Congress decentralises candidate selection for Assembly elections
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The Congress is changing the way it selects candidates for the Assembly elections this time, a leader familiar with the development says.
Instead of short-listing candidates in Delhi, the selection or screening panels are moving to the States to make the process more participatory and based on feedback, even from the voters. In a State like Assam, the first list can come out early as local leaders plan to seek approval from the party’s central election committee through a Zoom meeting.
The change in selection procedure seems to be the result of a letter sent by the group of 23 dissenters (G-23) to party president Sonia Gandhi last August, questioning why the party “high command” in Delhi appoints even district- and block-level functionaries.
Feb 08, 2021, 16:31 IST
NEW DELHI: YSRCP Rajya Sabha MP V. Vijayasai Reddy on Monday lodged a written complaint with Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu seeking appropriate action taken against TDP RS MP Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar.
The YSRCP MP said that the statements made during Kanakamedala speech on February 4 during the resolution for thanking the President for his speech in the RS, was violation of the rules of the House. In his complaint, Vijayasai Reddy said it was extremely unfortunate that the indecent remarks made by him in his speech were not removed from the Rajya Sabha records.
He said that the comments made by Kanakamedala about the activities of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly and the people in the high positions were most harmful. In his complaint, Vijayasai Reddy alleged that Kanakamedala s obscene remarks on the activities of the legislative system and individuals in Andhra Pradesh violated Rule 238 (3) and Rule 238 (5) of the Rajya Sabha
TDP MPs submit complaints against Jagan govt to Shah
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Amaravati/New Delhi, Feb 4 : A team of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday and submitted a slew of complaints ranging from alleged offences against democratic institutions, capital trifurcation, corruption and others on Andhra Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. Attack on media, attack on courts, attack on judges, attack on the Opposition. We told all these. Attack on election commissioner. These are all democratic institutions, said TDP MP Jayadev Galla after submitting the complaints to the Home Minister.
A Budget blueprint for difficult times
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January 30, 2021 01:36 IST
Alarming inequality, failing health care and border tensions loom large and the economic situation needs full attention
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Alarming inequality, failing health care and border tensions loom large and the economic situation needs full attention
As the country prepares to enter a new financial year after an ominous and gloomy 2020-21, there are great expectations about green shoots and the shape of the economic recovery. The havoc wreaked by the novel coronavirus pandemic on people’s lives and livelihoods is deep and enormous. The impact of the COVID-19 induced lockdown cannot be understood merely through headline macro-economic numbers of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), stock market indices, industrial activity indices or any such measure. COVID-19 has destroyed lives and incomes; it has also ruptured our social fabric. It has exacerbated the inequality between the haves and th
‘Loose talk by a few Ministers has hurt the religious sentiments of people more’
Jana Sena Party (JSP) president Pawan Kalyan has said that secularism is skewed in the country as it is not taking into account the sentiments of all faiths.
Lashing out at the YSRCP government in the State for the 142 incidents of temple attacks and desecration of idols, Mr. Pawan Kalyan said the government’s approach towards the sensitive issue smacked of indifference.
“The government is unmoved when 142 incidents happened right under its nose. Will it react the same way if places of worship of other faiths are attacked?” he questioned.