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  • Madhya Pradesh to implement new youth policy; Chandrashekhar Azad statue to be installed, says CM

    By Express News Service

    BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Saturday announced a novel youth policy to be implemented in the state on National Youth Day (January 12, 2023). 

    Inaugurating the state-level Youth Panchayat, which marked the 116th birth anniversary of the country’s freedom struggle hero Chandrashekhar Azad, in Bhopal, the CM said the state will have its new youth policy.

    “It will include all suggestions and participation of youths. The new youth policy will be implemented across the state on Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary (National Youth Day) on January 12.”

    He also announced the commencement of the recruitment for one lakh government jobs in the state. The process would begin on August 15.

    Moreover, two lakh youth will be linked to self-employment scheme every month. The benefits of various schemes will be made available to the youth by celebrating Employment Day every month.

    Addressing the gathering, the CM said “special Youth Awards will be started in the state to recognise the achievements of youngsters in various spheres of creative excellence.”

    He further announced the formation of the MP State Youth Advisory Council which will advise the state government on issues concerning the youths. The Council will have, among its members, the youth from all spheres, including scouts-guides, student unions, Nehru Yuva Kendra and Jan Abhiyan Parishad.

    The CM also announced that winners of youth panchayats held in different districts of the state will be sent by the state government to international borders, including the Leh-Ladakh to see how the defence forces of the country were guarding the nation’s borders in the most extreme climatic conditions.

    “Under the Mukhyamantri Teerth Darshan Yojana, we’ve been rendering free travel to elderly population to visit various pilgrimages across the country. Under our Maa Tujhe Pranam Scheme, we take our youths to various international borders to instill among them patriotic fervour. The winners of individual youth panchayats at district level will be rewarded with travel to the international borders under the ‘Maa Tujhe Pranam’ scheme.”

    The CM also added that a suitable place will soon be decided in Bhopal for installing a giant statue of Chandrashekhar Azad.

    “Young bikers who set off from Bhopal on Thursday for Chandrashekhar Azad’s birthplace Bhabhra in state’s Alirajpur district, have returned with soil from the birthplace of the freedom movement hero. The same soil will first be kept at the Shaurya Smarak in Bhopal. Later the same soil will be used in the foundation of Chandrashekhar Azad’s statue in Bhopal.”

    Chouhan also said that two to three days long Youth Will be organised every year in the state.

    The Youth Panchayat was also addressed by the Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Anurag Thakur and MP minister for sports and youth welfare minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia.

    Addressing the event Eric Solheim, the former Executive Director of Environment Programs at the United Nations, recalled the contribution of Amar Shaheed Chandrashekhar Azad. 

    He said that pollution, climate change and environmental protection are the main challenges facing the youth at present. An example can be set before the whole world by developing Madhya Pradesh as a solar state and as a natural state. 

    He said that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan plants saplings every day. The youth of the state should follow this. He also called for adopting solar energy and reducing the use of plastic.

    BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Saturday announced a novel youth policy to be implemented in the state on National Youth Day (January 12, 2023). 

    Inaugurating the state-level Youth Panchayat, which marked the 116th birth anniversary of the country’s freedom struggle hero Chandrashekhar Azad, in Bhopal, the CM said the state will have its new youth policy.

    “It will include all suggestions and participation of youths. The new youth policy will be implemented across the state on Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary (National Youth Day) on January 12.”

    He also announced the commencement of the recruitment for one lakh government jobs in the state. The process would begin on August 15.

    Moreover, two lakh youth will be linked to self-employment scheme every month. The benefits of various schemes will be made available to the youth by celebrating Employment Day every month.

    Addressing the gathering, the CM said “special Youth Awards will be started in the state to recognise the achievements of youngsters in various spheres of creative excellence.”

    He further announced the formation of the MP State Youth Advisory Council which will advise the state government on issues concerning the youths. The Council will have, among its members, the youth from all spheres, including scouts-guides, student unions, Nehru Yuva Kendra and Jan Abhiyan Parishad.

    The CM also announced that winners of youth panchayats held in different districts of the state will be sent by the state government to international borders, including the Leh-Ladakh to see how the defence forces of the country were guarding the nation’s borders in the most extreme climatic conditions.

    “Under the Mukhyamantri Teerth Darshan Yojana, we’ve been rendering free travel to elderly population to visit various pilgrimages across the country. Under our Maa Tujhe Pranam Scheme, we take our youths to various international borders to instill among them patriotic fervour. The winners of individual youth panchayats at district level will be rewarded with travel to the international borders under the ‘Maa Tujhe Pranam’ scheme.”

    The CM also added that a suitable place will soon be decided in Bhopal for installing a giant statue of Chandrashekhar Azad.

    “Young bikers who set off from Bhopal on Thursday for Chandrashekhar Azad’s birthplace Bhabhra in state’s Alirajpur district, have returned with soil from the birthplace of the freedom movement hero. The same soil will first be kept at the Shaurya Smarak in Bhopal. Later the same soil will be used in the foundation of Chandrashekhar Azad’s statue in Bhopal.”

    Chouhan also said that two to three days long Youth Will be organised every year in the state.

    The Youth Panchayat was also addressed by the Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Anurag Thakur and MP minister for sports and youth welfare minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia.

    Addressing the event Eric Solheim, the former Executive Director of Environment Programs at the United Nations, recalled the contribution of Amar Shaheed Chandrashekhar Azad. 

    He said that pollution, climate change and environmental protection are the main challenges facing the youth at present. An example can be set before the whole world by developing Madhya Pradesh as a solar state and as a natural state. 

    He said that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan plants saplings every day. The youth of the state should follow this. He also called for adopting solar energy and reducing the use of plastic.

  • Won’t tie-up with Samajwadi Party even for 100 seats now: Chandrashekhar Azad

    By PTI

    NOIDA: The Aazad Samaj Party on Tuesday said it will no longer approach the SP for a tie-up for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections even if Akhilesh Yadav offers it 100 seats.

    Aazad Samaj Party (ASP) chief Chandrashekhar Azad said his party is open to stitching an alliance with others and maintained that his fight has always been with the RSS and the BJP.

    The party had said last week that efforts were being made to form a third front of several opposition parties, apparently after disagreement over seat sharing with Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP).

    “I have made it clear. The time was till today (Tuesday) for the leader whom I had approached for an alliance to stop the BJP. I announce this today that we are not going with them (SP). Now, even if they offer us 100 seats we will not tie-up with them because it’s a matter of self-respect,” Azad told reporters.

    On Yadav saying he would extend support to the ASP, the flamboyant Dalit leader said he is a lawyer by education and understands well the difference in the language of support and taunt, in a veiled attack on the SP president who had offered two seats to the ASP recently.

    He said workers and activists of the Bhim Army, a Dalit outfit he founded, and the ASP are strong enough to compete in the polls and have a reach at village level.

    “It is true that we are open to forming tie-ups with other parties. Around 50 small outfits are sitting at our office now as we speak but we have come for the press conference here since it was pre-scheduled,” Azad claimed.

    He added that ASP will not field candidates against the RLD, which has a tie-up with the SP for the UP polls because of respect for the Jayant Chaudhary-led party,which had offered the ASP the two seats that Yadav was talking about.

    Elections to the 403 seats of the UP Assembly will take place in seven phases, beginning February 10.

    The results will be announced on March 10.

  • Chandrashekhar Azad calls for gheraoing PM’s residence if Lakhimpur culprits not arrested in seven days

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Azad Samaj Party chief and Dalit leader Chandrashekhar Azad on Friday said he and his supporters will gherao the residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi here if the culprits of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident are not arrested within seven days.

    The prime minister should talk to farmers, go to Lakhimpur Kheri and meet family members of slain farmers, he demanded.

    “The prime minister tweets on every issue but he is yet to react on the killing of the farmers. The culprits are roaming free. We will gherao the PM’s residence if the culprits are not arrested within seven days,” Azad said at a press conference here.

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    The Dalit leader compared the Lakhimpur Kheri incident to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and asserted it will have huge repercussions in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections next year.

    Azad alleged there is no law and order in Uttar Pradesh and demanded that the CM tender his resignation.

    He also supported the demand for a caste census, saying it will help ascertain the percentage of neglected sections of society.

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    Eight people were killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence on Sunday.

    Of the eight, four were farmers, who were allegedly knocked down by vehicles driven by BJP workers travelling to welcome Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya to an event in the area.

    The other four were two BJP workers, a driver of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra and Raman Kashyap, a journalist working for a private television channel.

    An FIR under section 302 of IPC (murder) has been registered against the Union minister’s son, Ashish Mishra, and others in connection with the incident at the Tikonia police station but no arrest has been made so far.

  • Fulfill promises made to Hathras rape victim’s family or will go on dharna: Chandrashekhar Azad to UP govt

    By PTI

    ALIGARH: Azad Samaj Party national president Chandrashekhar Azad has threatened to begin an indefinite protest if the Uttar Pradesh government fails to fulfil its promises to the family of a 19-year-old woman from Hathras who was gang-raped and assaulted last year leading to her death.

    Azad, who had visited the family of the woman in Hathras earlier this week, said, “Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s promises made a year back of providing financial support to the family, including job and housing, have become a cruel joke for the family.”

    Azad met Aligarh Divisional Commissioner Gaurav Dayal who, he said, “assured that the promised assistance to the family would be given within one week.”

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    “We will begin an indefinite dharna at the Aligarh divisional commissioner’s office after 10 days if these assurances are not fulfilled and justice is not given to the family,” he told reporters here on Friday.

    The woman died at a hospital in Delhi in September last year, days after being assaulted and raped by four men.

    Azad claimed that Aligarh “has become such a difficult place for Dalits that they would be forced to migrate from here.”

    Asked whether his party will form any alliance for the 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, he said, “So far no decision has been taken, but we will not spare any effort to ensure the defeat of the BJP.”

  • 2022 UP polls: Rajbhar tapping smaller players to expand Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha’s reach

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Estranged Yogi government minister and president of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) Om Prakash Rajbhar is making all-out efforts to rope in more partners, smaller though,  to his Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha in order to make it a force to reckon in the 2022 assembly elections in UP.

    However, despite having an image of a tough bargainer, Rajbhar has emerged as an ‘untouchable’ among the big political players in UP.

    After stitching an alliance with All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM), led by Asaduddin Owaisi, Rajbhar met Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad recently and invited him to join the outfit to expand its reach in the western UP as well.

    “The Bhim Army chief has given his consent to join the Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha,” claimed Rajbhar. Azad has formed the Azad Samaj Party in March 2020 to take part in electoral politics.

    Initially, Rajbhar tried to stitch alliances with mainstream parties like Samajwadi Party and even the Congress in order to get acknowledged in the political landscape of Uttar Pradesh ahead of assembly polls but his efforts did not bear fruits since he joined hands with Owaisi.

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    Moreover, parties decided to keep Rajbhar at an arm’s length after his meeting with BJP state chief Swatantra Dev Singh last month.

    That meeting annoyed not only AIMIM chief Owaisi, who intends to contest on 100 seats in UP but also shaken the confidence of the likes of the Samajwadi Party. According to a senior Samajwadi Party leader, it was difficult to ascertain which way would Rajbhar go. “There is no guarantee that the SBSP chief will stand with us after winning election in the alliance. In this scenario, going with a person whose loyalty is questionable will not be a wise decision,” he said.

    Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is believed to be completely averse to an alliance with any person who has aligned with AIMIM since he thinks that Owaisi’s party may dent the Muslim vote bank of SP.

    OP Rajbhar’s SBSP had contested Assembly polls in alliance with the BJP and had won four seats in the Assembly for the first time in 2017.

    However, having failed to get favourable responses from the main parties, the Morcha is trying to gain strength by approaching other players in the field.

    AIMIM chief Owaisi is also doing his bit and met Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) president Shivpal Singh Yadav at his Lucknow residence two days back. The political scientist believe that Shivpal Yadav was finding it difficult to join hands with the Bhagidari Morcah or strike an alliance with any other party as he was still waiting for Samajwadi Party to take a call on an alliance with PSPL and that he does not want to jeopardize any possibility.

    The highly placed sources in PSPL claimed that Shivpal was being pressured by SP patriarch and brother Mulayam Singh Yadav to bury the hatchet with Akhilesh Yadav and join hands before the 2022 assembly elections.

    However, Akhilesh has been non-committal on the formal alliance with PSPL saying that his party would consider leaving a few seats for the winnable PSPL candidates.

  • Chandrashekhar Azad will soon join Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha, claims Om Prakash Rajbhar

    By PTI

    BALLIA: Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Wednesday claimed that Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad will soon be a part of the Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha and a formal announcement in this regard will be made at a rally on October 27.

    The morcha is a front of like-minded political parties led by Rajbhar, a former BJP ally.

    “I had a meeting with AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan in Lucknow on Tuesday which was very fruitful.

    The Bhim Army chief has given his consent to join the Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha,” Om Prakash Rajbhar told PTI here.

    The AIMIM had recently announced that it would contest 100 seats in the state assembly polls next year by tying up with Rajbhar-led SBSP and its Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha.

    Rajbhar, who was a cabinet minister in the Yogi Adityanath government, had resigned before the Lok Sabha polls in 2019.

    He had later launched the Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha as a political front of smaller parties.

    Rajbhar said during the talks with both the leaders, the strategy regarding the upcoming elections in the Uttar Pradesh was discussed and it was decided that the first major rally of the morcha will be held at Haldharpur in Mau district on October 27 on the foundation day of SBSP.

    During this rally, the Bhim Army chief will formally make an announcement on joining the morcha, he said, adding that the next rally would be held on November 27 at Sandila in Hardoi district.

    More rallies have been planned for Kanpur, Moradabad and Basti later.

    Besides Owaisi and Azad, leaders of all the parties in the morcha will address these rallies, he said.

    The Uttar Pradesh-based Bhim Army was found in 2014 to fight for Dalit rights.

    Azad later formed the Azad Samaj Party in March 2020 to take part in electoral politics and allied with Pappu Yadav-led Jan Adhikar Party in Bihar Assembly elections.

    Asked if the Vikassheel Insan Party will also be joining his morcha, Rajbhar said its president and Bihar cabinet minister Mukesh Sahni has informed that he will clarify his stand by October 15.

    The SBSP chief said he was hoping that Sahni would attend the October 27 rally.

    Asked about an alliance with the Samajwadi Party, Rajbhar said he has not yet met its national president Akhilesh Yadav or talked to any party leader on the issue.

    The SBSP had contested the 2017 Assembly polls in alliance with the BJP and won four seats.

    The Rajbhars constitute 20 per cent of the Poorvanchal population and are regarded as the second-most politically dominant community after the Yadavs in eastern Uttar Pradesh.

  • Madhya Pradesh​: Azad Samaj Party chief Chandrashekhar Azad seeks CBI probe of murder of Dalit family

    By PTI
    DEWAS: Azad Samaj Party chief Chandrashekhar Azad on Saturday met relatives of the five members of a Dalit family who were killed at Nemawar town in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district, and demanded a CBI probe.

    “I have come here from Delhi to make MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan break his silence on the gruesome killings. We will not sit quiet until a CBI probe is ordered,” he told reporters.

    The bodies of Mamata Balai (45), her daughters Rupali (21) and Divya (14) as well as relatives Puja (15) and Pawan (14), all of whom had been missing since May 13, were found buried in an agricultural field on June 29.

    As per the police, Surendra Rajput, who was in a relationship with Rupali but was about to marry another girl, was behind the murders.

    Rajput allegedly got angry after Rupali wrote a post on social media containing wrong information about the girl.

    He, alongwith his brother Virendra and friends Vivek Tiwari, Rajkumar, Manoj Korku and Karan Korku killed five members of the family and buried them in the field, police claimed.

    All six accused have been arrested.

  • Will contest on all 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls: Chandrashekhar Azad

    By PTI
    BULANDSHAHR: Azad Samaj Party chief Chandrashekhar Azad here on Thursday said his outfit will contest on all 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls next year.

    Employment to the youth, checking crime, women empowerment, food security, health and right to education will be the issues that will be raised by his party, he said during a cycle rally here.

    Taking a dig at the Cabinet reshuffle at the Centre, he said changing ministers will do nothing unless the government is changed.

    He also criticised Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, alleging that the crime graph is rising but he is silent.

  • BJP remembers garlanding statue on Chandrasekhar Azad’s death anniversary

    Bharatiya Janata Party Dhamtari City Board garlanded the statue of Veer Chandrasekhar Azad at Azad Chowk in Kostapara Ward on the death anniversary of freedom fighter martyr Veer Chandrashekhar Azad. On this occasion, Dhamtari City Divisional President Vijay Sahu and Divisional General Secretary Akhilesh Sonkar threw light on the biography of Azad. Akhilesh Sonkar said that Chandrasekhar Azad was born on 23 July 1906 and the martyr was born on 27 February 1931 in Allahabad, Azad always used to say “the enemy’s bullets, we will face, we are free, we will remain free”. He, along with revolutionary companions Bhagat Singh and Ramprasad Bismil, blew the trumpet of revolution in the country, Lala Lajpat Rai’s death was avenged by shooting English bulls in Lahore. Chandrashekhar Azad, together with Mahatma Gandhi, worked for the country’s independence. Mahatma Gandhi’s non-cooperation movement came to an abrupt halt in 1922. This led to a change in Chandrasekhar Azad’s idea and adopt revolutionary ideology. On this occasion, the District Communications Head, Shridutt Upadhyay, Divisional President Vijay Sahu, General Secretary Akhilesh Sonkar, BJYM President Vijay Motwani, Amrit Sahu, Mithilesh Sinha, Hemant Banjare, Avinash Dubey, Chirag Atha, Ajit Sahu, Neil Patel, Vinod Rao, Shivnarayan Chota , Vishnu Sinha, Dhanesh Tiwari, Chandrakala Patel, Rukmani Sonkar, Ajay Meenpal, Ward Councilor Rahi Narayan Yadav, Kailash Sonkar, Kailash Sahu, Abhishek Sharma, Ballu Chhata, Shivam Sahu etc. were present.

  • Chandrashekhar Azad stages dharna after police stop him from meeting Unnao girl who was poisoned

    By PTI
    KANPUR: Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad along with his supporters staged a sit-in here after he was prevented by police from meeting the teenage girl who was poisoned in Unnao on Monday, official sources said.

    Azad was stopped at Ganga Barrage here while he and his supporters were on their way to Survoday Nagar, Kakadev to meet the teenage girl who was poisoned in Unnao and is undergoing treatment at a private hospital.

    Kanpur Range IG, Mohit Agarwal, told PTI over phone that Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar and his supporters were stopped at Ganga Barrage while they were on way to meet the Unnao girl at a private hospital in Kakadev.

    “Azad and his supporters were not allowed to meet the girl as it was not appropriate to to make the hospital overcrowded believing that the mass gatherings may lead the spread of infectious diseases and might be a serious threat to the minor girl,” the IG added.

    Azad and his supporters had staged a sit-in and they later handed over a memorandum to a magistrate, the IG said adding, they then left the city.

    The Bhim Army chief earlier demanded that the girl be shifted to AIIMS in New Delhi and a CBI probe be initiated in the case, said another senior official.

    Interacting with media persons, Azad said the way the administration deployed police to stop him, the same arrangements should be made to stop criminals so that crime rate in state could come down.

    The girl, along with two other minor girls, was given poison in Unnao last week and is undergoing treatment at a hospital here.

    The two other girls had died following the incident and the main accused was arrested.