Dispur, April 10: Just before the Lok Sabha elections, militants have again struck in the north-eastern state of Assam by a grenade blast that killed one person and injured 12 others in North Kachar Hills district.
The blast took place in Barak Valley express that runs between Silchar Railway Station and Lumding Junction Railway Station in Assam.
‘Black Widow’ terror outfit is suspected to be behind the blast. Black Widow is a breakaway faction of Dimasa outfit, Dima Halim Daogah.
Tytler out of poll race, sniffs conspiracy against him
April 10, 2009 (New Delhi):A day after he stepped out of the Lok Sabha race, Congress leader Jagdish Tytler has told NDTV that he believes people in his own party were part of the conspiracy against him.
Tytler stopped just short of naming Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
"Probably I was getting too big for my boots in my own party. I mean Delhi, not the centre. SO, people planned. I have a very strong gut feeling how this all came about, its not the work of the Akalis only. The Akalis took help of some people from our party who probably didn't want me. Its obvious in any political party you have to have enemies," said Tytler.
When asked whether he is hinting at Shelia Dikshit and her camp, Tytler said, "I don't want to name anyone."
"I wouldn't like to fight with her (Shelia Dikshit) and I really think she has come to stay now, three times she has been elected the Chief Minister and obviously the leadership can't ignore her and that's the advantage she took. She thinks she is in a very strong position. Well she is. So I said I might as well join the chorus of people saying she's good rather than confronting her," added Tytler.
Responding to whether he thinks Shelia supported the campaign against him, Tytler said, " Let me put this way, my party supported me."
Now, Naveen Jindal gets the boot in Kurukshetra
KURUKSHETRA (HARYANA): A retired school teacher on Fridayhurled a shoe at Congress MP Naveen Jindal here in what appears to be a fast-catchingNaveen Jindal trend inspired by the episodes involving George Bush and later home minister P Chidambaram.
Ram Kumar, however, missed his target during an election rally in Kurukshetra constituency from where Jindal, an industrialist, is contesting the Lok Sabha polls.
While throwing the shoe at Jindal, the retired teacher said he is doing so in protest of the policies of the Congress.
Police immediately took Kumar in custody and whisked him away from the rally.
Meanwhile, Jindal alleged that Kumar was under the influence of liquor.
Apparently taking cue from the episode involving the US President George Bush in Baghdad last year, a Sikh journalist had on Tuesday hurled a shoe at Chidambaram at a press conference in Delhi protesting against the CBI clean chit to Congress candidate Jagdish Tytler in an anti-Sikh riots case.
The shoe incident sparked protests by Sikh which finally led to the withdrawal of Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar as Congress candidates/
Two days after the Sikh journalist threw the shoe, a Delhi college lecturer had attempted to target a colleague with his shoe at a staff council meeting but it was thwarted by other teachers.
Were MPs splurging public money when terror struck Taj?
New Delhi:
Four MPs who ducked under dinner tables to escape the fury of terrorists in Mumbai would be wishing they had also put under wraps their sojourn in a five-star hotel, courtesy public money.
In a reply to an RTI query, the Lok Sabha Secretariat clearly said that MPs travelling on official assignments should not seek five-star hotel comforts.
But that is precisely what MPs N N Krishnadas (CPI-M), Jaisingrao Gaikwad Patil (NCP), Lal Mani Prasad (BSP) and Bhupendrasinh Solanki (BJP) were enjoying on November 26, when terrorists struck the Taj Mahal Palace hotel.
The lawmakers were in Mumbai as part of a 15-member Lok Sabha Committee on Subordinate Legislation to hold meetings with the top brass of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd and other Public Sector Undertakings.
"Committee members or accompanying officers shall not ask for any particular hotel or five star hotel comforts etc.," the Secretariat said in its reply dated February 25 while answering the RTI application of one Bimal Khemani of Aligarh.
"Four members of our team were staying in the Taj Hotel which was booked by HPCL, which was our host. Some more members were expected to come but they could not come," the panel chairman Krishnadas said.
Krishnadas had last year recounted the "nightmarish" experience of the terror attacks and how he and others had ducked under tables to escape bullets.
The cost of board, lodging and transport of the committee during the tour will be borne by the Lok Sabha Secretariat as per the guidelines and not by the Public undertakings or organisations concerned, the RTI reply said.
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