All posts tagged: Lok Sabha candidate

‘ ₹1 lakh to woman, double for two wives’: Congress leader’s bizarre promise in Madhya Pradesh | Latest News India

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A Congress candidate for Lok Sabha on Thursday stirred controversy by saying those with two wives will get ₹2 lakh if his party comes to power. Kantilal Bhuria, Congress Lok Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam.(PTI image) Citing Congress’s manifesto, Kantilal Bhuria, Congress’s Lok Sabha candidate from the Ratlam seat, claimed at a public rally that “women from each household will receive 1 lakh rupees” if his party comes into power. Unlock exclusive access to the latest news on India’s general elections, only on the HT App. Download Now! Download Now! “If Congress comes to power, as our manifesto states, every woman will get ₹1 lakh in her bank account. Women from each house will get ₹1-1 lakh,” Bhuria said. “Those who have two wives will get ₹2 lakh,” he added, evoking laughter from the crowd. ALSO READ- Rahul Gandhi’s ‘personal experience’ reply to PM Modi’s ‘money in a tempo from Adani-Ambani’ dig What has Congress promised in its manifesto? The Congress has pledged in its 2024 Lok Sabha election manifesto to introduce the Mahalaxmi …

Meet Ujjwal Nikam, BJP Lok Sabha candidate who cooked up ‘biryani’ story to nail Ajmal Kasab | Latest News India

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday fielded former special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam as its Lok Sabha candidate from the Mumbai North Central seat. He will be contesting against Congress’ Varsha Gaikwad. Special prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam gestures as he speaks to the media outside Arthur Road Jail, where the trial of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was held, in Mumbai.(Reuters / File) The BJP dropped sitting MP Poonam Mahajan as its Mumbai North Central candidate and replaced her with Nikam. According to the party leaders, the decision to drop Mahajan was based on organisational feedback after several poll surveys showed a negative rating for her. Some leaders also claimed that the decision was taken some time back, but the party’s search for her replacement took time, reported PTI. HT launches Crick-it, a one stop destination to catch Cricket, anytime, anywhere. Explore now! Source link

NDA is not against Muslims, BJP never asked us to keep secularism aside: Sunil Tatkare | Mumbai News

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In a bid to retain minority votes, Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Maharashtra president and Lok Sabha candidate from Raigad Sunil Tatkare said on Saturday that it is a misconception that the BJP-led NDA is against the Muslim community and that it asked his party to keep secularism aside while joining the alliance. “These are misconceptions that the NDA is against the Muslim community. The government has implemented several schemes for minority communities. Moreover, for 40 years, I have had a secular ideology. While joining the NDA, we have moved forward with the thoughts and ideals of Shiv-Shahu-Phule-Ambedkar,” said Tatkare while addressing a meeting of the minority cell at Mandangad in Raigad on Saturday. In a similar rally in Dapoli, Tatkare said, ” The BJP has never asked us to put aside secularism… but citizens should beware of those promoting secularism during the election season but have hated one religion all their lives.” Tatkare expressed confidence that his minority community’s vote count will be higher than in the 2019 elections. “Today, casteist forces are pretending to …

BSP Lok Sabha candidate leaves home over ‘difference in ideologies’ with Congress MLA wife | Latest News India

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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Lok Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat constituency Kankar Munjare on Saturday left his home over a “difference in ideologies” with his Congress MLA wife Anubha Munjare ahead of the upcoming general election. According to the BSP leader, two people following different ideologies should not live under one roof during the polls. Congress MLA Anubha Munjare and her husband BSP Lok Sabha candidate Kankar Munjare Munjare decided to stay apart from his wife even as the duo had stayed together during the past assembly election. The BSP leader said that he will return home after the polling day on April 19, reported news agency PTI. Unlock exclusive access to the story of India’s general elections, only on the HT App. Download Now! “I left my home on Friday and am living in a hut near a dam. If two persons following different ideologies live under one roof, people will think it is match-fixing,” he said. However, his wife does not seem to be happy with the decision. According to the Congress …

Kangana Ranaut once said she would never contest elections from Himachal Pradesh; old tweet resurfaces | Bollywood

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The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) on Sunday released its fifth list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha 2024 elections featuring some big names including actor Kangana Ranaut from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi. Hours later, an old tweet of Kangana made its way to Reddit, in which the actor had said she wanted to fight election from a ‘state with complexities’. Also read: Kangana Ranaut says ‘this is the right time’ for her to join politics Kangana Ranaut’s old tweet on why she will never contest election from Himachal Pradesh resurfaces. Kangana, who is gearing up for the release of her film Emergency, had added that since ‘Himachal’s population is hardly 60/70 lakh’ and the state has ‘no poverty or crime’, she will not contest elections from her home state. Resharing the three-year-old tweet on Reddit on Sunday, a person wrote, “Hypocrisy ki bhi seema hoti hai (There’s a limit to hypocrisy).” Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. What Kangana said in old tweet In March 2021, Kangana tweeted, “I was …

Buzz grows over Shringla entering Lok Sabha election fray from Darjeeling | Latest News India

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New Delhi: Could former foreign secretary and G20 coordinator Harsh Vardhan Shringla be a potential Lok Sabha candidate in 2024 from Darjeeling? Posters that emerged all over this West Bengal hill town over the New Year weekend have generated some buzz to the effect. Posters featuring Harsh Vardhan Shringla have emerged all over Darjeeling. (HT) The posters, featuring the 61-year-old Shringla in a suit, in his avatar as president of the Darjeeling Welfare Society, and simply greeting everyone for the new year, seem innocuous. Still, the launch of the society just a year before the elections, in mid-2023, and the spread of the poster has everyone guessing . Wrap up the year gone by & gear up for 2024 with HT! Click here On Tuesday, Shringla’s only response when asked about the posters was a counter question — on whether there were a lot of them around town. In September, after the launch of the society, he had brushed off a similar question. “Don’t believe media speculation,” was what he said then. The secretary of …