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Elder son of Om Prakash Chautala declares war again younger brother
Jind: The INLD split Saturday with former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala’s elder son Ajay Singh Chautala declaring he will set up a new party.
“I hand over the INLD and the spectacles (party symbol) to my younger brother as a gift,” Ajay Chautala, who was recently expelled from the party, told his supporters in Jind.
He also declared a war of sorts against his brother Abhay Singh Chautala, invoking the Mahabharata.
Duryodhana, he said, in a veiled reference to the brother, I spell out my final decision that now there will war, and not any pleas.”
“Now, Duryodhana, you will be destroyed,” he said in Hindi.
The Jind announcement ended the simmering power struggle in the Indian National Lok Dal, which also saw the expulsion of Ajay Chautala’s sons Dushyant Chautala and Digvijay Chautala from the Haryana-based party.
The two were shunted out weeks after their slogan-shouting supporters allegedly targeted Abhay Chautala at an INLD rally in Gohana.
Ajay Chautala and his brother Abhay Chautala held parallel meetings on Saturday.
The elder brother had termed his Jind event a meeting of the party’s state executive , while Abhay Chautala held a workers’ meeting in Chandigarh.
Abhay Chautala said had his two nephews apologised to their grandfather and party chief Om Prakash Chautala over the hooliganism at the Gohana rally, they may not have been expelled.
Ajay Chautala, who is facing a 10-year jail term along with father Om Prakash Chautala since 2013 in a teachers’ recruitment scam, said the new party will hold a rally in Jind on December 9.
He is currently on a two-week parole.
Ajay Chautala hinted that his MP son Dushyant Chautala will be the leader of the new party and suggested that a large number of INLD workers remained with him.
“Many workers have resigned from the INLD. I will hand over their resignations to Om Prakash Chautala on November 20, he said, indicating a meeting with the patriarch when he returns to Tihar Jail.
Om Prakash Chautala elder son declares war of sort against his bother:
“I will tell Om Prakash Chautala that those who resigned from the INLD are true workers of the party and not those who want to break and destroy it,” he said.
He claimed that someday the senior Chautala would join him on his platform.
“Just four people sitting in Chandigarh use fraudulent means to take unilateral decisions and then get them ratified from Om Prakash Chautala,” he said, hitting out at the rival group over the expulsions.
Ajay Chautala reiterated that Indian National Students Organisation (INSO) was set up by him and nobody else had the right to dissolve it.
The INSO headed by his son Digvijay Chautala was dissolved by party president Om Prakash Chautala last month.
At Ajay Chautala’s show of strength three MLAs — his wife Naina Chautala, Rajdeep Phoghat and Anoop Dhanak — out of 18 of INLD legislators were present.
Abhay Chautala told reporters in Chandigarh that his brother had failed to demonstrate his strength.
Claims were being made that most of the MLAs were with them, he said.
Only two MLAs were there, and 15 MLAs openly supported us. One MLA was neither with them nor with us, the younger brother claimed.
He said the state executive comprising MLAs, district presidents and other office bearers has passed a resolution expressing faith in the leadership of Om Prakash Chautala at his Chandigarh meeting.
Their attempts failed as 95 per cent of the state executive was present in Chandigarh. Out of the remaining five per cent, I think two per cent may have gone with them, he said.
He predicted that members of the rival group will now try to find a party they can join. Forming and running a party is not everybody’s cup of tea, Abhay Chautala said.
On a possible compromise between the two brothers, he said the two young leaders should have apologised over the “hooliganism” at the rally.
We were expecting Ajay Singh Chautala to convince his sons and ask them to seek an apology from their grandfather. But he also went along with them, he said.
The State Scores Extra High on Gaming-Friendly Industry Index
Meghalaya scored 92.85 out of 100 possible points in a Gaming Industry Index and proved to be India’s most gaming-friendly state following its recent profound legislation changes over the field allowing land-based and online gaming, including games of chance, under a licensing regime.
The index by the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) uses a scale of 0 to 100 to measure the level of legalisation on gambling and betting achieved by a state based on the scores over a set of seven different games – lottery, horse racing, betting on sports, poker, rummy, casino and fantasy sports
Starting from February last year, Meghalaya became the third state in India’s northeast to legalise gambling and betting after Sikkim and Nagaland. After consultations with the UKIBC, the state proceeded with the adoption of the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021 and the nullification of the Meghalaya Prevention of Gambling Act, 1970. Subsequently in December, the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021 were notified and came into force.
All for the Tourists
The move to legalise and license various forms of offline and online betting and gambling in Meghalaya is aimed at boosting tourism and creating jobs, and altogether raising taxation revenues for the northeastern state. At the same time, the opportunities to bet and gamble legally will be reserved only for tourists and visitors.
“We came out with a Gaming Act and subsequently framed the Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021. The government will accordingly issue licenses to operate games of skill and chance, both online and offline,” said James P. K. Sangma, Meghalaya State Law and Taxation Minister speaking in the capital city of Shillong. “But the legalized gambling and gaming will only be for tourists and not residents of Meghalaya,” he continued.
To be allowed to play, tourists and people visiting the state for work or business purposes will have to prove their non-resident status by presenting appropriate documents, in a process similar to a bank KYC (Know Your Customer) procedure.
Meghalaya Reaches Out to a Vast Market
With 140 millions of people in India estimated to bet regularly on sports, and a total of 370 million desi bettors around prominent sporting events, as per data from one of the latest reports by Esse N Videri, Meghalaya is set to reach out and take a piece of a vast market.
Estimates on the financial value of India’s sports betting market, combined across all types of offline channels and online sports and cricket predictions and betting platforms, speak about amounts between $130 and $150 billion (roughly between ₹9.7 and ₹11.5 lakh crore).
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Delhi are shown to deliver the highest number of bettors and Meghalaya can count on substantial tourists flow from their betting circles. The sports betting communities of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are also not to be underestimated.
Among the sports, cricket is most popular, registering 68 percent of the total bet count analyzed by Esse N Videri. Football takes second position with 11 percent of the bets, followed by betting on FIFA at 7 percent and on eCricket at 5 percent. The last position in the Top 5 of popular sports for betting in India is taken by tennis with 3 percent of the bet count.
Local Citizens will Still have Their Teer Betting
Meghalaya residents will still be permitted to participate in teer betting over arrow-shooting results. Teer is a traditional method of gambling, somewhat similar to a lottery draw, and held under the rules of the Meghalaya Regulation of the Game of Arrow Shooting and the Sale of Teer Tickets Act, 2018.
Teer includes bettors wagering on the number of arrows that reach the target which is placed about 50 meters away from a team of 20 archers positioned in a semicircle.
The archers shoot volleys of arrows at the target for ten minutes, and players place their bets choosing a number between 0 and 99 trying to guess the last two digits of the number of arrows that successfully pierce the target.
If, for example, the number of hits is 256, anyone who has bet on 56 wins an amount eight times bigger than their wager.
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