New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and former Cabinet Minister Subramanian Swamy on Friday made remarkable claims and added that the English Newspapers in the country tremble at calls from the Prime Minister’s Office hence do not cover newsworthy stories of Modi’s opponents.

Seamy who has been critical of Modi and his policies lately, took to his officials Twitter handle and said “English language newspapers tremble at calls from PMO. Thus these newspapers don’t cover newsworthy items of opponents of Modi’s policies.”

He further lauded the regional and Indian language papers adding that they give him good coverage. He also added that it had not bothered him thus far but now he would consider giving bytes to foreign English media.

“Indian language papers give me good coverage. So far I have not bothered but now for English I will start giving bytes to foreign media also.” Swamy wrote in his tweet.

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Bengaluru (PTI): Fakira Dingaleshwar Swami of Shirahatti Fakkireshwar Math, who is contesting the Lok Sabha polls, has declared assets worth over Rs 9.74 crore.

In an affidavit while filing nomination as an independent candidate from Dharwad Lok Sabha segment on Thursday, the prominent Veerashaiva Lingayat seer has declared movable assets worth Rs 1.22 crore.

The immovable assets that he has, including agriculture and non-agriculture land and school building, are worth Rs 8.52 crore.

He has total liabilities to the tune of Rs 39.68 lakh.

The 48-year-old, who has failed in SSLC (Secondary School Leaving Certificate or class 10), has three cases pending against him.

The seer has two Toyota Innova, a tractor and a school bus in his name. He also has 7.82 kg of silver worth Rs 4.35 lakh, and 18.9 gram gold worth Rs 1.17 lakh.

Dingaleshwar Swami is taking on BJP MP and Union Minister Pralhad Joshi.

He has accused Joshi of “suppressing” Veerashaiva-Lingayat and other communities, and also misusing the Lingayat maths and causing disrespect to them to stay in power.

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