India's four asked. The BJP loses five leaders in Uttar Pradesh. Key obese leader and minister Swami Prasad Morea quits, as does for others. The BJP's losses. Akhilesh Yadav schemes. Prasad Morea tells NDTV why he quit just before as resignations jolt The BJP top leaders are in Delhi as Amit Shah holds a plea poll meeting on Uttar Pradesh. Pradesh's deputy chief minister is now being tasked with bringing the back. Mumbai sees new covet case is falling for the fourth straight day. The positivity rate is down to 18% from 30% just four days earlier, but Delhi is positivity. Rate is the highest since the fifth of May and new rule start, including work from home for private offices. The government extends the deadline for filing income tax returns to the 15th of March. A notification is issued by the Department of Revenue of the Finance Ministry. The government of India has also become the largest shareholder in Vodafone idea after its board votes to convert debt into equity. Government of India gets 36% stake, but our thumbs down from investors as for a phone idea, stops crash by 20% in a big jolt to the BJP and Chief Minister Aditya Anna's. Just before the election, a minister and four MB lass quit the party and joined Akhilesh Yadav. Swami Prasad Morea, top minister and backward caste leader in the Yogi government, said his decision to quit was because of the grave oppression of Dalits, O. B. C s and Small Business Month. In a rare move, the deputy chief minister has now asked Swami Prasad Morea for talks in an attempt to get him to reconsider at a time when it looks like other MME. Lass could follow his chief minister, Yogi Adit. Yonathan and his top leaders arrived in Delhi for an election strategy session, a shocker back home in a key minister and strong man from Eastern Up quit the party along with him. Four other BJP MME. Lass From this image tweeted by Akhilesh Yadav, Swami Prasad Maria's destination seems clear. The tweet welcomed Maria and his supporters to the Samajwadi Party location. Can K Montri Mental, says Manya Monty, personality Fania, the minister, told NDTV he quit because he said the BJP neglected backward castes. Ahah Morea, a five time MLA and a BK heavyweight, had crossed over from the BSP to the BJP in 2016. His joining had bolstered the BJP's attempts to bring in non Yadav a BK cast like Maria's to take on the Yadav centric Samajwadi Party. Now Akhilesh has been wooing this group winning over Maria and some time ago, another non Yadav, a BK leader, Om Prakash Raj Bar, a former NDA ally. The other MLA, who quit, two of whom are obese eats and one from the SC community, also voiced the same three vans. Keep Bharat coasts are Lombard Chi Seba yacht. EBay was take a stick. Our location idea desk a Raj party. Me Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Maria tweeted this saying Swami Prasad should reconsider. But this was Swami Prasad. Response. Samara Baht comic A bull Ricky A bad comes about. Jabbar can make your tacky apart from Anita the exit of years to have caught the chief minister of God's only bolstering the impression that believed the BJP's massive publicity blitz resentment simmers against Aditya. This could be one reason why Prime Minister Modi is increasingly becoming the face of the BJP's campaign in, But will that be a last to cheque? More is unclear with Sourav Shukla and cameraperson Minute Verma, This is Ah Lok Pandey NDTV Let's get you on the other news from the pole bound states. The latest Siddhu is, um a month before Punjab votes is likely to raise hackles in the Punjab Congress. Siddhu says it's the people of Punjab hold decide who will be Chief Minister, not the party High Command. Oh pi cm Guanabara Museum Who told you? Punjab A local on a Punjab a low can um Levy Pantsil Pelham Enezi Um al al Banna Gay and I have the local in Goa Ex Minister Michael Lobo and his wife, Delilah Lobo have joined the Congress a day after the minister quit the BJP que la la la was likely to be given the serial, um seat by the Congress. Michael Oh quit the BJP just a month before polls in the States, saying it was no longer a party for the common man. Let's take a quick look at the covets situation in the Poll bound states. Weekly cases in Uttar Pradesh are up by over 1000% now in Uttar Pradesh, there's a 14 33% jump in cases in Punjab 1082% jump in and and if you compare it really to neighbouring states as well, all seeing a significant jump so that six top states when it comes to growing cases includes at least three poll bound states, or at least the two major ones of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. Overall, India has seen a 470% jump in weekly Cove IT cases in states headed to elections. The Election Commission has made it clear in no uncertain terms that all public gatherings are banned. This includes per the ATRAS rallies and roadshows in Pole Pine, Punjab. This is forced some parties to get creative with their campaigns. It's resulted in a windfall for digital media and marketing companies, but others are worried that a largely online campaign would have a limited reach. Mohammed Ghazali With that storey in the office of this digital marketing media company in Ludhiana, the calls from politicians are pouring in, says its owner after the model. The remarks Guwahati, Zada increase Sonia grown manifold as a number of molasses and ministers approaching towards press conferences have become the new public rally like this one by Congress, a state president Navjot Singh Sidhu Jobe Election Commission The Congress takes a lot of crime in announcing that we're the first ones to adhere to those norms. But despite restrictions, leaders from Congress BJP Aam Aadmi party were found attending a gathering in Bhatinda organised by the follower of controversial Godman Ger. Meet Ram Rahim, who is serving sentence for rape and murder. Officials have promised action equity application The the the office were loan formation in with you every port the goons of or is um Tele Cassie for the Election Commission. The leaders of the Akali Dal, which had kicked off its campaign, says not all voters have Internet access. Dugong agree Man parts of China Clovis Smartphone Me Sad Annie Internet, Me and Rajan sing blanket. They should come out with some. Maybe they should have discussion with Call an all party meeting. It's for the first time that the political parties in Punjab will have to re strategise their whole campaign in the wake of rising corporate cases. And only results will show with a digital mode of campaign really help the political parties in Chandigarh, Mohammed Afzali for in the D V Will India overall reported one lakh, 68,000 and 63 new covet cases in 24 hours, but interestingly that figure is down six point for 8% deaths. However, at 277 registered a distinct update, 15 lakh, 79,528 tests were carried out and that number has gone up significantly as well. Vaccination stood at 81 locks, 51,400 down pointy percent covet cases in Mumbai, however, have fallen for the fourth day in a row. Daily cases are down from 20,704 days ago to 11,647. And if you look at that curve there, it really does seem to indicate that the third wave could well have peaked in Mumbai, and Mumbai appears to now be flattening. It's curve. The positivity rate to is down from 30% to 20%. In just the last two days. 80% of Mumbai's hospital beds are vacant. In another piece of good news in Delhi, however, one in four people are currently testing positive, with a positivity rate of 25.65%. This is the highest since the fifth of May, with 23 deaths in the last 24 hours. That number is the highest since the 16th of June as well. The Delhi government today announced new cubs, including work from home rule for all private offices that don't have exceptions with one in every four people testing positive for covet as per the Delhi government. The city, now placed under more curbs with private offices to work from home private offices, will return to the work from home model, whereas banks, farmers and insurance companies will be exempted, including Korea services. Microfinance office is essential. Shops like groceries will remain open, gas stations will be allowed to function and the accredited press will be allowed to function. The Delhi chief minister insists there will be no lock down, long down logged on. But that is not enough for low wage migrant workers like 30 year old Raja Kumar from Jharkhand, who is ready to return home a R Way, and UEFA 45 year old Domo. Mandel, from Bihar says with curfews his daily earnings as a tea stall owner have reduced by more than half. Eleanor Madonna, Madam Veto Modi from the family has a have have have have the remember ham case. A cadre of all but restaurants forced to shut down all services except home deliveries are now struggling for 40 year old Vijay Sundaram, a restaurant owner. Paying salaries and bills is a challenge once again. Electricity bill A a a Maduro's make gcb but restriction job Oh poor of JAG. Meanwhile, the city's community kitchens and NGOs say they are receiving requests for Russian and relief material. With night curfews and weakened curfew's already in place, businesses in the capital are just about waiting through financial losses, while migrant workers still recovering from last year shock. What they say is they no longer fear the virus. What they actually fear is a lock down with Sushil Tartine Deli soon. Oxy Chakra, vice for NDTV. The government has now extended the deadline for filing income tax returns from the 15th of February to the 15th of March. The centre has said this deadline extension is in the wake of the surgeon covet cases as well as because of problems during the e filing of audit reports. The government is also set to become the largest shareholder of Vodafone Idea with 35.8% stake. The company's board has approved the conversion of interest on deferred spectrum and adjusted gross revenue dues into equity, while the government will now be the largest shareholder, the Vodafone Group will hold 28.5% stake. The Aditya Birla Group will hold 17.8% in the combined entity, but experts say investors have already given a thumbs down to Vodafone ideas equity dilution, with stocks down by about 20.9%. Another telecom company, Tata Telly, will also be opting for conversion of interest to equity, and the government could get up to 9.5% stake in that company. Foxconn. India's iPhone plant is all set to reopen tomorrow, three weeks after it was shut down following protests by workers who alleged stale food and poor working conditions after 250 workers fell sick with food poisoning. The company says it's implemented a range of collective actions Co. With dress for women workers returning to work outside this dormitory run by Foxconn plant for Apple phones. The plant partially reopens on Wednesday, three weeks after it was shut down in December, around 4000 women took to the streets after more than 100 world calls, predominantly women suffered food poisoning at the protesting site. They alleged food and fox Ponds drama Tory's was stale, the toilets unhygienic, inadequate and without running water. Worse afterward, dozen of them were forced to share small rooms. At this college hostel turned a drama. Terry Foxconn. Workers are being allotted new rooms. This is one of the include dormitories of Foxconn, where many workers are getting ready as it begins to resume its operations. But none would speak to us for the workers. Have things in been improved. Now have the change situation here on the food and please stop made some changes. No protesters spoke to media last month. Now many say rules don't permit them to speak. Folkestone makes the latest models of iPhones at this. After the December protests exposed labour conditions, Apple, the trillion dollar company, put its contract of Fox Cone on probation and demanded rapid action. The Tamil Nadu government also told Foxconn Team Prue abilities at its hostels and obtained the collectors approval before reopening. In a statement, Folkestone Ha Noi says it's taken corrective action with a rigorous monitoring system to allow workers to raise concerns even anonymously. Basic infrastructure for a women in the workplace is much needed as their toilets and work environment. And of course, there are canteens. We request the regular monitoring of from the government. The poor working condition of Foxconn employees has come as a huge embarrassment for Apple to just as it's for Folkestone. It's a huge victory for ordinary woman workers who have brought the upright to world attention. Four Storm would gradually resume operations. It's a wake up call for other contract manufacturers working for global brands to set their house in order. Chat from outside the Folkestone plant, but Suresh Sam Daniels for NDTV.
