Two TDP ministers to resign from Union cabinet: CM Chandrababu Naidu

NEW DELHI: Within hours of finance minister Arun Jatiley saying no to special status for Andhra Pradesh TDP president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday announced that two TDP ministers - Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Y S Chowdhary - will quit the Narendra Modi cabinet tomorrow. Andhra Pradesh special status: We will take right decision at right time says Chandrababu NaiduAndhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday indicated that the Telugu Desam would take a right decision at the right time amid speculation that the party may pull out of the Narendra Modi government. The decision was taken at a meeting called by CM Chandrababu Naidu with party lawmakers late this evening. I tried speaking to the Prime Minister as a courtesy to inform about our decision to quit but he did not come on line. I don t know what mistake have I done Naidu said. The CM said that the Centre-state relations have been neglected by the Centre. Centre may create problems for us but state interests prime to us he said. This is the http://www.bestadsontv.com/profile/289722/Ahmed-Khan first step. We will go ahead with other actions later the Andhra CM added. Andhra Pradesh special status: TDP likely to snap ties with BJP two ministers may quit Modi cabinetTDP president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is likely to set the separation process in motion beginning with the resignation of two TDP ministers Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Y S Chowdhary from the Narendra Modi cabinet. Finance minister Arun Jaitley s statement was the last straw. They are apparently predetermined Naidu said justifying the decision to ask TDP ministers to quit the Union Cabinet. Earlier in the day finance minister Arun Jaitley stepped in to pacify the sulking partner saying the Centre is committed to giving Andhra Pradesh financial assistance equivalent to a special category state. We are committed to giving monetary equivalent to special status to Andhra Pradesh he said. Jaitley said he agreed with the assessment that Andhra Pradesh was financially suffering after Telengana was carved out of the state and his government will honour each and every commitment made by the Centre at the time of bifurcation. Read this story in Marathi
09:47 (IST) Andhra Pradesh would have been granted special status if UPA was in power: Karnataka Congress leader Dinesh Gundu Rao If UPA had been in power #SpecialStatusForAP was a given. Sad to see the state suffer due to indifference of the Modi Govt.We stand by the people of Andhra in their fight for justice. https://t.co/gcBhysymZE Dinesh Gundu Rao (@dineshgrao) March 6 2018
Amaravati: BJP President Amit Shah on Friday spoke to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu over phone hours after his Telugu Desam Party decided to intensify its fight over the Centre not honouring the commitments made to the state.Mr Shah rang up the TDP chief and invited him for talks over the commitments made at the time of bifurcation of the state. Mr Naidu conveyed to the BJP chief that he will send a delegation led by the central minister Sujana Chowdary.According to TDP sources Mr Naidu made it clear that there will be no compromise on the commitments made in Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014. He conveyed to Mr Shah that the TDP s fight is not against the BJP but for the justice to the state.The BJP President called up Naidu a couple of hours hours after TDP Parliamentary Party meeting chaired by Naidu decided to step up the fight over the raw deal meted out to the state in Union Budget 2018-19. The TDP a partner in BJP-led NDA government at the Centre had stalled proceedings in Parliament during the first leg of the budget session and it is gearing up to continue the protest in the second leg beginning next week.TDP MP Galla Jayadev told reporters after the meeting that if the Finance Bill is not amended to make allocations to the state to fulfil the commitments the party will oppose it.Mr Jayadev said since the Centre had promised to extend all assistance under the special package the TDP had agreed for the same but as nothing has been done so far they were pressing for their original demand of special category status. The MP said the party decided to take the issue to the national level by writing letters to all the parties their floor leaders and MPs. If necessary we will go to the court said the Lok Sabha member.Meanwhile Andhra Pradesh State Planning Commission Vice-Chairman Kutumba Rao who along with TDP MP Rammohan Naidu met Amit Shah in Delhi on Thursday said the talks were disappointing.He said instead of mooting a formula as assured by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Amit Shah asked them to present their formula. Kutumba Rao the state had already made its demands clear and hence the Centre should respond to them instead of asking it to present a formula. CommentsClose X The TDP has been demanding that the Centre make financial allocations to the state to fulfil the commitments made to Andhra Pradesh at the time of its bifurcation in 2014 to carve out Telangana state.Stating that residuary state of Andhra Pradesh suffered huge loss due to the division the TDP is urging the Centre to handhold the state till it comes up at par with other southern states.
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: March 2 2018 5:07 pm Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran/File) Related News TDP walks out of Govt: Why fallout poses a challenge to BJP s numbers count for 2019Andhra denied special category status: TDP walks out of Govt puts NDA on notice ahead of 2019Upset over denial of special status for Andhra Chandrababu Naidu pulls out TDP ministers from Modi cabinetAndhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday reiterated his demand for a special category status underlining that the state will only be financially stable if all assurances given in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014 were fulfilled and implemented. Even after 4 years of bifurcation AP is suffering. Congress faced the wrath of people as they did injustice now people are thinking if BJP will follow the same course. We accepted special assistance as the Centre said there are problems with Special Category Status Naidu was quoted as saying by ANI. He was addressing the TDP Parliamentary Board meeting. The Centre is giving Special Category Status to other states. How? In such a case we too need SCS. YSRCP is speaking of SCS but leaving rest 18 points. SCS alone is not enough all points in the act must be implemented. Only then AP will be financially stable he said while maintaining that the state was given a raw deal and it is encountering problems. In September last year Naidu had accepted the special package announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. For the first time Naidu however directly raised the special status issue last week saying that the special category status is the state s right and that they will continue to fight for it. He further said that in the last three-and-a-half years Andhra Pradesh achieved a lot of growth but it would have done much better had all the promises made in Parliament were fulfilled. ALSO READ | Broken promise funds crunch: Why Andhra CM N Chandrababu Naidu is angry The ruling TDP has been forced to take a tough stand on the special category status issue after the Opposition YSRCP has stepped up its campaign. Since the Union Budget was presented leaders of the TDP and BJP have been trading accusations over central assistance with the former alleging that Andhra Pradesh had been ignored. CM had also threatened to bring a no-confidence motion against the Centre in Parliament to demand justice albeit as a last resort . For all the latest India News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related News TDP-BJP alliance on last legs? Chandrababu Naidu may ask two Union ministers to resign tomorrow TDP threatens to part ways Centre says yes to funds no to special category status Tags: Chandrababu Naidu Nitie VerlekarMar 3 2018 at 1:42 amNo state in India should get special category status. Everyone needs to work hard to come up on their own. Funds given by central govt should be used for welfare of the society not to fill up the politicians pockets. Kashmir s special status should be revoked too. India is a country which needs to teach the world that diversity is a strength. May God give better understanding of humanity to everyone soon.(1)(1) ReplySekhar AMar 3 2018 at 2:52 amU .. First understand on what basis AP is divided.First let s transfer RBI stock exchanges to south so that half of bombay will be empty.(1)(0) Reply Raman KayMar 2 2018 at 11:37 pmOK we will give him special category! You are in the category of dumb and a moron. There nailed it!(1)(1) ReplySekhar AMar 3 2018 at 2:57 am...dont post u r comments with out understanding on what circumustances AP got bifurcated.(0)(0) Reply Sriram KalpathiMar 2 2018 at 10:54 pmThe CM of Andhra is nowhere when compared with the CM of Telangana. The people will drop him if he does not bring results.(0)(1) ReplyVenkat PokkunuriMar 3 2018 at 12:54 amI am from Andhra telangana -HYD is nothing HYD was developed by Andhra people and our CM only. coming to your point telangana CM is just above average CBN is excellent. Telangana CM stands no where in the kind of admin skills leadership qualities and discpline that CBN does have he is a visinory. also TRS MLAS MPS and ministers are dammm corrupt and thugs. they are eating alll prjojects money. also telangana is backward in educaton and in every thing. telangana lands are far lless fetrtile in comparision with andhra lands. also we have vast sea cost which TN doesnt have. dont write nonsense.(3)(8) ReplySekhar AMar 3 2018 at 3:01 amKcr is good for nothing.(0)(0) Reply Venkat PokkunuriMar 2 2018 at 9:55 pmHe is a very good CM but acting alot for no valid reason Andhra is a rich and very progressive state with very fertile lands rivers vast sea coast above alll people are intelligent hard working and highly educated and in many good positions all over country and also overseas. no point in trying to politicise this issue too much and start fighting with center. continous discussions are the only way forward.he knew that there is no way he can win Modi.PM damm care about any blackmailings or abuses he wont get even an appointent if he behaves like this. better he cuts his ego a bit.Modi and Amith shah are not kids to be threatened. he is feeling insecure because of YRCP might have pac with BJP in coming elections and he might loose.(5)(6) ReplyNNAMEMar 3 2018 at 2:50 amDo you call chaotic expansion development?(0)(0) Reply
The erstwhile Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government did not do justice to Andhra Pradesh while bifurcating the state in 2014 but the current central government is not even fulfilling the promises made by the Congress Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu told CR Sukumar in an interview. Naidu whose Telugu Desam Party is part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance said the Centre should accord Andhra Pradesh special category status and attendant benefits as it is doing in the case of some other states. Edited excerpts: You came to power amid a lot of hopes and expectations of people of Andhra Pradesh. How do you assess your progress? The state bifurcation was not done scientifically. Andhra Pradesh is left without a capital city educational and healthcare institutions industries and income resources. It was not just injustice but Andhra people were also insulted. People punished the Congress for that. With all my experience as chief minister of combined Andhra Pradesh for nine years and as Opposition leader for 10 years I have started the journey of rebuilding the state. There were promises made under the bifurcation Act by the then United Progressive Alliance government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the poll campaign at Tirupati and other places in 2014 gave hope on many issues including support for a world-class capital city for Andhra. Congress did injustice and we hoped BJP as our alliance partner would do justice. I have visited New Delhi 29 times in the past three and a half years asking that promises made under bifurcation Act and assurances made in Parliament be fulfilled. What is the progress in fulfilling these promises? They didn t give special category status. The nominal industrial incentives that they gave to Andhra and Telangana are unattractive. The division of institutions and assets under Schedule IX and X has not been completed yet. The deficit finance is not given. Why is the Centre not acceding to Andhra Pradesh s requests? I am unable to understand. They should answer. I supported them in all their major reform initiatives in the spirit of cooperative federalism. I supported initiatives like demonetisation and GST (goods and services tax). I was even the convenor for digital economy and submitted recommendations. I am not seeking any favours. Whatever was promised under the AP State Reorganisation Act are the legitimate rights of people of Andhra. People of Andhra were not happy even with those promises made under the bifurcation Act in 2014 and assurances by the Congress and punished it. The current government is not implementing even those promises. What are the options that you are now considering? I will continue to fight for the legitimate rights of people of Andhra. Secondly I may have to take political decisions also accordingly. I will have to arouse people of Andhra to work hard further. Otherwise we will suffer badly. The two leading national parties at the Centre Congress and BJP shouldn t have handled the issues of states like this. They should have been more responsible and sensitive in the interest of the nation. BJP may be thinking that they will not lose anything in Andhra. Elections are held every five years and parties in the government keep changing. You cannot discriminate against districts or states that didn t vote for you. We should think in terms of national interest. Why did you make a U-turn on the special category status by accepting a special package? There was no U-turn. It was a mistake committed by the government of India. They told me that they are not giving special category status to any state. They offered to give us special assistance similar to special category status. Now they are extending the special category status to some states. We are asking them to extend it to us also and not to discriminate. What they are doing is not correct. Why should people of Andhra be deprived of special category status? Give us also the benefits and the status of special category. What is your appeal to BJP now? As a politician who has seen ups and downs of various political parties in this country over the past four decades I appeal to both the BJP and Congress not to offend the sentiments of people of Andhra and deprive them in the interest of the nation. I am appealing to both of them to correct themselves and their mistakes.
HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu will address a mega public meeting at Khammam next month. The party chief has decided to dedicate at least one or two days in a week to review the party activities in Telangana mainly to strengthen the party and restore the past glory to the party in Telangana. Naidu assured the party leaders during his two day meetings with Telangana TDP leaders held on February 28 and March 1. TDP in Telangana lost its sheen for quite some time especially after many party leaders and MLAs left the party and joined either Telangana Rashtra Samithi or Congress. Naidu also didn t tour Telangana for the past two years especially after the cash for vote scam. In the recent past TDP has taken up programmes such as Palle Palle Ku Telugu Desam and even taken up agitational programmes on various issues. But they could not stop migration of cadre from TDP to other political parties. Now with the Lok Sabha elections due either by the end of this year or in the first quarter of 2019 the Telangana TDP boss has decided to strengthen the party and revive its glory. Chandrababu Naidu who is camping in Hyderabad for the past two days held meeting with the party politburo and central committee on Thursday. He directed the party leaders to strengthen the party from the grass root level. Naidu on Wednesday addressed the party general body and dismissed reports that his party will be merged either with the TRS or any other party in Telangana. He made these remarks in the wake of TDP leader Mothkupalli Narsimhulu making such a suggestion. Interestingly Narsimhulu did not come to the party leaders meet. Our party president has directed us to continue the party programme palle palleku TDP to reach out to people in all the villages till March 29. He also asked us to fill up party district presidents in Sanga Reddy Nizamabad Karimnagar Sircilla and Peddapally districts which are lying vacant for the past few months Telangana TDP president L Ramana told TOI. Since the party still has cadre in almost all the Assembly constituencies in Telangana both local and state party leaders will frequently interact with them Ramana said.
Written by Sreenivas Janyala | Updated: February 23 2018 9:31 am The TDP says hopes raised by Chandrababu Naidu s meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi were dashed by the Budget announcements. (Express Archive) Related News TDP vs Modi Sarkar LIVE UPDATES: Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu asks two Union ministers to resign todayBSF man s pay cut: PM Modi steps in order withdrawnTDP walks out of Govt: Why fallout poses a challenge to BJP s numbers count for 2019Leaders of the TDP and BJP have been trading accusations over central assistance since the Union Budget was presented with the former alleging that Andhra Pradesh had been ignored. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu this week threatened to bring a no-confidence motion against the Centre in Parliament to demand justice albeit as a last resort . Naidu repeated his grievance that the provisions of the AP Reorganisation Act 2014 and the promises made by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have not been implemented . He referred to Special Category Status as Andhra s right and said that the BJP was not budging only because it has a total majority in Parliament. What has put the TDP s ties with the BJP under strain? State s revenue deficit According to officials AP faced a revenue deficit of Rs 16 000 crore in 2014-15 Rs 4 598 crore in 2016-17 and almost a similar amount in 2017-18. In 2018-19 the deficit is estimated to be Rs 416 crore. The deficit arose after the state s bifurcation in 2014 and AP wants the Centre to compensate for its losses. The TDP recalls that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had assured Rajya Sabha on February 20 2014 that any resource gap that the successor state of AP might face would be made good in the Union Budget for 2014-15. However the Finance Ministry said AP had included Rs 10 000 crore it gave as farm loan waivers in its revenue deficit calculation. The Centre finally agreed to give Rs 7 500 crore as compensation but has so far paid only about Rs 4 000 crore. Also even as negotiations on the rest of the amount are under way the Centre has now said it owes only Rs 138.39 crore officials in the state said. The Polavaram project The TDP argues that since Polavaram has been declared a national project the Centre should bear its entire cost including the cost of land acquisition and rehabilitation which comes to around Rs 33 000 crore. According to TDP MP K Rammohan Naidu about Rs 7 500 crore have been spent on the project of which the Centre gave Rs 4 500 crore. He said the state had borrowed Rs 3 000 crore and was paying an interest of Rs 300 crore every year. The Centre had lost interest in the project alleged Rammohan Naidu who was part of a delegation that met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. BJP MP K Hari Babu said the Centre has so far released Rs 4 662.28 crore for Polavaram. Construction of Amaravati Andhra says it needs hand-holding for a few years as it builds a capital from scratch. The Centre has so far given Rs 2 500 crore including Rs 500 crore to the Guntur and Vijayawada Municipal Corporations to lay out drainage systems. The remaining amount is meant for building the secretariat Assembly Raj Bhavan and High Court. AP has built a temporary secretariat at Velagapudi and has approved designs for permanent buildings in Amaravati. Naidu wants the Centre to allocate funds for the entire capital region which is estimated to cost Rs 33 000 crore. Visakhapatnam railway zone TDP leaders say establishing a new railway zone would bring a lot of investment and jobs to the region. They say this had been promised in the AP Reorganisation Act but the Centre is dragging its feet because of Odisha s opposition. Bhubaneswar fears its importance as the East Coast Railway headquarters may be diminished if a new zone is created Rammohan Naidu said. Building central institutions The AP Reorganisation Act 2014 assured that 19 institutions and projects like IIT IIM etc. would be established in AP. While work on more than a dozen institutions is ongoing AP says progress is slow and funds are coming in a trickle. For instance the estimated cost of setting up an IIT in Tirupati is Rs 3 150 crore but the Centre has so far released only Rs 56.49 crore. Special Category/Package The Centre says the assurance of special status clashes with the recommendations of the Fourteenth Finance Commission which came subsequently. Following the acceptance of the recommendations the class of Special Category States has ceased to exist. However the Centre has agreed to give special assistance to AP for five years which would make up for the additional central share the state might have received during these years 2015-16 to 2019-20 as envisaged by Singh s 2014 statement. This will be in the form of Union funding for externally aided projects that have been signed and disbursed during these years. AP is demanding that special assistance funding should be in the 90:10 ratio (Centre:state) for both EAPs and centrally-sponsored schemes which adds up to about Rs 20 010 crore of central assistance. Because the state government may not be able to spend this amount on EAPs in the stipulated five years AP is demanding that the Centre allow it to use the money to clear outstanding loans. It is seeking permission to borrow from internal lenders like NABARD HUDCO and other commercial banks and to use the gap to pay interest commitments to the Government of India NABARD and EAPs. For all the latest Explained News download Indian Express App More Related News Andhra denied special category status: TDP walks out of Govt puts NDA on notice ahead of 2019 Upset over denial of special status for Andhra Chandrababu Naidu pulls out TDP ministers from Modi cabinet Tags: Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu Narendra Modi TDP-BJP alliance DDr. Codadu PratapFeb 23 2018 at 11:49 pmThe latest move by the Rayalaseema BJP MLAs demanding an Assembly session High Court Bench and immediate release of 20 000 crores for irrigation projects foreshadows an imminent threat by that party to re-ignite the separate Rayalaseema issue. Such a move at this juncture cannot but be seen as a veiled threat by the BJP to further bifurcate the state a la Sonia if Chandrababu Naidu does not fall in line. This is at once an admission by the BJP that it chose very consciously not to fulfil its statutory obligations towards Andhra Pradesh as well as of despicable coercive politics it practices.(3)(1) ReplyS KMar 6 2018 at 12:24 pmSeparate Rayalaseema is a non-starter as it will always be a deficit state.(0)(0) Reply emittrap@hotmail.comFeb 23 2018 at 11:17 amChandrababu Naidu is a corrupt CM. When farmers are committing suicide in large numbers he is spending billions on establishing the capital city. He is a stooge of the US. Deep investigations need to be carried out in all his dealings.(2)(11) ReplyS KMar 6 2018 at 12:26 pmYou make absolutely no sense as you don t understand basic economics.(0)(0) Reply SSatavahanaFeb 23 2018 at 9:25 amNaidu made a mistake in trusting Modi and Jaitley. He should walk away from NDA and preserve Andhra people s self respect. Remember what NT Rama Rao did. Kamal Haasan is right - southern states should work together and preserve their cultural iden y.(19)(6) ReplynagarFeb 23 2018 at 11:08 amIn a few decades all the Southern states will become Hindi Speaking . What Cultural Ident-ity you are talking about? All the Southern Languages are derived from Sanskrit. It was Chandrababu Naidu who betrayed NTR by usurping power(2)(19) ReplyHhuman beingFeb 23 2018 at 7:38 pmhe must have betrayed an individual ntr - that does not mean he has betrayed the state people. he is an efficient CM with lot of trust from the people of andhra and also with lot of jealousy from the people at the centre. to save the southerners the ignominy of 2nd class citizenry it is important to have a seperate federation with checks and balances and kamal haasan is right in this respect.(12)(2)S KMar 6 2018 at 12:31 pmSouthern languages may be rooted in Sanskrit just like Hindi but unlike Hindi Southern languages are not influenced by the Islamic invaders. If you think Hindi movies will wipe out Southern languages you are an ignorant fool. Life doesn t reflect movies its movies that reflect life. There are more Telugu movies produced than all of Hindi movies over the last 30 years and that is just one Southern language.(0)(0) IIndian AbroadFeb 23 2018 at 8:56 amAll states are equal. There cannot be a special status to any state including J K.(3)(11) ReplySSatavahanaFeb 23 2018 at 9:18 amSo you must be against BIMARU states getting a lot of money from the central government. For example for every 17 paise that UP contributes it receives 2 rupees in return. Take any South Indian state - they receive less than what they contribute.(14)(4) ReplyTechnicalFeb 23 2018 at 11:13 amBIMARU?? - In reality the Southern states are the https://olioboard.com/users/kkmaketrip BIMARU states. There are no farmers suicides in Bihar MP Rajasthan or UP. Almost all the farmers suicides are confined to the Southern states of Kerala Karnataka Andhras Maharashtra.(4)(5)
AMARAVATI: Chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu told the party leaders to counter Jaganmohan Reddy s criticism and fight for the welfare of people in the state. The chief minister wanted his party to become aggressive while resorting to counter verbal attacks on Jagan. He also suggested them to expose opportunistic politics of the YSR Congress leader and ensure that people reject him. However he reminded the party legislators of the impending budget session in the Assembly which is slated to start from March 5. As for the impending Rajya Sabha elections scheduled for March 23 the chief minister wanted the MLAs to be available for the polling. Though he did not give any names for the Rajya Sabha elections he had a brief discussion on whether to field three candidates or limit to the two seats leaving the third one to Jagan. Addressing a meeting of the party coordination committee ahead of the Assembly budget session Rajya Sabha elections and the fight for the bifurcation benefits Chandrababu Naidu told them to be cautious. Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu congratulated Chandrababu Naidu for his successful political career that has helped the party and the state as well. Naidu said to have spent 40 years in serving people.

Modis projects that tilted the northeast states towards BJP

NEW DELHI: The stellar performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recent state elections in Tripura Nagaland and Meghalaya is a landmark for a party which had little traction in the region except in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. The party never had any significant connect with the masses and was seen as an outsider. What changed the situation? BJP president Amit Shah in his first press conference after the results credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi s Act East policy for the upsurge in fortunes. Modi s Act East policy included a big push for road and railway infrastructure and various steps to boost the regional economy. While most of the infrastructural projects are at various stages of completion Modi s northeast agenda created a rhetoric of inclusiveness that helped bring the masses closer to the BJP. Below are a few important initiatives by the Modi government that may have made the BJP acceptable to the northeast voters: The railways push Before a metre-gauge line started in 2008 Tripura didn t have any railway link with https://kkmyntra.tumblr.com/ the rest of the country. The Modi government converted it into broad gauge. All over the region the government has converted 900 km of tracks to broad gauge. It also launched a Rajdhani Express and the Tripura Sundari Express between Agartala and Delhi. In 2016 then railways minister Suresh Prabhu laid the foundation stone for the Rs 2 315 crore 88-km Dhansiri-Kohima railway track connecting Kohima to the national railway network. The government also began railway projects to connect Imphal Aizawl and Shillong. It has introduced more than two dozen new trains in the region. It also signed a deal with Bangladesh to develop a rail link between Tripura and Chittagong which would speed up flow of products especially grains to the region. Roads and highways Modi has branded his policy to build infrastructure in northeast as Transformation by Transportation . Lack of connectivity has been a major roadblock in the economic progress on the region. Modi s promise of connectivity resonates with the masses. More than 3 800 km of national highways with an investment of Rs. 32 000 crore have been sanctioned in the region in the past three years while nearly 1 200 km of roads have been constructed according to the government. In a public announcement in December last year Modi said the centre would invest another Rs. 60 000 crore under the Special Accelerated Road Development Programme in the northeast and Rs. 30 000 crore under the Bharatmala project over three years. Modi also dedicated to the nation a 271-km two-lane national highway connecting Tura in western Meghalaya to the state capital Shillong last year. Air connectivity The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has allocated Rs 3 400 crore for the upgradation of airports in the North East region. According to the government projects worth Rs 934 crore have already been completed while the rest would be over in the next two or three years. The aviation projects in the northeast include re-carpeting of the runway at Silchar and Lilabari airport and an aviation manpower training institute; development of Rupsi airport; a new integrated airport and an engineering workshop at Agartala; expansion and revamp of existing terminal building and runway at Dimapur; installation of an instrument landing system (ILS) at the Shillong airport; and operationalisation and development of the Tura airport. Other projects and policies Last year Modi dedicated the 60-MW Tuirial hydropower power project which made Mizoram the third power-surplus state in the northeast to Sikkim and Tripura. The project is expected to produce 251 million units of electricity annually. Announced in 1998 by the then Atal Bihari Vajpayee government it was the first major central government project to be successfully commissioned in Mizoram. Recently the government decided to fully fund various Central projects being implemented in the northeast instead of the previous practice of sharing 90 per cent of the cost. The Modi government has also made the 1360-km long India-Myanmar-Thailand trilateral highway which is to be completed in 2020 a centerpiece of its Act East policy. Opening the northeast to the ASEAN countries the highway will boost the regional economy. In Budget 2018-19 the government re-classified bamboo from tree to grass which would enable easier cultivation for commercial purposes. Bamboo is central to the rural economy of the northeast. Its classification as tree meant various restrictions on its produce transport and sale.
Hours after a BJP office in Tamil Nadu was attacked party National Secretary H. Raja on Wednesday expressed regret for his Facebook post that said statues of rationalist movement founder E.V.Ramasamy or Periyar would be razed to the ground in the state. Early on Wednesday a petrol bomb was hurled at a BJP office around 500 km from here in Coimbatore by unidentified persons. Later in a fresh Facebook post on Wednesday Raja expressed his heartfelt regret for his Tuesday s post which he claimed was a message posted by his social media administrator without his permission and hence he had removed it. Raja expressed regret if his post had hurt anybody s feelings. According to him damaging the statues of Ramasamy is not agreeable. The message that was posted and later removed said: Who is Lenin? What is the connection between him (Lenin) and India? What connection between communism and India? Lenin s statue was broken down in Tripura. Today it is Lenin s statue in Tripura and tomorrow it will be the statue of caste fanatic E.V.Ramasamy. Late on Tuesday two persons were arrested in Thirupattur in Vellore district for vandalising Ramasamy s statue. The attackers at the BJP s office in Coimbatore had come in a three wheeler and had thrown the petrol bomb inside the office. Police are investigating the case.
Days after the Bharatiya Janata Party won assembly elections in Tripura the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Tripura accused it of unleashing concerted violence against its workers and vandalising its offices. In a memorandum submitted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday the CPI(M) alleged that 514 of its workers had been injured with more than 1 500 homes attacked purportedly by BJP supporters. In addition it claimed 350 of its offices had been ransacked or captured by the newly elected party. This is not just an attack on our party said CPI(M) leader Jitendra Chaudhury. This is an attack on our Constitution our fundamental rights. Chaudhury who is one of the two Lok Sabha members from Tripura claimed the party s workers were being attacked in broad daylight by lethal weapons and petrol bombs . He alleged the attackers had the tacit support of the BJP s senior leaders. There are being instigated this is an organised attack he said. The parliamentarian said that the jubilant reactions of top BJP leaders to the destruction of a statue of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov or Lenin by alleged BJP supporters in a town called Belonia in the state s southern district was testament to the saffron party s endorsement of violence. Ram Madhav the party s national general secretary justified the vandalism in a tweet he alleged. They are sowing the seeds of hatred in Tripura. In a tweet that has since been deleted Madhav had written: People taking down Lenin s statue not in Russia; it is in Tripura. Chalo Paltai . Chalo Paltai Let s change was the war cry of the BJP s election campaign in Tripura.On Tuesday Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh called the governor of Tripura Tathagata Roy and asked him to ensure peace till the new government took charge. On Monday Roy had expressed support for the razing of the Lenin statue.What one democratically elected government can do another democratically elected government can undo. And vice versa https://t.co/Og8S1wjrJs Tathagata Roy (@tathagata2) March 5 2018 We reject these charges The Bharatiya Janata Party s spokesperson in the state Mrinal Kanti Deb however rejected the charges against its leaders and workers. He alleged it was a conspiracy by the CPI(M) to disturb the law and order of the state. People have changed their colours overnight he said. A lot of Left workers after our victory started identifying themselves as the BJP workers. They are the ones involved in the few sporadic violent activities that may have taken place. But once our government takes charge all of them will be sent to jail. Several people in the state said that violence was quite widespread. In every village there has been violence said a rubber planter from Santirbazar in South Tripura. This is really disappointing because this is not what I had voted the BJP for. I hope the party s senior leaders take action. They can t just say they are not our workers. Said an Agartala-based businessman: Yes there has been violence but it only natural. There were a lot of pent-up emotions among people. The Left after all had been in power for 25 years. Post-poll violence regular farePolitical observers point out that post-poll violence in Tripura is not a new occurrence. It happened in 2013 in 2008 in 2003 so there s nothing really new said an Agartala-based political analyst. But it does seem that there has been a quick turnover this time a lot of low-level Left leaders seem to have changed loyalties. Miscreants understand which side to be on and as newcomers you have to prove your worth that s how it works everywhere. Tapas Dey a veteran Congress leader and former legislator said the CPI(M) had only itself to blame. Post-poll violence is a legacy that the Left had left behind claimed Dey. They are doing this hue and cry this time because they are facing the heat. But the truth is they have created this culture. Electoral violence is common in Tripura. In the run-up to the state elections both the CPI(M) and the BJP lost several of their workers in violent clashes that would routinely break out between the two parties. Government officials however said that violence was beginning to taper off beginning Monday evening. Things are under control said a senior state government official. There are prohibitory orders in some places but that s only a preventive measure. A top official of the district administration of Sepahijala one of the two districts where Section 144 was imposed on Sunday said there had been sporadic clashes. He claimed many of these clashes were personal that had been given political colour . Both parties are involved he said on Tuesday evening. This happens after election results in Tripura and we expect things to be completely normal by tomorrow.
On 6 March just days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept to power in the Tripura state Assembly elections a mob of saffron party workers bulldozed a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Belonia. The celebratory act was undertaken with much fervor to mark the right-wing party s decisive victory over the 25 years-long left-wing government in the state led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist). BJP workers shout victory slogans during Vijay rally to celebrate their party s success in North East Assembly elections outside state party headquarter in Kolkata on Sunday. PTI Within India s postcolonial polity the dismantling of the statue in Belonia was a public spectacle unlike any other. Not that statues of political leaders haven t been vandalised in the past but such festive destructions in the wake of a sweeping election victory have been rare. Not many mainstream political parties have dared to ride majority public mandates to swiftly vandalise statues. It is not hard to comprehend the motivation behind Lenin s Tripura fall: the BJP s foot soldiers rode the victory wave to do what they ve probably been wanting to do since the very idea of re-capturing Tripura from the communists took shape in the party s high command i.e. raze CPM s legacy to the ground and start afresh. A standard part of this design is to erase public memory of Tripura s Communist past and statues are a convenient place to start. What more Lenin s controversial (and somewhat disturbing) political legacy makes him the perfect game meat. In an objective sense the Belonia destruction represents an all-too-familiar project of political iconoclasm. History is replete with ample instances of legacy destructions across the board: from Bamiyan to Kiev. These were often done in contravention of the law straddling the broader framework of resistance politics. After all in a democracy erecting a certain statue is as legitimate or illegitimate as bringing it down. Toppling statues kicking police barricades: no big deal in the restive milieu of democratic struggles. As American journalist and current dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Steve Coll wrote last year in an article on New Delhi s attempts to reconcile with colonial stone relics: One difference between democracies and dictatorships is that the constructing and revising of public spaces is not a propaganda opportunity for the ruler but a realm of democratic discourse influenced by popular opinion and competitive electoral politics. But history cannot be a veneer on political disruptions when it comes to partisan offensives. It is imperative to call out the Belonia act for what it was: violent. It is also important to note what the BJP did and did not do. The BJP did destroy the statue. The BJP did not relocate it out of public view when it had the option of doing so. Thus Lenin s nth fall in a far-flung corner of India had a peculiar tenor to it. The statue was bulldozed not in active resistance like in the cases of American Confederate statues being brought down to protest against Trump s racism but as an aggressive mark of all-encompassing victory. BJP did not need to bring Lenin down - they had already won the popular mandate. In that sense Belonia 2018 mirrors Baghdad 2003 where US forces brought down Saddam Hussein s statue simply to mark a wildly successful invasion and usher in a new era. The parallel drawn here isn t really between Lenin and Saddam (that s for the jury to decide) but between the aggressor s warlike pathologies. The critical difference here though is that while Baghdad 2003 happened in the thick of a full-blown military invasion Belonia 2003 unraveled in the immediate aftermath of a free fair and peaceful election. Herein lies the menacing quality of Lenin s Tripura fall. By exploiting a decisive public mandate to bulldoze a statue the BJP has only made a complete mockery of the very ethos of electoral democracy. Its leaders would do well to note that poll victories in a democracy are not free passes to take unilateral action especially when that action directly impacts a publicly-owned space. Any belief otherwise is taking the electorate for granted. If the BJP does actually believe that the Tripura victory carries a de facto public tender to destroy statues then it might want to wash the murk off its eyes. Communism did not come to the state just the other day: it was the political status quo for 25 long years a large part of which saw socio-economic stability and peace. To tinker with this entrenched legacy in a particularly dramatic fashion would be to push the fresh election mandate over the edge. The BJP should also remember that the quest to erase history is a futile one and more often than not an endeavour at self-destruction. A better template for revisionist politics something that the saffronites seem to be doping on at the moment is to permit problematic relics to remain as they are and contextualise them within democratic values of debate and dissent. On this the Director of the Smithsonian s National Museum of African American History and Culture Lonnie G. Bunch III offers a blunt take: I am loath to erase history. For me it s less about whether they statues come down or not and more about what the debate is stimulating. Fact remains that the BJP s bulldozing of Lenin s statue will go down as the party s reckless attempt to violently insert itself into Tripura s rich history. Not unlike the destruction of the Babri Masjid by Karsevaks in 1992 the Belonia bulldozing will also go down as a patent marker of right-wing exclusionist politics in this country which banks upon total homogenisation of political belief systems to ensure its own survival. The author is researcher and coordinator South East Asia Research Programme at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.
ALSO READ TDP-BJP coalition: Andhra CM says I never break mitra dharma Special status: Andhra CM questions BJP s silence Andhra CM warns BJP to not play with Telugu people BJP Congress responsible for injustice with Andhra: TDP AP CM congratulates BJP for winning Gujarat Himachal polls span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members in Andhra Pradesh have announced their resignation from state cabinet moments after Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu asked Telugu Desam Party (TDP) ministers to resign from the Union Cabinet.Soon after Naidu s press conference BJP MLA Akula Satyanarayana spoke to media and announced that the two BJP ministers in the state cabinet namely Kamineni Srinivas and Paidikondala Manikyala Rao will resign on Thursday morning. He said both Srinivas and Manikyala Rao would not attend the cabinet meeting to be held on Thursday morning.Meanwhile BJP leader Krishna Sagar Rao on Wednesday called Naidu s announcement a political opportunism . BJP believes what has happened tonight is a classic case of political opportunism and a case of compulsive politics Rao told ANI.He also called Naidu s statement that the central government was not standing up to support Andhra Pradesh a blatant lie .Earlier on Wednesday night Naidu directed two Telugu Desam Party ministers to resign from Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led cabinet amid the growing strain in ties between his party and the Bharatiya Janata Party over alleged neglect of the state in the Union Budget.Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Y. S. Chowdary are the two ministers who have been asked to resign from their respective offices. This is our right. The Centre is not fulfilling the promises it made said Naidu who has been urging the Centre to give special category status to Andhra Pradesh.Naidu s reaction came after Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said no to chief minister s demand earlier in the day.(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
NEW DELHI: An easing of tensions between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) seemed evident after a cordial meeting of the regional party s leaders with finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday evening after some heated moments in Parliament during the day. The meeting lowered temperatures after the government seemed ready to make a statement in Parliament detailing financial assistance provided to Andhra Pradesh. TDP has alleged that the Centre has failed to deliver on fiscal commitments following the creation of Telangana. There has been some exasperation in BJP ranks over TDP s disruption of Parliament over injustice to Andhra Pradesh since the first half of the Budget session. TDP has not been satisfied with the Centre s statement that it will find ways to support financial demands raised by the state. Sources said the Centre could give details of assistance provided for the construction of a new capital at Amravati and the Polavaram project to Parliament if the need arose a move that could bring the confrontation with TDP to a head in the midst of fresh efforts to form a third front . The political churn follows the BJP s success in recent state polls in the north-east. TDP leaders are insisting that assistance amounting to around Rs 16 000 crore is due to the state and only a part of this has been delivered. They say this a reduced figure arrived at after the Modi government assumed office. BJP leaders however argue that earlier assistance provided was used to fund welfare schemes and the Centre could not underwrite the bill. Sources at the Centre said that nearly Rs 12 000 crore had been already released to Andhra Pradesh and the former only needed to provide around Rs 1 500 crore that was committed earlier. The Centre said the state government had little to show by way of progress on the ground. Even on the issue of a new state capital in Amravati the state government s response was ambivalent. While ruling out special category state status citing recommendations from several panels sources said the Centre had proposed that it could provide funding through externally-aided assistance. Though this was communicated to the Chandrababu Naidu government almost a month ago the state government was yet to come back with a list of projects. Similarly the request for additional support from Nabard was not accepted as it would impact the fiscal calculations but an option of providing funds through a special purpose vehicle has been suggested where the financial institution could chip in. Again the Andhra government was yet to come back with proposals.
Since Saturday a new narrative has emerged. The Bharatiya Janata Party has swept the North East decimating all opposition including the Congress and the Left. A part of the country that was once cut off from the national mainstream has now been engulfed in the saffron deluge.It is true that the BJP has made remarkable gains in the North East. From no government and few seats in 2014 when the BJP came to power at the Centre it is now part of government in six out of seven states. But a closer look at electoral maps of the North East suggests claims of a BJP wave may be overstated.In elections held in the North East a decade ago the BJP had cornered just 2.6% of the vote share. This year the same three states went to elections. In Nagaland Meghalaya and Tripura combined the BJP managed 26.47% of the vote share. A sharp increase certainly but a wave? It is not just about vote share which after all is a function of the number of seats contested but even when we consider the seats won a look at the constituency map of all seven states of the North East shows the saffron party remains a patchy though pivotal presence in the region.Patchwork verdictsThe North East is a tremendously diverse region and each of the seven states has a distinct politics. Christian majority Nagaland and Meghalaya for instance are vastly different from the border states of Tripura and Assam. Within states there may be several different regions. Take Assam home to the autonomous council areas of Bodoland the Muslim-majority districts of Goalpara and Dhubri as well as to the districts of Upper Assam once the epicentre of Assamese nationalism. To speak of sweeping the North East as a whole is a Delhi-centric fallacy.Arunachal Pradesh where the BJP came to power in 2016 was an unelected victory engineered through defections and it is alleged by the Centre wielding undue influence on the office of the governor. Elsewhere the party s rapid advance seems to be fuelled by two factors. First by smart alliances and focus on target constituencies it is able to ensure high strike rate. Where the saffron party did not have the seats it was able to cobble together strategic alliances with regional parties both before and after elections to ensure it had a place in government.The Meghalaya factorIn these elections alone the idea of a saffron wave needs to be interrogated. But first let s acknowledge that it won Tripura convincingly. In a 60-member assembly the BJP will have 35 seats enough to form government even without its ally the Indigenous People s Front of Tripura. The BJP won 35 seats with 43% of the vote share while the Left managed only 16 seats with 42.7% but that is because the BJP contested 51 seats and the Left 59. The BJP thus won 70% of the seats it contested against 29% for the CPI(M). But the Indigenous People s Front of Tripura did even better since it won 8 of the 9 seats it contested which is a strike rate of 89%.Even if the Tripura results are called a sweep for the BJP it did not exactly win the Nagaland and Meghalaya elections. In Nagaland it increased its tally from one seat in the 2013 elections to 12 this time. Its vote share increased from 1.8% in 2013 to 15.3% this year. Considering the BJP only fielded candidates in 20 seats this was a very respectable showing. But the party still has just a fifth of the assembly seats and will play second fiddle in the alliance that finally comes to power.In Meghalaya these elections were decidedly a vote against the BJP which won only two seats in spite of an energetic poll campaign. These were unreserved and largely urban constituencies clustered around the capital of Shillong. It did not make a dent in the Garo Hills where agitations around the BJP s beef politics were most intense. It did not even gain seats from the Jaintia Hills a hub of resentment against the Congress. Part of the state s coal belt these areas had been hit economically after the court s mining ban in 2014. It was felt that the Congress had not done enough to stop it while the BJP promised to reverse the ban.The BJP will come to power in Meghalaya on the strength of regional allies. The National People s Party gained an impressive 19 seats up from two in the 2013 elections and is likely to be the fulcrum around which government is formed. The BJP and the National People s Party managed to cobble together a majority with smaller parties but it remains an uneasy alliance. On Monday there were rumours of a rift in the new coalition with the Hill States People s Democratic Party reportedly objecting to a tie up with the BJP.The Meghalaya verdict reveals deep wells of tribal resentment against the BJP that have not been stirred by the so-called saffron wave.Congress waning?Meanwhile though it has virtually been wiped out off Nagaland and Tripura the Congress managed to hold its own in Meghalaya. In spite of visible anti-incumbency and a government that was perceived to be lax and corrupt it managed to emerge as the single largest party with 21 seats and a vote share of 28.5%. But the Congress ceding ground to the BJP has become a pattern in the last few years.Take Manipur where the BJP came to power last year. The Congress won 28 seats to the BJP s 21 with only a slightly lower vote share 35.1% against 36.3%. But it was the BJP which managed to persuade smaller parties to form the ruling coalition.It was different in Assam where the BJP scored its biggest win in the North East before Tripura. The Congress got 31% of the vote share after contesting 122 seats while the BJP got 29.5% and won 60 seats out of the 89 it contested. To cobble together a majority the party had already forged a rainbow coalition in the diverse state tying up with the Bodoland People s Front the Asom Gana Parishad and other smaller http://investimonials.com/users/shopozoind@gmail.com.aspx tribal parties.With the BJP forming the Union government the centre of gravity has shifted towards the party in these poor states of the North East heavily dependent on funds from Delhi. It was the same in the United Progressive Alliance years when the Congress had a presence in all state governments in the region apart from Nagaland. From being a non-entity a few years ago the saffron party has certainly become a force to reckon with in most states of the North East. The Congress is also a shrinking presence with no energy to reverse the trend. But verdicts of a saffron tide and a Congress disappearance would be premature.
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Back In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu Thanks PM Modi For "Historic" India Visit

Jerusalem: Terming his recent visit to India as historical Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said nowadays that his six-day journey could be long remembered as it contributed inside the strengthening of bilateral ties.Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in New Delhi on January 14 and changed into acquired by using his pal Prime Minister Narendra Modi who broke protocol to satisfy him at the airport. I again ultimate week from a historical go to to India. I thank my pal Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the quite robust and heat reception Mr Netanyahu instructed his cabinet on the start of the weekly meeting. It reflects the closer ties among us very near in addition to the nearer ties between our international locations and peoples he stated. This is a visit on the way to be lengthy-remembered. It contributed and will yet make contributions to Israel in the financial security era and diplomatic spheres he introduced.PM Modi followed the Israeli Prime Minister for most a part of the ride.India and Israel signed nine agreements across several sectors to enhance bilateral trade and cooperation.Mr Netanyahu also recollected some shifting moments from his trip particularly his meeting with Moshe Holtzberg the now eleven-12 months-old child who survived the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks wherein his parents have been killed. I have to say that there had been many very transferring moments however specifically I will recollect two special activities that touched our people Benjamin Netanyahu stated. First was the assembly with Moshe on the Chabad House. A sweet boy who's living with his loving grandparents in impact with the love of the entire Jewish People. Thanks also go to the Indian nanny Sandra who saved him and followed him on the visit he stated.Moshe become two-12 months-antique while his parents Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg who were serving as Directors at Chabad House had been killed together with six others whilst the area became attacked by Pakistani terrorists throughout the November Mumbai assaults.The attack on Chabad House and other places like the Taj Hotel left 166 human beings lifeless.Moshe popularly called Baby Moshe become rescued through his nanny Sandra and he later moved to Israel wherein he stays https://staffmeup.com/profile/id/1513549?ne=1 along with his grandparents.Sandra has been given honorary citizenship with the aid of Israel and now lives in Jerusalem in which she works with youngsters with unique wishes. The 2d shifting occasion become with the Indian Jewish community. This is a completely small network most of whose individuals have come to Israel and contributed to the building up of the united states and the improvement of the nation. But their contribution to India is out of proportion to their numbers Mr Netanyahu stated. They carried the flame for generations and appeared ahead to this second while the Prime Minister of Israel got here to India. They spoke there every one in turn and lots of without a doubt wept with joy now not due to the fact there has ever been anti-Semitism in India; there never has. But they was hoping for the meeting among cultures and among states and peoples and it came about earlier than their eyes he cited. It was truely an super revel in the Israeli Premier pressured. CommentsClose X Mr Netanyahu s successful visit to India has introduced the Israeli leader a sigh of remedy from a adverse nearby press that has been important of him on allegations of corruption.He has also faced flak for an embarrassing recording of his son who had made demeaning comments approximately women at some point of a go to to strip club in Tel Aviv approximately years in the past. When it involves overseas coverage India does no longer rely on a zero-sum recreation method. File photo of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. PTI We trade fingers with the Russians and signal defense agreements with the Americans. In 2016 we were formally recognized as a Major Defense Partner of the US; less than a year later we negotiated a 10 billion weapons deal with Russia. We also buy oil from both Iran and Saudi Arabia. In reality Saudi Arabia is our second biggest dealer of crude oil and Iran our third: Behind Iraq who in 2017 extraordinarily jumped to first place. We work with ideological rivals geopolitical counterweights or even with the ones we ve had ancient enmity with. We forge new partnerships in which possibilities rise up and mend antique disputes to benefit commonplace floor so we are able to flow ahead in a mutually beneficial courting. From our perspective overseas family members isn't always an all-or-nothing commercial enterprise. We are inclined to work with all of us who's willing to paintings with us. So whilst some of our left-leaning politicians stated that Israeli high minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn't welcome within the u . S . And they along side a few non secular agencies might protest his go to it s clear that they're absolutely oblivious to the closing 70 years of India s overseas family members history. The very fact that Netanyahu is arriving much less than a month after India s UN vote towards President Donald Trump s reputation of Jerusalem as Israel s capital should inform us that even the inner most of feuds want no longer decide a country s overseas engagement. The records of India-Israeli family members is a lesson in itself of the way overseas international relations can paintings even whilst you don t see eye to eye on each issue. On 29 November 1947 India turned into one in every of 13 nations to vote in opposition to the UN plan to partition Palestine which could create the State of Israel. Two years later India once more voted in opposition to Israel this time on their inclusion in the UN. Yet slightly a year later India regarded Israeli statehood. Four decades of casual at times friendly at times icy relations could go by however in 1992 India could officially set up bilateral ties with Israel establishing its venture in Tel Aviv. Since then exchange among the West Asian and the South Asian international locations has skyrocketed from two hundred million to extra than four billion plus billions of greenbacks well worth military contracts. In July Narendra Modi have become the primary Indian prime minister to go to Israel healing vintage wounds and ushering a brand new phase in the history of India-Israeli members of the family. Throughout this whole time India and Israel have remained at odds on many troubles. India has voted numerous times against Israel in the UN maintained financial ties Israel s nemesis Iran and remained on the Palestinian aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nevertheless what India and Israel may disagree on has no longer prevented them to pursue what they do agree on. Israel a pioneer in agricultural answers for harsh environments has been an necessary accomplice to Indian agronomists who are seeking out soil-water control solutions to difficult and regularly erratic rainfall patterns. This comes at a time too whilst India is going through considered one of its worst agrarian crises with tens of thousands of farmers committing suicide after losing their livelihood to a combination of droughts and financial setbacks. India and Israel additionally face the common scourge of terrorism driven via extremist religious ideologies. As extremists gain adherents within borders and become more sophisticated in their techniques intelligence sharing and cooperation in counter-terrorism operations is paramount for each nations. Moreover India which is on track to have the largest Muslim populace inside the global and that's a burgeoning pluralistic democracy can display the way forward for cooperation among cultures and faiths. Though a few would possibly accuse Modi of performing a dangerous balancing act by means of befriending Netanyahu even as maintaining ties with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas no one can deny India is one of the few countries within the world which has actually cordial relationships with Israel the Palestinians and the Arab states. India could very well play a crucial position in peacemaking in West Asia. When global leaders region litmus assessments on bilateral members of the family they restriction their very own affect and in turn the capacity in their human beings. Both India and Israel have a whole lot to make contributions to every other even when they might sit on contrary ends of the current global s most divisive problems. Most Rev. Joseph D Souza is the Moderating Bishop of the Good Shepherd Church and Associated Ministries of India. He writes for the United States-based totally Kairos Company. He additionally serves because the president of the All India Christian Council. He is the recipient of severa awards and accolades for his paintings as a human rights activist. He is also the founder and worldwide president of the Dalit Freedom Network. Shalom Bollywood Live: Benjamin Netanyahu clicks selfie with Bollywood starsMumbai: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who turned into in Mumbai had a packed schedule for the closing leg of his India visit. His http://www.mmaplayground.com/profile/paydth  day started out with a strength breakfast with the nations pinnacle business leaders after which he participated in an India-Israel business seminar. He paid tributes to the 2008 Mumbai terror assault victims. There turned into a wreath-laying rite on the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai following which he visited the Nariman House which changed into renamed as Chabad House. The Israeli prime minister landed at Mumbai airport on Wednesday night for the Mumbai leg of his six-day India visit. Some pinnacle industrialists businessmen and top banking officers at the electricity breakfast covered Anand Mahindra Ajay Piramal Adi Godrej and Chanda Kochhar. PM Netanyahu attended the much-anticipated Shalom Bollywood occasion that attracted a galaxy of main actors administrators and producers consisting of Amitabh Bachchan. Later he went for a gala dinner in a south Mumbai 5-big name motel.Here are the highlights from the Mumbai leg of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s India visit: Jan 18 201822:34 (IST) I am so enthusiastic about this courting and I want each Indian and every Israelian to recognize approximately the phenomenal friendship among the two countries. So I even have an concept one of the maximum viral pictures of all time occurred at the Oscars and numerous celebrities consisting of Brad Pitt took a selfie. So I want the all of the Bollywood celebrities producers and begins to enroll in together for a selfie. Let some hundred million human beings see the friendship: Benjamin NetanyahuJan 18 201822:33 (IST) There are super texts on this world one is the Sanskrit writings and the Bible: Israel PMJan 18 201822:29 (IST) What I see in India is creativity and clear up led with the aid of PM Modi my expensive buddy to capture the future. We want to seize it with you. We accept as true with in you. We believe in Bollywood we trust in India. We accept as true with inside the India-Israel relationships: Benjamin Netanyahu at Shalom Bollywood occasion Jan 18 201822:27 (IST) Development is not just in agriculture industries IT or space it's also in the arts and inside the digital age. There are infinite opportunities for creativity. And if we join forces magic occurs Israel PM stated. These things are occurring at a rapid fee. We recognize and you understand. I am a son of a historian and my father asked me to have a look at history. Jan 18 201822:20 (IST) I need to say Amitabh as we mentioned before we are a superb family. The rise of Bollywood is part of the upward thrust of India as a worldwide energy and this will be the upward thrust of Israel as a international technological energy: Benjamin NetanyahuJan 18 201822:20 (IST)You have some thing else and this is we have first-rate thoughts. We are in a midst of a technological revolution and in Israel you will see superb technology for organizations and massive thoughts: Israel PM Jan 18 201822:14 (IST) And you have visible what you discover in Israel. In an hour s power you've got visible the snow the seaside the barren region you have the salty sea a candy lake superb Indian food. I love Indian meals but it s not best this. It is not most effective exquisite places: Benjamin NetanyahuJan 18 201822:12 (IST) I want to make a pledge this night in case you men come and you guys need greater we can put in greater. We want Bollywood in Israel Benjamin Netanyahu asserted at the Shalom Bollywood event. Before Narendra Modi s historic visit to Israel we passed numerous resolutions approximately cementing ties and one in all them is about movies. We positioned a modest sum of four million shekel for starting out. You guys have used it all now not all of it there are some left he introduced. Jan 18 201822:09 (IST)As he addressed the gang on the Shalom Bollywood event Benjamin Netanyahu stated I need to apologise that the rest of my speech could be in Hindi. Praising Big B he stated I just observed out that Amitabh Bachchan had 30 million extra fans than I do. I checked out other stars as properly and I realised which you men are a big thing. And the cause for this is that the world loves Bollywood Israel loves Bollywood and I love Bollywood. We are setting our money in which our mouth is. Jan 18 201821:52 (IST)Benjamin Netanyahu met representatives of Hindi movie industry at Shalom Bollywood occasion nowadays during his Mumbai go to. He met Amitabh Bachchan and Karan Johar at the occasion. Indian cinema has long gone absolutely global it's far appreciated in each part of the arena Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said.Jan 18 201819:29 (IST) Representatives of the Israeli Consulate in Mumbai had met Amitabh Bachchan closing week and prolonged an invite for the event. Thank you @SrBachchan for starting your own home

Understanding the Ratio of Malice to Legality in the AAP MLAs Disqualification Case

The recent choice by the Election Commission to disqualify 21 MLAs of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi has raised severe questions about struggle of interests and degradation of political ethics in India s Parliamentary system of governance. The framers of the Constitution realising the possible struggle of hobby have already provided sure provisions primarily based at the principle of separation of powers. Yet on a number of events our law makers have been determined to have averted such ethical provisions enshrined within the Constitution. The language used by the political men and women has been very denigrating and on the whole appears to be unconstitutional although they take the oath of protecting and safeguarding the Constitution. Article 102 and 191 offer for disqualification of individuals on various grounds. Before delving into the information of the existing case we could us have a perusal of the provisions for disqualification. Article 102 says that (1) A individual shall be disqualified for being chosen as and for being a member of either House of Parliament (a) if he holds any office of profit below the Government of India or the Government of any State other than an office declared with the aid of Parliament by law no longer to disqualify its holder; (b) if he's of unsound thoughts and stands so declared with the aid of a equipped court; (c) if he is an undischarged bancrupt; (d) if he isn't always a citizen of India or has voluntarily obtained the citizenship of a foreign State or is underneath any acknowledgement of allegiance or adherence to a foreign State; (e) if he is so disqualified by or beneath any regulation made via Parliament Explanation For the functions of this clause a person shall now not be deemed to hold an workplace of income beneath the Government of India or the Government of any State by using motive most effective that he is a Minister both for the Union or for such State (2) A character shall be disqualified for being a member of both House of Parliament if he's so disqualified underneath the Tenth Schedule. Similarly Article 191 offers with disqualifications for club of a member of the Legislative Assembly or Legislative Council of a State on the same grounds as included below Article 102. The decision on the issue of disqualification at the floor of defection according to the Tenth Schedule shall be taken via the Speaker/Chairman in Parliament or Assembly because the case may be. However on all other grounds the President is permitted to take decision on the advice of the Election Commission below Article 103. This Article says that (1) If any query arises as to whether a member of both House of Parliament has emerge as challenge to any of the disqualifications referred to in clause (1) of Article 102 the question shall be referred for the selection of the President and his decision will be final. (2) Before giving any choice on one of these question the President shall attain the opinion of the Election Commission and shall act in step with such opinion. As consistent with the availability beneath Article 103 (2) the language makes it obtrusive that the recommendation of the Election Commission shall be binding at the President. Disqualification on the ground of protecting an workplace of earnings has very regularly been in question and controversy. The phrase workplace of earnings has not been defined neither within the Constitution nor in the Representation of People Act 1951. Hence the energy is held by means of the Parliament to define it through law or the Supreme Court may interpret and explain the importance and which means of this idea. India had the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act 1950-fifty one and 1953 however all such Acts were changed by using Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act 1959. Further an modification act become surpassed in 2006 on which the Supreme Court had held that the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Act 2006 exempting fifty five offices occupied with the aid of contributors of Parliament from disqualification turned into constitutionally valid. It is to bear in mind here that the Bill become sent for reconsideration by means of the then President questioning its retrospective impact. However the Bill become exceeded with a retrospective impact. The court docket changed into also of the view that Parliament had the legislative competence and changed into inside its power to deliver the legislation with retrospective effect. This signifies that the law takes care of any unwarranted decision and offers a safeguard to the participants. On the alternative hand the availability associated with disqualification in particular at the ground of keeping an workplace of income has been very often in news. The Supreme Court in Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya Vs. Ajoy Biswas AIR 1985 SC 211 held that to determine whether or not someone holds an workplace of income below the authorities each case need to be measured and judged within the mild of the relevant provisions and sections. The Supreme Court in Shivamurthy Swami Vs. Agadi Sanganna Andanappa (1971) three SCC 870 has talked about five principal parameters to have a look at whether or not an office need to be called an office of income: 1. Whether the authorities makes the appointment; 2. Whether the government has the right to put off or disregard the holder; three. Whether the authorities will pay the remuneration; four. What are the features of the holder and 5. Does the authorities workout any manage over the performance of those capabilities? The AAP authorities has argued that as Parliamentary Secretaries are not eligible for any remuneration or perks from the government the publish need to be exempt from the office of income. However the pinnacle notches of http://samsungmobiles.spruz.com/pt/The-Way-to-Save-Money-When-Shopping-Online-1.4.2018/discussion.htm the celebration must also take into account that the apex court docket has held on extraordinary occasions that every one the five checks (parameters stated above) want no longer co-exist conjointly for figuring out whether an workplace is an workplace of income under the Government. Earlier the Calcutta High Court had quashed the appointment of 24 parliamentary secretaries in West Bengal in 2015 on the ground that a parliamentary secretary holds the rank of a Minister of State as a result such appointments have been unconstitutional. An argument made through the Delhi s chief minister that Delhi additionally has the repute of a kingdom and it ought to now not be singled out in the context that other states additionally appoint parliamentary secretaries appears to be ridiculous. This is seminally because underneath Article 164 (1) the dimensions of the Council of Ministers in a kingdom Assembly is constrained to 15 consistent with cent of its general membership and as stated earlier Parliamentary Secretary holds the rank of a Minister of State hence he shall also be included inside the overall size. On the opposite Delhi is a Union Territory with an Assembly and beneath Article 239AA the scale of the Council is confined to ten per cent of the entire club. In lieu of the reality Delhi Assembly in any case can not have 21 such secretaries. This itself looks unconstitutional. Moreover the manner the AAP MLAs and the whole celebration has reacted to the Election Commission s recommendation for disqualification it's miles crystal-clear that they may be no longer absolutely aware about the constitutional facts and feature taken only a political technique and that too in a completely unethical way. The political system in India might be passing thru a length of political populism which regularly is going beyond the honor of constitutional bodies and actually gives a totally wrong message to the humans specially the youngsters who are now participating into the political procedure with their pragmatic approach. The so-known as lawmakers need to apprehend it at the earliest. (CBP Srivastava is an professional at the Constitution of India. He is President of the Centre for Applied Research in Governance New Delhi.) (Disclaimer: The critiques expressed above are the non-public views of the writer and do not reflect the perspectives New Delhi eight:forty eight am Delhi High Court live updates: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday accused the BJP of creating hurdles inside the government s course after 20 AAP MLAs were disqualified (Express Photo/Amit Mehra/File) The Delhi High Court will Monday hear a petition filed with the aid of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seeking a stay on the Election Commission s advice to disqualify 20 of its MLAs from the state legislative Assembly. The hearing however comes a day after President Ram Nath Kovind general the EC s recommendation and ordered their disqualification. The MLAs have been discovered responsible of keeping offices of earnings via being parliamentary secretaries to ministers within the Delhi government. Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal Sunday accused the BJP of making hurdles within the authorities s route. There are false cases against 20 men and women they raided me too however best found four mufflers. They tried the whole lot and subsequently nowadays they have disqualified 20 MLAs. But while we received 67 seats I puzzled why? Now I understand that the universe knew that these MLAs might get disqualified he had tweeted. Delhi High Court AAP MLAs plea LIVE UPDATES: eight.29 am: The movement of EC an organization favorite for its impartial behavior appears a ways too disproportionate reads an editorial in The Indian Express nowadays. The AAP and a few former election commissioners have challenged the way in which the disqualification has taken vicinity and the alleged brush aside of due manner in the motion. The problems they have got flagged call for wider dialogue. Read the complete editorial here. Eight.20 am: On Friday following the EC s advice six AAP MLAs moved the Delhi HC in search of an interim stay at the order. Dismissing the plea the HC had puzzled the behavior of the MLAs saying it turned into now not looking on the merit of the case because the EC stored supplying you with reminders but you did no longer hassle to reply. 8.10 am: What does the disqualification of the MLAs suggest? Here s the maths: The AAP currently has sixty six seats inside the 70-member House. With 20 of its MLAs being disqualified its strength is decreased to forty four. However the celebration is still in majority. So now what? Delhi will must witness a mini nation election sometime within the subsequent six months to go with new representatives to the Assembly in the event that they do not get a beneficial order from the High Court. 8.00 am: The Delhi High Court has indexed for listening to today AAP s plea against disqualification of its 20 MLAs after the Election Commission found them guilty of protecting Offices of Profit. The President gave his assent to the advice of the ballot frame on Sunday and ordered their disqualification. Follow our stay blog for the trendy updates. For all the modern-day Delhi News down load Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd Tags: AAP AAP MLA Disqualification Arvind Kejriwal delhi excessive court docket N Ram KhannaJan 22 2018 at eight:43 amsheer conceitedness IQ failurehas led aap to this self made catastrophe. Even god will no longer forgive them for throwing delhites indark.Should getrid aap.(0)(0) Reply PUDUCHERRY: Twenty AAP MLAs protecting parliamentary secretary posts in New Delhi face disqualification following hints by way of the Election Commission of India. However the lone MLA K Lakshminarayanan (Congress) who is the parliamentary secretary to chief minister V Narayanasamy in the Union territory of Puducherry claimed that he will not come under EC s scanner. Lakshminarayanan stated the Puducherry legislative assembly handed the Parliamentary secretary (payment of unique allowance and prevention of disqualification) Act in 1971 which proclaims that the workplace of the parliamentary secretary shall now not disqualify an MLA. A member of legislative meeting of Puducherry who is appointed as parliamentary secretary shall in addition to the income and other allowances to which he's entitled on occasion as such member be paid a unique allowance. It is hereby declared that the office of parliamentary secretary shall now not disqualify the holder thereof for being chosen as or for being a member of the legislative assembly of Puducherry Lakshminarayanan said quoting the act. He similarly talked about that the Puducherry legislative assembly had also surpassed the Pondicherry individuals of the legislative meeting (prevention of disqualification) Act in 1994 that empowers MLAs to preserve positions in quasi-authorities institutions. .Story-content material span .Tale-content p .Story-content material div coloration: #000 !Vital; font-own family: open sans Arial !Critical; font-size: 15px !Critical; ALSO READ Gujarat polls over Modi heads for Meghalaya as assembly elections beckon MPs spend extra close to elections says take a look at Story in numbers: Vote share of parties with longest-serving CMs Gujarat Assembly elections 2017: Congress tries hard to choose up the portions Gujarat polls: Can the country beat its file turnout of 2012? Span.P-content material div id =div-gpt line-top: 0px; font-length: 0px; The proportion of girls MLAs (Members of Legislative Assembly) in Gujarat following the December election has fallen to seven in keeping with cent (13 MLAs) two percentage factors lesser than 9 in line with cent (16 MLAs) inside the 2012 Assembly. Following the 2007 election the Gujarat Assembly had 13 women MLAs according to the Election Commission. As many as 1 693 (ninety three in line with cent) of the 1 815 candidates were guys and only 122 ( seven in line with cent) have been ladies inside the 2017 election as in opposition to 1 569 guys (ninety four per cent) and ninety seven girls (six consistent with cent) inside the 2012 Assembly poll. In the past five elections the percentage of ladies candidates has various between four according to cent and 7 in line with cent. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which retained strength in Gujarat fielded 12 lady applicants best six in step with cent of its 181 candidates. Of the 12 nine had been elected a strike fee of 75 in line with cent. The Congress which intently accompanied the BJP in the effects fielded 10 female applicants additionally six according to cent of its 176 applicants and best four were elected a strike fee of 40 according to cent. While girls comprised seven according to cent of Bahujan Samaj Party applicants they have been only in line with cent of Nationalist Congress Party candidates. Only 13 of the 122 ladies candidates gained the elections a strike price of handiest 10.6 in step with cent in keeping with the Association for Democratic Reforms an advocacy. In 12 of the thirteen constituencies wherein girls won the closest opponent became a male candidate. In most effective Bhavnagar East the principle rival of BJP s Vibhavari Dave changed into Congress s Nitaben Rathod. Dave won by a margin of 22 442 votes. Among ladies applicants Zankhana Hiteshkumar Patel of the BJP won Choryashi by using the highest margin of a hundred and ten 819 votes whilst Sumanben Chauhan of the saffon party won Kalol constituency by using most effective 1 982 votes. Among all of the states Haryana has the highest share of women MLAs as they include 14.Four in step with cent (thirteen) of the ninety member Assembly. It is followed by means of Rajasthan with 28 women MLAs 14.1 per cent in the 199-member Assembly. The nation also a girls chief minister Vasundhara Raje. Nagaland and Mizoram but have no girls MLA. Reprinted with permission from IndiaSpend.Org a statistics-pushed public-interest journalism non-income company. Talk of elections in Karnataka and the most latest imagery that pops up is the public bickering among Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath. The two leader ministers have been visible obliging every different with instructions on administration over Twitter lest you neglect it s poll time inside the state. However what the pre-election alternate on the microblogging website online did is clarify to the uninitiated that the election discourse goes to be the same old brew of faith caste regionalism and development (strictly in that order). For the southern Indian nation has notoriously been in information over the activities of fringe corporations murders of political activists a spike in anti-Hindi sentiment and at closing about the state of infrastructure and a host of everyday troubles the humans of the state cope with. Karnataka is Congress final massive bastion from the bouquet of important states it once ruled and the party will try all its would possibly to preserve it. Karnataka the seventh biggest Indian country by location and the eighth largest via population has a bicameral legislature. Like the Union legislature a number of the states in India comply with a bicameral device wherein the legislature is split into separate Houses. A bicameral legislature accommodates a Lower House and an Upper House. The former is called the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) and the latter is referred to as the Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad). The southern country is split into 224 Assembly constituencies. The kingdom has 30 districts and 33 election districts. In 1986 a resolution changed into passed inside the Legislative Assembly and accepted by way of the Parliament which increased the power of the Legislative Council to 75. As this politically-vital nation heads to the poll here is a rundown of the whole lot you need to know. Karnataka demographics According to 2011 Census Karnataka has a populace of 6.Eleven crore that's an increase from 2001 Census when the population become 5.29 crore. The total populace of Karnataka as in step with 2011 Census is sixty one 0.5 297 of which male and lady are 30 966 657 and 30 128 640 respectively. The election inside the politically charged Karnataka is expected to be held among http://newtonapples.com/members/kkjabong/ the closing week of April and the primary week of May. Out of general Assembly constituencies 36 are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 15 for Scheduled Tribes. The general quantity of citizens within the nation as of now's four.90 crore and the number of polling stations is fifty six 694. The kingdom is domestically divided into 3 sections: North South and Coastal Karnataka the latter rising as a communally sensitive vicinity inclined closer to the BJP at the same time as the Congress maintained a stronghold within the first two within the remaining Assembly election. The nation which has seen a current uptick within the anti-Hindi politics and a very sparkling phenomenon the upward push of Hindutva politics has defied national voting trends within the past. The general populace increase in this decade was 15.60 percentage at the same time as it became 17.25 percentage within the preceding decade. The population of Karnataka shaped five.05 percent of India in 2011. Sex ratio in Karnataka is 973 ladies towards 1 000 males which is underneath the national average of 940 as in step with Census 2011. In 2001 the sex ratio of girl become 965 per 1 000 adult males inside the southern country. Karnataka is a Hindu-majority kingdom with eighty four percent populace following Hinduism whilst 12.Ninety two percentage of the nation s populace are Muslims. Political records In the ring are three main contestants. While the ruling Congress bolstered by using the consequences of pre-poll surveys would hope to advantage a 2nd term in electricity BS Yeddyurappa now rejoined with the BJP will wish to cozy a second term as chief minister with the saffron party. However a sturdy 0.33 pressure in Karnataka politics Janata Dal (Secular) is hopeful of becoming the silent kingmaker inside the kingdom. The first chief minister of Karnataka before the reorganisation of the country turned into K Chengalaraya Reddy (from 25 October 1947 to 30 March 1952). After reorganisation S Nijalingappa of the Congress became the first leader minister of Mysore (then Karnataka). From 1956 to 1968 Congress became an impressive force in the state. In March 1971 President s Rule changed into imposed for the very first time within the nation when Congress leader Veerendra Patil changed into the chief minister. He ruled the country between 29 May 1968 and 18 March 1971 before his authorities changed into decreased to a minority. As there was no different choice before the then governor GS Pathak he recommended the imposition of President s Rule. The Assembly remained dissolved between 19 March 1971 and 20 March 1972. Karnataka has a chequered past as far as President s Rule is concerned. In fact 2007 changed into the sixth time that President s Rule changed into imposed inside the country. In the past President s Rule changed into imposed four times while the Congress become in strength (1977 1989 and 1990 other than 1971) and two times later when the Janata Party and the BJP were in energy. In the 12 months 1990 the guideline became imposed for a completely brief duration after the Veerendra Patil was eliminated from the put up of leader minister with the aid of the Congress excessive command. The then governor P Venakatasubbaiah had recommended the imposition of President s Rule. This pattern of governance remained in pressure between 10 October 1990 and 17 October 1990 earlier than S Bangarappa took over as leader minister of Karnataka. Electoral history The kingdom which has seen a current uptick inside the anti-Hindi politics and a completely clean phenomenon the rise of Hindutva politics has defied countrywide voting trends within the past. According to this Firstpost article Karnataka has a records of vote casting for one celebration on the Centre and any other inside the country or backing a celebration in the country special from the only ruling at the Centre. While this announcement may additionally appear to affect Congress claims on a victory particularly with its newly-appointed president Rahul Gandhi s promise of a brand new converted Grand Old Party another fashion factors within the opposite direction: The ruling party has continually lost in Karnataka due to the fact 1985. Peruse a quick precis of elections held considering that. File photo of BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa. News18 1989: The Congress lost the Lok Sabha elections after a sustained campaign with the aid of the Opposition towards among other matters the Bofors scandal and VP Singh of the Janata Dal have become the prime minister. However Karnataka amazed many because the Congress won 27 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats and the ruling Janata Dal suffered a rout triumphing best one seat. In the concurrently held Assembly elections too the Congress came to energy with a whopping majority through triumphing 178 of the 224 seats changing the preceding Janata Dal government which can bag best 24 seats. The BJP still a nascent phenomena within the country on the time may want to win four seats. 1994: The Congress government headed through PV Narasimha Rao was in strength on the Centre. But the 1994 Assembly elections in Karnataka not most effective noticed the return of the Janata Dal authorities headed by using HD Deve Gowda with 115 seats but additionally the autumn of the Congress to the range-3 role of the BJP with simply 34 seats. The saffron party bagged 40 seats and for the primary time took the position of the respectable Opposition celebration with BS Yeddyurappa as its leader. 1999: In the Lok Sabha elections the BJP-led NDA won a majority within the Lok Sabha. But in Karnataka the Congress won maximum of the Lok Sabha seats (18 of the 28) and the Assembly seats (132 of the 224 seats). The Congress authorities of SM Krishna replaced the Janata Dal government and the BJP got here a poor second with forty four Assembly seats. The Janata Dal s rout changed into broadly attributed to the party s cut up at the countrywide stage. While the JH Patel-led Janata Dal (United) allied with Yeddyurappa-led BJP Deve Gowda-led JD(S) decided to move solo. The factions collectively could manipulate only 29 seats. Their loss became Congress win and the BJP once again became the Opposition birthday celebration with 44 seats. 2004: In Lok Sabha polls the UPA trounced the NDA and formed its first authorities however the BJP were given the biggest range of 18 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka. In the kingdom Assembly elections too the BJP emerged because the single biggest party with seventy eight seats though the Congress fashioned a central authority in alliance with the Janata Dal (Secular) the primary ever coalition. However it is noteworthy here that what occurred henceforth started another trend within the nation s electoral results. A coalition government has in no way survived a complete five-yr-time period in the kingdom. In 2006 simply two years after the brand new government Deve Gowda s own son HD Kumaraswamy rebelled in opposition to his father marshalled a majority of the JD(S) legislators and went to best friend with the erstwhile arch enemy BJP India Today reported at the time. The 2nd coalition experiment shaped on the premise of a energy-sharing agreement over again got here apart as Kumaraswamy officially ended the alliance in October 2006 Frontline suggested. 2008: Merely 4 years on the grounds that previous elections the nation noticed Assembly elections. However this time around with the bitter coalition revel in with JD(S) nevertheless clean in its thoughts BJP was clean it will now not enter into any alliance saying it would choose to take a seat in Opposition in place of forge an awkward alliance to keep energy. The warning exercised by means of the saffron party turned out to be pointless because the kingdom gave it a clear majority with one hundred ten seats and led by means of Yeddyurappa BJP got here to strength for the primary time in a southern Indian kingdom. The Congress of path was yet again in power at Centre and Karnataka again chose a exceptional authorities within the kingdom from the one on the Centre. 2013: Once once more in 2013 while Karnataka introduced returned the Congress to electricity in the state the BJP won 17 of the 28 seats within the Lok Sabha elections a 12 months later and the GOP WHAT IS GOP was ousted from energy at Centre after 10 years of UPA rule. This year s Congress win became attributed to the alternatively tumultuous preceding time period of the BJP. Yeddyurappa dealing with corruption expenses changed into compelled to surrender as leader minister and fell out repeatedly together with his two successors. In the end miffed with the countrywide management for sidelining him after the corruption prices surfaced Yeddyurappa walked out of BJP in November 2012 and fashioned his very own birthday celebration the Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP). This in impact divided BJP s votes and noticed Congress return to power. The politically effective Lingayats Yeddyurappa s community cut up among BJP and KJP amongst different Hindu castes and Siddaramaiah rode to electricity on a consolidation of Dalit and minority votes. Key players Just like the recently-concluded election in Gujarat all hopes are pinned at the big name campaigner of the party Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The proverbial Modi magic is still running strong a few may also say because the saffron birthday celebration on this southern nation of India hopes that magic will get them throughout the triumphing line in a kingdom taken into consideration to be BJP s gateway to the South. Uttar Pradesh leader minister Yogi Adityanath is an increasing number of being known as upon via the BJP to campaign far and huge out of doors his home turf. The head of the Gorakhnath Peeth in eastern Uttar Pradesh has been gift at foremost activities organised through the BJP and the RSS within the remaining nine months he has been in electricity from the killing fields of Kannur (where BJP launched a high decibel campaign this 12 months to discover a company keep on Kerala politics) to RSS coordination committee meetings in Mathura. Strong community and deep-rooted presence of the Sangh Parivar however will probably make the climb less complicated for the BJP. Karnataka is the best country within the South which had a BJP government from 2008-thirteen led via Yeddyurappa DV Sadananda Gowda and Jagadish Shettar. BJP presently the principal competition celebration with 44 seats has four greater than Janata Dal (S) within the 224-member House. Here are some leaders from Karnataka who're predicted to make a distinction and power their events to victory: BS Yeddyurappa Lingayats are the decision makers in many constituencies in north Karnataka. We are hoping that they could vote en masse for Yeddyurappa this time too a BJP chief changed into quoted as saying by way of The News Minute. Yeddyurappa a Lingayat chief became 15 while he joined the Sangh Parivar. His political profession began in Shikaripura which might later send him to the Karnataka Assembly six instances. It began on the taluk stage of the Jansangh and he diligently labored his manner up even being jailed throughout Emergency. Indicted by Lokayukta over illegal mining problem BJP top brass had compelled a reluctant Yeddyurappa to stop as chief minister in July 2011. A bitter Yeddyurappa left the celebration to form Karnataka Janata Paksha. He was but welcomed back after almost a yr and given the number one management of the party. Now he's the chief ministerial candidate for this yr s election. The saffron birthday celebration is banking on his sturdy appeal within the Lingayat network and probably wishes him to contest from north Karnataka in which the BJP received fewer seats than the Congress inside the 2013 elections. With anti-Lingayat accusations against Siddaramaiah the BJP hopes to benefit from the Lingayats loyalty to Yeddyurappa. Siddaramaiah Confident of a waning Modi magic in the u . S . After Congress controlled to win seventy seven seats inside the Gujarat election ultimate yr Siddaramaiah is positive of a victory again. A smiling chief minister in step with News18 advised his aides that if Congress manages around eighty seats in Gujarat he can yet again win Karnataka. He joined Congress approximately 12 years in the past after leaving former high minister Deve Gowda s Janata Dal (Secular) and changed into in large part looked at as an interloper through the party cadre. However as this Firstpost article factors out he has now emerge as a neighborhood mascot. He become made the leader minister in 2013 by way of Rahul. It is suggested that each the leaders share a great private rapport and with Rahul turning into the Congress president Siddaramaiah has emerged as an unchallenged party leader in Karnataka. Despite allegations of corruption in opposition to him and his son Siddaramaiah s recognition has most effective grown. By opposing the imposition of Hindi by means of the Centre he has been appealing to the Kannada pleasure. His recognition appears to be Congress first-class guess to counter BJP s Yeddyurappa. The combat is seen as a direct war among the two after Congress named Siddaramaiah as its leader ministerial candidate. G Parameshwara: Asked to commit all his time to the upcoming polls by the Congress leadership G Parameshwara resigned as Karnataka s home minister in June 2017. According to Livemint many dissidents subsidized Parameshwara for the publish of chief minister in 2018 however the birthday celebration put this type of speculation to rest whilst it subsidized Siddaramaiah to keep inside the post. He will contest the imminent polls from his domestic constituency of Koratagere. By retaining a Dalit chief as the kingdom Congress chief the Congress is hoping to preserve his Dalit guide base. The Congress choice as News18 suggested came after caste surveys indicated a bigger populace of scheduled castes scheduled tribes and different backward castes in Karnataka compared to Lingayat and Vokkaliga. Major poll troubles Apart from development which have become the main ballot difficulty in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh ultimate 12 months and became raked through BJP leaders in each rally Karnataka also has its own issues. With the nation dealing with a extreme drought and farmers committing suicide from the resulting crop loss the water sharing difficulty with other states is expected to capture the attention of each political chief campaigning within the kingdom. Here are a few main problems that are expected to be raised at some point of the campaigning: Water: With the Cauvery water problem nonetheless clean in humans s minds and now Mahadayi taking centre stage water politics will be an crucial difficulty in the upcoming Karnataka polls. The Mahadayi dispute affects the North Karnataka vicinity where the farmers are worrying their honest proportion of water. It has the states of Goa Maharashtra and Karnataka vying for water from the Mahadayi or Mandovi river which flows via the 3 states. Karnataka is searching for release of seven.56 tmcft water through Goa from the river for the Kalasa-Banduri Nala undertaking. The issue is now being raised by each the BJP and the Congress to score brownie factors. BJP chief Amit Shah informed leaders of Karnataka BJP to aggressively absorb the Mahadayi trouble and launch a multi-pronged campaign to channelise the anger of the humans as The Indian Express mentioned. In a strange collection of activities Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar wrote to Yeddyurappa announcing Goa could percentage the river water with Karnataka for consuming functions and expressed his willingness for bilateral talks. Later Siddaramaiah termed it a drama for the sake of https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/users/paydth/ elections and a political gimmick . This is not the primary time there had been violent protests in Karnataka over the sharing of river water with its neighbours. Karnataka has a decades antique dispute occurring with Tamil Nadu over the sharing of Cauvery river water. Protests and violence paralysed the nation after the Supreme Court order to release 15 000 cusec of Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu for a duration of ten days. Both Cauvery and Mahadayi have the capability to be election problems. While the Mahadayi controversy is already raging plenty depends on how the Cauvery verdict (likely next month) performs out. It s likely to be exploited by all parties to the hilt The Times of India quoted Sandeep Shastri a political analyst as saying. Siddaramaiah is hoping to advantage from the farmers protest towards Yeddyurappa for claiming a step forward in the Mahadayi trouble. Communal anxiety: Terming Congress an earthly birthday celebration Siddaramaiah said the imminent polls could be a combat among two ideologies -- communalism and secularism. He also reiterated his stand that his authorities might take stringent movement towards enterprises instigating communal sentiments inside the nation. The coastal areas of the state in particular Dakshina Kannada has continued to remain demanding. In the latest incident 28-year-old Deepak Rao who turned into associated with the Bajrang Dal and the VHP changed into hacked to death via a four-member gang following which simmering tension prevailed in Dakshina Kannada district. The protests in the wake of the incident became violent and RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat accused the authorities of adopting an anti-Hindu policy . Following the murders in Dakshina Kannada Kalladka emerged at the leading edge as a debatable determine and his upward thrust also fanned speculations that the Sangh Parivar is also looking to strengthen the Hindu identification to regain the location in the polls. The BJP as a party strategist informed The Citizen will make Hindutva the plank for the state elections. Hindutva might be our primary ballot plank in Karnataka and we are able to win one hundred fifty of the total 224 seat under the leadership of Yeddyurappa he said. Development: Modi even as addressing a gathering within the state expressed self belief that the BJP will win the Karnataka polls and then the nation would be on the course of improvement. Development which was a major problem in final yr s elections to Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assemblies is becoming a first-rate problem for Karnataka as well. Siddaramaiah lately said that Karnataka s improvement may be a model for other states. He become quoted as pronouncing by using The New Indian Express A unique improvement version primarily based at the precept of social inclusiveness to make Karnataka hunger-loose and make certain fitness and housing for all could be a truth quickly. LINK Parameshwara reiterated Congress commitment to development through saying that the party is not gambling the politics of divisiveness based on caste and religion however politics of development. While the BJP is making development its center issue in each election Congress is also no longer a long way behind inside the nation of Karnataka. The numerous improvement tasks released via Siddaramaiah and his insistence on of completion of presidency tasks have ensured that the birthday party can get development points within the state.