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Ahead of Rajya Sabha polls, parties on edge, keep fingers crossed

NEW DELHI: On the eve of the crucial Rajya Sabha polls, official candidates of mainstream parties remained on the edge on Friday for fear over possible cross-voting and support of independents who hold the key in some places.

While BJP pulled all stops to manage the numbers for Independents it has covertly supported, a sense of unease prevails among other parties which have kept their legislators in good humour. However, BJP itself is feeling the heat in Rajasthan, where its 160 MLAs have been kept huddled in a hotel for the past three days.

Samajwadi Party and BSP in Uttar Pradesh, too, have been heaving lavish hospitality on their MLAs, including sumptuous meals. With seven candidates in the fray, the ruling SP has been the most hospitable to its legislators. For the last three days, the MLAs had party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for company over dinner.

BSP chief Mayawati has been equally generous, interacting with media as well as party legislators. BSP has held three meetings with party MLAs in the past one week while Mayawati addressed the media twice.

Although, BSP has supported Congress nominees in Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh, the party is still silent about its 12 votes which could be crucial for Congress nominee Kapil Sibal, who is short of the required 34 votes. "Who we support will be clear after the results come out," Mayawati told reporters in Lucknow on Thursday.

There are 12 candidates against 11 vacancies in UP, where BJP-supported independent, Preeti Mahapatra, has created a flutter. Sibal, despite being short of the required numbers, is likely to romp home with possible support of BSP and RLD.

The SP has fielded seven candidates but its seventh candidate is short of nine first-preference votes. BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said the RS polls have exposed parties opposed to the NDA. "BSP is supporting Congress candidates but the two parties claim to be rivals. They should clear this ambiguity," he said.

Congress has declared support for independent candidate Kamal Morarka in Rajasthan where BJP has kept 160 MLAs in a hotel at Ajmer Road on the outskirts of Jaipur.

Rajasthan Congress president Sachin Pilot claimed that jammers had been installed around the hotel, where CM Vasundhara Raje and some of her ministerial colleagues are camping with the legislators.

"Government functioning has come to standstill as most of the ministers have been asked to take care of MLAs," said Pilot. He said his party's 24 MLAs would support Morarka so that there is no walkover to the BJP candidates.

Congress has formally decided to support INLD candidate, Supreme Court lawyer, RK Anand in Rajya Sabha polls in Haryana. "To defeat BJP supported candidate, it will be pertinent for us to support Anand," said Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari on Friday. He said that Anand had met the Congress leadership and had expressed faith in Congress ideology. With Congress support, while RK Anand is set to re-enter the upper house against BJP supported independent Subhash Chandra.

BJP's senior leader Vinod Gotiya, contesting as independent in Madhya Pradesh, has a fight on hand with Congress nominee and senior lawyer Vivek Tankha for the third vacancy.

Mahesh Poddar is the other BJP-supported candidate vying from Jharkhand. In Uttarakhand, two independents — Gita Thakur and Anil Goel — are in the fray. However, BJP has distanced itself from them.

As against its 14 retiring members from different states, BJP may get 18 seats — a net gain of four seats. Overall, Congress (60 MPs) is likely to continue to be the largest party in RS, but the tally of UPA may for the first time be lower than that of NDA.

This Blog is Originally Posted on Time OF India

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Swaraj Abhiyan seeks to drag BJP into chopper row

NEW DELHI: Seeking to drag BJP into the raging chopper row, Swaraj Abhiyan today accused the Chhattisgarh Government of floating a global tender in a "shady manner" to purchase a specific AgustaWestland helicopter by paying "over 30 percent" commission without exploring options.

Addresing a media conference here, Swaraj Abhiyan leaders, Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, accused the Raman Singh government in the state of paying USD 1.57 million as commission to a company registered in tax-haven British Virginia Islands to procure the chopper.

The two also sought to link Chief Minister Raman Singh's son to the controversy saying Abhishek formed a company called Quest Heights Ltd on July 3, 2008 almost six months after the bulk of the payment was made by the state government to Sharp Ocean, an agent company.

Welcoming the NDA Government's "earnestness" to probe the matter, the leaders sought an enquiry to be initiated into the deal finalised by the state government by a former judge to be recommended by Chief Justice of India.

"It was pretended that the (state) government floated a global tender, while it was (specifically) written in the tender which model was to be purchased.




"And the bids interestingly were received from AgustaWestland, its commission agent and its service provider itself. And based on that the contract was finalised," Bhushan said.

He added, "The contract invoice shows the cost of the helicopter was only 5.1 million dollar, which was paid to AgustaWestland and 1.57 million dollar commission was given to commission agent Sharp Ocean based in British Virgin island."

Raman Singh refuted the charges levelled by Swaraj Abhiyan, saying they were politically motivated and an attempt by Bhushan to "deflect" the issue from the larger corruption angle in the main AgustaWestland chopper deal.

Addressing a news conference in Raipur tonight, he said the CAG in its audit report for the year ended March 31, 2011, had only pointed out that failure of the state's Aviation Department to finalise the first offer for purchase of Agusta A-109 within the due date and its subsequent procurement at higher rate had led to extra expenditure of Rs 65 lakh.

BJP spokesman Sudhanshu Trivedi said the Chief Minister has clarified the allegations raised by Swaraj Abhiyan.

Equipped with a bunch of documents, which they said were procured under RTI, the two leaders said the state government on December 19, 2006 decided to purchase a VIP chopper as the existing one required lot of maintenance.

"Amazingly within three days, a meeting took place between representatives of one OSS, supposedly the service provider of AgustaWestland helicopters, in which it made a presentation to the government about Agusta 109 Helicopter and made an offer to supply this helicopter at USD 6.31 million," Bhushan said.

He alleged the discussion was followed by "some correspondence" with the company, which told the Chattisgarh government that if it was to buy helicopter directly from AgustaWestland, then it would have to wait for more than two years and therefore, it should deal with its dealer/distributor Sharp Ocean based in Hong Kong.

He further said that the company is registered in British Virgin Islands, which may be able to supply a pre-sold Helicopter earlier.

A fortnight ago, the Chhattisgarh Government had refuted Congress charges in this regard, dubbing them as "politically motivated".

"The allegations levelled by Congress are baseless.

The helicopter deal was done through a global tendering process while maintaining full transparency," Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Ajay Chandrakar had said.

At the Congress briefing, party spokesman Jairam Ramesh, too, cliamed the Chhattisgarh government was "totally involved" in the AgustaWestland scam.

He alleged Abhishek Singh, son of the Chief Minister, is "somewhere linked" to this scam. His name has also figured in the Panama papers, he claimed.

This New is Originally Posted on The New Indian Express.

 

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Congress coined 'Hindu terror' to woo Muslims, BJP says

NEW DELHI: Recent developments in 'Hindutva terror' cases, where key prosecution witnesses recanted and investigators claimed that inquiries were manipulated, has seen BJP launch a concerted attack on Congress, accusing it of concocting 'Hindu terrorism' to play minority politics.

The account of US citizen David Headley, a Lashkar operative convicted in the 26/11 case, the change of stance of a key witness in the Malegaon blasts case and fresh revelations about alleged manipulation of the Ishrat Jahan case to obscure the Mumbra teen's terror links have seen BJP virtually accuse Congress of creating a Hindu terror bogey to court the minority vote.

"Use of such phrases by top Congress members even when investigations were not complete and there was no report or a court's verdict raises a big question about their intentions, makes it appear that this was not the natural outcome of investigation. It was a deliberate attempt to play vote bank politics and a case of political prejudice," BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi told the media on Friday.

Trivedi alleged that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had first expressed the view that saffron extremism was a greater threat to India - an allusion to a Wikileaks cable that came to light in 2010 about Rahul's interaction with the US ambassador. The BJP spokesperson also referred to former home minister Sushil Shinde's remarks about "Hindu terrorism", comments denied by the Congress member.

Home minister P Chidambaram had overseen a cynical change in the Centre's affidavit on the case relating to Ishrat and three others who were part of a Lashkar module, Trivedi said.

Trivedi's salvo followed commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman's comments directly accusing Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul of backing a plan to implicate Narendra Modi in a fake encounter case even if it meant ignoring a terror plot intended to eliminate the then Gujarat chief minister.

The hard hitting statements are intended to turn the tables on Congress by using leaks and RTI revelations as BJP members feel UPA era cases were intended to embarrass the saffron party. By suggesting Congress had acted in an "anti-Hindu" manner to serve its political ends, BJP leaders are looking to put the main opposition on the defensive.

After the Headley testimony and the NIA report, the twists in the Malegaon case where a Hindutva group was named as accused has come handy for BJP which has pointed to comments of retired Maharashtra ATS officials who said original leads pointing to the involvement of SIMI and Pakistan-trained persons were overturned.

This News is Originally Posted on TIME OF INDIA