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Chacko candidates for the Kerala to the Kerala Legislative Territory of Delhi Laws (Special also alleged the national lead- Assembly polls. Assembly. The party has cho- Provisions) Second ership of the party has not been Referring to the period of sen not to field five Ministers (Amendment) Bill, 2021, to active for the last two years. vacuum created in the party’s in the Pinarayi Vijayan Cabinet regularise unauthorised 2014, but no previous thorised colonies, Puri said He, however, did not national leadership after Rahul and 33 of its sitting MLAs. the 2024 Lok Sabha election so colonies. Government took this issue up that it is then the Modi announce his future plans but Gandhi quit the post of The party which has been that he could be projected as While the Rajya Sabha had with any degree of seriousness. Government decided to bring made it clear on his views on Congress president following campaigning for the empow- the country’s Finance Minister passed the Bill on February 9 “In 1947, 17 per cent of this Bill. the BJP, saying the saffron the party’s defeat in the 2019 erment of women has 12 in the eventuality of the in the first leg of the Budget India’s population lived in The Bill replaces the party “is not a political factor” and all held posts in Wayanad Lok Sabha polls, Chacko said, women candidates in the list CPI(M) joining the Session, the Lok Sabha passed cities. The population of Delhi Ordinance which was brought in the southern States. represented by Rahul Gandhi “the Congress had been head- out of which eight are new Government to be formed at it on Wednesday amid was 8 lakh at that time.... The in December last year to extend Chacko’s resignation comes in the Lok Sabha. While MS less for the last one-and-a-half faces. The new candidates the Centre. Opposition ruckus over farm 1951 census showed Delhi’s protection from punitive action at the backdrop of prominent Vishwanathan said he was years”. include R Bindu (wife of party MB Rajesh, who lost the laws. population at 22 lakh. The to unauthorised colonies, JJ leaders of State unit quitting the resigning from the party due to “There was no one in the secretary Vijayaraghavan) and Lok Sabha election from Minister of State 2011 census showed Delhi’s clusters and constructions in grand old party in Kerala ahead failure of the Congress leader- party at the national level seven others. Oalakkadu in 2019 has been (Independent Charge) of population at 1.6 crore. There Delhi’s rural areas built on of the Assembly polls where the ship in the district and neglect recalling the situation that Though the party cadre brought back as an Assembly Housing and Urban Affairs will be another census this agriculture land for another Congress pinned hopes. Most by the KPCC leadership, KK forced Sonia Gandhi, who is staged demonstrations at candidate. The main attraction Hardeep Singh Puri said in the year and I expect the popula- three years till December 2023. significantly resignations of Vishwanathan alleged that the facing health issues, to take Ponnani demanding TM is that the party has fielded the Lok Sabha that the Bill would tion of Delhi to be close to 2 The law will extend the MLAs falling within the party was being run by a three- leadership of the party,” he Siddick be fielded as candidate, young veteran K give protection to unauthorised crore, if not higher,” Puri said. legal protection for scores of Parliamentary constituency of member team in Wayanad. said. the CPI(M) leadership declared Radhakrishnan, former colonies from sealing till It is a matter of great shame illegal constructions and unau- former party chief Rahul Chacko, who was a former “I have sent my resignation that Nandakumar, a party Speaker, as a candidate. December 31, 2023. that between 2006 when the thorised colonies in the nation- Gandhi has brought worries for working committee member of letter to Congress president activist more known for back- Radhakrishnan, once tipped to “There is a public percep- process of regularisation start- al Capital from demolition or the Congress. Assembly polls in the Congress, is the second (Sonia Gandhi) and to Rahul room manoeuvering would be be the chief ministerial candi- tion that the issue of unautho- ed and 2014, all the sealing till December 2023. Kerala will he held on April 6 senior leader to quit the grand Gandhi. This decision, I have contesting from the con- date, had earned respectabili- rised colonies has been delayed Governments which were in There are around 1,700 and results will be declared on old party after Jyotiraditya been deliberating for the last stituency. The list includes ty from all parties for the man- by some political parties when power in the city of Delhi did unauthorised colonies in Delhi. May 2. Scindia. Scindia joined the BJP many days,” said Chacko at a Mohammed Riyaz, the son-in- ner in which he conducted the they were in office,” Puri said nothing, Puri said and sought The NCT of Delhi (Special Former Kerala Congress after his resignation over dif- Press conference in the nation- law of Vijayan. proceedings of the House. The while replying to a debate on cooperation from parties to Provisions) Second Committee member KK ferences with Congress’ al Capital. The high-profile Finance CPI(M) did not field him for the Bill. bring relief to the citizens of Amendment Bill, 2021, is an Vishwanathan, KPCC secretary Madhya Pradesh State leader- “No democracy left in the Minister Thomas Issac and the 2016 Assembly election. The House later passed Delhi. extension of a similar law first MS Vishwanathan, DCC gen- ship and is now a Rajya Sabha Congress. Candidate list has PWD Minister G Suddharan Names of candidates from the Bill by a voice vote. Citing a letter received by passed in 2011. When the 2011 eral secretary PK Anil Kumar member. not been discussed with the are being rested along with Mancheshwaram and Puri said the problem of his Ministry from the Delhi law had expired, the govern- and Mahila Congress leader Amid demand from a State Congress committee,” he three other Ministers. One of Devikulam would be unauthorised colonies predates Government in 2019 seeking ment had in 2014 enacted the Sujaya Venugopal resigned group of 23 senior Congress further alleged. the party insiders said Issac is announced later, according to the assumption of office by the the extension of timeline for law again to grant a fresh from the party within a week leaders for an organisational Continued on Page 2 being groomed by the party for Vijayaraghavan. 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A team of doctors ing providing central security and injured my left leg,” said BJP, 10 of ally Jannayak Janta while one member is of the the amount does not lapse at Mission Pradhan Mantri treating her described her con- to the Chief Minister should Mamata alleging “conspiracy” Party, five Independents and Haryana Lokhit Party, who +", the end of financial year,” said Swasthya Suraksha Yojana dition to be “stable,” adding she the State Government accept behind the incident.