Election Commission of India recommends to President disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs

By: Express Web Desk 13 pm AAP National Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (Express picture by using Praveen Khanna/File) The Election Commission of India on Friday recommended disqualification of 20 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs after it observed every one in all them guilty of maintaining Office of Profit . The poll panel has communicated its opinion to President Ram Nath Kovind. The Constitution prohibits Members of Parliament and MLAs from maintaining any Office of Profit this means that accepting government positions that deliver some monetary remuneration or another advantage together with workplace space or even a vehicle. Any violation of this provision draws disqualification of the legislator. The intention of this provision is to preserve the independence of the legislature by preserving its participants away from any temptations from the government EC recommends disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs over workplace of profit charge AAP MLAS said for disqualification highlights: 8:30 pm: Anna Hazare stated in a tweet: We parted our ways the day Arvind Kejriwal fashioned Aam Aadmi Party. We aren't in contact anymore. I had instructed him not to shape a party. Nation can t be served by means of forming a party had that been the case the situation would were one of a kind in 70 years of independence. 6:fifty six pm: Delhi High Court will now pay attention the matter on Monday. It is deemed suitable for the respondents to find out whether a very last order has been passed and the identical has been communicated to the Honorable president said the courtroom. 6:49 pm: Delhi HC refuses to bypass interim order on a plea by means of six AAP MLAs looking for a live on an order handed via the EC disqualifying 20 MLAs in an Office of Profit case. 6:forty one pm: AAP MLA from Burari additionally challenged BJP and Congress pronouncing the same. He stated I am throwing an open undertaking to the BJP and the Congress to tell one car wide variety or any bunglow which I have used being a parliamentary secretary. 6:35 pm: Challenging the Bharatiya Janata Party Saurabh Bhardwaj tweeted: Tell one Govt car wide variety which was allotted to any Parliamentary Secretary. 6:32 pm: The decide also stated The EC stored you giving reminders however you didn t trouble to respond. I am no longer searching at the advantage of the case but your conduct. 6:31 pm: Meanwhile AAP s national spokesperson Raghav Chopra stated EC hasn t even heard the OoP matter on merits and now makes ill-based suggestions without giving AAP MLAs an opportunity of being heard. Blatant violation of concepts of natural justice. This is taking vendetta to subsequent level. 6.25 pm: The Delhi High Court also puzzled the conduct of AAP leaders earlier than the Election Commission. The decide stated You (AAP) very with ease say that the HC has ceased of the matter. Again on November 21 you did not ask for a live from the High Court. You can't dictate phrases to the EC. Just due to the fact the court docket issued notices you took the whole device with no consideration. 6.20 pm: Meanwhile the Delhi High Court has asked the suggest for the Election Commission to discover whether or not any order of disqualification has been exceeded through the EC. 6.10 pm: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee extended help to the Aam Aadmi Party saying A Constitutional frame cannot be used for political vendetta. The 20 AAP MLAs had been now not even given a listening to through the Hon EC. Most unlucky. This goes in opposition to the principles of herbal justice.At this hour we are strongly with Arvind Kejriwal and his crew. Five:18 pm: The petition earlier than the Election Commission turned into filed via one Prashant Patel towards 21 MLAs who were appointed as parliamentary secretaries with the aid of the AAP government in Delhi. Subsequently the complaints had been dropped against Jarnail Singh after he resigned as the Rajouri Garden MLA to contest the Punjab Assembly polls. 5:08 pm: AAP MLAs petition cited earlier than a bench headed via Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal to be heard nowadays itself. Four:fifty nine pm: AAP s Ashutosh said a tweet: EC need to no longer be the letter container of the PMO but that may be a truth these days. Person like me who has included EC as reporter for the duration of Seshan days nowadays I can say EC has never touched so low ever. Sad. Four:forty nine pm: BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma tweets: Arvind Kejriwal ji your MLA says no perks have been given to twenty AAP MLAs so why did Delhi Assembly Secretariat bypass an order dispensing workplaces? :@ArvindKejriwal ji your MLA says no perks had been given to 20 AAP MLAs so why did Delhi Assembly Secretariat bypass an order doling out offices? Percent.Twitter.Com/c88Sm0WWap Nupur Sharma (@NupurSharmaBJP) January 19 2018 four:45 pm: Meanwhile AAP MLA Rajesh Gupta has said We demanded replica of the letter however we've got were given not anything from the Election Commission. There has been no hearing. The count number is sub judice inside the excessive court docket. Rajesh Gupta (Source: ANI photo) 4:forty pm: See the images of all of the AAP MLAs who had been disqualified by way of the Election Commission these days. 4:30 pm: Congress Ajay Maken said Kejriwal does t have the moral right to live on his put up he have to surrender. Congress will perform a jan aandolan regarding the identical. Ajay Maken. (Source: ANI picture) four:18 pm: Welcoming EC s selection Delhi BJP President Manoj Tiwari has stated that it is a moral defeat for Arvind Kejriwal and now he have to own responsibility and renounce. He has also said Though we welcome the choice however concurrently remorse that Election Commission of India allowed undue adjournments to AAP MLAs which have price pricey to the people of Delhi. Four:14 pm: Delhi BJP has welcomed the choice of EC recommending disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs inside the be counted of Office of Profit . द ल्ल भ https://kkjabong.wordpress.com/ जप चुन व आय ग द्व र आम आदम प र्ट के 20 व ध यक ं क अय ग्य घ ष त करने क स फ़ र श क स्व गत करत है Delhi BJP welcomes the selection of EC recommending disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs inside the count of Office of Profit @ManojTiwariMP p.C.Twitter.Com/i7IdI2CIev BJP Delhi (@BJP4Delhi) January 19 2018 four:14 pm: The government within the National Capital is paralysed. Delhi Government and AAP is jogging on this foundation that the things which Kejriwal says is correct most effective. Our constitution has shown reflect to the Delhi CM today. Four:13 pm: Saying that from India against Corruption to I am Corruption Aam Aadmi Party has blanketed the journey in a brief time Patra requested Do the still have the morality of continuing in governance in Delhi? Sambit Patra. (Source: ANI photograph) 4:12 pm: Sambit Patra stated Those who started out their political adventure towards corruption are themselves corrupt. The self-guilt was pretty evident. This isn't an normal difficulty. The journey of AAP has been From India against corruption to I am corruption . 4:10 pm: BJP s Sambit Patra says Aam Aadmi Party maximum corrupt in India. Many AAP MLAs are in jail and numerous are out on bail Shouldn t Mr. Arvind Kejriwal resign? He said. 3:40 pm: The Aam Aadmi Party has approached Delhi High Court against the Election Commission s recommendation to disqualify their 20 MLAs in Office of Profit case. 3:18 pm: When there has been no income within the alleged workplace for profit case then it is incorrect to remove the elected MLAs. I would love to recognise if any person living inside the constituencies of the 20 MLAs who are imagined to have held the Office of Profit had any know-how about the MLAs owning a vehicle a house property or any other privilege that became wrongfully loved by those MLAs said Bharadwaj. 3.16 pm: Saurah Bhardwaj also stated Achal Kumar Jyoti will turn 65 on January 23 and after that he gained t maintain the location of the CEC. The listening to in this case become finished by 3 humans but two of them have seperated themselves. So while the High court docket had said that these two had been now not the parliamentary secretaries how can the Election Commission inspect this. The CEC is mortgaging a constitutional instutution like the Election Commission to pay the debt that he owes to the PM. Saurabh Bhardwaj. 3:14 pm: Whenever there may be an research anywhere in the global the accused is likewise given a chance to put their factor across; the EC did not give any MLA such an opportunity says Saurabh Bharadwaj. Three.Thirteen pm: The document of AAP s 21 MLAs has been despatched to the President the information is yet to be showed says Saurabh Bharadwaj AAP spokesperson. Three:12 pm: Saurabh Bhardwaj stated There is not any credible data. All reports are primarily based on resources. I want to ask if human beings from constituencies of those 21 MLAs have visible them utilising government facilities like vehicle house or revenue. No listening to has been held before EC until now. Three.10 pm: AAP says Will project Election Commission s choice within the pinnacle courtroom . Three.01 pm: AAP had won 67 of the 70 Assembly seats in 2015 polls and continues to enjoy a majority even after the disqualification of the 20 MLAs. 2.58 pm: Initially the case become against 21 MLAs but it now stands at 20 after Rajouri Garden MLA Jarnail Singh resigned to contest in opposition to Parkash Singh Badal within the Punjab Assembly elections remaining 12 months. 2.Fifty two pm: These are the 20 AAP MLAs who are endorsed for disqualification: 1. Adarsh Shastri from Dwarka constituency 2. Alka Lamba from Chandni Chowk constituency three. Sanjeev Jha from Burari constituency 4. Kailash Gehlot from Najafgarh constituency five. Vijendra Garg from Rajinder Nagar constituency 6. Praveen Kumar from Jangpura constituency 7. Sharad Kumar Chauhan from Narela constituency eight. Madan Lal Khufiya from Kasturba Nagar constituency 9. Shiv Charan Goyal from Moti Nagar constituency 10. Sarita Singh from Rohtas Nagar constituency 11. Naresh Yadav from Mehrauli constituency 12. Rajesh Gupta from Wazirpur constituency 13. Rajesh Rishi from Janakpuri constituency 14. Anil Kumar Bajpai from Gandhi Nagar constituency 15. Som Dutt from Sadar Bazar constituency 16. Avtar Singh from Kalkaji constituency 17. Sukhvir Singh Dala from Mundka constituency 18. Manoj Kumar from Kondli constituency 19. Nitin Tyagi from Laxmi Nagar constituency 20. Jarnail Singh from Tilak Nagar constituency Also Read however faces this task 2.46 pm: BJP via its retailers severely compromises the prestige of EC simply to divert the eye of state from its all spherical screw ups Sharma tweeted. 2.Forty two pm: This ought to be the primary ever recommendation in EC records wherein a recommendation has been sent with out even listening to the main count on deserves. NO HEARING TOOK PLACE IN EC ON THE POINT OF OFFICE OF PROFIT Sharma said. 2.Forty pm: What Modi govt appointed Election Commission is leaking to the media is a recommendation made with out listening to the arguments of MLAs at the false allegation of office of profit such a blatantly biased advice will NOT stand scrutiny in court docket of regulation Nagendra Sharma the media advisor to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted soon after the EC s advice became recognised. For all of the today's India News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd Tags: Aaam Aadmi Party AAP AAP MLA Disqualification Arvind Kejriwal Kushal KumarJan 20 2018 at eight:56 amthis Vedic astrology writer s article - Astrologically speaking a few highlights for India in coming 12 months 2018 - posted closing 12 months at theindiapost on 19 October 2017. The associated textual content inside the article reads as follows :- The year 2018 appears to be bringing to cognizance subject matters of political nature for a heightened or sharp analysis or discussion. Such evaluation or discussion may also pave way for brand spanking new enactments or judicial pronouncements having far achieving significance or fee protecting issues associated with women faith and political elegance . At another area a few States were indicated in which prediction will have a greater attention all through 2018 more so in July-August 2018. Delhi is one in every of those States. Further the thing additionally reads as : - Mid-March to 31 May 2018. Those concerned in selection making or governance of huge ente(0)(zero) Reply Subramanyan RJan 20 2018 at 7:fifty one amEC CJI and all other ins utions had been corrupted. Democracy is being murdered Subramanyan(zero)(zero) Reply SSubramanyanJan 19 2018 at 8:57 pmmurder of democracy(0)(0) Reply Suhas GhaJan 19 2018 at 7:59 pmModi has declaired a battle towards democresy. Listen. This is a war against democresy. Forget ur differences. Disqualify 20 mlas in one shot is nothing but gross brush aside to peoples mandet. Not handiest that. But modi is the use of all u moral approach to distroy our democresy. He and his birthday party and figure company dont consider in democresy but dictetorship. Awaken now. Oppose modi s assault on democresy taken via hiding in the back of shikhandi EC. Dont permit modi to win this warfare. Our democresy is in excellent threat. Today u can also snigger at kejarawal. But tom it's far ur flip. We are in terrific hazard. Modi hiding at the back of democretic ins utes is attacking democresy itself. Do ureally consider modi does no longer have hand behind this? If u trust u r staying in fools paradise. Unite against this one guy dictetor or u willbe completed. If u dont want to be in concentration camps oppose him tooth and nail. This guy for certain will ship u to awareness camp.(three)(5) Reply Dinesh PandeyJan 19 2018 at 7:03 pmTo day Indian media is offered out sold out bought out(4)(four) Reply Load More Comments By: Express Web Desk amongst eight states that go to polls this 12 months (Express Photo) The Election Commission of India announced dates for elections to the Assemblies of Meghalaya Tripura and Nagaland nowadays. The three states comprising 60-member Houses every are amongst 8 states that go to polls this yr. The tenure of the Meghalaya Tripura and Nagaland Assemblies expire on March 6 March thirteen and March 14 2018 respectively. State elections to Karnataka Mizoram Chhattisgarh Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan also are due this year. With the Election Commission announcing dates to those three states today the model code of conduct comes into play and election campaigning by means of political events will soon pick up pace. The press convention is expected to begin at midday. We will get you the cutting-edge updates. Assembly Election dates 2018 highlights: 12.Fifty one pm: Here are all of the dates you need to recognise concerning the elections to Tripura Nagaland and Meghalaya. Tripura Date of problem of gazette notification: January 24 Last date of nomination: January 31 Scrutiny of nomination: February 1 Last date of withdrawal of candidature: February 3 Date of polling: February 18 Date of counting: March three Meghalaya Nagaland Date of difficulty of gazette notification: January 31 Last date of nomination: February 7 Scrutiny of nomination: February eight Last date of withdrawal of candidature: February 12 Date of polling: February 27 Date of counting: March three 12.Eleven pm: Election to the three states will appear in rounds. Tripura will vote on February 18 2017 that's a Sunday. Meghalaya and Nagaland will vote on February 27 (Tuesday). Counting for all three states may be performed on March 3 2018. The results might be declared on the same day. 12.06 pm: VVPATs and EVMs can be used in the 3 states. While EVMs were used for the final twenty years in those 3 states VVPATs might be deployed for the first time for the Assembly polls Joti says. 12.04 pm: Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti has begun addressing a press conference to announce the dates. Remember as soon as the dates are announced the Model Code of Conduct comes into pressure inside the three states. Eleven.53 am: The voters list was currently posted for the state of Meghalaya displaying girls electorate outnumbering guys. Women make up 50.Four in keeping with cent of the registered electorate reviews PTI. There are 18 30 104 citizens of which 9 23 848 are girls. No one registered beneath the 0.33 gender choice. Meghalaya with a populace of three.2 million people has a literacy rate of 74.Four per cent. 11.50 am: The dates for the polls are possibly to be introduced shortly in a press convention. Eleven.10 am: In Nagaland the Naga People s Front is at the helm of the 60-member Nagaland Assembly. The BJP gained 4 seats even as the JD(U) bagged one within the remaining election in 2013. Ahead of the polls the BJP has accused the Manik Sarkar-led authorities of misrule. Party president Amit Shah had said The situation in Tripura has long past from bad to worse inside the closing 25 years of Communist misrule. The Communists have unleashed poverty and unemployment every time and anyplace they're in electricity. The human beings of the country are desperately searching out trade and want improvement which may be added handiest through a BJP authorities. 11.00 am: The 60-member Tripura Assembly is beneath the CPI(M) authorities. The BJP and Congress will look to consolidate their positions within the House with currently simply seven and seats respectively. 10.Forty am: The Meghalaya House which also accommodates 60 seats is presently headed by using a Congress authorities which had won 29 seats within the 2013 legislative Assembly election. Meghalaya is one of the handiest 5 states presently governed by means of the Congress making this election important for the birthday party to win. 10.30 am: The ballot dates for Meghalaya Mizoram and Nagaland are being announced first as their Assemblies expire in March. The tenure of the Karnataka Assembly ends in May Mizoram in December and Chattisgarh Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh in January 2019. 10.00 am: The Election Commission of India is anticipated to announce the schedule for elections to 3 states nowadays. Of the 8 states going to polls this year the Houses of Meghalaya Tripura and Nagaland expire in March. Follow our stay weblog for news at the dates of vote casting counting and outcomes to the three states here. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd Tags: Election Commission Meghalaya Nagaland Tripura VV.BhagirathKumarJan 18 2018 at 12:35 pmDownfall of BJP can be clear in 2018. INC will advantage in Tripura Meghalaya Nagaland. INC will win in Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan Chattisgarh. In Karnataka there can be hung Assembly. Mizoram is a small nation in which INC have an edge. Demonetization will prove awful for BJP in this yr 2018 indicating Congress Government at center in 2019. NaMo yatra leads to 2018 this yr 2018 a bad year for Modi.(15)(five) Reply 1. Assemblies in Meghalaya Nagaland and Tripura are set to run out on March 6 thirteen and 14 respectively. The electricity of the 3 assemblies is 60 participants each. 2. The ECI is already walking delayed in pronouncing the dates. For the 2013 elections dates were declared on January eleven. 3. Pending peace agreement with rebel organizations in Nagaland and problem of alleged dubious voters in Tripura is said to be the motive for barely behind schedule announcement. 4. The Tripura BJP unit had earlier complained to EC about one lakh faux names in the electoral rolls. 5. Tripura currently has a left government headed with the aid of CPI (M) with Manik Sarkar as the chief minister (CM). 6. Whereas Nagaland has BJP in energy in alliance with Naga People Front (NPF). TR Zeliang is the incumbent CM due to the fact that July 2017. 7. Amid popular call for in Nagaland for suspending the assembly election due next month till the Centre publicizes a solution to the Naga trouble EC has requested the Assam Rifles to increase its presence inside the 1643-km-long Indo-Myanmar border to save you Indian militants based totally in the neighbouring united states from sneaking across the border and creating disturbance in ballot -bound nation. 8. Janta Dal (United) aka JDU has determined to contest meeting polls alone in Nagaland. The birthday party is presently in alliance with NPF and BJP within the nation. 9. Meghalaya is one of the few states left in the u . S . A . With a Congress authorities in energy. Mukul Sangma is the nation s modern CM. In an interview with TOI Sangma accused BJP of imposing RSS time table if it involves strength inside the nation. 10. http://www.tripntale.com/profile/106403 Amid ongoing political dust-slinging in Meghalaya BJP obtained foremost boost ahead of the elections in Christian majority country after four MLAs (inclusive of one from Congress) joined the saffron birthday party ultimate December. 12:52 (IST) In Tripura BJP may ally with tribal celebration Talks among the BJP and the Indigenous People s Front of Tripura (IBFT) had been effective and a selection on an alliance with the tribal celebration could be taken via the vital management Tripura BJP chief Biplab Deb told PTI. He additionally made it clean that his birthday celebration does not support the IPFT s call for for a separate kingdom for the tribal populace and talks have centered on enhancing socio-monetary conditions of tribals. Talks were fantastic. Decision on any alliance might be taken via the critical management he told PTI. Written by Ritika Chopra 46 am The upcoming kingdom elections in Meghalaya Tripura and Nagaland are the first to be held after the electoral bond scheme become notified via the government this month. (Express picture: Prem Nath Pandey) Indicating a clear change in its stance months after the Election Commission (EC) expressed reservations about electoral bonds Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) A K Joti on Thursday defined the scheme as one step towards the right direction. In an interview to The Indian Express final 12 months Joti s predecessor Nasim Zaidi had stated that the Commission feels electoral bonds will impact transparency (in poll investment) negatively . That apart the EC in its submission to the Standing Committee on Personnel Public Grievances Law and Justice in May 2017 when Joti became one of the Commissioners had objected to the amendments within the Representation of the People (RP) Act which exempt political parties from disclosing donations acquired via electoral bonds. It had described the circulate as a retrograde step . In a letter written to the Law Ministry the same month the Commission had even asked the authorities to rethink and alter the above modification. Joti became CEC in July last 12 months. Explained paintings how obvious they ll actually be Asked what had modified he stated: Nothing has changed what I am announcing is that now there may be virtual and banking path of donations. That is one step in the direction of the right path. I actually have now not said that it will resolve all issues. The notification has taken location best few days again. So permit it be rolled out after which we can get accurate feedback (on its impact). The upcoming nation elections in Meghalaya Tripura and Nagaland are the primary to be held after the electoral bond scheme changed into notified by using the authorities this month. These are hobby-unfastened bearer instruments (like Promissory Notes) on the way to be available for buy from the State Bank of India within a designated window of 10 days in each zone of the economic yr. Also study Assembly elections 2018: In 3 Northeast states a struggling Congress an optimistic BJP At the time of its declaration in Finance Minister Arun Jaitley s Budget speech final year electoral bonds were understood to be a manner for groups to make nameless donations. However the satisfactory print of the notification has revealed that even individuals agencies of individuals NGOs spiritual and other trusts are authorised to donate via electoral bonds with out disclosing their details. This approach voters will now not recognize which character employer or company has funded which birthday party and to what extent. Before the advent of electoral bonds political events had to disclose information of all donors who have donated more than Rs 20 000. The Finance Minister has defended the scheme on the ground that it will encourage political donations of easy money and some element of transparency would be added in as tons as all donors claim in their bills the quantity of bonds that they have got purchased and all events declare the quantum of bonds that they've acquired . For all of the modern-day India News download Indian Express App Tags: Election Commission RR PandyaJan 19 2018 at 1:00 pmCritics of poll bonds mainly political events have to propose higher options than handiest criticising the Poll Bonds. Stopping black money flows to political events or preventing political events from the usage of unaccounted cash is the aim. Every frame which include media need to make contributions in reforming present corrupt machine.(zero)(1) Reply S Suchindranath AiyerJan 19 2018 at 11:38 amBJP is Khangress in saffron clothing. Electoral bonds is a round about manner of persevering with what always become: Funding the crook and corrupt electoral device gerry mandered by using caste tribe and community set up on the grounds that 1947.(2)(zero) Reply blackpower 666Jan 19 2018 at 10:fifty seven amFAKENDRANATH s ability for corruption is endless and this is but another faux feather on his corrupt cap(1)(0) Reply Truth TruthJan 19 2018 at nine:28 amWhat do you anticipate from the Thugs of Gujarat------Feku Fatty Joti Urjit Ambani Adani -------Each scratching the back of the opposite ???(20)(1) Reply Atul GurtuJan 19 2018 at 8:58 amTwo points: 1) It s the citizens who ought to understand which individual or company en y has contributed how an awful lot to a political celebration in order that the later quid pro quo can be judged and a pair of) with SBI being a nationalized financial institution it s quite sure that the authorities of the day will come to realize which character or corporate has contributed to which competition birthday celebration leading to a reluctance of big donors to make contributions to competition events as they could be penalized if the incumbent authorities again wins. Thus it s a decidedly partisan scheme designed to desire the authorities of the day.(38)(0) Reply Load More Comments BENGALURU: The assembly polls in Karnataka might be IT friendly and modern-day an Election Commission crew that held discussions with state officers approximately preparation for the polls stated these days. The assembly polls are due early this yr. This time elections will be very very IT pleasant and contemporary senior deputy election commissioner Umesh Sinha said. We want that no voter should face any problem and to do this extra than 3 dozen apps that we've will be used at some point of the training of the ballot and at time of counting or statement of effects he said. He stated all citizens the media and stakeholders can get admission to it. The team of officials from the Election Commission of India that has been tenting within the metropolis because Monday nighttime has had distinctive and comprehensive overview of election preparedness with nation machinery and Chief Electoral Officer. It has additionally reviewed the preparations by way of District Election Officers SPs and other departmental officials and have had consultations with the political events to know about their comments or worries. Karnataka Chief Secretary DGP and different senior officers were a part of the review. Deputy Election Commissioner Sandeep Saxena explained the usage of Information Technology for the backroom control of the approaching polls. It might be used for redress of grievances and complaints from residents and stakeholders and single window clearance for campaign related permissions in a time certain manner among others. All these will make election procedure effective efficient transparent unfastened and honest he brought. Expressing the fee s desire that elections be held in a unfastened fair and inclusive way Sinha stated arrangements are on for it and a detailed listing of objects on which the arrangements needs to be performed has also been finalised. He stated Karnataka has had excessive turnout of voters approximately seventy one per cent. It should be an awful lot better if every and each voter s name is registered and their names seem at the electoral rolls he added. A huge consciousness drive will also be launched approximately Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) along with mock trials he stated. A digital atlas maps could be prepared where you will witness the entire electoral map of the country like assembly constituency and polling stations officials said. Karnataka has 30 districts and 33 election districts with 224 meeting constituencies. Out of overall assembly constituencies 36 are reserved for SCs and 15 for STs. The general wide variety of voters within the nation as of now's 4.90 crore and quantity of polling stations is fifty six 694. Speaking on the strict implementation of the Model Code of Conduct and expenditure tracking Sinha said conferences have been held with Income Tax and Excise branch and different departments worried in enforcement. Also media tracking committees at district degree might be setup to keep track on paid information instances Sinha brought. About suggestions from parties on quantity of levels in which elections are to be held Sinha said a few have asked for single some have asked for double section as a way to rely on the assessment of state of affairs and availability of CRPF and different elements. It s early to comment on Puducherry four:27 pm AIADMK s leader Anbalagan stated the celebration will supply 15 days time to the MLAs after that they may send a petition to ECI (File) Related News AAP MLAs disqualification row: Manish Sisodia requests President to listen his birthday party s viewNagaland Assembly election: Soon after statement of dates Naga Hoho says it won t permit pollsAAP MLAs face disqualification Election Commission tells President they held workplace for profitThe AIADMK Saturday stated it might are searching for disqualification of ruling Congress and DMK legislators in Puducherry for holding office of earnings in view of the Election Commission s decision to disqualify 20 AAP MLAs in New Delhi on similar grounds. Addressing journalists right here the celebration s legislature wing leader A Anbalagan stated the office of income axe has fallen on 20 AAP MLAs in New Delhi with EC sending its advice to the President suggesting their disqualification. The improvement in New Delhi is at once relevant to Puducherry in which the legislators belonging to the ruling Congress and its best friend the DMK are keeping office of profits along with chairmen of government-owned undertakings and Parliamentary Secretary he alleged. Anbalagan stated AIADMK will give 15 days time to the MLAs to alleviate themselves of posts of chairmen and Parliamentary Secretary if you want to continue to be most effective as legislators as my purpose isn't always to disturb them. The celebration could send a petition to ECI after the lapse of 15 day-deadline he added. While one Congress legislator is the parliamentary secretary to Chief Minister V Narayanasamy two DMK contributors and 5 belonging to the Congress were appointed chairmen of statutory bodies right here. The Election Commission had the day gone by advocated to the President the disqualification of 20 MLAs of Aam Aadmi Party for holding office of income setting the stage for their ouster from the New Delhi Assembly. Questioning the move to associate Puducherry BJP President V Saminathan with the inauguration of a Passport office in Karaikal the AIADMK leader said Narayanasamy had not registered protest in opposition to inclusion of the call of BJP president in both the reputable invitation and additionally the plaque erected at the venue of the function. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had unveiled the plaque of the Post Office Passport Seva Kendra in Karaikal the day before today. Anbalagan additionally claimed that there were several lapses within the protocol to be adopted in a government feature. For all of the ultra-modern India News down load Indian Express App More Related News 20 AAP MLAs face disqualification: No due manner panel decided without hearings former CEC frowns EC recommends disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs over office of earnings rate Tags: AIADMK Election Commission No Comments. In a setback for the Bharatiya Janata Party authorities in Uttarakhand that got here to energy in March the Election Commission of India has requested the Central Board of Direct Taxes to revaluate the immovable residences declared by way of Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat in his poll affidavit.In a letter addressed to the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes the Election Commission wrote: I am directed to consult the subject referred to and to ahead herewith a duplicate of the criticism dated 30 October 2017 acquired from Sh Raghunath Singh Negi Dehradun for re-valuation of the immovable homes of Sh Trivendra Singh Rawat which have been declared within the affidavit provided in the Legislative Assembly election of Uttarakhand in 2017. A file may be despatched to the Commission in this regard. The letter was issued on December 19 a day after the outcomes of Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh had been introduced. The BJP retained Gujarat with a lower tally of seats than inside the closing elections and wrested Himachal Pradesh from the Congress prevailing forty four out of 68 seats.The criticism towards Rawat become filed by means of former BJP chief Raghunath Singh Negi. He has accused Rawat of grossly undervaluing several plots of land owned with the aid of him within the affidavit he provided to the Election Commission in January as a BJP candidate for the elections. He has also alleged that Rawat lied about his age inside the affidavit.Furnishing false records in an election affidavit draws a jail sentence of up to six months and/or a nice below segment 125(A) of the Representation of People Act of 1951.Amit Shah s key manRawat who changed into a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh until 2002 gained the election from Doiwala Assembly constituency in Dehradun defeating Congress candidate Hari Singh Bisht by way of 24 000 votes.Rawat is taken into consideration close to BJP chief Amit Shah with many commentators speculating that this proximity were given him the leader minister s submit. When Shah turned into given price of Uttar Pradesh throughout the 2014 Lok Sabha elections Rawat served as one in all his 4 lieutenants in the politically crucial country. Rawat is also credited with having a hand inside the BJP s victory in the 2014 Jharkhand elections wherein he was Shah s pointsman.Corruption case Rawat s first brush with controversy got here in 2010 when he was agriculture minister inside the preceding BJP authorities in Uttarakhand. He changed into implicated in alleged irregularities in the agriculture branch s purchase of Dhaincha (inexperienced manure crop) seeds which were intended for distribution to farmers. The Congress authorities that sooner or later came to energy ordered an research inside the count however it remained inconclusive.The Congress highlighted Rawat s alleged involvement within the case while he turned into named leader minister. But inside months of taking price of the state the inquiry fee s record changed into tabled inside the Assembly and Rawat received a smooth chit. The Congress protested saying the report became tabled after the enterprise schedule of the House turned into abruptly modified past due at night and the birthday party s legislators were no longer informed about the exchange. It accused the authorities of legislative manoeuvring .In the matter of Rawat s poll affidavit the Election Commission s letter does not point out a time frame for the Central Board of Direct Taxes to publish its file. But inside the event of a bad locating Rawat may find it tough to keep on to the chief minister s chair.

Twenty AAP MLAs Disqualified for Holding 'Office of Profit'

The decision of the Election Commission to recommend the disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs for containing an office of income serves as a major jolt to the ruling birthday celebration in Delhi. The selection if accepted by using the president will see the celebration s ambitious power inside the Delhi Assembly (67 of 70 seats) cut all the way https://able2know.org/user/kkjabong/ down to forty seven. Delhi will maximum probably also see a mini-Assembly election with 20 seats up for grabs in the 70-member House. File photograph of Delhi leader minister Arvind Kejriwal. AFP But the brouhaha around the controversy has brought the office of income law returned on to the centre degree of Indian politics. The remaining time around in 2006 this regulation had forced the then Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to renounce from her Lok Sabha seat. This increases a pertinent query: Just what is an workplace of income? An workplace of profit manner a function that brings to the individual preserving it some financial advantage or gain or advantage. It may be an workplace or vicinity of income if it incorporates a few remuneration economic gain gain etc. The amount of such income is immaterial. The concept at the back of the concept of office of income as per a report in Hindustan Times is to preserve the independence of the Legislature with the aid of preserving the individuals far from any temptations from the Executive which can come in the manner of impartial discharge in their obligations. It additionally seeks to enforce the precept of separation of power between the Legislative the Judiciary and the Executive a primary function of the Constitution. The object of the availability is to comfy the independence of the MPs and to make certain that Parliament does now not comprise persons who've received favours or benefits from the government and who consequently might be amenable to its impact. The provision for that reason protects democracy of the us of a from being corrupted through government patronage and also secures the independence of MPs from the impact of the government so that they discharge their capabilities without fear or favour. Office of earnings under Indian Constitution As in step with the Indian Constitution the term office of income has no longer been defined. Articles 102(1) and 191(1) however supply impact to the idea of workplace of profit. Article 102(1) (a) states that: A person will be disqualified for being selected as and for being a member of either House of Parliament if he holds any office of earnings under the Government of India or the Government of any State apart from an workplace declared by means of Parliament by means of law no longer to disqualify its holder. Article 191 (1) (a) also has a comparable provision for the participants of country Assemblies. However there are positive exemptions. Articles 102 and 191 also make clear that a person shall not be deemed to hold an workplace of income beneath the Government of India or the authorities of any nation with the aid of cause handiest that he's a minister . Further the last part of the 2 provisions protects a lawmaker retaining a central authority position if the workplace has been made proof against disqualification with the aid of regulation. An office of earnings does not necessarily suggest financial benefits. Even administrative positions supplied with none additional economic entitlements may be considered as a contravention of this law. Thus it is clean that the regulation is open to interpretation. Hence to determine whether someone holds an workplace of earnings has to be interpreted primarily based at the information and situations of each case. The Supreme Court in Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya vs Ajoy Biswas (AIR 1985 SC 211) had held that to determine whether a person holds an workplace below the authorities every case need to be measured and judged inside the light of the relevant provisions and sections. Office of profit and Delhi regulation Section 15(1)(a) of the government of national capital territory of Delhi Act 1991 states: A character shall be disqualified for being chosen as and for being a member of the legislative assembly if he holds any office of income below the government of India a kingdom or a union territory aside from an office blanketed by means of law. According to the Hindustan Times file Section 15(2) of the NCT act additionally protects ministers on the Centre in states or union territories from disqualification. Section 15(three) of the NCT act says in case of a dispute over the disqualification of an MLA the matter might be referred to the president whose selection might be final. But earlier than choosing a petition searching for disqualification the president says the NCT act has to get the opinion of the Election Commission which is binding on him. This is precisely how the case has improved within the modern imbroglio. The president will now decide on the fate of the 21 MLAs after the EC s recommendations. Disqualification According to a report in The Hindu there are commonly assessments in identifying whether or not a member of a frame ought to be exempted from disqualification: (1) the emoluments and allowances connected to the participants; and (2) the nature and characteristic of the frame. If a member of a body gets handiest compensatory allowance and the body physical activities merely an advisory feature then no disqualification would arise. But if the allowances given are extra than compensatory allowance and/or the body physical games executive and monetary powers and is in a position to wield affect and patronage then its club could now not be excluded from disqualification the record stated. Past instances In 2006 a query was raised below the ambit of this regulation over Sonia s National Advisory Council publish which she held other than being the MP from Rae Bareilly. The Opposition parties at the time had argued that considering as NAC chairperson she loved the rank and status of a Union Cabinet minister the workplace of earnings regulation carried out. They had petitioned the then president APJ Abdul Kalam asking him to disqualify Sonia as an MP. Congress leaders meanwhile had argued that the submit of NAC chairperson changed into no longer an workplace of income as Sonia received no salary or perks and she or he had a basically advisory function. According to Rediff the Election Commission had additionally despatched a notice to Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh Rajya Sabha member and chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh Industrial Development Council on a similar petition towards him. Jaya Bachchan was also disqualified from the Rajya Sabha whilst she changed into additionally chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh Film Development Federation. http://all4webs.com/kkgrof/home.htm?52110=31272 Similarly two Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly members Bajrang Bahadur Singh and Uma Shankar Singh had been disqualified in January 2015 due to preserving government contracts. With inputs from businesses PUDUCHERRY: Twenty AAP MLAs maintaining parliamentary secretary posts in New Delhi face disqualification following guidelines by using the Election Commission of India. However the lone MLA K Lakshminarayanan (Congress) who's the parliamentary secretary to leader minister V Narayanasamy within the Union territory of Puducherry claimed that he's going to not come beneath EC s scanner. Lakshminarayanan stated the Puducherry legislative meeting handed the Parliamentary secretary (payment of special allowance and prevention of disqualification) Act in 1971 which publicizes that the workplace of the parliamentary secretary shall now not disqualify an MLA. A member of legislative meeting of Puducherry who is appointed as parliamentary secretary shall further to the profits and different allowances to which he is entitled every now and then as such member be paid a special allowance. It is hereby declared that the office of parliamentary secretary shall not disqualify the holder thereof for being chosen as or for being a member of the legislative meeting of Puducherry Lakshminarayanan stated quoting the act. He similarly pointed out that the Puducherry legislative meeting had also exceeded the Pondicherry members of the legislative assembly (prevention of disqualification) Act in 1994 that empowers MLAs to hold positions in quasi-government establishments. Talk of elections in Karnataka and the maximum current imagery that pops up is the public bickering between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath. The two chief ministers have been seen obliging each other with lessons on management over Twitter lest you forget about it s ballot time within the state. However what the pre-election alternate at the microblogging web page did is clarify to the uninitiated that the election discourse is going to be the standard brew of faith caste regionalism and improvement (strictly in that order). For the southern Indian state has notoriously been in news over the activities of fringe corporations murders of political activists a spike in anti-Hindi sentiment and at final approximately the nation of infrastructure and a number of everyday issues the people of the kingdom deal with. Karnataka is Congress remaining massive bastion from the bouquet of main states it as soon as ruled and the celebration will attempt all its might to hold it. Karnataka the 7th largest Indian country by using location and the eighth largest by using populace has a bicameral legislature. Like the Union legislature a number of the states in India comply with a bicameral system wherein the legislature is split into separate Houses. A bicameral legislature comprises a Lower House and an Upper House. The former is referred to as the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) and the latter is called the Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad). The southern kingdom is split into 224 Assembly constituencies. The state has 30 districts and 33 election districts. In 1986 a decision was exceeded in the Legislative Assembly and accepted by way of the Parliament which increased the energy of the Legislative Council to 75. As this politically-essential country heads to the ballot here's a rundown of the whole thing you want to recognize. Karnataka demographics According to 2011 Census Karnataka has a population of 6.Eleven crore that is an growth from 2001 Census while the populace was 5.29 crore. The total populace of Karnataka as per 2011 Census is 61 1/2 297 of which male and female are 30 966 657 and 30 128 640 respectively. The election within the politically charged Karnataka is expected to be held between the final week of April and the primary week of May. Out of total Assembly constituencies 36 are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 15 for Scheduled Tribes. The total range of citizens inside the state as of now is four.90 crore and the wide variety of polling stations is fifty six 694. The nation is locally divided into 3 sections: North South and Coastal Karnataka the latter emerging as a communally sensitive region inclined closer to the BJP whilst the Congress maintained a stronghold in the first two inside the final Assembly election. The kingdom which has visible a recent uptick within the anti-Hindi politics and a very fresh phenomenon the upward push of Hindutva politics has defied national balloting developments within the past. The overall populace boom on this decade became 15.60 percent at the same time as it turned into 17.25 percentage in the preceding decade. The populace of Karnataka fashioned 5.05 percentage of India in 2011. Sex ratio in Karnataka is 973 ladies against 1 000 men that is under the country wide common of 940 as according to Census 2011. In 2001 the sex ratio of female was 965 consistent with 1 000 males in the southern state. Karnataka is a Hindu-majority state with 84 percent population following Hinduism whilst 12.Ninety two percentage of the kingdom s population are Muslims. Political records In the hoop are 3 primary contestants. While the ruling Congress bolstered through the consequences of pre-poll surveys might wish to gain a 2d term in energy BS Yeddyurappa now rejoined with the BJP will desire to relaxed a 2nd time period as chief minister with the saffron birthday party. However a robust third force in Karnataka politics Janata Dal (Secular) is hopeful of turning into the silent kingmaker inside the country. The first leader minister of Karnataka before the reorganisation of the country became K Chengalaraya Reddy (from 25 October 1947 to 30 March 1952). After reorganisation S Nijalingappa of the Congress became the primary chief minister of Mysore (then Karnataka). From 1956 to 1968 Congress became a powerful pressure within the nation. In March 1971 President s Rule turned into imposed for the very first time in the nation while Congress leader Veerendra Patil become the chief minister. He dominated the nation between 29 May 1968 and 18 March 1971 before his authorities become decreased to a minority. As there was no different alternative earlier than the then governor GS Pathak he endorsed the imposition of President s Rule. The Assembly remained dissolved between 19 March 1971 and 20 March 1972. Karnataka has a chequered beyond as some distance as President s Rule is involved. In truth 2007 became the sixth time that President s Rule turned into imposed inside the kingdom. In the past President s Rule became imposed four instances whilst the Congress became in power (1977 1989 and 1990 other than 1971) and two times later while the Janata Party and the BJP were in electricity. In the year 1990 the rule was imposed for a completely brief duration after the Veerendra Patil become removed from the post of chief minister via the Congress excessive command. The then governor P Venakatasubbaiah had encouraged the imposition of President s Rule. This sample of governance remained in pressure between 10 October 1990 and 17 October 1990 before S Bangarappa took over as leader minister of Karnataka. Electoral records The country which has visible a latest uptick within the anti-Hindi politics and a totally fresh phenomenon the upward push of Hindutva politics has defied national vote casting developments in the past. According to this Firstpost article Karnataka has a records of balloting for one celebration at the Centre and every other inside the kingdom or backing a party inside the country exceptional from the only ruling at the Centre. While this declaration may seem to impress Congress claims on a victory especially with its newly-appointed president Rahul Gandhi s promise of a new converted Grand Old Party every other fashion factors within the opposite route: The ruling birthday party has constantly lost in Karnataka seeing that 1985. Peruse a quick summary of elections held in view that. File photo of BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa. News18 1989: The Congress misplaced the Lok Sabha elections after a sustained marketing campaign by using the Opposition in opposition to amongst other matters the Bofors scandal and VP Singh of the Janata Dal became the prime minister. However Karnataka amazed many as the Congress won 27 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats and the ruling Janata Dal suffered a rout triumphing most effective one seat. In the concurrently held Assembly elections too the Congress came to strength with a whopping majority by way of triumphing 178 of the 224 seats replacing the previous Janata Dal authorities that can bag most effective 24 seats. The BJP nonetheless a nascent phenomena in the country at the time may want to win four seats. 1994: The Congress authorities headed by means of PV Narasimha Rao turned into in electricity at the Centre. But the 1994 Assembly elections in Karnataka not simplest saw the go back of the Janata Dal government headed by way of HD Deve Gowda with a hundred and fifteen seats however additionally the autumn of the Congress to the wide variety-3 function of the BJP with just 34 seats. The saffron celebration bagged forty seats and for the first time took the position of the legitimate Opposition birthday celebration with BS Yeddyurappa as its chief. 1999: In the Lok Sabha elections the BJP-led NDA received a majority inside the Lok Sabha. But in Karnataka the Congress won maximum of the Lok Sabha seats (18 of the 28) and the Assembly seats (132 of the 224 seats). The Congress authorities of SM Krishna replaced the Janata Dal government and the BJP got here a bad second with forty four Assembly seats. The Janata Dal s rout changed into widely attributed to the party s break up on the countrywide level. While the JH Patel-led Janata Dal (United) allied with Yeddyurappa-led BJP Deve Gowda-led JD(S) determined to move solo. The two factions together could manage most effective 29 seats. Their loss become Congress win and the BJP another time changed into the Opposition birthday party with 44 seats. 2004: In Lok Sabha polls the UPA trounced the NDA and fashioned its first government but the BJP were given the largest variety of 18 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka. In the country Assembly elections too the BJP emerged as the unmarried largest birthday celebration with seventy eight seats even though the Congress fashioned a government in alliance with the Janata Dal (Secular) the first ever coalition. However it is noteworthy here that what came about henceforth started any other fashion in the kingdom s electoral effects. A coalition authorities has in no way survived a complete five-yr-term inside the country. In 2006 just two years after the new government Deve Gowda s personal son HD Kumaraswamy rebelled in opposition to his father marshalled a majority of the JD(S) legislators and went to ally with the erstwhile arch enemy BJP India Today said at the time. The 2nd coalition experiment shaped on the idea of a energy-sharing settlement once more got here aside as Kumaraswamy formally ended the alliance in October 2006 Frontline said. 2008: Merely four years given that preceding elections the country saw Assembly elections. However this time round with the sour coalition revel in with JD(S) nevertheless fresh in its mind BJP changed into clean it will no longer input into any alliance pronouncing it might opt to sit in Opposition rather than forge an awkward alliance to retain power. The caution exercised via the saffron birthday celebration turned out to be unnecessary as the nation gave it a clear majority with a hundred and ten seats and led by means of Yeddyurappa BJP came to power for the first time in a southern Indian state. The Congress of course changed into over again in strength at Centre and Karnataka once more selected a specific authorities within the nation from the only at the Centre. 2013: Once once more in 2013 at the same time as Karnataka brought again the Congress to energy within the kingdom the BJP gained 17 of the 28 seats inside the Lok Sabha elections a 12 months later and the GOP WHAT IS GOP became ousted from energy at Centre after 10 years of UPA rule. This yr s Congress win turned into attributed to the alternatively tumultuous preceding term of the BJP. Yeddyurappa going through corruption costs become compelled to surrender as leader minister and fell out time and again with his successors. In the stop miffed with the countrywide leadership for sidelining him after the corruption prices surfaced Yeddyurappa walked out of BJP in November 2012 and shaped his own celebration the Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP). This in impact divided BJP s votes and noticed Congress go back to energy. The politically effective Lingayats Yeddyurappa s community break up between BJP and KJP amongst other Hindu castes and Siddaramaiah rode to strength on a consolidation of Dalit and minority votes. Key players Just like the these days-concluded election in Gujarat all hopes are pinned at the star campaigner of the celebration Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The proverbial Modi magic remains walking robust a few can also say as the saffron birthday celebration in this southern state of India hopes that magic gets them throughout the prevailing line in a kingdom taken into consideration to be BJP s gateway to the South. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath is more and more being called upon by means of the BJP to campaign a long way and huge outdoor his domestic turf. The head of the Gorakhnath Peeth in eastern Uttar Pradesh has been gift at essential events organised with the aid of the BJP and the RSS within the ultimate nine months he has been in electricity from the killing fields of Kannur (where BJP released a excessive decibel marketing campaign this year to discover a company keep on Kerala politics) to RSS coordination committee conferences in Mathura. Strong network and deep-rooted presence of the Sangh Parivar but will probable make the climb less complicated for the BJP. Karnataka is the most effective nation inside the South which had a BJP government from 2008-13 led by using Yeddyurappa DV Sadananda Gowda and Jagadish Shettar. BJP presently the major competition celebration with 44 seats has four more than Janata Dal (S) inside the 224-member House. Here are a few leaders from Karnataka who are expected to make a difference and power their parties to victory: BS Yeddyurappa Lingayats are the selection makers in lots of constituencies in north Karnataka. We are hoping that they could vote en masse for Yeddyurappa this time too a BJP chief was quoted as announcing by way of The News Minute. Yeddyurappa a Lingayat chief changed into 15 whilst he joined the Sangh Parivar. His political profession began in Shikaripura which might later ship him to the Karnataka Assembly six times. It began on the taluk stage of the Jansangh and he diligently worked his manner up even being jailed in the course of Emergency. Indicted by using Lokayukta over unlawful mining issue BJP pinnacle brass had compelled a reluctant Yeddyurappa to cease as chief minister in July 2011. A sour Yeddyurappa left the birthday celebration to form Karnataka Janata Paksha. He changed into but welcomed again after almost a year and given the primary leadership of the birthday party. Now he's the leader ministerial candidate for this 12 months s election. The saffron party is banking on his strong attraction within the Lingayat community and possibly needs him to contest from north Karnataka wherein the BJP gained fewer seats than the Congress inside the 2013 elections. With anti-Lingayat accusations towards Siddaramaiah the BJP hopes to enjoy the Lingayats loyalty to Yeddyurappa. Siddaramaiah Confident of a waning Modi magic within the united states after Congress controlled to win seventy seven seats within the Gujarat election final yr Siddaramaiah is positive of a victory once more. A smiling chief minister consistent with News18 told his aides that if Congress manages round eighty seats in Gujarat he can over again win Karnataka. He joined Congress approximately 12 years ago after leaving former prime minister Deve Gowda s Janata Dal (Secular) and changed into largely checked out as an intruder by using the birthday celebration cadre. However as this Firstpost article factors out he has now grow to be a local mascot. He changed into made the leader minister in 2013 by means of Rahul. It is pronounced that both the leaders proportion a terrific non-public rapport and with Rahul turning into the Congress president Siddaramaiah has emerged as an unchallenged birthday party chief in Karnataka. Despite allegations of corruption against him and his son Siddaramaiah s popularity has simplest grown. By opposing the imposition of Hindi via the Centre he has been appealing to the Kannada delight. His popularity seems to be Congress fine bet to counter BJP s Yeddyurappa. The combat is seen as an immediate warfare among the 2 after Congress named Siddaramaiah as its leader ministerial candidate. G Parameshwara: Asked to dedicate all his time to the imminent polls with the aid of the Congress leadership G Parameshwara resigned as Karnataka s domestic minister in June 2017. According to Livemint many dissidents subsidized Parameshwara for the publish of leader minister in 2018 but the birthday celebration placed one of these speculation to rest when it sponsored Siddaramaiah to hold inside the publish. He will contest the upcoming polls from his home constituency of Koratagere. By preserving a Dalit leader because the state Congress leader the Congress is hoping to hold his Dalit aid base. The Congress decision as News18 stated came after caste surveys indicated a larger population of scheduled castes scheduled tribes and other backward castes in Karnataka in comparison to Lingayat and Vokkaliga. Major ballot issues Apart from improvement which have become the major ballot issue in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh final yr and changed into raked with the aid of BJP leaders in each rally Karnataka additionally has its own problems. With the state going through a intense drought and farmers committing suicide from the resulting crop loss the water sharing trouble with different states is anticipated to capture the attention of every political leader campaigning inside the state. Here are a few predominant issues which are expected to be raised in the course of the campaigning: Water: With the Cauvery water issue still fresh in humans s minds and now Mahadayi taking centre degree water politics may be an essential trouble in the approaching Karnataka polls. The Mahadayi dispute influences the North Karnataka location where the farmers are demanding their honest percentage of water. It has the states of Goa Maharashtra and Karnataka vying for water from the Mahadayi or Mandovi river which flows through the 3 states. Karnataka is in search of release of seven.56 tmcft water by means of Goa from the river for the Kalasa-Banduri Nala task. The problem is now being raised by means of both the BJP and the Congress to score brownie https://gitx.lighthouseapp.com/users/317184 factors. BJP leader Amit Shah told leaders of Karnataka BJP to aggressively absorb the Mahadayi problem and launch a multi-pronged campaign to channelise the anger of the humans as The Indian Express suggested. In a ordinary series of activities Goa leader minister Manohar Parrikar wrote to Yeddyurappa announcing Goa should percentage the river water with Karnataka for consuming purposes and expressed his willingness for bilateral talks. Later Siddaramaiah termed it a drama for the sake of elections and a political gimmick . This isn't always the primary time there have been violent protests in Karnataka over the sharing of river water with its neighbours. Karnataka has a decades vintage dispute taking place with Tamil Nadu over the sharing of Cauvery river water. Protests and violence paralysed the nation after the Supreme Court order to launch 15 000 cusec of Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu for a length of ten days. Both Cauvery and Mahadayi have the capability to be election issues. While the Mahadayi controversy is already raging lots depends on how the Cauvery verdict (in all likelihood subsequent month) performs out. It s probable to be exploited by all events to the hilt The Times of India quoted Sandeep Shastri a political analyst as announcing. Siddaramaiah is hoping to advantage from the farmers protest in opposition to Yeddyurappa for claiming a step forward within the Mahadayi trouble. Communal tension: Terming Congress an earthly celebration Siddaramaiah stated the upcoming polls could be a fight among two ideologies -- communalism and secularism. He also reiterated his stand that his government could take stringent movement against organisations instigating communal sentiments inside the kingdom. The coastal areas of the state mainly Dakshina Kannada has continued to stay annoying. In the brand new incident 28-12 months-old Deepak Rao who turned into associated with the Bajrang Dal and the VHP changed into hacked to demise by way of a four-member gang following which simmering tension prevailed in Dakshina Kannada district. The protests in the wake of the incident became violent and RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat accused the government of adopting an anti-Hindu policy . Following the murders in Dakshina Kannada Kalladka emerged at the leading edge as a arguable figure and his upward push also fanned speculations that the Sangh Parivar is also looking to give a boost to the Hindu identity to regain the region within the polls. The BJP as a party strategist told The Citizen will make Hindutva the plank for the kingdom elections. Hindutva can be our essential poll plank in Karnataka and we can win one hundred fifty of the full 224 seat beneath the leadership of Yeddyurappa he said. Development: Modi whilst addressing a meeting inside the kingdom http://kkgoib.beepworld.pl/ expressed confidence that the BJP will win the Karnataka polls after which the country could be on the route of development. Development which become a first-rate trouble in last 12 months s elections to Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assemblies is turning into a prime issue for Karnataka as well. Siddaramaiah recently stated that Karnataka s development can be a model for other states. He turned into quoted as saying by way of The New Indian Express A unique improvement version primarily based on the principle of social inclusiveness to make Karnataka hunger-loose and make sure health and housing for all would be a truth quickly. LINK Parameshwara reiterated Congress dedication to development by way of pronouncing that the celebration isn't always playing the politics of divisiveness based on caste and faith but politics of development. While the BJP is making development its middle issue in each election Congress is likewise no longer a ways in the back of within the country of Karnataka. The diverse improvement tasks launched by Siddaramaiah and his insistence on of completion of government tasks have ensured that the birthday party can get improvement points within the country.

Kumar Vishwas terms office of profit case as 'unfortunate'

AHMEDNAGAR (MAHARASHTRA): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas on Saturday termed the disqualification of 20 of its MLAs for holding the workplace of profit as unfortunate and sad . It s very unlucky and sad that the Election Commission has endorsed 20 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs be disqualified from the Delhi Assembly for holding offices of profit. I had given sure tips in advance however I became told it s the CM s prerogative to employ human beings so I kept quiet Vishwas informed ANI. Vishwas stated that he has additionally been eliminated from diverse WhatsApp agencies of the celebration. However petitioner Prashant Patel in the Aam Aadmi Party MLAs office of earnings case has expressed delight over the ECI s tips. The ECI on Friday advocated President Ram Nath Kovind that the 20 MLAs be disqualified. In cases in which petitions are made searching for the disqualification of lawmakers the President sends a reference to the ECI which comes to a decision on the case by using sending lower back its opinion. If the president gives his assent the disqualification of the legislators would pave the way for bye-elections in Delhi. Thirty-one-yr-antique suggest from Uttar Pradesh Prashant Patel who's the reason for the continuing issues of the Aam Aadmi Party stated on Friday that he turned into a layman and now not affiliated to any political party however handiest interested by politics The Indian Express stated.Patel had on June 19 2015 sent a file to the Election Commission after which President Pranab Mukherjee that 21 MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi must be disqualified as they held workplaces of income even as being legislators. He claimed they have been getting financial repayment. Mukherjee sent Patel https://imgur.com/user/paydth s complaint to the Election Commission inquiring for its opinion. The fee issued notices to the MLAs in March 2016. I did not document this petition because I am a part of any political celebration. I despatched it as a layman Patel said after reports emerged on Friday that the ballot panel had encouraged the disqualification of Aam Aadmi Party s legislators. For someone inquisitive about politics in a city like Delhi it's far not possible to avoid it Patel introduced. After doing studies I found the move to be unconstitutional and filed a plea with the President s secretariat. In reaction to the EC s notices in March 2016 the AAP handed a Bill amending the Delhi Members of Legislative Assembly (Removal of Disqualification) Act 1997 to exempt the submit of parliamentary secretary from the definition of the workplace of earnings . The party maintained that it changed into now not an workplace of profit because the legislators were not getting pecuniary advantage . AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed they were operating without spending a dime . But the Bill changed into rejected by way of Mukherjee in June 2016.In September 2016 the Delhi High Court scrapped the legislators appointment as parliamentary secretaries.The legislators then went to the Election Commission arguing that since the High Court had declared their appointment null and void the ballot panel could not hear a petition against them for containing an office that never existed. The fee did not agree writing to the President in June closing year that the MLAs did hold de facto the office of parliamentary secretaries from March thirteen 2015 to September 8 2016.One of the MLAs Jarnail Singh had resigned final year to contest the Punjab Assembly election and then proceedings in opposition to him had been dropped. The fee has now concluded that the post of parliamentary secretary did indeed qualify as an office of profit. Written with the aid of Updated: January 20 2018 five:39 pm Delhi Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal (Express Photo through Praveen Khanna) Related News Disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs: Death sentence with out trial claims party; What has came about so farOffice of earnings: EC recommends disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs no comfort from HC; Opposition hits out at KejriwalAAP MLAs disqualification over Office of Profit : Who said whatMorality changed into to be our mantra. But realpolitik has end up our tantra. This is how I could describe the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) s reaction to the mentioned information of disqualification of 20 MLAs with the aid of the Election Commission. Regardless of the way the activities spread in coming days and week our party has already misplaced the moral excessive floor within the eyes of public. Let us cross briefly in the problem. On March 13 2015 hardly ever a month after a landslide victory with 67 MLAs within the 70-seat Delhi Assembly elections Delhi s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appointed 21 MLAs as Parliamentary Secretaries. On June 19 2015 a younger advise Prashant Patel petitioned to the President that those MLAs be disqualified due to the fact these positions constituted Offices of Profit. The President referred the difficulty to the Election Commission. ALSO READwon t take EC disqualification lying down On June 24 2015 the Delhi Assembly passed a Removal of Disqualification Amendment Bill unfashionable-powerful from the day the AAP authorities turned into sworn in (Feb 14 2015) in which the assembly declared that the workplace of Parliamentary Secretary (PS) to the Chief Minister and Minister of Government of NCT of Delhi shall no longer be disqualified and will be deemed by no means to had been disqualified. The invoice was sent to President Pranab Mukherjee who but refused to provide assent to the invoice (June thirteen 2016). Thus the central authorities on June 25 2016 sent the bill lower back to Delhi meeting. Meanwhile Election Commission (EC) began the proceedings and in July 2016 organized for the listening to of MLAs. In another development the Delhi High Court on September 22 2016 set apart the order of Delhi s AAP authorities of appointing MLAs as Parliamentary Secretaries on the floor that the decision lacked the approval of the Delhi Lieutenant Governor. According to suggest Patel EC gave a total 11 rounds of hearing to MLAs (another lie via AAP the previous day pronouncing that EC did not hear to their MLAs). Finally the day before today the media broadly mentioned that EC had recommended disqualification of MLAs to the President. Legal specialists consider that the President is sure to simply accept the advice. In the Constitution the Office of Profit has no longer been definitely described but the controversy bobbing up in this issue isn't always new. Articles 102 and 191 of the Constitution provide an explanation for the ground of disqualification of a lawmaker (member of legislature) if s(he) holds an office of earnings. The ideal cause in the back of this law changed into that a lawmaker should serve the general public for which s(he) has been selected and now not get into any other companies. Also by way of now not retaining any other workplace the legislator would be capable of spare himself from the affect of government (govt). There were various court choices touching on this count some at variance with others however a common thread has been that a legislator must not be protecting an Office of Profit under the government so that independence of legislature is preserved and it does no longer emerge as subservient to the executive. With this knowledge it's miles simpler to peer a few example of moral turpitude by means of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in this case. In the first location what become the want to hire 21 MLAs thereby venturing into an area of legal complexity? AAP became born with a stubborn vow (jidd) to cleanse corruption in Indian politics and offer an alternative model of politics. A birthday party that vouches for vyastha parivartan this form of political expediency turned into infrequently justified. Not simplest that Kejriwal took it to the subsequent degree with the aid of passing a Bill in the Delhi meeting which removed Parliamentary Secretaries from the list of workplace of Profit. Then Kejriwal brought the Bill without seeking prior approval from LG (recollect Delhi is a partial kingdom and LG is the government head). AAP can't disguise its political crookedness with the aid of hiding in the back of its predecessor Sheila Dixit doing the equal element in 2006 with19 MLAs. Second attacking a constitutional frame like the EC for its decision is some other low. When our celebration won its big mandate of sixty seven seats the EC became all properly and pious however whilst it encouraged disqualification of 20 MLAs the equal group became a puppet of Modi ! Having been associated with and volunteered for AAP on the grounds that its beginning I am not surprised on the quick decline of our fortunes. At the organizational level we have visible absolutely the backtracking on our ideology and standards. The birthday party changed into based with three cardinal standards which promised a new age politics: Financial Transparency (chande kee paardarshita) internal celebration democracy (Swaraj) and inner vigilance (Aantrik Lokpal). However within the ultimate 5 years Arvind Kejriwal has now not simplest systematically demolished these principle he has decreased the celebration to an insignificant club-stage functioning. The Office of Profit damage has come at a time whilst the party is still recovering from the humiliation of an inner 2 G (Gupta) scam of AAP. It is extensively believed that Arvind Kejriwal s selection has not been absolutely above-board as Sushil Gupta a wealthy man had defected to AAP from Congress just a few weeks earlier than being nominated to the Rajya Sabha. The public and birthday celebration volunteers at big have been baffled as to why Kejriwal chose an unknown yet wealthy individual from an opponent political birthday celebration. In public existence morality is a matter of belief too. Little did Mr. Kejriwal assume that the episode might cause so much scrutiny and public ridicule! In the continuing Office of Profit fiasco as properly Kejriwal has again proven a streak for unethical practice moral corruption and lack of regard for the constitutional safeguards. Munish Raizada is a suspended member of AAP convener of Chanda Bandh Satyagraha against AAP and a Chicago-based neonatologist. He tweets @drmunishraizada For all the modern day Opinion News down load Indian Express App More Related News EC recommends disqualification of AAP MLAs: Past times of workplace of profit cases AAP MLAs disqualification highlights: Arvind Kejriwal ought to go says Congress Tags: Arvind Kejriwal BBonkuJan 20 2018 at 11:41 pmIt changed into a mistake to accept as true with a standard Gujju-Marwari Lala baniya- that too a Kejriwal (of Aggarwal extended family). He hijacked the entire India Against Corruption platform the usage of decent people like Anna Hazare Prashanta Bhushan Yogendra Yadav type humans. Then they step by step collected corrupt opportunists like Sanjay Singh and NRIs from overseas- like this Munish Raizada. Gradually Kejriwal started surrounding himself with similar corrupt opportunist chameleons. As infighting for energy and cash improved cannibalism started out with top coverage making our bodies in AAP. Now AAP as an entire and Kejriwal especially killed the slightest opportunity of this kind of reform destiny efforts that many in India changed into so positive approximately at some stage in IAC motion. That s one of the reasons that Swaraj motion failed to get any political traction and is failing in a massive way. AAP Kejriwal did greater damage to India than BJP or Congress in that feel.(7)(four) Reply Sudheer ThaakurJan 20 2018 at 11:33 pmi feel sorry for the writer. But perhaps it serves like of him nicely for they walked into a make accept as true with global of kejriwal with eyes open but mind and good judgment buried deep.(5)(2) Reply BBonkuJan 20 2018 at 11:33 pmMunish https://storify.com/shopozoind Raizada is a failed health practitioner from Chicago whose scientific license changed into revoked through the Govt there. He and lots of different such opportunist NRIs joined AAP to promote their own career and clout in India after they found out that their profession abroad is over - mainly because of incompetence and ordinary tendency to do corruption. One such NRI physician from London is the son-in-regulation of fodder rip-off convicted criminal from Bihar Jagannath Mishra (former CM of Bihar). These failed experts and opportunist guys are similarly liable for AAP s rapid downfall.(5)(1) ReplyBBonkuJan 20 2018 at eleven:44 pmHis call is Bipin Jha. (One such NRI doctor from London is the son-in-law of fodder scam convicted criminal from Bihar Jagannath Mishra (former CM of Bihar). Many dedicated and first rate AAP workers from UK hostile that show-off opportunist Bipin Jha. But Kejriwal and few in top AAP function unnoticed all to assuage and sell that chap.(three)(1) Reply Vengrai ParthasarathyJan 20 2018 at 10:eleven pmThe message confronted with the aid of AAP is that realpolitik is regularly too tempted . As someone said temptation is just too tempting to withstand. Vengrai Parthasarathy(2)(zero) Reply achal pandyaJan 20 2018 at 8:06 pmThis is the pain that heaps of human beings of Delhi are affected by. The trust that Delhi humans put in AAP during Anna Movement in Kejriwal feel bettered and shattered. Arvind Kejriwal showed his actual shades when he fashioned the celebration. Later whilst he became it s supremo he came inside the category of Lalu Mulayam Mayawati. He is worse than them because they at least within the initial years have been worried in struggles like Emergency cause for downtrodden. While Arvind s politics is full of deceit and opportunism.(21)(6) ReplyPramodkumar KulkarniJan 20 2018 at nine:31 pmHave you forgotten humilating 67 to a few defeat Mr. Blind bhakt Pandya?(13)(eight) Replyachal pandyaJan 20 2018 at 9:40 pmThis is precisely the item is set. Anna Andolan has been converted into political game of Arvind.(11)(three) Load More Comments ALSO READ AAP MLAs disqualification trouble: BJP Cong demand Kejriwal s resignation Meghalaya meeting elections: AAP to contest 35 seats AAP alternatives Sanjay Singh Sushil Gupta N D Gupta as RS nominees; no Vishwas Kumar Vishwas at centre of conspiracies to topple Kejriwal executive: AAP Not tons performed for girls protection on the grounds that Nirbhaya rape case: Arvind Kejriwal span.P-content material div identification =div-gpt line-peak: 0px; font-size: 0px; A Delhi court docket on Saturday granted bail to suspended Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Kapil Mishra. Mishra was summoned through the court docket as an accused in a defamation case filed by using Delhi s Urban Development Minister Satyendra Jain for levelling graft charges in opposition to him. The court docket also asked him to grant a private bail bond of Rs. 10 000. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa every other accused within the equal case did now not appear before the court docket. The court docket has fixed the following date of hearing for March 31. The court docket had earlier taken cognisance of court cases filed by using Jain one against Mishra and any other criminal criticism in opposition to Sirsa. Jain had filed separate crook court cases against Sirsa and Mishra alleging that they had made defamatory statements in opposition to him in the media. On May 7 2017 Jain in his grievance stated that Mishra who in advance headed the water department in the Delhi authorities had made a declaration accusing him of giving a bribe to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on May five 2017. He added that said those statements with the aid of Mishra had brought about irreparable damage to his recognition. New Delhi: AAP legislator Amanatullah Khan on Wednesday submitted his resignation as member of the Delhi Waqf Board and urged Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal to installation the board and rent a boss.Mr Khan said the Delhi Waqf Board has been functioning with out a md for the past one-and-1/2 years leading to corruption.On Tuesday a Delhi Assembly-appointed committee determined that a part of the land belonging to Hazrat Naseeruddin Aulia Dargah within the countrywide capital was sold illegally in connivance with some Delhi Waqf Board officers in 2016. CommentsClose X Amanatullah Khan introduced that the Lt Governor became now not setting up the  board and stated that people do now not want him to come to be the chairman cause why the formation of the board changed into being stalled. I have resigned in order that now they'll form the board the Aam Aadmi Party legislator said. New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday hit out at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal pronouncing that the Aam Aadmi Party has betrayed the human beings via nominating two businessmen for the Rajya Sabha polls even as the Congress claimed that one of them become offered a seat manner back in November 2017.Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari said the announcement of the AAP s https://en.eyeka.com/u/paydth Rajya Sabha applicants belied its anti-corruption plank based totally on which it had stormed to strength in Delhi.The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday nominated Sanjay Singh Sushil Gupta and N D Gupta as its nominees for the January 16 Rajya Sabha polls.While Mr Singh has been related to the birthday party considering that its inception Mr Sushil Gupta is a Delhi-based businessman and Mr N D Gupta a chartered accountant and former vice-president of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI).Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken claimed that Sushil Gupta came to him to gentle his resignation and instructed him beforehand that he were promised a Rajya Sabha berth with the aid of the AAP. On twenty eighth Nov Sushil Gupta came to publish  his resignation- I asked him- Why ? I were promised Rajya Sabha(seat) - become his reply Maken stated in a tweet.Mr Maken also mocked Mr Kejriwal for the choice of the AAP s Rajya Sabha nominees. Kejriwalji- you had joined politics to trade it- you (AAP) have taken a lot political coloration? You took one from Congress and one from BJP Mr Maken tweeted in Hindi.He also claimed that N D Gupta who changed into termed a GST expert by using Mr Kejriwal changed into the biggest supporter of the tax reform degree of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. CommentsClose X Mr Tiwari instructed journalists that the declaration of the AAP s Rajya Sabha applicants belied its anti-corruption plank primarily based on which it stormed to power in Delhi. Arvind Kejriwal came to strength looking for to combat corruption. Now he is sending businessmen to the Rajya Sabha. He has betrayed now not only Delhi however additionally the whole country the BJP leader said. MUMBAI: Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal will cope with a rally at the birthplace of Jijabai mom of Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji in Maharashtra the following day. Kejriwal will address the rally at Sindkhed Raja in Buldhana district and pay tributes on her delivery anniversary celebration resources said. Every year lakhs of humans broadly speaking from the politically dominant Maratha community gather on the region to pay their respects to Rajmata (King s mom) Jijabai. Police had first of all denied permission for the rally bringing up regulation and order issues however the rally slated day after today morning might be held as deliberate after AAP leaders took up this difficulty with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and senior police officials the resources stated. Afer the permission turned into granted Kejriwal had tweeted in Marathi saying On the occasion of Rajmata Jijau Jayanti on January 12 I am coming to Sindkhed Raja to have a dialogue with the human beings of Maharashtra. Marathas who incorporate of approximately 32 consistent with cent of the state s population had taken to the streets remaining yr disturbing reservations in training and activity sectors. The choice of the venue additionally underlines the schedule of the celebration specially in the backdrop of the recent turmoil in Maharashtra where Marathas had been pitted against Dalits after the Bhima-Koregaon violence. Kejriwal is anticipated to induct Brigadier (retd.) Sudhir Sawant a former Congress MP from Konkan vicinity into the AAP on the rally the next day AAP spokesperson Preeti Sharma Menon said. Sawant is a Maratha. However the AAP spokesperson said her party does no longer trust in wooing the Maratha network or some other network. We do now not agree with in the politics of caste she introduced. We chose this venue because we agree with in the values of Jijabai which she imbibed in Shivaji Maharaj she stated. New Delhi India: The Aam Aadmi Party seems split over Rajya Sabha nominations with a section in the birthday party suggesting that it ought to nominate outsiders to the Upper House an AAP chief has stated.Elections to 3 Rajya Sabha seats from Delhi might be hung on January sixteen. The AAP which enjoys a brute majority within the 70-member Delhi Assembly is all set to win all the three seats.A organization of AAP leaders has emphasised on sending to the Rajya Sabha people from the fields of economics law and social work.This could additionally help the AAP management address the internal rift over Rajya Sabha berths.The AAP had approached former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan in this regard but he declined the offer. There were reviews that the celebration talked to former Chief Justice of India TS Thakur who also did not conform to it.Many in the AAP view it as a tactic to counter senior chief Kumar Vishwas a strong contender for a Rajya Sabha berth.However his nomination is unlikely given the uneasy equation he has with some senior AAP leaders the birthday celebration chief said.But if other leaders are given choice over Mr Vishwas who has assist of several MLAs and volunteers the rift within the birthday party could widen.Another section of the AAP is in favour of sending senior party leaders http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/member.php?u=129377 to the Upper House.On Thursday supporters of Mr Vishwas pitched tents inside the party workplace traumatic that leaders who have labored within the anti-corruption movement ought to be despatched to the Rajya Sabha.Names of senior birthday celebration leader Sanjay Singh and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal s near confidant Mr Ashutosh are doing the rounds.However Mr Kejriwal has saved the playing cards close to his chest. CommentsClose X Many leaders who are within the middle choice-making body of the birthday celebration are themselves within the race. So it's miles Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia who will decide at the nominations every other AAP chief said.The closing date to report nominations for the 3 Rajya Sabha seats is January 5.

CJI Dipak Misra meets 4 dissenting Supreme Court judges

Media reports indicate that the Chief Justice of India (CJI) has reached out to his four dissenting colleagues and held a 15-minute meeting on Tuesday to sort out their differences . They will meet again. This is a welcome step. It will be interesting to note the outcome of the meetings given the seriousness of the charge that the rebel judges had brought against the CJI. It is difficult to see how an amicable solution may still emerge. If the judges fall in line their dissent will be deemed pointless and an exercise in vanity that did little else other than robbing the Supreme Court of its veneer of respectability. If they don t we are in for a protracted crisis. However we must not get ahead of the story. For now the heart-to-heart chat is slated to resume on Wednesday. At this stage it is still unclear whether the four rebel judges have achieved their purpose in approaching the media. What is already clear though is that public perception about the Judiciary and the land s highest court has taken a severe beating. File image of CJI Dipak Misra. PTI In breaking the code and bringing their grievances against CJI Dipak Misra out in the open judges Jasti Chelameswar Ranjan Gogoi Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph have driven home the truth about the adage why judges should never be heard outside the court. For the last few days since that extraordinary press conference at Justice Chelameswar s residence media activists lawyers activist-lawyers NGOs sanctimonious eminent citizens members of the Lutyens ecosystem Opposition politicians and even the RSS have engaged in a free-for-all. As an institution the Supreme Court is being hauled over the coals doubts are being raised over everything including the constitution of benches to verdicts. The denigration has been swift tragic and irreversible. For instance a headline in Tuesday s edition of a national daily read: Four judges who criticised CJI Dipak Misra not on Bench that will hear 7 key matters . It is possible to draw an inference from the headline that there is a correlation between the dissenting judges conduct and their absence from key matters . The implications of such an inference go further. To recall the point of friction that led four judges to attack the CJI in media was that important cases are being assigned to junior judges and select benches bypassing senior ones. As The Times of India had noted in a report the discontent over not being assigned important cases that get space in newspapers and TV channels was simmering for a long time even before Misra took over the top post in August last year. Though a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court had earlier ruled that the CJI is the master of the roster and reserves the right to constitute benches the dissenting judges had alleged through a letter to the CJI that the convention of recognising the privilege of the chief justice to form the roster and assign cases to different members/benches of the court is a convention devised for a disciplined and efficient transaction of business of the court but not a recognition of any superior authority legal or factual of the chief justice over his colleagues. It is too well-settled in jurisprudence that the chief justice is only the first among equals nothing more or nothing less. This is where the charges fail the logic test. If the CJI is merely the first among equals and possesses no superior authority legal or factual over his colleagues then where does the question of seniority or junior judges arise? The Supreme Court has 25 seasoned judges on its roster. These are men/women of high competence eminence and experience. No one can walk his or her way into becoming a judge at the apex court without requisite qualifications. If that is so why are the dissenting judges putting up seniority as a benchmark while demanding to adjudicate key cases? A lawyer Lakshminarayanan Venkatachari writes in his column for The Times of India: If every judge is equal to the other then where is the question of seniority? The verdict is that of the Supreme Court not of individual judges. Further Supreme Court is not comprised by judicial greenhorns but by seasoned judges of constitutional courts who have put in a decade or more in the Judiciary. This fallacy has now paved the way for media pressure groups and politicians to raise questions against the competence of the apex court. The Supreme Court has 21 other judges in addition to the four rebel ones. How does it matter who adjudicates over the case? Questioning the constitution of benches is tantamount to raising doubts over the fairness of the verdict and no judicial institution (much less the highest court of the land) may operate under that trust deficit. When we consider media reports that super sensitive cases have been given to junior SC judges for the last 20 years under different CJIs then the bone of contention that led the four judges to take such an unprecedented step makes even less sense. As Dhananjay Mahapatra writes in The Times of India: TOI tracked 15 super sensitive cases of national importance in the last two decades including those relating to Bofors Rajiv Gandhi assassination LK Advani s trial in Babri Masjid demolition Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter Best Bakery and the case that changed how the BCCI is run. All of them have one thing in common they were assigned by the then CJIs not to any of the four senior-most judges of the SC but to select benches headed by junior judges. This not only points to the fact that seniority has never been an entitlement in the apex court it also raises troublesome questions about the motive behind the four judges pressure tactics. Let s revisit the letter. There have been instances where cases having far-reaching consequences for the nation and the institution had been assigned by the chief justice of this court selectively to the benches of their preferences without any rational basis for such assignment. This must be guarded against at all costs they wrote. In voicing their lack of trust in the way CJI constitutes benches or performs administrative functions the dissenting judges have made an implication that the departures from convention have been carried out with a motive to fix the outcomes. This is the most damaging charge against the CJI that not only raises doubts over his integrity but also suggests that their colleagues are amenable to influence. If media reports are to be believed the customary Monday morning meeting among the judges (the first since the public allegations) saw stormy scenes. The Times of India quoted a source in claiming that a junior judge accused the rebels of bringing the institution into disrepute. Why did you go to the press without even informing other judges about the grievance of assigning of cases by the CJI to select benches? By going to the press you wanted to tell the world that only senior judges are competent to handle cases and junior judges are not. You have killed the institution its reputation and maligned every single judge the junior judge reportedly said. The gravity of the charges makes it difficult for an amicable solution to arise. It is difficult to see how there will be a reconciliation between the rebels and other judges when entire reputations are at stake. As Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes in The Indian Express There is no half-way house when it comes to guilt or innocence. The judge s press conference and the artfully evasive letter seem to suggest there is. But now that they have gone public they have to follow through on the seriousness of the charge; otherwise this is just pressure tactics. It is dangerous pressure tactics because one implication will be that any pro-government decision on a bench allotted by the chief justice will now have the imprimatur of doubt over it. The nature of the gambit is such that the dissenting judges must take their dissent to its logical conclusion. Any attempts at papering over the crisis or shutting the eyelids closely and hoping the dust storm will subside won t work.
NEW DELHI: The four senior most Supreme Court judges today virtually revolted against Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra who has been a part of several key and sensitive verdicts including that of confirming the death sentence of Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon during a midnight hearing. Before being elevated as the 45th CJI attempts were made to stall his elevation but Justice Misra took oath as the head of the judiciary on August 28 last year. Misra who has a 13 month-long tenure till October 2 has been having a tough time in dealing with his colleagues and often reports have surfaced that there have been http://paytmdth.hatenablog.com/  serious disagreements between him and other senior judges of the five-member collegium and Justice J Chelameswar has often made his displeasure public. Not only from within but activist lawyers have also been critical of his functioning which was manifested in a medical college matter when the CJI and advocate Prashant Bhushan had a heated exchange of words in a packed courtroom. CJI Misra had to hurridely constitute a five-judge bench of his choice after a two-judge bench headed by Justice Chelameswar had ordered setting up of a five-judge bench of senior most judges to hear the petitions by an NGO and a lawyer levelling serious allegations of bribes being taken in the names of judges to get favourable order in a medical college case. The CJI-headed bench had overturned Justice Chelameswar s order and asserted that Chief Justice of India is the master of the roster . The vexatious Ayodhya land title dispute in the Babri Masjid case which is being heard by a bench headed by CJI Misra has also witnessed war of words between Justice Misra and senior lawyers like Kapil Sibal and Rajeev Dhavan. Besides these controversies Justice Misra one of the most eloquent judges in the apex court has been part of several key verdicts including the December 16 gangrape and murder case in which four men were sent to gallows. He headed the bench which in an unprecedented pre-dawn hearing in 2015 when the doors of the apex court were opened at 1 AM rejected last-ditch efforts by Memon to get his execution stayed. He is also hearing several crucial issues such as SEBI- Sahara payment row BCCI reforms 1984 anti-Sikh riots matters related to real estate majors. Justice Misra who was elevated to the apex court bench on October 10 2011 from the Delhi High Court where he was the Chief Justice has already presided over several key cases and verdicts. He headed the apex court bench which upheld the constitutional validity of 156-year-old penal laws on defamation holding that the reputation of one cannot be allowed to be crucified at the altar of the other s right of free speech . Justice Misra had also mandated the playing of the national anthem before the screening of films in cinema halls. The order was recently modified and the top court made it optional for cinema halls to play the national anthem before screening of a film. Another significant judgement by Justice Misra was one directing states and union territories to upload FIRs on websites within 24 hours of their registration to enable the accused and others to file appropriate pleas in the courts for redress. Justice Misra who was enrolled as an advocate in 1977 has practised in constitutional civil criminal revenue service and sales tax matters in the Orissa High Court and Tribunals before being elevated to the High Court bench. He was appointed Additional Judge of the Orissa High Court in January 1996 after which he was transferred to the Madhya Pradesh High Court in March 1997. In 2009 Justice Misra became the Chief Justice of the Patna High Court and assumed charge as the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court in May 2010. He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on October 10 2011.
A day after four Supreme Court judges decided to come out in public with complaints against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra the Supreme Court Bar Association on Saturday said that those allegations were not substantial and the press conference was ill-planned .On Friday justices Jasti Chelameswar Ranjan Gogoi Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph the four most senior judges in the country after Misra openly protested against the chief justice bypassing established traditions in court to assign cases to benches. If they had to come for a press conference they should have said something substantial Supreme Court Bar Association President Vikas Singh told ANI on Saturday. Just creating doubts in the minds of people will not serve the interest of the judiciary. Singh added that now people will wildly guess about what is happening inside the top judicial body and all kinds of things will be said about the Supreme Court . The Supreme Court Bar Association will now be proactive and make sure that this doubt instilled in the minds of the public is dealt with Singh told News18. He said the matter was avoidable and because of the drama people are very sceptical about the impartiality of the Supreme Court .The association is expected to meet on Saturday evening to discuss the matter and will later hold a press conference. Singh also said that there was no question of impeachment of CJI Misra.The Bar Council of India said holding a press conference on a minor issue of roster is saddening . Its Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said a delegation from the council will meet the rebel judges the chief justice and other senior judges on Sunday and request them to not bring issues like these in front of the public .Holding a PC on a minor issue of roster is saddening. We have a meeting at 5 pm today & tomorrow our delegation will meet those senior judges CJI & other judges & request them to not bring issues like these in front of public: Manan Kumar Mishra Chairman Bar Council of India pic.twitter.com/qrKzR4wgc2 ANI (@ANI) January 13 2018 In a letter that the four judges wrote to Justice Misra which was released to the media on Friday they alleged that the chief justice had violated conventions in his role as the master of the roster. They were referring to Chief Justice Misra s allocation of cases in the Supreme Court which many have questioned most vocally after he moved the Medical Colleges bribery scam from Justice Chelameshwar s court to his own in November 2017.The press conference had evoked mixed reactions from various members of the society.Later in the day Attorney General KK Venugopal had said that the judges should have avoided speaking to the media. The Congress called for a full court to investigate the allegations against Misra amid rumours that the party was considering moving impeachment proceedings against the chief justice. The Bharatiya Janata Party then accused the Congress of politicising the matter.
New Delhi: As the crisis triggered by the revolt of four Supreme Court judges lingered Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and the rebel judges may meet on Sunday to resolve the problems raked up by them as two of the dissenting judges on Saturday sought to play down the issue. File image of Supreme Court. AP Three of the four judges who had attacked the chief justice at a press conference here on Friday were away from the capital and are expected to return on Sunday afternoon. There was no official confirmation about reports that Justice Misra will be meeting with the rebel judges. But indications were available that a resolution could be worked out from the remarks made by Justices Kurian Joseph and Ranjan Gogoi and Attorney General KK Venugopal the government s highest law officer. Justice Joseph said in Kochi that there was no constitutional crisis in the apex court and the issues they had raised appeared to have been sorted out. We did this for a cause and I think (the) issues appear to have been sorted out. This was not against anyone nor are we having anything personal. It was meant to see that more transparency is there said Justice Joseph. He however did not elaborate. Justice Joseph said the issues they had raised in an unprecedented press conference on Friday triggered no constitutional crisis. There will be no constitutional crisis and there are only problems in procedures and that will be corrected. He said the judges had written everything in the letter they released on Friday and which they had sent to Justice Misra a couple of months ago. Asked whether he felt that the judges should not have come out in the open with their grievances against the chief justice he said: Any problem everyone can see two sides. Whatever we have to say we have written in the letter. In reply to a question on why they failed to brief the president of the issues he said the president is only the appointing authority. Ranjan Gogoi who was in Kolkata for a meeting of legal services authorities also ruled out any crisis hitting the top court. There is no crisis he said but refused to make any further comments. The attorney general meanwhile expressed the hope that the problems in the top judiciary would be settled by Monday. Unity among Supreme Court judges will return by Monday. We hope the entire issue will be settled in the larger interest of the institution. Judges are persons of wisdom and statesmanship and experience. We hope they won t allow the issue to escalate Venugopal said. Venugopal on Friday had said the judges could have avoided going public with their complaints against Justice Misra. The Bar Council of India (BCI) met in Delhi on Saturday and unanimously decided that a seven-member delegation of the bar would try to meet majority of Supreme Court judges on Sunday in an attempt to persuade them to resolve the issue at the earliest. We are ready to offer our mediation Manan Misra BCI President told the media after the meeting. He said the matter should not be politicised. Meanwhile Prime Minister Narendra Modi s Principal Secretary Nripendra Misra was on Saturday morning seen driving to the residence of the Chief Justice. He was seen sitting inside his official car which returned from the gate of the Chief Justice s residence without entering the premises. The Congress asked Modi to explain why he sent his aide to Justice Misra s residence. As Prime Minister s Principal Secretary Nripendra Misra visits CJI s residence at 5 Krishna Menon Marg. He must answer the reason for sending this special messenger to (the) Chief Justice of India tweeted Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala. The revolt by Justices J Chelameswar Ranjan Gogoi Kurian Joseph and Madan B Lokur surfaced in a press conference in which they accused the chief justice of not strictly adhering to the rules in assigning cases to appropriate benches which they said could create doubts about the integrity of the top court. Senior BJP leader and former minister Yashwant Sinha said on Saturday said it was our bounden duty to take note of what the judges have said and raise our voice for corrective action . Sinha who finds himself at variance with his party s stand and policies said fear stopped people from speaking out. If four senior judges have gone public then how is it a Supreme Court matter? It is a serious matter. If they say anything to the people of the country it is our bounded duty to take note of that.
By: PTI | New Delhi | Published: January 10 2018 7:23 pm Chief Justice of India Justice Dipak Misra (Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal/Files) Related News Three Supreme Court judges help CJI four dissenters meet but fail to break the ice another round todaySupreme Court crisis: CJI Dipak Misra meets four dissenting judges will talk againMedical Council of India bribery scam: Prashant Bhushan sends transcripts to four rebel plus Justice Sikri says probe CJIChief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra today recused himself from hearing the pleas of Karti Chidambaram son of former Union Minister P Chidambaram and two firms challenging Enforcement Directorate s decision to provisionally attach their properties in connection with a money-laundering probe in the Aircel-Maxis deal case. The CJI who was presiding the bench comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said he as the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court had heard the case pertaining to 2G spectrum allocation and hence would not like to hear the instant petitions. I have heard the 2G case in Delhi High Court the CJI said. The bench said another bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra which is already seized of a similar case would hear the present matters. Senior advocate Anand Grover who was appointed by the apex court as special prosecutor in the 2G cases and was representing the ED told the bench that a similar matter was listed on January 16 before the bench headed by Justice Mishra. Karti and two companies including Advantage Strategic Consulting Private Ltd (ASCPL) have challenged the ED s decision to provisionally attach their assets under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with alleged proceeds of crime in the Aircel-Maxis deal. The probe agency on September 25 last year had attached assets worth Rs 1.16 crore of Karti and a firm allegedly linked to him in connection with the probe in the Aircel-Maxis deal case. A provisional attachment order signed by Joint Director and investigating officer of the 2G spectrum allocation cases Rajeshwar Singh was issued under the PMLA for attaching the assets. The case pertains to the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval granted in 2006 by P Chidambaram with the agency saying it was probing the circumstances of said FIPB approval granted by the then finance minister . The agency had said FIPB approval in the Aircel-Maxis FDI case was granted in March 2006 by the then finance minister even though he was competent to accord approval on project proposals only up to Rs 600 crore and beyond that it required the approval of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA). In the instant case the approval for FDI of 800 million USD (over Rs 3 500 crore) was sought. Hence CCEA was competent to grant approval. However approval was not obtained from CCEA it had alleged. It had also said a payment of Rs 26 lakh was made by Aircel Televentures Limited to ASCPL the firm allegedly linked to Karti within a few days of the FIPB approval. The agency is probing the Aircel-Maxis deal under the PMLA after taking cognisance of a 2011 CBI FIR in the case. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News Four judges who criticised CJI Dipak Misra not on Bench that will hear 7 key matters Supreme Court crisis: Back to work but not back to business as usual Tags: 2G spectrum case Aircel Maxis deal Dipak Misra No Comments.
Members of the legal fraternity on Friday dubbed the apprehensions of four senior judges about the Supreme Court s functioning a major concern with one claiming that the issue may just be the tip of the iceberg . In an unprecedented event in Indian judiciary s history four senior sitting judges of the Supreme Court on Friday met the media to allege that the apex court s administration was not in order . Justices J. Chelameshwar Ranjan Gogoi Kurien Joseph and Madan B. Lokur expressed concern about the need to protect the institution of the judiciary and said that for the survival of democracy impartial justices are needed . Senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan said he had not seen such blatant abuse of power during his legal career. I have not seen such blatant abuse of power (in exercise of assigning cases by the Chief Justice of India) as in the case of the present Chief Justice... if he has any self respect he would resign. Because for the four most senior judges of the Supreme Court it clearly expresses public loss of confidence or lack of confidence Bhushan told a TV channel. Speaking of late CBI Judge Brijgopal Loya s case -- whose death was said to have occured under mysterious circumstances -- the noted lawyer said it should have been listed before senior SC judges in view of the importance of the case but instead was listed in Court Number 10 which is of Justice Arun Mishra... Most cases have been sent to the bench of Justice Arun Mishra . Terming the situation alarming senior Supreme Court lawyer Indira Jaisingh said Loya s case may be the tipping point which forced the four Judges to address the issue publicly. Maybe Loya s case was the tipping point... this may just be the tip of the iceberg she told reporters. She asserted however that the judges should not be termed anti-CJI and it is important for the judiciary to survive . Remember the (Indian) judiciary is the only institution which can protect us from the excesses of the Executive and the Legislature... we all want the judiciary to survive she said. Former Delhi High Court Judge Mukul Mudgal vouched for the integrity of the four judges terming them really responsible and respected judges and said there must have been compelling reasons for them to come out in the open. No doubt the Chief Justice of India is the master of the roster but there are systems and precedents and conventions that have to be followed in a constitutional manner... Historically the cases of constitutional importance are assigned to the most senior Judges. There have been departures from it and I think this is the reason which must have compelled them Mudgal told a TV channel. Supreme Court Senior Advocate K.T.S. Tulsi termed the event unprecedented and shocking and said the judges would not have approached the media unless having exhausted all options . One could see the pain on their faces while they were speaking (to the media) he said. Congress leader and advocate Salman Khurshid said it is the Chief Jistice s responsibility to set things right as the greatest (of the judges) and head of the institution .
Anuj Loya son of Special Central Bureau of Investigation Judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya who ostensibly had a heart attack during a trip to attend a wedding in 2014 said that he and his family had no suspicions about the circumstance of his father s death.This runs contrarary to sentiments Anuj Loya had expressed in February 2015 when he wrote a letter raising doubts about whether his father had died a natural death. At the time of his death on on December 1 2014 Justice Loya was presiding over a special CBI court in Mumbai hearing the case of the alleged extrajudicial murder by the Gujarat Police of alleged extortionist Sohrabuddin Sheikh. Among the accused in the case was Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah who was the home minister of Gujarat when the alleged fake encounter took place. Family expresses doubtsThe judge s death has been heatedly discussed since November 2017 when Anuj Loya s grandfather Harkishan Loya and paternal aunt Anuradha Biyani had in video statements published by Caravan magazine expressed doubts about the circumstances of Judge Loya s sudden death in Nagpur in December 2014. Biyani also alleged that Judge Loya had told her that he had been offered a bribe of Rs 100 crore by Chief Justice of Bombay High Court Mohit Shah. On January 4 the Bombay Lawyers Association filed a petition with the Bombay High Court asking for an investigation into the death. A week later a Mumbai-based journalist BR Lone filed a separate but similar public interest litigation in the Supreme Court as did Congress leader Tehseen Poonawala. On Friday Loya s death was in the headlines again as the Supreme Court s four most senior judges after the Chief Justice of India held an unprecedented press conference at which they said democracy was in danger because of the actions of CJI Dipak Misra who was bypassing established conventions in the way cases were assigned to benches. The four judges confirmed that they had brought up the hearing of the Loya case with Misra shortly before they addressed the media. The Loya case had been assigned that morning to the bench of Justice Arun Kumar Misra. Very troubled Amidst this renewed interest in the case 21-year-old Anuj Loya called a surprise press conference in Mumbai on Sunday at which he said that his family was getting very troubled because of the media reports. Humko koyi allegations nahi hai kisi pe bhi kuch bhi nahi hai he said. We don t have any allegations against anyone or about anything. We are really pained. We are already trying to get out of these things. I request you people please don t try to harass us or trouble us. Convey this message to everyone through your media. He explained why he had changed his mind about the circumstances of his father s death. I was 17 at that time so I don t know he said. I was in emotional turmoil and right now I am in emotional turmoil. He added that any doubts other members of his family might have had about Judge Loya s death were also due to emotional turmoil at that time and that these doubts have since been cleared.Loya s family friend and retired district judge KB Katkar who also addressed the media expanded on this. The only earning member of the family died all of sudden due to a heart attack therefore some suspicion was created by some people Katkar said. However now everything is clear. Two judges senior most judges district judges cadre judges were with Mr Loya when he sustained pain in the chest. He was taken to the hospital in the night time and doctors have made every effort. Good treatment was provided to him however he could not survive. The family members realised all these things however some other people have created some doubt in the story and are harassing the family of Mr Loya. Katkar said that those harassing the family included some NGOs some lawyers politicians . He asked the media to inform these groups not to disturb Loya s family any more.In December Scroll.in tracked the hours before and after Judge Loya s death. Questions however still remain.
NEW DELHI: It is the Supreme Court s New Year s gift for budding lawyers. Chief Justice Dipak Misra on Thursday allowed young lawyers to appear in his court to seek urgent hearing of cases a practice that ended last September when the country s top judge banned senior advocates from jumping the queue.The Chief Justice had then ruled that only Advocates on Record could queue up every morning when his court assembles to https://www.behance.net/shopozoind5eca list urgent cases for out of turn hearing. The idea then was to ensure that senior advocates do not exhaust the time set apart by the court to listen to requests for urgent hearings.But it left out the junior advocates not yet entitled to appear for the court exam that earns them the privilege of being an Advocate on Record. A lawyer needs a minimum of four years experience and should have worked for another year under the guidance of an Advocate on Record to be entitled to write the examWhen the court assembled after the winter vacation on Thursday Chief Justice Misra announced the change. Junior lawyers can also mention the top judge said adding that the younger lawyers should also learn how to mention cases before the court.The practice of lawyers requesting an urgent hearing is referred to as mentioning a case. CommentsClose X During the tenure of the Justice SH Kapadia as then Chief Justice of India this out-of-turn hearing was completely abolished.Later Justice RM Lodha during his period as Chief Justice of CJI stopped senior advocates seeking out-of-turn urgent hearings.