MORENA: A BJP worker was shot and injured after a dispute with the rival BSP workers over the issue of voting in favour of the saffron party at Budha Chambal village of Morena district here today, police said. The incident occurred when the BJP worker identified as Subedar Singh Sikarwar was coming out of a polling station in the village, police said. When Subedar crossed the poll-booth limits he was confronted by a group of BSP worker led by Prem Singh Sikarwar, they said. Prem Singh confronted Subedar for supporting the BJP candidate and later opened fire at him with a country-made pistol. The bullet hit Subedar on his chest following which he was rushed to Gwalior in serious condition, police said. However, Morena Superintendent of Police (SP) Santosh Singh told PTI that Subedar had an old rivalry with Prem Singh and Thursday's incident was a fall out of it. He said that this incident cannot be termed as a poll-related violence as it took place at a far-off place from the polling station. After Subedar was shot at, BJP and BSP workers clashed in which two more unidentified persons sustained injuries, he added.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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