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  • Offices of all political events sealed at BMC HQ after face-off between Sena factions

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: The Brihamumbai Municipal Corporation administration has sealed workplaces of all political events on the BMC headquarters right here following a face-off between the rival Shiv Sena factions.

    Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal, who can be the BMC’s administrator, instructed PTI on Thursday that the civic physique took the step on Mumbai Police’s directions after the incident on Wednesday on the civic headquarters, which has workplaces of all main political events on the bottom ground of the heritage constructing.

    The rival Shiv Sena factions led by Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde confronted off on Wednesday night on the get together’s workplace on the civic headquarters in south Mumbai.

    Tension had prevailed for an hour on the premises until police intervened.

    Sheetal Mhatre, spokesperson of the Shinde-led Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena, stated the civic administration has sealed workplaces of the Shiv Sena, Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and Samajwadi get together on the civic headquarters.

    A political activist stated they discovered their get together workplace positioned on the bottom ground of the BMC headquarters sealed once they reached the workplace as ordinary on Thursday morning.

    “Our party office was sealed before we reached here in the morning. The administration has sealed the offices of all parties probably after the ruckus at the Shiv Sena office last evening,” he stated.

    Chahal instructed PTI, “The step has been taken as per the police instructions”.

    On Wednesday, the confrontation on happened after North Central Mumbai MP Rahul Shewale, former standing committee chairman Yashwant Jadhav and former corporator Sheetal Mhatre, all belonging to the Shinde-led Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena, entered the get together workplace round 5 pm.

    Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) faction’s former corporators together with Ashish Chemburkar and Sachin Padwal objected to their presence, resulting in heated exchanges, sources had stated.

    Tension prevailed for almost an hour with employees from either side shouting slogans earlier than the police stepped in and eliminated everybody from the workplace.

    Both factions claimed there was no try by any facet to stake declare to the get together workplace, opposite to some studies.

    The tenure of corporators of the cash-rich BMC, which was managed by the Shiv Sena, resulted in March this 12 months and its elections are overdue.

    MUMBAI: The Brihamumbai Municipal Corporation administration has sealed workplaces of all political events on the BMC headquarters right here following a face-off between the rival Shiv Sena factions.

    Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal, who can be the BMC’s administrator, instructed PTI on Thursday that the civic physique took the step on Mumbai Police’s directions after the incident on Wednesday on the civic headquarters, which has workplaces of all main political events on the bottom ground of the heritage constructing.

    The rival Shiv Sena factions led by Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde confronted off on Wednesday night on the get together’s workplace on the civic headquarters in south Mumbai.

    Tension had prevailed for an hour on the premises until police intervened.

    Sheetal Mhatre, spokesperson of the Shinde-led Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena, stated the civic administration has sealed workplaces of the Shiv Sena, Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and Samajwadi get together on the civic headquarters.

    A political activist stated they discovered their get together workplace positioned on the bottom ground of the BMC headquarters sealed once they reached the workplace as ordinary on Thursday morning.

    “Our party office was sealed before we reached here in the morning. The administration has sealed the offices of all parties probably after the ruckus at the Shiv Sena office last evening,” he stated.

    Chahal instructed PTI, “The step has been taken as per the police instructions”.

    On Wednesday, the confrontation on happened after North Central Mumbai MP Rahul Shewale, former standing committee chairman Yashwant Jadhav and former corporator Sheetal Mhatre, all belonging to the Shinde-led Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena, entered the get together workplace round 5 pm.

    Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) faction’s former corporators together with Ashish Chemburkar and Sachin Padwal objected to their presence, resulting in heated exchanges, sources had stated.

    Tension prevailed for almost an hour with employees from either side shouting slogans earlier than the police stepped in and eliminated everybody from the workplace.

    Both factions claimed there was no try by any facet to stake declare to the get together workplace, opposite to some studies.

    The tenure of corporators of the cash-rich BMC, which was managed by the Shiv Sena, resulted in March this 12 months and its elections are overdue.

  • Nepal President calls political events to type new authorities inside 7 days

    President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Sunday known as on all of the political events of Nepal to type a brand new authorities inside seven days.

    Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari. (File photograph/PTI)

    By Press Trust of India: President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Sunday known as on all of the political events of Nepal to type a brand new authorities inside seven days, as Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba mentioned power-sharing cope with the coalition accomplice Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’.

    The President’s name comes following the submission of a report by the Election Commission of the ultimate outcomes of the election of members of the House of Representatives (HoR) and Provincial Assembly held on November 20.

    As no single celebration bought a majority within the HoR election, the President has known as for submitting a declare by a member of the HoR who can garner a majority with assist from two or extra events, as stipulated within the Article 76 clause 2 of the Constitution.

    The deadline for submission of the declare is 5 pm on December 25, in keeping with an announcement issued by the Office of the President.

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    No celebration within the 275-member House of Representatives has 138 seats required to type a authorities.

    The Nepali Congress (NC) led by Deuba emerged as the only largest celebration within the election with 89 seats adopted by opposition CPN-UML with 78 seats and CPN-Maoist Centre led by Prachanda secured 32 seats.

    The newly-formed Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has 20 seats, Rastriya Prajatantra Party 14, Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) 12 and Janamat Party six seats.

    CPN (Unified Socialist) has 10 seats, Loktantrik Samajwadi Party (LSP) has 4, and Nagarik Unmukti Party has three seats. Rastriya Janamorcha and Nepal Workers and Peasants Party have one seat every. There are 5 impartial members within the Lower House.

    The Nepali Congress together with the opposite ruling alliances has the mixed power of 136 seats, two seats wanting forming the bulk authorities.

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    The President’s name to type the brand new authorities comes at a time when political events have engaged themselves in hectic consultations.

    Prime Minister Deuba met Prachanda on the PM’s official residence Baluwatar on Saturday and mentioned formation of the brand new authorities and energy sharing amongst others, in keeping with celebration sources.

    According to a report within the Kathmandu Post newspaper, Nepali Congress spokesperson Prakash Sharan Mahat stated Prachanda in his assembly with Deuba has formally sought his assist to grow to be prime minister within the first half of the five-year time period.

    While forging an electoral alliance forward of the November 20 polls, Deuba and Prachanda had reportedly struck a ‘gentleman’s settlement’ on main the federal government by turns.

    Mahat stated whereas Prachanda’s proposal was to be anticipated, it might be extra pure for the Nepali Congress, as the biggest celebration to emerge from the elections, to steer the federal government.

    Asked if Prachanda sought Deuba’s assist to grow to be the brand new prime minister, CPN-MC chief Narayan Kaji Shrestha stated he requested Deuba how he wished to proceed, to which he replied all coalition companions ought to resolve inside their respective outfits, the Himalayan Times newspaper reported.

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    Prachanda has been projecting himself as a claimant for the manager head since a lot earlier than the elections in public boards.

    Deuba, who’s the front-runner to grow to be the prime minister for the sixth time, has not given any particular reply to Prachanda, a supply near the prime minister informed The Kathmandu Post newspaper.

    The ruling coalition, which has determined to stay intact to type the following authorities, has a number of prime ministerial aspirants, particularly from the Nepali Congress.

    During the election marketing campaign, at the least half a dozen senior Nepali Congress leaders had disclosed their intent to battle for the prime ministerial place ought to they win the election.

    The Congress is struggling to elect its parliamentary celebration chief as per the celebration statute.

    Despite his celebration profitable fewer seats this time, Prachanda was inspired to stake his declare to the management of a brand new coalition after the CPN-UML led by former premier Ok P Sharma Oli began luring him with a promise of assist for his prime ministerial bid, sources informed The Kathmandu Post.

    A number of days again, Prachanda had stated that his celebration has the important thing to forming the following authorities.

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    Dec 19, 2022

  • Villagers stall bid of opposition celebration leaders to enter Dhinkia village

    By Express News Service

    PARADIP:  Apprehending breach of peace in Dhinkia, villagers on Wednesday restricted a delegation of various political events from getting into the panchayat which has witnessed violent protests over the proposed JSW metal plant up to now.

    A 13-member crew of opposition events headed by the chief of the social justice motion Prafulla Samantara reached Dhinkia to work together with villagers and examine the bottom realities after the alleged police excesses on anti-JSW protestors on January 14. However, the visiting leaders have been stopped by villagers on Dhinkia-Patana highway. 

    Hundreds of villagers below the aegis of Maa Phulkhai Surakhya Committee, which has thrown its weight behind the JSW venture, blocked the highway by staging a sit-in. Led by committee secretary Askhay Behera, the villagers restricted the leaders from getting into Dhinkia. The visiting delegation reportedly appealed to the agitators to permit them to enter the panchayat to satisfy villagers who’ve been ‘victims’ of the alleged police brutality. However, all their pleas fell on deaf ears they usually have been compelled to return.

    Terming the incident as undemocratic, secretary of All India Forward Bloc Jyotiranjan Mohapatra mentioned Dhinkia is probably the primary village within the nation to limit outsiders from getting into it. Addressing mediapersons, he mentioned the delegation will meet Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik over the denial of their entry to Dhinkia. “We will chalk out our future plan of action after meeting the CM,” he added.

    Village chief Nirvaya Samantray mentioned outsiders are coming to Dhinkia to instigate villagers to accentuate protests towards the JSW venture. After frequent incidents of violence, peace has returned to Dhinkia. “We restricted the leaders of opposition political parties from entering Dhinkia to maintain peace and harmony in the village,” he added.

    Earlier this 12 months, Dhinkia witnessed violent clashes between professional and anti-JSW villagers. Besides, villagers protesting the JSW venture additionally clashed with police resulting in a number of arrests.
     

  • BJP to Congress, events say can’t take away powers of states

    Political leaders reducing throughout social gathering strains have expressed concern over the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the 102nd Constitutional modification in its order on Wednesday placing down the Maharashtra authorities’s quota for Marathas. With the Court deciphering it to imply that solely the President (that’s, the Centre) can determine the checklist of Socially and Economically Backward Classes (SEBCs), the events have sought a evaluate in order to retain the states’ powers on this regard.
    “All states should ask for a review of this judgment. It’s wrong to take away the rights of states in deciding their own backward communities. The Supreme Court should set up a special Bench to look into a review,” BJP chief Ganesh Singh, the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes, advised The Indian Express.

    In a majority verdict, a five-judge Constitution Bench declared Wednesday that solely the President can determine on terming a group SEBC for the needs of reservation. While it upheld the 102nd modification that gave particular powers to the National Commission on Backward Classes (NCBC), it mentioned states can solely make ideas for inclusion of a group within the SEBC checklist.
    Interestingly, on the time the 102nd Constitutional modification Bill was handed, in 2018, the Modi authorities and BJP had insisted that it will not take away any powers of the state. In March, when the Supreme Court had sought responses from state governments on the query of interpretation of the 102nd modification, senior BJP chief Bhupender Yadav had repeated this to The Indian Express, saying the change was meant simply to provide “special powers” to the NCBC and never to remove powers of states. On Thursday, Yadav, who headed the Select Committee on the Constitutional modification Bill, mentioned he was finding out the Supreme Court order.

    In its report back to the Rajya Sabha on July 19, 2017, the Select Committee had mentioned, “This Constitutional amendment does not affect or alter in any way the present powers or functions of the State Backward Classes Commissions, and their powers for exclusion or inclusion of backward classes in the State Backward Classes list shall remain unchanged.”
    Ok C Tyagi, a senior chief of BJP ally JD(U), mentioned the Supreme Court’s order might unfold “anarchy”. “A number of states have given reservations beyond 50%. People are already enjoying the benefits. At this time, such a decision could spread anarchy… In this pandemic time, no party or group can hold dharna or protests, so the Centre should announce another mechanism to go around it… The Central government cannot ignore weaker sections of society,” he mentioned.
    The JD(U) has at all times supported states deciding which communities must be added to the SEBC checklist.
    Tyagi added that Maharashtra ought to have argued the case extra fiercely to guard its rights. “I think there was some issue in the way the state handled the case.”
    The Maharashtra authorities had handed the Bill giving 16% reservation to Marathas in jobs and training, by together with them as an SEBC, in November 2018. This took the entire quota within the state above the 50% ceiling set by the Court in its 1992 Indra Sawhney (Mandal) judgment.
    With the Congress a part of the ruling coalition in Maharashtra, senior chief M Veerappa Moily admitted there might have been some lapses on a part of the state authorities. “You need to conduct a socio-economic educational survey and prove from the data and statistics that they (the community for which reservation is sought) come within the criteria and are backward. So unless some criteria is laid down… straightaway passing a legislation is not going to help. I think they have not gone through that,” he mentioned.
    Moily, a former Union legislation minister, added that whereas the Mandal Commission and now the Supreme Court favour quotas to be capped at 50%, this could possibly be exceeded in “exceptional cases”. “You have to make an exceptional case and pass an Act in the Assembly… that it should be included in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution. Tamil Nadu has done that.”

    Asked about what the Centre ought to do now, Moily mentioned it should ask Maharashtra to cross a legislation, after which take obligatory steps to incorporate it within the Ninth Schedule. “The Centre can always do that provided data is collected through a socio-economic educational survey,” he mentioned, advising the state to conduct such a survey.
    CPI basic secretary D Raja questioned the factors to cap quotas at 50%, whereas arguing that reservation is a state matter. “The Supreme Court talks about equality. In that case, why is it not talking about the right to education, right to employment or right to housing?… You talk about equality when 1% of corporate houses own the entire wealth of this country? What has happened to the Indian welfare state?” Raja mentioned.

  • Electoral bonds: Govt fee to SBI quantities to Rs 4.35 crore

    The authorities has shelled out Rs 4.10 crore to the State Bank of India (SBI) as fee for the sale of electoral bonds over 13 phases to donors of political events. This is along with the Rs 1.86 crore spent on printing these bonds.
    In a reply to an RTI software filed by Lokesh Gupta, the SBI stated the whole fee payable by the federal government to the financial institution, for 15 phases of bond gross sales, quantities to Rs 4.35 crore. While Rs 4.10 crore of this has been paid, “Commission for 14th and 15th phases… has not been paid till date.”
    A complete of 6,64,250 electoral bonds had been printed until date from the time the scheme was launched in 2018, the financial institution stated. The complete donations by electoral bonds have touched Rs 6,535 crore.

    According to the SBI, no fee has been paid by the federal government in direction of printing of the bonds, however printing expenses amounting to Rs 1,86,05,720, inclusive of the GST, have been paid until date.
    The SBI bought electoral bonds value Rs 42.10 crore within the fifteenth part of sale from January 1 to 10, 2021. Bonds value Rs 282 crore have been bought by it in October forward of the Bihar Assembly elections.

    Donors, primarily company homes and industrialists, gave Rs 1,056.73 crore in 2018, Rs 5,071.99 crore in 2019 and Rs 363.96 crore in 2020, the SBI had stated in a earlier RTI reply to The Indian Express.
    Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to listen to on March 24 a plea in search of a route to the Central authorities and others to not open any additional window on the market of electoral bonds through the pendency of a PIL filed by an NGO pertaining to funding of political events and alleged lack of transparency.
    The NGO, Association for Democratic Reforms, claimed that any additional sale of bonds earlier than the approaching Assembly elections, together with in West Bengal, Kerala and Assam, would additional “increase illegal and illicit funding of political parties through shell companies”.

    ExplainedAnonymous donationsElectoral bonds are bought anonymously by donors, and are legitimate for 15 days from the date of problem. A debt instrument, these could be purchased by donors from a financial institution, and the political celebration can then encash the bonds. These could be redeemed solely by an eligible political celebration by depositing the identical in its designated checking account maintained with an authorised financial institution.

    The bonds are issued by the SBI in denominations of Rs 1,000, Rs 10,000, Rs 1 lakh, Rs 10 lakh and Rs 1 crore.
    Political events registered underneath Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, which have secured not lower than 1% of the votes within the final common election to an Assembly or Parliament, are eligible to open present accounts for redemption of electoral bonds.
    “The information furnished by the purchaser shall be treated confidential by State Bank of India and shall not be disclosed to any authority for any purposes, except when demanded by a competent court or upon registration of criminal case by any law enforcement agency,” working pointers by the SBI state.