Churachandpur/Moreh: The tricolour flutters at several places along the 15-km stretch of NH-105, between Pangal (Meitei Muslim)-dominated Kwakta and Kuki-dominated Churachandpur, where the Meitei-Kuki conflict broke out on May 3 last year. Remnants of burnt houses, shops and vehicles line the highway.
This is the "buffer zone" between the Meitei-dominated Bishnupur district and Churachandpur, manned mainly by the central security forces.
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What has always been a bipolar contest between the two Dravidian majors DMK and AIADMK is turning into a triangular fight in Tamil Nadu with the BJP cobbling up a rainbow coalition as it makes a concerted effort to breach the southern fortress.
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"For the first time, after independence, the Prime Minister along with his Minister selected the election commissioners... The entire country knows which party breaks law & order and follows the way of hooliganism," Sen said to news agency ANI.
The possibility of a Uniform Civil Code throughout the country has been played around with for quite some time, with Uttarakhand being the first state to bring in this law. While the BJP believes this will ensure everyone is subject to the same set of civil laws, the Opposition are of the opinion that this might destroy the secular fabric of the country.
The prime minister, in an interview with Hindi daily Hindustan, said that people crying foul about the ED targetting BJP's political opponents are "those who see benefits in a corrupt system".
"Even the opposition believes that the NDA government will return to power, which is why several opposition leaders are shying away from poll campaign. Many people have started blaming EVMs (electronic voting machines) even before the polls have begun," he further added. - PTI
The Delhi minister further said that no senior IAS officer is being posted in Delhi, and bureaucrats have stopped attending govt meetings citing MCC.
The Congress spokesperson has slammed the Centre for not holding assembly as well as local body elections in J&K. He has also asked when it will be the "appropriate" time, as per Amit Shah's speech in Parliament, and also enquired about the development that the Modi govt has promised for the erstwhile state. Check out his tweet right here:
In 2014, I had come back after visiting Mata Vaishno Devi and on this very ground, I had guaranteed you that I will free you from whatever several generations of Jammu and Kashmir have suffered. Today, with your blessings, Modi has fulfilled that guarantee, the Prime Minister says at J&K's Udhampur
Will work 24*7 for Viksit Bharat by 2047, Modi further said during his speech at a public meeting in support of Dharmendra Pradhan.
Time is not far when J&K will have assembly elections, he further added. Modi carried on, "Congress, National Conference, PDP and all other parties want to take Jammu and Kashmir back to those old days. No one has caused as much damage to Jammu and Kashmir as these family-run parties have done. Here political party means of the family, by the family and for the family..."
Indians had fought to preserve their temples when foreign forces started ruling the country.
Actor Kangana Ranaut, who is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from HP's Mandi, said that the opposition had accused her of eating beef, but when she asked for proof, they said 'we don't have anything to do with that'.
Ranaut further added, "They also claimed that I am impure and don't have character, but when I showed them my character then they said you should speak on the primary issues..."
“Someone new has come (BJP candidate Jitin Prasada) who is saying if he would have known earlier that he would be nominated from Pilibhit then he would have turned it into Mumbai. Mumbai is known as the financial capital of the country. BJP has spent more than 40 crore rupees to make UP roads potholes-free but did that happen?” the former UP minister further asked in the election rally.
They (Cong) deliberately kept the border districts and villages deprived of development, the PM further added, continuing that the BJP government is building roads and highways till the last border of the country.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge slammed PM Modi for not fulfilling his guarantees for youth, farmers. "Modi said he will bring back black money, deposit Rs 15 lakh in everyone's accounts, jobs for 2 crore people but nothing came out of it."
BJP's Mandi candidate Kangana Ranaut went all out during her campaign in Himachal Pradesh as she invoked Sanatan Dharma and Lord Ram during her speech. " PM Modi has ignited the spark of Hinduism, Hindu Rashtra and Sanatan Dharma in us and now it has turned into a blaze. We all should strive towards it and we all should not have any existence of our own, we all are Narendra Modi," Ranaut said.
Rahul Gandhi is addressing a rally in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli where he spoke about how Narendra Modi's govt has been trying to divide the country." Battle is between ideas of Periyar, social justice, equality and that of RSS, PM Modi and his govt. There can be no India without Tamil, Bengali and other languages our people speak; that is the fight all about," Gandhi said.
Former Bihar Deputy CM & RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav reacted to PM Modi commenting on his fish eating video and Rahul and Lalu's video on cooking mutton. He said, "I have been speaking about jobs, about employment, about inflation for long. He doesn't give an account for that. PM can say anything he wants but public wants to hear what he did for the people of Bihar. 'Idhar udhar ki baat na karein, muddey ki baat karein Pradhanmantri,' Yadav said.
Be it airport, highway, any infra project; somehow Govt of India just gives it to Adani. Modi govt actually is "Adani govt, it should be called Adani govt and not Modi govt," Rahul Gandhi said.
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