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Himachal speaker accepts resignations of 3 Ind MLAs [Times Nation]: BJP: Acceptance Delayed To Stop Legislators From Contesting Polls

Himachal speaker accepts resignations of 3 Ind MLAs [Times Nation]: BJP: Acceptance Delayed To Stop Legislators From Contesting Polls

by A source said if BJP won all six bypolls pr eviously held by Congress the opposition partys strength would rise to 31 With the three independents support had their resignations not been accepted BJP would have outnumbered Congr ess the source saidThe three legislators KL Thakur Nalagar h Ashish Sharma Hamirpur, Hoshyar Singh Dehra had resigned on March 22, joined BJP the following day However speaker Pathania initially did not accept their resignations citing a representation from Congress legislative party that the MLAs had resigned under duressFormer CM Jai Ram Thakur of the BJP questioned the timing of the resignation acceptance suggesting it was delayed to prevent the three independents from contesting the June 1 Lok Sa bha polls, assembly bypolls The assembly secretariat issued a notification Monday declaring Dehra Nalagar h, Hamirpur assembly constituencies vacant necessitating bypolls A nother petition seeks disqualification of these MLAs under the antidefection law as they joined BJP before acceptance of the resignation Since I have accepted their resignations this petition would automatically become infructuous PathaniasaidEarlier the three MLAs had approached Himachal Pradesh HC to direct the speaker to accept their resignations The case pending due to differing judicial opinions had been referred to a third judge The MLAs also staged a dharna at Vidhan Sabha complex to press their demand Once the results are out on Tuesday the strength of the Himachal Assembly will rise to 65 but since its strength is 34 it will remain in majority irrespective of the outcome of the bypollsMeanwhile the HC has also reserv ed its order on a petition filed by a BJP leader against the appointment of six Congress MLAs as parliamentary secretaries by Sukhu govtWith agency inputs
Published in The Times of India (Online) (04.06.2024)
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PM: Lalu tried to save those behind Godhra train arson [Front Page]

PM: Lalu tried to save those behind Godhra train arson [Front Page]

by In a multipronged attack on INDIA bloc at a rally in Bihars Darbhanga Modi accused RJD chief Lalu Prasad of having tried to save those responsible for the Godhra train burning in 2002 in which 59 kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya were burnt alive Lalu then railway minister in the Congressled UPA govt had constituted the Justice UC Banerjee committee which in its report in 2005 had given a clean chit to the accused, termed the blaze an accident However the court trashed the report, punished the guilty Modi saidHe accused Congress, RJD of favouring the main minority community by trying to dilute OBC SC, ST quotas Opposition parties are trying to distort the Constitution framed by BR Ambedkar, Ambedkar, others, even Nehru were against the idea of religionbased reservation PM said In a counterattack on the INDIA blocs charge that Modi would end reservations for backward people change the Constitution, finish democracy in the country the PM said he gets inspiration from Karpoori Thakur the former CM who was posthumously conferred Bharat Ratna by the Modi govt recentlyThey cant play with the quota for OBCs, SCSTs until Modi is alive They have lost their mental balance since I unmasked their faces They are silent on my question 12 days ago if they will give in writing not to snatch the quota from OBCs SCs, STs the PM saidModi claimed that when he Lalu was railway minister he had asked officials in 2007 to manage reservation in jobs for Muslims from OBC SCST quota Its like committing dacoity on the rights of Yadavs Kurmis Paswan Musahar, Dhanuk communities he saidWithout naming Lalus son, mer Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav Modi attacked him He called Tejashwi the shehzada of Patna like the one in Delhi Rahul Gandhi He said one treats the country, the other Bihar as their fiefdom since childhood, both have the same report card of scams
Published in The Times of India (Online) (05.05.2024)
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