it was a political bombshell like no other. The N C P Chief Charlotte set the cat among the pigeons by announcing his intent to quit as national president of his party. The announcement, on the second of May at the launch of the updated edition of his biography in Marti, came at a time when Ajit was said to be, according to speculation talks in talks with the B JP, leading to a flux within the N. C. P. So what was behind the dramatic resignation announcement First and then a withdrawal. Let's hear it from the horse's mouth. I could not convince my things and in fact I consent to not to take it OK, I thought I can convince it, but there I could not convince. And that's why I I what for no reason. I need to. He he And that's why sometimes you speak yes, and that creates some this understanding here and there. But if you see that there is a or unity, we work together and we show the And in the final hectic leg of campaigning ahead of the May 10th Assembly polls, the B JP and the Congress are going head to head. They are leaving no stone unturned to emerge victorious in Karnataka. The BJP has packed in multiple rallies by its top leaders, held by Prime Minister Modi. The congress is roping in has roped in its Talwar Sonia Gandhi to address a rally in KB. I don't know how to count Hey you a man to stick around Sala and the or Garlic 40%. And the Congress has also criticised the home minister for sticking with his campaigning schedule in pole bound Karnataka while Manipur is burning in Manipur. The National Testing Agency, or the NT which conducts the national entrance come eligibility test to meet, has postponed the examination for candidates who have their centres in this violence hit state. New dates are to be announced later. Violence has broken out across the B. JP ruled the state of man between the and the cookies as tension and violence spiralled. Videos showed properties burning even in the state capital in, but the situation is now calm After violence broke out in the district, about 65 kilometres from the Valley city A while the Manipur chief minister held an all party meet. Curfew continues Streets are empty except for the army and the Assam rifles personnel who are guarding the streets. And many questions are being asked as to why violence has returned to a state that had mostly left behind its insurgency tainted even as curfew continues in parts of Manipur. Here in state capital ial, you can see people waiting for hours to get petrol and diesel since there is curfew so there are stipulated time when petrol and diesel fuel is being given. This is causing a major major inconvenience. In fact, there is a long queue of vehicles to wheelers. Here you can see about a half a kilometre long queue for people who have stepped out of their homes in the early hours when there is no flare up. People want to use this time to refill their cars. These are also people who are government employees. You know these are people who are part of duties which are emergency services like a policeman or medical staff, and people are facing inconvenience at this point of time problem In the valley there have been several shelters like this one, which has been opened up to house people who have left their homes left their villages. Many of their villages have been burned down. They have worked for kilometres to reach safer places. Many of them have been evacuated by the Indian army and Assam rifles. In fact, these are the areas where they have been kept. This is the nine Assam rifles, nine sector Assam rifles shelter where more than 1000 people have been kept. There are pregnant women. There are elderly people, ailing people. These are mostly people who are from different tribal groups. They have many of their villages. There have been arson. They are in fear. We would speak to some of them. What's your name? Where do you come from? And what really happened? I come from the incident is there in Wednesday night? Unfortunately, our house was burned down. We climb up in the delivery car and pregnancy. LA mother and leprosy don't leave their bed. We carry all of them and all the kids who are lying in the bed. We carry all of them in the top of the mountain. We cry a lot. All the world We don't have water. We don't have food. There are people, Emmit, curfew who are trying to help people who are stranded in the violence stranded in places where they don't have essentials. These are locals in Imal who are collecting actually material that people have brought from their homes to be sent to you relief centres and relief shelter homes where people who have been affected by the violence people who have turned homeless people who have run for their life would be would be able to use this essential items which people have brought from their homes itself. In fact, if we can speak to some of them, we will try to speak to some of them lack of these foods and lack of essential items. From their point of view, this world, we are trying to help these victim peoples by giving some iev items and some local people also helping by giving them. The situation in Manipur remains tense. All those situations by and large is under control. However, in the last 24 hours there have been clashes, particularly in Rajan District, where there have been clashes in which there have been loss of life. That's what we are picking up from government officials. But government is not giving out numbers in terms of not only but also in other parts of the state. In fact, the government is yet to give out numbers of number of people who are dead and a number of people who are injured. But we are hearing that several people are injured as well. However, you know, country continues as you can see behind me, only people are allowed to move with emergency parcels as well as central security forces are deployed, the Indian army is carrying out flag marches as well as Syria domination exercises. The focus remains, however, to bring peace. Also, over 20,000 people have been evacuated from different pockets, vulnerable pockets and sheltered in refugee camps. These people are from communities the as well as the cookies. In fact, what is important here is that our centre has also arrested in more forces to help the state government. In fact, in the border area, UAP are being used. Army helicopters are being used to keep vigil because shares the porous border with Myanmar, and there are reports that militant groups which have hide outs on the other side of the border might might try to use this turmoil situation so Therefore, the focus is in terms of as well and two terrorists were killed in separate encounters in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. In the last two weeks, 10 soldiers have been killed in encounters in the radar put region. Once a militancy free area hands up Defence Minister Raj Singh in Rajouri, a day after five soldiers of elite special forces were killed during an anti terrorist operation. This is for the first time when defence minister and the army chief visited an area where troops are engaged in a protracted flush out operation. In the last two weeks, 10 soldiers have been killed in two separate attacks in Rajouri Punch region. Today, Army said one terrorist was killed and another is likely to be injured during a fresh encounter in the army paid homage to the fallen heroes. Five para commandos killed in action on Friday. The troops had gone deep inside case hills to neutralise terrorists behind the attack on army truck on April 20th in which five soldiers were killed. Over a dozen Pakistani terrorists are believed to be entrenched in forests of Rajouri. The latest attack has come when Pakistan's foreign minister was attending a meeting in Goa. In the last 19 months, 26 army soldiers and nine civilians have been killed in terrorist attacks in Punch Rajoy region. In most of the incidents, terrorists have managed to escape after every attack. The fresh spate of terrorist incidents have come ahead of the G 20 meeting in Srinagar, making the job of security forces even more difficult. It appears Rajoy region had been carefully chosen by the handlers from across the border to hit where it hurts the most. Once a militancy free area has become the biggest security challenge today, even as a massive security operation has been launched. It is going to be a long drawn out process as the heavily armed militants are believed to be well ened in dense forests and caves in.
