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KUMAR Wednesday May 29, 2019 CLOSED FOR A PRIVATE EVENT 7:00 PM House of Yes, 2 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237 To announce your Events here, Email event details at [email protected] w w w . i n d i a r e p u b l i c n e w s . c o m United Hindu Strong India Wednesday, May 15, 2019 3 INDIA REPUBLIC NEWS COMMUNITY NEWS Lok Sabha elections 2019: ‘CAN’T WIN POLLS, so competing to abuse me,’ says PM Modi after Aiyar jibe In an opinion piece that was first published by the Jammu and Kashmir-based Rising Kashmir newspaper, Mani Shankar Aiyar prophesized PM Modi-led BJP’s defeat in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Opposition leaders are competing with each other to abuse Narendra Modi because they have figured that they will lose the national elections, Prime Minister Modi said at an election rally hours after a fresh controversy erupted over Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar’s opinion piece. PM Modi said the writing on the wall, after six rounds In an opinion piece that was first published by remarks would end up drowning the Congress of voting, was clear and this is why, opposition leaders the Jammu and Kashmir-based Rising further. In a tweet, BJP’s Sambit Patra said are angry. Kashmir newspaper, Mani Shankar Aiyar mocked Congress president Rahul Gandhi, prophesized PM Modi-led BJP’s defeat in the stressing that Aiyar, who he described as the “This is why the competition to abuse Modi has picked ongoing Lok Sabha elections. jewel of the Gandhi family, had contributed to up pace. They can’t win so they are venting their the “politics of love” of Rahul Gandhi by frustration by abusing (me),” the prime minister said at “That would be a fitting end to the most foul- defining His “neech comment” on PM Modi an election rally in Bihar’s Buxar before moving on to mouthed prime minister this country has seen as prophetic. attack the alliance of opposition parties. or is likely to see. Remember how I described him on 7 December 2017? Was I not Mani Shankar Aiyar declined to get into the At this rally, the prime minister did not list how he had prophetic?” he said. Aiyar’s comment was debate. According to news agency ANI, he been called names by opposition parties in the past. seen as a reference to his description of PM said there was no need for a clarification. Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Modi, he said, had Modi as a ‘neech aadmi’ ahead of the Gujarat “There is a whole article, picking out one line already mentioned some of the instances of name elections. from it and saying “now talk on this”. I am not calling by the opposition. ready to be involved in your games, ‘main ullu BJP leaders rushed to slam Aiyar. hoon, lekin itna bada ullu nahi hoon’ (I could PM Modi’s speech comes against the backdrop of a ‘Abuser-in-chief’ Aiyar returns to justify be stupid but not so stupid).” new row over an opinion piece by Mani Shankar Aiyar, 2017 ‘Neech’ jibe,” tweeted BJP’s GVL the Congress leader who was suspended by the party in Narasimha Rao, underlining that it had put the “Anything I say is misused because there are the run up to the Gujarat assembly elections in 2017 for “double speak and arrogance” of the Congress people who hate me. They hate me because I describing the Prime Minister as a ‘neech aadmi’. The on display again. Law Minister Ravi Shankar speak the truth but I will keep doing so”, Aiyar suspension was revoked less than a year later. Prasad’s message to Aiyar was that his said, according to ANI. Yogi Adityanath says unfortunate Congress has reducedSource : Hindustantimes.com to party contesting elections to cut BJP votes, after Priyanka Gandhi's 'weak candidates' remark Gorakhpur: Chief Minister Yogi not to just win the elections. Adityanath on Monday took a dig at the On 1 May, when asked about chances of Congress and said it is unfortunate that it Congress' victory in UP, Priyanka had said: has reduced to a party which is contesting "My strategy is very clear. Congress will elections just to cut vote share of the BJP. win on the seats where our candidates are strong. Where our candidates are slightly "Congress' princess says that Congress is lightweight, they will cut into BJP's vote contesting elections so that they can cut share. One does not do politics only to into the vote share of the BJP. This is win."The Gorakhpur seat was represented unfortunate for Congress that they have by UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath for become 'vote cutwa' party (a party which five terms since 1998 until Praveen Kumar cut into the vote of others)," Adityanath Nishad of Samajwadi Party won the seat in said while campaigning for actor-turned- a by-poll last year. The seat was vacated by politician Ravi Kishan who is contesting Yogi Adityanath when he became the chief from Gorakhpur on a BJP ticket. "Those minister. Gorakhpur, one of 13 persons who have disgraced democracy parliamentary constituencies in Uttar and are coming as 'vote-cutwa' and remark came after Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Pradesh will go to polls on 19 May in the confusing people, people should teach had said that her party has fielded some Lok Sabha candidates last phase of Lok Sabha elections. them a lesson," he said. Adityanath's in Uttar Pradesh with the aim to cut into the vote share of BJP, Source : firstpost.com United Hindu Strong India w w w . i n d i a r e p u b l i c n e w s . c o m Wednesday, May 15, 2019 4 INDIA REPUBLIC NEWS COMMUNITY NEWS Open Letter To The Economist food, banking and internet accessible to all. India dear editor of The Economist has a free and strong under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made vibrant press, wherein everyone has the freedom remarkable improvement in the business to write what they feel like. Your article tries to environment. Hope before publishing this fictious say that major publications like The Time of and one-sided op-ed you would have looked at the India, The Hindustan Times, India Today, NDTV annual Ease of Doing Business report of the are scared of Prime Minister Modi. Flatly wrong. World Bank. Can you name one single country of They are writing and publishing what they believe the size of India that has jumped the rankings of in. By saying so, you are simply trying to demean Ease of Doing Business as much as India has done the prestige and work ethics of these major Indian in the last five years. And what about the amount publications. I think, The economist should be foreign direct investment that India has attracted ashamed of this.