Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned on Tuesday and former Chattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and Rajya Sabha member Dushyant Gautam, sent by the BJP’s national leadership as observers to Dehradun, will conduct a meeting of the legislature party on Wednesday morning to elect a new leader who will take over as chief minister.
The Election Commission of India on Tuesday transferred West Bengal DGP Virendra and appointed P. Nirajnayan as the new DGP. Mr. Nirajnayan is an IPS officer of 1987 batch and has served in the CBI. In its order, the ECI said Mr. Virendra should not be given any post which directly or indirectly relates to the conduct of polls.
Railways Minister Piyush Goyal. File
| Photo Credit: PTI Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said on March 10 that the State governments should support the national transporter in completing all the pending projects.
Participating in Question Hour proceedings, Mr. Goyal lamented that governments before 2014 announced railway projects without allocating funds for execution.
He said the Modi government increased investment in railway infrastructure to ₹2.15 lakh crore in Budget 2021-22 from ₹40,000-45,000 crore in 2013. Our government is working to complete all pending railways projects, Mr. Goyal said, adding that the Railways was not getting support from many State governments. Work on one railway project in West Bengal is going on since 1974, the State government is not supporting us, he said. Now time has come, all State governments should support railways [in completing pending projects].
Refer to Committee on Privileges his allegations made in Parliament, she urges Speaker
Terming the death of MP Mohan Delkar as a “strike on the dignity of Parliament”, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Supriya Sule on Wednesday urged Speaker Om Birla to refer to the Committee on Privileges his allegations made in Parliament.
In a memorandum to the Speaker, Ms. Sule, MP from the Baramati constituency in Pune district, along with other MPs, said they were “shocked” by the tragic death of the seven-time Lok Sabha representative from the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
“The fact that a 7-time MP was frustrated to such an extent that it would drive him to extreme despair and steps to end his life is traumatic for all of us…We have lost a fellow member. It is not just a loss of life but also a strike on the dignity of Parliament. The independence and supremacy of Parliament rests on the discharge of duties by its members free of any fear or duress,” read Ms
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted to make a statement in Lok Sabha on 'Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav' to celebrate 75 years of I