DOCSLIB.ORG

Mamata to Be Swornin As Bengal CM for 3Rd

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Mamata to Be Swornin As Bengal CM for 3Rd EasternChroniWINDOW TO THE EAST cle WEATHERWATCH SONOWAL EXPRESSES GOVT GIVES AD HOC IGST COVID-19 STRIKES IPL Max 31°c gratitude to people of exemption on imports of in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Min 21°c Assam voting BJP P4 Covid relief material P9 games in doubt P 10 Humidity 72% VOL II, ISSUE 209 PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM SILCHAR GUWAHATI KOLKATA PAGES: 10 epaper at: www.easternchronicle.net PRICE `5 TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2021 Mamata to be sworn in as Bengal TMC seeks recounting of rd votes in Nandigram AGENCIES process,” reads the TMC’s let- ter to the CEO. TMC’s move CM for 3 term tomorrow KOLKATA: Chief Minister Mam- came after BJP leader Suven- AGENCIES losing Nandigram seat, the Chief Minister? She can, un- ata Banerjee-led Trinamool du Adhikari took Twitter to TMC leader said, “Matter still der the constitution. Congress (TMC) on Sunday thank the people of Nandi- KOLKATA: Trinamool Con- pending with Election Com- There are Chief Ministers wrote to the Chief Electoral gram. gress chief Mamata Banerjee, mission. The constitution who are not part of the legisla- Officer (CEO), West Bengal “My sincere thanks to the whose party won 213 seats in provision is also there. There tive assemblies in their states. seeking “immediate re-count- great people of Nandigram the West Bengal assembly will be no hindrance ...no one Bihar’s Nitish Kumar has not ing of votes and postal ballots” for their love, trust, blessings, elections, will take oath as the can stop Mamata Banerjee be- contested an election for over in Nandigram constituency. and support, and for choosing Chief Minister for the third coming the Chief Minister.” three decades and was not in A three-member TMC del- me as their representative consecutive term on May 5, According to Article 164 (4) the November race either. egation met the CEO at the and the MLA from Nandi- informed TMC leader Partha of the Indian Constitution, a Maharashtra Chief Minister Election Commission Office gram. It is my never-ending Chatterjee on Monday. minister who for any period Uddhav Thackeray also did in Kolkata regarding the mat- Caught in BJP-TMC chaos for two commitment to be of service hours. File photo. Briefing the mediapersons, of six consecutive months not contest the election. ter. to them and working for their TMC leader Partha Chatter- is not a member of the leg- Both are members of their “Certain preposterous and Officer, Nandigram AC, but welfare. I am truly grateful!” jee said, “The TMC legislators islature of the state shall at state legislative councils - the illegal incidents have hap- such recounting has been re- tweeted Adhikari. have unanimously elected Mamata Banerjee meets the Governor at Raj Bhavan on Monday evening. the expiration of that period Bihar and Maharashtra legis- pened today while the count- fused for reasons unknown. Meanwhile, West Bengal Mamata Banerjee as the lead- Photo: Purbadri Das cease to be a minister. latures have two houses. But ing of votes was taking place Such refusal is bad in law Chief Minister Mamata Ba- er. On May 5, she will take islators will be held. We want jee has been made the protem The two-time Chief Min- Bengal does not. Mamata Ba- in Nandigram AC 210. The and coloured. We demand an nerjee claimed that she has oath as the Chief Minister. Biman Banerjee to become speaker.” Asked about how ister has won a third term nerjee has to become a mem- candidate Mamata Banerjee immediate recounting of Nan- information that some manip- On May 6, the oath-taking the speaker of the Assembly. can Mamata Banerjee become but does her Nandigram loss ber of the legislative assembly had sought for recounting of digram AC 210 to preserve ulations were done after the ceremony of the elected leg- Meanwhile, Subrata Mukher- the chief minister despite mean she cannot become within six months. Pg 5 votes before the Returning the sanctity of the electoral declaration of results SPORT NUGGETS Mamata sets her eyes for Sonowal expresses FINAL YEAR MBBS STUDENTS CAN MONITOR MILD COVID CASES DoNER ministry to gratitude to the set up O2 plants 2024 poll aiming to halt BJP people of Assam Govt postpones NEET-PG in all NE AGENCIES stop the BJP completely.” a “street fighter” and said She, however, said her prior- she can boost the opposition CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE GUWAHATI: KOLKATA: exams for four months Union Minister of After steering Tri- ity was not to fight the deadly for a collective move to halt State (Independent Charge) namool Congress to the pow- covid-19. the BJP completely. With her GUWAHATI: Chief Minister Sar- AGENCIES the country. “A decision was Development of North East- er in West Bengal for 3rd Addressing the media be- wounded leg Ms Banerjee sin- banandaSonowalthanked taken to postpone NEET-PG ern Region (DoNER), Jiten- straight term, Chief Minister fore chairing a meeting with gle handedly steered her par- all sections of the people of NEW DELHI: In wide-ranging for at least 4 months and the dra Singh on Monday said Mamata Banerjee has now set her new MLAs to decide date ty to a massive 213 seats win the state belonging to Barak, decisions to boost the avail- exam will not be held before that the DoNER Ministry her eyes to 2024 Parliament of swearing, and call on Gov- out of 292 seats for which poll Brahmaputra, hills and plains ability of medical personnel 31st August 2021. Students has initiated steps to set poll, saying she can boost up ernor Jagdeep Dhankhar at 7 held in eight phases. including farmers, workers, for Covid response, the Gov- will also be given at least up oxygen plants in all the a collective opposition in the pm in Raj Bhavan for routine BJP which fought election artistes, journalists, sportsper- ernment on Monday decided one month of time after an- northeastern states. Review- fight because the “BJP is not meeting like when to submit on development plank with sons, academicians, employ- to postpone NEET PG for four nouncement of exam before it ing the COVID situation, Shahenshah”. her resignation and when to PM face Narendra Modi and eesfor giving a clear mandate months until August 31 to is conducted. This will make Singh said that the DoNER “We have already stopped take swear-in ceremony. his cabinet colleague Amit to the BJP led alliance in the rope in MBBS pass-outs pre- a large number of qualified Ministry has been chalking the destructive run of the BJP Ms Banerjee said he al- Shah and had aimed for over Assam Assembly election. In paring for the exams. The decisions were taken doctors available for Covid out its plan for installing ox- owing to people’s massive ready had talked with several 200 seats, stopped at 77. BJP a statement here on Monday, It also permitted final year after Prime Minister Naren- duties,” the Health Ministry ygen plants in the region. He mandate in West Bengal and leaders across India to have however, gained 74 seats from Chief Minister Sonowalsaid MBBS students to conduct tel- dra Modi reviewed the grow- said. It was also decided to said, “An oxygen plant was further it could be done if we a collective move for future three in 2016. Ms Banrjee said that the people of Assam have econsultation and monitoring ing need for adequate human allow deployment of medical set up in Tawang ... Pg 5 mobilize youth and women course of action. they would also move to the voted for the BJP led alliance of mild Covid cases under the resources for responding to interns in Covid Management Night curfew across the country we can Ms Banerjee called herself court of law with ... Pg 5 due of its performance... Pg 5 supervision of senior doctors. the COVID-19 pandemic in duties under the ... Pg 5 in Shillong Assam seeks Covid management not Controversial from today 150 Covid Trinamool Cong successful in Tripura DM SHILLONG: Night curfew has our prerogative: EC to SC been imposed in Shillong coaches from consolidating Muslim votes removed from May 4, said Meghalaya NEW DELHI: The Election Com- ing the poll panel. “Election chief minister Conrad Sang- Railways mission, rattled over the commission is not running AGENCIES THE MUSLIM VOTE BANK IS A BIG AND DECIDING FACTOR IN CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE ma. On Sunday, Meghalaya strong high court observa- the governance of the State. BENGAL POLLS. FOR ALMOST THREE-AND-A-HALF DECADES, registered the highest sin- CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE tions related to conducting of We only issue guidelines and KOLKATA: The Trinamool Con- AGARTALA: In the wake of mas- gle-day spike ever with 321 just concluded assembly elec- directives. We don’t have gress which scored a landslide THE MUSLIMS WERE WOOED AND CONSIDERED A VOTE sive reactions in the state as fresh Covid-19 cases, taking GUWAHATI: Assam government tions, told the Supreme Court CRPF or any other force with victory in the assembly elec- BANK BY THE LEFT FRONT, WHICH RULED THE STATE FOR 34 well as in the entire country the total number of active has requested the Northeast on Monday that COVID-19 us to check the people in rally. tions was successful in consol- YEARS. following District Magistrate cases to 1,821. Sangma said, Frontier Railways (NFR) to management was not its pre- State Disaster Management idating the Muslim votes and Shailesh Kumar Yadav’s “In view of the prevailing keep at least 150 Covid Coach- rogative and it does not run Authority has to issue orders that had a direct impact on the South 24 Parganas.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Red Bengal's Rise and Fall
    kheya bag RED BENGAL’S RISE AND FALL he ouster of West Bengal’s Communist government after 34 years in power is no less of a watershed for having been widely predicted. For more than a generation the Party had shaped the culture, economy and society of one of the most Tpopulous provinces in India—91 million strong—and won massive majorities in the state assembly in seven consecutive elections. West Bengal had also provided the bulk of the Communist Party of India– Marxist (cpm) deputies to India’s parliament, the Lok Sabha; in the mid-90s its Chief Minister, Jyoti Basu, had been spoken of as the pos- sible Prime Minister of a centre-left coalition. The cpm’s fall from power also therefore suggests a change in the equation of Indian politics at the national level. But this cannot simply be read as a shift to the right. West Bengal has seen a high degree of popular mobilization against the cpm’s Beijing-style land grabs over the past decade. Though her origins lie in the state’s deeply conservative Congress Party, the challenger Mamata Banerjee based her campaign on an appeal to those dispossessed and alienated by the cpm’s breakneck capitalist-development policies, not least the party’s notoriously brutal treatment of poor peasants at Singur and Nandigram, and was herself accused by the Communists of being soft on the Maoists. The changing of the guard at Writers’ Building, the seat of the state gov- ernment in Calcutta, therefore raises a series of questions. First, why West Bengal? That is, how is it that the cpm succeeded in establishing
    [Show full text]
  • Lok Sabha Debates Lok Sabha
    LOK SABHA DEBATES LOK SABHA SHRI P.R. DASMUNSI (HOWRAH) : Sir, The Government should take a decision and give this to the Thursday, September 12, 1996/ Bhadra 21, 1918 (Saka) women ...(Interruptions) (The Lok Sabha met at Eleven of the dock) KUMARI MAMATA BANERJEE : Sir, where is the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs ? You please call him. (Mr. Speaker in the Chair] ... (Interruptions) [English] [Translation] ...(Interruptions) SHRIMATI BHAVNABEN DEVRAJ BHAI CHIKHALIYA (JUNAGARH) : Mr. Speaker, Sir, in this regard, I request KUMARI MAMATA BANERJEE (CALCUTTA SOUTH): all the Members to support the Bill, if presented and Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very serious matter. It is about pass it without discussion ...(Interruptions) providing 33 per cent reservation to women* in the Assemblies and the Lok Sabha ...(Interruptions) [English] MR. SPEAKER : What is serious ? KUMARI MAMATA BANERJEE : Sir there is a consensus in the House. ...(Interruptions) MR. SPEAKER : I understand it. KUMARI MAMATA BANERJEE : Sir, Shri Rajiv Gandhi was the initiator of this reservation for women in [ Translation] Panchayats and Municipalities. We have got it. DR. GIRIJA VYAS : Mr. Speaker, Sir, when there is ...(Interruptions) Now it is for reservation in the a consensus on the Bill and they all are welcoming it, legislatures. The Bill has been pending since long. My what is the objection in passing it. I demand that it should request to you, Sir, is that as tomorrow is the last day not be referred to the Select Committee. ...(Interruptions) of the current Session, it should be passed without discussion. There is consensus in the House on this [English] matter ...(Interruptions) SHRI NIRMAL KANTI CHATTERJEE : Sir, you have SHRIMATI KRISHNA BOSE (JADAVPUR) : Sir, I not understood a simple point.
    [Show full text]
  • It Is Well Known That After Independence, West Bengal Has Been Lagging Increasingly Behind Many Other States of India in the Field of Industrial Production
    The Political Economy of Decline of Industry in West Bengal: Experiences of a Marxist State Within a Mixed Economy Subhash C. Ray University of Connecticut Working Paper 2011-10 May 2011 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DECLINE OF INDUSTRY IN WEST BENGAL: EXPERIENCES OF A MARXIST STATE WITHIN A MIXED ECONOMY Subhash C Ray Department of Economics University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269 USA [email protected] Over more than six decades following Independence, industry in West Bengal has steadily gone downhill. Usually the Left Front government effectively controlled by the Marxist Communist Party (CPM), that has ruled the state for the past 34 years until its recent defeat in the state assembly elections, is held responsible for the plight of industry in the state. The party and its followers, on the other hand, blame denial of the due share of the state in the central resources by a hostile government at the center for industrial retardation. This paper takes a close look at the available statistical evidence to argue that the main reason for the decline is a direct outcome of poor work culture, political interference, and failure of governance that has resulted in industrial anarchy that scares off private investment in the state. While the Left Front has its share of responsibility, the newly anointed Chief Minister of the State, Mamata Banerjee, has herself contributed generously to fostering and cultivating this chaos by calling wildcat general strikes in her erstwhile role as the ‘one person opposition party’. The only thing that can revive industry in West Bengal is liberating civil administration from the grip of political party bosses.
    [Show full text]
  • Is a Federal Party Possible?
    Established 1946 1 Pages 16 Price : Rupees Five Vol. 73 No. 10 Is a Federal Party Possible? April 1, 2018 Kuldip Nayar BJP’s Forays in North Eastern States and When former Congress President underline the Congress cooperation, Anti Minority Agenda Sonia Gandhi said that they would Mamata has said that she is daily in Ram Puniyani not allow the Bhartiya Janata Party touch with Sonia Gandhi. In fact, (BJP) to return to power, she hinted the leaders from other non-BJP ruled at a joint action on the part of the states are constantly in touch with India Needs Draupadi And Opposition. It also means that each other to see the possibility of a Not Savitri she does not want Prime Minister federal structure. Rajindar Sachar Narendra Modi to for the second If you recall, the Janata Party term. On its own, the Congress does was a federal structure. It did not not have the numbers to pose any last its course and fell because the Anti-Muslim Riots threat to the BJP-run government then leaders, particularly the top in Sri Lanka or Modi. ones like Morarji Desai and Chanran Irfan Engineer In all probability, as things Singh, quarrelling in public all the stand today, Modi looks good time, much to the exasperation of the enough to returning to power. people. Then the Jana Sangh wielded The three reverses in recent by- power because the opponents were Arvind Kejriwal’s Apology elections to the Lok Sabha and a divided lot. Once the non-Jana Letter and Middle Class Standard of Ethics state assemblies notwithstanding, Sangh parties came together, the Nishikant Mohapatra the BJP is capturing power in state Jana Sangh government was reduced after state and spreading its tentacles to a minority.
    [Show full text]
  • Come September, Manmohan Comes to Dhaka
    ISA S Brief No. 214 – 15 August 2011 469A Bukit Timah Road #07-01, Tower Block, Singapore 259770 Tel: 6516 6179 / 6516 4239 Fax: 6776 7505 / 6314 5447 Email: [email protected] Website: www.isas.nus.edu.sg Come September, Manmohan Comes To Dhaka Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury1 Abstract This brief is a curtain-raiser to the visit to Bangladesh by the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, in September 2011. It argues that globalisation is leading to a change in mind-sets that, if taken advantage of during that event, would lead to positive and beneficial results for both countries. If India has a disproportionate responsibility to improve ties, Bangladesh also has its own share, for, as the Bengali saying goes, it takes two to clap hands. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is due to visit Dhaka come September 2011. His Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina had travelled to India in January 2010. A decent interval has elapsed since then. A return visit has been very much on the cards for some time now. In recent times, concerned desks in both countries’ foreign offices have been humming with activity. Final touches are being given to a raft of documents to be signed during the forthcoming event. As part of the preparatory process, the Indian foreign and home ministers had descended on Dhaka in July 2011. Also Sonia Gandhi, the Congress chief, is to receive a posthumous award for her mother-in-law Mrs Indira Gandhi, in a somewhat belated but justifiable recognition of her contribution to the independence of Bangladesh in 1971.
    [Show full text]
  • LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version)
    .BSDI Twelfth Series, Vol. I, No. I LOK SABHA DEBATES (English Version) First Session (Twelfth Lok Sabha) I Gazettes & Debetes Unit ...... Parliament Library BulldlnO @Q~m ~o. FBr.026 .. ~-- -- (Vol. I contains Nos. I to 8) LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI I'ri ce .· Rs. 50. ()() 'VU"".&J:Ia.a.a IL.V .................. ~_ (Engl illl1 v«sian) 'lUeaJay, IIKcb 24, 1998/Chaitra 3, 1920 (Salta) Col.l1ine F« Raad CaltE!1ts/2 (fran &lltcn Salahuddin OWaisi Shri S. S. OWaiai below) 42/28 9/6 (fran below); SHRI ARIF HOfP.MW.D KHAN liIRI ARIF ~D KHAN 10/6 (fran below) j 11. /7,19: 13/3 12/5 (fran below) Delete "an" 13,19 (fran below) CalSSlsnal CalSE!1sual 22/25 hills hails CONTENTS {Twelfth Series. Vol. I. First Session. 199811920 (Seke)J No.2, Tuesday, March 24,1l1li Chain 3,1120 (lab) SUBJECT CoLUMNS MEMBERS SWORN 1-8 f)1:" SPEAKER 8-8 FI::L "'I-fE SPEAKER Shri Atal Biharl Vajpayee •.. 8-14 Shri Sharad Pawar ..• 14-15 Shrl Somnath Chatterjee .. 1~18 Shri Pumo A. Sangma .. 18-17 Kumari Mamata Banerjee .17-18 Shri Ram Vilas Paswan .•. 18 Shri R. Muthiah 19 Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav 19-20 Shri Lalu Prasad ... 21-22 Shri K. Yerrannaidu 22-23 Shri Naveen Patnaik 23 Shri Digvijay Singh .. 23-24 Shri Indrajit Gupta .. 24-25 Sardar Surjit Singh Bamala 2~2e Shri Murasoli Maran 28-28 Shri Shivraj ~. Palll .. ,. 28-29 Shri Madhukar Sirpotdar ... -_ ... 29-31 Shri Sanat Kumar Mandai 31 Shri P.C. Thomas 31-32 Kumari.
    [Show full text]
  • Indian Federalism Under Modi: States No Longer Mute Foreign Policy Spectators
    December 2014 29 June 2017 Indian Federalism under Modi: States No Longer Mute Foreign Policy Spectators Tridivesh Singh Maini FDI Associate Key Points Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s approach towards Centre-State relations is driven by his personal experience and convictions. State government participation in foreign policy can no longer be restricted merely to the economic sphere. The State governments will need to have a clearer vision of the roles that they could (and should) play in economic and foreign policy. Summary In his three years in office, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly urged the states to emerge as drivers of the country’s growth story, and to play their part in strengthening ties with the outside world. The PM has often repeatedly invoked the concepts of “Co-operative Federalism” and “Competitive Federalism”. Co-operative Federalism is understood to be a purposeful relationship between the Central and State governments on issues pertaining to key economic and external policies. As Modi noted in a speech made to members of the Indian diaspora in the Netherlands: ‘India is about co- operative federalism. The Centre and States working together for the development of India, this is our effort.’ Competitive Federalism, on the other hand, is perceived to be the “competitive spirit” between states whereby they compete with each other for Foreign Direct Investment. Modi’s emphasis on a more significant role for the States is largely driven by his personal experiences as the Chief Minister of Gujarat state when, in that office, he reached out to investors outside India, especially in East and South-East Asia.
    [Show full text]
  • 01-067 Foff Fed Eng News
    State elections foretell a power shift at India’s centre BY PRASENJIT MAITI More than ever before, one-party India In West Bengal, the Congress formed Building and burning bridges is a thing of the past, and the balance of an alliance with its breakaway faction, These state elections have indicated power is shifting. Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamul Congress. certain emergent trends in the Indian The Congress performed even better than There were elections to five state party system which are likely to inform the Trinamul Congress in terms of assemblies this past May. The Indian the country’s federal politics in the near percentage of seats it won relative to press described them as a mini general future. the total number of seats it contested. election, a prognosis of the relative health The Congress Party, out of power since of India’s federal political parties and ad- However, the Left Front, led by the 1996, is steadily reconsolidating itself in hoc alliances. Communist Party of India (Marxist), the states with the help of regional allies. returned to power in West Bengal for the In particular, observers looked to these It is a kind of Return-of-the-Prodigal-Son sixth time since 1977. The Communists state elections for indications of a change syndrome. This national party is engaged alone, excluding their coalition partners, in support for the ruling Bharatiya Janata in building bridges with once dissident won 143 out of the total 294 assembly Party-led National Democratic Alliance at but powerful factions such as the seats. New Delhi.
    [Show full text]
  • 4 Patrimonial and Programmatic Talking About Democracy in a South Indian Village
    4 Patrimonial and Programmatic Talking about Democracy in a South Indian Village PAMELA PRICE AND DUSI SRINIVAS How do people in India participate politically, as citizens, clients and/or subjects?1 This query appears in various forms in ongoing debates concerning the extent and nature of civil society, the pitfalls of patronage democracy, and the role of illegal- ity in political practice, to name a few of the several concerns about political spheres in India. A focus for discussion has been the relationship of civil society institutions (with associated principles of equality and fairness) to political spheres driven mainly by political parties and to what Partha Chatterjee desig- nated as ‘political society’.2 Since 2005, with the publication of the monograph, Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India (Corbridge et al.), there is growing support for the argument that political cultures and practices in India, from place to place and time to time, to greater and lesser degrees, include 1. Thanks to those who commented on earlier drafts of this piece when it was presented at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, the South Asia Symposium in Oslo, and at the workshop ‘Practices and Experiences of Democracy in Post-colonial Locali- ties’, part of the conference, ‘Democracy as Idea and Practice’ organized by the University of Oslo. We are grateful to K.C. Suri for suggesting the term ‘programmatic’ in our discussions of the findings here. Thanks to the editors of this volume, David Gilmartin and Sten Widmalm for reading and commenting on this piece.
    [Show full text]
  • Ganga Samachar Modi Decreased.Cdr
    There are a number of ways to save river Ganga... and they all start with you CPCB ENVIS Ganga Bulletin Issue 1 JANUARY - APRIL 2015 Editorial CPCB gives nod to zero liquid discharge plant at Jajmau The Ganga, is the river of India, has been a symbol of India's age long entral Pollution control board has given its consent for the culture and civilization for Hindus as the most sacred river in the world. Cinstallation of a zero liquid discharge plant at Jajmau to save the river Ganga rejuvenation is a movement to Ganga from pollutants in discharge of tanneries. restoring the wholesomeness of the river defined in terms of ensuring The CPCB, during a meeting held recently at New Delhi, rejected the अ�वरल धारा (Continuous Flow), �नम셍ल protest of tannery owners and gave a green signal for installation of zero धारा (Unpolluted Flow), Geologic and liquid discharge plant said Rajesh ecological integrity. Kumar, project manager of Jal Nigam. He further informed that a गंगा समाचार is a collection of news detailed project report will be Dechlorination articles on Ganga, published in Purified Demin submitted before the CPCB. water water various sources have been collected ULTRA REVERSE ELETTRO FILTRATION OSMOSIS DEIONIZATION and compiled as bulletin. These The project manager further news clippings may be useful to added that the plant will be EVAPORATION/ Solid Waste people who are involved in CRISTALLIZATION rejuvenation of River Ganga. It is an installed under triple P model initiative taken by CPCB ENVIS (Public private partnership). The Centre . tannery owners will receive the CLEAN E OF NV I nfor IT R l I m U O a a N t t S n io R M e n U E P N m S T N I n y L o s o ) r t P i c e N r v f z m i i ; n , k Z o y j E f .
    [Show full text]
  • India's Domestic Political Setting
    Updated May 24, 2019 India’s Domestic Political Setting Overview BJP boosted its share to nearly 38% of the estimated 600 India, the world’s most populous democracy, is, according million votes cast (to Congress’s 20%; turnout was about to its Constitution, a “sovereign, socialist, secular, 67%). The influence of regional and caste-based (and often democratic republic” where the bulk of executive power “family-run”) parties—although blunted by the two rests with the prime minister and his Council of Ministers consecutive BJP majority victories—remains an important (the Indian president is a ceremonial chief of state with variable in Indian politics. Such parties now hold nearly limited executive powers). Since its 1947 independence, one-third of Lok Sabha seats. In 2019, more than 8,000 most of India’s 14 prime ministers have come from the candidates and some 464 parties vied for parliament seats; country’s Hindi-speaking northern regions and all but 3 33 of those parties won at least one seat. The seven parties have been upper-caste Hindus. The 543-seat, Lok Sabha listed below account for 84% of Lok Sabha seats (see (House of the People) is the locus of national power, with Figure 1). directly elected representatives from each of the country’s 29 states and 7 union territories. The president has the Figure 1. Major Party Representation in the Lok Sabha power to dissolve this body. A smaller upper house of a (543 total seats + 2 appointed) maximum 250 seats, the Rajya Sabha (Council of States), may review, but not veto, revenue legislation, and has no power over the prime minister or his/her cabinet.
    [Show full text]
  • Bengal Guv Meets Union Ministers, TMC Cries Foul
    EasternChroniWINDOW TO THE EAST cle WEATHERWATCH RAIN, FLOODS WREAK HAVOC IT MINISTER BLASTS Twitter, RECORD-SETTING RONALDO Max 28°c in Nepal; scores die and says it failed to comply with new scores 2, Portugal beats Min 25°c missing P 6 rules P 9 Hungary 3-0 P 10 Humidity 94% VOL II, ISSUE 253 PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM SILCHAR GUWAHATI KOLKATA PAGES: 10 epaper at: www.easternchronicle.net PRICE `5 THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 SPOTLIGHT 730 doctors died PM Modi sanctions funds in second wave in Bengal Guv meets Union India for two Covid-19 hospitals NEW DELHI: As many as 730 doctors have succumbed to coronavirus infection ministers, TMC cries foul AVISHEK GANGULY situation in Murshidabad, during the second wave, Chowdhury had petitioned the according to data available AGENCIES Society aimed at enhancing the KOLKATA: Prime Minister Nar- Prime Minister to set up a Corona by the Indian Medical Asso- impact of these bodies." endra Modi made good on his hospital by using PM-Cares fund. ciation (IMA). KOLKATA: Soon after Governor Dhankhar, who is expected to promise to Murshidabad MP At first it was decided that Bihar saw the maximum Jagdeep Dhankhar met two Modi and Shah on Thursday, is Adhir Ranjan Chouwdhury a Covid hospital with 1,000 number of 115 deaths, fol- Central ministers in the na- likely to brief them on the ‘deteri- as he sanctioned Rs. 41.62 beds would be constructed at lowed by Delhi at 109, Uttar tional capital on Wednesday, orating' law and order situation crore from PM-Cares fund on Bahrampore.
    [Show full text]