With Yogi Adityanath as CM, UP 'babus' give up 'nawabi' habits, embrace new work culture

Lucknow: Call it a Yogi Adityanath impact or the need of great importance, a reviving change is noticeable in Uttar Pradesh government offices nowadays.

The "babus" are gradually surrendering their old "nawabi" propensities for coming late to office and pointless postponing the administration documents.

After Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath restricted 'dish masala' and "gutkha" in government workplaces, the civil servants are currently changing to biting gums and candy stores.

Strangely, the authorities are currently coming to office on time.

A Times of India report asserted on Thursday that the UP Secretariat stopping was so stick stuffed around 9.30 am on Wednesday that there was no space left to stop different vehicles.

Yogi Adityanath's legislature disposes of the past, photographs of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh tossed in dustbins

Another obvious change is cleanliness in the Secretariat grounds, which was generally loaded with rottenness, "gutkha" and ''paan masala' wrappers, utilized plastic tea mugs and so forth.

'Dish masala' recolors on Secretariat dividers are being washed and redesigned to give them another look.

In the interim, the state woods division has likewise set up notices in its halls cautioning "Aap camere ki nazar mein hain. Gutka khane standard Rs 1,000 fine lagega (you're on camera. Biting gutka will pull in a fine of Rs 1,000)." Bulk whatsapp marketing

After CM yogi Adityanath's recommendation to the officials to be prepared to work 18-20 hours a day, participation in all administration workplaces is full and pending documents are being cleared opportune.

Source:-Zeenews

Former Congress leader SM Krishna to join BJP today

Former Karnataka chief minister and Union external affairs minister SM Krishna is scheduled to formally join the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday at its headquarters in New Delhi in the presence of party president Amit Shah.

Krishna, 84, had ended his four-decades-old association with the Congress on January 29, citing a shift from its core ideology and a lack of respect for senior leaders as reasons for the decision.

There had been much speculation on his likely move, and it had been widely anticipated that he would join the BJP after he ruled out joining the Janata Dal (Secular).

“Krishna is a very senior politician with experience both at the Centre and in the state,” senior state BJP leader KS Eshwarappa said. “Apart from his personal influence in the Mandya region, he is liked by the educated class for his developmental work in Bengaluru,” Eshwarappa said.

Political analysts, though, are not convinced about the influence he will have and his ability to pull votes.

Source:-Hindustantimes

With eyes on 2019, the BJP is working on many fronts at the same time

On the way back from Bareilly I asked the taxi driver: “Where do you hail from and whom did you vote for this year?” “I am from Meerut and we voted for Modi,” was his reply. “What do you mean by ‘we’?” I asked. “I mean my family members and neighbours,” said the cabbie. “May I know the name of your community?” “Yes, we are Jatavs.” “You are Jatavs and you haven’t voted for Mayawati?” I asked. “No, Modiji made sure that cooking gas reached our homes. My wife and mother are happy. Now, their eyes don’t water while cooking on a choolha (clay oven),” he said.

To conduct a post-mortem of assembly elections, my colleagues and I asked many such questions to voters. There were two significant reasons for the BJP’s victory: The Ujjwala scheme, in which cooking gas was made available to poor families and the promise of a farm loan waiver, which helped consolidate the farmers’ votes. On top of it came the Diwali and Ramzan rhetoric. That took care of the rest. In 2014 if Modi was an icon of hope, in 2017 he emerged as a symbol of a politician whom the common man trusted.View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider

The question now being raised is: Will the BJP manage to hold on to its 20-year-old rule in Gujarat in the assembly elections at the end of this year? Will it manage to displace the Congress in Himachal Pradesh? Who will come out on top in the five states going to polls next year? Similarly, the biggest challenge looking the Opposition in the eye is making sure it doesn’t become extinct. Will the Congress manage to hold on to power in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Mizoram and Meghalaya? Can it wrest the assembly from the BJP in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh? Will it need a Bihar-like grand coalition to do that?

Source:-Hindustantimes

Tanmay Bhat, Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar: Here's everything you don't need to know

Tanmay Bhat's parodies of Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar has, to use a technical millennial term, broke the internet.

If like the rest of the world, you're wondering what the fuss is about, here's what really went down:

Bhat, a comedian, who had earlier posted a monologue on feminism, presented a short skit on Snapchat last week. Using the app's face-swap feature (you can unfortunately swap your face with anyone's or anything's), he mimicked Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar in a video titled Sachin v/s Lata Civil War. Starting with imitating Sachin, Bhat spouted lines such as "Virat is good with the bat, and the ladies”, and moves on to 'roasting' or as some people from the internet like to say, insulting Lata Mangeshkar (he says she is 5,000 years old). He also imitates Lata making fun of Sachin saying that her fans will mourn her by singing her songs at the singer's funeral. The video ends with a lot of jibes and insults in Marathi.

Bhat then took to Twitter to further voice his opinions.
But even before he posted the video, Bhat reportedly put out a disclaimer as saying that he loved both the icons.

As the controversy grew, the Shiv Sena and the BJP called for police action against Tanmay Bhat. Shiv Sena even asked the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to take strict action against the comedy collective All India Bakc*** (AIB) and Bhat for allegedly seeking to vitiate social harmony through videos on Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar. The BJP's Mumbai chief Ashish Shelar also requested that a police complaint be filed against Tanmay Bhat and AIB.

The MNS meanwhile said that it will lodge an FIR against Tanmay Bhat and demanded that the video uploaded by him be removed immediately.

The Mumbai police has initiated a probe following the complaints. DCP (Operations) Sangramsingh Nishandar said the inquiry is being conducted by special branch of the city police. The inquiry was initiated after Shelar complained about the issue to city police chief Datta Padsalgikar.

Sachin's wife, Anjali Tendulkar also voiced her opinion on Twitter.

Source: http://www.firstpost.com

Narendra Modi’s degree: Arvind Kejriwal lays a trap, BJP walks into it

It’s rather embarrassing that our leaders would be discussing whether the educational degrees of the country’s Prime Minister are fakes. When Arvind Kejriwal made the allegation, it was expected that the BJP would laugh it off, calling it a frivolous piece of fiction concocted by a leader who has nothing worthwhile to do and is desperate for some cheap publicity. Now that no less than the party president Amit Shah and senior leader Arun Jaitley have come out with a defence for the prime minister, the matter appears to be serious.

Let’s not get into a debate over whether the documents produced by both sides are genuine. As is usual in such cases, it would lead us nowhere. The truth would finally get buried in the din of claims and counterclaims. The issue would die down after running its course. The AAP points out to several discrepancies in the BA degree of Modi. When the mark-sheet shows the year 1977, how can the degree issued mention it as 1978? How come, it alleges, the names are different in the mark-sheet and the degree certificate? No Narendra Damodar Modi passed out from Delhi University in 1978, the party claims, adding that the only Narendra Modi to graduate in the year from the varsity was Narendra Mahavir Modi, a resident of Rajasthan.
Arvind Kejriwal and Narendra Modi

Arvind Kejriwal and Narendra Modi

The BJP, on its part, has produced the BA and MA certificates of the Prime Minister and claims them to be genuine. We don’t have clear answers from the party on the discrepancies pointed out by AAP leaders, but they are expected to brush these off as clerical errors. The party would like others to believe that the allegations are pure fiction with no basis in reality. But why did it need to get into this in the first place?
Nobody was discussing the degree issue with any seriousness, but after the BJP’s media conference it has assumed some gravitas. It’s possible the AAP will dig out some more documents in the coming days and keep the BJP leaders on their toes. Television debates will only add to the party’s discomfiture. It could have done without the unnecessary attention but given the party’s natural inclination to give it back, its response is not unexpected.
Shah said AAP has taken the public discourse to a new low. He could be right, but the BJP has not exactly been the standard-bearer among political parties in this respect either. But such allegations don’t seem to bother the AAP. The fact that it managed to engage the BJP on the matter is good enough. Actually, it’s playing the BJP’s game when it comes to staying in news and putting the opposition in a situation of discomfiture. In a way what the BJP is doing to the Congress, the AAP is doing to the BJP.

It’s pointless to be judgmental over a certificate or two. It won’t diminish Narendra Modi. Political parties play their little games. The media is their new battle field. Here no low is low enough. Source: http://www.firstpost.com

Will shoot policemen if they continue to harass BJP workers, warns BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj

BJP's loudmouth MP from Unnao Sakshi Maharaj, who has courted several controversies in past, has now threatened to shoot cops if they continue to harass his supporters and party workers.

According to Aaj Tak, Sakshi Maharaj has said that if UP policemen continued to threaten his party workers in Mainpuri they will be gunned down.

The controversial BJP MP issued the statement a day after visiting the house of Maidan Singh, BJP vice president of the Mainpuri district, who is being allegedly harassed by the local policemen.

Addressing his supporters, Sakshi Maharaj accused the Samajawadi Party government led by Akhilesh Yadav of failing to control the rising lawlessness in Uttar Pradesh and encouraging anti-social elements.

The Unnao MP said the local policemen have misbehaved with Maidan Singh's two daughters and entered his house without lady constables. Sorce:http://zeenews.india.com