BJP snubs Shobha Karandlaje from Udupi seat, Kota Srinivas Poojary gets ticket from Udupi
BJP releases 2nd list of candidates for LS polls
New Delhi: The BJP has released its second list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls. The list of 72 names includes senior leaders Nitin Gadkari, ML Khattar and Piyush Goyal. The fresh face is in the race to Lok Sabha is Manohar Lal Khattar, who was pulled out of the Haryana Chief Minister's post yesterday.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari retains his Nagpur seat after there was a little uncertainly as his name did not feature in the first list of the candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
In Karnataka, the party is fielding around 10 new faces.
Sitting MP Shobha Karandlaje on Udupi-Chikkamagaluru seat from Coastal Karnataka, has been replaced by Kota Srinivas Poojary. Karandlaje will now contest from Bengaluru North constituency. Yaduveer Krishnadatta Wadiyar of erstwhile Mysore royal family replaced Pratap Simha in Mysore seat.
Similarly on the Dakshina Kannada seat, the saffron party snubbed Nalin Kumar Kateel and has given ticket to Capt. Brijesh Chowta on the seat.
Haveri, where senior BJP leader Eshwarappa was anticipating seat for his son was allotted to former Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai.
The remarkable mentions in the 2nd list are Ashok Tanwar (Sirsa), Manohar Lal Khattar (Karnal), Chaudhary Dharambir Singh (Bhiwani-Mahendragarh), Rao Inderjit Singh Yadav (Gurgaon), Anurag Singh Thakur (Hamirpur), BY Raghavendra (Shimoga), Basavaraj Bommai (Haveri) Shobha Karandlaje (Bangalore North), Tejasvi Surya (Bangalore South), Bharati Pravin Pawar (Dindori), Pankaja Munde (Beed), DK Aruna (Mahbubnagar), Trivendra Singh Rawat (Hardwar), Anil Baluni (Garhwal) Nitin Gadkari (Nagpur), Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North).
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NIA court to complete framing of charges against 2010 hand-chopping case accused on May 15
Kochi (PTI): A special court here will complete proceedings for framing charges against the prime accused in the 2010 hand-chopping case involving professor T J Joseph, in which PFI activists were accused of attacking him at Muvattupuzha.
Ernakulam Special Court for NIA cases judge P K Mohandas, on April 30, heard the arguments of counsel for accused Savad and Shafeer C and decided to proceed with framing charges against the duo.
A group chopped off Thodupuzha Newman College professor Joseph's right hand in July 2010, accusing him of religious blasphemy in a question paper he had prepared.
The case, later taken over by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), resulted in the conviction of 19 accused.
The first accused, Savad, who allegedly chopped off Joseph’s palm, was arrested in Berram in Mattannur, Kannur, in January 2024, where he had allegedly been hiding under the pseudonym Shajahan.
The NIA also arrested Shafeer, who allegedly arranged shelter and provided logistical support to Savad at Chakkad and Mattannur in Kannur since 2020.
On April 30, the court heard the counsel for the accused and the NIA prosecutor on framing charges against the duo.
"On going through the documents and evidence in the case and on hearing the counsel for the accused and the prosecutor, I am of the opinion that there are grounds for presuming that the first accused has committed offences punishable under provisions of the IPC, the Explosive Substances Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, and that the second accused has committed offences punishable under the IPC and the UAPA, and there are materials for framing charges under these provisions against the accused," the court said.
The court directed that Savad be produced and Shafeer, who is on bail, appear before it on May 15 for recording their pleas as part of the charge-framing process.
After framing the charges, the court will schedule the trial in the case.
