Cong foiled Centre's bid to topple Rajasthan govt with money: Shiv Sena

ent tried to pull down the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan by buying MLAs but the Congress party foiled its conspiracy, said the Shiv Sena on Monday "The Central government's pressure and money were used in attempts to topple the Gehlot government. However, Congress has destroyed it. Now BJP says that Rajasthan government tapped phones in an unethical manner. The Central Home Department will now investigate this phone tapping case and we have also read the news of getting such an order. This is correct too," the party said in its mouthpiece Saamna.

The Sena governs Maharashtra along with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party and it hardly has a presence in Rajasthan.
"It is a crime to listen not only to political leaders' conversation secretly but of any other individual as well. This is an attack on personal freedom. In such a situation, the Union Home Department will be investigating in this context, so what's wrong in this? The only question is that the Gehlot government must have heard this conversation, so did any situation of any such emergency created in this country or state?" Shiv Sena added.
The party added that there was an attempt to bring down the majority government in Rajasthan and for this, the sale of MLAs at high prices had also started.
"The reason behind Sachin Pilot's revolt was more that of money than morality. It is a revolt against the people and democracy. This is corruption. The Gehlot government has registered a case against a BJP leader and Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat based on the evidence," said Shiv Sena.
"Shekhawat has cases and allegations of serious crimes against him but BJP is not ready to speak anything about it. As immoral as it is to listen to phone conversations and keep a track, the criminal nature of buying laws to topple the government is equally immoral," the mouthpiece further read.
In Rajasthan, the Pilot vs Gehlot dispute remained the same, but despite this, the government did not fall from the contradiction, rather Gehlot reversed BJP's stance, said Shiv Sena.

"Phone tapping is not a small matter and it is not only happening in Rajasthan. The state's phone tapping has led to the unravelling of many things, but if someone secretly listens to the conversation held between Congress leaders and sends it to Rahul Gandhi then there would be many sensational disclosures," the mouthpiece read.

Elect govt that listens to students: Priyanka at Jharkhand

Jharkhand Election News
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday hit out at the BJP over police action at university campuses and urged voters of Jharkhand to elect a government that will listen to students.
Claiming that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise has failed in Assam, she said the government has now brought the amended Citizenship Act which is facing the ire of students.
"Students have hit the roads in the country and are facing police batons," she said while addressing a poll rally here.
The Congress general secretary also appealed to voters to elect a government that will "listen to students, waive farm loans, provide security to women and protect your (tribal) culture and tradition."
She alleged that the Jharkhand government is creating a land bank to give it to the rich.
Mentioning that the Congress has always protected tribal culture and tradition, Priyanka Gandhi said, women are being assaulted in the country.
The fifth and the final phase of assembly polls in Jharkhand will be held on December 20.

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Jharkhand Assembly election: Exit polls predict Congress-JMM defeating BJP

Jharkhand Election News
The five stage surveying for the 81-seat Jharkhand Assembly finished up on Friday evening with leave surveys showing a hung get together. Leave surveys anticipated the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)- drove union in the number one spot, and officeholder Raghubar Das-drove Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prone to miss the mark regarding the greater part mark.
The fifth and last period of surveying in 16 get together voting public of Jharkhand went off calmly, Election Commission authorities said in Ranchi. An expected 70.83 percent of the absolute 40.05 lakh voters practiced their establishment till 5 pm when the surveying finished, they said.
As per the India Today-Axis leave survey, the BJP was on course to win 22 to 32 seats in the Jharkhand Assembly. It said the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) collusion could win 38 to 50-seats, while the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) liable to win 2 to 4-situates, All Jharkhand Students Union 3 to 5-seats and others 4 to 7 seats. The leave survey said the JMM-drove coalition could corner 37 percent of the votes to the BJP's 34 percent.

diagram The Times Now leave survey said the JMM-drove collusion could win 44-seats and the BJP 28. The IANS-CVoter-ABP leave survey anticipated 31 to 39-seats for the JMM-drove partnership and 28 to 36-seats for the BJP. As the leave surveys streamed in, AJSU's Sudesh Mahato said his gathering was not shut to working with the BJP in future. The AJSU had gone separate ways with the BJP in the approach the surveys. It had won 5-situates in the 2014 Assembly surveys. BJP competitor and Jharkhand Agriculture Minister Randhir Singh is looking for re-appointment from Sarath voting public, while another saffron party chosen one and Women and Child Development Minister Louis Marandi is set in opposition to JMM working president Hemant Soren in Dumka....Read More