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Non-bailable warrant issued against Azam Khan, his wife and son in forgery case

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Non-bailable warrant issued against Azam Khan, his wife and son in forgery case

The Rampur district court yesterday issued a non-bailable warrant against Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, his wife Tazeen Fatma and their son, SP MLA Abdullah Azam Khan in the case pertaining to Abdulla Azam’ forged birth documents.

The court has set December 2 as the next date of hearing in the case.


The Uttar Pradesh police had on April 3 filed a forgery case against the father-son duo following the directive by a Rampur court.

The case pertains to Abdulla Azam allegedly submitting a fake affidavit during the 2017 UP Assembly Elections, in order to conceal his true age. Soon after the election, former BSP minister Kazim Ali Khan who is also known as Naved Mia, filed a case against Azam Khan and Abdullah, alleging their attempt to submit fake documents to prove that Abdulla was aged above 25 years. 25 is the minimum age required to contest either assembly or Lok Sabha elections.

Abdulla’s father Azam Khan was dragged into this matter by the BSP leader by alleging that the latter too was involved in this matter.

The BSP leader to solidify his case submitted Abdulla’s class 12 mark sheet which supposedly showed his age to be a mere 24 years and five months, at the time of nomination paper’s filing.

The Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his family is neck-deep in trouble. Recently, another non-bailable warrant was issued against the MP for an alleged violation of model code of conduct.

He has almost 80 cases pending in his name. It was first land-grabbing, then lion statues, followed by books and valuable manuscripts, then buffaloes and electricity and then something as petty as stealing goats. Adding salt to his injuries, Azam Khan’s bail application in as many as 34 cases has already been rejected which mostly includes land grabbing cases and also the case registered against him for his sexist jibe against BJP leader Jaya Prada.

Interestingly, the Uttar Pradesh Police has also registered an FIR against the wife of senior Samajwadi Party leader and Rampur MP Azam Khan, Tajeen Fatima. Azam Khan’s wife has been accused of electricity theft.

‘Liberals’ suffer a meltdown on social media after an OpIndia report is cited in SC to debunk IndiaSpend propaganda

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‘Liberals’ suffer a meltdown on social media after an OpIndia report is cited in SC to debunk IndiaSpend propaganda

The Solicitor General of India, Tushar Mehta, cited an OpIndia report to debunk a misleading piece of news by IndiaSpend and The Wire on Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370. The report that the Solicitor General was referring to was presumably an article which debunked the lies spread by the Liberal establishment that erroneously claimed that mental health issues were on the rise in Kashmir after the historic decision on August the 5th.

As expected, the liberal establishment is not happy with the recent development. Because according to them, those who share a different point of view than them should not be part of any mainstream discussion. They wish to limit mainstream discourse to an elitist club of like-minded individuals where ordinary citizens of the country find no place to share their concerns. Thus, when the Solicitor General relied on a report by OpIndia to debunk their lies, the liberal establishment suffered yet another meltdown.

Read: The Wire and India Spend use 2015 survey and laces it with lies to say mental health issues on the rise in Kashmir post abrogation of Article 370

Nidhi Razdan mocked SG Mehta for apparently citing a ‘fake news website’ to debunk ‘genuine information’. Ironically enough, she works for NDTV, the Mother of Fake News Media. It will take an individual only a couple of minutes to discover the dozens of times NDTV has peddled fake news as they only have to visit our website.

The peak of NDTV’s habit of spreading fake news perhaps was when they conducted an entire debate based on fake news. Inadvertently, Nidhi Razdan and her ilk have also revealed precisely what they mean when they describe something as ‘Fake News’. The liberal definition of ‘Fake News’ doesn’t mean completely false and absurd reports peddled as authentic, it means ‘news that we want to suppress’.

Read: Here is why Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy were stopped at the airport and were not allowed to leave the country. All you need to know about the NDTV-ICICI scam

Nidhi Razdan was not the only one who suffered a meltdown. Ashok Swain, a rabid hatemonger who commands immense respect among the liberal crowd, was mighty displeased as well. He too described OpIndia as a ‘fake news website’ and called the terrible propaganda initiative IndiaSpend ‘data driven’. The Queen of Hatemongers, Swati Chaturvedi, was not far behind either. She called it ‘utter lunacy’ on the part of the Solicitor General to cite the OpIndia report in the Supreme Court.

Swati Chaturvedi has her own history of spreading fake news. Known to be abusive, she once tweeted a photoshopped image of Narendra Modi wearing an Arabic attire. On another occasion, she falsely claimed that Amit Shah was apparently sleeping in the Parliament. She has also been credibly accused of plagiarism and on another occasion, she sent OpIndia a defamation notice for reporting facts.

Read: That you have lost readership and your peers doubt you, is not our problem: Read our response to Swati Chaturvedi’s defamation notice

Another person said the same thing. It would have been insignificant in and of itself but it was retweeted by Rohini Singh of The Wire whose hitjob on Jay Shan, the son of Home Minister Amit Shah, got them sued in Court. Not merely that, the Supreme Court also observed that it was ‘nothing short of yellow journalism’. No wonder then, she isn’t too happy with the fact that an OpIndia report was used by the Solicitor General to debunk lies spread by the liberal establishment.

Tehseen Poonawalla was visibly upset and understandably so because it was arguments made by his side that were refuted using the OpIndia report.


Vijaita Singh of The Hindu, who cannot distinguish between revenue and profit, questioned the credibility of OpIndia over the matter. Amusingly enough, she works for The Hindu which engaged in a clear and deliberate distortion of facts to peddle a motivate campaign against the Rafale Deal. In the past, Vijaita Singh herself has propagated misleading information and issued sermons when her propaganda was called out.


Read: The Hindu not only cropped the Rafale dissent note, but also had digitally manipulated it

The meltdown of the liberal crowd over an OpIndia report being used to debunk one of their lies only reveals the twisted definition of ‘Fake News’ in the liberal world. It does not mean what people think it means. According to liberals, ‘Fake News’ are facts they wish to suppress and news they don’t like. And anyone who strives to bust their monopoly over the narrative is labelled as ‘fake news website’ without reason.

Haren Pandya murder case: SC dismisses review petitions filed by 10 of the 12 radical Islamists, CBI had claimed they were trained by Pakistan’s ISI

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Haren Pandya murder case: SC dismisses review petitions filed by 10 of the 12 radical Islamists, CBI had claimed they were trained by Pakistan’s ISI

The Supreme Court today affirmed the conviction of 10 out of 12 people convicted for murdering former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya in 2003 dismissing the review petitions filed by the 10 convicts against the July 5 judgement.

In its July verdict, the bench had restored the conviction and sentenced the 12 accused in former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya murder case in 2003.

“We have perused the Review Petitions and record of the appeals and are convinced that the order, of which review has been sought, does not suffer from any error apparent warranting its reconsideration. The Review Petitions are, accordingly, dismissed,” held the bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra.

In July, the apex court had sentenced 9 out of 12 convicts to life imprisonment after setting aside their acquittal by the Gujarat High Courtin 2011. Others were sentenced to varying jail terms as was awarded by a POTA court in 2007.

While restoring the conviction the SC had also dismissed a fresh PIL filed by NGO ‘Centre for Public Interest Litigation’ (CPIL) and imposed costs of Rs 50,000. The NGO claimed that there was fresh evidence in the murder case against senior Gujarat police officers and politicians.

Read: All you need to know about the Kamlesh Tiwari murder investigation so far: Jihad, a well-hatched plan and plain brutality

Pandya, who was a minister in the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat, was shot dead by Islamist radicals on 26 March 2003, 13 months after the Gujarat riots took place, in Ahmedabad near Law Garden when he had gone for a morning walk. The CBI claimed that this was done to avenge the 2002 Gujarat riots.

In June 2007, a special POTA (Prevention of Terrorist Activities) court had convicted the 12 accused and sentenced them to life imprisonment. However, the Gujarat High Court acquited all of them in 2011 stating that the investigation was “botched” and “misdirected”.

Then CBI had in 2011 itself filed an appeal questioning the acquittal of the Gujarat High Court as erroneous. On January 31 this year, the Supreme Court had reserved the verdict on the appeals.

It is notable here that prior to Pandya’s killing the 12 accused were also earlier convicted in another case by a special POTA court for attempting to murder prominent VHP and Hindu leaders to avenge the 2002 riots. An attempt was made on the life of a local VHP leader Jagdish Tewari on March 11, 2003.

CBI claimed that the two incidents were part of a single conspiracy to spread terror in the state. The accused were arrested on the basis of deposition of main accused Asghar Ali. The other accused are Mohammad Rauf, Mohammad Parvez Abdul Kayum Sheikh, Parvez Khan Pathan alias Athar Parvez, Mohammad Farooq alias Haji Farooq, Shahnawaz Gandhi, Kalim Ahmeda alias Kalimullah, Rehan Puthawala, Mohammad Riaz Sareswala, Aniz Machiswala, Mohammad Yunus Sareswala and Mohammad Saifuddin.

The agency had also claimed that these men were illegally sent to Pakistan and were trained by Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI.

The attempt of several people to accuse Narendra Modi to have murdered Haren Pandya has been exposed now and vindicated by the Supreme Court. Ever since his death, the biased sections of the media and self-styled secularists have implied that the Narendra Modi Government got him killed.

From BALCO to BPCL: The new India is a tribute to Vajpayee

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From BALCO to BPCL: The new India is a tribute to Vajpayee

Yesterday, the government announced the big bang disinvestment of BPCL and 4 other Public Sector Units. After the corporate tax cuts, this may easily be treated as one of the biggest reform pushes of Narendra Modi.

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The Economic Times report calls the move a ‘blockbuster.’ Smiles all around. Businesses, media, people, everyone is happy.

This really takes me down memory lane. How much India has changed and how much better.

Go back to 2001 when the Vajpayee government decided to sell BALCO to Sterlite Industries. It seemed at the time that the world was coming to an end.

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Parliament went into an uproar. Workers went on over 2 months of the strike.

The family gold is being given away, they said, invoking the emotional imagery of a woman taking her gold to the pawnbroker, a scene that had played out in one hackneyed Hindi movie after another.

Back then, the only wealthy people ever had was ancestral/family wealth. It was either land or gold. People earned practically nothing in the course of their lifetimes. When they did have some money, they buried it away in a super safe fixed deposit, fearful of hard times. The future was a lurking monster of uncertainty, always to be feared.

It was against this background that Vajpayee went ahead with the most ambitious reform program India had ever seen. Decades of Nehruvian quasi-Communist economics had sowed socialism deep into the political DNA of India. When Vajpayee’s ministers said that it was “not the business of the government to be in business,” it sounded absurd, almost paradoxical to most people. For they had all grown up aspiring to a government job.

Twenty years later, we can only look back and appreciate what it took for the reformist NDA government to bring India out of its socialist stupor. It was a leap of faith that required immense political courage. As history showed, it also ended up being a political sacrifice.

But what is undeniable is the legacy that Vajpayee left for the nation.

In 2003, the Vajpayee government approved a public-private partnership proposal for Delhi and Mumbai airports. When Indians today take pride at these gleaming airports and double-digit growth in airline passenger numbers, remember who made it all possible.

And who paid the price.

Today, we have the government and opposition actively fighting over who can grow the GDP faster. When you take a longer view of Indian politics, it seems almost unreal. It seems like yesterday when the opposition Congress was taunting the Vajpayee government, asking whether 8% growth does any good for the common man.

Indeed, that was the Congress slogan from 2004. The share market is rising, but what did the common man get? At the time, Congress spread the impression that GDP growth and business are anti-poor!

In 2004, it was the socialist quicksand calling us back, appealing to fear and insecurities of a population that had deliberately been kept impoverished by Nehruvian policies. And the saddest thing is that it worked. The UPA government coasted on the strength of Vajpayee’s reform push in the build-up to the 2008 crisis. And for good measure, used these boom times to hand out humongous loans from public sector banks like candy.

After 2008, it was all downhill. The only remnants of the UPA today are the ghosts of those bad loans. Yeah, that’s the only legacy that Sonia Gandhi’s UPA left behind.

Today’s India no longer fears the future but looks forward to it. Today’s India venerates personal merit and scorns at family privilege. As Modi sarkar privatizes BPCL, the imagery of a woman selling her family gold will no longer work for the opposition. Even Hindi movies no longer use that image. Nobody relates to it any more.

Look who quickly dropped BALCO privatization issue after coming to power in 2004 … because they would now benefit from the prosperity generated by economic reforms.

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This is how India was fooled, cheated and misled in 2004. How Congress opposed Vajpayee’s reforms, then took credit for the fruits.

India has changed a lot. Privatization is no longer a dirty word. GDP growth is no longer a dirty word. But we can never forgive those who tried to hold India back from her future.

Atalji will always be in our hearts. He will live on in our prosperous future.

Delhi Jal Board supervisor admitted water contaminated due sewer pipes damage but no funds allocated for repair, claims Delhi resident

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Delhi Jal Board supervisor admitted water contaminated due sewer pipes damage but no funds allocated for repair, claims Delhi resident

A political war has erupted in Delhi over a water crisis. Recently, it was revealed that Delhi has the worst water quality after it failed in all the 19 parameters set by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). The Kejriwal government in Delhi refuted the results claiming that there was a ‘bias’ in sample-testing.

Now, a person on Twitter with the username @Kannadanammamma has made a series of tweets that claim to reveal the deteriorating quality of water in the national capital. He claimed that he lives in the West Delhi area of Janakpuri. According to him, it is only since 2015 that the quality of water deteriorated.

The person claimed that the quality of water worsened particularly when he moved to Janakpuri BF Block and started noticing that on some days, the ‘DJB line’ would be delivered water mixed with sewer water. He says that it became a routine to stop the motor and empty the tank when such water was delivered, request the landlord to pump water from the bore-well after the tank had been cleaned, use alum and tablets to clean the sediments and then wait for Delhi officials to arrive after a complaint had been registered.


The twitter user says that after many days of tweeting, calling and even sending direct messages on the social media platform, finally one day in September last year some DJB official visited the area to unearth the problem. The person then says that the officials spent several hours that day to find the reasons for the sewer water mixing.

‘The outer linings of the sewer lines are weak and hence, they allow the sewer water to seep through the ground,” He says before adding, ‘The connecting sewer pipes to the main sewer line from residences are old and mostly made up of clay (of the old kind) and are susceptible to damage easily. These pipes are old and need to be replaced, failing which the sewer water both from the pipes and the drain leaks’.

Read: AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya sends Rs 1 crore defamation notice after Delhi resident complains of water crisis

The user further asserts that as a consequence, people who live nearest to such areas are most affected and the degree of contamination decreases as one goes farther from the area. The ‘temporary solution’ to the problem that the worker provided and the issue continues to trouble residents to this day. According to him, this is because the old sewer pipes need to be changed but the top officials of the Delhi Jal Board aren’t allocating the necessary funds required for the job.


@Kannadanammamma squarely blamed the Arvind Kejriwal-led government for the mess and says that the Chief Minister of Delhi prioritizes appeasement politics over addressing the concerns of the middle class. He also claims that he once received a call from the Chief Minister’s office but the person appeared least bothered with his concerns. On another occasion, his residence was visited by a supervisor from the Delhi Jal Board and his wife was told that the pipes were damaged and the problem would continue until they were replaced. This apparently happened 18 months after he initially began his pursuit of clean water.

The person also blames the BJP for not being able to provide proof of contamination and appeared disgruntled with the Congress party as well for not taking up the cause of the affected people.

Shift JNU out of Delhi as poor climate causing students to not pass out till they are 45: BJP leader

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Shift JNU out of Delhi as poor climate causing students to not pass out till they are 45: BJP leader

BJP Haryana leader Raman Malik today wrote to Union Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD) Ramesh Pokhriyal, suggesting to shift Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) out of Delhi as climate of Delhi is not good for the students.


In a letter, Malik said that his suggestion will be beneficial to bright future of Delhi. He says that JNU students are not able to concentrate on their studies because Delhi is a very crowded city where they have to face a lot of difficulties. The climate of Delhi is also not good because of which they have to face problems in such young age. “So much that some students are still not able to finish their studies till age 40-45, which is very concerning,” he writes in his letter.

Malik then requests the HRD minister to shift the JNU campus in Haryana’s Mewat region. That way, an underdeveloped part of the country like Mewat will also see development because of JNU campus.

Read: Mewat: Hotbed of organised crime, cattle smuggling, illegal Rohingyas and mob violence against Police

“Students will also be able to study properly in Mewat. A new beginning to the bright future of the students of the country,” he further wrote. He further added that Haryana government has already approved the orbital rail project and the university will come up at a spot which is near to the current IGI airport in Delhi as well as Jewar airport which is coming up near Delhi in Uttar Pradesh.

The Congress party’s tryst with JNU: The far-left university now dictates the ideology of the Congress

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The Congress party’s tryst with JNU: The far-left university now dictates the ideology of the Congress

The Congress party, it seems, has learnt nothing from its spectacular defeat in the 2019 General Elections. Even after being reduced to 52 seats in the Lok Sabha, the party continues to indulge in the same rhetoric that has ensured its utter ruin. The most obvious example of it came during the JNU protests when the party continued to support the hooliganism of the ‘students’.

Ghulam Nabi Azad, for instance, accused the government of inciting violence. He said, “Poor people’s kids attend this college, kinds from all over India attend this college. Kids, especially from the bigger states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal come to this institution. Increasing the fees of this institution by three times means that a poor person’s kid won’t be able to study. I strongly condemn this. Instead of providing free education to the kids they raised it by three times. What is the point of this high-power committee? First, you instigate violence and then you talk about peace?”

Read: On sedition and AFSPA, does Congress want to turn India into JNU campus?

Then, on Tuesday, the party created a ruckus in the Rajya Sabha and forced the Chairman to adjourn proceedings. Initially, Chairman Venkaiah Naidu denied them permission but as the din continued, he was left with no choice in the matter. On Wednesday, the youth wing of the party attempted to corner the BJP over the matter but ended up using a picture from the UPA era when a woman was thrashed during a protest over the Nirbhaya rape and murder.

The manner in which the ‘students’ have unleashed chaos in the streets of New Delhi in the name of ‘protests’ shouldn’t really have a place in civil society. Ideally, they should not be able to find an ounce of support from any end of the political spectrum. But here we are, the ‘Grand Old Party’ of India is going out of its way to support hooliganism without any concern for its own political prospects.

Read: Radical Left Congress: Where treason and ‘bharat tere tukde honge’ is acceptable, but free speech on Social Media is not

Rahul Gandhi may not be the president of the party anymore but it appears, the culture that he normalized in the party as the president continues to rule the roost. It ought to be remembered that he was one of the first politicians to have visited the JNU after anti-national slogans were raised on the campus. When the entire country was enraged by the atrocious slogans that were raised, Rahul Gandhi defended it in the name of freedom of expression.

Even the party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha Elections appeared to have been written by someone who has spent an excessive amount of time in the corridors of JNU. They promised a repeal of the sedition law, they swore to amend the AFSPA in order to ‘strike a balance’ between the power of security forces and human rights and remove immunity for  “enforced disappearance, sexual violence and torture”. Furthermore, they also vowed to pass “regulations to stop the spread of fake news and hate speech and punish those who misuse digital and social media.”

Read: Congress meets anti-India, antisemite Jeremy Corbyn who supports terror groups and Islamists: All you need to know about him

In light of all of this, the Congress’ support for JNU does not appear surprising at all. The party now derives its ‘intellectual’ prowess from the ‘students’ of JNU. It might seem bizarre but JNU is now the ideological fountainhead of the Congress party. There was a time when the core leadership of the Congress party at least kept themselves in touch with the mood of the nation. Not anymore.

Therefore, it’s not really a surprise that the Congress party is struggling hard to defend the terrible conduct of the JNU ‘students’ even on the face of overwhelming evidence. Because, in a democracy, it is natural for political parties to defend their ideological allies. And the ideological inclinations of the ‘students’ of JNU are more in consonance with the ideology of the Congress party than any other organization.

As US-China trade war intensifies, India plans incentives for 324 companies including Tesla to invest in India

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As US-China trade war intensifies, India plans incentives for 324 companies including Tesla to invest in India

The Indian government is planning to provide incentives to 324 companies, including Tesla Inc. and GlaxoSmithLine Plc, to set up factories in the country in an attempt to cash in on the ongoing trade wars between China and the USA Bloomberg has reported. The proposal is expected to reduce red tape and set the country on its way to achieving a $5 trillion economy.

According to the draft of a document prepared by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade and Invest India, the government intends to provide land to these manufacturers along with power, water and land access. Other companies that feature in the government’s plan include Eli Lilly & Co., South Korea’s Hanwha Chemical Corp., and Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. The government intends to create a ‘land bank’ of sorts for ready-to-move-in industrial clusters, offer investment and location-based incentives among other things.

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“While in the initial leg of relocation we have seen companies moving to Vietnam, I don’t think it is too late for India to start making an effort,” said Sonal Varma, chief economist for India and Asia-ex Japan at Nomura Holdings Inc. in Singapore. “India offers a unique advantage of being a huge domestic market too, so it is definitely an opportunity for the government to attract investment,” she added.

As we had reported earlier, India has thus far failed to capitalize on the trade war between the US and China. Vietnam and other countries have benefited greatly as manufacturers looked for alternatives in an uncertain economic climate. Thailand, too, had floated a 50% tax cut for manufacturers looking to flee China.

Watch: Bundles of currency were showered from building during DRI raid in Kolkata

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Watch: Bundles of currency were showered from building during DRI raid in Kolkata

Bundles of currency were thrown from a building during a raid by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) at the office of Hoque Mercantile Pvt Ltd.


According to reports, the incident occurred when DRI officials were conducting a search in a private office on the sixth floor of a building at Bentinck Street in Kolkata. The bystanders confirmed that currency notes of denomination 2000, 500 and 100 were seen being pushed out of a window in the sixth floor with the help of a broom.

Officials from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said a search in a private office of Hoque Merchantile Pvt Ltd, on that floor, was underway when the incident occurred. DRI sources told news agencies that its sleuths had gone to the office engaged in export-import activities, to conduct search operations for alleged evasion of duty.

The official also said that the searches are on and “later reinforcements were also sent”.

The officials are, however, still not certain whether this bizarre incident has anything to do with the raid or not. “It cannot be definitely said that there was a relation between the search operations and the shower of currency notes on the street below,” the officials said.

Kolkata police confirmed that investigation into the matter is on.

Maharashtra: Cheating complaint lodged against Uddhav Thackeray for ‘betraying’ voters

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Maharashtra: Cheating complaint lodged against Uddhav Thackeray for ‘betraying’ voters

Amidst all the drama in Maharashtra over government formation, a man named Ratnakar Chaure, hailing from the Aurangabad district has lodged a complaint with Begampura police station against Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, along with MLAs Pradeep Jaiswal and Chandrakant Khaire accusing them of cheating him and his family.

According to a New18 Hindi report, Chaure, in his written complaint, has said that he and his family had voted for the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in the Maharastra Assembly elections. He furthered that Shiv Sena had during election campaign asked for votes in the pretext of forming a coalition government with BJP which would safeguard Hindutva. Now, Shiv Sena, in its greed for power, abandoned both, the alliance as well as its ideologies. Chaure said that the party had cheated his family who had voted for them.

It has been weeks since the results of the Maharashtra elections were announced. But, after failing to blackmail the BJP for the CM post, the Shiv Sena has not managed to form a government with the support of NCP and Congress. While Congress has not given any clear picture, NCP’s Sharad Pawar’s cryptic statements over joining the Sena have been giving rise to wide speculations.

The Sena, despite winning half the number of seats than the BJP, was adamant on the CM’s post. The political tussle for the CM post even made the Sena to withdraw its only minister in the Union Cabinet and leave the NDA fold.

Read: Did not talk about Shiv Sena with Sonia Gandhi: NCP chief Sharad Pawar keeping Shiv Sena on the edge

It was earlier reported that Shiv Sena had agreed to the Congress and NCP demands of conceding to 5% reservation for Muslims and also on abandoning the Hindutva cause. While the media has reported today that the addition of the word ‘secular’ in the CMP is a point of contention and Shiv Sena refuses to accept, Sanjay Raut’s statements make amply clear that Shiv Sena is now abandoning the Saffron for secular green.

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