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  • LS polls: Actor Arun Govil files nomination as BJP candidate from Meerut

    Veteran actor Arun Govil of TV serial ‘Ramayan’ fame on Tuesday filed nomination as the BJP candidate from Meerut Lok Sabha seat. Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya was present with Govil during the nomination.

    After filing his nomination, Govil said that he wanted to thank the BJP leadership for trusting him and making him a candidate from Meerut.

    Govil said he is getting massive public support. “Arun Govil has filed his nomination papers today. There is tremendous confidence among the workers and the people that BJP will achieve the target of winning all 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh and 400 seats in the entire country,” Dy CM said.

    The actor, who became a household name after essaying the role of Lord Ram in Ramanand Sagar’s “Ramayan”, was on March 24 fielded by the BJP from the Meerut Lok Sabha seat.

    Replying to a question about which party BJP sees as its rival, Maurya said, “According to us, there is no one in competition.” “There is no opposition anywhere. There is a tussle among SP, BSP and Congress. Our preparations are from 2024 to 2047 (when UP state assembly elections are to be held),” he said.

  • Bengal polls: BJP candidate’s car vandalised, three held

    By PTI
    KESHPUR: BJP candidate from Keshpur assembly constituency Tanmay Ghosh’s vehicle was on Thursday vandalised allegedly by supporters of the Trinamool Congress, police said.

    Three persons have been arrested in connection with the incident, they said.

    An unidentified group of people attacked Ghosh’s vehicle with bricks and bamboo sticks, and also vandalised cars of media personnel, a police officer said.

    A team of central forces have reached the spot, an Election Commission official said.

    The EC has also sought a report from the administration.

    A TMC worker identified as Uttam Dolui was stabbed to death late last night in Keshpur area in Paschim Medinipur district, hours before polling started in the area.

    Voting is underway in 30 constituencies of West Bengal, including the high-profile Nandigram seat, in the second phase of the West Bengal assembly elections.

  • Ramanagara by-poll: BJP candidate against CM’s wife pulls out, returns to Cong

    In a major embarrassment for the BJP, two days before the Ramanagara assembly by-poll, its candidate against Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy’s wife quit the contest on Thursday and return to the Congress.

    With BJP’s L Chandrashekhar withdrawing his candidature for the November 3 polls, Kumaraswamy’s wife Anita Kumaraswamy, is expected to have a smooth sail facing a virtual no-contest.

    Announcing his decision to return to his “mother party,” the Congress, Chandrashekhar accused BJP and its leaders of “abandoning” him after giving him the ticket.

    “After welcoming me to the BJP by giving party flag, Yeddyurappa (state BJP chief) or any other leaders did not join me for campaigning.  They neglected Ramanagara due to internal squabble between the leaders within the party,” he told reporters.

    Alleging Yeddyurappa did not even answer his phone calls, Chandrashekhar said, he was worried about his political future in the BJP and hence decided to withdraw from the poll fray.

    “Saddened about the attitude of leaders and system that exists within the BJP, I have decided not to have any association with the party, I’m returning to my mother party Congress,” he said, with Bengaluru rural Congress MP D K Suresh seated next to him.

    Chandrashekhar, son of a senior Congress leader C M Lingappa, had joined BJP as the Congress decided to support the candidate of its ruling coalition partner, JD(S).

    Within days after joining the BJP, he was announced as the party’s candidate.

    “By remaining in the Congress party, I will extend my support to the coalition candidate…” Chandrashekar said.

    This development just ahead of polls is being seen as senior Congress leader D K Shivakumar and his brother D K Suresh’s response to the BJP’s alleged attempts to weaken the coalition government by trying to “poach” Congress MLAs.

    Reacting to the development, Yeddyurappa alleged that Chandrashekhar has been brought for money by Shivakumar.

    “Shivakumar and brother (D K Suresh) have brought (him) back, by giving money. I got the information just now. God bless them,” he told reporters in Shivamogga.

    By-election to Ramanagara was necessitated as it fell vacant after Kumaraswamy gave up the seat preferring Chennapatna, the other seat he had won in the May assembly polls.

    By-polls for three Lok Sabha constituencies- Shivamogga, Ballari and Mandya and two assembly constituencies, Ramanagara and Jamkhandi, will take place on November 3.

    The counting of votes would be on November 6.