RSS asks BJP to drop 78 MLAs weeks ahead of polls
BHOPAL, Oct 18: Feedback from RSS has left BJP concerned barely six weeks ahead of MP assembly elections. Sources say RSS has suggested dropping 78 sitting MLAs and even advised that CM Shivraj Singh contest from Govindpura seat in Bhopal rather than Budhni. Govindpura is a BJP bastion where former CM Babulal Gaur (88) has had an undefeated eight terms since 1980.
While no BJP leader came on record on this, sources told TOI that the Sangh Parivar has urged the ruling party to replace 78 candidates after poor feedback on their performance. This was among the issues discussed at a meeting of BJP state election management committee, where the party state top brass agreed that only potential winners will be chosen and no other factor will be considered. The party high command also said no candidate can be dubbed as ‘tainted’ before he or she is convicted in court.
Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar, BJP state president Rakesh Singh, state in-charge Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and organising general secretary Suhas Bhagat discussed at length the criteria for ticket distribution and the names that could be replaced. “The party will give tickets on winnability criteria alone. There are no tainted candidates unless there is a court verdict against any potential candidate,” Rakesh Singh told reporters after the meeting.
Sources said Congress plans to pit a heavyweight against Chouhan to tie him down in Budhni. But senior BJP leaders dismissed the idea, saying Budhni is Chouhan’s home turf and voters will never accept anybody else from the constituency, irrespective of his stature. BJP on Wednesday filed a complaint against Congress with cyber cell for sharing a morphed picture of a dilapidated road in Bangladesh. Congress claimed that it was a road in MP. BJP leaders said the picture was released through Twitter handle of Kamal Nath. Nath was quick to apologise for posting the wrong picture.
Courtesy: timesofindia
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
