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LIVE! BJP should win all polls for 50 yrs: Amit Shah to party workers

09:08  BJP should win all polls for 50 yrs: Amit Shah to party workers:  

To make India a global leader, the Bharatiya Janata Party needs to serve the nation for a longer time and party workers should work hard to win all elections from panchayat to Lok Sabha for the next 50 years, its chief Amit Shah said on Sunday.

Shah urged the party cadre to not rest till it emerges victorious in states like Kerala, West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu.

The BJP chief also elaborated on the measures taken by the government to empower women. In the Indian culture and society, women have a high stature equivalent to goddesses, he said. 

His comments come at a time when there has been wide-spread outrage over Kathua and Unnao rape cases which have again brought the issue of safety of women to the centre stage.           

Addressing the concluding session of the party’s ‘Mahila Morcha’ national executive meeting here, Shah said the top priority of the BJP government was to ensure security on borders and handling terrorism strictly by adopting a zero tolerance policy. 

“We have not entered politics for electoral success; we have joined it to make India great again and to ensure food, education and health facilities to the poor in the country,” Shah said according to a party statement.

He said the BJP wants to make India, developed, secure and a country that influences the world.

“And to make India a global leader the party needs to serve the country for a longer time. Therefore, party workers should unitedly work hard to win all the elections from panchayat to Lok Sabha for next fifty years,” he said.

He told party workers that they should not sit idle till the BJP does not win in Kerala, West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu.

Speaking on issues related to women, Shah cited various steps and measures taken by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government to empower them.

“We hail from a culture where women have been give the place of a goddess. They were given priority and have very high stature,” he said. 

08:49  Shiv Sena leader Sachin Sawant shot dead in Mumbai:  

Shiv Sena leader Sachin Sawant was shot dead on Sunday nigth allegedly by two motorbike-borne assailants in suburban Kandivali in Mumbai, police said.

Udaykumar Rajeshirke, senior police inspector at the Kurar police station, said the incident happened around 8 pm when the 40-year-old leader was travelling in his car.

The two unidentified assailants stopped his vehicle and fired four rounds at Sawant, an up-shakha pramukh (deputy branch head of Shiv Sena), in Gokul Nagar area, a police official said.

Sawant was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead, he said

Rajeshirke said the police were in the process of filing a case and investigations are underway. Senior police officers refused to divulge details. 

The Kurar Police are investigating the matter. — PTI  

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08:42  AIADMK to join hands with BJP? Signs are visible, says TN ruling party :  

In politically significant remarks, the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has said that signs of its working together with Bharatiya Janata Party like a “double-barrelled gun” in the political arena were visible and “no one can sever ties” between the two parties.

Coming out strongly against the principal opposition Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led persistent protests over the Cauvery imbroglio, the AIADMK said “whatever be the number of protests and  demonstrations, no one can sever the ties between the AIADMK and the BJP.”

No one can weaken the bond between “the Central and the State governments” either, the AIADMK said in its Tamil mouthpiece “Namadhu Puratchi Thalaivi Amma.”

The state’s ruling party said the protests by the DMK, its allies and friendly parties on the Cauvery issue were only aimed at spoiling the warmth between it and the BJP.

“The signs are (increasingly) becoming visible for the AIADMK and the BJP to work like a double-barrelled gun in Indian politics. The pathway is clear,” the daily said, while emphasising upon the need for the leadership of the two parties to chart out a roadmap for the purpose.

“A roadmap for it should be thrashed out by the high commands of both the parties. That is the need of the hour,” the AIADMK mouthpiece added.

“The state and the Central regimes led by the AIADMK and the BJP respectively are working responsibly and are headed towards a final resolution of the issue,” the daily said, referring to the Cauvery issue.

Under such circumstances, the AIADMK said, the main opposition DMK was holding “unnecessary protests” as it was “apprehensive” that the State and the Central governments, working in cohesion, would succeed in resolving the Cauvery issue. — PTI

Source: Rediff