Tag: Lok Sabha elections 2019

Yogi Adityanath to camp in Gorakhpur, address 19 rallies in next 5 days

After losing Gorakhpur se­at to SP-BSP candidate in the byelections last year, Yogi has fielded Bhojpuri star Ravi Kishan this time

LokSabha Elections 2019:To recover Gorakhpur, where it endured an annihilation in the bypolls a year ago, Uttar Pra­desh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has begun cam­ping in the electorate and is planned to address 19 energizes in the following five days. He will likewise hold over twelve specialists’ meet.

Monday onwards, Adityanath will remain in his Gorakshnath math and direction the BJP’s crusade in the whole region. Surveying in six Lok Sabha seats falling under Gorakhpur division will be held in the last period of the surveys on Sunday.

Subsequent to losing Gorakhpur se­at to SP-BSP competitor in the byelections a year ago, Yogi has handled Bhojpuri star Ravi Kishan this time. In spite of resistance from BJP nearby association, Yogi decided on Ravi Kishan Shukla and his candidature was settled remembering a substantial number of Brahmin cast a ballot on the seat. As per the state home office of the BJP, Yogi will remain in Gorakhpur till May 19 and will go for battling for the rest of the seats in Bihar and Bengal from that point.

Consistently, Yogi will address in any event three revitalizes in the Gorakhpur district. Yogi and BJP got a jolt after Pravin Nishad, the collusion competitor who won in the bypolls from Gorak­hpur joined the saffron unit.

Pravin was given a BJP ticket from neighboring Sant Kabirnagar Lok Sabha situate. Subsequent to surveying in Sant Kabirnagar is over on May 12, Pravin Nishad too has been approached to camp in Gorakhpur and battle for the BJP. Pravin Nishad has been approached to concentrate on the Nishad people group from which the SP-BSP union applicant Ram Bhuwal Nishad has a place.

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Number of Lok Sabha candidates with criminal cases up 4% in 10 years

It found that 2,297, or 29%, candidates are “crorepatis”, that is with assets of more than Rs 1 crore

LokSabha Elections 2019:Upwards of 1,500, or 19 percent, of all applicants challenging the Lok Sabha surveys, face criminal cases, as indicated by an examination by decision guard dog Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

The ADR examined oneself sworn oaths of 7,928 of 8,049 hopefuls who are challenging in the seven-stage Lok Sabha decisions. It said 121 competitors were not dissected as a result of inaccessibility of their reasonable and complete sworn statements on the Election Commission’s (EC’s) site.

It found that 2,297, or 29 percent, applicants are “crorepatis”, that is with resources of more than Rs 1 crore. The normal resources of hopefuls is Rs 4.74 crore. Among significant gatherings, the normal resources for 433 BJP applicants is Rs 13.37 crore, 419 INC competitors have a normal resource of Rs 19.92 crore, 381 BSP hopefuls have normal resources worth Rs 3.86 crore, 69 CPI(M) hopefuls have normal resources worth Rs 1.28 crore, and 3,370 Independent applicants have normal resources of Rs 1.25 crore.

Upwards of 677 ideological groups are challenging the LS surveys. In 2014, 464 ideological groups challenged the surveys and 368 challenged in 2009. There has been an expansion of 84 percent in the number ideological groups from 2009 to 2019. Training subtleties of competitors: 3,477, or 44 percent, applicants have pronounced their instructive capability to be between Class V and Class XII, while 3,808, or 48 percent, hopefuls have announced having an instructive capability of alumni or more. Upwards of 253 hopefuls have pronounced themselves to be simply educated and 163 competitors are Illiterates.

Age subtleties of hopefuls: 4,941, or 62 percent, applicants have announced their age to be somewhere in the range of 25 and 50 years while 2,932, or 37 percent competitors have proclaimed their age to be somewhere in the range of 51 and 80 years, 18 competitors have pronounced they are over 80 years of age. Sexual orientation subtleties of hopefuls: 716 (9 percent) ladies competitors are challenging in the Lok Sabha race this year. Of 8,205 hopefuls dissected in the Lok Sabha races 2014, 640 (8 percent) competitors were ladies. Of 7,810 applicants dissected in the Lok Sabha decisions 2009, 556 (7 percent) competitors were ladies.

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Traffic jam, air pollution, job top priorities of Delhi voters: ADR survey

The survey covered 534 Lok Sabha constituencies, including the seven in Delhi, with 2,73,487 voters participating in the nation-wide exercise

LokSabha Elections 2019:Traffic blockage, water and air contamination and better business openings, were the best three issues on which voters in Delhi need the legislature of the day to deal with, a study led by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has asserted.

The Delhi study was done as a component of a national overview, directed among October and December in 2018, Jagdeep Chhokar, author part, National Election Watch, ADR, told correspondents here on Monday.

The study secured 534 Lok Sabha voting demographics, incorporating the seven in Delhi, with 2,73,487 voters taking an interest in the across the nation work out.

“We completed a national review and inside that we completed a Delhi-level overview as well. The Delhi study demonstrates that traffic clog (49.67 percent), water and air contamination (44.52), and better business openings (43.07 percent) are the main three voters’ needs for voters,” a senior ADR official told journalists.

The Delhi study secured almost 3,500 respondents over the seven parliamentary burn in Delhi, around 500 from every one of the voting demographics.

Since Delhi’s populace is overwhelmingly urban, 97.50 percent according to the Census 2011, the report centers essentially around urban voters’ needs, as indicated by ADR.

Moreover, the administration has performed inadequately in strengthening of ladies and security (1.85 percent) and commotion contamination (2.27 percent) in urban Delhi, it guaranteed.

For provincial voters of Delhi, the top most voters’ needs were more expensive rate acknowledgment for ranch items (56 percent), better business openings (52 percent), and power for horticulture (44 percent), it said.

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Priyanka Gandhi takes jibe at PM Modi for his ‘cloudy weather’ theory

Priyanka further said that Modi promised a corruption-free govt but went ahead and perpetrated a “Rs 30,000 cr Rafale scam”

LokSabha Elections 2019:Congress pioneer Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Monday took a correspond at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his announcement about IAF air ships sidestepping Pakistan radars amid the Balakot air strike due to the “shady climate”.

At a roadshow in Indore’s Rajwada Chowk, the Congress chief, perusing from a bit of paper, stated: “Amid his five-year residency as the executive, Modi has just given jumlas (talk) to the general population.”

“He trusted that he won’t please individuals’ radar because of the shady climate,” said the Congress general secretary in Hindi in the midst of cheers from the group that had thronged the traffic intersection.

In a meeting circulated on Saturday, Modi had stated, “The climate was bad upon the arrival of air strike. There was a believed that sneaked in the psyches of the specialists that the day of strike ought to be changed. Be that as it may, I recommended that the mists could really enable our planes to get away from the radars.”

The Congress head additionally said that Modi guaranteed a defilement free government yet felt free to execute a “Rs 30,000 crore Rafale trick”.

“He is such a major resistance master, that only he chose that the Rafale flying machine will be fabricated by an organization that has never assembled one ever. It was given land too. Be that as it may, be it downpour or daylight, individuals came to comprehend what is reality of this present man’s legislative issues,” she asserted.

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BJP will bag 301 seats, Modi wave across nation: Shahnawaz Hussain

Shahnawaz Hussain stated that the BJP-led NDA alliance would win 39 of the 40 seats in Bihar

LokSabha Elections 2019:Senior BJP pioneer Shahnawaz Hussain has guaranteed that the BJP will win 301 Lok Sabha situates alone while the NDA will win 39 out of the 40 LS seats in Bihar due to a “Modi wave” clearing the nation over and a “wave against the whole restriction” this time.

Attesting that there is a “Modi wave” the nation over, the gathering’s national representative said here on Sunday, individuals are voting in favor of NDA competitors riding on the Modi wave and the formative works embraced by the head administrator over the most recent five years.

“In 2014, individuals voted in favor of Modi based on his presentation as Gujarat CM and as an option in contrast to UPA’s Manmohan Singh. In spite of the fact that Modi had requested 272 or more seats in 2014, individuals gave him 283 seats,” the previous association serve said.

“Be that as it may, this time, the BJP will win 301 Lok Sabha situates alone without anyone else. We (NDA) are in an excellent position in Bihar and will win 39 out of the 40 situates as the BJP-drove union is exceptionally solid in the state as a result of the nearness of the JD(U), which was not a piece of the NDA in the last race,” Hussain told PTI.

Expelling ‘The Time’ magazine’s ongoing main story on PM Narendra Modi titled “India’s Divider in Chief”, the BJP pioneer stated, “It is an affront and lack of respect to the nation as it has been composed against the PM.”

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Shah ‘denied’ permission to rally in Jadavpur: BJP to protest, move EC

BJP has also alleged that the TMC is resorting to undemocratic means even as the EC remains a mute spectator

LokSabha Elections 2019:Blaming the West Bengal government for not permitting its leader Amit Shah’s rally in Jadavpur, the BJP said on Monday that the Election Commission has turned into a “quiet onlooker” to the Trinamool Congress’ supposed undemocratic intends to focus on the saffron party.

BJP media head and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni said his gathering will hold challenges and furthermore move the EC.

Shah’s rally was booked for Monday in Jadavpur, which goes to the surveys on May 19 in the last stage, however the authorization for it was denied at last by the state organization, he said.

Along these lines, the authorization for Shah’s chopper to arrive was likewise pulled back, Baluni said.

“Tragically the EC has turned into a quiet onlooker to this and furthermore utilization of brutality by the TMC in the state,” he said.

He affirmed the decision party in Bengal was utilizing undemocratic intends to focus on the BJP.

Nine seats will go to surveys in the last period of the general decision.

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From Shatrughan to Sandhya Roy: Worst performing celebrity MPs in debates

On average, the 19 celebrity MPs logged 66% attendance compared to the 16th Lok Sabha average of 80%

LokSabha Elections 2019:Big name Members of Parliament (MPs)- – film artistes and artists – logged lower participation, took an interest in less discussions, posed less inquiries yet utilized their voting demographic improvement finances superior to the normal of all MPs in the sixteenth Lok Sabha, our investigation of track records of 19 such MPs appears.

All things considered, the 19 superstar MPs logged 66% participation contrasted with the sixteenth Lok Sabha normal of 80%, an IndiaSpend investigation of parliament information appears. Just six superstar MPs checked participation of 80% or above. Bharatiya Janata Party MP and yesteryears’ star Hema Malini, who claimed to furrow a homestead amid a race photoshoot, logged 39% participation.

Of parliamentary discussions, VIP MPs by and large took an interest in 22 against the sixteenth Lok Sabha normal of 67, with just a single MP revealing higher (investment in 107 discussions). By and large, VIP MPs posed 101 inquiries, while all MPs together solicited a normal from 293. BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha, additionally a yesteryears’ film star and now with the Congress party, partook in no discussion and posed no inquiries.

In the meantime, big name MPs used their Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) reserves superior to all MPs’ normal – 87.6% contrasted with 82.9%, as on April 5, 2019. Every MP is distributed Rs 5 crore for every time of their residency for advancement to prescribe works in the areas under their body electorate to the region gatherer.

Film identities are normal in governmental issues, and progressively noticeable in crusading as likewise challenging races because of the consideration they pull in via web-based networking media.

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Elections 2019: Why popularity is not a guarantee for winning seats

Party with fewer votes can get more seats and win elections

LokSabha Elections 2019:In the vicious decision challenge in India, ideological groups are centered around transforming cast a ballot into winning seats. The reason – history demonstrates that a gathering can shape an administration by accumulating support from only a fourth of the complete electorate.

Head administrator Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and Rahul Gandhi’s primary restriction Congress party are attempting to raise vote shares – the level of all out votes surveyed – to support them as the nation’s race moves into its last stage.

In India’s first-past-the-post framework, with a substantial number of contenders for each seat, the victor simply needs to get enough votes to win. The individual doesn’t have to get the greater part of the famous votes. For example in 2014, Bhujan Samaj Party earned 4.2% of the votes yet neglected to win a solitary voting demographic, while the Communist Party of India attracted 0.79% of the votes and figured out how to wrest 1 situate. The BJP with 31.3% vote share won 282.

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Gambhir, Atishi accuse each other for the politics ‘obscene’ pamphlets

Gambhir had said he would withdraw from the Lok Sabha contest if the charge was proved against him

Elections:BJP’s East Delhi competitor Gautam Gambhir sent a notice to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Atishi on Thursday requesting their conciliatory sentiment in the wake of being blamed for being associated with circulation of “profane and disdainful” leaflets against his AAP rival.

In the notice, the trio was approached to pull back their charges against the cricketer-turned-government official and delicate an unrestricted expression of remorse.

Prior in the day, Gambhir had said he would pull back from the Lok Sabha challenge if the charge was demonstrated against him.

“I announce that if its demonstrated that I did it, I will pull back my candidature at this moment. If not, will u quit governmental issues?,” he said in a tweet routed to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Kejriwal and Atishi, the gathering applicant from East Delhi.

Atishi separated perusing a flyer containing “indecent and defamatory” comments against her on Thursday. She asserted that the leaflets were circulated in the body electorate by her Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rival.

Gambhir hammered Kejriwal in a progression of tweets, saying he was “embarrassed” to have him as the main clergyman of Delhi.

The political air in the national capital vitiated hours before the survey battling finished up on Friday evening, with the BJP and the AAP enjoying a harsh habitual pettiness.

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Elections 2019: Bahuguna’s legacy, M M Joshi’s shadow loom over Allahabad

Joshi still holds a place in the city’s heart, mind and Brahmin voters in the region harbour a grudge over the ‘raw deal’ he got from the BJP

Elections:The heritage of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna contextualizes the talk of Rita Bahuguna Joshi and the shadow of Murli Manohar Joshi lingers uneasily over the discretionary legislative issues of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Allahabad, that cast a ballot on May 12. Rita Joshi is the BJP’s Lok Sabha competitor from this renowned voting public that had chosen her dad, Hemwati Nandan in 1971 while Joshi spoke to it without a break from 1996 to 2004.

Bahuguna senior’s association with his parent party, the Congress, may have been erratic however he transformed into a pioneer in his own directly during that time when he was the Uttar Pradesh boss pastor and a focal clergyman. It’s his inheritance to Allahabad and not all that much the multi year principle of Narendra Modi at the Center or the multi year routine of Chief Minister Adityanath that themed Rita Joshi’s chalk talk. Dr Vinay Dwivedi, her political associate, stated, “Bahuguna was a self-propelled pioneer like Rita ji. He changed the substance of this city in a few different ways.” Rita is as of now a lawmaker from Lucknow Cantonment and a priest in Adityanath’s gathering yet her connection with Allahabad returns to her days as an understudy of history at the eponymous college and later as a city hall leader from the Samajwadi Party (SP). To be sure, the better piece of her political vocation has been outside the BJP, quickly in the SP and for long in the Congress, initiating a level of jealousy in the BJP’s old-clocks at her ascent in under three years.

Bahuguna senior set up the Naini Industrial Estate that opened up the work part in a vocation bone-dry zone during the ’60s despite the fact that a skeleton of its unique structure remains. He conveyed water system to the trans-Yamuna locale through channels with lift siphons. As a Congress campaigner previously, Rita’s discourse dependably started with the line, “Yeh Bahuguna ji ki dharti hai” (this is Bahuguna’s property) however in the BJP, her associates do the heritage informing. Asked who overwhelmed Allahabad’s political scene, Bahuguna or Modi, a BJP pioneer’s answer was, “Rita is the place she is a direct result of Bahuguna and we are the place we are a direct result of Modi.”

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