BJP will win 74 LS seats in UP in 2019 polls: Shah
Meerut, Aug 12 : BJP President Amit Shah on Sunday said the party will win 74 of the 80 parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 elections.
It is possible to achieve this target on the basis of the "good work" done by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Centre and of Yogi Adityanath in the state, he said at the concluding session of a two-day state party Executive Meet.
"Law and order in the state has improved considerably. Pro-poor schemes have been initiated and the work done by the BJP governments will ensure that the party gets 51 per cent of the popular vote in 2019."
He said that an increase in the minimum support price of 14 crops was a big step for the welfare of farmers across the country.
Shah said that the long-pending demand for constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes had been met. This, he added, was significant as parties like the Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party had scuttled the move earlier in the Rajya Sabha "for vote-bank politics".
The BJP leader credited Modi's "iron will" for the passage of the bill in Parliament.
He said that the Bharatiya Janata Party had a clear stand on the National Register of Citizens. "We have a clear-cut view on the matter, that is, any Hindu, Jain, Sikh or someone who comes to India after being tortured on religious grounds are acceptable but no one else."
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Manipur: Mortal remains of children killed in bomb attack handed over to family
Imphal (PTI): The mortal remains of two children, who were killed in a bomb attack in Manipur's Bishnupur district in April, were handed over to family members on Saturday, officials said.
The bodies of the five-year-old boy and his six-month-old sister were kept in the morgue for 25 days, as the family members had refused to accept the mortal remains, demanding that the perpetrators be brought to book at the earliest.
On April 25, Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh had appealed to the family members of the children to accept the bodies. Singh had also said that all efforts were underway to find the culprits.
The two children were killed in a bomb attack at Tronglaobi in Bishnupur district on April 7. Their bodies were kept in the morgue at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal.
The incident had triggered widespread violent protests in the five valley districts of Manipur, and the case was subsequently handed over to the NIA.
Hundreds of people lined up along the way to Tronglaobi to offer floral tributes, as the mortal remains were taken for the last rites in an open vehicle earlier in the day.
