Sheila Dikshit not to contest assembly polls

The Congress sources said Sheila Dikshit has informed the party high command that she has no interest in contesting assembly polls from the New Delhi assembly constituency. Neither will she nor her relatives fight elections from the key seat.

However, she made it clear that if the party high command asks her to campaign for, she will canvass for the party candidates.

The first list of party candidates may include Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee chief Arvinder Singh Lovely and Legislator Party Leader Harun Yushuf among all the eight candidates who won the last assembly polls.

Besides, the party is likely to repose faith in all the candidates who were runner up in the last assembly polls. The first list may feature many senior leaders including former minister Dr Ashok Walia, Subhash Chopra, Mukesh Sharma.

Former West Delhi MP Mahabal Mishra is keen to contest from Dwarka assembly seat, while the party is in favour of fielding either former Union Minister Krishna Tirath or her daughter from Patel Nagar constituency. 

Source: Chhattisgarh Hindi News and MP Hindi News

Don't be misled by AAP: BJP MP to Delhi voters

Addressing a "nukkad sabha" at R K Puram ahead of the Assembly polls, he said Prime Minister Modi has in just six months taken India and put it in a place of "vishwa ka guru" and in the coming four-and-a-half years, the country's fate and future will undergo a sea change under his leadership.

"In the context of elections in Delhi, when the government will be formed here and MPs from here will be elected to Rajya Sabha, then Narendra Modi will have majority in Rajya Sabha as well. Once this happens, there will no hurdle in doing work anywhere.

"Arvind Kejriwal will try to mislead saying this is Vidhan Sabha election... Narendra Modi will run the country and he will run Delhi as well," the MP said.

In a bid to woo the Valmiki voters in the area, he said that this community was the bravest amongst Hindus as they had accepted carrying garbage on their heads but did not change their religion and urged them to support the party.

Source: Chhattisgarh Hindi News and MP Hindi News

Giriraj Singh takes dig at Kejriwal, calls him 'impersonator'

"Kejriwal is someone who wants to play 'Hanuman' in Ramlila but later backs out. He promised free electricity, giving legal status to slums but when he realised that he can not do all that, he went back to 'dharna'. Society is full of impersonators and I warn people not to fall prey to him.

"Someone who had not fulfilled his responsibilities, don't give him a second chance," he said while addressing a rally at Dilshad garden area.

The Minister of state for Micro, Small and Medium enterprises also slammed the Congress for indulging in "appeasement politics" with the minority community to garner votes in the garb of secularism.

Singh, who had stoked a controversy during the run up to the General elections by saying that those who want to stop Narendra Modi from becoming Prime Minister should go to Pakistan, blamed media for misquoting him.

"That was cut and paste job by the media persons, but I am against minority appeasement. Congress exercises so called secular politics, that is actually politics of appeasement," he said.

Denouncing the fire incident at a church in East Delhi, Singh said, "I came to know about the church fire through the media. The incident is condemnable and I believe in 'sarvdharm sambhav'," he said.

Drawing parallels between Swami Vivekananda and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the minister said, "Just like Vivekananda did in Chicago, Modi is bringing India's glory back by speaking at international forums."

Source: Chhattisgarh News in Hindi and MP News in Hindi

AAP to file criminal case against BJP: Kejriwal

“We are filing criminal defamation against BJP," Kejriwal tweeted.

Earlier on Monday, BJP had demanded a probe into AAP's funding, with one of its parliamentarians Ramesh Bidhuri saying that its delegation would complain to the union finance minister.

Kejriwal tweeted, "I have been challenging BJP and cong (Congress) to disclose their list of donors (the way we do). Wud (Would) media give similar coverage to us?"The former chief minister accused the BJP of terrorizing AAP donors.

He further added "For the first time, a political party trying transparent funding n disclosing its list of donors. BJP trying to terrorize our donors. Fair?"

For the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections, the Aam Aadmi Party has been raising funds by hosting lunches and dinners. At Sunday's luncheon in the capital, over Rs 50 lakh was collected.

The AAP's source of funding has been questioned earlier as well with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) also ordering a probe into its funding.

Source: Chhattisgarh News in Hindi and MP News in Hindi

Now Kejriwal to share his 'man ki baat' with people of national capital

Kejriwal's radio segment will play on private FM channels. AAP had made effective use of radio in its campaign when it debuted in the Delhi elections last year, airing messages from Kejriwal.

Fresh elections in Delhi are yet to be announced, but the airwaves have already turned into a political battlefield. 

During the 2013 assembly elections, about 7 FM channels aired AAP’s messages, essentially of 6-7 types, in phases.

The Delhi Assembly earlier this month was dissolved, paving the way for fresh elections that will end the political hibernation since the AAP government fell in February.

A notification issued by the Home Ministry said that President Pranab Mukherjee has dissolved the "Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi with immediate effect" on November 4.

The Union Cabinet had in November first week recommended the dissolution of the Assembly following recommendation of LG Najeeb Jung after talks on Monday with BJP, Congress and AAP which expressed inability to form government and sought fresh mandate.

While the fresh elections may be held early next year.

The Election Commission cancelled the notification for by-election in three assembly constituencies in Delhi following the dissolution of the state assembly.

The Election Commission had on October 25 announced that Mehrauli, Tughlakabad and Krishna Nagar would go to the polls on November 25.

BJP legislators from the three places were elected to the Lok Sabha in May. Delhi has been under President's rule since February 17.

Source: Chhattisgarh Hindi News and MP Hindi News 

HC seeks EC, Kejriwal's response on plea for AAP derecognition

While issuing notice to Kejriwal and six of his party members, Justice Manmohan directed them to file their response within four weeks.
   
It also asked Election Commission of India (ECI) to file a counter affidavit within four weeks.
   
Rejoinder affidavit from the petitioner, if any, be filed before the next date of hearing, it said.
   
The court notice came on a plea filed by Janraajya Party, an unrecognised political party, which sought directions to the ECI to decide the issue of "whether or not AAP has indeed committed fraud and forgery while submitting the mandatory 100 affidavits of founding members to the poll panel at the time of its registration".
   
Advocates Lohitaksha Shukla and Raghav Awasthi, who filed the petition on behalf of Janraajya Party, submitted that the ECI instead of taking any action informed the petitioner that since the matter involves a criminal offence of forgery, it would not initiate any action until the police completes its investigation.

The plea has also sought necessary directions to the SHO of the police station concerned to register an FIR against the accused persons for criminal conspiracy, cheating and using forged documents as genuine ones.
   
It has said that the petitioner party had filed a complaint before poll panel on August 19, 2013 but the ECI has been delaying the matter without giving any plausible reasons.

Congress slams LG for seeking government formation, says polls only way

"It is surprising that the Lt Governor is exploring the possibility (of government formation) when not only Delhi, but the whole country knows that it is not possible in Delhi in the present situation," Congress general secretary Shakeel Ahmed told reporters here.

Ahmed, who is the in-charge of party affairs for Delhi, said that the Lt Governor should be in fact the first person who should know that no party would be able to form the government here at this juncture.

The Delhi Assembly has been in suspended animation after the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government stepped down from office in February this year. The AAP government had the outside support of Congress.

Ahmed alleged that the moves initiated by the Lt Governor were "all delaying tactics".

"This is all delaying tactics. BJP is trying to come to power through the back door with the help of the honourable Lt Governor. BJP is trying to run away from elections," he said.     There is "no other option" but to hold fresh polls in Delhi, he added.

At present, BJP and ally Akali Dal with its lone MLA, account for 29 legislators in the Delhi Assembly. The party will require the support of five more MLAs to prove its majority in a House whose strength stands reduced to 67 MLAs after three BJP legislators won in the Lok Sabha polls from the city. The total strength of the Delhi Assembly is 70.

Bypolls for the three vacant seats are to be held late next month.

At the AICC briefing, too, the Lt Governor came in for criticism with party spokesperson Shobha Oza wondering what Jung had been doing all these months and why he has suddenly invited political parties to explore the possibility of government formation.

Told, meanwhile, that the previous Congress-led UPA government had appointed Jung to the post and asked whether that had been a "misjudgment", Oza said that the party was not questioning his appointment.

Source: MP News in Hindi and Chhattisgarh Hindi News

Do not create conspiracy theories about my exit from AAP says Anjali Damania

Aam Aadmi Party's senior leader Anjali Damania from Maharashtra has quit the party.

"Dear colleagues, with a heavy heart, I am ending my association with AAP," she said in her resignation message to top AAP office bearers here.

"My greatest regards for Arvind (Kejriwal), who is like an elder brother. All I want to request is that please do not have any conspiracy theories over my exit," Damania said.

The AAP state convenor added she had never compromised her values and would never do so.

"I request the media to respect my privacy,"  She further stated in the letter, "All I want to request is that please do not have any conspiracy theories of my exit."

A former crusader against corruption in high places, Damania said she had nothing more to add except that she cared a lot for AAP and expressed her best wishes for it.

Senior AAP leader Mayank Gandhi's office in Mumbai confirmed the developments but declined to comment on the matter.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the AAP had put up candidates in all the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state, but the party was wiped out.

Many of its prominent and high-profile candidates like Damania, Gandhi, Medha Patkar and Vijay Pandhare, among others, lost the elections and Cadre sentiments were low since then.

Now, the AAP is planning to contest the forthcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections due in October this year, office bearers here indicated...

Source: News in Hindi

From DNA News

Gas pricing: Kejriwal govt orders FIR against Moily, Mukesh Ambani

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday attacked Reliance Industries Ltd by citing a complaint lodged by four people to his government against the Mukesh Ambani-led company over gas pricing.

Kejriwal alleged that RIL's rates for gas price is not based on cost of production and that the company has created an artificial shortage of fuel in the country.

The Delhi CM said that Reliance is charging double for the gas from the KG Basin and making windfall gains through dubious means.

He demanded that hike in price of natural gas from April 1 must be kept in abeyance said that if the price of gas increases to $8, there will be a hike in prices of essential commodities as well hurting the common man.

Kejriwal said he has asked the his government's anti-corruption bureau to lodge an FIR against former oil minister Murli Deora, Ambani, oil minister Veerappa Moily and former director general hydrocarbons VK Sibal.

He also said that he will write to the Prime Minister as well as the oil minister regarding the issue.

The AAP leader also accused the Congress and opposition parties maintaining a silence on the issue and taking bribe ahead of the Delhi elections.

Source: Hindi News

From HT News