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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress nationalist president Mallikarjun Kharge are acceptable to be nationalist meetings successful the metropolis up of voting connected February 5. (Source: PTI)
The run for the Delhi Assembly elections is heating up arsenic salient leaders code rallies successful the nationalist capital. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress nationalist president Mallikarjun Kharge are acceptable to be nationalist meetings successful the metropolis up of voting connected February 5.
Starting Wednesday, Modi is scheduled to clasp a bid of rallies crossed the metropolis till February 2. On Wednesday, the PM is visiting the Ghonda Assembly seat, located successful North East Delhi and 1 of the 8 seats the BJP had won successful the 2020 polls (the AAP had won the remaining 62 seats that year). The BJP won the Delhi polls for the lone clip successful 1993, erstwhile Delhi’s Legislative Assembly was established, and seeking a 2nd word aft 27 years.
Modi has truthful acold held 2 rallies successful Delhi, with leaders including Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, and Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav besides addressing nationalist meetings recently.
The Congress’s Kharge is acceptable to code a rally successful the Burari Assembly seat, which has been won by the ruling AAP successful each of the past 3 elections. In fact, since the spot was created aft delimitation successful 2008, the Congress hasn’t won successful Burari. Kharge’s rally comes a time aft Lok Sabha Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi addressed a rally successful East Delhi’s Patparganj, wherever helium attacked the AAP implicit corruption and the BJP for “spreading hatred and violence”.
Meanwhile, AAP nationalist convener and ex-CM Arvind Kejriwal has been fixed till 8pm connected Wednesday to supply factual grounds to the Election Commission for his assertion that neighbouring Haryana is poisoning the Yamuna river. In a missive to Kejriwal, the EC sought accusation connected the quality and grade of the chemicals utilized for “poisoning” the Yamuna. Both the BJP and Congress had complained to the canvass sheet against Kejriwal for levelling the allegations. Separately, Delhi CM Atishi had alleged that rising ammonia levels successful the h2o supplied to Delhi by Haryana could earnestly impact h2o proviso to the nationalist capital.
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R G Kar lawsuit successful SC
Last week, the Supreme Court had deferred to January 29 the proceeding connected the suo-motu lawsuit implicit the rape and execution of a trainee doc astatine state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital successful Kolkata. On January 20, a Kolkata proceedings tribunal awarded convict Sanjay Roy “life word imprisonment till death” successful the case.
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The suo-motu (on its own) plea was acceptable to beryllium heard by the apical tribunal for the archetypal clip aft the sentencing successful the doctor’s rape and execution which took spot connected August 9 past year. The incidental had triggered nationwide outrage and prolonged protests successful West Bengal.
– With PTI inputs
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