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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. %&'( )* party, will also discuss possible despite conflicting utterances by in Opposition-run States. framed by a committee head- Kharge, Ambika Soni and The party also fielded its 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 former general secretary BK # 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 Hariprasad from the Bangalore teach a bitter lesson to the Sources said there could be gag Sabha seats, all represented by attack on Chief Minister The Congress has already leader. South constituency in political parties who are rais- orders to certain leaders as BJP now. Mamata Banerjee during his launched an exercise to involve Former Chief Ministers Karnataka. ! $ ing 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 " Chaudhary said, “Maam its campaign in a big way in Uttar air strike inside Pakistan after " Pakistan’s internal issue and * ./< Pradesh with senior party lead- Pulwama terror attack. (be) rest assured it’s not Modi’s ers, including party chief Amit “Some leaders are asking India where minorities are amajwadi Party president Shah, holding Vijay Sankalp ral- how many people were killed #$% & subjugated, it’s Imran Khan’s SAkhilesh Yadav will contest lies across the State invoking in that attack. This is ques- Naya Pak where white colour from Azamgarh Lok Sabha nationalism in the context of tioning as if whether air strike of our flag is equally dearer to seat in Uttar Pradesh, which Modi Government response to had actually happened or not,” us.” was represented by his father the Pulwama terror attack. he said. Yogi even equated ' “I hope you’ll act with Mulayam Singh Yadav. Union Home Minister one of the candidates in " /2;2*0 same diligence when it comes While the 79-year-old SP Rajnath Singh addressed a rally Saharanpur as damaad (son-in () *#" to rights of Indian minorities,” patriarch will contest from in Lucknow from where he is law) of Azhar Masood and + war of words erupted on he said. “safe seat” Mainpuri, the party seeking re-election, while Chief asked people to defeat the , O ASunday between External Swaraj, in her response to on Sunday made a volte face Minister Yogi Adityanath candidates who talk the lan- . "' Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Chaudhary, said she had only and included its founder chief Akhilesh, Azam, Dimple addressed a gathering in guage of terrorists. / &. and Pakistan’s Information asked for a report from the Mulayam Singh Yadav’s name Yadav and Jaya Bachchan Saharanpur, the constituency Uttar Pradesh, a home to Minister Fawad Chaudhary Pakistan Ajay Bisaria on the Indian High Commissioner in in its list of “star campaigners”, among others, besides Ram that will go to polls in first phase 22 crore people, sends maxi- 0/1 over reports of abduction of reported abduction of the girls Islamabad about the kidnap- a day after leaving him out of Gopal Yadav himself. on April 11. Another Union mum 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha. & two Hindu teenaged girls and and their forcible conversion to ping and forced conversion of it. Also, the SP announced that At present, the SP patri- Minister Mukhtar Abaas Naqvi In 2014 election party, with its their forcible conversion to Islam. two minor Hindu girls to Islam. senior leader Azam Khan will arch represents Azamgarh addressed a meeting in Rampur. ally Apna Dal, 73 seats were Islam on the eve of Holi in the Pakistan Prime Minister “This was enough to make contest from Rampur. constituency. He had repre- “In this election won with the BJP bagging 71 Sindh province. Imran Khan has ordered a you jittery. This only shows The list released by senior sented Mainpuri three times Opposition is defaming the constituencies. This year the !" # ! 2 In a tweet, Swaraj sought a probe into the matter. your guilty conscience,” she SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav earlier in 1996, 2004 and valour of Indian Army. This is party has set a target to win 74 '/ report from Indian envoy in Responding to Swaraj’s tweet, said. included the names of party 2009. not acceptable to the people of seats. " *#/ / O R " & %+, - . /0 /2;2*0 had put their number to just servation plan were not includ- $ 264. This variety of bustard is ed. The EIA consultant of the 3 Central environmental found in the four States — project is M/s Enviro Infra , Apanel has spiked the Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Solutions Pvt Ltd, Ghaziabad. " *.4 National Highway Authority of Rajasthan and Maharashtra. The EAC also noted that L M India’s proposal to construct The proposed project is a the land acquisition for the the Rs 1078.40-crore 211-km- part of Delhi-Mumbai proposed alignment was *# long eight-lane road (newly Expressway under Bharatmala approximately 336.72 ha out of " & declared NH 148N) connecting Pariyojana as per the guidelines which 41.82 ha is forest land. Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam dis- of the Ministry of Road, Approximately 2,438 number % trict to Vadodara in Gujarat. It Transport and Highways. The of trees are likely to be cut. $ 4/0 said the road may threaten the length of the proposed align- For want of requisite infor- !!& 4 habitat of the highly endan- ment is 31 km which is locat- mation, the panel deferred its he grand alliance partners " # gered Lesser Floricans in the ed within 10 km radius from nod to the project and sought Ton Sunday announced their adjoining Sailna Khamor the boundary of Sailana cumulative impacts of the pro- seat sharing equation for the Wildlife Sanctuary in Ratlam Kharmor Wildlife Sanctuary. ject activities on the habitat of 17th General Elections in district. Curiously, while deliberat- wildlife, such as Lesser Florian, Jharkhand in presence of JMM # In a meeting held recently, ing the proposed project at its direct loss of habitat at inter-