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BJP East Delhi candidate Maheish Girri files papers
Cong to form panels for LS polls
JDU leader Danish joins Congress
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TB diagnostic centre set up
Buddhist philosopher honoured
Manipuri girl found dead in Munirka
Two foreigners molested
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BJP East Delhi candidate Maheish Girri files papers
New Delhi, March 20 Born in Nasik, Maharashtra, Girri was BJP's choice for the Lok Sabha against Congress' three-time MP Sandeep Dikshit and Aam Aadmi Party's Rajmohan Gandhi. Girri, 39, spearheaded a movement for "Clean Delhi" during the Commonwealth Games in 2010. Giving the details of his assets worth Rs 52,16,375, Girri showed Rs 45,860 as cash in hand, deposits of Rs 27,265 in bank accounts, jewellery worth Rs 26,43,250 and paintings and sculptures of Rs 25 lakh. Apart from Girri, 28 other candidates also filed their nomination papers today taking the total to 44. This includes five in Chandni Chowk and four each in Northeast and New Delhi, eight in East Delhi, three each in West and South and one in the Northwest constituency. AAP's Anand Kumar, Khetan file nominations
Social scientist Prof Anand Kumar,64, teacher of JNU and the Aam Aadmi Party bet from North East Delhi constituency against the sitting Congress MP Jai Prakash Agarwal today declared assets owned by him and his wife to the tune of Rs 1.3411770 crore. The cavalcade of his supporters comprised students, teachers, activists and people cutting across sections who joined him at various locations starting from Gokappuri, Ganga Vihar, etc. Another AAP candidate Ashish Khetan, who is faced with a triangular contest in New Delhi constituency from BJP's Meenskshi Lekhi and incumbent Congress MP Ajay Maken, has declared a total assets amounting to Rs 1.1148081crore. Khetan who filed his nomination papers before the Returning officer at Jamnagar House is that he himself owns 17 fixed bank deposits worth Rs 58,91161.53 while his wife Christina Lydia Fernandes has 25 fixed deposits of worth Rs 3,30,94,444.47 in Delhi and Mumbai. The scene at Nand Nagri was marked by a distinct enthusiasm, well spiced by resounding anti-Narendra Modi slogans - "Abhi to Sheila hari hai, ab Modi ki bari hai". "Such is the support for Prof Anand that people have come forward keeping aside their ideologies. Volunteers have been joining him at various locations," said Prof Anand's associate Navneet Anand. |
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Cong to form panels for LS polls
New Delhi, March 20 The decision was taken on the direction of All India Congress Committee general secretary Shakeel Ahmed and DPCC president Arvinder Singh Lovely. "Committed and devoted party workers would be given a place in the new executive committee," said DPCC spokesperson Mukesh Sharma. The new committee will be formed before June 1, he said. Sharma said that along with the reconstitution of the executive committee, new election committees for the assembly and corporation elections would be constituted. "These committees will be entrusted with the responsibility of the Lok Sabha elections," said Sharma. Lovely appealed to the Youth Congress workers to win the support of newly enrolled young voters by making them aware of the policies and programmes of the party and also about the achievements of the former Congress government in Delhi. "The party has sped up its works for the preparation of the Lok Sabha elections," said Lovely after addressing a meeting of the Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress held today. He expressed hope that the Youth Congress workers would work with vigour at the polling-booth levels and would have better results in the Lok Sabha elections. He said the Congress had carried out the development works in Delhi and whenever non-Congress governments came to power in Delhi, the development works had stopped.
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JDU leader Danish joins Congress
New Delhi, March 20 After joining it, Danish said, "I am not new to Congress as since childhood, I have been a Congressman." Welcoming Danish and his supporters who also joined the party, East Delhi MP, Sandeep Dikshit said that Arvind Kejriwal was trying to divide its secular votes across the country just to support BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. "In his recent letter to Modi, Kejriwal had asked around 16 questions pertaining to roads, education, health and development, but he didn't ask any questions on the 2002 Gujarat riots. This suggests that he was trying to divide Congress' secular votes in Delhi and other states," Dikshit said. Dikshit, son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, said that though Kejriwal didn't ask any questions on the riots, the first question from the Congress to Modi is on that issue. "We can talk about development later, but our first question to Modi is on the 2002 Gujarat riots. Kejriwal, who claims to launch a campaign against Modi, is targeting one particular community to secure votes and thereby supporting Modi. Seeing this, I will not get surprised if Kejriwal-led AAP merges with the BJP in the next two to three years," Dikshit said. Arvinder Singh Lovely, president of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC), also said that the party would win all the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national Capital. |
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TB diagnostic centre set up
New Delhi, March 20 The NITRD is the national reference laboratory under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in TB and provides tertiary hospital care for TB patients. It functions primarily towards healthcare and strategy framework in line with the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme that is the state-run TB control initiative of the Indian government. |
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Buddhist philosopher honoured
New Delhi, March 20 Dr Ikeda, born in Tokyo, is a Buddhist philosopher. "In recognition of Dr Ikeda's ceaseless efforts to create a peaceful world by focussing on the dignity of people and thereby encouraging dialogue and mutual respect, the SNSIBM is conferring this professorship," read a release issued by Bharat Soka Gokkai, the Indian affiliate of SGI. — TNS |
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Manipuri girl found dead in Munirka
New Delhi, March 20 The Delhi Police has ruled out murder, saying that they are awaiting the girl's postmortem report to ascertain the exact cause. The deceased has been identified by the police as Aben Sofia. She had arrived in Delhi about a week ago and was staying with her distant relatives, a man named Moses and his sister, in Munirka. They work at a call centre in Gurgaon. Before coming to Delhi, Sofia had asked Moses and his sister to find a job for her. After reaching here last week, she started working for a call centre. At about 7.30 am today, Moses' sister came home after working night shift. She saw Sophia sleeping and went to sleep herself. At about 11.30 am, Moses also came home and saw something seeping out of Sofia's mouth. When he tried to wake her up, blood started oozing out of her nose. He rushed her to a nearby hospital where she was declared brought dead. The police were informed of Sofia's death and they reached the apartment where she was staying. Moses and his sister who were questioned by the police said they were not aware as to what had led to her death. "Sofia's body has been sent to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where an autopsy will be conducted by a panel of doctors. The incident will be probed from all possible angles. It appears to be a case of either suicide or food poisoning, but the exact cause will be ascertained by the postmortem report only," said a police officer.
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Two foreigners molested
New Delhi, March 20 In the first incident, a 24-year-old woman from Mongolia alleged that she was molested by a Customs officer at a post office in central Delhi on Thursday. The victim is a student of DU. The police said that the incident took place when the woman went to the foreign post office at Bahadurshah Zafar Marg. She had gone to check the status of a parcel, which she sent to Mongolia a few days ago. "It is alleged that a customs officer at the post office held her hand and molested her at 5.30 pm," a police officer said. After the incident, the woman approached the IP Estate police station. Her statement was recorded, but the accused was not arrested until late Thursday evening. The police said that are verifying the woman's complaint before filing a case. In the second incident, a 45-year-old American woman alleged that a taxi driver tried to drag her inside the vehicle in south Delhi's Defence Colony. The accused has been arrested. The victim is staying at a rented house at Defence Colony. According to the police, she was acquainted with the accused, identified as 45-year-old Vikram Basoya. He lives with his family at south Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur. In her complaint, the woman alleges that Vikram tried to molest her in his taxi and threatened to kill her. On the basis of her complaint, a case under the IPC has been registered.
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Director of Art of Living Foundation and BJP candidate from East Delhi Maheish Girri today filed his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha elections at SDM office in Geeta Colony.
