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Amit Shah to hold a roadshow in Kolkata today, even as his party’s run-ins with the West Bengal CM continue. After the tiff over Amit Shah’s chopper being refused permission to land, BJP alleges Yogi Adityanath has been denied clearance to hold a rally in the state.
The BJP on Monday hit out at the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, alleging the chief minister has replaced democracy with her "dictatorship" after the state administration denied permission to a rally by its president Amit Shah.
Shah was scheduled to hold a rally in Jadhavpur Monday but the state administration denied permission for it last night and also withdrew its nod to the landing of Shah's chopper in the constituency.
"This is murder of democracy. The EC should take cognizance of the matter. If important leaders are not allowed to hold rallies then what is the meaning of elections," Javadekar said.
He said the West Bengal administration has been denying permission to Shah's poll programmes and events of other important BJP leaders.
KCR’s federal front talks remain inconclusive due to DMK's 'strong alliance with Congress'
Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao, who is trying to beat all odds and bring together a federal front, has been dealt a blow as his meeting with DMK chief MK Stalin remained inconclusive due to latter's "alliance with Congress". Sources said that in fact DMK asked KCR to "consider joining the Congress front to fight the BJP". The Telangana Rashtra Samithi supremo had stepped up efforts to forge a non-Congress, non-BJP federal front of regional parties and recently met his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan in Thiruvananthapuram. He had also met Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy.
Kamal Haasan's ‘Nathuram Godse a terrorist' remark draws flak from BJP leaders
Makkal Needhi Maiyam Kamal Haasan has stoked controversy for saying that India’s first “extremist was a Hindu” — Nathuram Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi. The comments drew sharp reactions from the state BJP, which slammed him for indulging in "divisive politics". "The intention of Kamal Haasan is to create religious unrest in society and create communal tension in the Constituency and all over the state," the party said. The BJP also filed a complaint with the EC against Haasan for his remarks.
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Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati has kicked up a storm over her comments made in response to the prime minister's remarks over the Alwar rape incident. Accusing Modi of “dirty” politics she said that the PM doesn’t have any right to speak about the rape of a Dalit woman.
“What will he know about respecting women when he left his own wife for politics,” she said. The former CM’s comments drew the ire of several BJP leaders including Arun Jaitley and Nirmala Sitharaman, who called the attack a low-blow.
Meanwhile, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP continuing their attack on the Congress over Sam Pitroda's remarks on the 1984 riots, party chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the leader should be ashamed of himself and seek apology from the country. Tearing into Congress leader Sam Pitroda's "hua to hua" (whatever happened, happened) remark on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday said people are now saying "enough is enough" in response.
In West Bengal, the spotlight will be on the ongoing tussle between Trinamool Congress and BJP over a morphed picture of CM Mamata Banerjee tomorrow as the Supreme Court will hear the plea of BJP youth wing leader Priyanka Sharma against her arrest in the matter.