The counting of votes is being done today after the vote in the Punjab Municipal elections last Sunday. The Shiromani Akali Dal, Bharatiya Janata Party, Aam Aadmi Party and Congress are face to face in this election. This election is very important for Congress, SAD, BJP and AAP in view of 2022 assembly elections. A total of 9 thousand 222 candidates had participated in this election. With this, election results have also started coming. The influence of the Congress can be seen in the results so far, while it is a setback for the BJP.
According to Jagran, in Sujanpur of Pathankot, Congress won 8, BJP 6 and Azad candidates won 1. The independent candidate Surendra Minhas of Ward No 12 of Sujanpur won.
Nangal: In the Municipal Council election results, Congress won 15, BJP two and Independents two seats.
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AAP candidate Gurwinder Kaur has won from ward number one in Jalalabad.
Mamata Valecha of Akali Dal victorious from ward number three, Ladi Dhawan of Akali Dal from ward number 4, Vikasdeep Chaudhary of Congress from ward number 2, Sita Rani of Akali Dal from ward number 5, Natalia Mukhija of Congress from ward 7 And Ramesh Singh of Akali Dal from ward number 6 won.
Moving towards a large majority in the Moga Municipal Corporation election, the Congress suffered the biggest blow, Dr. Rajendra Kaur, wife of Congress MLA Dr. Harjot Kamal, from ward number one, has lost the election. This seat has been won by Harvinder Kaur, wife of Amarjeet Singh of Akali Dal. On the other hand, Gurwinder Singh Bablu of Congress has lost the election from ward number 45. MLA Dr Harjot Kamal’s reputation was on both these seats. The Congress is moving fast towards victory but the MLA also lost by winning.
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Hoshiarpur Municipal Corporation Hoshiarpur declared the result of ten wards, Congress won from 7, Azad on 2, AAP won on one. Rakesh Sood, wife of BJP candidate Tishik Sood from ward number 5, lost the election. Winner Gurpreet Sachdeva contested as an independent candidate and won by an overwhelming majority. He left the Congress party and contested.
Congress candidate Charanjit Kaur from ward number 1 of Faridkot won.
The election results have started in Moga. 2 Congress candidates won. Congress candidate Jagjit Singh from ward number 29 won with 100 votes. Gurpreech Sachdeva victorious over Warda 4 of Maega. Moga’s Kot Ese Khan Nagar Panchayat Congress snatched away from the Akali Dal. Here 9 Congress candidates have won. The Akali Dal has won only two seats. Elections were held for 13 wards. One seat has been won by AAP and one independent candidate. Earlier, it was in the possession of Panchayat Akali Dal and there were 12 candidates councilors of Akali Dal. Congress candidate Pravin Peena won from Ward 36.
The Congress party also won Moga’s Badhani Kalan Nagar Panchayat. Here 9 Congress candidates have won. Two candidates have won the election of AAP and one candidate SAD. So far, two Nagar Panchayat Congress have won the election results. One of them has snatched from the Akali Dal and the other has returned.
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Tarn Taran: In the city council elections so far, the Congress won 4 seats and the Aam Aadmi Party won 2 seats. The election nuisance in the strip is as follows-
Ward 1 Congress
Ward 2 Akali Dal
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Ward 3 Congress
Ward 4 Congress
Warden 6 AAP
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Ward 7 AAP
Ward 9 Congress
Ward 11 Congress
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Ward 13 Akali Dal
Ward 14 Congress
Ward 15 Congress
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Ward 19 Congress
Ajnala: Akali candidate from ward number three Simi Sarin, ward number 4 Congress Gurdev Singh, Vikram Bedi Akali from ward number 2 won. Joginder Kaur of Congress from Ward 1 and Gyan Kaur of Congress from Ward 5 won. In Ajnala Nagar Panchayat, Avinash Christ of Congress from ward number 6, Geeta Rani of Congress from number 7, Sangeeta Rani of Congress from 8 and Raminder Kaur of SAD from 9.
Jandiala Guru of Amritsar: Ward 1 Congress Dimple, Ward 2 Shiad Harjinder Singh Baman, Ward 3 Congress Baljinder Kaur, Ward 4 Congress Jatinder Singh Nati, Ward 5 Shiad Meenu Sharma. Ward 6 Congress Nirmal Singh Lahorea victorious. Ward 11 Congress Hardev Singh Rinku, and Ward 14 Congress Sanjeev Kumar Lovely emerged victorious. Ward 15 Shiad Roma Sharma won at Jandiala Guru.
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Gurdaspur: Congress’s Robin from Ward 14 from Gurdaspur and Sunita of Congress from Ward No. 15 from Gurdaspur declared the winner. Bhavna Bhaskar winner of Congress from ward number 19 from Gurdaspur. Ward one won by Varinder Kaur Chahal, two from Singh Pahda, three from Varinder Kaur, four from Sukhwinder Singh, five from Pritam Kaur. Balraj Singh of Congress won from ward number six. In Gurdaspur, seven seats are won by Congress’s Davinder Kaur and eight by Congress’s Jagbir Singh. Satpal Pappi from ward number ten from Gurdaspur, Sukhraj Kaur Mahal from ward 5, Surjit Singh and Satinder Singh from other wards won. Independent candidate Bhatti Winner from Ward No. 28 of Batala and Rani Winner of Congress from Ward No. 13 from Gurdaspur. Congress candidate Harnek Singh Neki from Batala ward number 26 declared victorious. Chanchaljit Kaur of Congress from ward number one from Batala, Sunita Mahajan of Congress from ward number 17 from Gurdaspur. The victorious Pritam Kaur and Varinder Kaur from Gurdaspur.
Let us tell that on February 14, elections were held on 117 local bodies in the state. 109 of which are municipal councils and nagar panchayats. Whereas, 8 municipal corporations are involved. Officials have informed that a total of 9 thousand 222 candidates contested during this period. Out of which 2 thousand 832 candidates were independents, 2 thousand 37 Congress, 1 thousand 606 Aam Aadmi Party, 1 thousand 569 Shiromani Akali Dal and 1 thousand 3 were from BJP.
The 8 municipal corporations in the electoral fray include Abohar, Bathinda, Batla, Kapurthala, Mohali, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot and Moga. Importantly, the party symbols are not included in the Gram Panchayat elections. Here political parties or local leaders decide the panel. The State Election Commission has appointed 145 returning officers and 145 assistant returning officers to complete the process.
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New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday reached Bharat Mandapam in the national capital to attend BJP’s office bearers’ meeting which will set the agenda for the party’s two-day national convention.
Party national president J. P. Nadda welcomed the Prime Minister when he reached the venue.
Prime Minister Modi also took stock of the exhibition depicting the achievements of his government.
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According to sources, the office bearers’ meeting could have an addressed by the Prime Minister.
Cluster in-charges of the Lok Sabha areas could also attend the office bearers’ meeting, which is underway.
The saffron party will be holding a two-day national convention, beginning today in Bharat Mandapam in the national capital to formulate a strategy to secure over 370 seats in the Lok Sabha elections.
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The convention will be attended by 11,500 party representatives, including Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, chief ministers and Deputy chief minister of the BJP-ruled states, MPs and core committee members.
In his closing address, Prime Minister Modi will give the mantra for winning in the Lok Sabha polls and how to make the country develop by 2047. He will also highlight the achievements of the party.
When the framers of the Constitution were drafting it, they left the subject of the Uniform Civil Code or UCC as an aspirational dream that could be fulfilled at a later and more opportune time.
Uttarakhand could become the first state where the Uniform Civil Code will come into force. In 2022, the Uttarakhand State Government started the process and entrusted the job of preparing a draft for the UCC to a team led by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai.
The Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami-led government will place the draft of the Uniform Civil Code Uttarakhand 2024 Bill (UCC) before the state legislative assembly. The bill will be tabled in the forthcoming four-day special assembly session that began on Monday.
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The State Cabinet of the CM Pushkar Singh Dhami-led government had already Okayed the final draft of the UCC, and it envisages uniform civil laws for all the communities who reside in the state. If the Bill clears the legislative assembly, it will be sent to the Governor for approval. After the Governor approves the bill, it will then become law. The UCC was a big sticking point in the elections, and the BJP had promised to make it a law in the state.
What is the Uniform Civil Code?
The Uniform Civil Code or the UCC is a set of laws that will govern personal matters like marriage, divorce, adoption, inheritance, and succession for all the citizens of the state irrespective of their religious beliefs. Today different laws govern these personal matters for different communities of different religions. The UCC will replace all such diverse laws, and there will be only one uniform civil law.
Finer Details Of Uniform Civil Code Uttarakhand 2024 Bill
As already mentioned, the draft of the law was prepared by a team led by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai and also included retired justice Pramod Kohli, social activist Manu Gaur, former Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Shatrughan Singh, and Vice Chancellor of Doon University, Surekha Dangwal. The draft is composed of 740 pages and has four volumes.
The final draft was prepared after extensive feedback in written, oral, online from public forums and 43 public outreach programs which included more than 60,000 people. The final bill has been described as a joint and collective effort and included opinions from a diverse section of the public. The Bill seeks to abolish polygamy and child marriage, give equal property inheritance rights to girls and boys, and also seeks to remove the distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate children, adopted and biological children.
A motley crowd of Muslims created a ruckus outside the Police Station after Salman Azhari, the Islamic preacher, was arrested by the police. Some Muslim journalists also defended the Islamic radical preacher who had earlier made genocidal remarks against Hindus and asked for his release.
On January 31, 2024, Mufti Salman Azhari gave a very vitriolic speech at a program in the Narayan Vidya Mandir grounds near the Junagadh court. The event was attended by a large number of Muslims in which the Mufti had given a hate speech that could be described as one inciting hatred against the majority community.
The police soon swung into action and arrested Mufti Salman Azhari for his hate-filled speeches. Hours after his arrest, a group of Muslim journalists came out in support of the radical Islamic preacher and asked for the immediate release of the cleric. They have also started the trending #ReleaseSalmanAzhari #IStandWithSalmanAzhari” on X and other social media sites.
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One such journalist, Ashraf Hussain, wrote that the cleric was an Islamic preacher and could not be categorized as a criminal. He went on to say that whatever will happen, will happen, and it is the will of Allah.
Another extremist Islamist preacher, Mohammad Asif Khan, said that Mufti Salman Azhari was innocent and became a victim of the smear campaign by the BJP IT Cell.
He also asked the followers of Mufti Salman Azhari to file a case against the IT cell trolls targeting the cleric.
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Another scribe, Ali Sohrab, who had behind him a history of vending fake narratives against the majority, also wrote that he stood in support of the Islamic preacher.
Imam Malik, who claims to be a political analyst, brushed off the genocidal statement made by the cleric and said that Mufti Salman Azhari was arrested by Gujarat Police for a poem that contained the word “Dog” in it.
Political commentator Nargis Bano, in a post on her Twitter handle, asked for the immediate release of Mufti Salman Azhari.
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WATCH Salman Azhari’s Viral Video
Mufti Salman Azhari had on January 31, 2024, given a very provocative speech at an event attended by a large number of Muslims on the grounds of Narayan Vidya Mandir near the Junagadh court.
'Hindus are dogs, it's their time but our time will also come – IsIamic leader Mufti Salman Azhari openly threatens Hindus for consequences"
This won't attract media coverage. It won't be called a hate speech but if any Hindu replies to him in his own language, that will become… pic.twitter.com/Oek0nG5dGt— Mr Sinha (Modi's family) (@MrSinha_) February 2, 2024
A video that has since become viral can be seen in which Mufti Salman Azhari was saying that the battle of Karbala is still unfinished, and today the dogs are ruling, and tomorrow will be our time. This was followed by the war cry “Labbek Ya Rasulullah,” and the crowd repeated after him.
Police have also registered FIR against the Organizers of the event, Muhammad Yusuf Malek, Azim Habib Odedara, along with Mufti Salman Azhari. The cases have been filed under Sections 153(C), 505(2), 188, and 114 of the IPC. The FIR has also included parts of the hate speech that were deemed highly inflammatory, directed against a particular community.
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The organizers had also violated the time limit for the event, which went on for much after the time limit had passed. The police have obtained a two-day police remand for Mufti Salman Azhari from the Mumbai Court to investigate the case. The police had applied for a transit remand for two days to take the Islamic cleric to be produced before a court in Junagadh.
The transit remand of Mufti Salman Azhari was opposed by Azhari’s lawyer Arif Siddiqui, who told reporters that the police did not give them the notice which must be given beforehand as per the law.
The Mumbai police have also registered a case against the followers of the cleric who had gathered outside the Ghatkopar police station and also blocked the LBS Road on Sunday night. Incidents of stone-throwing by the cleric’s followers on BEST buses have also been reported.
