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  • Bihar CM NItish Kumar writes special birthday wish for PM Modi on whiteboard

    Express News Service

    PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday, amid dissension on some issues between BJP and the JD-U, had a special birthday wish for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

    Kumar first wished PM Modi through his official Twitter handle and later wrote the birthday wish to the prime minister on a whiteboard. The whiteboard was placed near the venue, where the mega vaccination drive was inaugurated by him.

    माननीय प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेन्द्र मोदी जी को जन्मदिन की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं। उनके स्वस्थ एवं दीर्घायु जीवन की कामना करता हूं।@narendramodi Ji
    — Nitish Kumar (@NitishKumar) September 17, 2021
    Nitish Kumar wrote the special birthday wish in Hindi, conveying a message about his emerging political chemistry with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

    “The special mega one-day vaccination with a target of administering jabs to nearly 30 lakh of people on the occasion of the PM’s birthday has been launched. This is how the Bihar is wishing to the PM”, Nitish Kumar told the media.

    Be recalled, the PM Modi in March this year on the birthday of CM Nitish Kumar had also given a special wish through a tweet, describing him( Nitish Kumar) as one of his (PM) friends and Bihar’s hardworking Chief Minister.

    “Nitish Kumar Ji’s persistence ensured Bihar emerged out of the shadows of years of misrule. His people governance has touched the lives of many. I pray for Nitish Ji’s long and healthy life”, the PM had tweeted after mentioning Nitish Kumar as a friend in the same tweet.

    The CM’s birthday wish to the PM on Friday stirred the state politics and interpretations started coming out from political experts amid the growing dissension between the BJP and the JD-U over some issues including the Caste Census.

    “The CM has returned the birthday wish he was given by the PM in March this year in which the PM had described him as a ‘ friend’, by writing a birthday wish to the PM on a whiteboard. Through this act, Nitish Kumar has exhibited growing political bonhomie between him and the PM”, Arun Kumar Pandey, a political expert said.

    Earlier, Nitish Kumar in 2017, when the state was under the governance of the Grand Alliance, during the Prakash Parv, had filled the colour in a white lotus on a white canvas. After which, there was a tremendous flutter in the politics of Bihar and later he switched from the Grand Alliance to be with the BJP.

    The picture showing Nitish Kumar writing a birthday wish to the PM on Friday went viral speculating that Nitish Kumar has given a clear-cut message to the loudmouth leaders of JDU-U, BJP and other allies to shun passing unwarranted statements against each other.

    In recent times, many leaders of both BJP and the JDU had indulged in a tug of war over some petty issues, giving an impression that everything in the NDA was not well. The JDU had expressed its stand contrary to the BJP on the issues of the Caste Census and the new population policy.

    A couple of days ago, the leaders of BJP and JDU were at loggerheads against each other on the issue of illegal infiltrators in Bihar’s Seemanchal areas. Meanwhile, the leaders of BJP and the NDA allies including the LJP and the VIP expressed their birthday wishes in different ways.

    BJP leader Arjun Sahani in Darbhanga celebrated the PM birthday on 71 boats with 71 kg of ladoos and 71 ponds cake in flood-affected Darbhanga district.

    Mukesh Sahni-the VIP chief as an ally of BJP in NDA, offered fodder to71000 fishes in the Ganges on the occasion of PM Modi’s birthday while the LJP served foods to the poor people at the party office.

    The Bihar BJP has started a 20-day long celebration by organising a series of activities across the state. A photo exhibition was put up on the life of the PM from his childhood to the time of becoming the PM. A BJP leader offered worship to the portrait in which Modi was painted as Lord Vishwakarma.

    Meanwhile, till the time of reporting, Bihar has admitted jabs to more than 23 lakh of people in a single and final figure of vaccinated people were collected. In total for the first time, the NDA allies exhibited their unity through a series of activities organised to give birthday wishes to the PM Modi.

  • Bihar scripts golden record on PM Modi’s birthday, vaccinates 30 lakh people against Covid in a single day

    Express News Service

    PATNA: Bihar scripted a golden record yet again with a single-day mega vaccination drive, launched on Friday to mark the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

    The state topped among others in the country with a record vaccination against the Covid-19 done with 30,67,918 persons in a single day.

    Lauding the success of the state health department, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that the people of the state have scripted a golden chapter by making such a record vaccination in a single day.

    “My congratulation is to all, who made it possible on the success of Corona vaccination Maha Abhiyan(mega drive)”, said Nitish Kumar.

    The Additional Chief Secretary of Health Department Pratay Amrit claimed that Bihar has come to the first position in the vaccination campaign among other states on Friday.

    Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had inaugurated the mega drive for the vaccination to motivate the health workers to achieve the set target of vaccinating 30 lakh people in a bid to wish PM Narendra Modi on his birthday.

    But the enthusiasm of health workers and the people’s spontaneous turn up for vaccination exceeded the target. Expressing a special birthday wish, CM Nitish Kumar wrote to wish the PM on a whiteboard after inaugurating the drive.

    Amrit said that the districts with high performances would be thanked by the letter of appreciation and other districts are encouraged to excel in vaccination to make the eligible population of state fully vaccinated.

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  • Bihar: VIP Chief Mukesh Sahani releases 71,000 fishes into the Ganges to mark PM Modi’s 71st birthday

    Express News Service

    PATNA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 71st birthday which was on Friday coincides with the worship day of Lord Vishwakarma and was celebrated a little differently by the chief of  VIP which is BJP’s ally in Bihar.

    Lord Vishwakarma is a deity revered as the master of all technical & mechanical creations.

    Mukesh Sahni, who proudly calls himself the ‘son of mallah’, and the founder of the Vikasheel Insaan Party (VIP) celebrated PM Modi’s birthday by letting 71,000 fish in the water of the river Ganges.

    माननीय प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi जी के 71वें जन्मदिन की अवसर पर पटना स्थित गंगा नदी में 71 हजार मछलियों का गंगा नदी में पुर्नस्थापन किया।@PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/tPp0rhubgx
    — Mukesh Sahani (@sonofmallah) September 17, 2021
    Sahni, who has already declared to fight in the forthcoming UP assembly elections alone was recently not allowed allegedly by the UP government to install the statues of Phoolan Devi.

    He reached the mid-river Ganges by boat with caskets full of fishes. He, along with party leaders and supporters released 71,000 fishes to mark the 71st birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

    “As a fish symbolizes auspicious moment and movement, letting them into their natural aquatic habitations will shower auspicious and adorable time for our Hon’ble PM, to take the country to the pinnacle of prosperity”, Sahni told the media, adding that the fishermen community would continue demanding reservation from the PM.

    Prior to this act of exhibiting honour to the PM Modi, Mukesh Sahni had also gifted a fish made of silver to the PM as an auspicious sign, during an all-party delegation meet on the Caste Census issue.

    In the 2020 assembly elections, when Sahani had parted his way from the RJD-led Mahagatvandhan over a difference of seat-sharing with Tejashwi Yadav, Mukesh Sahni was offered seats from the BJP quota in the last time bringing him in the NDA.

    But apart from all this occasion-based courtesy, it is important to see as to how the VIP goes in the UP assembly elections-either with the BJP or against it.

    Mukesh Sahni has already announced to install 50,000 statues of Phoolan Devi outside the houses of his party supporters ahead of assembly polls in 2022 and distribute nearly 5 lakh lockets carrying the picture of Phoolan Devi amongst the party supporters in order to make a wide caste polarisation in the firshman community.

  • PM Narendra Modi’s 71st birthday: Cake, cut-out, rangoli mark Gujarat BJP celebrations

    By PTI

    AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat BJP on Friday marked the 71st birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with several programmes under its ‘sewa and samarpan’ campaign.

    Gujarat BJP chief CR Paatil unveiled a 71-foot cut-out made of vinyl sheets of the PM in Radhanpur in Mehsana, with one of the organisers, Pintu Patel of Rajdhani Foundation, stating that 171 couples will hold prayers to Lord Ram for the long life of the PM and corona warriors will be felicitated at an event later in the evening.

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    Paatil also inaugurated a 71 feet long rangoli of the PM at a mall in Vadodara, while a 182 meter long cake was prepared and distributed among the poor and persons with disability (PwD) at the same venue.

    માનનીય પ્રધાનમંત્રી શ્રી @narendramodi સાહેબનાં જન્મદિવસ નિમિત્તે એમના વિરાટ વ્યક્તિત્વની ઝાંખી કરાવતા 71 ફૂટના કટઆઉટનું મહેસાણા ખાતે અનાવરણ કર્યું. #HappyBdayModiji pic.twitter.com/KyJQIVygt7
    — C R Paatil (@CRPaatil) September 17, 2021
    He inaugurated an exhibition depicting important events of PM Modi’s life and work at the party headquarters in Gandhinagar, while a similar exhibition was inaugurated at Kankaria lake by BJP Yuva Morcha national president Tejasvi Surya.

    Paatil said the Gujarat BJP will plant 71 lakh trees over the next few days and distribute 71 lakh books to needy students.

  • Rahul Gandhi greets PM Modi on birthday

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday on Friday.

    As Prime Minister Modi turned 71 several dignitaries and politicians greeted him.

    “Happy birthday, Modi ji,” Gandhi tweeted.

    Born in Gujarat in 1950, Modi joined Hindutva organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at an early age and was later drafted into the BJP.