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  • First fight Abhishek, then me: Mamata Banerjee challenges Amit Shah

    By PTI
    PAILAN: Hitting out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s ‘Didi-Bhaipo’ jibes, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday challenged him to contest an election against her nephew Abhishek Banerjee and then think of fighting her.

    Addressing a party rally in Pailan in the South 24 Parganas district, Banerjee said that Abhishek could have taken the easy route of being an MP by choosing to be a Rajya Sabha member but he fought the Lok Sabha election and got the people’s mandate.

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    “Day and night they are talking about Didi-Bhatija. I challenge Amit Shah, contest against Abhishek Banerjee first and then me,” she said, amid a loud cheer from supporters.

    BJP leaders, including Shah, have often accused Banerjee of dynasty politics, alleging that her ‘Bhaipo’ or nephew has received preferential treatment and will eventually be made the chief minister of the state.

    “How come your son became a part of the cricket administration and made hundreds of crores of rupees?” Banerjee said, in a direct attack at Shah.

    She also challenged the home minister to get her into politics and toil to hold public offices.

    Banerjee exuded confidence that her party will break all records of past elections in the state, get most of the votes and win the highest number of seats in the upcoming polls.

  • BJP will end cut-money culture, bring development in Bengal if voted to power: Shah

    Speaking on the controversy over the #39;Jai Shri Ram #39; slogan, Shah said, quot;Bengal CM gets angry at the slogan due to her appeasement politics.

  • Path trodden by Bharat Sevashram Sangha will help India’s self-reliance quest: Amit Shah 

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday that the path trodden by the Bharat Sevashram Sangha will significantly help India to transform into a self-reliant country.

    Shah, who visited the headquarters of the charitable organisation, said the BSS will hopefully continue to move forward on the path it has travelled so far and pave the way for a new ‘Hindustan’.

    Paying obeisance to Bharat Sevashram Sangha founder Swami Pranavananda on his 125th birth anniversary, Shah told the monks that the organisation was formed at a time when it was most needed.

    “The organisation made great efforts to make people aware of freedom. Swami Pranavananda thought of a free India,” the home minister said.

    Shah also said both Syama Prasad Mukherjee, the founder of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, and Swami Pranavananda had shared similar ideologies and worked for the country.

    Claiming that West Bengal is existing today because of Mukherjee, he said, “Otherwise, it would have gone to Bangladesh.” During his 40-minute visit to the organisation’s office here, Shah was briefed about the relief works carried out by it during natural disasters.

    He was accompanied by BJP’s national vice president Mukul Roy, national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh and other senior leaders.

  • Bengal to witness clash of titans as Mamata and Amit Shah to address rallies in same district on Thursday

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: A head-to-head political battle will play out on Thursday in Kolkata’s neighbouring South 24 Parganas district where Home Minister Amit Shah and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee are scheduled to address rallies separated by some distance.

    It is for the first time in the run up to the assembly elections that Banerjee and Shah will be holding rallies in the same district and more or less at the same time in the afternoon.

    Shah is scheduled to arrive in Bengal tonight on a two-day visit starting from Thursday.

    He is scheduled to visit Kakdwip area near Sagar Island in South 24 Parganas district, where he will flag off the final leg of the five phases Parivartan Yatra of the BJP in the state.

    “He will arrive in Kolkata tonight. On Thursday he will visit Kapil Muni Ashram.From there he will go to Namkhana where he will address Poribartan Yatra,” a senior state BJP leader said Wednesday.

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    Shah is also scheduled to have lunch at the residence of a migrant labourer and later take part in a roadshow, he said.

    Meanwhile, Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, who is also the local party MP, is slated to address a party workers meeting at Pailan in South 24 Parganas on Thursday.

    “It will be a politically important day tomorrow.

    Both Shah and Didi will address rallies in the same district,” a senior South 24 Parganas TMC leader said.

    After having a limited presence in politically polarised Bengal for decades, BJP has emerged as the main rival of the ruling Trinamool Congress after winning 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state in 2019 general elections, only four less than the TMC tally of 22.

    With the BJP’s strength increasing in the state in the last few years, its leaders are upbeat that the party will be able to end Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s 10-year rule in the state polls.

    Election to the 294-member state Assembly is expected in April-May this year.

  • Bus accident: Madhya Pradesh government cancels event to be attended by Amit Shah

    By PTI
    BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh government has cancelled the ‘grih pravesh’ or house-warming ceremony to be attended virtually by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in view of the Tuesday’s Sidhi bus accident in which many passengers are feared drowned.

    The cancellation of the event, which was scheduled to start at 11 am at Minto Hall here, was announced by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after he reached the venue.

    Amit Shah was scheduled to take part via video conferencing in this programme for the beneficiaries of over one lakh houses constructed in Madhya Pradesh under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).

    Many passengers are feared drowned after a bus fell off a bridge into a canal near Patna village in Sidhi district on Tuesday morning, police and eye witnesses said.

    As per preliminary information, at least 50 passengers were travelling in the ill-fated bus at the time of the accident.

  • Amit Shah said BJP has plans to form governments in Nepal, Sri Lanka: Tripura CM

    By ANI
    AGARTALA: Chief Minister of Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has plans to expand their party in the neighbouring countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka.

    The Tripura CM while addressing the party workers in Agartala recalled a meeting with the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who was then BJP national president, during his visit to the state and said, “When the home minister was our party chief, while discussion we said that BJP had come to power in several states.”

    “In response, the minister (then BJP chief) said that Nepal and Sri Lanka are still left. He said that we have to expand the party to Sri Lanka and Nepal. We have to win there too,” Deb added.

    Biplab Kumar Deb was addressing the party workers at an event in the state capital of Tripura.

  • Home Minister Amit Shah pays tributes to Pulwama martyrs

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday paid tributes to the security personnel killed in the terrorist attack in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019, and said their sacrifice would not be forgotten by the people of India.

    Forty CRPF personnel were killed in the terrorist attack carried out by Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad.

    “I bow down to the brave martyrs who lost their lives in the gruesome Pulwama attack on this day in 2019. India will never forget their exceptional courage and supreme sacrifice,” Shah tweeted.

  • Statehood would be given to Jammu & Kashmir at appropriate time: Amit Shah in Lok Sabha

    By Online Desk
    Union Home Minister Amit Shah informed the Lok Sabha on Saturday that statehood will be re accorded to Jammu and Kashmir at ‘an appropriate time’.

    Replying to a discussion on the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, he also slammed some opposition members for their claim that the proposed law negates the hopes of the region getting back its erstwhile statehood.

    Lashing out at the Opposition, “We were asked what did we do about promises made during abrogation of Article 370. It has been 17 months since the abrogation & you are demanding an account for it. Did you bring the account of what you did for 70 years? Had you worked properly, you need not have asked us. I have no objection, I will give an account for everything. But those who were given the opportunity to govern for generations should look within if they are even fit to demand an account”.

    The government of India on August 5, 2019, revoked articles 370 and 35A and bifurcated the state of J&K into two UTs.

    Jammu and Kashmir has been a top priority for the current government since it took power in 2014, he said. Shah added the government expects that around 25,000 government jobs will be created in Jammu and Kashmir by 2022.

  • Former Jammu and Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti hits back at Home Minister Amit Shah over his dynastic politics jibe

    By PTI
    SRINAGAR: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday hit back at Home Minister Amit Shah over his allegation of dynastic politics in Jammu and Kashmir till abrogation of Article 370 provisions, saying it “pales in comparison” to ‘Hum do, Hamare do’ approach of the Centre.

    Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had on Thursday stepped up the attack against the government over the three farm laws, alleged that these legislations would damage country’s food security system as also “break the spine of farmers” and that the nation is being run by only four people with a ‘Hum do, Hamare do’ approach.

    On Saturday, Mufti took to Twitter to say, “HM’s allegations that J&K was run by three families pales in comparison to the country being run by ‘hum do humaray do’ (sic).”

    In the Lok Sabha on Saturday, Shah said only three families ruled Jammu and Kashmir until Article 370 was scrapped in August 2019.

    “Article 370’s existence suited them,” he said.

  • Statehood would be given to Jammu & Kashmir at appropriate time: Amit Shah in Lok Sabha

    By Online Desk
    Union Home Minister Amit Shah informed the Lok Sabha on Saturday that statehood will be re accorded to Jammu and Kashmir at ‘an appropriate time’.

    Replying to a discussion on the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, he also slammed some opposition members for their claim that the proposed law negates the hopes of the region getting back its erstwhile statehood.

    Lashing out at the Opposition, “We were asked what did we do about promises made during abrogation of Article 370. It has been 17 months since the abrogation & you are demanding an account for it. Did you bring the account of what you did for 70 years? Had you worked properly, you need not have asked us. I have no objection, I will give an account for everything. But those who were given the opportunity to govern for generations should look within if they are even fit to demand an account”.

    The government of India on August 5, 2019, revoked articles 370 and 35A and bifurcated the state of J&K into two UTs.

    Jammu and Kashmir has been a top priority for the current government since it took power in 2014, he said. Shah added the government expects that around 25,000 government jobs will be created in Jammu and Kashmir by 2022.