Nitish Kumar a "PM material": Salkhan Murmu
Jamshedpur, Aug 27: The Janata Dal (United) Jharkhand unit president, Salkhan Murmu on Tuesday described Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as "Prime Minister material" and said his party would contest the Jharkhand polls on Kumar's development model of clean and good governance.
Murmu told this at a press conference in Jamshedpur.
"The JD (U) can provide a clean and strong government based on Nitish Kumar's model of development, good governance, women empowerment, ban on sale of liquor, welfare of masses and development with justice," Murmu said.
He further added, "Besides, Nitish Kumar is a Prime Ministerial material and has immaculate image in political arena."
He said "We will contest the election on whatever symbol to be allotted by the Election Commission as Nitish Kumar's leadership, his development model and good governance is more relevant to perform in Jharkhand."
The ECI has barred JDU from using its arrow symbol in elections in Jharkhand and Maharashtra because of its similarity with symbols of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha in Jharkhand and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra after the JMM had petitioned before the ECI in June saying that similar symbols could confuse voters.
Murmu said the party would approach the ECI and the Supreme Court against the party symbol "bow and arrow" being used by JMM within a week, "which is a symbol of tribal social and cultural importance, apart from its religion and the JMM has been exploiting the innocent tribals with this symbol to win elections".
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6 killed, 3 injured as two cars collide in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker
Kanker (PTI): Six members of a family were killed and three others seriously injured after two cars collided on National Highway-30 in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Friday.
The accident occurred late Thursday night near Nathia Navagaon village under Kanker Kotwali police station limits, a senior police official said.
Citing preliminary information, he said seven members of the Mandavi family from Udkuda village in the Charama area were returning from a wedding in Chivaraj village when their car collided with a vehicle coming from the opposite direction.
The impact left both vehicles badly mangled.
Six persons, including three women, a child and two men, died on the spot in one car, while another passenger was seriously injured, he said. Two persons in the other car also suffered grievous injuries.
On being alerted about it, Superintendent of Police Nikhil Rakhecha and other police officials rushed to the spot.
The injured were shifted to the Kanker Medical College hospital, he said.
Police said further investigation into the incident is underway.
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