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Assam floods: Situation grim as 54.5 lakh affected, death toll reaches to 107

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The flood situation of Assam remained grim on Friday as the death toll kept on rising with each day passing. Reports said that the state has witnessed another seven deaths including two children so far in the last 24 hours and a search operation is still underway.

As of now, the death toll crossed the 106 mark. More than 54 lakh people have been affected due to one of the worst landslides in the state.

Reports also revealed that the Brahmaputra and Barak rivers along with their tributaries are in a spate of most of the affected areas. However, a large piece of land of the state is still underwater.

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) along with other organizations working hard to rescue people. They rescued more than 3658 people throughout the state on Thursday by using 276 boats.

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An official person from the NDRF team said that over 14,500 marooned people have been rescued by the team from Assam’s 12 flood-affected areas.

According to the NDRF’s assistant commandant Santosh Singh, the 1st Battalion Disaster Response Force of the NDRF speed up their rescue operation in the affected districts. He said more than 70 boats and 400 troops in the multiple affected areas have been deployed. Apart from this, additional teams from other battalions with more than 206 personnel have been airlifted to Silchar since Tuesday, Singh added

The district administrations from flood-affected areas have set up somewhere around 759 relief camps, under which more than 2.84 lakh people who have lost their home staying in it. Meanwhile, it has been reported that the districts including Sivasagar, Dhubri, the Brahmaputra, Nagaon, Kopili, and Disang are currently flowing above the danger level mark.

As far as the damage is concerned, the flood has destroyed more than 217 roads and 20 bridges in the state. Apart from this, there are reports that claimed that a crop area of 99,026 hectares and 33,17,086 animals have been affected due to the flood.

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Former Congress leader Radhika Khera joins BJP days after quitting over harassment

Radhika Khera, who was an All India Congress Committee (AICC) spokesperson, today joined BJP, after resigning from the Congress on Sunday,

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Former Rajasthan Congress leader Radhika Khera today joined the BJP. She had left the grand old party a few days earlier after accusing senior leaders of harassment.

All India Congress Committee (AICC) spokesperson Khera announced her resignation from the Congress on Sunday, citing an alleged plot against her. She added that she felt punished for going to the Ayodhya Ram Mandir.

Speaking to the media on Monday, Khera claimed that she had been mistreated, locked in a room, and harassed by Chhattisgarh Congress party leaders. She said that although she brought up the matter with the party officials, nothing came of it.

Khera, who had recently joined the BJP, praised the saffron party for their support and charged the Congress of being anti-Hindu.

After joining the BJP, Khera said, she wouldn’t be able to be here if she hadn’t received protection from the pm Modi-led BJP government. The manner in which I was misbehaved with on the land of Kaushalya Mata for being a devotee of Ram, for having darshan of Ram Lalla, she was mistreated, Khera said. The Congress of today is anti-Ram and anti-Hindu, it is not the Congress of Mahatma Gandhi, the she added.

Radhika Khera said in her resignation letter to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge that she was being criticised by other members of the party for her inability to control her desire to visit the Ram Temple and see the idol of Ram Lalla.

Before that, a video of Khera complaining about being disrespected had gone viral. She was clearly unhappy. She is heard accusing an unidentified person, saying that no one in the party is respected, particularly women who are elected to office.

She claimed, the chairperson of the Chhattisgarh Congress unit’s communication wing, Sushil Anand, and a few other people, verbally harassed her using words that she never thought existed during an incident on April 30, which she later disclosed details of. It is said that the men allgedly locked her in a room for a minute while a couple of other people stood outise the room to keep an eye on her in case she tried to run away.

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PM Modi addresses rally in Khargone, urges people to choose between vote jihad or the establishment of Ram Rajya

PM Modi stressed that India is at a crucial moment in history and urged people to choose between vote jihad or the establishment of Ram Rajya

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As the 3rd phase of the 7-phase 18th Lok Sabha elections began on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi targeted the INDIA Alliance and claimed that Opposition parties are contesting elections to save their dynasty and that their alliance was not at all bothered about the welfare of the people. PM Modi was addressing a rally in Khargone where he claimed that the BJP government has given Madhya Pradesh a new and prestigious identity by rectifying the shortcomings left behind by the Congress.

PM Modi stressed that India is at a crucial moment in history and urged people to choose between vote jihad or the establishment of Ram Rajya. The distinction came during the Prime Minister’s continuing attack against the Congress and other Opposition parties over their alleged intent to appease their Muslim vote bank.

He said the opposition parties are contesting elections to save their inheritance and hand over their party to their children. They do not care about the happiness of the people. He further added that the INDIA alliance is not bothered about the fate of the masses.

PM Modi took a dig at the opposition and said there is a saying that applies to INDI people: Apna kaam banta, bhaar me jaye janta (do your work and let the people go to hell). Prime Minister Modi said that the votes of the people helped 250 million Indians to come out of poverty, and he believed India is progressing because of collective effort by everyone.

He further added that 1 vote of theirs has made India the 5th largest economy and has increased India’s global influence, helped in removal of Article 370 after 70 years, made an Adivasi daughter the President of india and given reservation to women, sent the corrupt people to jail and the guarantee of free ration and treatment.

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Mallikarjun Kharge casts vote in Kalaburagi, Karnataka

The 81-year-old leader of the INDIA Alliance was accompanied by his wife Radhabai Kharge to a polling station at Basavanagara in Kalaburagi.

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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge cast his vote at a polling booth in Kalaburagi, Karnataka on Tuesday. After casting his vote the Congress leader predicted a landslide victory for the grand old party in Karnataka and said he had no doubt about it.

The second phase of Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka is undergoing in 14 constituencies. The 81-year-old leader of the INDIA Alliance was accompanied by his wife Radhabai Kharge to a polling station at Basavanagara. While speaking to the media the Congress President said things are good, good reports are coming from everywhere. He said  Allinace partners  are getting strength in this 3rd phase (nationally). He said definitely in this phase of elections the INDIA Alliance will get good support from the people.

Kharge said he has been voting from Basavanagara in Kalaburagi since he became eligible for voting at the age of 21. He said he never got his polling locality changed. When he became Minister, when he became opposition leader in Parliament, he never forgot Basavanagara. He said the people here have given him love and affection and helped him in developing his leadership. He said he was grateful to the poor people who stood by him. He said he would always stand by them.

Kharge’s son in law Radhakrishna Doddamani is the Congress candidate from Gulbarga (Kalaburagi) Lok Sabha segment, which the Congress leader has represented twice in 2009 and 2014 but lost the election in 2019. BJP has fielded Umesh G Jadhav from the Kalaburagi constituency.

The 14 Lok Sabha constituencies where elections are underway on Tuesday are Shimoga, Davangere, Uttara Kannada, Dharwad, Haveri, Bellary, Koppal, Bidar, Raichur, Gulbarga, Bijapur, Bagalkot, Belgaum and Chikkodi. Karnataka has 28 Lok Sabha constituencies. The first phase of polling in the other 14 seats in most of the southern and coastal districts was held on April 26.

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