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  • Kejriwal to lead ‘Tiranga Yatra’ in Haryana’s Adampur ahead of crucial bypoll

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal will lead a ‘Tiranga Yatra’ in Haryana’s Adampur on Thursday and address a rally.

    Kejriwal arrived in Haryana on Wednesday for a two-day visit.

    Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is accompanying him.

    The ‘Tiranga Yatra’ will start from Kranti Chowk in Adampur, Hisar, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said.

    Kejriwal will later address a rally at the Adampur Mandi, the party added.

    The Delhi chief minister’s visit to Hisar assumes significance in the wake of the by-poll to the Adampur assembly seat which was necessitated following the resignation of Kuldeep Bishnoi from the Haryana assembly as an MLA.

    Bishnoi left Congress and joined the BJP.

    The Adampur seat is a stronghold of Bishnoi.

    Besides, panchayat polls are also due in Haryana.

    On Wednesday, Kejriwal launched his party’s ‘Make India No.1’ campaign from Hisar.

    Meanwhile, Haryana BJP Kisan Morcha state vice-president and Sirsa district in-charge Satender Singh, along with his supporters, on Wednesday joined the AAP here in presence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

    After joining the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Singh said he is influenced by the AAP’s ideology and would work for the development of Adampur.

    Originally from village Nayoli Khurd (Hisar), Singh had contested from Adampur seat in 2014 on a Congress ticket.

    Later, he joined the BJP.

    On this occasion, Kejriwal, who is AAP’s national convener, said this time there will be a change in Adampur.

    “The people of Adampur want to get rid of a family here. The people of Adampur also want development in the area,” he said.

    Haryana AAP in-charge and Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Gupta, co-in-charge Dinesh Pratap, senior leaders Anurag Dhanda, Ashok Tanwar and Chitra Sarwara were also present.

    CHANDIGARH: Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal will lead a ‘Tiranga Yatra’ in Haryana’s Adampur on Thursday and address a rally.

    Kejriwal arrived in Haryana on Wednesday for a two-day visit.

    Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is accompanying him.

    The ‘Tiranga Yatra’ will start from Kranti Chowk in Adampur, Hisar, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said.

    Kejriwal will later address a rally at the Adampur Mandi, the party added.

    The Delhi chief minister’s visit to Hisar assumes significance in the wake of the by-poll to the Adampur assembly seat which was necessitated following the resignation of Kuldeep Bishnoi from the Haryana assembly as an MLA.

    Bishnoi left Congress and joined the BJP.

    The Adampur seat is a stronghold of Bishnoi.

    Besides, panchayat polls are also due in Haryana.

    On Wednesday, Kejriwal launched his party’s ‘Make India No.1’ campaign from Hisar.

    Meanwhile, Haryana BJP Kisan Morcha state vice-president and Sirsa district in-charge Satender Singh, along with his supporters, on Wednesday joined the AAP here in presence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

    After joining the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Singh said he is influenced by the AAP’s ideology and would work for the development of Adampur.

    Originally from village Nayoli Khurd (Hisar), Singh had contested from Adampur seat in 2014 on a Congress ticket.

    Later, he joined the BJP.

    On this occasion, Kejriwal, who is AAP’s national convener, said this time there will be a change in Adampur.

    “The people of Adampur want to get rid of a family here. The people of Adampur also want development in the area,” he said.

    Haryana AAP in-charge and Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Gupta, co-in-charge Dinesh Pratap, senior leaders Anurag Dhanda, Ashok Tanwar and Chitra Sarwara were also present.

  • Assembly polls: Kejriwal plays anti-corruption card in Gujarat; seeks a chance for AAP 

    Express News Service

    AHMEDABAD: Fresh after the huge victory in the recently held assembly elections in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is betting big on Gujarat where assembly elections are slated to be held in December this year.

    Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann arrived in Ahmedabad on Friday night on a two-day visit for a roadshow, “Tiranga Yatra.”

    During the day, Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann held a mega roadshow in Eastern Ahmedabad. The 1.5 km long roadshow covered the Nikol and Bapunagar area of Ahmedabad, dominated by Patidar, Hindi-speaking people, and laborers.

    Kejriwal began his speech in Gujarati asking, “Kem Cho?” (how are you) “Majama?” (fine). 

    He said that his aim is to end corruption in the country. He claimed that Delhi is free of corruption and claimed that he has not come to Gujarat to do politics.

    “BJP is ruling Gujarat for 25 years but corruption is still prevalent in the state. I have not come here to defeat BJP or Congress but I came to win Gujarat and Gujaratis. Give the Aam Aadmi Party a chance. These people ruled for 25 years but were not able to do anything. Delhi and Punjab gave us a chance. Give us a chance in Gujarat. If you don’t like it, you can party our party out in the next elections after five years,” he averred.

    Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mane said the question paper leak is common in Gujarat. This has to be stopped. Education is sold here, he claimed.

    He further asked the crowd, “Where does the lotus flower grow?” and replied himself saying, “in swamps, a broom (Zaddo) is used to clean the swamp, so swamps have to be cleaned. The swamp of corruption has to be cleared.”

    Reacting to the AAP roadshow, Cabinet Minister Jitu Waghani said “Gujarat welcomes every guest, But the people of Gujarat always support the BJP. 

    Earlier in the day, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Panjab CM Bhagwant Mann visited the Sabarmati Ashram and took a tour of Hriday Kunj, the place where Mahatma Gandhi used to stay on the Sabarmati Ashram premises, and also visited museums there and bowed down before the statue of Gandhiji. They also spun the customary wheel kept at the Ashram.

    Talking to Media, Kejriwal said, “This is my first visit to Sabarmati Ashram after becoming Delhi chief minister. Earlier, when I was an activist, I had visited this place several times.” “Whenever I come here, I get inner peace,” he said.

    Bhagwant Mann said, “I come from a land of freedom Fighters-Punjab. I got to see a lot here. Gandhi Ji’s letters and the various movements he spearheaded. Charkha is part of every other household in Punjab. My mother and grandmother also use it. I have seen the Charkha being used since my childhood. We are nationalist people and we love the nation. This is my first visit to Gujarat since I became Punjab CM.”

    AAP leaders’ visit to the BJP-ruled Gujarat is being seen as an attempt to prepare the groundwork for their party ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections. This visit is also crucial for the AAP members to assess party strengths and work on faults ahead of the elections. On Sunday, Kejriwal is expected to meet various political and social leaders in the state to discuss key strategies. He is also scheduled to visit the Swaminarayan temple on Sunday.

  • Punjab polls: Kejriwal promises international airport in Jalandhar; Amarinder attacks Channi again

    Express News Service

    CHANDIGARH:  The entire Jalandhar city was painted in the color of patriotism on Wednesday with a tricolour in hands and reverberating slogans of “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”.

    This was the view of the Tiranga Yatra (Tricolor procession) led by AAP’s National Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who is on a two-day visit to Punjab.

    Kejriwal said, “It’s a wonderful tricolor procession. The people of Jalandhar showered us with lots of love. We want to make Punjab prosperous. We want to take the state forward by establishing peace and brotherhood here.”

    He added, “India’s biggest Sports University will be built in Jalandhar when AAP is formed in Punjab in 2022.’’ Kejriwal said the people of Doaba, a stronghold of NRIs, have to go to Delhi, Chandigarh and Amritsar to catch flights.

    “They won’t have to travel far to catch flights after the formation of the AAP government. ‘Aap Ki Sarkar’ will build an international airport in Jalandhar.”

    Two children, who came in the march, gave their piggy bank money to Kejriwal as their contribution to the party fund. 

    Meanwhile, former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday targeted chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi over the alleged posting of the police officers in the state, asking why he did not order a probe into the issue.

    Singh took a dig at Channi’s “alertness and promptness” in ordering a probe into the circumstances leading to the leaking of selective pages of a letter written by a senior police officer to the Director General of Police but hesitated to do the same over the issue of posting of police officers.

    The former chief minister said Channi should have shown the same promptness when one of his ministerial colleagues had allegedly leveled serious charges of corruption in the appointment of the senior superintendents of police and deputy superintendents of police in the state, said a statement issued by the Amarinder Singh-led Punjab Lok Congress.

    A few days ago, a Punjab minister had reportedly leveled allegations of acceptance of money in lieu of posting of district police chiefs.

    The Akali Dal had then also demanded a probe into the accusations.

    Amarinder Singh said he understood the “despair and frustration” of “this government” as it was getting “exposed with every passing day with every fake promise and announcement it made”.

    “You would always ask for just two days of authority to put everyone behind the bars”, he said.

    “What happened now, as you are already there for about three months and have not arrested a single person so far,” he added, apparently referring to Channi.

    Channi on Tuesday had ordered registration of an FIR in connection with the leak of a letter written by a senior police officer who cited some legal hurdles in conducting reinvestigation in some drug cases against a senior Akali leader.

    The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) requested the Election Commission on Wednesday to review the postings and transfers of Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs) and other officers allegedly done with an “ulterior motive” of influencing the upcoming Punjab assembly polls.

    In a representation to the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) here, a two-member SAD delegation of Maheshinder Singh Grewal and Daljit Singh Cheema also urged the panel to appoint a regular director general of police on merit in the state to boost confidence of the people and also deploy central forces at polling booths, according to a party release.

    It called for videography at all polling booths and requested the EC to issue directions to the state government to stop “misleading and bogus advertisements” at the cost of taxpayers’ money.

    The SAD representation said the manner in which transfers were allegedly being done on “monetary concerns”, as reported by a section of the media, had put a big question mark on the conduct of the forthcoming assembly elections in a free and fair manner.

    It said it was strange that in the last three months, the government could not appoint a regular DGP and had purposely appointed an acting DGP to keep senior officers on “tenterhooks and coerce” them into implementing its “political agenda of vendetta” against the SAD and its top leadership.

    The ECI full bench arrived here on Wednesday on a two-day visit to take stock of the preparations for the Punjab assembly polls that are due early next year.

    On the first day of the visit, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and Election Commissioners Rajiv Kumar and Anup Chandra Pandey held separate meetings with political representatives and officials of police and paramilitary forces, according to an official statement.

    (With PTI Inputs)

  • Eye on 2022 polls, AAP plans a Tiranga Yatra in Punjab on December 2 

    Express News Service

    CHANDIGARH:  With assembly elections in Punjab a couple of months away, Aam Aadmi Party is likely to take out a Tiranga Yatra in Pathankot on December 2. Earlier, the party had conducted a similar campaign in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will be leading the yatra. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia will also take part in it.

    The yatra is seen as an attempt to assuage the feelings of the Hindu community of Punjab. Hindu-dominated Pathankot has traditionally been a stronghold of BJP.

    Meanwhile, AAP Punjab co-in-charge and MLA from Delhi, Raghav Chadha, has challenged Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi to provide Scheduled Caste (SC) families with 5-5 Marla plots and to immediately provide financial assistance of Rs 1 crore to all employees, especially who belong to SC, who lost their lives while discharging their duties during the covid pandemic.

    Chadha said that if Channi did not do so, then after winning the 2022 elections in Punjab, Kejriwal would give 5-5 plots to SC families. All those martyred while doing their jobs would be given financial aid of `1 crore.

    Supporting the demands of the employees working under the National Health Mission (NHM), AAP senior leader and Leader of Opposition, Harpal Singh Cheema said that upon the formation of AAP government in Punjab after the assembly elections, the NHM employees would be regularised. 

    Cheema along with the party’s Youth Wing co-president, Anmol Gagan Mann, visited the state-level dharna rally of the NHM employees in Kharar and met the protesters.

    Community health officers, doctors, nurses, clerical and other contractual staff under the NHM participated in the rally. 

  • UP assembly polls: AAP takes out ‘Tiranga Yatra’ in Ayodhya

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: The Aam Admi Party (AAP) seeking to make distinct inroads into the political landscape of Uttar Pradesh in 2022 assembly polls, kick-started a Tiranga Yatra in the temple town of Ayodhya on Tuesday.

    The Yatra was launched by AAP leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia along with the party’s UP in-charge and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh. The two leaders had visited Ram Janmabhoomi and Hanumangarhi temple in Ayodhya on Monday.  

    According to AAP sources, earlier the Yatra, which was planned for Noida and Lucknow only, will now be organised across all districts of UP in the next two months. “AAP’s Tiranga Yatra is getting an overwhelming response everywhere. After Ayodhya, Tiranga Yatra will be taken out in the entire Uttar Pradesh. Yatra will aim to bring in a new politics of development and honesty in the state,” said Sanjay Singh.

    However, making its stand clear on poll strategy, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said that AAP would go it alone in UP assembly elections in 2022. “AAP will field candidates on all 403 seats and there will be no alliance with any other party,” said Sisodia after the conclusion of the Yatra.

    During the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the AAP had contested 77 seats and lost its deposit on 76. The party then contested the 2017 local body elections when it fielded 3,400 candidates. It managed to win 44 seats and finished fifth. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the party failed to open its account and all its candidates lost their deposits. Earlier, there had been reports of AAP holding talks with O.P. Rajbhar’s Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha. Sanjay Singh had also met SP chief Akhilesh Yadav in July, triggering the speculations of a possible alliance.

  • AAP unfurls Tiranga Yatra in UP before next year’s Assembly polls

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW : The  Aam Admi Party (AAP) launched a Tiranga Yatra in Ayodhya on Tuesday, attempting to make distinct inroads into the political landscape of Uttar Pradesh ahead of the 2022 Assembly polls. AAP leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia with party man and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh spearheaded the yatra. On the previous day, the two leaders had visited Ram Janmabhoomi and Hanuman Garhi temples. 

    In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, AAP contested 77 seats and lost its deposit on 76. The party then contested the 2017 local body elections when it fielded 3,400 candidates. It won 44 seats and finished fifth. In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the party failed to open its account and all its candidates lost their deposits. Earlier reports of AAP holding talks with OP Rajbhar Bhagidari on his Sankalp Morcha and Sanjay Singh meeting Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav in July, had triggered speculations of a possible alliance.

    Making its stand clear on the poll strategy, Sisodia said that AAP would go alone into the UP assembly elections. “AAP will field candidates on all 403 seats and there will be no alliance with any other party,” said Sisodia, on the conclusion of Tiranga Yatra. The party is expected to release its first list of 100 candidates by the month end, having already finalised several names.

    The AAP has held Tiranga Yatras in Lucknow, Agra and Noida, and will now travel to all UP districts within the next two months. “The Yatra aims to bring about a new politics of development and honesty in the state,” said Sanjay Singh.

  • Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh among 17 AAP leaders booked for violating Covid protocol

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: An FIR has been registered against 17 people, including Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, for violating Covid protocol while taking out a Tiranga Yatra in Agra on Monday.

    While a case has been lodged under Sections 188, 269, 270 of IPC, the FIR also mentioned 500 unidentified people at Agra’s Lohamandi police station.

    The AAP leaders were accused of gathering more than 50 people during the Tiranga Yatra which was taken out from GIC ground till Shaheed Smarak on Sunday. UP Police had given permission only for 50 people to attend the event but hundreds of people gathered at the rally.

    The Agra district administration had initially denied permission to take out the yatra, but it was later permitted after the route was changed. 

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    In fact, Aam Admi Party (AAP) is going the whole hog to try poll waters in Uttar Pradesh in 2022. The Tiranga Yatra is a part of AAP’s plan to get itself acknowledged in the state and give a fight to the BJP in the upcoming assembly elections. AAP has announced to take out the Tiranga Yatra in Agra and other districts including Ayodhya, state capital Lucknow and Noida to commemorate 75 years of the country’s independence, said the party sources.

    The next Yatra will be taken out in Noida on September 1. Party sources said that this Yatra would culminate in Ayodhya on September 14. According to the information, the Tiranga Yatra will also stop at the Ram temple for some time. “It is an attempt to draw people’s attention towards BJP government’s alleged failures in the areas of law and order, education, healthcare, and employment, “ said a party leader.

    Hundreds of Aam Aadmi Party supporters and leaders had participated in the Tiranga Yatra that was carried out on Sunday after which the Agra Police filed a case against several people including Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh under the Epidemic Act and other sections.

  • Tiranga Yatra: Sisodia, Sanjay Singh among 17 AAP leaders booked by UP police for violating Covid norms

    By PTI

    AGRA: Police have registered a case against 17 AAP leaders, including Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh, for violating Covid protocols during the party’s Tiranga Yatra here.

    The FIR also mentions 500 unidentified persons who were part of the yatra on Sunday from the GIC ground till the Shaheed Smarak in Sanjay Place, police said.

    Permission had been granted to organise the Tiranga Yatra while following COVID-19 protocols with a limit of 50 people, they said.

    But the number of people, who attended the march on Sunday, exceeded the permitted number and COVID-19 protocols were not followed, police said.

    Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) plans to take out Tiranga Yatras in Ayodhya, Lucknow and Noida to mark the 75th year of India’s Independence.

    The AAP party will carry out this yatra in Ayodhya on September 14 and later in 403 assembly segments of Uttar Pradesh, Sisodia had said on Sunday, as he attacked the BJP government in the state over law-and-order, education, healthcare and employment situations.

    Superintendent of Police (City) Vikas Kumar said that the case has been registered against 17 AAP leaders, including Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Rajya Sabha MP, and another 500 unidentified persons.

    They were part of the Tiranga Yatra carried out by the party’s leaders on Sunday evening from GIC ground till Shaheed Smarak in Sanjay Place in Agra, he said.

    “For not following the COVID-19 protocol the FIR was registered at the Lohamandi Police station on Monday morning,” the SP said.

    They have been booked under Indian Penal Code sections 188, 269 and 270, and under provisions the Epidemic Diseases Act for violation of COVID-19 protocols, police said.

    Section 188 pertains to disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant, while 269 and 270 pertain to whoever unlawfully, malignantly or negligently does any act which is, and which he knows or has reason to believe to be, likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life.

     

  • Ahead of UP polls, AAP to take out Tiranga Yatras in Ayodhya, Lucknow, Noida

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Ahead of assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, the AAP will take out a Tiranga Yatras in Ayodhya, Lucknow and Noida to mark the 75th year of India’s Independence, party leaders said.

    In Ayodhya, party sources said the yatra will make a brief halt at the Ram temple.

    The yatra is scheduled for mid-September.

    The AAP will also hold Tiranga Yatras in Agra on Sunday and Noida on September 1, AAP leader Sanjay Singh said.

    Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia will participate in these yatras.

    Party leaders said as the country is marking the 75th year of Independence, the yatra aims to unite people against the politics of casteism and corruption.

    Assembly polls are scheduled to be held in Uttar Pradesh next year.

    The AAP has announced its plan to contest polls in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat.

  • Samyukta Kisan Morcha says BJP’s ‘Tiranga Yatra’ in Haryana plan to instigate, defame farmers

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Sunday appealed to Haryana farmers not to oppose the ‘Tiranga Yatra’ of the state’s BJP unit claiming that it was a “devious plan” to instigate and defame farmers.

    The umbrella body of 40 farmer unions said in a statement that the other programmes of boycott and flag protests against the BJP and the JJP will continue.

    “The proposed ‘Tiranga Yatra’ of the BJP’s Haryana unit is mainly to instigate farmers and defame them.

    SKM urged farmers to see through this devious plan of BJP, and to not let this dirty tactic, under the guise of the national flag, succeed,” it said in the statement.

    The Haryana BJP’s two-week-long ‘Tiranga Yatra’ ahead of the 75th Independence Day began from Bhiwani on Sunday, with party’s state chief O P Dhankar claiming that thousands of farmers also joined the event.

    Dhankar, along with state Agriculture Minister J P Dalal, rode a tractor with tricolour fixed on its both sides during the ‘yatra’, which was taken out on a 30-km-long route from Bahal to Loharu.

    The SKM also said the ‘Kisan Sansad’ will continue at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Monday.

    “The Kisan Sansad, despite the site of the Sansad in Jantar Mantar being flooded with water, is functioning in a disciplined manner, with detailed deliberations.

    In Chhattisgarh, a parallel Kisan Sansad was run by the state Kisan Sabha on Friday, in solidarity with the Kisan Sansad near the Parliament,” it said.

    The Kisan Sansad is part of the latest strategy of the farmers who have been protesting against the Centre’s three contentious farm laws at multiple Delhi borders since November last year.

    The farmers have expressed fear that the new laws will eliminate the Minimum Support Price system and leave them at the mercy of the big corporations.

    Over 10 rounds of talks with the government that has been projecting the laws as major agricultural reforms have failed to break the deadlock between the two parties.

    As part of these Kisan Sansad sessions, 200 farmers from the protest sites participate in a mock Parliament session at Jantar Mantar during which issues concerning the farming community are discussed.