Narendra Modi invites his star-supporters Rajnikanth, Lata Mangeshkar and Amitabh Bachchan to his swearing-in ceremony
- Narendra Modi invites his star-supporters Rajnikanth, Lata Mangeshkar and his Gujarat tourism ambassador Amitabh Bachchan to his swearing-in ceremony
PM-elect Narendra Modi's team has reportedly invited his mega-stars to his swearing-in ceremony to be held on May 26.
Bharat Ratna awardee Lata Mangeshkar, superstar Rajnikanth as well as Amitabh Bachchan are invited by the Prime Minister designate narendra Modi's offical team, according to reports.
Lata Mangeshkar had long back announced her support to Modi much to the anger of Congress and other politicians in Maharashtra. She had publicly praised him for which received criticism by Congress leaders.
Rajnikanth had recently congratulated Narendra Modi on Twitter after the Bharatiya Janata Party had won the elections.
Amitabh Bachchan was the face of Gujarat tourism and Modi had thanked him for supporting Gujarat in his own way. His daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan too had good things to say about Narendra Modi's prime ministership.
If the reports about the film industry invitees is true then Narendra Modi is set have not only a historic swearing-in with world leaders gracing the event it would also have a glamorous quotient with star-studed presence.
Mixed reaction within Congress as Nawaz Sharif accepts Narendra Modi invite
NEW DELHI: Reactions in Congress varied from caution to commendation on Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi's invitation to Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif to attend his oath-taking ceremony, which the latter accepted today.
While senior leader DigvijayBSE 4.50 % Singh hailed the decision to invite Sharif as a "positive change in Modi" compared to the "quite contrary" things he had been saying earlier, Congress spokesperson Shashi Tharoor said that the party feels that there is "no basis for substantive talks" at the moment between the two countries.
Further, Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed said that photo opportunities are okay, but in the euphoria of coronation, Modi should not compromise national interest.
Outgoing Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari, for his part, reminded that BJP has all along maintained that terror and talks cannot go together.
"It's a very positive thing and he (Modi) has only followed the policy which was enunciated from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, although he has been talking quite contrary to what he has done now. Therefore, I think it is a positive change in Modi," Singh said.
Tharoor, who was earlier a Minister of State for External Affairs, however, had a word of caution to offer.
"As far as Congress is concerned, all we have said is that there is a consensual position on the question of why we have not been inviting Nawaz Sharif or former Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to Delhi since 26/11. Nor have we sent our Prime Minister there. And that position has been related to 26/11 and the horrors of that terror attack," Tharoor said.
He said India has maintained that until its minimum demands for progress in pursuing, prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators and accomplices behind 26/11 are not met or unless steps are taken to dismantle the infrastructure for carrying out terror attacks on India and Indian interests in , "there is no basis for substantive talks".
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Rahul, Akhilesh to campaign in Modi's Varanasi constituency today
Varanasi: In a response to BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally in Amethi on May 05, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will be holding a roadshow here on Saturday.
Modi, by holding a rally in Amethi, had broken the unwritten code between the political bigwigs who avoid campaigning in the constituency of their top rival.
The Gandhi scion will begin his roadshow from the Gol Gadda Chauraha to Lanka in Varanasi city.
Moreover, as per his official programme, he will also address a public meeting later at Sathwan in Chiraigaon block in the holy city.
Besides Gandhi, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh's son Akhilesh Yadav will also be holding a roadshow in Varanasi.
Earlier during a rally at Sikanderpur in UP, Yadav had said that Modi’s Ganga aarti programme in Varanasi was not a religious one but purely political.
He had also claimed that the BJP would not be able to win more than 150 seats in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls in the country.
Modi, by holding a rally in Amethi, had broken the unwritten code between the political bigwigs who avoid campaigning in the constituency of their top rival.
The Gandhi scion will begin his roadshow from the Gol Gadda Chauraha to Lanka in Varanasi city.
Besides Gandhi, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh's son Akhilesh Yadav will also be holding a roadshow in Varanasi.
Earlier during a rally at Sikanderpur in UP, Yadav had said that Modi’s Ganga aarti programme in Varanasi was not a religious one but purely political.
He had also claimed that the BJP would not be able to win more than 150 seats in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls in the country.
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Elections: Seemandhra people in Hyderabad will be protected says, Sonia
Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday assured full protection to people of Seemandhra residing in Hyderabad, saying they are proud owners of the historical and modern city as much as anybody else.
“My party is committed to protect physical, social, cultural and financial interests of every single person residing in Hyderabad,” she told an election rally in this south coastal Andhra town.
Gandhi said it was enshrined in the Reorganisation Act that the governor will be responsible for the safety and security of the property and the people living in the common capital of Hyderabad.
On her first visit to Seemandhra after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the Congress chief said she empathised with the people of Seemandhra and assured all support to develop it as a new and resurgent state.
Without naming Telangana Rashtra Samithi, she said some vested interests have whipped up passions and are using very harsh and nasty words about Seemandhra people living in Hyderabad.
“I know many of you from Seemandhra have at least one family member either working or studying in Hyderabad,” she said and noted their contribution in the development of Hyderabad.
The Congress chief assured the students that all admission quotas in educational institutions and the common admission process will continue for 10 years.
“Youngsters from Seemandhra must not worry. This is my commitment to you. The educational opportunities available to you now will continue for 10 years.”
Stating that people of Seemandhra are wonderfully talented and have made great contribution to building modern Andhra Pradesh, Gandhi said she had absolutely no doubt that the new state of Seemadhra will emerge as an economic powerhouse in the country.
“I have no doubt that cities like Visakhapatnam, Guntur, Kurnool, Vijayawada, Rajahmundry, Kakinada, Nellore and Tirupati will emerge as serious competitors to Hyderabad,” she said.
Stating that bifurcation of the state was not an easy decision, she said it was now time to look forward.
“I am aware this decision has caused some of you great pain and I fully empathise with you.
“… I understand your sentiments but as you are aware there was a long history to the creation of Telangana and that uncertainty had to be brought to an end,” she said.
Gandhi pointed out that except for the CPI-M, all parties had giving in writing their views in favour of bifurcation of the state. (ians)
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday assured full protection to people of Seemandhra residing in Hyderabad, saying they are proud owners of the historical and modern city as much as anybody else.Statehood in 5 weeks, Telangana voters turn up to celebrate
Hyderabad: People of Telangana on Wednesday turned out in big numbers to cast their votes in the largely peaceful polls as an air of expectancy enveloped the region that would formally recieve the statehood tag in less than five weeks.
Police also
heaved a sigh of relief as the simultaneous elections to 17 Lok Sabha
and 119 Assembly constituencies, including ten left-wing
extremism-affected ones, in Telangana passed off trouble-free, barring
stray incidents.
"In 2009, the overall poll percentage (in ten districts of Telangana) was 67.71 per cent. Now in 2014, as per tentative figures, its 72 per cent which is further likely to go up," State Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwarlal told reporters this evening.
Andhra Pradesh Director
General of Police B Prasada Rao said the polling was by and large
peaceful. "15 cases of violence were reported during the polling in
various districts so far and cases have been registered at respective
police stations," Rao said. Nalgonda district reported the highest voter turnout of 81 percent and Hyderabad 53 percent as per tentative figures. As many as 2.10 crore of the total 2.81 crore voters cast their ballot. "Its a good turnout," Bhanwarlal said.
A total of 1,669 candidates are in the fray for 119 Assembly seats while 265 contested for the 17 parliamentary seats. He
said 583 electronic voting machines were replaced on the account of
technical problems, which is not even one per cent of total EVMs used in
the elections today. Four
helicopters of the Indian Air Force were stationed in districts for
contingencies even as a strong posse of 90,000 police and para-military
personnel deployed in ten districts of Telangana, which would come into
being as a new state on June 2, to oversee security.
The polls passed off peacefully in the Maoist-affected districts and there were no untoward incidents reported, police said.
The final figures are:
Nizamabad: 70 per cent.
Adilabad: 78 per cent.
Karimnagar: 76 per cent.
Medak: 77 per cent.
Rangareddy: 60 per cent.
Hyderabad: 53 per cent.
Mahabubnagar: 73 per cent.
Nalgonda: 58 per cent.
Warangal: 75 per cent.
Khammam: 78 per cent.
Former director general of police Dinesh Reddy of the YSRC created a flutter at a polling station in Nadnavanam Colony when he entered with 50 members in a restricted area.
In Suryapet, Nalgonda, a car carrying Congress working president Uttamkumar Reddy's stickers caught fire due to the heat. Bundles of cash were burnt.
A group of youngsters was the first to reach the polling station at City Central Library under Musheerabad Assembly constituency in Hyderabad to cast votes for the first time.
"It's thrilling," exclaimed Pratyusha,
an engineering student, after she got her right index finger inked upon
casting her first vote.
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Gujarat: State records 62 per cent voter turnout till 6 pm
Gandhi nagar, April 30: All 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat went to the election on
Tuesday during the seventh phase. The total of 334 candidates are in
the fray of whom 12 are women.
Over 40 million voters will cast their
ballots in this phase. Seven by-polls also took place in the state
during the day.
State records 62 per cent voter turnout till 6 pm.
5.45 pm: Surat records 54%, Navsari 62%, Valsad 56.9%, Amreli 48.11%,
Mehsana 60.84%, Kutch 52.17%, Junagadh 55.95%, Anand 59.95%, Bharuch
61.96%, Dahod 59.2%, Porbandar 43.67%, Rajkot 55.35% till 5 pm.
5.10 pm: Voter turnout recorded at 55 per cent till 5 pm.
4.59 pm: 94-year-old woman passes away after casting vote in Surat.
4.45 pm: Chief Electoral Officer, Gujarat Anita Karwal after polling in
Ahmedabad.
4.06 pm: Gujarat surpasses the 2009 election record. Reaches 53 per cent
over all till 4 pm.
3.59 pm: At 3 pm, Vadodara 59.53%. Savli 56%, Wghodiya 62%, Vadodara
city 57.30%, Raopura 57.65%, Sayajiganj 62.23%, Akota 61.76%, Manjalpur
61.03%.
Narendra Modi accused of breaking India's election rules by taking selfie
Leader of frontrunning BJP party accused of posing with party symbol on polling day, in contravention of campaign rules
Narendra Modi taking a selfie with his BJP party's lotus-flower symbol. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Police opened a investigation against Narendra Modi, tipped to be India's
next prime minister, on Wednesday after he took a selfie with his party
symbol and made a political speech as he voted with millions of others
in the country's election.
The chief minister of Gujarat and leader of the Hindu nationalist BJP party, voting as nine of the country's 29 states went to the polls, took a photograph of himself holding a lotus flower in his inked finger after casting his ballot.
Angry supporters of the ruling Congress party complained to the authorities that Modi had flouted election law by canvassing for votes in violation of rules forbidding campaigning on election day. Gujarat police chief PC Thakur said a preliminary case was launched against Modi at the request of the election commission.
Maximum punishment for violating the rule is two years imprisonment, although Modi is unlikely to be charged. Politicians in India routinely face criminal cases which rarely reach the courts.
Congress and the BJP are locked in a tense battle for control of the next national government, with Congress facing a possible drubbing over corruption scandals and a recent economic slowdown.
In his speech after voting, Modi taunted the Congress campaign led by 43-year-old Rahul Gandhi, son of the party president Sonia Gandhi.
"The prime minister himself is not fighting the election. The finance minister is not fighting the election. All its top leaders have run away," Modi said to cheers from a crowd at the polling station in the state's largest city, Ahmedabad.
"After analysing the election process and the voter's mind until now, I can say that this time nothing can save the mother-son government … a strong government will come to power. All citizens have to take part in the festival and make the democracy stronger."
In the seventh phase of the election on Wednesday, nearly 140 million people were eligible to vote for 89 seats in the 543-seat parliament, including all 26 for Gujarat. Elections were also being held in the northern state of Punjab and in the eastern states of Bihar and West Bengal.
Fourteen constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, were also voting, including Rae Bareli, where the Congress party president Sonia Gandhi is running.
Security was tight in Uttar Pradesh, with tens of thousands of paramilitary troops and police deployed across the state. In elections last week, supporters of political parties took over 11 polling stations in Rampur constituency, said Umesh Sinha, the state's chief electoral officer. A new election was ordered and took place on Tuesday.
Sinha said police were given shoot-on-sight orders to prevent any outbreak of violence or any attempt to disrupt Wednesday's voting.
In Telangana, around 28 million people were expected to vote for 17 seats in parliament and 119 seats in the state assembly.
Telangana, India's 29th state, was carved out of Andhra Pradesh in February after nearly six decades of street protests and strikes.
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The chief minister of Gujarat and leader of the Hindu nationalist BJP party, voting as nine of the country's 29 states went to the polls, took a photograph of himself holding a lotus flower in his inked finger after casting his ballot.
Angry supporters of the ruling Congress party complained to the authorities that Modi had flouted election law by canvassing for votes in violation of rules forbidding campaigning on election day. Gujarat police chief PC Thakur said a preliminary case was launched against Modi at the request of the election commission.
Maximum punishment for violating the rule is two years imprisonment, although Modi is unlikely to be charged. Politicians in India routinely face criminal cases which rarely reach the courts.
Congress and the BJP are locked in a tense battle for control of the next national government, with Congress facing a possible drubbing over corruption scandals and a recent economic slowdown.
In his speech after voting, Modi taunted the Congress campaign led by 43-year-old Rahul Gandhi, son of the party president Sonia Gandhi.
"The prime minister himself is not fighting the election. The finance minister is not fighting the election. All its top leaders have run away," Modi said to cheers from a crowd at the polling station in the state's largest city, Ahmedabad.
"After analysing the election process and the voter's mind until now, I can say that this time nothing can save the mother-son government … a strong government will come to power. All citizens have to take part in the festival and make the democracy stronger."
In the seventh phase of the election on Wednesday, nearly 140 million people were eligible to vote for 89 seats in the 543-seat parliament, including all 26 for Gujarat. Elections were also being held in the northern state of Punjab and in the eastern states of Bihar and West Bengal.
Fourteen constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, were also voting, including Rae Bareli, where the Congress party president Sonia Gandhi is running.
Security was tight in Uttar Pradesh, with tens of thousands of paramilitary troops and police deployed across the state. In elections last week, supporters of political parties took over 11 polling stations in Rampur constituency, said Umesh Sinha, the state's chief electoral officer. A new election was ordered and took place on Tuesday.
Sinha said police were given shoot-on-sight orders to prevent any outbreak of violence or any attempt to disrupt Wednesday's voting.
In Telangana, around 28 million people were expected to vote for 17 seats in parliament and 119 seats in the state assembly.
Telangana, India's 29th state, was carved out of Andhra Pradesh in February after nearly six decades of street protests and strikes.
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While Elections Knocking On The Door, Here Is A Guide On What To Do And What Not While Voting
Do's
* Check Your name On The Electoral Rolls Of Your Constituency and polling station where you are supposed to vote.
* Obtain the photo voter slips in advance and carry a voter identity card along with proof of
identity to avoid problems.
* Do an analysis of all candidates and parties contesting elections.
* Go to the first polling officer, locate yourself in the electoral roll and then proceed to get inked and then vote.
* Carefully check the symbol of the party and its candidate and press the blue button against the same to register your vote.
* Check the red lamp against the candidate glowing and inform the polling officer.
* EVMs for Assembly and LS elections would be provided separately at the polling booth. Make sure to identify each correctly.
* In case of any trouble, inform the presiding office of the poling station.
Dont's
* Don't carry mobile phones into the polling booth and don't attempt to take pictures inside the booth.
* Don't Press the button on the EVM Twice. Ask for polling officer's assistance in case of problems.
* Don't disclose your candidate-choice inside or outside the station
Modi's behaviour childish, says Priyanka Gandhi
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
Battling on Rahul Gandhi's behalf, Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday took on Narendra Modi
over his 'shehzada', "namuna" and other barbs at her brother, saying
the BJP leader is aspiring to be prime minister but indulging in
"childish" behaviour and that he should maintain decorum.
Campaigning for Rahul here, she said BJP leaders used to make fun of her father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi when he introduced computers in the country and they are now "mocking" her brother. "They call him (Rahul) 'namuna' (specimen). Sometime they compare him to a stand up comedian and sometime they call him shehzada. I think you (Modi) aspire to be a prime minister, then why do you indulge in such childish behaviour? He (Modi) should take maintain dignity," she said at an election meeting at Deeh in Salon assembly area.
Priyanka, whose attack on BJP and its prime ministerial candidate over their targeting of her husband Robert Vadra has invited sharp reaction from them, continued with her criticism of the opposition party for its "destructive" policies which, she said, pitted one brother against another.
Exhorting people to vote for Congress, she said a message should be sent from her brother's constituency about the kind of politics that should be practised in India. "Their (BJP) politics is destructive.... Don't vote for yourself or Amethi. A message should go from here about the kind of politics needed in the country. There should be clean politics," she said.
BJP candidate Smriti Irani and AAP, which has fielded Kumar Vishwas, also drew Priyanka's wrath as she accused Irani of holding meetings in dark rooms to tell people about lack of electricity and development in the constituency. "There are different governments in the state and the Centre. Sometimes, it causes inconvenience. Giving power is state government's job.... When UP government diverted power supply here, their (BJP) leaders agitated in Lucknow. Now its candidate is doing drama here," she said.
AAP neither has power at the Centre nor in state and it cannot do any development, she said as she listed out the developmental works carried out by Rahul.
She claimed that half of the programmes given in BJP's manifesto are that of Congress. "BJP copied Congress' manifesto. When their leaders come before you ask them that whether they have any plan for development. If the people are aware then the politicians have to become accountable. "Vote is your power understand it. If you would have not given the power, then nobody would have dared to stand before you like me," she said.
Attacking Modi without taking his name, Priyanka said, "you are wishing to be PM but what plans do you have for women empowerment, development and employment". She said the sacrifices by Congress have saved the nation. "Our culture has lasted from centuries and people from all the religions live here. Beware of such forces which try to divide the society. Congress is needed to save the nation".
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National Parties
| S.No. | Name | Symbol | Symbol (Image) | Year of Foundation |
Current leader(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bahujan Samaj Party | Elephant |  |
1984 | Mayawati |
| 2 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Lotus |  |
1980 | Rajnath Singh |
| 3 | Communist Party of India | Ears of Corn and Sickle |  |
1925 | Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy |
| 4 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Hammer, Sickle and Star |  |
1964 | Prakash Karat |
| 5 | Indian National Congress | Hand |  |
1885 | Sonia Gandhi |
| 6 | Nationalist Congress Party | Clock |  |
1999 | Sharad Pawar |
List of state parties
Varanasi: Five things you should never do here
There is also an alternate account doing the rounds on Twitter.
According to tweets by journalist Hashmi Shams Tabreed (@hstabreed), it seems the fight, in which two AAP volunteers were injured, began after they were seen "drinking beer on Assi Ghat and urinating into the Ganga".
While the truth of this alternate account is yet not known, there are things outsiders should never do in Varanasi.
1.Do not slight the Ganga
The Ganga has more of a sentimental value for the residents here than just religious. One should never show disrespect to the holy river. Its numerous ghats have a charm of their own. While these are ideal places to strike a casual conversation with strangers, the visitors are not supposed to drink here. Any public display of affection, urinating in the open here or drunken antics might land you in trouble here.
2.Do not mess with bulls
Varanasi is the city of Shiva. And Nandis rule the roost here. Bulls can be seen everywhere here. Even if a bull sits right in front of you or stands in the middle of a busy road blocking your path and refusing to budge, you are not supposed to hit it. Residents here consider bulls to be a symbol of Shiva and treat them with utmost respect. Outsiders should remember this.
3.No hurry in Banaras
The city has a pace of its own. Right from the rickshaw-pullers here to shopkeepers to sweetmeat makers to people in the street, nobody ever seems to be in a hurry. And they do not like it when advised on this by the outsiders. Better slow down and follow the city's languid pace rather expect it to follow yours.
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