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Tag: Lok Sabha elections 2019

Over 1.5 Lakh[1.12% Of Votes] Punjabis Pressed “NOTA”

[Chd,Pb]Over 1.5 Lakh Punjabis Pressed “NOTA”
1,54,423 voters (1.12 per cent of total votes polled) pressed the NOTA option,
Among 13 Lok Sabha seats, it was Faridkot constituency where maximum number of voters rejected the candidates. A total of 19,246 voters in Faridkot went for NOTA, as per EC data available.
In Anandpur Sahib, 17,135 voters opted for NOTA option, while in Ferozepur the figure was 14,891.
On almost all the constituencies in Punjab, NOTA occupied the fifth spot, as per data available.
A total of 13,323 voters opted for NOTA in Bathinda,
followed by 13,045 in Fatehgarh Sahib,
12,868 in Hoshiarpur,
12,324 in Jalandhar,
11,110 in Patiala,
10,538 in Ludhiana,
9,560 in Gurdaspur,
8,763 in Amritsar,
6,490 in Sangrur and
5,130 in Khadoor Sahib.
Interestingly, the percentage of NOTA votes was more than the vote percentage of some political parties like CPI and CPM in the state, the EC said.

Ex BJPian President Dr MM Joshi Also Axed

[New Delhi] Ex BJPian President MM Joshi Also Axed
Joshi’s office confirmed the development. It said Joshi has issued a brief statement for voters in Kanpur, from where the 85-year-old leader had won in 2014.
Founding member and longest serving chief L K Advani,also not given Ticket in the polls.
The BJP has also not given tickets to likes of
B C Khanduri,
Kariya Munda,
Kalraj Mishra,
Bijoya Chakravarty – all many term MPs and over 80 years of age – besides Advani (91).
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AAP Releases 3 Candidates In First List For UP:LS Polls

[Lucknow,UP] AAP Releases 3 Candidates In First List For UP:LS Polls
The Aam Aadmi Party released its first list of candidates in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections.
As per AAP state in-charge Sanjay Singh his party has fielded
Yogesh Dahiya from the Saharanpur parliamentary seat and
Shweta Sharma from Gautam Buddh Nagar.
Satish Chandra Sharma is from Aligarh
The party is likely to contest the polls from 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
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BSP Supremo Mayawati Not to Contest LS Polls

[Lucknow,UP]BSP Supremo Mayawati Not to Contest LS Polls
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati Wednesday announced that she will not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls,
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said “In view of the present circumstances and the need of the country and the interests of the party, the movement and the public, it is the need of the hour that I do not contest the Lok Sabha polls. And this is the reason that I have decided not to contest the Lok Sabha polls,”
She said to her supportes “When I became UP Chief Minister first time in 1995, I was not a member of either UP assembly or council. Similarly is the provision at the Centre where a person have to be a Loksabha/Rajya Sabha member within six months of holding office of minister/prime minister. Don’t get disheartened from my decision of not to contest LS poll now,” she clarified in her tweet.
The BSP, Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal have entered into an alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the April-May Lok Sabha polls.
The Congress is not part of this pact, but the alliance has said it will not field candidates in Amethi and Raebareli, the two seats that are now with Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi respectively.
The Congress, in turn, said it will leave seven UP seats for the SP-BSP-RLD alliance, an offer that was spurned by Mayawati.

Owaisi Has No Vehicle But Possess 2 Firearms & Assets @Rs 13 crore

[Hyderabad]AIMIM Prez Owaisi Has Assets Worth Rs 13 crore
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi, who has filed his nomination for Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency, has declared assets worth more than Rs 13 crore.
His immovable assets are worth over Rs 12 crore and movable assets are over Rs 1.67 crore, according to the affidavit submitted by him while filing the nomination on Monday.
He owns no motor vehicle, but has one NP bore .22 pistol worth Rs 1 lakh and one NP bore 30-60 rifle worth Rs 1 lakh.
The grand total of his liabilities is Rs 9.30 crore.
He has Rs 2 lakh cash in hand. His income during
2017-18 was Rs 10,01,080.
It was Rs 13,33,250 during 2016-17.
There are five criminal cases pending against him. He was not convicted for any criminal offence.
Owaisi is seeking a fourth straight term in the lower house of Parliament, from Hyderabad constituency