Karnataka Polls 2023: AAP will fight from all seats in Karnataka says Kejriwal
New Delhi, 29 March: Aam Aadmi Party supremo and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced that his party will contest from all 224 assembly seats in the upcoming Karnataka elections.
Earlier in the day, AAP’s senior leader Sanjay Singh and its senior members from Karnataka launched the party's manifesto named “Guarantee Card for Karnataka”.
The party had released its first list of 80 candidates on March 20 and is yet to finalise the remaining 144 candidates.
The schedule for the upcoming elections to Karnataka Assembly were announced by the Election Commission on Monday morning. With the voting set to take place on the 10th of May and counting of votes on the 13th.
"Let the AAP come. I welcome them. They won't win anything," - DK Shivkumar
With its fresh foray into Karnataka politics, AAP aims to garner more votes and is proving to be a tough competition to adept parties.
In the meantime, KPCC president DK Shivkumar has challenged and said that the Aam Aadmi Party won’t win any seats in the upcoming polls. “ Let The AAP come. I welcome them. They Won’t win anything”, he said.
Interestingly, the AAP has fielded Sharatchandra from Channapatna, who is a relative of DK Shivkumar.
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Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya case: Hope emerges as Iran may contact victim’s family in bid for pardon
New Delhi: There appears to be a glimmer of hope for Nimisha Priya, the nurse from Kerala on death row in Yemen, as report suggest Iranian officials may reach out to the family of Talal Abdo Mahdi, her former business partner, to seek a pardon through blood money. Priya was sentenced to death for Mahdi's murder.
The 37-year-old nurse is currently imprisoned in Sana’a, the Yemeni capital, which is under the control of Iran-backed Houthis.
A report by The New Indian Express published on Friday stated that discussions are underway to gain the victim's family’s support in seeking a pardon. “It’s a relief of sorts. Iran officials could use their good offices with Houthis for the reach-out with family of the victim. Some cash has been arranged for blood money and talks are on to get the family on board to seek pardon, but we’re keeping our fingers crossed,” a source told the publication.
It is learnt that using an appropriate intermediary equivalent of Rs 30 lakh has been kept ready, the report added.
Hailing from Kollengode in Kerala’s Palakkad district, the nurse was found guilty of murdering the Yemeni citizen in July 2017. She was handed capital punishment by a trial court in 2020 while Yemen’s Supreme Judicial Council upheld the verdict in November 2023.
Mahdi, reportedly died from an overdose of sedatives allegedly injected by Priya to retrieve her passport from him.
External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the Indian government is extending all possible help in the matter. “We are closely following the developments around the sentencing of Nimisha Priya. The government is extending all possible help in the matter,” he said last week.
