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  • Meghalaya CM Conrad Okay Sangma rushes to Manipur to barter authorities formation with BJP

    By PTI

    SHILLONG: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Okay Sangma and his brother Power Minister James PK Sangma on Friday skipped the Assembly session right here to hurry to Manipur to barter with BJP in a bid to incorporate the National People’s Party within the subsequent authorities in that state.

    However, BJP which has gained a easy majority within the Manipur meeting in elections, counting for which concluded Thursday and its state leaders together with care-taker chief minister N Biren Singh have indicated they aren’t too eager to proceed the alliance with NPP which is a part of the NDA, within the state.

    The NPP has gained 7 seats and is the second largest celebration in Manipur whereas the BJP has gained 32 seats.

    The saffron celebration’s leaders have nevertheless indicated they favoured taking help from the Naga People’s Front which has 5 seats.

    “The Meghalaya Chief Minister is camping in Imphal along with NPP national spokesperson James PK Sangma. They are camping at the state capital with other party leaders,” a NPP chief instructed PTI, requesting anonymity.

    The NPP president is utilizing his age-old connections with BJP prime management each within the North East and in Delhi to try to mend the damaged relationship his celebration shared with the BJP in Manipur, in keeping with the NPP chief.

    The Meghalaya Democratic Alliance led by the NPP in additionally contains 2 BJP MLAs, one among whom is within the cabinet.

    However, the BJP has been sad with the MDA taking in Congress legislators into the Government and with NPP participating the BJP in `pleasant’ fights within the Manipur meeting elections.

  • TMC names Bengal Minister Manas Bhunia as its Meghalaya in-charge, one other senior chief to take care of Tripura unit

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: The TMC, which is making an attempt to cement its base within the northeast, on Monday tasked three of its senior leaders with the accountability of managing the celebration’s affairs in two states.

    In a press release, the celebration mentioned that MLA and senior cabinet minister Manas Bhunia has been appointed because the in-charge of its Meghalaya unit with instant impact.

    TMC-controlled Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation chairman Sabyasachi Dutta was named the co-in cost of the Meghalaya unit.

    Dutta, who had converted to the BJP from the TMC in 2019, rejoined the Mamata Banerjee-led camp after the 2021 meeting elections.

    Another state-level chief and former minister Rajib Banerjee, who had unsuccessfully contested the final meeting polls on a BJP ticket and returned to the TMC after the celebration’s thumping victory, has been named because the state in-charge of TMC Tripura unit, the assertion added.

    In a large jolt to the opposition Congress in Meghalaya, 12 of its 17 MLAs, led by former chief minister Mukul Sangma, joined the TMC final November.

    The celebration had additionally been making an attempt to achieve foothold in Goa, the place elections have been held final month, and the outcomes could be introduced on March 10.

    Several senior Congress leaders, together with former chief minister Luizinho Faleiro, joined the TMC within the western state forward of the meeting polls there.

  • Advised by pals to maintain quiet if I wished President’s put up: Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik

    By PTI

    JIND: Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik has mentioned his pals suggested him to not criticise the BJP authorities as he might be made the President or Vice President if he stored quiet, however asserted that he “doesn’t care about these positions.”

    “Some of my friends had advised me that he could become the President or Vice President so I should keep quiet. But, I told them I don’t care about these positions,” Malik mentioned.

    He was addressing a Kisan Samman ceremony organised by Kandela Khap and Majra Khap at Kandela village right here on Sunday and mentioned the put up of governor shouldn’t be essential for him.

    Malik has been fairly vocal towards the NDA authorities on the Centre and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a bunch of points, together with the now repealed three farm legal guidelines.

    In January, he had claimed that when he went to fulfill the prime minister on the difficulty of farmers, the latter was “conceited” and had a battle with him inside 5 minutes.

    Malik additionally referred to as upon the farmers to unite to alter the regime in New Delhi and type a authorities which is beneficial to them in order that they do not should ask for something from anybody.

    Malik mentioned as soon as his tenure as governor ends, he’ll tour the nation and unite the farmers.

    He had additionally justified the hoisting of “Nishan Sahib” on the Red Fort final 12 months by alleged farmer agitators, saying there was nothing flawed in it.

    Talking in regards to the scrapping of the farm legal guidelines, he mentioned the federal government made a “half-hearted agreement” with the farmers following which the protest websites had been vacated however no progress has been made within the matter since then.

    The governor additionally mentioned, “a friend of the prime minister is pursuing the dream of buying wheat at cheaper price and building a godown in an area of 50 acres in Panipat” to retailer it.

    Malik mentioned the prime minister’s residence was solely few kilometres away from the farmers’ protest web site on the Delhi border and numerous farmers misplaced their lives throughout the agitation that lasted for greater than a 12 months.

    “But no one came from the government’s side to express condolence,” Malik mentioned.

    He mentioned he has by no means compromised his ideas and at all times raised the voice of farmers.

    He claimed the farmers’ motion was the largest and longest such motion in historical past whereby there was no violence of any sort.

    Malik mentioned some leaders had been put in jail after abrogation of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, however the prime minister bought them launched and served them tea.

    Malik was the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019 when the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir was revoked and it was break up into two Union Territories.

  • Commercial car operators threaten to go on starvation strike

    Image Source : FILE Commercial car operators threaten to go on starvation strike
    Commercial car operators in Meghalaya have threatened that they’d go for an indefinite starvation strike if the state authorities selected to show a deaf ear on their demand for decreasing the costs of petrol and diesel. This determination was taken at a gathering of the Meghalaya Joint Action Committee of Commercial Vehicle (MJACCV) held right here on Saturday.
    A 48-hour statewide agitation was additionally introduced to be held on February 15.
    “If the government continues to be adamant in its attitude even after February 15, we will have no other option but to go for an indefinite hunger strike in front of the secretariat,” chairman of the MJACCV Wandonbok Jyrwa instructed reporters after the assembly.
    Commercial autos have remained off the street from February 3, to protest in opposition to the rising petrol and diesel costs.

    “We demand that the government immediately reduce the prices of petrol and diesel as this would eventually address the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, which has affected the common man to a larger extent,” Jyrwa mentioned.
    “Our demand is not for hiking the passenger fare but for revising the passenger fare in case the government is hesitant to reduce the petrol and diesel prices. Apart from this, we also want a 50 per cent reduction in the vehicle taxes during the COVID-19 lockdown period,” he added.
    The state authorities had earlier this week decreased tax on petrol and diesel by Rs 2 per litre.
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  • Nitin Gadkari Announces Multi-model Logistics Park In Silchar

    Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday announced that a multi-model logistics park will be constructed in Silchar and the Balacherra-Harengajao section of the Silchar-Saurashtra Highway will be completed by March 2022. Gadkari made this announcement at a public meeting at Zero Point on the East-West Corridor at Madhurmukh at Rangpur in Silchar. He also laid the foundation stone of 20 projects and inaugurated seven projects worth Rs 2,366 crore for Assam with a total length of 439 km.

    These projects will ease the transportation of commercial goods within and across the state, will improve connectivity at the borders, enhance employment opportunities, save time and fuel, improve tourism and infra development, and will result in providing connectivity for agricultural produce up to larger markets,” the ministry said in a statement.

    Gadkari said a sum of Rs 4,497 crore will be spent on the 19-km long bridge. It will reduce the distance between the two places in Assam and Meghalaya by 203 km.

    Announcing that the water transport system of Brahmaputra would be strengthened, the Union Minister said that dredging work on the Barak river has also been completed. He also announced that the construction of the Dhuvri-Phoolbari bridge will begin in the coming month.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction with farmers on the occasion of Good Governance Day was shown live on a large screen. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday also addressed the 18th convocation of Assam University where he appealed to students of Assam to use their knowledge and entrepreneurial skills to boost the economic growth of the country and the state.

    On Thursday, Gadkari announced that FASTag is being made mandatory for all vehicles in the country from New Year, which will be enforced from January 1, 2021.