Written by Ishita Sengupta | New Delhi | Updated: February 25 2018 2:50 pm People on social media were furious with Congress for politicising Sridevi s death. Related News Sridevi funeral: Fans pour in from across the nation to catch a last glimpseSridevi s last journey: Mumbai bids adieu emotions run highTelescope: Watching the worst in usBollywood actor Sridevi passed away after a cardiac arrest on Saturday (February 24) night. The actor was 54 and was in Dubai attending the wedding of Mohit Marwah with husband Boney and younger daughter Khushi. The news has come as a major shock to her fans and members of the Hindi film fraternity. People still cannot believe the news and social media has been flooded with condolence messages. Fans have taken to the Internet to share their favourite photos of the actor their favourite Sridevi movies and instances of when they last saw her on the screen. However amidst all this a tweet from the official handle of The Indian National Congress (INC) has come under heavy criticism by people on social media. We regret to hear about the passing away of Sridevi. An actor par excellence. A legend who will continue to live in our hearts through her stellar body of work. Our deepest condolences to her loved ones. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the UPA Govt in 2013 read the tweet. Was that by the UPA Govt really necessary INC in a condolence message? :( pic.twitter.com/BkgrYEKYCh Karthik (@beastoftraal) February 25 2018 People on social media are furious for making the death of the actor political. You could have also mentioned that she was born when Congress Govt was in power and died when BJP govt is in power wrote one while another added I would not be surprised if they extend she was alive when indira and rajiv were prime ministers but died in modi govt. Shameful. The tweet however has been removed and the revised tweet reads We regret to hear about the passing away of Sridevi. An actor par excellence. A legend who will continue to live in our hearts through her stellar body of work. Our deepest condolences to her loved ones. Another tweet from the handle reads She received a multitude of awards including the fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2013 by the Govt of India & 6 Filmfare awards the first at the age of 14. Sridevi started her career at the age of 4 in Thunaivan . Her Bollywood debut was in Julie at 12. This was the previous tweet. Was that by the UPA Govt really necessary INC in a condolence message? :( pic.twitter.com/BkgrYEKYCh Karthik (@beastoftraal) February 25 2018 And this is how people reacted. She Was Awarded The Padma Shri By The UPA Govt In 2013 . Are You Serious? Is That Line Even Necessary To Pay Tribute To A Legendary Actress? Please Stop Politicising The Death. You Guys Are Disgrace To Humanity. Shame On You Congress. #Sridevi #RIPSridevihttp://t.co/gdPHFEIWE4 Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) February 25 2018 You could have also mentioned that she was born when Congress Govt was in power and died when BJP govt is in power Amit Saha (@saha_amit) February 25 2018 Dear @OfficeOfRG you make an award sound like a favour granted. More importantly #PadmaAwards is an honour given by the country (hence @rashtrapatibhvn) to its citizen not by any political party. Shows Congress sense of entitlement. By this tweet you have insulted #Sridevi GhoseSpot (@SandipGhose) February 25 2018 Also mention she was born when Nehru was the prime-minister. Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) February 25 2018 I would not be surprised if they extend she was alive when indira and rajiv were prime ministers but died in modi govt. Shameful. Shaifali Malukani (@sp_malukani) February 25 2018 Seriously? Was the UPA bit for giving her a Padma Shri really necessary in a condolence message. What kind of idiots are you guys Masakadzas (@Nesenag) February 25 2018 After much flak @INCIndia deleted the tweet mentioning PadmaShri by UPA but now replaced with photo of PadmaShri ceremony. Changed from UPA to Govt-Of-India . What a Shameful scavenging on the dead when #Sridevi isn t even cremated yet @OfficeOfRG @divyaspandana pic.twitter.com/ijMxsGCLYg #Intolerant भ रत य (@goyalsanjeev) February 25 2018 For all the latest Trending News download Indian Express App Get assembly election result LIVE updates from each constituency in Tripura Nagaland and Meghalaya IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related News To Sridevi from a fangirl People are leaving HATS and GLOVES to help the homeless stay warm in Bristol Tags: Social media viral Sridevi Rajinder Krishan SharmaFeb 25 2018 at 10:20 pmcongress s bankruptcy of thoughts is well known.it reflects poor leadership . SRIDEVI is a legend in the hearts of her millions of friends.her demise at such early age is an irreparable loss to indian film industry. india is stunned.my condolences to the bereaved family.(1)(1) Reply SsrikanthFeb 25 2018 at 1:20 pmThe party will do anything for votes. The party is full of potheads. It s a pity politics has been reduced to such a level.(23)(18) Reply RRajanFeb 25 2018 at 1:00 pmat any cost congress has to come back to power...late sridevi please bless them in return...Rahul wants to come back and take the empire....family ruling back(21)(22) Reply DDr Anita KumarFeb 25 2018 at 12:40 pmWelcome to Sathya Hospital Specialist hospital that . Do you wish to in exchange of money? If yes. Then contact us today to get a reliable and good transaction for good money. Contact via below information email: sathyaspecialisthospital call me 918553685819 WhatsApp number: 918553685819(0)(19) Reply .story-content span .story-content p .story-content div color:#000!important;font-family: open sans Arial!important;font-size:15px!important ALSO READ Karti sent to one-day CBI custody in INX Media case Paid Karti 700 000 through foreign subsidiaries claim Indrani and Peter INX Media case: Karti Chidambaram arrested by CBI in Chennai say reports INX Media case: CBI detains Karti Chidambaram for manipulating tax probe Aircel-Maxis INX Media cases: ED raiding Karti s kin in Chennai Kolkata span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 Senior Indian National Congress leader Palaniappan Chidambaram cancelled his engagements in England and returned to Delhi immediately after arriving at London s Heathrow airport on Wednesday morning when he heard of his son Karti s arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Chennai the same morning. Chidambaram and his former Cabinet colleague Salman Khurshid travelled together. Among his engagements was a debate at the high profile Oxford Union on the motion This House Regrets the Partition of India on Thursday evening. An observer described the former Indian finance minister as looking extremely distraught . This was soon after he came to know about Karti s detention. He then decided he was not going to proceed with his programme and instead rushed back home on the first available flight to support his son. The Chidambarams have been targeted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the time the father was still a minister in the Congress-led government that preceded the current dispensation. Having succeeded in painting them as corrupt in the perception of a section of the public and thereby also portrayed the Congress as generally corrupt the BJP intensified its pursuit of them after winning power in 2014. However even after four years of relentlessly accosting them and kangaroo trials by media it has so far failed to bring a charge against them. Last week P Chidambaram approached the Supreme Court of India seeking protection of his fundamental rights under articles 14 19 and 21 of the Indian Constitution including the right to privacy amid repeated summons to Karti and raids by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with cases related to Arcel-Maxis and INX Media. A first information report filed by the CBI in May 2017 had claimed irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board s decision to allow INX Media to receive funds of Rs 3.05 billion in 2007 from outside India. In his application he sought to defend his right to privacy and the right to live along with members of his family in dignity . He argued: The CBI and ED as part of political vendetta have made vexatious searches issued repeated summons unreasonably questioned persons long hours unlawfully attached fixed deposits maliciously leaked false information to the media and otherwise caused extreme harassment anguish and humiliation to me and my son and to other persons who are normal business and social friends of my son. He asserted he was the real target of the alleged witch-hunt and sought a direction from the apex court to prohibit the CBI and ED from continuing with their illegal http://pokemonworld.vforums.co.uk/profile/arfplayer activities. However before the case could be heard the CBI struck. After the rebuff in the high profile 2G spectrum award case in which an erstwhile minister belonging to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam A Raja was acquitted after the judge found there was no evidence the CBI could be under considerable pressure to perform. It has sensationally produced claims by Indrani Mukerjea who is in prison charged with murdering her daughter to detain and question Karti Chidambaram. BHUBANESWAR: Naveen Patnaik s Biju Janata Dal delivered a thumping victory in a bypoll that his party and the Bharatiya Janata Party contested like everything was at stake. The ruling party s candidate Rita Sahu widow of three-time Congress Bijepur MLA won with 102 871 votes leaving behind BJP s Ashok Panigarhi imported from the BJD by a margin of 41 933 votes. While the Indian National Congress candidate Pranaya Sahu was left out of contention winning only 10 274 votes a mere 5.65 per cent of the polled votes. An unusually cheerful Patnaik sought to read in the bypoll verdict his party s fortunes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Such an enormous victory with a margin of over 40 000 votes will have an impact on future elections said the four-time Chief Minister. A year ago the BJP using its gains in zilla parishad numbers in a four-tier rural polls had made similar projections. The BJP s party president Amit Shah on a visit to Odisha had declared the party would come to power winning 120 of the state s 147 assembly seats in 2019. In 2014 it had won 10 seats. The Bijepur bypoll was a litmus test for this claim as much as it was for the popularity of Patnaik s BJD now almost two-decades in power. Both parties fought it accordingly not holding back on resources antics or show of strength that resulted in the death of a person on the last day of campaigning. Two incidents in particular a person throwing slippers at the CM in a rally in Barpalli and an attack on BJD leader Sushant Singh s brother that killed his driver may have proved critical in swinging votes BJD s way. It is still an acknowledgment of the BJD s astute electoral management that the party cornered 56 per cent of the polled votes in a constituency it had lost the last three times and which the BJP had swept in the rural polls held only a year ago. Dharmendra Pradhan Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas who had led the BJP s campaign told ET We are politely accepting the verdict. In an editorial published in a paper he edits BJD MP Tathagat Satpathy had warned the odia voter never forgave violence. Patnaik reiterated the view on Wednesday Odisha is a peaceful state; the people will not stand for violence in a democracy. The BJP can take comfort in the fact that its votes doubled from what it had won in 2014. There is almost nothing that can be said in defence of the Congress s performance Bijepur as its leaders have candidly admitted. Noting the Congress elimination from the equation Pradhan added Our responsibility as primary opposition party in Odisha has increased and we will continue to expose the CM s poor governance of the state. BHUBANESHWAR: Former Union Minister and Indian National Congress leader Srikant Jena has asked the Odisha government to set up a refinery of its own instead of facilitating bauxite to Vedanta s Lanjigarh refinery. At a press conference on Monday Jena accused the Odisha government of providing bauxite at a discount to Anil Agarwal s Vedanta under the long term linkage announced last week. His government including party president Rahul Gandhi had played a key in opposing a mining of the Niyamgiri deposit in Kalahandi that left Anil Agarwal s next door refinery with no captive raw material. For its two million tonne operation at the Lanjigarh the company currently sources bauxite from commercial suppliers in Guinea Gujarat and Chhattisgarh. Naveen Patnaik s government has extended a policy already in place for iron ore and chrome to bauxite a mineral whose rights rest largely with Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC). The state owned miner has just begun operating the first standalone bauxite mine at Kodingamali on the border of Koraput and Rayagada districts. Under the policy approved last week by the state cabinet OMC would provide long-term linkages to end users at a price derived through e-auction of a third of the bauxite it mined. The core issue is since both the other players (Aditya Birla s Hindalco and Nalco) have surplus bauxite there will only be one buyer at the auction. How can OMC get a fair price when Vedanta decided the price? said Jena. He claimed the average landed cost of bauxite that the company was buying today was Rs 4000 a tonne even if it were to pay Rs 1000 to OMC Vedanta still stood to save Rs 3000 a tonne claimed Jena. Will OMC assure long-term linkage if a group of tribal youth in Koraput today decided to set up a small alumina refinery? The policy was fundamentally a contradiction of the Supreme Court judgement mandating auction of all natural resources he added. Calls and messages made to OMC Managing Director R Vineel Krishna went unanswered. One contender for OMC s bauxite will be ANRAK the distressed aluminium maker in Andhra Pradesh whose refinery like Vedanta has no captive supply. Lanjgarh was to be fed with bauxite mined by OMC from the nearby Niyamgiri deposit under a JV that has long been cancelled. Ironically the Odisha government s new long-term policy is a result of its prior obligations to Vedanta. The government had constituted a committee under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary to make appropriate recommendation on the nature and detailed modalities for supply of bauxite ore by the OMC to the Lanjigarh alumina refinery as and when any bauxite leases are operated by the OMC said the government press note explaining the Cabinet s decision. Vedanta s spokesperson could not be reached for comments. An official speaking on condition of anonymity pointed out that under this linkage the price of ore would effectively be decided by competitors participating in the e-auction. Vedanta not only stood to gain nothing but was only vying for 1.26 million tonnes of bauxite from Kodingamali s approved capacity currently against its annual requirement of six million tonnes. The company s experience in Odisha hasn t been an easy one. After multiple brushes with regulatory agencies and courts its Lanjigarh refinery was finally up but is the only one in the state without captive raw material. Anil Agarwal may also be relocating his dream project a university for which land had been acquired in Odisha to neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. The Congress leader s allegations come after a bitter by-poll fought in the western district of Bijepur largely between the BJD and BJP. Vedanta he alleged was being favoured both by the BJP whose government at the Centre had granted environmental and forest clearances to this long-dormant mining project and by Patnaik s government in the state which was facilitating bauxite from it to the company. Breaking News BHUBANESWAR: This is unprecedented such extensive preparation and arrangements may have never been made for any assembly bypoll in Odisha said Superintendent of Police Jai Narayan Pankaj in way summing up the three weeks of campaigning in Odisha s Bargarh district. Polling for the Bijepur assembly constituency will take place on Saturday. Results are to be announced on February 28 and could settle how 2019 fares for Naveen Patnaik s Biju Janata Dal and its new challenger the Bhartiya Janata Party. The district administration has decided to notify as critical 155 or more than half of the total 281 booths which will be provided with armed policemen. Pankaj who was appointed to the district earlier this month along with a new collector Yamini Sarangi pointed out that in 2014 when polling had last taken place in this constituency there were only 21 critical booths. Now you can understand how serious we are to ensure a free fair and transparent election he said addressing a press conference on Friday. In short the seat was thrice won by the Indian National Congress whose popular MLA Subal Sahu died last year. Sahu had in 2014 beaten veteran BJD leader Prasanna Acharya. His widow is now BJD s candidate while BJD leader waiting in the wings all these years has been snapped by the BJP. The saffron party which hopes to unseat Patnaik in 2019 did impressively well from this region in the rural polls last year. It needs to prove this wasn t a blip on account of the Congress sleepwalking through the 2017 panchayat polls. There was no let-up either in the BJD or the BJP s exhaustive and expensive efforts to win this bypoll possibly the last before the next general and assembly elections. Five CRPF companies will be joined by 36 platoons of state police to ensure the polls take place without any more drama. Late on Thursday night the brother of the state Labour Minister and local leader Susant Singh traveling with three others was fired upon and injured in an attack that the party blames its political opponents for. A month before campaigning began unidentified men had opened fire on the house of a local BJP leader. Money and liquor have been seized and the Chief Election Officer of Odisha Surendra Kumar has received one and sometimes multiple complains almost every other day. Kumar wasn t spared either. The BJP has accused him of taking sides. The party whose campaign has been spearheaded by Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan accused the CM s officers of misusing state machinery. The BJD in turn accused Pradhan of using his Ministry to shut a petrol pump. Earlier in the week slippers were thrown at the 71 year old leader CM who was spending two days in the district already hosting half his MLAs. Ironically the lowest point in the campaign may have been carried out by a random individual known to act nutty. Following the incident a nondescript village found the reserved Patnaik making a late night visit to plead for his candidate. Meanwhile the Congress which had thrice won this seat insists it is not a bystander. It s leaders claimed to be working overtime to make up for the delay in announcing their candidate. Said Congress leader Srikant Jena The question to ask is why is Naveen Patnaik so desperate to win this seat. After all his father whose footsteps he wants to follow in never campaigned for a bypoll.
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