Will BJP give ticket to Scindia’s son?

Jyotiraditya Scindia’s restlessness is increasing. As elections to the Madhya Pradesh Assembly are nearing, Scindia has started uniting his supporters and is pressurizing the party high command to declare him as the CM candidate. His supporters had started peddling a story that Shivraj Singh Chouhan was being removed and Scindia was being made the CM. But now no such mood is visible in the BJP which is neither going to change the CM nor is it going to declare anyone as the chief ministerial candidate. Informed sources of the party say that the party will contest the elections keeping Chouhan as the CM

Sources said if Scindia wants a ticket for his son as well, he will have to join Congress, as it is difficult in BJP and will seek votes by promoting his schemes. Scindia’s supporters are now preparing to launch his son in polls.

It has been told that Scindia’s son Mahanaryaman Scindia can be contested from any traditional seat of the family. Although it is not easy in BJP. There are few exceptions in which both father and son got ticket and both are members of one house or the other. Keep in mind that Scindia himself is in Rajya Sabha and his Lok Sabha seat is also vacant, on which it is being said that he will contest the elec- tions next year. That’s why he wants the party to give the assembly ticket to their son. For this, the son is being sent to public programs, inaugurations, laying of foundation stones, etc. are being done by him. Meanwhile, a knowledgeable leader at the Congress headquarters in Delhi said that if Scindia wants a ticket for his son as well, he will have to join the Congress, as it is difficult in the BJP.

“GETTING AN ASS TO RUN A HORSE’S RACE...” PURI’S JIBE AT RAHUL GANDHI

New Delhi: Union Minister Hardeep Puri on Monday lashed out at Rahul Gandhi who was disqualified as Lok Sabha MP recently, and said that the Congress leader should fight the “court’s action in the court” instead of speaking against Veer Savarkar. “You are getting an ass to run a horse’s race... They really deserve to do some serious introspection...People of India would judge them for what they are...Fight Court’s action in the Court, you are invoking Mahabharat and Savarkar,” he said.

SUCH STATEMENTS

REVEAL THEIR OWN CHARACTER: CONG

New Delhi: The Congress on Monday slammed Union minister Hardeep Puri for his remarks against Rahul Gandhi, saying new entrants to the BJP often make outrageous remarks to strengthen their loyalties and it “reveal their own character”. “New entrants to the BJP especially those who become Cabinet Ministers often make outrageous statements to strengthen their loyalties,” Jairam Ramesh tweeted.

“CONG MAY DEMAND SEPARATE NATION FOR RaGa ONE DAY”

New Delhi: Launching an attack against expelled Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi and Congress party, BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Deepak Prakash on Monday said that both of them have no faith in democracy and the Constitution. Jharkhand BJP chief Deepak Prakash told Congress to pursue the matter in the court.

WILL CONG KEEP WEARING BLACK AFTER THEIR BLACK DEEDS: THAKUR

New Delhi: Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday lashed out at the Congress’ “drama” over Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Lok Sabha and questioned whether leaders of the Opposition party will “continue to wearing black clothes after their black deeds”. Thakur also took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi claiming that that he was not ready to accept the verdict by Surat court which convicted him in a 2019 defamation case on his ‘Modi surname’ remark.

In The Courtyard

STAY EXTENDED ON PROCEEDINGS AGAINST KEJRIWAL IN UP OVER POLL LAW VIOLATION

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday extended interim stay on the proceedings against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in a case registered against him for allegedly making objectionable remarks against the BJP and the Congress in Uttar Pradesh during the 2014 parliamentary election campaign. Kejriwal has moved the apex court against an order of Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court which had last month declined to discharge him in the criminal case pending before a trial court at Sultanpur.

FODDER SCAM: SC’S NO TO ISSUE NOTICE TO CBI PLEA ON LALU

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday tagged with pending matter a plea of the CBI challenging grant of bail to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Doranda Treasury case of Jharkhand wherein he was sentenced to five years in prison. A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela M Trivedi said it is not issuing notice but tagging the matter with the pending similar appeal also filed by the CBI. The bench said it will hear the matter together.

3 GET VARYING JAIL TERMS FOR ATTACK ON OOMMEN CHANDY

Kochi: A court in Kerala on Monday sentenced 3 men to varying jail terms after finding them guilty in a case of hurling stones at Oommen Chandy, when he was the state CM 10 years ago, during a protest organised by the CPI(M)-led LDF. Former CPI(M) local leader C O T Naseer, two other party workers, including Biju Prambathu and Deepak, were handed terms ranging from two to three years in prison by the Sub Court, Kannur.

KARNATAKA BRIBERY CASE: SC SEEKS BJP MLA’S RESPONSE ON LOKAYUKTA’S PLEA

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of BJP MLA Madal Virupakshappa on a plea of the Karnataka Lokayukta challenging grant of anticipatory bail to him by the high court in the Karnataka Soaps and Detergents (KSDL) contract scam case. A bench of justices Aniruddha Bose and Sudhanshu Dhulia issued the notice to the BJP MLA. On March 14, the top court had agreed to hear the Lokayukta’s plea against the Karnataka high court order in the case.