Kanhaiya Kumar to fight Lok Sabha polls from Begusarai
PATNA: JNUSU’s former president Kanhaiya Kumar will contest the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Bihar’s Begusarai constituency as the nominee of grand alliance comprising the RJD, Congress, NCP, Jitan Ram Manjhi-led HAM (S), Loktantrik Janata Dal of Sharad Yadav and all Left parties.
Sources said RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, who virtually heads the grand alliance in Bihar, and the Congress leadership have agreed to leave the Begusarai seat for Kanhaiya.
Though Kanhaiya will contest the election on the CPI symbol, all grand alliance partners will support him, a source close to Lalu’s family told TOI on Saturday.
Kanhaiya is a native of Bihat panchayat under the Barauni block of Begusarai district. His mother Meena Devi is an anganwadi sewika in Begusarai, while his father Jayashankar Singh is a small farmer.
Begusarai is currently represented in the Lok Sabha by BJP’s Bhola Singh. The saffron party won the seat for the first time in 2014, defeating RJD’s Tanveer Hassan by 58,000 votes. Bhola bagged 4,28,227 votes as against Tanveer’s 3,69,892 votes. CPI’s Rajendra Prasad Singh finished third with 1,92,639 votes.
As per the ‘sitting-second’ formula, Begusarai seat should have gone to the RJD in seat-sharing arrangement among the grand alliance partners. “But, Lalu wants Kanhaiya to contest from Begusarai,” an RJD functionary said, preferring anonymity.
CPI’s state secretary Satya Narayan Singh told TOI over the phone that Kanhaiya had given his consent to the party to join the 2019 electoral fray. “Lalu during an informal talk with us offered Begusarai seat for Kanhaiya,” the CPI functionary said.
courtesy : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
