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.
Without taking the name of Congress, Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress national general secretary said the losers in the Assembly elections in five states should take lessons from the defeat.
The Congress has convened a meeting on 5 December of all its 230 candidates who contested the state assembly polls.
In the assembly polls held in five states - Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telnagna and Mizoram - the Congress registered victory only in Telangana.
In the Jharkhand case, the allegation in the awaited judgment against the petitioner Sita Soren is that she had allegedly accepted a bribe to vote in favour of a particular candidate in the Rajya Sabha election that was held in 2012 in Jharkhand.
Although the Congress has achieved a clear majority with 64 MLAs, the party is expected to follow in the footsteps of KCR and encourage defections from the BRS in the coming days.
