Bengaluru:  The first baby girl born on New Year Day  is extremely lucky. She has earned a reward of Rs 5 lakhs which was handed over to her by BBMP Mayor Sampath Raj at the D Nagaraj Maternity Hospital at Bashyam Circle in the city on January 1, Monday. The Mayor had earlier made an announcement  that a cash prize will be awarded to the first baby girl born on New Year.

Pushpa, a resident of Rajajinagar  was admitted to the hospital on December 31 after she had developed labour pains. She had delivered a baby girl at  five minutes past midnight.  After BBMP Health Officer intimated about this, the Mayor visited the hospital on Monday morning and handed over the  cheque and  a Madilu kit to the mother. The Mayor also enquired about the health of the mother and baby.

 Later, speaking to reporters  he said  the amount will be deposited in a bank  in a joint account in the name of the  child and BBMP Commissioner.  It aims at  encouraging girls to excel in life, he added.

The lucky baby's mother Pushpa also expressed her immense pleasure and  said she would use the money towards the education of her child.

Deputy Mayor Padmavathi Narasimhamurthi,  Standing Committee  on Health President  Mujahid Pasha and BBMP officials were present.

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Ranchi(PTI): The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has emerged as a surprise element in the Jharkhand assembly elections with its candidates leading in five of the six seats where the party is contesting, according to trends available on the Election Commission's website on Saturday.

RJD candidates in five assembly seats were leading over sitting BJP legislators.

In 2019, RJD had secured only the Chatra seat where its nominee Satyanand Bhokta won.

In Deoghar, RJD’s Suresh Paswan was leading by 19,581 votes over his nearest rival and BJP's sitting MLA Narayan Das after the third round of counting.

RJD’s Sanjay Prasad Yadav was ahead by 19,867 votes in Godda over BJP MLA Amit Kumar Mandal after the sixth round of counting.

In Koderma, RJD nominee Subhash Prasad Yadav, who was out on bail, was leading by a margin of 3,471 votes over BJP’s sitting legislator Neera Yadav.

Subhas Prasad Yadav, considered to be one of the close aides of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case.

Party’s Naresh Prasad Singh was leading by 5,159 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP’s Bishrampur MLA Ramchandra Chandravanshi.

RJD's Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav was also leading from Hussainabad by 8,213 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP MLA Kamlesh Kumar Singh.

Party’s candidate Rashmi Prakash, however, was trailing from Chatra by 3,776 votes.

Bhokta did not contest the elections this time, and his daughter-in-law Prakash was given a ticket.