Election 2019

EC asks MNS to give details of expenses of Raj’s rallies

Mumbai | The Election Commission has asked the MNS to submit details of expenses incurred on its president Raj Thackeray’s election rallies, an official said Thursday.

Though the MNS is not contesting the Lok Sabha elections, Thackeray held at least ten rallies in Maharashtra last month, attacking the BJP governments at the Centre and the state and asking people not to vote for the saffron party.

“Political parties are bound to disclose their expenses as per the rules. The MNS will have to disclose the expenses of rallies,” an election official said.

The BJP had writtento the state’s Chief Electoral Officer(CEO) seeking to know which Lok Sabha candidate would be held accountable for the cost ofThackeray’s campaign.

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‘India’s Divider in Chief’, TIME Magazine’s Cover create controversy

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New Delhi | American publication TIME magazine has sparked a controversy with the headline of its May 20 issue.

The publication May 20 issue read a headline called ‘India’s Divider in Chief’ with a caricature of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The cover is a part of the article by a journalist Aatish Taseer titled ‘Can World Largest Democracy Endure Another Five years Of Modi Government?” The cover has come just 2 years after the same publication called PM Modi, ‘Person of the Year’ in an online poll.

The article compares former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s idea of secularism with the prevailing social “stress” under Modi who “demonstrated no desire to foster brotherly feelings between Hindus and Muslims.”

The article has also recalled the Modi’s role in the Gujarat riots that allegedly claimed lives of scores of people. The whole article is based on the Hindu-Muslim relations and blames Modi for being pro-Hindu.

It is not the first time when the magazine has come with critical commentary about Modi. In its published article in 2012, the magazine described him as a controversial, ambitious and a shrewd politician.

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