Alliance with Jana Sena Party is intact, reiterates GVL
The Hindu
BJP MP G.V.L. Narasimha Rao confirms alliance with JSP intact, no cause for concern. JSP president Pawan Kalyan's manifesto with TDP doesn't affect BJP-JSP alliance. PM Modi's leadership seen as role model by Kalyan. People of Telangana looking to BJP as alternative to family rule of BRS. PM's announcement of BC CM in Telangana creating ripples. Undercurrent in favour of BJP.
The alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Jana Sena Party (JSP) is intact, and there is no cause for any apprehensions in this matter, BJP MP G.V.L. Narasimha Rao said.
“The JSP is a valuable partner of the BJP and will remain so,” the BJP leader said at a press conference here on Wednesday. When reporters drew his attention to the matter of JSP president Pawan Kalyan announcing a joint manifesto with the TDP, Mr. Narasimha Rao said that as far as the BJP was concerned, the JSP was still an ally. “We have entered into an electoral alliance with the JSP in Telangana as well,” Mr. Narasimha Rao said.
“Mr. Pawan Kalyan had shared the dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public meeting in Hyderabad recently, and had described Mr. Modi as a role model, whose leadership was essential for the country. This indicates his support to the BJP’s policies,” Mr. Narasimha Rao said, adding that it was up to the BJP’s national leadership to decide on an action plan going forward.
Mr. Narasimha Rao said that the people of Telangana were looking at the BJP as the only alternative to the ‘family rule’ of the BRS. The announcement of the Prime Minister that a person from the BC community would be made the Chief Minister in Telangana has created ripples, and asserted that there was “a strong undercurrent in favour of the BJP”.
The Opposition Congress demanded that the government open the Gandhi Vatika Museum, depicting Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy and freedom struggle, built at a cost of ₹85 crore in Jaipur’s Central Park last year, during the Congress-led regime in Rajasthan. The museum has not been opened to the public, reportedly because of the administration’s engagements with the State Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
Almaya Munnettam (Lay People to the Fore), group in the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church opposed to the synod-recommended Mass, rejected a circular issued by Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil and apostolic administrator Bosco Puthur on June 9 to implement the unified Mass in the archdiocese from July 3.
Pakistan coach Gary Kirsten stated that “not so great decision making” contributed to his side’s defeat to India in the Group-A T20 World Cup clash here on Sunday. The batting unit came apart in the chase, after being well placed at 72 for two. With 48 runs needed from eight overs, Pakistan found a way to panic and lose. “Maybe not so great decision making,” Kirsten said at the post-match press conference, when asked to explain the loss.