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Modi Wave Sweeps India www.facebook.com/Kamal.Sandesh/ www.kamalsandesh.org @kamalsandeshbjp ‘IndIA WIll become ‘superpower’ IF MODI BECOMES PM AGAIn’ Vol. 14, No. 10 16-31 MAY, 2019 (Fortnightly) `20 MODI WAVE SWEEPS INDIA EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS PRAKASH MURALIDHAR BHUPENDER ARUN LOK SABHA ELECTIONS 2019 JAVADEKAR RAO 16-31YADAV MAY, 2019 I KAMAL SANDESHSI I NGH1 BJP National President Shri Amit Shah addressing a huge public meeting in Bishnupur, West Bengal BJP National President Shri Amit Shah responding to the greetings Jharkhand BJP welcomes BJP National President Shri Amit Shah to a of the gathering in an election rally at Madhuban, Bihar public meeting in Dhanbad, Jharkhand Union Minister Shri Rajnath Singh addressing an election rally in Union Minister Shri Nitin Gadkari addressing an election rally for Mohanlalganj, Uttar Pradesh North-West Delhi 2 I KAMAL SANDESH I 16-31 MAY, 2019 Fortnightly Magazine Editor Prabhat Jha Executive Editor Dr. Shiv Shakti Bakshi Associate Editors Ram Prasad Tripathy Vikash Anand Creative Editors Vikas Saini Mukesh Kumar Phone +91(11) 23381428 FAX +91(11) 23387887 KASHI GIVES A ROARING WELCOME TO PM NARENDRA MODI’s E-mail MEGA ROADSHOW [email protected] [email protected] 06 Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi held a massive roadshow in Website: www.kamalsandesh.org his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh on 25... SHRADHANJALI 10 ‘WILL LORD Ram’s nAME BE Gul Muhammad Mir / Manguli Jena 15 TAKEN IN PAK, IF NOT IN INDIa’ BJP National President Shri ARTICLE Amit Shah said that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata A Convenient Season for Being a ‘Proud Hindu’ 16 Banerjee is not allowing people to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in the... INTERVIEWS 09 ‘InDIA WILL BECOME We hope to win 25 out of 25 seats: Prakash Javadekar 18 ‘supeRPOWEr’ IF MODI In Karnataka BJP will script another landmark and BECOMES PM AGAIN’ get more seats in Tamilnadu: Muralidhar Rao 20 With only last two phases of If in 2014 a wave was in favour of Modiji, this time voting left, campaigning is reaching a hectic pitch in India. it is a Tsunami in his favour: Bhupender Yadav 22 Elections are yet to be held in... BJP is going to win even more seats than in 2014 elections: Arun Singh 24 12 UJJWALA SCHEME BOOSTS INDIa’s LPG OTHERS CONSUMPTION TO A RECORD HIGH IN FY19 “Celebrities with NaMo” programme held at BJP India’s demand for liquefied petroleum gas Headquarters 11 (LPG) rose to a record in the fiscal year ended in March amid government measures to provide Masood Azhar: Jaish-e-Mohammed leader listed as cleaner cooking fuel to rural households, and... terrorist by UN 13 ‘Ease of Living’ for citizens: A Big Achievement of Modi Government 26 14 GST COLLECTION SCALES ALL-TIME HIGH OF 1.13 TRILLION IN APRIL Paving the Way for Rural Prosperity 29 GST revenue mop-up scaled a monthly record It’s time to end Didi’s rule in Bengal: Modi 30 high of over Rs 1.13 trillion in April, 2019 an Cyclone Fani devastates Odisha 33 increase of 10 per cent over the collection in the... Publisher and Printer: Printed by Dr. Nandkishore Garg, Published by Dr. Nandkishore Garg on behalf of Dr. Mookerjee Smruti Nyas and Printed at HT Media Limited, B-2, Sector-63, Noida (UP)-201307 and Published from PP-66, Subramanya Bharati Marg, New Delhi-110003. Editor - Prabhat Jha. 16-31 MAY, 2019 I KAMAL SANDESH I 3 SOCIAL MEDIA CORNER Chowkidar Narendra Modi @narendramodi The 282 number will be breached by a large margin by the BJP; even Whenever I come to West Bengal, TMC the tally of the NDA will go up. Our and especially Speed Breaker Didi get analysis of the rounds of voting restless. Their numbers won’t even complete shows that not only the touch double digits this time. number of seats but also the winning margin People are no longer accepting TMC’s will increase and the spread of the BJP/NDA will poor governance and strong-arm tactics. Bengal increase in terms of area. wants BJP. — Chowkidar Amit Shah Chowkidar Rajnath Singh @RajnathSingh Deeply anguished by the killing #UttarPradesh witnessing a tsunami, of BJP leader in Jammu & Kashmir, even #BJP will win both Amethi and Ghulam Mohammed Mir ji. His killing Rae Bareli this time. is extremely reprehensible. My heart goes out to his bereaved family and — Chowkidar Jagat Prakash Nadda well wishers. Chowkidar Arun Jaitley @arunjaitley The voters have already made up Of late, a tendency has developed their mind. There are no ifs and buts amongst the political parties to left, BJP is returning to power. excessively allege violation of the MCC by their opponents. In the ongoing Lok — Chowkidar Piyush Goyal Sabha elections, the Congress Party as the ‘Cry Baby’ of this election, is leading the pack. Kamal Sandesh Parivar wishes a very happy BUDDHA PURNIMA (18 MAY) to all of its readers Courtesy: Social Media 4 I KAMAL SANDESH I 16-31 MAY, 2019 EDITORIAL RAHUL GANDHI EXPOSED AGAIN ahul Gandhi stands exposed again. His politics of lies, falsehood and deceit stands exposed again. In one of most embarrassing episodes of his life, Rahul Gandhi was made to apologize in the highest R court of the country. It should be noted that he was forced to tender apology when the court declined to accept his ‘regret’ within bracket. While he tried to escape the law by expressing ‘regret’ that too under brackets for his claim that Supreme Court had supported his allegation that ‘Chowkidar hi chor hai’, but it was a relief for the nation that court refused to let him so easily. In the contempt of court proceeding he was compelled to tender apology while accepting in a way that his allegation was baseless and false in context of court ruling on Rafale. It is unfortunate that even after getting exposed again and again, he continues to resort to the politics of lies, falsehood and deceit. He has not only denigrated the political debate in the country but also failed to build his credibility in the public. He has now become an example as to how a person can stoop in public life. It is not the first time that Rahul Gandhi has tendered apology in the court. Earlier also in the case of his malicious utterances against RSS, he made an apology but later withdrew only to save his skin publicly. The case is still going on and no one will be surprised that one day he is again forced to tender THE MASSIVE apology for how deceitfully he tries to mislead the people. It is very unfortunate that even after SUPPORT OF THE becoming the president of Congress, he continues to utter mischievous statements aimed PEOPLE ACROSS at misleading the people with white lies. He should understand that he is already on bail and INDIA TO PM repeated resort to such misadventure may land him in a big trouble some day. SHRI NARENDRA Congress in these days afflicted with ‘Me Too’ syndrome and banks heavily on the politics MODI IS MAKING of lies and falsehood. The time surgical strikes and air strikes were conducted by our brave CONGRESS AND ITS ALLIES security forces, Congress first questioned them and later started the propaganda that such NERVOUS AND strikes were conducted earlier too. Now when Masood Azhar has been declared a global THEY HAVE terrorist by the UN, Congress is not far behind in claiming that the process was initiated under DEVELOPED COLD UPA regime. Whatever good work Modi government has done and won applauses across FEET WHICH the world, Rahul Gandhi and the Congress are claiming that those were the initiatives of the CAN BE SEEN IN UPA government. Rahul Gandhi has even now failed to realize that he is making mockery of THEIR TOO MUCH Congress by making such laughable claims. It also shows a major contradiction in Congress RELIANCE ON THE strategy – while it wants to claim all the good works done by Modi government, it also comes POLITICS OF LIES, out with baseless and unfounded charges against the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. FALSEHOOD AND Such contradictions and repeated resort to lies and falsehood has sunk Congress credibility DECEIT. BUT SUCH to a new low with people not even bothering to take it seriously. TACTICS WILL NOT The Lok Sabha election 2019 is turning out to be a historic one. It is going to not only re- SUCCEED. write the political landscape of the country but will reiterate the rise of a New India under the dynamic and charismatic leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. It is also going to re-establish that politics of good governance and development cannot be defeated by the divisive politics of caste, religion and region. It is symbolising the rise of a New India which is aspiring to register itself on the global map with confidence and hope. The youth, women, poor, farmers, SCs, STs and middle class have made up their mind to walk an extra mile in realising their dreams by re-electing Shri Narendra Modi as PM of the country once again. The political pundits across the world will be surprised to see the scale and magnitude of pro-incumbency wave that is sweeping the nation under the leadership of Shri Modi. The massive support of the people across India to PM Shri Narendra Modi is making Congress and its allies nervous and they have developed cold feet which can be seen in their too much reliance on the politics of lies, falsehood and deceit. But such tactics will not succeed as Congress has missed the opportunity of playing the role of constructive opposition in the last five years.
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