Bhopal: With an aim to score a hat-trick in Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections slated later this year, the ruling BJP has reposed faith in senior party leader Anil Madhav Dave, who played a pivotal role in the 2003 elections, party sources said on Friday. Dave is a "key member" of the BJP's poll management committee in Madhya Pradesh, they said.
A Rajya Sabha member, Dave along with his team had drawn elaborate strategies in 2003 to ensure the defeat of Congress Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh. He had then launched a systematic campaign to turn the prevailing anger against the ruling party on the issues of 'bijli, sadak and pani' (electricity, water and roads) in favour of the BJP, whose campaign was then headed by former Chief Minister Uma Bharti.
"It is an uphill-task, but I take it as a challenge and always believe in taking every polls very seriously by drawing proper strategies and plans," Dave said, confirming his new assignment. "I do everything in life meticulously and this time also we will work out strategies to ensure that the party emerges victorious for a third consecutive term, which is very important for it in view of not just the 2013 Assembly polls but also the Lok Sabha polls," Dave, who also heads the NGO Narmada Samagra, said.
However, BJP sources said that in terms of vote percentage, there is not much of a difference between the share of major political parties (BJP and Congress) in the
01:08 PM, May 24, 2013
Bhopal: Beating all odds, a visually impaired girl, Shrishti Tiwari, from Damoh town has topped the Madhya Pradesh Higher Secondary examination in Arts stream. The results were declared two days back by the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education. For Shrishti, a student of JBP Government Higher Secondary School in Damoh, the achievement is special not only academically but also because of the fact that she is visually impaired since...
04:13 PM, May 23, 2013
Jabalpur: A software engineer from Hyderabad, who had come to Jabalpur, to attend a hearing in the family court was allegedly abducted and gangraped, police said on Wednesday. According to the woman's complaint, on Tuesday night when she was coming from Katni accompanied by a friend, who went ahead of her while talking on his mobile, two youths on motorcycle took her to a deserted place and gangraped her until...
11:56 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: Heat wave conditions sweeping large parts of the country worsened, killing three persons in Madhya Pradesh, while Nagpur on Tuesday witnessed its hottest day in six decades at a sizzling 47.8 degrees Celsius. Sriganganagar in Rajasthan, with a blistering 47.5 degrees Celsius, was hottest place in the country after Nagpur, which recorded the highest temperature in 59 years. Delhi also witnessed its hottest day of the season and...
06:30 PM, May 21, 2013
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Board Class 10 and 12 Results 2013 have been declared by the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) on Tuesday. Candidates can log on to the website - http://mpresults.nic.in - to access their results. Out of all the results declared so far, following are the students who have topped in their respective streams: Bhopal boy Lekhanshu Bavne tops Commerce stream Ruchi Sharma from Sidhi tops Science...
05:32 PM, May 21, 2013
Indore: Lokayukta Police on Monday submitted a charge sheet against BJP MLA Ramesh Mendola and 16 others in a 2004 land scam case. The charge sheet was submitted in the court of special judge DN Mishra under Sec 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The court, meanwhile, granted bail to Mendola and 14 others on a bond of Rs 1 lakh...
12:45 AM, May 21, 2013
Bhopal: A local court in Bhopal Monday rejected an NGO's plea to raise the quantum of punishment given to the convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. The petition to raise the quantum of punishment in the case was filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghthan convenor Abdul Jabbar and others. Rejecting the plea, District and Session Judge Sushma Khosla said that the NGO could at best assist...
12:29 AM, May 21, 2013
Indore: A software engineer here was arrested on Sunday for allegedly uploading an obscene video of a nursing student on the Internet. Kapil Gadhwal (24), a resident of Mandsaur, is employed at a call centre in the city, police said. Gadhwal befriended the 21-year-old nursing student who studied at a private college, and about ten days ago he allegedly shot an obscene video of her which he uploaded on the...
08:05 PM, May 19, 2013
Bhopal: Serious irregularities like non-submission of utilisation certificates and delay in payment of wages to beneficiaries among others have come to notice in an official report on the implementation of MGNREGA scheme in Madhya Pradesh. It was also found that the state government was not following necessary budgetary procedures while seeking grant from the Centre under the flagship programme. It was noticed during the inspection in eight districts that the...
03:15 PM, May 19, 2013
Mirzapur: Echoing demands raised in various quarters after the spot fixing expose, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday termed the IPL a mere buffoonery and said its time the league should be banned. "This league should be put to an end. IPL is not a sport but a mere 'tamasha' (buffoonery) and fixing has put a blot on it," Chouhan, who was here on a religious trip,...
08:46 PM, May 18, 2013
Indore: A man, who put a 'chastity lock' on his wife in a cruel, self-devised way, was awarded 10 years' rigorous sentence by the court in Indore on Friday even though the survivor had retracted her statement during the trial. Additional Sessions Judge Avnindra Kumar Singh also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on the accused Sohanlal (38), a mechanic by profession, under sections 326 (causing grievous hurt) and section...
07:57 PM, May 17, 2013
CNN-IBN on Tuesday broke the story showing how close relatives and aides of MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan had cornered prime plots in the heart of Bhopal against all norms. ...
11:26 PM, May 15, 2013
BJP leader Uma Bharti minced no words when she said that she had zero tolerance towards corruption when asked about the land row involving Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. ...
09:19 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress has targetted Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after CNN-IBN exposed how prime land in Bhopal was given to his relatives and party members. Digvijaya Singh claimed this is one of the many corruption charges against the Madhya Pradesh CM. "About 10 people in Chouhan's family were given membership and land. There is a provision that two members of a family cannot be given a...
09:40 AM, May 15, 2013
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11:52 PM, May 14, 2013
The Indian Navy has been hit by allegations of another alleged sex scandal. ...
11:02 PM, May 14, 2013
The MP government on Tuesday denied reports that the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government was involved in land scam. ...
10:35 PM, May 14, 2013
Bhopal: MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan is not only said to be favouring his family members. RTI documents with CNN-IBN show how the Shivraj government is also awarding land to institutions close to the BJP and the RSS. Saraswati Shishu Mandir, an RSS-backed educational institution was granted over 10 acres of prime land across the state between 2007 and 2008. Another RSS-backed body, the Saraswati Bal Kalyan Samiti, was granted...
06:47 PM, May 14, 2013
Bhopal: A cloud of corruption hangs over one of the BJP's most celebrated chief ministers - Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Chouhan is in the midst of a row over allotment of prime land in Bhopal to his relatives. An RTI query has revealed how prime land that was allotted to other individuals was registered in the names of Shivraj Singh's cousins. Even a court order stipulating returning the...
06:23 PM, May 14, 2013
Bhopal: A private medical college is under scrutiny for selling seats. The Health Ministry and Medical Council of India have cracked down on the People's Medical College in Madhya Pradesh. The college had illegally admitted over 240 students between 2009 and 2012, openly flouting MCI norms. What's more is that in 2012, it had refused to admit students under merit quota, after which the state government had moved court. The...
01:18 PM, May 14, 2013
