New Delhi Mar 31 PTI Lok Janshakti Party Ram Vilas leader Chirag Paswan on Thursday expressed his disappointment with the manner in which his family has been evicted from their Janpath bungalow by the government noting that he has not been given any alternative official residence which he is entitled as a second-term member of ParliamentHe visited the residence where eviction exercise by the urban development ministry began on Wednesday and paid his respects to the bust of his late father Ram Vilas PaswanSpeaking to reporters later Chirag Paswan asserted that he respected rules and lawful process and never demanded that his family should be allowed to stay in the house permanentlyWe had to vacate this sooner or later I do however slightly object to the way it has been done he saidThe ministerial bungalow was allotted in 1990 to his father a stalwart Dalit leader who was a minister for much of the period till his death in 2020Chirag Paswan said his family had been staying there after being given extensionMy family full respects the lawful process One cannot forcibly keep a place if he is not entitled to it Surely I am disappointed with the manner in which it eviction was done I am a second term MP and I should have been given an alternative accommodation the Jamui MP saidHe said he has as of now no government accommodation and has shifted to his grandmothers house in the national capitalStriking an emotional note he said his fathers memories are attached with the bungalow and added that nearly 100 people associated with the LJP founder had been living thereI will try my best to help them he said while again underlining his disappointment with the sudden eviction process The government on Wednesday started the process of evicting the family of late Ram Vilas Paswan from the 12 Janpath bungalow that was allotted to him in 1990 with several trucks carrying furniture and other household goods seen driving out of the accommodationThe Directorate of Estates which comes under the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry sent a team of officials to execute an eviction order issued to the late ministers son Chirag Paswan officials had saidThe 12 Janpath bungalow is earmarked for Union ministers and the occupants of the government accommodation have been asked to vacate it PTI KR ZMN

New Delhi Jan 22 PTI Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday expressed grief at the loss of lives in a building fire at Tardeo in Mumbai Modi also announced Rs 2 lakh each to the next of the kin of those who lost lives and Rs 50000 each to the injured At least six persons were killed and 23 others injured in the fire that broke out on the 19th floor of a residential building in Tardeo area this morning The blaze erupted around 7 am in Sachinam Heights building located opposite Bhatia Hospital at Gowalia Tank when many of its residents were still asleep an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC saidIn a tweet quoting Modi the PMO said Saddened by the building fire at Tardeo in Mumbai Condolences to the bereaved families and prayers with the injured for the speedy recovery Expressing anguish at the tragedy Naidu said Distressed to learn about the loss of lives in a fire accident in Tardeo Mumbai My deepest condolences to the bereaved families My thoughts and prayers are with the injured PTI KR ZMN

New Delhi Nov 30 PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a meeting with former prime minister H D Devegowda in Parliament on Tuesday Had a great meeting with our former PM Shri HDDevegowda Ji in Parliament today Modi tweeted Proceedings in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been disrupted since the start of the Winter session on Monday due to oppositions protests over various issues PTI KR ZMN

New Delhi Nov 18 PTI BJP president J P Nadda on Thursday chaired a meeting on the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections here as the party looks to step up its campaign and prepares poll programmes of its top leaders for the state where retaining power is crucial to its fortunesThe BJP is likely to launch vijay sankalp rath yatras in the state which will touch every assembly constituency sources said Such yatras have been a customary part of the partys campaign in assembly pollsThe sources said the upcoming programmes of the top BJP leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi Home Minister Amit Shah Defence Minister Rajnath Singh besides Nadda were discussed in the meeting which also took stock of the current political situation and the partys strategyShah and Singh besides Nadda will also be holding organisational meetings with booth presidents of different regions of the large state the sources said noting that the home minister will be handling western Uttar Pradesh a region where the perceived Jat anger over the farmers agitation has the potential to harm the partys electoral prospectsUnion minister Dharmendra Pradhan who is the partys poll in-charge for the state and Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh were among the leaders who attended the meetingThe sources said the upcoming programmes of the top BJP leaders including Modi were discussed in the meeting which also took stock of the current political situation and the partys strategyThe likely vijay sankalp rath yatras in the state will galvanise party cadres and touch almost every assembly seats they saidThe party is also taking feedback to prepare its manifesto for the elections expected to be held early next yearThe BJP had won a whopping 312 seats in the 403-seat assembly in 2017 Its electoral dominance of the state has been crucial to the partys stupendous performance in two back to back Lok Sabha polls and it is likely to pull out all the stops to repeat the performance PTI KR ZMN

New Delhi Oct 26 PTI In a swipe at the Congress following a meeting of its senior leaders the BJP said on Tuesday that the opposition party has all but agreed that it has lost ground as it lacks strong leadership and organisation The Congress high command agrees to the fact that the party today lacks a strong leadership and organisation so much so that their ideology travelling from Delhi does not reach the ground It itself proclaims that the Congress has lost ground BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said in a statement Chairing the meeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi said that there is lack of clarity and cohesion on policy issues even among state leaders and expressed concern that the messages on key issues were not percolating down to the grassroot cadresShe also attacked the BJP and asked Congress members to counter its false propagandaPatra described the Congress attack as nothing but same empty rhetoric in new inkHe said the meeting was an attempt by the Congress to project an all is well image amid its infighting People today are aware of the dissent within Congress and its first familys all out efforts to curb that with an iron fist Astonishingly the party which does not respect difference of opinions within its own rank and file is talking of democracy and Constitution he said PTI KR ZMN