https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2019 ELECTION 2019 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE INTERVIEW | DHARMENDRA PRADHAN POLL POURRI CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ‘There is a pro-Modi wave in Odisha’ Heavy deployment of forces Union Petroleum Minister says people of the State will vote for the BJP in both the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections Nistula Hebbar to party). In 2014, when there discrimination over not being Mr. Patnaik has accused the was a huge Modi wave across able to implement KALIA BJP of not doing enough on Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan speaks the country, the party could while the Prime Minister behalf of Odisha over the about the BJP’s electoral prospects in Odisha, where the party not do well in Odisha. Kisan Samman Nidhi is under Mahanadi water shraing hopes to gain ground, and the induction of leaders from other When Amit Shahji took over way... dispute, even when there was parties, including the Biju Janata Dal. Excerpts: as party president, he sat a BJP-led government in down with us and analysed the ■ Who has stopped him from Chhattisgarh... How do you look at this ■ That is not necessary. We entire issue and what were the implementing the KALIA election? There are reports have experimented with that challenges. We found that we scheme? Mr. Patnaik is a frus­ Kolkata that while for the Lok Sabha, model too in certain States, have to expand the organisa­ trated person currently. He is ■ He [Mr. Patnaik] has got the The Election Commission has deployed more there may be a preference for but our experiences in the tional base, if we are to con­ accusing the Election Commis­ befitting reply to that during Central Armed Police Forces for the second phase of polling in West Bengal on Thursday. Prime Minister Modi, and for past five years, say in Haryana, vert the support for Prime Mi­ People will give a sion of being part of the Cen­ the panchayat elections in <> The EC has deployed 195 companies of the the Vidhan Sabha, Naveen Maharashtra, even in Uttar nister Modi into seats for the befitting reply to tral government, whereas the areas around the Mahanadi central forces in Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Patnaik is still the top Pradesh, have shown that it is basin. party. Naveen Patnaik in EC has deferred the release of Raiganj Lok Sabha constituencies. In Raiganj, choice... not necessary to project a To do this, we did two these polls a biopic on Prime Minister Mo­ This attitude of his is just a 64 companies have been deployed, special chief ministerial candidate. things: increase our own activ­ di. He has been elected Chief stunt. Corrupt mining contrac­ police observer Vivek Dube told presspersons ■ There were five phases of the That is not the indication ities, go to the people, agitate ex­D­G, CRPF, and Aparajita Minister four times; when tors, in league with people after meeting district officials in Raiganj on that we have got from the first U.P. polls, Yogi Adityanath ji on people’s issues, and to Sarangi, an ex­IAS [officer], things were good for him, the close to the Chief Minister, are Tuesday. According to the EC, about 80% of phase of polling that just con­ was not a prominent figure in reach the social welfare poli­ neither of whom belong to any EC was okay, now because of running the State mechanism. the booths in the three Lok Sabha seats will cluded, in four Lok Sabha and any of the campaigns of those cies of the Modi government political party; to Sambit Pa­ frustration he has joined the Mr. Patnaik is not in control have central forces. 28 Vidhan Sabha [seats]. The phases. He became the Chief to the people. Secondly, in­ tra, who is a national face. ranks of the mahamilawati and he is in a different mode. ground reports are something Minister, so it doesn’t matter. clude good people from other (the adulterated) group. What Due to his failures, he is giv­ else. This is a perception The party is emerging in Od­ parties in the BJP. You are the best known face has the EC asked for? ing these alibis. Rajnath files papers in Lucknow spread by some friends that isha, and we are equals and it Why just BJD, if you look at from the BJP in Odisha. Why A list of beneficiaries was I challenge him to a debate. Lucknow Odisha may differentiate [bet­ is not the right time to project our candidate list, we have gi­ didn’t you contest? asked for and the budget allo­ Day before yesterday, in the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who filed ween] the [elections to the] a face. ven ticket to more than 25 in­ cation shown for the same. Re­ Bhubhaneswar commissioner­ his nomination papers for the Lucknow seat Lok Sabha and the Assembly. People believe in Prime Mi­ fluential Congress­back­ ■ My party is in an evolution­ latives of senior Ministers ate area, a six­year­old girl was on Tuesday, holds assets Never in the history of Indian nister Modi, and his consis­ ground people for the ary process, and I am required made their way into the list of kidnapped and raped; her worth about ₹4.62 crore. elections has the voter diffe­ tently increasing support base Assembly polls. to oversee the campaign. I am beneficiaries, father went to the police sta­ The election affidavit puts rentiated thus. over the past five years will be This is because they took campaigning morning to night I am quoting their names: tion begging for her rescue, his immoveable assets at There is a pro­Modi wave in beneficial to the party. more votes than us in the last for all our candidates, the nit­ Vikram Aaruk, Niranjan Puja­ but the police did not arrive ₹2,97,30,580. In addition, the State, and the Prime Minis­ round of polls, but due to the ty­gritty of coordinating work. ri, Sushanta Singh. Please ask for four hours, after which lo­ there are moveable assets ter has appealed to the voters The BJP hopes to grow, but it lacklustre [performance] of The party has given me so ma­ about these three. KALIA was cal people broke the door of of ₹1,64,58,260.61. His to elect a BJP­led government seems more from inductions the Congress and the feeling ny things and I should not im­ initiated for the financial year the accused’s house, took the wife, Savitri Singh, has moveable assets worth a little over ₹53 lakh. at both the Centre and the from the BJD from which you that their party was in com­ pose my personal desires over 2018­19, and there is no alloca­ girl to hospital where she died. While the Minister has ₹68,000 in cash in State. Mr. Naveen Patnaik is have poached many leaders... promise mode with the BJD, the requirements of the party. tion. His only issue in the past This is in an urban area, hand, his wife has ₹37,000. Mr. Singh owns a facing huge anti­incumbency. they came to us to give a real I took a conscious decision not 20 days is envy of Prime Minis­ imagine the plight in the inte­ .32 bore revolver and a double­barrel gun. PTI ■ In election time, partyon fight and protect their consti­ to contest. ter Modi, instead of giving his riors. People will give a befit­ Wouldn’t it have been useful main adlaa badli hoti hai tuency’s interest. We have gi­ report card of the past 19 ting reply to Mr. Patnaik in to project a face for the State? (there is movement from party ven ticket to Prakash Mishra, Mr. Patnaik has alleged years. these polls. Women­run poll centres CHANDIGARH CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Haryana is all set to get [CAMPAIGN TRAIL: RAJ BABBAR ] ‘Sakhi Matdan Kendras’ in each Assembly segment to Vintage Kolkata disseminate the message of Fatehpur Sikri women empowerment. These centres will be exclusively run by women takes a star turn and no male personnel would be present. Haryana's Chief Electoral Officer Rajeev Ranjan on Tuesday said that Congress banks on actor’s charisma this initiative would go a long way in spreading the message in society that women Omar Rashid community, Surajpal Singh could not only participate in the elections but FATEHPUR SIKRI and Dharampal Singh, re­ also conducted them in an efficient manner. Around noon, the cavalcade cently defected to him. And “Extensive steps are being taken to increase of SUVs cut into Ikhtara vil­ unlike previous elections, participation of women in the democratic lage, which boasts a splen­ there are no Thakur candi­ system,” he said. did view of the Lucknow­ dates in the fray. #70929 Agra Expressway. The two­ But not all are impressed. hour delay did not deter the Netrapal Singh, a farmer, EC serves notice on Azam Khan enthusiasm as the local peo­ is firmly behind Prime Mi­ NEW DELHI ple, mostly Thakurs, rushed nister Narendra Modi and The Election Commission on Tuesday issued a to greet their guest, honour­ dismisses Congress presi­ show­cause notice to ing him with garlands of dent Rahul Gandhi’s creden­ Samajwadi Party leader Azam flowers and ₹10 notes and tials. He doesn’t care much Khan for prima facie violation wrapping a traditional tur­ for the BJP candidate, Raj of the model code of conduct ban around his head. Kumar Chahar, who has lost on multiple occasions, asking “I am fighting on a diffe­ three consecutive Assembly him to furnish his reply within rent equation.