"I Am Ram Vilas Paswan's Political Heir," Claims Brother Pashupati Paras

Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras on Sunday asserted that he was the "political successor" of his elder brother Ram Vilas Paswan, whose son Chirag could lay claim "only" to the financial assets (sampatti) of the late leader.

Mr Paras made the averment here in reply to queries from journalists about his relationship with his nephew, against whom he had raised a banner of revolt two years ago and split the Lok Janshakti Party floated by his late brother.

"I will explain why I call myself the political successor of 'bade saheb'. He started off as an MLA from Alauli in Bihar in 1969 and gave up the seat in 1977 upon becoming the MP from Hajipur. He asked me to contest from the assembly seat and I followed his orders though I was in a government job," said Mr Paras, who now represents Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Sabha seat.

The Union minister, who made his parliamentary debut in the Lok Sabha polls of 2019, when his brother announced his decision to opt for the Rajya Sabha, claimed that it was at "bade saheb's insistence" that I had to move to Delhi, depite not being very keen to do so.

"I was initially reluctant. I had even suggested that beta (son - Chirag) or bhabhi ji (sister in law - Chirag's mother) be considered as the Hajipur candidate.

"I was having a great time in Bihar, serving as a minister in the Nitish Kumar government and heading the LJP state unit. But 'bade saheb' was insistent. The massive wave in support of the NDA had still not picked up and he was of the view that only I could retain his seat for the party. I had made no secret of my unwillingness to enter the fray even during the campaign," said Mr Paras.

He also noted that it was a "glorious coincidence" to have learnt about his induction in the Union cabinet from the home minister on the day of Paswan's birth anniversary.

"Inside Parliament, I am allotted the very seat that he used to occupy while he was a Union minister," said the minister for food processing.

Mr Paras categorically ruled out the possibility of a rapprochement with Chirag, asserting that had it been a crack merely in the party it could have been mended but “the chasm exists between our hearts".

"As a son, he (Chirag) may inherit the wealth of his father. But it is me who is the political successor (rajneetik varis)," he maintained.

He bristled when his attention was drawn towards speculations that the nephew, who has reaffirmed loyalty towards the BJP after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's exit from the NDA, could be rewarded with a berth in the Union council of ministers.

"Please be informed that there can be no expansion or reshuffle of the Union council of ministers. At least not till the polls to assemblies in a few states in the northeast were held and the ongoing Parliament session was over," he said.

Mr Paras, while talking to reporters, also said it was unbecoming of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to have uttered "ask my deputy" in response to queries about cabinet expansion.

Responding to questions from journalists on speculations about a state cabinet expansion and the demand by Congress for two more berths, Kumar had said on Saturday, “You people ask this question to the deputy CM."

Mr Paras, in a jibe at Mr Kumar, said, "It shows that he is no longer the powerful CM under whom we had worked. It is his deputy, Tejashwi Yadav of the RJD, who calls the shots. Even the Congress, a junior alliance partner, has expressed disappointment with Nitish Kumar's stance."

"It seems Tejashwi Yadav, too, has some difficult choices to make. Although nobody would be a match to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the RJD will have to decide whether it will be backing Rahul Gandhi or Nitish Kumar in the 2024 polls," added Mr Paras. 

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अर्चना गौतम को हैंड पम्प उखाड़ना पड़ा महंगा, गदर स्टाइल में हुईं बिग बॉस 16 फिनाले से बाहर

बिग बॉस 16 में अर्चना गौतम का सफर भी खत्म हो गया है. इस तरह बिग बॉस में अपनी आवाज और तीखे अंदाज की वजह से सुर्खियों में रहीं अर्चना गौतम ने सुर्खियां तो बहुत बटोरीं लेकिन वह ट्रॉफी को चूमने में कामयाब नहीं रह सकीं. वैसे अर्चना गौतम को बिग बॉस 16 के विजेताओं में से एक माना जा रहा था. लेकिन इसके साथ ही उनके फैन्स का भी दिल टूट गया होगा. अर्चना गौतम को हैंड पम्प उखाड़ना महंगा पड़ा. सनी देओल गदर 2 का प्रमोशन करने आए थे. इस टास्क में हर कंटेस्टेंट को हैंड पम्प उखाड़ना था. हैंड पंप के नीचे उनका भाग्य लिखा होना था. लेकिन यहां अर्चना की तकदीर मात खा जाती है.  

अर्चना गौतम ने बिग बॉस हाउस में दमदार गेम खेला. अपने अंदाज और हिंसी करने की वजह से वह घर से बाहर भी हो गई थीं. उन्होंने शिव ठाकरे के साथ हिंसक रवैया अपनाया था, जिसके बाद बिग बॉस ने उन्हें बाहर का रास्त दिखा दिया था.

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"I'm Going Back To Uttarakhand": BS Koshyari After Resigning As Governor

Soon after his resignation as the governor of Maharashtra, Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Sunday said that he is going back to Uttarakhand for eating Kafals.

Noting the similarities between both states, Mr Koshyari said that Maharashtra and Uttarakhand share the same kind of culture.

"When I came here and studied Marathi, I came to know that there are hundred pahadi words in Marathi. I went to the rural areas of Maharashtra, I found people very calm like Uttarakhand. Our culture is the same, if 'Deshpande' is here then we have 'Pandey' and if Raut is here then we have Rawat," Bhagat Singh Koshyari said on the final day of the Uttarakhand Premier League.

"I am going back to Uttarakhand to eat Kafals," he added.

The Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday announced the names for appointment on the post of 12 Governors for states and one Lieutenant Governor in the Union Territory of Ladakh.

Mr Koshyari, who served the state for over three years, has been replaced by Ramesh Bais as the new governor of Maharashtra. Koshyari was appointed the Governor of Maharashtra in September 2019.

Earlier, last month, Mr Koshyari had conveyed his desire to be discharged of his duties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In a series of tweets, Governor Koshyari had expressed his desire to quit as the constitutional head of the state.

"During the recent visit of the Prime Minister to Mumbai, I have conveyed to him my desire to be discharged of all political responsibilities and to spend the remainder of my life in reading, writing and other activities. I have always received love and affection from the Prime Minister and I hope to receive the same in this regard," tweeted Raj Bhavan.

"It was an absolute honour and privilege for me to serve as the Rajya Sevak or Rajyapal of a great State like Maharashtra - the land of Saints, Social reformers and valiant fighters. I can never forget the love and affection I have received from the people of Maharashtra during the last little more than three years," Raj Bhavan said.

In November last year, he courted controversy after calling Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj an "old icon" while addressing a function at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University in Aurangabad.

An outrage sparked following his remarks on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, a revered figure in Maharashtra.

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Rahul Gandhi Nearly Quit Bharat Jodo Yatra Over Knee Pain: Congress Leader

Praising Rahul Gandhi's determination, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Saturday said during the initial days of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, there was a delicate situation in which the former Congress chief faced severe knee problems that forced him to think about whether he should be replaced by someone else.

Mr Venugopal, a close confidante of Mr Gandhi, said the predicament had even forced Priyanka Gandhi to tell him that her brother might be giving up the nationwide foot march due to the severe pain and hand over the baton of the yatra to senior Congress leaders.

"His knee pain had aggravated when the yatra entered Kerala on the third day of its commencement from Kanyakumari. One night, he called me to tell (me) about the severity of his knee pain and suggested carrying out the campaign by replacing him with any another leader," the senior Congress leader said during a function organised at Kerala Congress headquarters in the evening to honour the Bharat Jodo yatris from Kerala.

Narrating the sequence of events that he had faced when the yatra that began from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7, 2022 entered Kerala, Mr Venugopal said a yatra without Rahul Gandhi was "unimaginable" for the Congress workers and leaders.

"Then came Priyanka Gandhi's call to inform about the severity of knee pain Rahul suffers. She even thought of suggesting to hand over the campaign to other senior leaders," the Congress general secretary said, adding those were anxious moments wherein he stood with folded hands, praying for divine intervention.

Finally, a physiotherapist suggested by Rahul Gandhi joined his medical team and treated him. "With God's grace, his pain was cured," Mr Venugopal told the gathering at the function also attended by senior party leaders including A K Antony.

The yatra led by Rahul Gandhi had entered Kerala on September 10, and it traversed through the state for 19 days.

The Bharat Jodo Yatra had ended on January 30 in an opposition show of strength, with leaders of several parties joining Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as he capped his ambitious 145-day journey that covered some 4,000 kilometres from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.

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VIDEO: कुदरत का करिश्मा, तुर्की में भूकंप के 128 घंटे बाद नवजात को मलबे से सकुशल निकाला गया

तुर्की और सीरिया में आए विनाशकारी भूकंप (Turkey-Syria Earthquake) से जहां भारी जनहानि हुई है वहीं हैरत में डालने वाली सुखद खबरें भी सामने आ रही हैं. इसे कुदरत का करिश्मा ही मानना पड़ेगा कि तुर्की के हेते प्रॉविंस में एक नवजात बच्चा अपने घर के मलबे के नीचे दबा रहा और वह 128 घंटे बाद जीवित मिला. इस बच्चे का एक वीडियो सामने आया है जिसमें वह उस व्यक्ति की उंगली चूस रहा है जिसने उसे गोद में ले रखा है. इससे पहले एनडीआरएफ की टीम ने तुर्की में भूकंप प्रभावित क्षेत्र में मलबे में फंसी 8 साल की बच्ची को सुरक्षित निकाल लिया था. 

इससे पहले तुर्की में राहत और बचाव के काम में जुटे एनडीआरएफ के जवानों ने तुर्की सेना के जवानों के साथ गाजियांटेप प्रांत के नूरदगी शहर में अभियान चलाया था. एनडीआरएफ के जवानों ने गुरुवार को इसी इलाके से 6 साल की एक बच्ची को रेस्क्यू किया था.       

तुर्की में भूकंप : कुदरत का करिश्मा, मलबे के नीचे दबा नवजात बच्चा 128 घंटे बाद सकुशल निकाला गया pic.twitter.com/QUFoDoTTeM

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तुर्की और सीरिया में आए विनाशकारी भूकंप के बाद से हालात हर दिन बदतर होते जा रहे हैं. तुर्की और सीरिया में भूकंप की वजह से अब तक 25000 से ज्यादा लोगों के मारे जाने की खबर है. भारत दोनों देशों में 'ऑपरेशन दोस्त' के तहत मदद पहुंचा रहा है. भारत के राष्ट्रीय आपदा मोचन बल (NDRF) की टीमें  तुर्की और सीरिया में रेस्क्यू ऑपरेशन में जुटी हैं. 

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Order To Discharge Activist Sharjeel Imam, 10 Others Illegal: Delhi Police

The Delhi Police has contended before the high court that a trial court's order discharging 11 people, including student activists Sharjeel Imam and Asif Iqbal Tanha, in the 2019 Jamia Nagar violence case, is patently illegal and perverse.

In a petition, the police has said the trial court's order is in the teeth of well-settled principles of law, suffers from grave infirmities that go to the root of the matter and is perverse in the eyes of law.

The plea is scheduled to come up for hearing on Monday.

The petition has sought to set aside the trial court's February 4 order that discharged the 11 accused in the case, holding that they were made "scapegoats" by the Delhi Police and that dissent has to be encouraged and not stifled.

The trial court, however, ordered framing of charges against one of the accused, Mohammad Ilyas.

An FIR was lodged in connection with the violence that erupted after clashes between the police and people protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in the Jamia Nagar area here in December 2019.

The police said the trial court not only discharged the accused, but was also swayed by emotional and sentimental feelings, casting aspersions on the prosecuting agency and passing gravely prejudicial and adverse remarks against it and the investigation.

"The trial court, while not considering and weighing the evidence on record, has proceeded to discharge the respondents (accused) at the stage of framing of charges. The trial court erred in not only holding a mini-trial at this stage, but also recorded perverse findings which are contrary to the record to arrive at the finding that a case of discharge was made out against the respondents," the petition said.

It added that at the stage of considering an application for discharge, the court has to proceed with an assumption that the materials brought on record by the prosecution are true and evaluate the said materials and documents with a view to find out whether the facts emerging therefrom taken at their face value disclose the existence of all the ingredients constituting the alleged offence.

"At this stage, probative value of the materials has to be gone into and the court is not expected to go deep into the matter and hold that the materials would not warrant a conviction," it said.

The police said the trial court's order would show that it has proceeded to make observations on the merits of the matter.

"While exercising its judicial mind to the facts of the case in order to determine whether a case for trial has been made out by the prosecution, the trial court ought not to enter into the pros and cons of the matter or into weighing and balancing of evidence and probabilities, which is done at the stage of trial.

"The impugned order is null and void, non-est and in the teeth of well-settled principles of law," the plea said, adding that the trial court's order "ex-facie is patently illegal".

It said the trial court had erred in observing that the respondents were mere onlookers or bystanders and therefore, only the presence of a person at the protest site was insufficient to sustain an allegation qua the person being a member of such an assembly.

Imam was accused of instigating the riots by delivering a provocative speech at the Jamia Millia University on December 13, 2019. He continues to remain in jail as he is an accused in the larger conspiracy case of the 2020 northeast Delhi riots.

The trial court had said there were admittedly scores of protesters at the site and some anti-social elements within the crowd could have created an environment of disruption and havoc.

"However, the moot question remains -- whether the accused persons herein were even prima facie complicit in taking part in that mayhem? The answer is an unequivocal no," it had added.

Noting that the accused were merely present at the protest site and there was no incriminating evidence against them, the trial court had said dissent is an extension of the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression, subject to reasonable restrictions.

It had said investigative agencies need to discern the difference between dissent, which has to be given space, and insurrection that should be quelled.

It had also faulted the police for failing to produce any WhatsApp chat, text message or other proof of the accused interacting with each other and criticised it for "arbitrarily" choosing to array some people from the crowd as accused and police witnesses, saying this "cherry-picking" by the police is detrimental to the precept of fairness.

The Jamia Nagar police station had filed the chargesheet against Imam, Tanha, Safoora Zargar, Mohammad Qasim, Mahmood Anwar, Shahzar Raza Khan, Mohammad Abuzar, Mohammad Shoaib, Umair Ahmad, Bilal Nadeem, Chanda Yadav and Mohammad Ilyas.

The chargesheet was filed under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 148 (rioting, armed with a deadly weapon), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide), 435 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to cause damage), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (wrongful restraint) and 120B (criminal conspiracy).

The chargesheet also included provisions of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act. 

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स्टेज पर डांस करतीं स्टूडेंट्स को देख आउट ऑफ कंट्रोल हुईं मैडम, ऐसे थिरकीं की देखते रह गए बच्चे

Madam Ka Dance: इंटरनेट पर अक्सर डांस जुड़े एक से बढ़कर एक वीडियोज वायरल होते रहते हैं, जिनमें से कुछ हंसा-हंसाकर लोटपोट कर देते हैं, तो कुछ वीडियोज दिल जीत लेते हैं. हाल ही में एक ऐसा ही वीडियो देखने को मिल रहा है, जिसमें एक टीचर स्टेज पर डांस करतीं स्टूडेंट्स को देखकर थिरकने को मजबूर हो जाती हैं, इस दौरान वहां मौजूद लोगों की निगाहें टीचर के डांस पर जम जाती है. वीडियो में देखा जा सकता है कि, स्कूल के फंक्शन में बच्चियां स्टेज पर डांस कर रही होती हैं, तभी अचानक वहां मौजूद मैडम से रहा नहीं जाता और वो स्टेज के सामने खड़े होकर जबरदस्त डांस कर हर किसी का ध्यान अपनी ओर खींच लेती हैं.

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सोशल मीडिया प्लेटफॉर्म इंस्टाग्राम पर इस वीडियो को yourfunzone नाम के अकाउंट से शेयर किया गया है, जिसे खूब देखा और पसंद किया जा रहा है. वीडियो में बच्चों के सामने थिरक रहीं मैडम के आउटस्टैंडिंग डांस मूव्स को देखकर आप भी नाचने को मजबूर हो जाएंगे. वीडियो को देखने के बाद यूजर्स इस पर तरह-तरह के रिएक्शन दे रहे हैं और टीचर के डांस की तारीफ करते नहीं थक रहे हैं. 

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