Archive for February 2014
Narendra Modi: Rally in Mangalore Today
BJP's Prime Ministerial Candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will address the 'Bharata Gellisi' public rally in Mangalore today amidst tight Police Security.
In view of the Z-plus security of Modi, police have barred parking in the half-km radius of Nehru Maidan, the venue of the rally, almost 24 hours prior to the Gujarat CM's visit till the end of the function.
The BJP is expecting one lakh party workers to hear its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at Nehru Maidan at 3 pm.
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In view of the Z-plus security of Modi, police have barred parking in the half-km radius of Nehru Maidan, the venue of the rally, almost 24 hours prior to the Gujarat CM's visit till the end of the function.
The BJP is expecting one lakh party workers to hear its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at Nehru Maidan at 3 pm.
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BJP to Announce 30 UP Candidates Soon
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has "almost Finalised" Names of 30 candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, a senior party leader said here on Tuesday.
The Names, which have been cleared by the Party's National Parliamentary board after due deliberations with the state unit, are likely to be announced by the end of February.
The First List of Candidates includes names of BJP general secretary Varun Gandhi, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh (Etah), Ramakant Yadav (Azamgarh), Hukum Singh (Kairana), Sanjeev Baliyan (Muzaffarnagar), Dharmendra Kashyap (Aonla), Rajendra Agarwal (Meerut) and Ram Shankar Katheria from Agra.
Varun Gandhi is likely to contest from the Sultanpur parliamentary constituency. He is currently an MP from Pilibhit.
Gandhi is kicking off his campaign with a rally in Sultanpur Tuesday. Sources say that after finalising the list of the 30 candidates, the party has now set eyes on the remaining 50 seats.
"There is no confusion and winnability is a likelihood on these 30 seats. Now the focus will be on seats where we have fair chances of success and the last lists would be the tough ones," a senior BJP leader said.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is also closely monitoring the selection of candidates this time.
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat has called a meeting of all zonal in-charges of the RSS at Varanasi Feb 15.
The BJP has 10 MPs in the state in the outgoing Lok Sabha. The party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah has been appointed the in-charge of the party affairs in the state with an aim to win as many as 40 seats in Uttar Pradesh.
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Narendra Modi Plays Underground Card
BJP's prime minister candidate Narendra Modi kickstarted his poll campaign in the politically-polarised Kerala on Sunday by positioning himself as part of the "family of oppressed and backward sections" and lashing out at the Congress for following divisive politics.
Modi said a change of regime was convinced at the Centre in the next 100 days, and in a thinly-veiled rhetoric made it clear that he was secure that he would be voted to power by then. "There are many things that the rulers of the country should have been doing during the last 70 years but had left undone; it seems destiny has left it for me to do all those wanted things."
Interestingly, Modi's debut programme itself was the investiture of a convention of a section of Kerala Pulayar Maha Sabha (KPMS), a socio-cultural formation of one of the state's leading scheduled caste communities.
The meeting was organised to mark the centenary celebrations of "Kayal samaram", a protest organised by the community in 1913 against the caste bigotry that prevailed in the state then. Modi's speech was replete with references to social reformers from across the country, including Mahatma Phule, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Dayanada Saraswathi and Mahatma Gandhi as well as Kerala reformers Sree Narayana Guru, Ayyankali and Pandit Karuppan.
He recalled that the Pulayar Maha Sabha had to organise the "Kayal samaram'' in boats tied together in the backwaters of Kochi as the community was denied the right to hold a meeting on the shores. Inevitable, he did not fail to refer to his meek origins, a point he and his campaigners have been stressing ever since Congress leader Mani Sankar Iyer dubbed him as a 'tea vendor'. "My mother used to go to work to near houses to eke out a living while my father was a tea vendor at railway stations. I used to help my father selling tea in my childhood days."
Taking a dig at the Congress, Modi said it was the dedication and hard work of social reformers that made it possible for the oppressed sections to live politely in Independent India. "But the Congress thinks anything the country has achieved was the contribution of one family... It was indulging in 'zeher ki kheti' (cultivating poisonous seeds) but we will be harvesting 'amrit' (nectar) in the next 100 days."
Modi said the BJP would not be implementing the Ranganatha Mishra Commission report as it sought to divide people along shared and casteist lines. "The dominant voice of the next decade in India will be that of the Dalits and other oppressed sections,'' he said.
Modi wrested a major gain during this visit by having Ezhava community leader Vellappilli Natesan on the stage. Natesan said Modi had established his ability to be an able administrator and requested him not to forget the backward castes and exploited sections when he comes to power.
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