Oppn takes out march towards Vijay Chowk

Bengaluru (ANI): Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday chaired a meeting with the state BJP core committee in Bengaluru on Monday. Karnataka is scheduled to go to polls later this year.

BJP National Organizing General Secretary BL Santhosh, co-incharges Man Sukh Mandaviya, Annamalai, CM Basavaraj Bommai, ex-CM BS Yediyurappa, Union Minister Prahlad Joshi, State President Naleen Kumar Kateel, Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje and other core committee and election management committee members were present in the meeting.

Earlier on Sunday, Amit Shah lauded Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and his immediate predecessor and BJP veteran BS Yediyurappa stating that both have provided “good governance” during their respective tenures.

MP from Lok Sabha.

TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has been a critic of the BJP, supported Rahul Gandhi.

Meanwhile, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge welcomed TMC’s move to participate in the meeting stating that anyone who comes forward to “protect democracy” is welcome.

Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is likely to contest elections either from Dhenkanal (Angul district also comes under this seat) or Sambalpur Lok Sabha seat.

Besides, Sambalpur MLA segment is represented by Leader of Opposition Jayanarayan Mishra while BJP chief whip Mohan Majhi belongs to Keonjhar district. Both are strong critics of Naveen Patnaik government in the Assembly.

TMC not a political party but a pvt limited company: Suvendu Adhikari

Kolkata (ANI): Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday slammed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after her announcement of a two-day sit-in protest against the Centre.

Briefing media, he said, “TMC is not a political party but a private limited company. Elections before PM Narendra Modi came to power used to be held on three grounds – dynasticism, ethnicity, and appeasement – which has been rooted out except for two states, West Bengal and Telangana.”

He alleged the West Bengal govt has already taken “thousands of crores of money” under the centrally-sponsored MGNREGA scheme.

He said around Rs 3.60 crore MGNREGA job card holders were registered during the time when the scheme was launched in the state. When the Centre announced the linking of the job cards with Aadhaar, the West Bengal govt deleted around 1 crore job card data.

Suvendu Adhikari further alleged that West Bengal government took a significant amount of money on behalf of those 1 crore job cards in the last 10 years that were found to be fake.

New Delhi (ANI): In an attempt to show unity, the Opposition parties protested against Centre over Adani Group issue wearing black attire and marched from the Parliament complex towards Vijay Chowk in the national capital on Monday.

The Opposition MPs raised slogans against the government at the Gandhi statue in the complex and demanded the constitution of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) over the Adani issue. Congress president Rajya Sabha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge and UPA chairperson

Sonia Gandhi also joined the protest. During the march, Kharge was seen holding the hands of other MPs and marching. A banner of Satyameva Jayate was also seen. Other opposition MPs were seen holding placards. The MPs chanted slogans against the Centre and PM Narendra Modi.