Modi-Shah are liars, says Ram Jethmalani
Bengaluru, May 7: Former union minister and Supreme Court advocate Ram Jethmalani said that both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amith Shah have cheated the people of the country by giving false promises.
Speaking at the Meet the Press at the Press Club here on Monday, Jethmalani said that people should teach both of them a befitting reply in this assembly election. In the last Lok Sabha election, the BJP, in its manifesto, had promised of bringing back the black money stashed in foreign countries and credit Rs 15 lakh to every individual’s account. But how much black money did not bring, he asked.
“I have been fighting against black money. But Narendra Modi who met me in 2009, has said that he would support his cause and I have believed him. Amith Shah who came to my home promised me of extending his support. Later, I came to know that as why Shah had come to my home. He had to come out of a murder case charged against him. For this reason, he was at my home at that time”, he said.
After BJP-led NDA got majority in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, they have asked him of giving up the fight against black money. But he has made a mistake believing the BJP then. Even then, he has not given up his fight. He would continue his fight against black money in the Supreme Court. The case would come in front of the SC on July 15. Germany and Switzerland are ready to disclose the list of black money holders. But the government has not taken a right decision, he alleged.
“I have asked 15 questions to BJP, PM Modi and Amith Shah regarding black money. But they have never replied to me. They are cheaters. So, people should teach them a lesson through this Assembly election. But I would not say on supporting the Congress. BJP should not be voted to power at any cost”, the senior advocate said.
BJP will bite the dust in 2019
For the last four years, both Modi and Shah have been giving false promises to the people. BJP is unfit to be a ruling party and Congress to be opposition party. Modi will definitely bite the dust in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The BJP has around 37 per cent criminals, he said.
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NDA sweeps bypolls to four assembly segments in Bihar
Patna (PTI): The ruling NDA in Bihar on Saturday swept the bypolls to four assembly segments, retaining Imamganj and wresting from the INDIA bloc Tarari, Ramgarh and Belaganj, receiving a boost ahead of the assembly elections due next year.
Candidates of the Jan Suraaj, floated recently by former political strategist Prashant Kishor with much fanfare, lost deposits in all but one seat, in a clear indication that the fledgling party, despite claims of taking the political landscape in the state by storm, needs to cover much ground.
The biggest setback for the INDIA bloc, helmed by the RJD, came in Belaganj, a seat the party had been winning since its inception in the 1990s, but this time lost to the JD(U) headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the arch-rival of its founding president Lalu Prasad.
The JD(U) candidate Manorama Devi, a former MLC, defeated by a margin of more than 21,000 votes RJD’s Vishwanath Kumar Singh who made his debut from a seat that fell vacant upon election to Lok Sabha of his father Surendra Prasad Yadav, a multiple term MLA.
The margin of victory was greater than the 17,285 votes polled by Mohd Amjad of Jan Suraaj, whom the RJD may have liked to blame for its defeat by causing a split in Muslim votes.
JD(U) national spokesman Rajiv Ranjan Prasad said, "The people of Bihar deserve kudos for rejecting the negativity of the opposition and reposing their trust in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Under his leadership, the NDA will win more than 200 seats of the 243-strong assembly in 2025."
The RJD also suffered an embarrassing defeat in Ramgarh, where Prashant Kishor’s prediction of the party “finishing third or fourth” came true. The forecast had caused Sudhakar Singh, son of state RJD president Jagadanand Singh, the MP from Buxar who had won the assembly seat in 2020, to threaten that Jan Suraaj cadres in the constituency will be “beaten up with sticks”.
Singh’s younger brother Ajit finished a distant third after BJP winner Ashok Kumar Singh, a former MLA, and Satish Kumar Singh Yadav who fought on a ticket of the BSP, which has little foothold in Bihar.
Jan Suraaj, though, was hardly a factor in Ramgarh, where its candidate Sushil Kumar Singh polled less than four per cent votes.
The BJP also pulled off a stunning victory in Tarari, which falls under the Arrah Lok Sabha seat, currently represented by CPI(ML)’s Sudama Prasad, who had won the assembly segment for two consecutive terms.
CPI(ML) candidate Raju Yadav lost, by a margin of a little over 10,000 votes, to BJP debutant Vishal Prashant, better known as the son of local strongman Sunil Pandey, who was formerly with the JD(U) and had joined the saffron party a few months ago.
Jan Suraaj had initially announced that it was fielding a former Vice Chief of the Army in Tarari but later disclosed that he could not contest because of technical reasons. Its candidate Kiran Singh got less than four per cent votes.
The most respectable performance from Jan Suraaj came in the reserved Imamganj seat where its candidate Jitendra Paswan stood third, polling well over 20 per cent votes.
The seat, however, went to Deepa Kumari, daughter-in-law of Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, who defeated RJD’s Raushan Kumar by a slender margin of less than 6,000 votes.
Manjhi, who heads the Hindustani Awam Morcha, vacated Imamganj earlier this year upon getting elected to Lok Sabha from Gaya.
With the exception of Ashok Singh in Ramgarh, the winners in all the seats shall be making their debut in the state assembly.
