Narendra Modi to sway Chhattisgarh with five rallies in six hours

In a bid to rake up support for his party and incumbent Chief Minister Raman Singh, BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will arrive in poll-bound Chhattisgarh on Thursday to address five election rallies.

According to reports, the Gujarat Chief Minister will address the first rally in Bemetara at Bosco Basic School Ground around 11.15 am, from there he will rush to Kawardha where he will address a rally at the Sardar Patel Ground scheduled around 12.40 pm.

The BJP leader will be then taken to Khelmala Ground in Kurud where he will address the third election rally around 2.25 pm. Modi will then proceed to Durg to address the crowd waiting for him at Ravishankar Stadium around 3.50 pm.

Modi will address his last rally of the day in Raipur at the Open Stadium near Budha Talab around 5.15 pm.

Modi's visit to the state comes after party workers demanded to extend his campaign in the states having elections.

After the peaceful completion of the first-phase of polls on November 11, voting for the second phase will be held on November 19.

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Bench to hear Swamy’s plea against Etihad-Jet deal

The Supreme Court on Friday posted for hearing on October 8 a writ petition filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, challenging the Etihad Airways-Jet Airways deal approved by the Union Cabinet on Thursday.

A Bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Ranjan Gogoi directed the petition to be listed for hearing on a mention made by Dr. Swamy about the urgency.

In his petition, Dr. Swamy alleged there had been a grant of largesse of national asset in favour of a foreign airline (Etihad Airways) resulting in undue enrichment and enormous pecuniary advantage to such foreign airline at the cost and expense of the public, national and domestic airlines as well as airports.

He said “In order to facilitate the execution of this colossal fraud on the Indian exchequer, the foreign airline has agreed to guarantee personal loans as well as pay a premium towards its foreign investment in a domestic airlines — Jet Airways. Such grant of largesse is in the form of an unprecedented increase of capacity entitlements through execution of Bilateral/MoU in favour of Abu Dhabi under existing Air Service Agreement between the government of India and the United Arab Emirates.”

“The fact is that the negotiations, meetings and discussions of the bilateral/MoU, through which the Government of India granted a largesse of increase of capacity entitlement up to 50,000 seats per week from existing 13,330 seats per week in favour of Etihad Airways, was undertaken in Abu Dhabi. As per the negotiations, Etihad Airways was to invest and purchase 24% of the shareholding of Jet Airways (India) Ltd., at an enormous premium by way of preferential allotment,” the petitioner said.

Dr. Swamy said that it was a record that in less than 48 hours after the meeting of the group of Ministers, which acceded to the “unrealistic demands” of Etihad, the bilateral/MoU was signed in Abu Dhabi on April 24. Simultaneously, the announcement by Etihad was made “on the same date, at the same time and at the same place”.

He sought a direction for ordering a probe under the supervision of the court into the execution of the bilateral; enrichment of foreign party at the cost of the Indian exchequer; the antecedents of the facilitator; and diversion of benefits to the facilitator.

Credits: thehindu

SC to hear Subramanian Swamy’s plea on Jet-Etihad deal on Tuesday

The Supreme Court will on October 8 hear a PIL by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy seeking quashing of the April 24 agreement between India and the United Arab Emirates, which he alleged gave unfair concessions to Etihad Airways and India's Jet Airways.

He said Etihad, the UAE's national carrier, was granted an "unprecedented, arbitrary, irrational and unsustainable" additional 36,670 seats per week — over and above the existing 13,330 seats per week — in capacity enhancement to Abu Dhabi, in addition to allowing it third country code sharing and domestic code sharing.

"It is the petitioner's case that this increase in capacity entitlement together with code sharing permission was made with the underlying intention to grossly and unjustly enrich the foreign airline for collateral purposes and in the process encourage foreign investment into a private domestic airline, Jet Airways, that acted as a facilitator," he said.

கொஞ்ச நாளைக்கு இந்தப் பக்கமே வராதேள்.... சுப்பிரமணியம் சாமிக்கு பாஜக போட்ட தடை!

தமிழகத்தில் லோக்சபா தேர்தலுக்கான கூட்டணி இறுதியாகும் வரை தமிழகத்தில் நடைபெறும் எந்த பாஜக கூட்டத்திலும், மாநாட்டிலும் தலை காட்ட வேண்டாம் என்று சுப்பிரமணியம் சாமிக்கு பாஜக மேலிடம் தடை விதித்துள்ளதாம். 

இந்த உத்தரவின் காரணமாகவே திருச்சியில் நடந்த நரேந்திர மோடி கூட்டத்துக்குக் கூட சாமியைக் கூப்பிடவில்லையாம். இதனால் கோபித்துக் கொண்டு வெளிநாட்டுக்குப் போய் விட்டாராம் சுப்பிரமணியம் சாமி.

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