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Priyanka Gandhi fails to impress tweeterians in heartland of PM Narendra Modi

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Varanasi: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took the Congress campaign to the heart of PM Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency but @INCIndia, the official twitter handle of the Congress party, failed to take her efforts to the netizens. Zero tweets against her three-day long voters outreach programme in the battleground state of Uttar Pradesh makes it look like Priyanka is waging a lone battle.

Has the Congress, or in the present case, its official twitter handle, abandoned Priyanka Gandhi Vadra? The curious case of missing tweets from the Congress official twitter handle, failing to cover Priyanka’s just concluded campaign from Allahabad to Varanasi is not lost on the people. Several conspiracy theories are afloat. But first, the facts:

On March 18, Congress General Secretary in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh embarked on a three-day election campaign from Allahabad to Varanasi. Between March 17 and March 20 @INCIndia posted over 100 tweets, including several tweets decrying PM Modi, but failed to tweet even once about Priyanka’s campaign that entered the much-vaunted Varanasi.

 

Priyanka Gandhi takes campaign to heart of Modi’s constituency but fails to impress tweeterians:

 

Priyanka sure could have used her party’s support on twitter. Instead, she was left to fend for herself through ‘manufactured’ offensive against her on the twitter and other social media platforms. Cases in point-video clips of her ‘insulting the former PM Lal Bahadur Shatri’ and street protests she encountered at various places en route to Varanasi that went viral.

Not only did the Congress official twitter account fail to lend her UP campaign support, but also the remaining seven people she follows on twitter fared no better. For the record, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra follows eight twitter accounts-Sushmita Dev, Sachin Pilot, Ashok Gehlot, INC India, Ahmad Patel, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Rahul Gandhi-from her twitter handle. All the aforementioned twitter handles were active during her UP campaign. Still, barring a few retweets Priyanka got little support.

The only notable exceptions were twitter handles of UP Congress, Pressbrief, an old Congress-linked website, and to some extent All India Mahila Congress.

 

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Meghalaya Reserves Legalized Gambling and Sports Betting for Tourists

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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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