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"$% !& ( ( 15 years, were denied minister- 0 / 28 ial berth because party got a brute majority of 68 seats in a 90- everal senior and experi- member house, a top Congress Senced leaders of Congress leader and former minister in were left high and dry on undivided Madhya Pradesh gov- Tuesday as party ignored them ernment, told The Pioneer. for a berth in the council of He added that the names ministers. picked up for the council of the As many as nine ministers ministers were highly surprising were inducted into the council of and selection was definitely not $ / ministers on Tuesday at a grand made on the basis of merit. # - function at the Police Parade Congress sources say that Ground here but the party several senior leaders have dumped several key cabinet planned to raise the alleged # # $ $ " %% $ ! " aspirants and seasoned politi- `injustice’ issue with party cians who had spent decades in national general secretary and the Congress to strengthen it at incharge for Chhattisgarh PL the grass root level. Punia and Congress could suf- (' Former ministers fer in upcoming Lok Sabha Satyanarayan Sharma, polls if a reasonable explana- Rampukar Singh, Dhanendra tion was not offered to them. Sahu, Arun Vora, Manoj Reports say that Chief Mandawi and Amitesh Shukla Minister Bhupesh Baghel had ! "## were certain to sneak into held a comprehensive discus- Bhupesh Baghel cabinet but the sion with Punia and Congress ( ' -,"/23 45567 has become a truth in the real The bridge will cut down party dumped them. president Rahul Gandhi last rime Minister Narendra sense," he said in a apparent rail distance (between Several senior leaders of week in Delhi to pick his team PModi on Tuesday said his dig at the previous Congress- Dibrugarh in Assam to the OBC SC, ST who had and names were decided not on Government has changed the led UPA Government. If for- Naharlagun in Arunachal worked for the party for decades the basis of experience and "dilly-dallying" work culture mer Prime Minister Atal Pradesh) to below 200 km and suffered heavily to install seniority but largely keeping regarding implementation of Bihari Vajpayee had a second from 700 km now, Modi said. The MLAs who were Congress regime after a gap of 2019 Lok Sabha polls gameplan development projects. term, Bogibeel bridge would After inaugurating the sworn in as ministers included in mind. Addressing a rally here have been ready by 2008-09. bridge, the prime minister Mohammed Akbar, Ravindra leaders were killed by Maoists after inaugurating the coun- After his Government, no flagged off the Tinsukia- ( 28 Chaubey, Shiv Dehariya, including veteran leader V.C. try's longest rail-cum-road attention was paid to the pro- Naharlagun Intercity Express, Kawasi Lakhma, Anila Bhedia, Shukla and tribal leader bridge, at Bogibeel in Assam, ject till 2014, the Prime which will run five days a hhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr. Premsai Singh Tekam, Jai Mahendra Karma. As of now he said completion of projects Minister said. week and use the 4.9-km bridge CBhupesh Baghel on Singh Agrawal, Guru Rudra 12 ministers including the within a given time frame is no Asserting that the Bogibeel to cut down the train-travel Tuesday expanded his Council Kumar and Umesh Patel. Chief Minister have been longer confined to paper but bridge will strengthen the time between Tinsukia in of Ministers with the induction Umesh Patel is son of for- sworn in the state cabinet. has become a reality. "We have country's defence prowess with Assam to Naharlagun town of of nine Ministers. Governor mer state Congress chief One berth is still vacant. changed the earlier latkane movement of vehicles and Arunachal Pradesh by more Anandiben Patel administrat- Nandkumar Patel who was Besides Baghel two ministers bhatkane (dilly-dallying) work trains, he said, it is not only a than 10 hours. Itanagar, the ed the oath of office to the min- killed in Jheeram valley mas- T.S. Singhdeo and Tamradhwaj culture... Completion of pro- bridge, it is a lifeline for crores capital of Arunachal Pradesh is isters at a ceremony held at sacre in May 2013 in Bastar in Sahu were sworn in on - jects within a time frame is no of people in Assam and just over 15 km from Police Parade Ground. which several other Congress December 17. longer confined to paper but Arunachal Pradesh. Naharlagun. & !"#$% # ! ( %%& " According to the sources in & ) ,-. TRS, both Naveen and Mamata ( ,3 -#/0/- 1 remained non-committal about the stand they would take on 45-year-old engineer died fter lukewarm response the formation of a front which Aafter being trapped in his Ato his proposed Federal will not involve the Congress. car when the moving vehicle Front from West Bengal Chief Significantly, Mamata did caught fire in early hours of Minister Mamata Banerjee not make any comment after Tuesday in Greater Noida. The and her Odisha counterpart meeting KCR in Kolkata on incident happened just half Naveen Patnaik, TRS supremo Monday. It was only KCR who kilometre from his home. The K Chandrasekhar Rao is in promised that a concrete result deceased has been identified as Delhi hoping that his pro- of the deliberations will come Pavan, a native of Amba in posed meeting with BSP chief out soon. Himachal Pradesh. Mayawati and Samajwadi Sources said while KCR According to a senior Party president Akhilesh repeatedly asserted the need for police official, a passerby Yadav will help his effort to include the Congress. of regional parties, the mahagathbandhan (grand all the regional parties to come informed police regarding the tration number of the car. prop up non-BJP non- KCR is in the national Congress said it is an attempt alliance) was formed with all together and offer an alterna- incident at around 5.30 am on "After initial investigation, Congress alliance for the next Capital to also call on Prime to help the BJP return to power regional, secular and progres- tive to both the Congress and Tuesday following which a it appeared that the car had P year's Lok Sabha polls. Minister Narendra Modi and after the next general elec- sive parties. "This federal front the BJP, the other regional team rushed to the spot. caught fire and the man could ! " !# $ Sources said KCR is other Union Ministers to talk tions. Claiming that the Chief idea... The truth behind it is leaders indicated that they "By the time police reached not eject himself out in time. expected to meet Mayawati about issues related to Ministers of different States, nothing but an attempt to would like to wait and watch till the spot near the DPS Society, Short-circuit and problems and Akhilesh on Wednesday, Telangana where he retained whom KCR met would not fall ensure that BJP and 'Modi the 2019 polls were over. under Kasna police station with the blower appear to have but so far the meetings are not power last week. for the idea of a third front, as Sarkar' come back to power," he "Some of the leaders want limits, the vehicle, a Ford Ikon, triggered the fire but an inves- ! " # confirmed. While Mayawati is The Congress which is the leaders of regional parties alleged. to keep their options open till was already in flames and the tigation is underway," said in Delhi, SP sources in spearheading an assortment would join a broad coalition Meanwhile, reports from after the elections body was later found inside," Sharma, adding that the body Lucknow said Akhilesh has of Opposition parties, includ- with the Congress, leaving only Hyderabad said even as KCR's and take a final decision said the senior police official. has been sent for post-mortem. P% & not yet planned any visit to ing the BSP, SP and TMC, has TRS in the Federal Front. mission to bring regional par- depending on the election "The man was working in "During probe it was also & ' Delhi. It is interesting to watch accused the TRS of being a BJP "KCR's attempts to rope in ties together to form a Federal results," sources said. a private company here. He was revealed that the deceased had # $ the moves of KCR as his coun- agent and feels that his pro- regional parties and State Chief Front reached New Delhi after "At the moment it appears returning after a night shift sent Christmas greetings to $ %&$$ terpart in Andhra Pradesh and posed front cannot rescue the Ministers to be part of the passing through Bhuvaneshwar that any third front or Federal when the incident took place," friends and relatives in the TDP supremo N Chandrababu BJP as the front constituents Federal Front will only help the and Odisha, it was clear that the Front will have to wait till the said Greater Noida 1st Circle morning, around 5 am. ' Naidu is also meeting will State specific anti-BJP BJP," said Congress leader leaders whom he met so far elections are over. At best it Officer Nishank Sharma. Everything was fine till the fire ()%* Opposition leaders as part of alliance. Rajeev Gowda. have not made any direct com- would be a post-poll arrange- He said the identity of the broke out accidentally," said + his effort to form an anti-BJP Criticising the TRS chief's Gowda further said the mitment about their future ment, not any pre-poll alliance," deceased was confirmed after Ramphal Tomar, Station House grand alliance that will also efforts to forge a Federal Front Congress would ensure that a course of action.