LS polls: Ajay Maken eyeing hat-trick from New Delhi constituency

Earlier represented by the likes of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani, the constituency is considered crucial due to its symbolic importance as it houses the country's power centers and Maken, Lekhi and Khaitan are putting up an engrossing fight to grab the seat.
   
"The entire nation's eyes are always fixed on New Delhi seat as it reflects the social characteristic of the country. The party which wins in New Delhi, wins in the country also," says senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley.
   
In the first two Lok Sabhas, the seat was represented by freedom fighter Sucheta Kripalani.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was defeated by BJP's Jagmohan in a tight fight in the constituency in the 1999 Lok Sabha polls.
   
In the December 4 Assembly polls, the AAP had won seven out of 10 Assembly seats under the constituency but Maken feels people will vote differently in the Lok Sabha election and AAP's support base has eroded significantly after it quit power in February.
   
In the Assembly polls, Arvind Kejriwal had handed a shock defeat to then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the New Delhi assembly constituency trouncing her by over 25,000 votes.
   
"I have done lot of development work in the area and I am very confident of winning the seat for the third time," says 50-year-old Maken.
   
In 2004, Maken had defeated BJP's Jagmohan while in 2009 he came out victorious against Vijay Goel, also from BJP by nearly two lakh votes.

(Agencies)

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Gross Bhaye friendly yoga diligently on Grhwar

योग लगन ग्रहवार तिथि सकल भये अनुकूल चर अरु अचर हर्ष युत राम जनम सुख मूल। राम जन्म का प्रसंग निरूपित करती रामचरितमानस की यह पंक्ति राम जन्मोत्सव की पूर्व संध्या पर साकार प्रतीत हो रही है। नगरी की परिधि में लाखों-लाख श्रद्धालु दाखिल हो चुके हैं और सबके चेहरे पर राम जन्मोत्सव की शुभ घड़ी की प्रतीक्षा का उल्लास झलक रहा है।

भिंड के रामबरन दंडौतिया को यद्यपि अपनी पूर्ण विकलांगता की वजह से चलने-फिरने में काफी दिक्कत होती है पर लकड़ी के हत्थे पर अपना भार उठाकर आगे बढ़ते दंडौतिया पूरे जोश में होते हैं और कनकबिहारी सरकार के दर्शन का संतोष उनके चेहरे से साफ पढ़ा जा सकता है। हालांकि दंडौतिया जैसा जोश तो बिरलों में होता है पर उन वृद्धों, बच्चों, युवाओं, महिलाओं आदि के उत्साह को अनदेखा नहीं किया जा सकता जो भीड़ के दबाव और पदयात्र की थकान को बौना कर मंदिर-मंदिर आराध्य के दर्शन की ललक बयां करते हैं। बजरंगबली की प्रधानतम पीठ हनुमान गढ़ी के अर्चक रमेशदास के अनुसार यह अध्यात्म की गंगा है और यहां मानसिक एवं आत्मिक सुख के आगे सारे सुख फींके हैं। हनुमानगढ़ी एवं कनकभवन से लेकर नगरी के पूर्वी मुहाने पर भी श्रद्धालुओं का सैलाब प्रवाहित नजर आता है। इसी क्षेत्र में स्थित निष्काम सेवा ट्रस्ट के व्यवस्थापक महंत रामचंद्र दास यद्यपि ज्योतिष के आचार्य हैं पर आस्था के महाकुंभ में वे भक्ति की भाषा बोलते हैं और कहते हैं कि सच्ची भक्ति घटित होने पर राहुकाल भी शुभ मुहूर्त सिद्ध हो जाता है और यहां तो राम जन्म की पूर्व बेला के साथ अभीप्सित भक्ति की धार बह रही है।

रामनवमी मेले में श्रद्धालुओं के सैलाब ने प्रशासन के अनुमान को तोड़ दिया। सुरक्षा व प्रशासनिक तंत्र चुनाव व खेती को देखते हुए इसबार श्रद्धालुओं के कम आने की संभावना व्यक्त कर रहा था, लेकिन रविवार की रात से लगातार बढ़ रहे श्रद्धालुओं की आमद प्रशासन और पुलिस दोनों के सांस फुलाने वाली साबित हो रही है।

आज ही पांच लाख श्रद्धालुओं ने सरयू में डुबकी लगाई। मंदिरों में भी ढाई लाख लोगों के रुके होने की संभावना सुरक्षा तंत्र व्यक्त कर रहा है। श्रीरामजन्मोत्सव के उल्लास में डूबी अयोध्या में श्रद्धालुओं की संख्या बढ़ने लगी है। रविवार की रात से ही श्रद्धालुओं की भीड़ जुटना शुरू होने से पूरी रात प्रशासनिक व पुलिस अधिकारियों को गश्त करनी पड़ी। रामनगरी में भीड़ बढ़ने से सुरक्षा व्यवस्था को सतर्क कर दिया गया है। सोमवार की सुबह सरयू स्नान के लिए घाट ऐतिहासिक भीड़ देखने को मिली। सुरक्षा तंत्र का मानना है कि करीब पांच लाख श्रद्धालुओं ने सरयू स्नान किया। सुरक्षा के दृष्टिगत मंदिरों एवं घाटों के पास अतिरिक्त फोर्स तैनात करनी पड़ी। जिलाधिकारी इंद्रवीर सिंह, एसएसपी केबी सिंह, एसपी सिटी आरएस गौतम व एडीएम सिटी ने पैरामिलिट्री फोर्स के साथ पूरे मेला क्षेत्र में रूटमार्च किया। एसपी सिटी ने बताया 8 अप्रैल को मुख्य पर्व होगा। इस दिन करीब 15 से 16 लाख श्रद्धालुओं के शामिल होने की संभावना है। सुरक्षा के पुख्ता इंतजाम हैं।

शुरू हुआ यातायात डायवर्जन- मेले के मद्देनजर यातायात पाबंदिया रविवार की देर शाम से लागू कर दी गईं। अयोध्यानगर की सीमा में वाहनों का प्रवेश पूरी तरह वर्जित कर दिया गया है। पाबंदियों के चलते अयोध्या में निवास करने वाले नागरिकों को आवागमन में काफी समस्या उठानी पड़ रही है। मंगलवार को पाबंदियां और बढ़ने की उम्मीद है।

काम आया सीसी कैमरा- घाट व मंदिरों पर लगाए गए सीसी कैमरे पुलिस के लिए काफी मददगार साबित हुए। सोमवार को स्नान व मंदिर में दर्जन के दौरान मेला क्षेत्र से दर्जन भर जेबकतरों को गिरफ्तार किया गया। सीसी कैमरे में इनके फुटेज को देख पुलिस टीम ने सफलता हासिल की। एसपी सिटी ने कहा कि पकड़े गए सभी जेबकतरों को जेल भेजा जाएगा।

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Ukraine accuses Russia of orchestrating separatist moves

Police detained 70 people occupying a regional administration building in eastern Ukraine overnight, but pro-Moscow protesters held out in a standoff in two other cities in what Kiev called a Russian-led plan to dismember the country.

Kiev says the seizure of public buildings in eastern Ukraine's mainly Russian-speaking industrial heartland on Sunday night is a replay of events in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula Moscow annexed last month.

Ukrainian authorities gave few details of the "anti-terrorist" operation that cleared the building in the town of Kharkiv but said two police had been wounded by a grenade that was thrown. Russia has denied Ukrainian charges of involvement but warned Kiev against any use of force against Russian-speakers.

Ukrainian special forces in combat gear, helmets and balaclavas and carrying kalashnikovs and machine guns stood guard early on Tuesday outside the building whose outside windows were broken.

A partly destroyed sign near the main door read: "Avakov - to jail", a reference to Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.

The pro-Russian protesters who also took over official buildings in Luhansk and Donetsk demanded that referendums be held on whether to join Russia like the one that preceded Moscow's annexation of Crimea.

"An anti-Ukrainian plan is being put into operation ... under which foreign troops will cross the border and seize the territory of the country," Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said in public remarks to his cabinet. "We will not allow this."

Interior Minister Avakov said on Tuesday about 70 "separatists" had been detained in Kharkiv.

"An anti-terrorist operation has been launched. The city centre is blocked along with metro stations. Do not worry. Once we finish, we will open them again," he wrote on his Facebook page.

Ukraine's Interior Ministry was quoted by Interfax-Ukraine news agency as saying those detained were suspected of "illegal activity related to separatism, the organisation of mass disorder, damage to human health" and breaking other laws.

Russia's Itar-Tass news agency quoted Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Yarema as saying there would be no storming of Donetsk's regional authority building on Tuesday.

He said the decision was made after talks in Donetsk with the protesters involving influential and wealthy businessman Rinat Akhmetov, who is from the city...

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From reuters News

Oscar Pistorius apologises for killing Reeva Steenkamp

In a trembling voice, he said he was "trying to protect" her and said he could not imagine the family's pain.

Mr Pistorius said he suffered "terrible nightmares" and often woke up smelling Ms Steenkamp's blood.

Prosecutors say he killed her in February 2013 after an argument. He says he mistook her for an intruder.

The athlete told Ms Steenkamp's relatives that there "hasn't been a moment since this tragedy happened that I haven't thought about your family".

"I wake up every morning and you're the first people I think of, the first people I pray for. I can't imagine the pain and the sorrow and the emptiness that I've caused you and your family.

"I was simply trying to protect Reeva. I can promise that when she went to bed that night she felt loved. ..

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I relate to the emotions of Krish: Arjun Kapoor on '2 States'

Actor Arjun Kapoor says he relates to the emotions that his character Krish goes through in "2 States".

"I relate a lot to the emotions of Krish and that is what mattered when I decided to do the film," he said.

"He is a very family-oriented, very righteous person by nature and he has taken his mother's side and tried to fill that void that is there because of certain conflicts between the father, son and the mother," the 28-year-old said here Monday at the launch of the new cover of the book "2 States."

"Every family has issues that subconsciously exist in our day-to-day lives. They come out only when something big like a marriage or taking up a job happens. The conflict arises at that moment. So '2 States' deals with that very interestingly," he added.

The film "2 States" is based on the popular novel by author Chetan Bhagat by the same name.

Arjun said that Ronit Roy and Amrita Singh, who play his parents in the film, made it very easy for him to pull off the kind of emotions the character required.

"Where Ronit and Amrita are concerned, they both are fantastic actors and they made it very easy for me to work with them and pull off a very difficult layer of the film," said Arjun.

"I know it appears as a broad family and romantic film but there is an emotional layer that comes in this journey of the boy when he is trying to convince everyone that two people who love each other deserve to be together," he added.

"2 States" also features Alia Bhatt, who will be seen romancing the actor in the film that hits theatres April 18.

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Bhansali’s Ram-Leela, Ranveer-Deepika are now Bajirao-Mastani

Bollywood actor couple Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone sizzled the big screen with their crackling chemistry in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Goliyon Ki Rasleela – Ram-Leela’.

And now, Ranveer and Deepika are all set to don the historical garb of Maratha general Bajirao and his beautiful wife Mastani. The film will be directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

While earlier there were speculations that actresses Katrina Kaif or Priyanka Chopra would bag the role of Mastani, source close to Sanjay Leela Bhansali say that Deepika Padukone has given dates to her ‘Ram-Leela’ director. Actors Shah Rukh Khan and Ajay Devgn were the strongest contenders for the role of Bajirao.

There were also speculations that Ranveer and Deepika were to star in Karan Johar’s ‘Shuddhi’ after Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor walked out of the film. But Karan Johar refuted the rumours saying that he has not signed either of the actors for the adaptation of ‘Immortals of Meluha’.

Currently, Sanjay Leela Bhansali is shooting for Mary Kom with Priyanka Chopra and is producing ‘Gabbar’ starring Akshay Kumar, Shruti Haasan and Kareena Kapoor Khan.

Ranveer Singh, who was last seen in ‘Gunday’, is busy Shaad Ali’s ‘Kill Dill’. Deepika Padukone is busy shooting for Farah Khan’s ‘Happy New Year’ which also stars Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani and Vivaan Shah.

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BJP gets traders on its side after promise to block FDI

The Confederation of All India Traders’ Association was waiting for the BJP’s manifesto to know about the party’s stand on Foreign Direct Investment in this segment.

“The traders’ community welcomes the BJP’s stand on FDI. We are hopeful that when the party comes to power, it will scrap the FDI in retail launched by the UPA government. The party has also included various demands of the traders’ community in their manifesto,” association secretary general Praveen Khandelwal said.

There is a majority of traders in Chandni Chowk parliamentary constituency and in parts of New Delhi and South Delhi constituencies. The union’s decision will help BJP candidates in all these areas.

“The steps taken by the BJP will go miles ahead in liberating retail trade from the clutches of not only MNCs but even from the vicious net of big corporates that were considering the retail trade as a profit centre by entering into partnership with MNCs,” association national president B C Bhartia said.

“This unhealthy circle encouraged and promoted by the UPA government will certainly come to an end,” Bhartia said.

The traders’ community is always considered as a traditional voter of BJP, but after implementation of FDI in multi-brand retail, the community decided to wait for every party’s manifesto before supporting anyone.

“We sent our demands to every national and regional party and prepared a chart of their manifestos. Some have included parts of our demands and some have totally ignored us. Now BJP has completely supported our cause and the party tops the chart. We have asked the entire fraternity to support BJP,” he added.

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