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The BJP MLAs met governor Koshyari asking him to stay the suspension
MUMBAI: The political temperature in the state shot up on Monday with the suspension of 12 BJP MLAs for one year for creating a ruckus in the assembly on the OBC quota issue and later allegedly misbehaving with the presiding officer Bhaskar Jadhav in the cabin of the deputy speaker. The BJP denied the charges and termed it an attempt to reduce the opposition’s strength in the assembly.
The suspended MLAs later met governor B S Koshyari, asking him to stay the suspension and demand a probe.
The suspended MLAs include senior leaders like former ministers Girish Mahajan, Ashish Shelar, Jaykumar Rawal and Yogesh Sagar. Shelar, as former city BJP chief, and three other Mumbai MLAs who are among those suspended, are influential figures for BJP in the BMC polls due in February.
Rajasthan launches universal health insurance scheme
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Chiranjeevi Yojana expected to provide succour to COVID-19 patients during the pandemic
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Chiranjeevi Yojana expected to provide succour to COVID-19 patients during the pandemic
Chiranjeevi Yojana, the Rajasthan government’s universal health insurance scheme, launched here on Saturday, is expected to provide succour to COVID-19 patients during the pandemic. The ₹3,500 crore scheme gives an annual cashless insurance cover of ₹5 lakh to every family in the State.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said while launching the scheme at a virtual event that it would turn out to be a “historic step” in ensuring social security for vulnerable sections of society and help bridge the gap between the rich and the poor. The Centre and other States should also consider starting such a scheme to give the right to health to the public at large, he said.
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Ashok Gehlot encourages people to register for new health scheme.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday appealed to the people to register for the Chiranjeevi health insurance scheme, which entitles every family in the state to receive a cashless cover of Rs 5 lakh.
The insurance also covers the COVID-19 treatment expense and therefore, the chief minister stressed that people get themselves registered.
Gehlot called upon the youth and social media users to inform people around them about the scheme and to encourage them to visit the nearest e-Mitra Kendra for the registration process. Our aim is that if someone gets unwell in the state after May 1, they do not have to pay the amount of treatment themselves, he tweeted, adding that it was necessary for people to register for the scheme for this benefit.
Without caste census, OBCs will forever be denied social justice
P.N. Sankaran chronicles the debate on caste census, argues that it is indeed feasible and shows how every effort to ensure representation in the State of all historically oppressed communities is bound to fail without such a census
On 26 February 2021, the Supreme Court issued a notice to the central government on a petition seeking caste-based census in the country. The petition said that such a census would address the lack of data needed to provide adequate reservations in jobs and admissions to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) or the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC). The proforma for the 2021 census has been announced, the petition said, adding it has 32 columns with headers Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, etc but has no mention of the OBCs. It sought urgent court intervention to introduce such a proforma for the 2021 census that has a column for the OBCs. Inadequat