No alliance with any party in LS polls: Minister N. Mahesh
Bengaluru, October 04: Primary and Secondary Education Minister N. Mahesh clarified that the BSP would not make alliance with any political party in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election.
Speaking to reporters at the Vidhana Soudha here on Thursday, Mahesh said that the BSP would contest all the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies independently. “I am the minister in the coalition government. But till now, BSP chief Mayawati didn’t ask me to come out of the Cabinet. She has not contacted me so far. It is my duty to follow the direction of my party National President. I will not speak anything about JDS. In our villages, we call parthenium plant as Congress plant and I have just said that launched cleanliness drive by removing the Congress plant. When I said that statement, I did not have Congress party in my mind”, he said.
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Two former Chinese defence ministers sentenced to death for corruption
Beijing (PTI): Two former Chinese defence ministers, Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu, were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve over graft charges on Thursday, official media reported.
Their sentences were separately handed down by China's military court, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Wei was convicted of accepting bribes, while Li was convicted of both accepting and offering bribes, the agency reported, citing the court rulings.
Wei and his successor Li, who worked under President Xi Jinping's watch, were expelled from the ruling Communist Party in 2024. They were also former members of the Central Military Commission headed by Xi.
Wei served as Defence Minister from 2018 to 2023, and Li barely served a few months as his successor.
Both Wei and Li headed the People's Liberation Army's all-important Rocket (Missile) Force, established in 2015 as part of Xi’s military overhaul.
Wei, who headed the rocket force from its inception until 2017 and later served as the defence minister, was detained and expelled from the ruling Communist Party over corruption charges.
Li was personally picked up for the top defence post by Xi himself.
After Li’s sacking, several of its top officials were removed and charged with corruption.
Since he came to power in 2012, President Xi has carried out a massive anti-corruption campaign in which over a million officials, including several generals, have been punished.
