Kochi: Activist-turned-politician and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal will contest the upcoming Delhi assembly elections, a senior party member said yesterday.
According to Manish Sisodia, the party members wanted Kejriwal to contest the upcoming Delhi elections for which he is also ready.
“An informal meeting was held in which a few members, including Kejriwal, have been shortlisted to contest the polls. But, the constituency is yet to be finalised,” he said.
Sisodia also said that Kejriwal will soon write to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to accept one million protest forms which were filled by the people, during his 15 days of fast against inflated power and water bills.
Dead falcon
sparks spying
fears on border
jaipur: Indian security forces have found a dead falcon fitted with a small camera which has sparked alarm near the country’s highly militarised border with Pakistan, an official said yesterday.
The carcass was discovered near the ancient fort city of Jaisalmer in the far west of the desert state of Rajasthan where the Indian armed forces regularly conduct drills and war games.
“It was fitted with some device and an antenna,” a senior Border Security Force officer stationed in the state said by telephone on condition of anonymity.
Suspicions were initially that the bird might have been used for military spying, but the camera did not appear very sophisticated and it might instead have been the work of Pakistani hunters, the official said.
“However, the possibility of it being an espionage attempt from Pakistan cannot be ruled out at this stage,” he said, adding that an investigation was being carried out.
Local officers in Punjab, which lies to the north of Rajasthan, said the white bird had a ring around its foot and a Pakistani phone number and address stamped on its body in red ink.
Agencies
