Former BJP leader Kalyan Singh on Friday demanded a CBI probe into “deal” between BJP leaders and former UP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha that finally led to the latter’s induction into the BJP.
Talking to reporters here on Friday, Mr Kalyan Singh said that according to his information, several crores of rupees had changed hands before Kushwaha was allowed to join the BJP.
Questioning the silence of senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on this issue, Mr Singh said that the induction of Kushwaha was actually a part of a secret deal between the BJP and BSP. “After the polls, the BJP is all set to seek shelter in an alliance with the BSP and Kushwaha’s induction is proof of this,” Mr Singh said.

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BJP team urges cec to remove 3 top u.p. officials
Lucknow, Jan. 6: Demanding removal of three top officials of Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh government, a delegation of state BJP leaders on Friday met Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi here.
The party delegation, led by Shyam Nandan Singh, met Dr Quraishi and election commissioners H.S. Brahma and V.S. Sampath and demanded “immediate removal” of Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh, principal secretary, home, Kunwar Fateh Bahadur and director-general of police Brijlal.
The BJP feels free and fair polls in UP are not possible till the top bureaucrats are removed from posts. — PTI

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Congress to gather MP BJP wealth info
AGE CORRESPONDENT
BHOPAL, Jan. 6

The Congress has launched a state-wide information-gathering campaign to measure the wealth generated by the BJP leaders for themselves after their party came to power in MP. The state Congress unit has prepared a special form with queries relating to “makaan, dukaan and khadaan” (residential property, commercial and mining interests). These forms have been provided to the district Congress committees with instructions that these should be filled up with minutest of details about BJP leaders and workers who are bent upon amassing wealth. MP Congress chief spokesman Manak Agrawal said they have taken up this exercise to measure the materialistic progress of those in the BJP.

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Lokayukta FIR on HDK on land denotification
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bengaluru, Jan. 6

The Lokayukta police has registered an FIR against former chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, former minister Chennigappa and others in a case of illegal denotification of land in Arkavathy Layout. The Lokayukta court on January 2 ordered an investigation into allegations made by M.S. Mahadevaswamy.
The complaint said HDK as chief minister denotified survey number 84/1 (of 3.8 acres) at Thanisandra in October 2007, which was under acquisition for Arkavathy Layout. The BDA had reportedly created 58 sites in the same land and allotted 38.
However, on the recommendation of Chennigappa, the then chief minister HDK passed de-notification orders for the entire survey number 84/1. This caused huge loss to the state exchequer, the complainant claimed.
The complaint had also listed all the land owners as the accused in the case.

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Gangster for nod to file papers from U.P.
AGE CORRESPONDENT
new delhi, Jan. 6

Gangster Munna Bajrangi, accused of killing a BJP MLA in 2005 and also booked under stringent MCOCA for allegedly running an organised criminal gang, on Friday sought permission from a Delhi court to allow him to go to Jaunpur (UP) to file his nomination papers for the Legislative Assembly, as he wants to “serve the nation”.
Prem Prakash, alias Munna Bajrangi, moved an application in the court of chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav seeking permission for going to Jaunpur.
“Applicant hereby seeks permission to go to Jaunpur (UP) in police custody on 21/11/2012 to file the nomination papers of MLA for the elections scheduled for 15/2/2012 in UP,” Bajrangi’s application read.

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BJP releases U’khand 2nd list, U.P. 4th list
AGE CORRESPONDENT
new delhi, Jan. 6

The BJP on Friday released its second list of candidates for the remaining seats of Uttarakhand and also announced that its ally in the state, the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD), will contest two seats in the state. The party also released the fourth list of candidates for the Uttar Pradesh polls. Among the 46 more names released for UP, senior leader and Lucknow MP Lalji Tandon’s son Gopal has been given a ticket from Lucknow North. Four sitting MLAs have also been given the ticket. The party has so far released 347 names for the UP Assembly polls.
After declaring its first list of 48 candidates for the 70-member Assembly last week, the BJP announced the names of 20 more candidates2E