Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Varma on Wednesday said the state government will soon propose two separate Bills to enhance the reservation for backward classes to 42 per cent, and introduce sub categorization of Scheduled Castes to correct the historical underrepresentation of the communities and ensure balanced distribution of reservation benefits.
The main Opposition Congress in Haryana is set to be wiped out in the civic polls as early leads in the underway counting of ballots indicated that the state ruling BJP is leading on nine out of 10 posts of mayor.
On the second day of the ongoing budget session in Bhopal, Congress MLAs, led by Leader of Opposition Umang Singhar, staged a protest near Mahatma Gandhi’s statue within the Assembly premises.
Singhar said that the Opposition wants debates on the issues of corruption, farmers’ woes, and other public welfare matters during the budget session. He alleged that the BJP does not want to discuss these issues.
Congress seemed to have decided to honour its promises made during the Assembly polls and allot an MLC seat to CPI.
Can the Congress party successfully compel the BJP to confront the daunting realities of price rise and unemployment? While the Congress endeavours to steer the conversation towards these critical issues, it faces an uphill battle against the BJP’s dominant narrative.
The manifesto is blissfully silent about the means of financing the costs of its promises, leaving the only option of high fiscal deficits (FD) and consequent heavy borrowing, though it makes a vague promise, without any roadmap, to double the GDP growth in the next 10 years ~ the underlying assumption being that the growth will find the necessary resources.
Polling for the second phase Lok Sabha elections is scheduled to be held on April 19.
Claiming that the electoral bond scheme was designed to be fully anonymous, Ramesh said, “In other words, Modi wanted to hide the details of where funds have come from (to political parties), and how they are being used.”
Addressing a press conference, the Delhi BJP chief said, “By not allocating a single Lok Sabha seat in Delhi both Arvind Kejriwal (AAP) and Congress have revealed their anti-women empowerment stance.”
