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  • ‘Udayanidhi Stalin must be arrested’: Sushil Modi on DMK chief’s Sanatan Dharma remarks 

    By PTI

    PATNA: Senior BJP chief Sushil Kumar Modi on Sunday dubbed as “treason” the remarks on ‘Sanatan Dharma’ made by Tamil Nadu minister and DMK chief Udayanidhi Stalin and demanded his arrest.

    The Rajya Sabha MP additionally requested Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad to make clear their stand on the difficulty, given their affinity with the DMK.

    “Udayanidhi Stalin should be arrested and sent to jail for having compared Sanatana Dharma to ailments like dengue and malaria,” the previous Bihar Deputy CM advised reporters right here.

    “The statement amounts to treason (‘deshdroh’) since Stalin did not advocate eradication of the ills plaguing the faith, but called for rooting out the faith itself. The DMK has historically been associated with this type of politics,” alleged Sushil Modi.

    Stalin, whose father MK Stalin is the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and heads the DMK, made the remarks on Saturday when he was addressing a writers’ and artists’ meet.

    Sushil Modi additionally questioned the “silence of Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad and (Congress leader) Rahul Gandhi”, all outstanding figures of the newly fashioned coalition INDIA, of which the DMK can also be a component.

    The BJP chief alleged that the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ authorities in Bihar has been displaying a “similar anti-Hindu stance.”

    “Take the example of the change in holiday list of schools. They have decided to keep schools open on many Hindu festivals but did not have the guts to do so on ‘Chehallum’ or Prophet Mohammed’s birthday. People are angry. No students turned up at schools on Raksha Bandhan,” he claimed.

    Sushil Modi’s celebration colleague Giriraj Singh, a minister within the Union cabinet, mentioned in his Lok Sabha constituency Begusarai that “the DMK leader’s statement poses a challenge to Hindus who must unite, rising above caste lines, and defeat anti-Hindu INDIA (bloc).”

    Former Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan additionally lashed out on the DMK chief for the controversial comment.

    Talking to reporters in Nalanda district, he mentioned, “I want to know whether Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad condone the divisive politics of their alliance partner from Tamil Nadu.”

    Paswan’s uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, a Union minister who has burnt bridges with the nephew, nonetheless, refused to hitch concern with the opposition on the matter.

    “The statement may be a reflection on DMK’s ideology. We do not ascribe to the view, Paras said in Samastipur, stopping short of the outrage expressed by other NDA partners.”

    PATNA: Senior BJP chief Sushil Kumar Modi on Sunday dubbed as “treason” the remarks on ‘Sanatan Dharma’ made by Tamil Nadu minister and DMK chief Udayanidhi Stalin and demanded his arrest.

    The Rajya Sabha MP additionally requested Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad to make clear their stand on the difficulty, given their affinity with the DMK.

    “Udayanidhi Stalin should be arrested and sent to jail for having compared Sanatana Dharma to ailments like dengue and malaria,” the previous Bihar Deputy CM advised reporters right here.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “The statement amounts to treason (‘deshdroh’) since Stalin did not advocate eradication of the ills plaguing the faith, but called for rooting out the faith itself. The DMK has historically been associated with this type of politics,” alleged Sushil Modi.

    Stalin, whose father MK Stalin is the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and heads the DMK, made the remarks on Saturday when he was addressing a writers’ and artists’ meet.

    Sushil Modi additionally questioned the “silence of Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad and (Congress leader) Rahul Gandhi”, all outstanding figures of the newly fashioned coalition INDIA, of which the DMK can also be a component.

    The BJP chief alleged that the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ authorities in Bihar has been displaying a “similar anti-Hindu stance.”

    “Take the example of the change in holiday list of schools. They have decided to keep schools open on many Hindu festivals but did not have the guts to do so on ‘Chehallum’ or Prophet Mohammed’s birthday. People are angry. No students turned up at schools on Raksha Bandhan,” he claimed.

    Sushil Modi’s celebration colleague Giriraj Singh, a minister within the Union cabinet, mentioned in his Lok Sabha constituency Begusarai that “the DMK leader’s statement poses a challenge to Hindus who must unite, rising above caste lines, and defeat anti-Hindu INDIA (bloc).”

    Former Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan additionally lashed out on the DMK chief for the controversial comment.

    Talking to reporters in Nalanda district, he mentioned, “I want to know whether Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad condone the divisive politics of their alliance partner from Tamil Nadu.”

    Paswan’s uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, a Union minister who has burnt bridges with the nephew, nonetheless, refused to hitch concern with the opposition on the matter.

    “The statement may be a reflection on DMK’s ideology. We do not ascribe to the view, Paras said in Samastipur, stopping short of the outrage expressed by other NDA partners.”

  • Split doubtless in JD-U, many sitting on fence, says BJP

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI/PATNA :  Emboldened by the NCP break up, the Bihar BJP is anticipating a Maharashtra redux. Senior BJP chief and former deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi on Monday claimed in Delhi {that a} good variety of JD-U MLAs and MPs had been keen to be along with his get together as they had been “upset with the Nitish 
    Kumar’s leadership.”

    In Patna, BJP’s potential allies, together with former Union minister and Rashtriya Lok Janata Dal (RLJD) chief Upendra Kushwaha and LJP (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan have intensified their assault on Nitish.  “A strong atmosphere of rebellion is brewing within the JD-U as most of its MLAs and MPs are in touch with the BJP and other parties,” former Bihar deputy CM advised media.

    Modi stated most JD-U leaders weren’t accepting RJD chief and deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav as a “successor” of Nitish Kumar or Congress chief Rahul Gandhi because the face of JD-U-supported Opposition.
    He stated the BJP wouldn’t settle for Nitish Kumar “even if he returns and rubs his nose at the door of BJP.” “Kumar has proved himself as an unreliable person”, he remarked.

    In Patna, LJP (Ram Vilas) chief and MP Chirag Paswan stated Nitish was apprehensive of his get together splitting. He stated that was the explanation he was assembly his get together MLAs and MPs. Upon being requested whether or not Bihar is prone to witness a Maharashtra-like improvement. Sushil Modi stated that JD-U is going through a robust chance of a break up within the get together and “anything is possible in coming days.”

    “A large number of JD-U MPs know they are not going to get the ticket in the next election. They see their future in dark since Nitish Kumar announced Tejashwi Yadav as his successor. That’s why there is chaos in the JD-U,” Said Sushil Modi.

    On the opposite hand, JD-U nationwide chief and MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh stated that Sushil Modi was day-dreaming. “He is so depressed that he is making tall claims to get himself re-established in the party,” he stated. “In fact, Sushil Modi is trying to appease his party’s top bosses by making such statements against JD-U and Bihar CM,” he stated. 

    Meanwhile, lending his assist to NCP founder Sharad Pawar, RJD chief Lalu Prasad stated, “Sharad ji is a strong leader and the split will not have its impact on him. What happened with Sharad Pawar, we will not let that happen in Bihar,” he asserted.

    NEW DELHI/PATNA :  Emboldened by the NCP break up, the Bihar BJP is anticipating a Maharashtra redux. Senior BJP chief and former deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi on Monday claimed in Delhi {that a} good variety of JD-U MLAs and MPs had been keen to be along with his get together as they had been “upset with the Nitish 
    Kumar’s management.”

    In Patna, BJP’s potential allies, together with former Union minister and Rashtriya Lok Janata Dal (RLJD) chief Upendra Kushwaha and LJP (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan have intensified their assault on Nitish.  “A strong atmosphere of rebellion is brewing within the JD-U as most of its MLAs and MPs are in touch with the BJP and other parties,” former Bihar deputy CM advised media.

    Modi stated most JD-U leaders weren’t accepting RJD chief and deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav as a “successor” of Nitish Kumar or Congress chief Rahul Gandhi because the face of JD-U-supported Opposition.
    He stated the BJP wouldn’t settle for Nitish Kumar “even if he returns and rubs his nose at the door of BJP.” “Kumar has proved himself as an unreliable person”, he remarked.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    In Patna, LJP (Ram Vilas) chief and MP Chirag Paswan stated Nitish was apprehensive of his get together splitting. He stated that was the explanation he was assembly his get together MLAs and MPs. Upon being requested whether or not Bihar is prone to witness a Maharashtra-like improvement. Sushil Modi stated that JD-U is going through a robust chance of a break up within the get together and “anything is possible in coming days.”

    “A large number of JD-U MPs know they are not going to get the ticket in the next election. They see their future in dark since Nitish Kumar announced Tejashwi Yadav as his successor. That’s why there is chaos in the JD-U,” Said Sushil Modi.

    On the opposite hand, JD-U nationwide chief and MP Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh stated that Sushil Modi was day-dreaming. “He is so depressed that he is making tall claims to get himself re-established in the party,” he stated. “In fact, Sushil Modi is trying to appease his party’s top bosses by making such statements against JD-U and Bihar CM,” he stated. 

    Meanwhile, lending his assist to NCP founder Sharad Pawar, RJD chief Lalu Prasad stated, “Sharad ji is a strong leader and the split will not have its impact on him. What happened with Sharad Pawar, we will not let that happen in Bihar,” he asserted.

  • JD(U) giving political color to ED’s motion towards Lalu’s household, says BJP’s Sushil Modi

    Express News Service

    PATNA: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday accused Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and JD(U) president Lalan Singh of giving political color to the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) motion towards RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and his household in reference to land-for-job rip-off.

    BJP MP and former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi stated that JD(U) leaders have been attempting to offer political color to the operation launched by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and ED towards Lalu Prasad, his spouse Rabri Devi and deputy chief minister son Tejashwi Yadav to divert individuals’s consideration from corruption fees levelled towards them.

    Referring to the ED’s search operation and Lalu’s allegations that his pregnant daughter-in-law Rajshree Yadav was harassed, Sushil stated that the query of harassing anyone throughout the operation did not come up.

    When she (Rajshree, spouse of Tejashwi) and ‘nati-natini’ (grandsons and granddaughters) should not accused within the IRCTC rip-off case, the query of investigation did not come up, he remarked.

    “RJD chief is playing emotional card by spreading rumours about his daughter-in-law’s torture by the central agency to take political mileage,” he asserted.

    Moreover, the BJP chief stated that Nitish ought to formulate a coverage that no pregnant lady might be questioned by any investigating company even when fees levelled towards her have been severe in nature.

    ALSO READ | Rs 1 cr money, Rs 600 cr crime proceeds present in raids on Lalu’s household: ED

    The former deputy chief minister additionally sought to understand how Lalu’s household acquired property value Rs.600 crore, which got here to mild throughout an investigation carried out by central companies.

    Tejashwi ought to clarify how he grew to become the proprietor of his New Friends’ Colony residence value Rs.200 crore when he had no different sources of earnings, he added.

    The BJP MP additionally questioned why Hridayanand Choudhary and Lallan Choudhary gifted property at a main location to Lalu’s daughter Hema Yadav. The property was later bought off for Rs.350 crore. Earlier, Lalu and his spouse Rabri have been interrogated by CBI in reference to the land-for-jobs rip-off.

    During the search operation, Modi claimed that Rs.1 crore in money in addition to one and a half kilogram of gold jewelry and half kilogram of gold biscuit have been seized from the residential premises of Lalu’s relations on Friday. Altogether 24 areas in Patna, Mumbai, Ranchi and New Delhi have been concurrently searched.

    PATNA: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday accused Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and JD(U) president Lalan Singh of giving political color to the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) motion towards RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and his household in reference to land-for-job rip-off.

    BJP MP and former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi stated that JD(U) leaders have been attempting to offer political color to the operation launched by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and ED towards Lalu Prasad, his spouse Rabri Devi and deputy chief minister son Tejashwi Yadav to divert individuals’s consideration from corruption fees levelled towards them.

    Referring to the ED’s search operation and Lalu’s allegations that his pregnant daughter-in-law Rajshree Yadav was harassed, Sushil stated that the query of harassing anyone throughout the operation did not come up.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    When she (Rajshree, spouse of Tejashwi) and ‘nati-natini’ (grandsons and granddaughters) should not accused within the IRCTC rip-off case, the query of investigation did not come up, he remarked.

    “RJD chief is playing emotional card by spreading rumours about his daughter-in-law’s torture by the central agency to take political mileage,” he asserted.

    Moreover, the BJP chief stated that Nitish ought to formulate a coverage that no pregnant lady might be questioned by any investigating company even when fees levelled towards her have been severe in nature.

    ALSO READ | Rs 1 cr money, Rs 600 cr crime proceeds present in raids on Lalu’s household: ED

    The former deputy chief minister additionally sought to understand how Lalu’s household acquired property value Rs.600 crore, which got here to mild throughout an investigation carried out by central companies.

    Tejashwi ought to clarify how he grew to become the proprietor of his New Friends’ Colony residence value Rs.200 crore when he had no different sources of earnings, he added.

    The BJP MP additionally questioned why Hridayanand Choudhary and Lallan Choudhary gifted property at a main location to Lalu’s daughter Hema Yadav. The property was later bought off for Rs.350 crore. Earlier, Lalu and his spouse Rabri have been interrogated by CBI in reference to the land-for-jobs rip-off.

    During the search operation, Modi claimed that Rs.1 crore in money in addition to one and a half kilogram of gold jewelry and half kilogram of gold biscuit have been seized from the residential premises of Lalu’s relations on Friday. Altogether 24 areas in Patna, Mumbai, Ranchi and New Delhi have been concurrently searched.

  • Thought Nitish will gracefully exit ballot politics by 2025: Sushil Modi

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI:  Admitting that the BJP didn’t gauge Nitish Kumar’s plans, former deputy chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi stated that the social gathering was below the impression that the JD(U) chief would make a swish exit from electoral politics by 2025, however he had totally different plans.

    Modi stated that Nitish wished to provide a shot at his nationwide ambitions. “We thought that Nitish will opt out of electoral politics by 2025 as he will be 75 years old by then. We didn’t know that he would snap ties to explore greener pastures in the Opposition camp,” stated Modi.

    Last week, Nitish was sworn in as Bihar CM for the eighth time after forming Mahagathbandan with the RJD and different alliance companions. Modi additionally reiterated that Nitish’s closest confidante had approached a Central minister with a proposal to make him Vice-President a month in the past. Nitish, nevertheless,  termed the declare as “bogus”. “It’s natural that he won’t accept that he wanted V-P post. I abide by what I said,” Modi stated.

    Rubbishing the allegations that the BJP was attempting to execute a ‘Maharashtra model’ by means of former JD(U) chief RCP Singh, the Rajya Sabha MP stated that it’s unfair to check each states. “The Shiv Sena was not an alliance partner of the BJP and it was Eknath Shinde and other MLAs who walked out because they were feeling suffocated in the government. The JD-U was our alliance partner and we adhered to the alliance dharma,” he stated.

    Prime Minister Modi additionally dismissed the JD(U) s claims that the BJP appointed RCP Singh as Union minister with out Nitish’s consent. “It was Nitish’s discretion to name the Union minister. Now after a year, he’s saying that the BJP is trying to split the party through Singh,” he stated.

    ‘Alliance won’t transcend 2024’

    Will the grand alliance final?
    It received’t final past 2024 as a result of there may be an inherent distrust between RJD and JD (U). Lalu Yadav by no means trusted Nitish. Both events might be now trying to break one another.

    So is it going to be Lalu vs Nitish?
    In our alliance, we by no means interfered in any switch or postings. Lalu Yadav desires an higher hand in every thing.

    Did the alliance with BJP fail since you weren’t round, as claimed by Nitish Kumar?
    Not a single particular person is indispensable within the BJP. It’s not truthful to make such claims. Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Amit Shah had met him in Patna a few occasions to kind out points.

    Why did he stroll out then?
    Though Nitish was upset over the V-P submit, the principle motive for his exit was his nationwide aspirations.

    Do you assume the backward communities will help BJP now?
    PM Modi instructions extra reputation than Nitish throughout communities. Nitish doesn’t have help even in his house turf Nalanda.

    NEW DELHI:  Admitting that the BJP didn’t gauge Nitish Kumar’s plans, former deputy chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi stated that the social gathering was below the impression that the JD(U) chief would make a swish exit from electoral politics by 2025, however he had totally different plans.

    Modi stated that Nitish wished to provide a shot at his nationwide ambitions. “We thought that Nitish will opt out of electoral politics by 2025 as he will be 75 years old by then. We didn’t know that he would snap ties to explore greener pastures in the Opposition camp,” stated Modi.

    Last week, Nitish was sworn in as Bihar CM for the eighth time after forming Mahagathbandan with the RJD and different alliance companions. Modi additionally reiterated that Nitish’s closest confidante had approached a Central minister with a proposal to make him Vice-President a month in the past. Nitish, nevertheless,  termed the declare as “bogus”. “It’s natural that he won’t accept that he wanted V-P post. I abide by what I said,” Modi stated.

    Rubbishing the allegations that the BJP was attempting to execute a ‘Maharashtra model’ by means of former JD(U) chief RCP Singh, the Rajya Sabha MP stated that it’s unfair to check each states. “The Shiv Sena was not an alliance partner of the BJP and it was Eknath Shinde and other MLAs who walked out because they were feeling suffocated in the government. The JD-U was our alliance partner and we adhered to the alliance dharma,” he stated.

    Prime Minister Modi additionally dismissed the JD(U) s claims that the BJP appointed RCP Singh as Union minister with out Nitish’s consent. “It was Nitish’s discretion to name the Union minister. Now after a year, he’s saying that the BJP is trying to split the party through Singh,” he stated.

    ‘Alliance won’t transcend 2024’

    Will the grand alliance final?
    It received’t final past 2024 as a result of there may be an inherent distrust between RJD and JD (U). Lalu Yadav by no means trusted Nitish. Both events might be now trying to break one another.

    So is it going to be Lalu vs Nitish?
    In our alliance, we by no means interfered in any switch or postings. Lalu Yadav desires an higher hand in every thing.

    Did the alliance with BJP fail since you weren’t round, as claimed by Nitish Kumar?
    Not a single particular person is indispensable within the BJP. It’s not truthful to make such claims. Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Amit Shah had met him in Patna a few occasions to kind out points.

    Why did he stroll out then?
    Though Nitish was upset over the V-P submit, the principle motive for his exit was his nationwide aspirations.

    Do you assume the backward communities will help BJP now?
    PM Modi instructions extra reputation than Nitish throughout communities. Nitish doesn’t have help even in his house turf Nalanda.

  • BJP alleges social imbalance, criminalisation in New Bihar Cabinet

    By PTI

    PATNA: The BJP on Tuesday alleged that the brand new cabinet in Bihar mirrored “social imbalance” and patronage to these with legal antecedents within the ‘Mahagathbandhan’, which fashioned authorities after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) severed ties with the saffron occasion.

    Senior BJP chief and former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi mentioned in an announcement that “two communities” had grabbed “more than 33 per cent” of berths within the 33-strong cabinet that features the Chief Minister and RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav who has returned as his deputy.

    Modi’s allusion was to Yadavs and Muslims, largely seen as loyal to the RJD.

    The two social teams collectively have 13 cabinet berths, together with these from the Chief Minister’s JD(U) and the Congress.

    The former Deputy CM additionally referred to severe legal instances in opposition to new inductees like Lalit Yadav, Surendra Yadav, Ramanand Yadav, and Kartikeya Singh.

    He additionally identified that the brand new cabinet had “zero representation” from amongst Telis and higher caste Kayasthas whereas the variety of Rajputs has gone down in contrast with the earlier authorities of which BJP was a component.

    “I wonder what are Nitish Kumar’s compulsions (majboori) behind agreeing to such social imbalance and criminalisation”, mentioned Modi.

    In what could also be indicative of the long run technique, a couple of BJP chief railed in opposition to “marginalization” of ‘ ati pichhra’ (EBCs) within the new dispensation.

    While Modi underscored that Renu Devi, an EBC, was made Deputy CM by the BJP, no minister from the sizeable, however disorganised, social group was thought of for the highest job this time.

    State BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal claimed in a Facebook submit that the variety of EBCs within the cabinet has dropped from six to solely three.

    BJP OBC Morcha nationwide common secretary Nikhil Anand alleged that “marginalisation” of the EBCs was a “betrayal” on a part of Nitish Kumar who “won over this social segment, riding on BJP’s back”.

    “Nitish and Tejashwi seem to have declared a revolt (bagavat) against the EBCs. The BJP will not allow this injustice”, he added.

    Portfolios have been on Tuesday allotted within the new Bihar cabinet headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who, predictably, retained the all-important dwelling division which helps him preserve direct management on the state police.

    Most ministers of his JD(U) have been again with the portfolios they earlier held.

    The RJD and the Congress, the brand new allies in energy, have gotten departments that have been beforehand held by the BJP.

    Besides Home, Kumar has stored with himself common administration, cabinet secretariat, election and “any other departments not assigned to others”, mentioned an official communication.

    Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, who’s again as deputy CM after 5 years, has received key portfolios like well being, street development, city housing and growth and rural works.

    Yadav’s elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav has been given surroundings, forestry and local weather change.

    Interestingly, Tej Pratap Yadav was the well being minister within the earlier “Mahagathbandhan” authorities of 2015-2017, and there have been speculations in a piece of the media that the temperamental chief “wanted his department back”.

    When the BJP shared energy, the portfolio had remained with Mangal Pandey, a former state president of the occasion.

    Besides the CM and the deputy CM, solely Vijay Kumar Chaudhary (finance, business tax and parliamentary affairs), Bijendra Yadav (energy and planning and growth) and Sanjay Kumar Jha (water sources and data and public relations division) have gotten a couple of portfolios.

    All three belong to the JD(U).

    Allocation of finance to Chaudhary is a big departure from the previous because the portfolio has remained with the JD(U)’s allies for probably the most half.

    Then deputy CMs Sushil Kumar Modi and Tarkishor Prasad held the finance portfolio, whereas within the “Mahagathbandhan” half 1, RJD’s Abdul Bari Siddiqui was accountable for finance.

    Siddiqui, a seasoned politician, is at present not a member of both House within the state legislature and therefore, has not been inducted into the ministry.

    Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, nevertheless, has been divested of training which has gone to RJD’s Chandrashekhar, a tutorial by career.

    Other JD(U) ministers who maintain their earlier portfolios embody Ashok Choudhary (constructing development), Shravan Kumar (rural growth), Sheela Kumari (transport), Sunil Kumar (prohibition, excise and registration), Zama Khan (minority affairs), Leshi Singh (meals and shopper safety) and Madan Sahni (social welfare).

    JD(U) minister Jayant Raj, whose rural works portfolio has been handed over to the deputy CM, will now maintain minor water sources, which was beforehand held by Santosh Kumar Suman of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM).

    Suman, whose father Jitan Ram Manjhi is a former CM and his occasion’s founder, retains SC/ST welfare.

    Independent MLA Sumit Kumar Singh, who give up the NDA by the use of solidarity in the direction of the chief minister, will proceed to carry science and know-how.

    The new industries minister is Samir Kumar Mahaseth of the RJD.

    The division had of late been in a little bit of limelight because of the dynamism of BJP chief Syed Shahnawaz Hussain who held the portfolio until his occasion misplaced energy.

    Congress ministers Afaque Alam and Murari Gautam have gotten animal husbandry and fisheries and Panchayati Raj respectively.

    Sudhakar Singh, son of state RJD president Jagadanand Singh, has been entrusted with agriculture, whereas occasion veterans Alok Kumar Mehta and Lalit Yadav have gotten income and land reforms and public well being engineering departments respectively.

    Other RJD ministers are Surendra Prasad Yadav (cooperatives), Ramanand Yadav (mining and geology), Anita Devi (OBC and EBC welfare), Jitendra Kumar Rai (artwork, tradition and youth affairs), Kartikeya Kumar (legislation), Shahnawaz Alam (catastrophe administration), Shameem Ahmed (sugarcane trade), Surendra Ram (labour sources) and Israel Mansoori (info know-how).

    PATNA: The BJP on Tuesday alleged that the brand new cabinet in Bihar mirrored “social imbalance” and patronage to these with legal antecedents within the ‘Mahagathbandhan’, which fashioned authorities after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) severed ties with the saffron occasion.

    Senior BJP chief and former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi mentioned in an announcement that “two communities” had grabbed “more than 33 per cent” of berths within the 33-strong cabinet that features the Chief Minister and RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav who has returned as his deputy.

    Modi’s allusion was to Yadavs and Muslims, largely seen as loyal to the RJD.

    The two social teams collectively have 13 cabinet berths, together with these from the Chief Minister’s JD(U) and the Congress.

    The former Deputy CM additionally referred to severe legal instances in opposition to new inductees like Lalit Yadav, Surendra Yadav, Ramanand Yadav, and Kartikeya Singh.

    He additionally identified that the brand new cabinet had “zero representation” from amongst Telis and higher caste Kayasthas whereas the variety of Rajputs has gone down in contrast with the earlier authorities of which BJP was a component.

    “I wonder what are Nitish Kumar’s compulsions (majboori) behind agreeing to such social imbalance and criminalisation”, mentioned Modi.

    In what could also be indicative of the long run technique, a couple of BJP chief railed in opposition to “marginalization” of ‘ ati pichhra’ (EBCs) within the new dispensation.

    While Modi underscored that Renu Devi, an EBC, was made Deputy CM by the BJP, no minister from the sizeable, however disorganised, social group was thought of for the highest job this time.

    State BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal claimed in a Facebook submit that the variety of EBCs within the cabinet has dropped from six to solely three.

    BJP OBC Morcha nationwide common secretary Nikhil Anand alleged that “marginalisation” of the EBCs was a “betrayal” on a part of Nitish Kumar who “won over this social segment, riding on BJP’s back”.

    “Nitish and Tejashwi seem to have declared a revolt (bagavat) against the EBCs. The BJP will not allow this injustice”, he added.

    Portfolios have been on Tuesday allotted within the new Bihar cabinet headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who, predictably, retained the all-important dwelling division which helps him preserve direct management on the state police.

    Most ministers of his JD(U) have been again with the portfolios they earlier held.

    The RJD and the Congress, the brand new allies in energy, have gotten departments that have been beforehand held by the BJP.

    Besides Home, Kumar has stored with himself common administration, cabinet secretariat, election and “any other departments not assigned to others”, mentioned an official communication.

    Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, who’s again as deputy CM after 5 years, has received key portfolios like well being, street development, city housing and growth and rural works.

    Yadav’s elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav has been given surroundings, forestry and local weather change.

    Interestingly, Tej Pratap Yadav was the well being minister within the earlier “Mahagathbandhan” authorities of 2015-2017, and there have been speculations in a piece of the media that the temperamental chief “wanted his department back”.

    When the BJP shared energy, the portfolio had remained with Mangal Pandey, a former state president of the occasion.

    Besides the CM and the deputy CM, solely Vijay Kumar Chaudhary (finance, business tax and parliamentary affairs), Bijendra Yadav (energy and planning and growth) and Sanjay Kumar Jha (water sources and data and public relations division) have gotten a couple of portfolios.

    All three belong to the JD(U).

    Allocation of finance to Chaudhary is a big departure from the previous because the portfolio has remained with the JD(U)’s allies for probably the most half.

    Then deputy CMs Sushil Kumar Modi and Tarkishor Prasad held the finance portfolio, whereas within the “Mahagathbandhan” half 1, RJD’s Abdul Bari Siddiqui was accountable for finance.

    Siddiqui, a seasoned politician, is at present not a member of both House within the state legislature and therefore, has not been inducted into the ministry.

    Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, nevertheless, has been divested of training which has gone to RJD’s Chandrashekhar, a tutorial by career.

    Other JD(U) ministers who maintain their earlier portfolios embody Ashok Choudhary (constructing development), Shravan Kumar (rural growth), Sheela Kumari (transport), Sunil Kumar (prohibition, excise and registration), Zama Khan (minority affairs), Leshi Singh (meals and shopper safety) and Madan Sahni (social welfare).

    JD(U) minister Jayant Raj, whose rural works portfolio has been handed over to the deputy CM, will now maintain minor water sources, which was beforehand held by Santosh Kumar Suman of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM).

    Suman, whose father Jitan Ram Manjhi is a former CM and his occasion’s founder, retains SC/ST welfare.

    Independent MLA Sumit Kumar Singh, who give up the NDA by the use of solidarity in the direction of the chief minister, will proceed to carry science and know-how.

    The new industries minister is Samir Kumar Mahaseth of the RJD.

    The division had of late been in a little bit of limelight because of the dynamism of BJP chief Syed Shahnawaz Hussain who held the portfolio until his occasion misplaced energy.

    Congress ministers Afaque Alam and Murari Gautam have gotten animal husbandry and fisheries and Panchayati Raj respectively.

    Sudhakar Singh, son of state RJD president Jagadanand Singh, has been entrusted with agriculture, whereas occasion veterans Alok Kumar Mehta and Lalit Yadav have gotten income and land reforms and public well being engineering departments respectively.

    Other RJD ministers are Surendra Prasad Yadav (cooperatives), Ramanand Yadav (mining and geology), Anita Devi (OBC and EBC welfare), Jitendra Kumar Rai (artwork, tradition and youth affairs), Kartikeya Kumar (legislation), Shahnawaz Alam (catastrophe administration), Shameem Ahmed (sugarcane trade), Surendra Ram (labour sources) and Israel Mansoori (info know-how).

  • Sushil Modi poses 5 questions earlier than Lalu household after CBI raid

    Express News Service

    PATNA: A day after CBI raid at 16 places of RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his relations, former deputy chief minister and Rajya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Modi on Saturday sought a reply from the RJD supremo on 5 questions linked to the land for job rip-off throughout his tenure as railway minister.

    Sushil Modi, who has been vital of Lalu and his household for an extended, stated, “Is it not true that former union minister Kanti Singh and former state minister Raghunath Jha had donated their houses in Patna and Gopalganj, respectively in lieu of ministerial berths?”

    He posed one other query searching for a reply on how Lalu and his relations acquired possession of 141 plots of land, over 30 flats and greater than half a dozen homes in Patna and its suburbs. 

    “How did he get ownership of TISCO’s guest house located near Patna airport?” he requested.

    Similarly, questions associated to plots of land value crores of rupees donated to Rabri Devi and her daughter Hema Yadav by Hridyanand Choudhary and Lalan Choudhary, who labored at Lalu’s ‘khatal’ (cowshed), had been additionally raised.

    While Lalan labored as a grade IV worker of the Bihar Legislative Council, Hridyanand served as a gaggle D worker of the Indian railways. 

    The names of the 2 additionally figured within the contemporary case registered by the CBI in reference to the ‘land for job’ rip-off.

    Sushil Modi additionally sought to know why a senior politician Shivanand Tiwari (now in RJD) had approached the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh searching for a CBI probe in opposition to Lalu in 2008. 

    “And now when the CBI has initiated action, why there is fuss and issue being given political colour,” he requested.

    On Friday, the investigating company carried out simultaneous searches at 16 places of Lalu and his relations in Patna and Gopalganj districts in Bihar and Misa Bharti’s residence in New Delhi.

    The raiding workforce recovered a pen drive in the course of the search operation at 10 Circular Road residence of former chief minister Rabri Devi in Patna on Friday.

    The CBI motion has generated a lot warmth within the political circles within the state.

  • BJP has at all times supported demand for caste census: Sushil Modi

    By PTI

    PATNA: Senior BJP chief Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday asserted that his get together has at all times been in assist of a caste census, which has turn into a burning concern within the state, and rebutted the “dushprachaar” (misinformation) on a part of political rivals.

    The former Bihar deputy chief minister got here out with a video and a sequence of tweets asserting that the BJP has all by means of remained in assist of the caste census demand though the Narendra Modi authorities on the Centre has expressed incapability to get it carried out due to “practicalities”.

    Sushil Modi’s averment got here within the wake of the rivalry by Lalu Prasad’s RJD that the BJP has been against social justice and thus it had not agreed to caste census nationally and was detached in the direction of getting the identical carried out on a state degree regardless of being a accomplice within the Nitish Kumar authorities.

    The former deputy CM identified that the BJP had voted within the favour of two resolutions handed by each homes of the legislature in Bihar in assist of a caste census and “a senior cabinet minister from our party, Janak Ram, was a part of the delegation led by the CM that had met PM Narendra Modi to press the demand last year”.

    He additionally underscored that the BJP had equally backed the demand when it was raised in adjoining Jharkhand the place “our state president was part of the delegation formed to meet the PM”.

    “We voted in favour of a resolution on caste census when it was passed in Odisha. When state-specific caste surveys were conducted in Telangana and Karnataka we did not oppose the same. Parliament’s records are proof that our late leader Gopinath Munde had strongly supported caste census when there was a debate on the issue in 2010, while the Congress-led UPA was in power,” Modi added.

    Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has indicated {that a} state-specific survey will probably be carried out quickly after searching for inputs from totally different teams at an all-party assembly.

  • Rift in Bihar BJP may very well be addressed in Jaipur meet

    Express News Service

    PATNA: All eyes are set on the three-day assembly of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionaries to be held in Jaipur from May 19 because the conclave could impact some reshuffle within the Bihar BJP.

    The assembly assumes particular significance for Bihar as the problems associated to the interior energy wrestle within the BJP’s state unit are prone to be taken up in discussions on the prime stage.

    The inner conflict in Bihar BJP began after the 2020 meeting polls itself, though the celebration put up a formidable present by rising because the second largest celebration with 74 seats.

    The battle, nonetheless, intensified after the July 2021 cabinet reshuffle on the centre as a bunch of leaders began making makes an attempt to reformulate the technique used to this point to execute the caste-based politics within the state.

    Under the rising affect of those leaders, two essential BJP leaders—Ravi Shankar Prasad and Sushil Kumar Modi have been allegedly sidelined as Prasad was dropped from the union cabinet.

    On the opposite hand, Sushil Kumar Modi was not inducted within the union cabinet at the same time as he was denied the put up of deputy chief minister within the new NDA authorities in Bihar.

    A superb variety of BJP leaders in Bihar think about that each Prasad and Modi have been sidetracked to make approach for the rising ‘Yadav’ coterie, spearheaded by union minister and Bihar in-charge Bhupendra Yadav.

    Yadav was making an attempt to vary BJP’s picture as a celebration that took care of solely ahead castes within the state and it was not averse to taking even Yadavs, identified for his or her robust loyalty to RJD chief Lalu Prasad, on board.

    But it didn’t work effectively as deliberate by the BJP because it suffered electoral setbacks. The celebration’s defeat within the Bochaha by-poll and MLC elections was like a shocker as higher caste members (learn Bhumihars) didn’t solid their votes in its favour. So all these points are prone to be taken up for dialogue on the
    proposed Jaipur conclave.

    BJP’s prime brass has additionally began rethinking its plan as Bhupendra Yadav has not reported a great relationship with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan was despatched because the celebration’s emissary as he met Nitish to pacify his frayed tempers.

    In such a state of affairs, Bihar BJP could witness a whole overhaul after the Jaipur meet. The tenure of state chief Sanjay Jaiswal can be prone to come to an finish in a few months.

  • Sushil Modi interview: ‘Google is depriving traditional media of its revenue share’

    BJP Rajya Sabha Member Sushil Modi speaks to The Indian Express about getting tech giants like Google and Facebook to compensate conventional media for utilizing their content material.
    What are the considerations you raised in Parliament at the moment about Google and Facebook?
    Traditional media goes by its worst section financially within the latest historical past — first due to the pandemic and now due to giants like Google that are consuming into their revenues. Traditional media make investments 1000’s of crores… they gather and confirm the information and disseminate it. Google is utilizing this content material and incomes some huge cash by commercial revenues. This is depriving the standard media of its income share.
    How do you recommend the federal government ought to handle this?
    About two weeks in the past, Australia handed a code below which these tech giants are compelled to share their income with print and digital media. These platforms tried to retaliate by making an attempt to dam content material from Australia however they must relent and negotiate with the federal government. India ought to examine the Australian mannequin and draft an identical legislation or code…
    You talked about Facebook blocking content material in retaliation. Do you assume this was a warning shot to lawmakers elsewhere?
    They tried however couldn’t succeed. They needed to give up and are available to the negotiation desk. The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has spoken to the leaders of India, UK and Canada. All democratic international locations ought to examine Australia’s expertise…

    Do you assume will probably be simpler for India to get the tech giants to fall in line given the dimensions of our market?
    A priority has been set. We have the latecomers benefit and we now have the chance to be taught from Australia’s expertise… when it comes to Internet customers, we’re Number 2 on the planet. That does put us better off.
    The tech giants have argued towards income sharing on the bottom that newspapers can now attain a a lot bigger viewers due to Google and Facebook… Even if their viewers has elevated, their income pie is shrinking… enhance in readers will not be translating into enhance in advert income which is essential for his or her survival.