include ing former Finance Minister P Sources said the Congress Delhi Congress unit between views of all sections. Chidambaram’s son Karti leadership will also give a final two camps — one led by for- “The contents of the man- Chidambaram from Sivaganga shape to the party’s manifesto mer Chief Minister Sheila ifesto will be discussed at the in Tamil Nadu. Karti is facing which may include among oth- Dikshit and another by former CWC to be chaired by Congress trial in corruption cases, ers populist programmes like Union Minister Ajay Maken president Rahul. Top Congress including the INX media employment guarantee and AICC Delhi incharge PC leaders, including former Prime money laundering case. schemes, loan waivers to farm- Chacko. Sources said the AAP, Minister Manmohan Singh, Former NCP leader Tariq ers, and welfare schemes for which wrested power from senior Congress leaders Sonia Anwar was nominated by the youth and women voters. Congress four years ago, is The other issue that the poll campaign in Malda. Gandhi, Ahmed Patel, AK party for the Katihar Lok Sabha The CWC, which is the keen to take on BJP in an party may discuss was the The party manifesto for the Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, P seat in Bihar, which he cur- ! " $ apex body of the grand old alliance with the Congress nature of campaign to be run Lok Sabha election is being Chidambaram, Mallikarjun rently represents. The party %&'( )* party, will also discuss possible despite conflicting utterances by in Opposition-run States. framed by a committee head- Kharge, Ambika Soni and also fielded its former general star campaigners for the party by senior leaders of both the The need to do this was felt ed by P Chidambaram, which Anand Sharma, will be present secretary BK Hariprasad from this country. The people will in the General Elections. parties. Delhi has seven Lok after Rahul Gandhi’s vitriolic has some other members too. at the meeting,” said a AICC the Bangalore South con- teach a bitter lesson to the polit- Sources said there could be gag Sabha seats, all represented by attack on Chief Minister The Congress has already leader. stituency in Karnataka. ical parties who are raising orders to certain leaders as BJP now. Mamata Banerjee during his launched an exercise to involve Former Chief Ministers Continued on Page 4 questions about Pulwama attacks and subsequent Indian action,” Shah said while addressing a rally in Agra. Incidentally, all the top leaders of the BJP referred to P Pulwama attack and Pakistan * ./< in their addresses. Rajnath too accused some Opposition par- he Bharatiya Janata Party on ties for questioning Armed ! TSunday began its Lok Sabha forces in the wake of the IAF air " Pakistan’s internal issue and campaign in a big way in Uttar strike inside Pakistan after " (be) rest assured it’s not Modi’s * ./< Pradesh with senior party lead- Pulwama terror attack. India where minorities are ers, including party chief Amit “Some leaders are asking subjugated, it’s Imran Khan’s amajwadi Party president Shah, holding Vijay Sankalp ral- how many people were killed in #$% & Naya Pak where white colour SAkhilesh Yadav will contest lies across the State invoking that attack. This is questioning of our flag is equally dearer to from Azamgarh Lok Sabha nationalism in the context of as if whether air strike had us.” seat in Uttar Pradesh, which Modi Government response to actually happened or not,” he “I hope you’ll act with was represented by his father the Pulwama terror attack. said. Yogi even equated one of ' same diligence when it comes Mulayam Singh Yadav. Union Home Minister the candidates in Saharanpur as " /2;2*0 to rights of Indian minorities,” While the 79-year-old SP Rajnath Singh addressed a rally damaad (son-in law) of Azhar () *#" he said. patriarch will contest from in Lucknow from where he is Masood and asked people to + war of words erupted on Swaraj, in her response to “safe seat” Mainpuri, the party seeking re-election, while Chief defeat the candidates who talk , O ASunday between External Chaudhary, said she had only on Sunday made a volte face Minister Yogi Adityanath the language of terrorists. "' Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj asked for a report from the and included its founder chief Akhilesh, Azam, Dimple addressed a gathering in Uttar Pradesh, a home to / &. and Pakistan’s Information Pakistan Ajay Bisaria on the Indian High Commissioner in Mulayam Singh Yadav’s name Yadav and Jaya Bachchan Saharanpur, the constituency 22 crore people, sends maxi- Minister Fawad Chaudhary reported abduction of the girls Islamabad about the kidnap- in its list of “star campaigners”, among others, besides Ram that will go to polls in first phase mum 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha. 0/1 over reports of abduction of and their forcible conversion to ping and forced conversion of a day after leaving him out of Gopal Yadav himself. on April 11. Another Union In 2014 election party, with its & two Hindu teenaged girls and Islam. two minor Hindu girls to Islam. it. Also, the SP announced At present, the SP patriarch Minister Mukhtar Abaas Naqvi ally Apna Dal, 73 seats were their forcible conversion to Pakistan Prime Minister “This was enough to make that senior leader Azam Khan represents Azamgarh con- addressed a meeting in Rampur. won with the BJP bagging 71 Islam on the eve of Holi in the Imran Khan has ordered a you jittery. This only shows will contest from Rampur. stituency. He had represented “In this election constituencies. This year the Sindh province. probe into the matter. your guilty conscience,” she The list released by senior Mainpuri three times earlier in Opposition is defaming the party has set a target to win 74 !" # ! 2 In a tweet, Swaraj sought a Responding to Swaraj’s tweet, said. SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav 1996, 2004 and 2009. valour of Indian Army. This is seats. '/ report from Indian envoy in Chaudhary said, “Maam its Continued on Page 4 included the names of party Continued on Page 4 not acceptable to the people of Continued on Page 4 " *#/ / O " & %+, - . /0 /2;2*0 had put their number to just ed. The EIA consultant of the $ 264. This variety of bustard is project is M/s Enviro Infra 3 Central environmental found in the four States — Solutions Pvt Ltd, Ghaziabad. , Apanel has spiked the Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, The EAC also noted that " *.4 National Highway Authority of Rajasthan and Maharashtra. the land acquisition for the 40 L M India’s proposal to construct The proposed project is a proposed alignment was the Rs 1078.40-crore 211-km- part of Delhi-Mumbai approximately 336.72 ha out of JP on Sunday announced *# long eight-lane road (newly Expressway under Bharatmala which 41.82 ha is forest land. Bnames of low-profile can- " & declared NH 148N) connecting Pariyojana as per the guidelines Approximately 2,438 number didates for six seats for Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam dis- of the Ministry of Road, of trees are likely to be cut. Chhattisgarh which goes to % trict to Vadodara in Gujarat. It Transport and Highways. The For want of requisite infor- polls in three phases for 11 Lok said the road may threaten the length of the proposed align- mation, the panel deferred its Sabha seats. The party had !!& 4 habitat of the highly endan- ment is 31 km which is locat- nod to the project and sought announced five names earlier. " # gered Lesser Floricans in the ed within 10 km radius from cumulative impacts of the pro- BJP has picked up a sur- adjoining Sailna Khamor the boundary of Sailana ject activities on the habitat of prise face, former mayor Sunil Wildlife Sanctuary in Ratlam Kharmor Wildlife Sanctuary. wildlife, such as Lesser Florian, Soni, for Raipur seat while district. Curiously, while deliberat- direct loss of habitat at inter- Santosh Pandey, a die-hard # In a meeting held recently, ing the proposed project at its section locations particularly supporter of former chief min- *3 7.