Madhya Pradesh / Chhattisgarh

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Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Monday said that in his menofesto issued for two days in Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, the party did not talk about banning the RSS. He said that neither does he have any such intention.

Kamal Nath said that the BJP deliberately wants to confuse the public by airing such issues, so that divert the attention from philanthropic issues of the menofesto.

He said, "I or the Congress party never said that we will ban the RSS."

Kamal Nath said, "Except government sites, there is a complete discount for the RSS to have branches."

He said that this public will decide whether RSS is a social organization or a political one. We do not want to get involved in it.

He said that there was a suggestion that in the tribal hostels and other government schools, where the branches of RSS are looking, children's education is being interrupted. After this we included this point in our menofesto.

In the Naxal-affected Kanker of Chhattisgarh, six IED blasts by the Maoists, Sub Inspector Mahendra Singh of the Border Security Force died. In Bijapur there has been an encounter between the security forces and the Maoists. The security forces have killed a Naxalite in the encounter. Let us know that voting for the first phase in Chhattisgarh on Monday will be there.

Senior police officials told the agency on the phone that a team of STF was patrol in Beedre police station area of Bijapur district. When this group was in the area, the Maoists attacked the police force. After this the police also responded. Naxalites escaped after a brief encounter. Later, when the police team searched the spot, there was a Naxalite body in the black uniform, a gun and other luggage. He said that more information is being raised in this regard.

Officials said that in another incident a sub inspector of the BSF was injured due to the explosion in the landmine tunnel in Kanker district. He said that the BSF team had gone for patrol in the CoyaliBeda police station area of the district. When the group was in the middle of Kuttakal and Gom, then the Naxalites blasted six IED between Koyali Bada's Gom and Gattakal village. BSF sub inspector Mahendra Singh was injured in this incident.

They informed that after getting information about the incident, additional police teams have been dispatched for the spot and action is being taken to evacuate the injured policeman. Campaign against Naxalites in the area is in progress. In the area, the Naxalites have opposed the election and have done three major incidents in the last 15 days.

Significantly, for the first phase of assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, election campaign ended on Saturday evening. The first phase will be voting on the 12th of this month. Last day, BJP President Amit Shah and Congress President Rahul Gandhi campaigned in the state. Candidates will now be able to make personal publicity and house-to-house contact.

Polling will be held on November 12 in 18 assembly constituencies of Kanker, Kondagaon, Bastar, Narayanpur, Bijapur, Dantewada, Sukma and Rajnandgaon in seven districts of Naxal-affected Bastar region of the state. Officials said that in 10 Assembly constituencies Mohalla Manpur, Antagarh, Bhanupratappur, Keshkala, Kanker, Kondagaon, Narayanpur, Dantewada, Bijapur and Konta, voting will be held from 7 am to 3 pm. In Khairagarh, Dongargarh, Rajnandgaon, Dongargaon, Khuji, Bastar, Jagdalpur and Chitrakot, the voting will take place from 8 AM to 5 PM.

Congress has released an election manifesto before the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. In this declaration, an attempt has been made to present the face of the party with a soft Hindutva face. That is why Lord Rama, Narmada, Gauvans and Gaumutra have been mentioned.

The Congress has promised that if he comes to power, then there will not be an RSS branch in government offices and premises. If Congress came to power, it would withdraw the government decision in which government employees were allowed to go to the RSS branch.

In view of the voting of the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh on November 28, when the opposition Congress came to power in the manifesto (the promissory note) on Saturday, Ram Path Gaman (Lord Rama, the road that was decided during exile, starting from Chitrakoot) has also promised to build up to the border of Madhya Pradesh.

Simultaneously, it has also been announced to construct rest houses at the cost of Rs. 1100 crores on the Parikrama road of Narmada river by bringing the Mother Narmada Nyas Act for the protection of the life-line of Narmada river of Madhya Pradesh.

Congress has announced to open Gaushala at the Gram Panchayat level in Madhya Pradesh and make cow sanctuary in identified areas. Apart from this, it has been said that the production of cow dung, manure, kanda, cow urine and other items at commercial level and arrangements for the treatment of injured cows in the accident and cremation of dead cows.

Congress has said that the fees for lakhs of candidates who have participated in the examinations of the Vyavasayik Paricsha Mandal in the past 10 years will be returned and promised to stop the notorious Vyavasayik Paricsha Mandal for the recruitment scam in the state.