It’s a battle between those who want development and its opponents: Modi
Raichuru, May 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that this election is a battle between the BJP which is committed for development and the Congress which has been doing divisive politics by opposing the development.
Addressing an election rally here on Sunday, he said that the Congress which has failed to do development works for the last five decades, is now making allegations against BJP. So, is it not necessary to give them the answer in this election, he asked.
The people who are braving the scorching sun would give answer to those who want hung assembly sitting in AC rooms. The language could not come on the way of your love, he said.
“You are my owners. You have ordered me and I have followed it. Raichuru is the land of Haridasa and Vachanakars. This land was glittered by various cultures and traditions. In spite of it, the Congress did not learn anything from here. This election would decide the fate of the state. The Congress has been chanting Modi mantra and scolding me is their strategy. It is the right to time to say good bye to Congress. When the people of the country said good bye, the Congress had collapsed in the last Lok Sabha election. In the same way, you should send them to the home in Karnataka also and elect the BJP”, he appealed.
“The central government has its share in ‘Anna Bhagya’ scheme of the government. But the Congress has covered up this. My government is dedicated to the welfare of the poor. It’s my duty to fill the bellies of the people. The government has been spending thousands of crores for filling the bellies”, he said.
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Who is Iran's first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, appointed acting president after crash?
Dubai (AP/PTI): Iran's first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber was appointed as acting president of the Islamic Republic on Monday after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in the country's northwest.
Raisi's death under the constitution thrust Mokhber into public view. He is expected to serve as caretaker president for some 50 days before mandatory presidential elections in Iran.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the announcement of Mokhber's appointment in a condolence message he shared for Raisi's death in the crash Sunday. The helicopter was found Monday in northwestern Iran.
Despite his low-key public profile, Mokhber has held prominent positions with in the country's power structure, particularly in its bonyads, or charitable foundations.
Mokhber oversaw a bonyad known in English as the Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order, or EIKO, referring to the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
The US Treasury said the organisation oversaw billions of dollars in assets as “a business juggernaut under the direct supervision of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that has a stake in nearly every sector of the Iranian economy, including energy, telecommunications, and financial services”.
“EIKO has systematically violated the rights of dissidents by confiscating land and property from opponents of the regime, including political opponents, religious minorities, and exiled Iranians,” the Treasury said in 2021 in sanctioning Mokhber. The European Union also had sanctioned Mokhber for a time with others over concerns then about Iran's nuclear programme.
As the head of EIKO, Mokhber oversaw an effort to make a COVID-19 vaccine during the height of the pandemic, pledging to make tens of millions of doses.
Mokhber previously worked in banking and telecommunications. He also worked at the Mostazafan Foundation, another bonyad that's a major conglomerate that manages the country's mega-projects and businesses. While there, he found himself entangled in a bitter legal dispute between mobile phone service providers Turkcell and South Africa's MTN over potentially entering the Iranian market.
Iranian media reports suggest Mokhber, who holds a doctorate in international law, was crucial in Iranian efforts to bypass Western sanctions on its oil industry.
Mokhber has been a member of Iran's Expediency Council since 2022, which advises the supreme leader, as well as settles disputes between parliament and the Guardian Council, Iran's constitutional watchdog that also oversees the country's elections.
Mokhber was born Sept 1, 1955, in Dezful in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province to a clerical family. He served as an officer in the Revolutionary Guard's medical corps during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, according to the pressure group United Against Nuclear Iran.
“Mokhber used the vast wealth accumulated by EIKO — at the expense of the Iranian people—to reward regime insiders like himself,” UANI said. “Managing the patronage network endeared him to the supreme leader, but at a cost.”
