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Dimple Yadav won’t be contesting upcoming polls, confirms Akhilesh Yadav

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Lucknow | Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said that his wife Dimple Yadav won’t be contesting the upcoming 2019 general election. The decision is taken by the party to counter the allegations of nepotism (Pariwarwad) against the Party.

Akhilesh Yadav announced that he would contest from Kanauj in place of Dimple Yadav while his father Mulayam Singh will be contesting from Mainpuri and Azamgarh parliamentary constituencies.

“My wife Dimple who is MP from Kannauj will not contest elections now and I would like to contest from her seat in 2019 polls. This is our first step to end allegations of pariwarwad in my party. Now BJP should also end growing nepotism within,” he informed at a public meeting. “If BJP fails to end nepotism then it shouldn’t target us,” he added.

Various Party sources believe that Akhilesh’s decision will have a far-reaching impact as other leaders too will now not be able to seek tickets for their family members in coming and future elections.

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BJP government misleading people on Kadapa steel plant issue: TDP MP Jay Galla

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TDP MP Jay Galla has accused the BJP government of misleading people on the issue of establishing a steel plant in Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa district and said his party would rake it up in Parliament.

Galla’s remarks came a day after the Centre, citing the Steel Authority of India Limited’s (SAIL) feasibility report, told the Supreme Court that it was not “financially viable” to construct a steel plant at Kadapa.

To protest the Centre’s denial, TDP MP CM Ramesh has threatened to go on a fast-unto-death in Kadapa district from June 24.

Galla said the BJP had been making contradictory statements at the Centre and in the state regarding the plant.

“It is (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi and (BJP chief) Amit Shah’s tactics of confusing people. They have been doing it for the last four years. The BJP’s double standards have been exposed,” he said here last evening.

SAIL was asked to examine the feasibility of setting up a steel plant in Kadapa district according to the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (APR) Act, 2014. In December 2014, it submitted that it was not feasible. Later, when the TDP resisted and demanded that the Centre fulfil the promise made in the Act, it constituted a task force on December 7, 2016, to re look into the issue,” he said.

The Centre, citing the old 2014 SAIL report, filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court, stating that a steel plant in Kadapa is not feasible. If it is genuinely interested in setting up the plant, it should have waited for the task force report, he added.

On one hand, the Centre is citing the outdated report in the Supreme Court. On the other, BJP state president Kanna Lakshmi Narayana says the Andhra government is considering setting up a steel plant in Kadapa. He also included the Kadapa steel plant as one of the items in his request letter to Prime Minister Modi on June 12. This shows nothing but their double standards,” the TDP lawmaker alleged.

Galla said the TDP would confront the Modi government on the issue in the upcoming Parliament session.

The proposed steel plant is emerging as another point of contention between the Centre and the TDP, which had in March pulled out of the NDA government over its refusal to grant special status to Andhra Pradesh.

The party has also been accusing the Narendra Modi government of not releasing enough funds for the Polavaram irrigation project and Amravati, the under-construction ultra-modern state capital.

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