The Pune police have moved an application before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) seeking extension for 14 days the remand of a 17-year-old boy allegedly involved in a car crash which claimed two lives, an official said on Wednesday. Pune accident case: Remand to end on Wednesday The remand of the juvenile, who is lodged at an observation home in Pune, ends on Wednesday. "We have moved an application before the JJB seeking the extension of his remand at the observation home for another 14 days," a Pune crime branch official said. A hearing is scheduled on Wednesday before the JJB on the Pune police's plea. Two IT professionals were killed in the early hours of May 19 in Kalyani Nagar of Maharashtra's Pune city after a Porsche allegedly driven by the juvenile rammed into their two-wheeler. The police claim the juvenile was under the influence of alcohol at that time. Pune accident case: JJB had granted bail to the teenager The JJB had granted bail to the teenager, son of a real estate developer, a few hours after the incident and asked him to write a 300-word essay on road safety. Following severe criticism, the police again approached the JJB, which modified the order and sent the accused juvenile to the observation home till June 5. The police have already arrested the juvenile's father, mother, two doctors and another staffer of the state-run Sassoon General Hospital for the alleged swapping of blood samples of the juvenile with those of his mother. Pune accident case: Juvenile's grandfather arrested The juvenile's grandfather has also been arrested in a case pertaining to the incident. The police on Tuesday arrested two more persons for allegedly acting as middlemen and facilitating financial transactions between the accused doctors and the juvenile's father. (With inputs from PTI)
05 June,2024 12:19 PM IST | Pune | mid-day online correspondentAfter scoring a zilch in the Lok Sabha polls, Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Wednesday said that despite the party gave it a "proper representation" in elections, the Muslim community is not able to understand the BSP. Going forward, the party will give the community an electoral opportunity only after a lot of thought, she said. The BSP had failed to open its account in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as well. It, however, bagged 10 seats in the 2019 one, which it had fought in alliance with the Samajwadi Party. Mayawati in a statement said that her party will do a "deep analysis" of the trouncing and will take whatever steps that are necessary in the interest of the party.She expressed her gratitude to the Dalit community, especially the Jatavs, for supporting the party, but also expressed her displeasure towards the Muslims. "The Muslim community, which is an important part of the Bahujan Samaj Party, is not able to understand the BSP properly despite being given proper representation in the past elections and this time also in the Lok Sabha general elections. "So, in such a situation, the party will give them a chance in the elections after a lot of thought so that the party does not suffer a huge loss in the future like this time," Mayawati said. The BSP had fielded 35 Muslim candidates, the maximum, in the latest general election. She said since the results are out, it is up to the future leaders of the country to think about the country's democracy, its interests, and the Constitution. Mayawati also raised her objection to the election being conducted in extreme heat and argued against the long-drawn election process which may become exhausting to the common people as well as the lakhs of government employees deployed on election duty. The election should be held in three or four phases at the most, she added. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
05 June,2024 11:55 AM IST | Lucknow | PTIThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday won four Lok Sabha seats, one of which was wrested from the Congress, and maintained an impressive lead in six other constituencies in Chhattisgarh, as per the latest trends. The Congress is ahead in just one seat, Korba, where its sitting MP Jyotsna Mahant, wife of Leader of Opposition in the assembly Charandas Mahant, is in the lead against BJP’s influential woman leader Saroj Pandey. Chhattisgarh has 11 Lok Sabha seats. In Durg, BJP’s sitting MP Vijay Baghel posted victory by defeating his nearest rival Rajendra Sahu of Congress by a significant margin of 4,38,226 votes. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
05 June,2024 09:10 AM IST | Raipur | AgenciesThe 48-year-old RJD candidate Misa Bharti has finally defeated her party’s rebel and BJP’s sitting MP Ram Kripal Yadav, who she addresses as ‘chacha’, from Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency in Patna. She had been eyeing for this seat since 2014 and finally managed to dethrone him with a margin of around 70,000 votes. Yadav, once a close confidant of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, had joined the BJP after getting carried away with Narendra Modi’s wave in 2014. He managed to register two consecutive wins in LS polls from the seat but failed to convert it into a hat-trick win this time as there was clear anti-incumbency in the constituency.Though Yadav claims to be in constant touch with his party workers and address every public grievance, local sources in the constituency told mid-day that his last term was ridiculous as ‘voters were really unhappy because of the alarmingly high use of drugs among youngsters in his constituency,’ said a source. Exuding confidence during an interview with mid-day at his ancestral home in Patna, Yadav had said, “My opponent has not done anything for the people. I am a sevak and she is a shaashak; she is rich and I am a ‘fakir’. This is the fight. We’re confident in securing a substantial majority in this election. The support for BJP is strong across the state, thanks to the widespread influence of leaders like Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar.” The aggressive rallies of Bharti’s younger brother and former deputy chief minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav did wonders this time to decimate the sitting MP. The young crowd has voted for the RJD, whose leaders lured people by promising job opportunities if voted to power. The residents of Paliganj in Pataliputra constituency told mid-day that they have never seen ‘Ram Kripal Yadav’ in their constituency. “The drainage system in our village has been in a bad shape for decades. There is no hospital close to Noorchak Village. The nearest hospital from our village is 20 km away in Paliganj… one can imagine how difficult it is for us to take an ailing person or a pregnant woman to the hospital when the road is bad. Why is the central government not doing anything for our village?” wondered a 54-year-old labourer Sudarshan Ram at Noorchak Village. The drug lords in Bihar have been pushing narcotic substances, but the authorities concerned have miserably failed to control the drug menace in the state. The drug addicts have created a lot of terror in the rural hamlets. In a bid to purchase drug packets, the addicts have been stealing jewellery, cash and ration from their homes. The feminists in the constituency are happy to see RJD candidate Bharti. “I am happy that now a female has become an MP in this constituency. At least this MP will understand what kind of pain females are facing in this area,” said Sanju Sinha, a resident of the constituency. Another feminist Prabha Devi said, “If the drug menace is not controlled in time, the future of Bihar – which has produced many stalwarts across the field, will be ruined badly. There is a rising number of unemployed youth in the state. We are happy to learn that people have voted for the party which has promised to guarantee jobs for the youth.” Another feminist advocate Annapurna Sharma said, “The women are facing a lot of difficulties as there is no proper hospital in their village, the roads are bad in shape, pregnant women have to face major inconvenience and many issues are there. But I hope this female MP Misa Bharti will address the core issues of females to resolve it.” Patna Sahib seat The sitting MP from BJP Ravi Shankar Prasad has managed to retain his Patna Sahib seat. The Congress candidate Dr Anshul Avijit could not woo voters in the area as this seat is considered a stronghold of the BJP. Though Avijit had told mid-day that there is resentment towards Prasad in the constituency, yet BJP managed to secure the seat. The constituency is facing extreme economic distress, with issues in electricity, water, infrastructure, health, and education, said Avijit, who is the grandson of freedom fighter Babu Jagjeevan Ram. Patna SahibBJP leader RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD: 5,88,270 votesCongress leader ANSHUL AVIJIT: 4,34,424 votes 70,000The approx. margin of votes Bharti won by
05 June,2024 08:33 AM IST | Pataliputra/Patna Sahib | Diwakar SharmaThe Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was heading towards majority in the Odisha Assembly election as it won 51 seats and was leading in 27 other constituencies in the 147-member Odisha Assembly on Tuesday, according to the Election Commission of India. The Biju Janata Dal which has been in power in Odisha since 2000 has won 38 seats and was leading in 13 other constituencies, it said. BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik, who has been in power in Odisha since 2000 Odisha Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik retained the Hinjili Assembly seat by defeating BJP’s Sisir Kumar Mishra by 4,636 votes, according to the Election Commission of India. Patnaik got 66,459 votes while Mishra received 61,823 votes, it said. Congress candidate Rajani Kanta Padhi came third with 5,380 votes. BJP candidate from the Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency, Aparajita Sarangi, on the campaign trail. Pic/X The Congress won nine seats and was ahead in five Assembly segments. Independent candidates won in three assembly segments. They were Himansu Sekhar Sahu (Dharmasala), Bijay Kumar Dalbehera (Baramba) and Sarada Prasad Pradhan (Mahanga). BJP candidate Prithviraj Hairchandran won the Chilika Assembly constituency defeating his nearest BJD rival Raghunath Sahu by 4,566 votes while saffron party candidate Ashwini Kumar Sarangi won the Bargarh Assembly seat by defeating his nearest rival Debesh Acharya of BJD by 4,772 votes.BJP’s Durga Prasad Tanti won the Raghunathpalli assembly segment by a margin of 5,774 votes defeating his nearest rival Archanarekha Behera of BJD.The saffron party’s Tankadhar Tripathy won the Jharsuguda assembly segment by defeating his nearest rival Depali Das of BJD by 1,333 votes. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
05 June,2024 08:31 AM IST | Bhubaneswar | AgenciesThe poll results in National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi appear to buck the national trend as BJP has done exceptionally well in this region. The Delhi seats were seen as a cut-throat electoral fight between BJP’s Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance and AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal led India bloc. But the broom-in-hand camaraderie did not work well for the AAP in the NCT Delhi, as the voters preferred to choose BJP candidates in the Lok Sabha elections, unlike their choice for MLAs in the Assembly polls. Delhi’s jailed chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was out on bail to campaign for INDIA bloc, failed miserably to lure voters with his freebies offers. BJP’s newbie Bansuri Swaraj, the daughter of the late Union minister Sushma Swaraj, won the New Delhi seat. Swaraj was pitted against AAP leader Somnath Bharti, who had vowed to get his head shaved if Narendra Modi retains prime ministerial post for the third time. The voters are facing open nullah, mosquito menace, parking issue, etc. No political party has secured consecutive wins in the LS polls for the New Delhi constituency. Taking no risk of losing, the BJP had to sideline its Parliamentarian Meenakshi Lekhi to field a newbie Bansuri Swaraj, who has 15 years of experience in the legal profession. Bansuri—the youngest BJP candidate in Delhi— joined BJP’s student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) as a worker nearly 25 years ago. After her undergraduate studies in English Literature at the University of Warwick, the 41-year-old Swaraj pursued Law at the esteemed BPP Law School in London. Continuing her academic journey, she attained a Master of Studies from St Catherine’s College at the University of Oxford. However, after BJP emerged as the largest party in the Lok Sabha elections, the workers from saffron brigade were seen mocking Bharti by pretending to run a razor on a bald man on Delhi roads on Tuesday evening. The Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar failed to dethrone BJP’s sitting parliamentarian from North East Delhi Manoj Tiwari who registered his win in this poll with a decent margin of over 1,20 lakh votes. In 2019, Kumar—a former JNU Students Union president known for his electrifying speech, had faced electoral drubbing with a margin of more than four lakh votes in the last general elections when contested on CPI(M) ticket from Begusarai seat in Bihar. BJP’s Ramvir Singh Bidhuri won South Delhi seat with a decent margin of more than 1.20 lakh. His closest rival is Sahi Ram from AAP. The voters in rural and semi-urban villages of North West Delhi have chosen BJP’s Yogender Chandoliya over Congress’s Udit Raj. The constituency has been reeling under several issues of illegal construction, encroachment, lack of sewage and drainage system, influx of migrants, etc. ‘Modi wave is over’ Though the BJP had been exuding confidence to win over 400 Lok Sabha seats, it could not even cross 250 seats. The voters in Delhi believe that the BJP-led NDA will now have to largely bank on its allies. “Despite BJP sweeping Delhi, on the national front, it seems that the Modi wave is finally over after a decade. BJP will now have to rely on their allies in NDA to remain in power, in case they do manage to form the new government. It is likely that Modi will be a weakened PM in his third term,” said Akshay Kapoor from Safdarjung Enclave of South Delhi. 07No of seats in NCT Delhi
05 June,2024 08:20 AM IST | Delhi | Diwakar SharmaThe ruling BJP seems heading for a sweeping victory in Madhya Pradesh, having clinched 19 of 29 Lok Sabha seats so far with Union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, Faggan Singh Kulaste, and Virendra Kumar emerging victorious. The BJP is leading in 10 other seats with a margin of its candidates ranging from 63,000 to 8.21 lakh, as per the Election Commission of India website. Notably, the BJP has managed to breach the long-standing Congress citadel Chhindwara, which it failed to capture in the 2019 elections when it had won 28 seats. If BJP manages to win all 29 seats, it will become the first political party to achieve such a feat after 40 years in Madhya Pradesh. NOTA creates record BJP’s sitting MP from Indore Shankar Lalwani won a record margin of 11,75,092 votes in a contest where NOTA created a record with 2.18 lakh voters opting for NOTA option. Madhya Pradesh 29 BJP 29 This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
05 June,2024 08:20 AM IST | Bhopal | AgenciesThe opposition INDIA bloc secured 11 out of 25 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan with the Congress clinching eight, marking a remarkable turnaround for the party which had failed to secure a single seat in the state in the last two parliamentary polls. ' The ruling BJP won 14 seats in the state, 10 less than its 2019 tally. Of the Lok Sabha poll winners in the state, five are sitting MLAs with three of the Congress, and one each of the BAP and RLP.votes. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
05 June,2024 08:20 AM IST | Jaipur | AgenciesThe Lok Sabha election results in Kashmir have sprung a few surprises as former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti were humbled at the hustings by lesser-known candidates. While Mufti lost to Gujjar leader and National Conference candidate Mian Altaf Ahmad by a huge margin in the Anantnag-Rajouri seat, Abdullah was defeated by former MLA and terror financing accused Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid in Baramulla. “I am thankful to people who not only supported our campaign but showered their love and converted it into votes as well. Winning or losing doesn’t matter much to us. What matters to me is the love we got from the people,” Abrar told reporters after his father took a substantial lead. Abdullah conceded defeat and congratulated Rashid on his victory. “I think it’s time to accept the inevitable. Congratulations to Engineer Rashid for his victory in North Kashmir,” Abdullah said in a post on ‘X’. He said voters have spoken and in a democracy, that is all that matters. “I don’t believe his victory will hasten his release from prison nor will the people of North Kashmir get the representation they have a right to but the voters have spoken and in a democracy that’s all that matters,” Abdullah said. Lone also conceded defeat and congratulated Rashid. BJP ahead in J-K The BJP, which is maintaining leads on two seats in Jammu and Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir, bagged the highest share of more than 24 per cent votes, as per data of ECI. Even as the counting is in its final phase, the BJP got 24.36 per cent (12,44,404) vote share. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
05 June,2024 08:18 AM IST | Srinagar | AgenciesThe BJP was leading in eight Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand, with its ally AJSU Party leading in one, suggesting a potential loss of at least three seats for the saffron party in the state. In the 2019 polls, the BJP had won 11 seats, and its ally AJSU Party had secured one. According to the current trends, the Congress was leading in two seats, and the JMM in three in the state. Union Minister and sitting MP Arjun Munda was trailing Congress’s Kalicharan Munda in Khunti Lok Sabha seat by approximately 1.39 lakh votes, indicating a clear defeat. In Singhbhum, JMM’s Joba Manjhi was ahead by 1.46 lakh votes over her nearest rival Geeta Kora of the BJP. Kora, wife of former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda, had joined the BJP before polls. Seat number as of press time, and may have changed This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
05 June,2024 08:15 AM IST | Ranchi | AgenciesThe Congress has put a spanner in the plans of the BJP to make a clean sweep in the northeastern states which have 25 Lok Sabha seats, as the grand old party is set to bag seven seats including two in violence-hit Manipur. The BJP is likely to win 13 seats in these states. In Manipur where the Congress could not open its account in 2019 general elections, its candidates Angomcha Bimol Akoijam and Alfred Kanngam S Arthur have won both Inner Manipur and Outer Manipur seats. The BJP had won Inner Manipur seat in 2019 while its ally Naga Peoples Front (NPF) had claimed the Outer Manipur seat. The BJP-ruled state has been in grip of ethnic violence which has claimed over 220 lives since May 2023 with the Congress repeatedly questioning the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who did not visit the state since. In Assam, both the BJP and the Congress are set to hold their fort with nine and three seats respectively as Maulana Badruddin Ajmal-led AIDUF was completely decimated. NDA allies are leading in two seats—Barpeta and Kokrajhar. Congress Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi, who was forced to change his seat from erstwhile Kaliabor to Jorhat following delimitation, is set to defeat BJP which had won the seat for two consecutive terms. Gogoi is leading over BJP’s Topon Gogoi by over 1.40 lakh votes. Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal was leading over his nearest rival Lurinjyoti Gogoi, the united opposition candidate, by over 2,75,895 votes in Dibrugarh. In Dhubri, Ajmal was trailing Congress candidate Rakibul Hussain by over 8,62,905 votes, while NDA ally AGP’s Phani Bhushan Choudhury was leading over his nearest rival Deep Bayan of the Congress by 2.10 lakh votes in Barpeta. In Nagaland, Congress candidate S Supongmeren Jamir extended his lead over his nearest rival Chumben Murry of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) by over 48,000 votes in the lone Lok Sabha seat in Nagaland, according to the Election Commission website. The seat was held by BJP-led NDA partner NDPP in 2019.The BJP held onto Lok Sabha seats in Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura with Union Minister Kiren Rijiju retaining Arunachal West seat for third consecutive term and former Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb winning the Tripura West. Royal family scion Kriti Devi Debbarman will enter Lok Sabha from Tripura East defeating Rajendra Reang of CPI. BJP’s Tapir Gao won for the third term from Arunachal East seat defeating Congress’ Bosiram Siram. The Congress wrested the Tura Lok Sabha seat in Meghalaya from the NPP on Tuesday, but lost the Shillong seat after 15 years. Congress’ Tura candidate Saleng A Sangma defeated sitting NPP MP and sister of Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma, Agatha K Sangma by over 1.55 lakh votes. Conrad Sangma is the chief of the NPP, which is a part of the BJP-led NDA. In Shillong, Voice of the People’s Party (VPP) candidate Ricky AJ Syngkon won by 3,71,910 votes, defeating three-term Congress MP Vincent H Pala.Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) candidate Richard Vanlalhmangaiha won the lone Lok Sabha seat in Mizoram by 68,288 votes defeating his nearest rival K Vanlalvena of the Mizo National Front. Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) candidate Indra Hang Subba won the Sikkim Lok Sabha seat defeating his nearest rival Bharat Basnett of the Citizen Action Party (CAP-Sikkim) by 80,830 votes. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
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