‘KEJRI TO NOT CONTEST LS POLLS FROM VARANASI’
VARANASI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) spokesman and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh on Sunday said party president and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal would not contest Lok Sabha election from Varanasi. The senior AAP leader said that the party would field a “strong candidate” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi in the elections. “AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal will not contest Lok Sabha election from Varanasi as he wants to focus more on Delhi. AAP will field strong candidates on certain seats, including Varanasi,” Singh told media persons. Singh was addressing the media during the party’s ‘BJP bhagao, bhagwan bachao’ yatra which was taken out from Ayodhya to Varanasi on January 12-13.
10% quota to come into force in Gujarat from today
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat government said Sunday that it will implement the 10% reservations in government jobs and higher education for the economically backward sections in the general category from January 14. The Constitutional amendment to provide the 10 per cent quota received assent of President Ram Nath Kovind Saturday. “The economically weaker sections from the general category will get 10 per cent reservation in admissions to higher education and government jobs starting Uttarayan on January 14,” the state government said in a release. The new quota will also be implemented in admissions and jobs which were advertised before January 14 but for which the actual process has not started, it said. In such cases, fresh announcement about the admission process or jobs will have to be made, it added.
Enact law to build Ram temple, case can go on: VHP
INDORE: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Sunday reiterated that the Centre should enact a law for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, claiming that matters of faith did not come under the purview of courts. VHP international president Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje also said a solution to the Ayodhya dispute through court procedures was not in sight at the moment, given the prevailing scenario. “Matters related to religious faith do not come under the jurisdiction of courts which are run by laws. That is why we want that the central government should get a law enacted for the construction of a grand Ram temple soon,” Kokje told PTI. He also alleged that the Congress’s “vote-bank politics” was responsible for creating hassles in the construction of temple.
Police send team to arrest scribe who hit out TN CM
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu police’s central crime branch on Sunday sent two special teams to New Delhi and Kerala for arresting Tehelka magazine’s former editor Samuel Mathew and two others for alleging Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami’s (EPS) hand in the sequential death of five people associated with late CM J Jayalalithaa’s Kodanad estate. According to officials, the two teams headed by