THE FIGHT AGAINST @BJPINDIA & BJP4JHARKHAND IN PAGE GENERALELECTIONS2019 IS A MOMEN- TOUS ONE AND THE FUTURE OF JHARKHAND DEPENDS ON THE COMBINED GRANDALLIANCE 11 WHICH IS NOW OFFICIALLY SEALED — DECIDES DECCAN CHRONICLE SUNDAY | 17 MARCH 2019 | HYDERABAD ■ Both parties to fight on 3 seats each, 1 seat jointly Cong, AAP may join hands today DC CORRESPONDENT ■ DESPITE OBJECTION by ty of city party workers — NEW , MARCH 17 when asked about their If Oppn makes any Delhi chief She- opinion on the alliance After weeks of dithering, ila Dikshit, the Congress proposal through the mistake, nobody the Congress and the Aam agreed to enter into an party’s Shakti app — are Aadmi Party (AAP) are said to have given their knows whether there learnt to have agreed in- arrangement with the AAP approval to the a tie-up will be polls in future principal to form a pre- with a pre-condition that with the AAP. — Tejashwi Yadav, poll alliance for the seven the -led It is learnt that the party seats in Delhi. party will not insist on an high command reconsid- RJD leader Both the parties will ered its stand on alliance fight on three seats each, alliance in other states. with the AAP after receiv- while one seat will be con- ing a positive feedback tested jointly by fielding a of North East Delhi, South an alliance in other states. from party workers. SHORT common independent can- Delhi and East Delhi have The Congress and the Mr Chacko had publicly TAKES didate. Sources privy to been allotted to the AAP. AAP are pitted against said that the alliance developments said that The remaining West each other in Punjab. should happen, though he PM only makes tall the final approval to the Delhi seat is likely to be The two parties’ alliance had added that the final BJP leader Mukul Roy with party leaders leave decision will be given by allotted to an independent in Delhi comes as a sur- call would be that of Mr after a meeting with deputy election commission- promises: Gehlot Congress’ core group and candidate who would be prise, especially after Gandhi. er Sudeep Jain ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha a formal announcement is jointly selected by both party chief Rahul Gandhi Interestingly, the change elections in Kolkata on Saturday. — PTI Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief likely on Sunday. the parties, sources inf- had last week asked booth in party’s stand is likely to Minister said Polling for city’s seven ormed. Sources said that level workers to ensure leave Ms Dikshi, who on Saturday Prime Minister Lok Sabha seats, all cur- despite objection by Delhi victory of party candi- recently took over as the had made rently held by the BJP, will Congress chief Sheila dates on all seven seats. city Congress chief, on a false promises and had ‘zero take place on May 12. Dikshit, the Congress Sources said that sticky wicket. She was the Cong names 5 in achievements’ to highlight. The Congress is learnt to agreed to enter into an Congress’ Delhi in-charge CM in Delhi when the Addressing public meetings have kept the New Delhi, arrangement with the P.C. Chacko is learnt to AAP was formed in 2013 in Jamwa Ramgarh and Chandni Chowk and AAP with a pre-condition have played a major role amid allegations of cor- Bhandrej, Gehlot alleged 1st list for N-E North West Delhi seats that the Arvind Kejriwal- in the change in the ruption in the city govern- that Modi had failed to fulfil with itself, while the seats led party will not insist on party’s stand, as a majori- ment. MANOJ ANAND | DC dent Bharat Basnett the promises he had made GUWAHATI, MARCH 16 will be in the fray from in the 2014 Lok Sabha the lone seat in the hill election and took wrong The Indian National state, while K.L. Chishi decisions. Congress (INC) on will be the nominee The senior Congress leader Friday night released from . claimed that demonetisation Ayushman Bharat will ‘Grand alliance the first list of five can- In , Congress and the hastily-implement- didates in Assam, two has fielded Swarup Das ed goods and services tax to announce in , one each from Karimganj, were among the decisions in and Sushanta Borgohain that did not benefit the peo- benefit pvt firms: Cong seat sharing Nagaland for the ensu- from Jorhat and former ple. The chief minister said ing Lok Sabha elec- Union minister Paban the farmers and traders DC CORRESPONDENT tions. Singh Ghatowar from were disappointed NEW DELHI, MARCH 16 tomorrow’ The sitting MP Mr Dibrugarh. with the Patna, March 16: Seat , Ms The first phase of Lok Modi government. Launching a scathing sharing among con- in Assam Sabha elections will attack on the NDA govern- stituents of the and Mr in take place on April 11. National security ment’s much hyped Opposition Meghalaya have been Sources in the Ayushman Bharat or “” re-nominated from Congress party said key issue in HP Pradhan Mantri Jan (grand alliance) in Bihar Kaliabor, and that candidates for Shimla: National security Aarogya Yojana (PMJAY), for Lok Sabha polls will Shillong Lok Sabha remaining nine seats in can become a major issue which promises health be announced on seats respectively. Assam, two in in the upcoming general insurance cover to poor of Monday, Hindustani The party has also and election in Himachal upto `5 lakh, Congress Awami Morcha decided to field former is expected to Pradesh, where a good alleged on Saturday that it (Secular) president Meghalaya chief minis- be announced on number of voters are either is not for the common Jitan Ram Manjhi said ter Mukul Sangma Saturday. ex-servicemen or currently man but actually a “life- Saturday. from Tura, the strong- Informing that party serving in the security saver” for private insur- The announcement hold of former Lok was looking into forces. Most of these per- ance companies and hos- Congress supporters during a Parivartan Rally in will come following Sabha Speaker late P.A. prospect of existing pitals. another round of talks Sangma and his family. candidates in the panel, sonnel can hold sway in at Dehradun on Saturday. — PTI least three out of the state’s Asserting that the gov- among the partners on Late P.A. Sangma’s sources said that four Lok Sabha seats — ernment’s claims about health insurance schemes ly wrong, Mr Ramesh Sunday, the former chief daughter Agatha Congress party was Kangra, Hamirpur and the success of the scheme of various states and the said: “It doesn’t cover dia- minister said. Sangma is the NPP can- looking to nominate Mandi. The ruling Bharatiya are “fake and false,” sen- Centre’s Rashtriya Swast- betes and high blood pres- On Thursday, Bihar didate in the Tura seat. some new entrants as (BJP) is raising ior Congress leader hya Bima Yojana (RSBY). sure, the two common ail- Congress Campaign Sikkim Congress presi- well. the issue of the surgical and Jairam Ramesh said bene- RSBY was started by the ments in India.” Committee chairman airstrikes carried out by the ficiaries can avail treat- Congress-led UPA govern- “Patients will not have Akhilesh Prasad Singh Modi government in ment costing only up to ment, Mr Ramesh added. access to adequate health- had said the seat sharing its public meetings. `50,000 under this scheme “10 crore people to be care under PMJAY would be declared on on the premium of Rs benefited under the because it excludes outpa- Sunday. “We (grand Modi, Shah discuss LS 1,100 paid by the govern- Ayushman Bharat are not tient treatment, which 87 alliance) will announce ment. “It is not `5 lakh as over and above the 11 per cent of ailing persons our seat sharing for Lok candidates at BJP meet SP fields BJP’s promised by Modi; he has crore beneficiaries who undergo. Outpatient treat- Sabha polls in the state exaggerated it 10 times,” are already availing bene- ment is a serious financial on March 18 at any cost,” DC CORRESPONDENT ■ AMONG THE Allahabad MP the Congress leader fits,” the senior Congress burden that accounted for Mr Majhi told reporters NEW DELHI, MARCH 16 Lucknow: The Samajwadi alleged. leader said, adding, “Modi 63 per cent of `4,955 spent here after a meeting of states, whose can- Party on Saturday decided “The claim that is trying to take credit for by households out of their his party’s parliamen- The BJP Central didates the CEC to field sitting BJP MP from ‘Modicare’ has provided various health schemes pockets on health in 2014,” tary board. Election Committee discussed, all seats Allahabad Shyama Charan each household insurance through Ayushman he said. The ‘Mahagathban- (CEC) on Saturday met of AP and TS and Gupta as its nominee from cover of `5 lakh is a huge Bharat.” The country does not dhan’, as the grand to discuss the names of Banda Lok Sabha seat. fraud,” he claimed. Emphasising that the need health insurance alliance is called in local Lok Sabha election can- Uttarakhand will Gupta, a leading business- He further said that 11 Ayushman Bharat Yojana that benefits private play- parlance, comprises old didates for Bihar, go to polls in the man-turned-politician, was crore people across the (ABY) or PMJAY, which is ers but health assurance allies like the Congress Assam, Odisha, first phase on elected to the Lok Sabha country are already cov- also described as which helps common and the RJD, besides Uttarakhand, Mahar- from Banda parliamentary ered under respective ‘Modicare,’ is conceptual- man, he added. new entrants such as ashtra, West Bengal, April 11. constituency in 2004 on a Upendra Kushwaha’s Chhattisgarh, Jammu ticket of . RLSP, the HAM(S), and Kashmir, Monday. Mr Shah is He fought from ’s Telangana and Andhra expected to meet party Phulpur in the 2009 general Shah set Loktantrik Pradesh. The meeting, core group leaders from election, losing to his ‘PriGa entry will and the Vikashsheel headed by party presi- Uttar Pradesh on (BSP) Insaan Party, a fledgling dent Amit Shah, was Sunday to discuss can- counterpart. to launch outfit floated by former also attended by Prime didates. Ahead of the Bollywood set designer Minister Narendra core group meeting, make no difference’ Mukesh Sahni. Modi, senior leaders Union minister and poster of “Two rounds of talks and Union ministers Jhansi MP Uma Bharti TN CONG URGES ARUNAV SINHA and among the grand Rajnath Singh, Sushma wrote a letter to Mr SUBHASHIS MITTRA | DC alliance partners have Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Shah informing that LUCKNOW, MARCH 16 Modi film been held in Delhi and Nitin Gadkari, Jual she does not want to RAHUL TO FIGHT another round will be Oram, Thawarchand contest the forthcom- Asserting that Priyanka New Delhi, March 16: held in Patna tomorrow Gehlot among others. ing general polls. FROM STATE Gandhi’s entry into poli- BJP president Amit (Sunday),” Mr Manjhi The meeting continued Also, party’s Chennai: The Tamil Nadu tics will make “no differ- Shah will release the said. An agreement has till late night. Prayagraj(Allahabad Congress unit Saturday ence” to the BJP’s second poster of upcom- been virtually reached Among the states, )MP Shyamcharan urged its national president prospects in the Lok ing film PM Narendra on the number of seats whose candidates the Gupta switched over to Rahul Gandhi to contest Sabha polls in Uttar Modi on Monday here. the HAM(S) would con- CEC discussed, all seats SP amid speculation from the southern Pradesh, chief minister Directed by Omung test, Mr Manjhi said of AP and Telangana that the BJP had decid- state for the April 18 Lok Saturday Kumar and featuring without divulging the and Uttarakhand will ed not to field him. dubbed it an “internal actor Vivek Oberoi in details. He said his party go to polls in the first Mr Gupta had joined Sabha elections, saying he Yogi Adityanath was first proposed matter” of that party. the lead, the biographi- wanted to contest in five phase on April 11. the BJP from SP ahead as the next Prime Minister He also dismissed as ◗ cal drama on Prime Lok Sabha seats in The next CEC is of the last Lok Sabha from here by the DMK. “false alarm” the SP-BSP UP CM also Minister Narendra Modi Bihar. — PTI scheduled to meet on polls. TNCC president K.S. Alagiri alliance and claimed that dismissed as will release countrywide said besides contesting it was already embroiled “false alarm” the on April 12. “This film is from Amethi in Uttar in dispute. SP-BSP alliance very close to my heart. Pradesh, Mr Gandhi should “The Congress has The first poster received also select a seat from Tamil made her (Priyanka) the and claimed that immense love and only Nadu as he cannot be per- party general secretary it was already one person could have Jaitley says oppn scored ceived as belonging to just (in-charge of eastern UP) embroiled in taken this excited a the northern state, this time. It is an internal dispute. notch higher and that is but “is seen as an asset of matter of that party as to Mr Amit Shah. I am the people of India.” how it will utilise her looking forward to the self-goal over Balakot Referring to DMK president services. Earlier too, she interview during which second poster launch,” M.K. Stalin first proposing had campaigned for the he touched upon various producer Sandip Singh New Delhi, March 16: Mr Gandhi’s name as the Congress. And this time key issues including the said in a statement. The Opposition has next Prime Minister in the too she is the party’s cam- IAF airstrikes on terror Critically-acclaimed scored a self-goal by ask- event of the Opposition paigner and it will make camps in Pakistan and actor Manoj Joshi is ing for proof of damage winning the Lok Sabha no difference (to the Ram temple. essaying the role of following airstrike on polls, Alagiri said the secu- BJP),” he told PTI in his The 46-year-old saffron Shah in the film. Balakot terror camp, lar alliance cobbled up first interview after robed monk-turned- Maharashtra chief finance minister Arun by the DMK leader had the announcement of the Lok politician said in general minister Devendra Jaitley said Saturday. full support of the people. Sabha poll schedule on elections state-level local Fadnavis along with The airstrike and sur- “In this backdrop, on behalf Sunday. issues hardly matter. Oberoi had unveiled the gical strike carried out Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP national presi- of the state Congress unit Asked as to what extent “People will vote for first look and poster of by the armed forces dent Amit Shah, home minister Rajnath Singh and and the people, I request Mr the SP-BSP alliance could that person and party in the film in January. should not be part of finance minister Arun Jaitley during the BJP CEC Rahul Gandhi to contest dent the BJP’s prospects whose hands the country The film also features Lok Sabha election cam- meeting in New Delhi on Saturday. — G.N. JHA from any one of the Lok in the hustings, is safe, secure and pros- Darshan Kumaar, paign, he said at an Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu. I Adityanath said, “The perous,” he said, adding Boman Irani, Prashant event here. leader of Jan Sangh, India’s national interest am sure the (DMK-led) fledgling SP-BSP alliance the voters know this very Narayanan, Zarina “I fully agree with the defended the govern- and gave handle to Secular Progressive Alliance is already embroiled in well. “An effort is being Wahab, Barkha Bisht Election Commission ment on every forum. Pakistan to discredit the will extend grand support to dispute.” He was refer- made to whip up an Sengupta, Anjan that images of martyrs However, the finance country, he added. this plea,” Alagiri said in a ring to reports of hard unnecessary confusion Shrivastav, Rajendra should not be used on minister said, some of “Raising question on the statement. He said Mr bargaining between the and ‘hauaa’,” the BJP Gupta and Akshat R political posters,” he the Opposition members action of armed forces Gandhi was “acceptable” by two parties over certain hardliner said, adding the Saluja in key roles. said. accused Prime Minister with the view to creating the people as a leader seats. current polls will present Suresh Oberoi, Anand Citing example of 1971 Narendra Modi of politi- doubts in the mind of beyond religion and caste “It (alliance) is nothing a “golden opportunity” Pandit and Acharya war, he said, the entire cising the Pulwama and countrymen was self- and therefore, cannot be but a ‘hauaa’ (false for his party, which will Manish are also serving Opposition stood by the Balakot incidents. goal or shot themselves considered as “belonging alarm),” the chief minis- come out with flying as producers on the film. ruling dispensation, and Statements made by 21 in the foot by doing only to UP.” ter said in his exclusive colours. — PTI Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Opposition parties hurt this,” Mr Jaitley noted.