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एमपी इलेक्शन: सर्वे की कोख से निकली लिस्ट

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  Kamal Nath is going out of way to prove he is not anti-Hindu MP Assembly Election Update: 14 October 2023 NK SINGH कमलनाथ के प्लान के मुताबिक काँग्रेस की लिस्ट इस दफा सर्वे-नाथ ने बनाई है। प्रदेश के नेताओं में आम तौर पर सहमति थी कि लिस्ट इस बार सर्वे के आधार पर बनेगी। पर क्या यह महज संयोग है कि यह लिस्ट राहुल गांधी के गेम-प्लान के मुताबिक भी है? वे अपनी पार्टी के क्षत्रपों के कार्टेल को ध्वस्त करना चाहते हैं, जो 10-15 एमएलए के बूते पर प्रदेश की पॉलिटिक्स चलाते हैं। सर्वे की कोख से निकली लिस्ट कमोबेश जीत की संभावना के आधार पर बनी है। एनपी प्रजापति जैसे अपवादों को छोड़कर कोई सप्राइज़ नहीं। बीजेपी की लिस्ट देखते हुए, काँग्रेस इस बार फूँक-फूक कर कदम रख रही थी। भाजपा उम्मीदवारों की पांचों लिस्ट 2018 के मुकाबले काफी बेहतर थी। नाम दिल्ली ने तय किए, प्रदेश के किसी भी नेता के प्रभाव से परे। चयन का आधार गुटबाजी नहीं, जीत की संभावना रही। इसलिए, दोनों तरफ के उम्मीदवारों का लाइन-अप देखकर लगता है, मुकाबला कांटे है। टिकट न मिलने से निराश नेताओं की बगावत का दौर शुरू हो गया है। यह हर चुनाव में होता है।
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Steel frame gets saffron colour in MP

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NK SINGH RCVP Noronha, the most illustrious IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh, never minced his words. In his autobiography, A Tale Told By An Idiot, he has given a long list of do’s and don’ts for civil servants. One of these reads: “Don’t allow yourself to be identified with any person or party. In certain circumstances this may cost you a degree of inconvenience, but at least it will keep you out of jail.” The golden rule seems to have become outdated. The District Collectors keep landing in controversy quite frequently in MP. The latest to join the list is Chhatarpur collector Ramesh Bhandari.   The state government organised a function in the district last week for the beneficiaries of its various welfare schemes. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan addressed the meeting. The collector was present in the audience, as he should have been. At the end of his speech, Chouhan, the archetypal politician, asked the audience to pledge their support to bring back to power
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BJP tries image make-over on poll eve in MP

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NK SINGH Naya jamana aayega, Kamane wala khayega The working class slogan, a favourite Left rhetoric, was heard this week at a meeting organised by the BJP Government in Madhya Pradesh. And exhorting the people to raise the slogan was none other than Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. He was addressing a meeting of beneficiaries of his government’s welfare scheme for the poor and downtrodden in Sehore district. The chief minister talked about his government’s efforts to alleviate poverty, pointing out that Indira Gandhi’s Garibi Hatao was just an empty slogan. At the end of his meeting, instead of the customary ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, he switched to the slogan first raised by Lenin a century ago, promising to usher in the New Age when only those who work get to eat. The slogan is a familiar war cry at rallies organised by communist and socialist parties. One rarely hears it at Congress meetings ever since socialists parted company. And it is almost never heard at
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Exorcising ghosts from voters' list

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NK SINGH The detection of a large number of ghost voters in Madhya Pradesh has raised heckles of the Congress party that is gearing up for state assembly elections due in five months. It rushed to the Election Commission (EC) of India this week, alleging 60 lakh bogus voters --- almost every tenth voters registered on the electoral roll.  The EC ordered a probe with extraordinary alacrity the same day and rushed its teams for an on-the-spot scrutiny to MP almost immediately.  The Congress points out that even as population had increased by 24 percent, the number of voters shot up by 40 per cent. It went up from 3.81 crore in 2014 to 5.07 crore in 2017. "These are not merely mistakes, "said MP Congress president Kamal Nath, "I suspect deliberate mischief."  Everyone agrees that a problem exists. Everyone except the BJP. The ruling party has no problem with the voters' list. It seems to think that the Congress is levelling baseless allegations because of i
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The Great Loot of State Exchequer in MP

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NK SINGH This week, Chief Minister  Shivraj  Singh  Chouhan  flew to  Mandsaur , the epicentre of last year’s farmers’ agitation in  MP , in a desperate attempt to convince the agriculturists why they should not be joining the 10-day strike called by a rainbow coalition of farm unions. Flanked by giant LCD screens publicising his   government ’s   largesse   to agriculture sector, he   disclosed   that   MP   government   had distributed   Rs   20,000   crore   to farmers under various schemes. Rs  20,000  crore   is  a staggering amount.  The  last  year’s total agriculture budget was  Rs  30,000  crore .   But something must be amiss if  farmers  are  not  happy  despite getting so much money. Every five hours a  farmer  commits suicide in  MP ,  say  official figures.   Half  the  farmers  in  MP  are debt ridden, according to a  NSSO  survey.   So, where has  this  Rs 20,000  crore   – that has come out of tax-payers’ pockets –  gone? Cheating in ma
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