Archives for January 2019

Nasheman News : Amid the growing strains in its ties with the JD-S, the Congress on Monday sought to play down Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamys threat to quit, saying issues are being resolved.

“I am ready to quit if my style of functioning is not acceptable to anyone. The Congress must control its MLAs and resolve the issues,” an exasperated Kumaraswamy told the media in Bengaluru following criticism of his work by the Congress.

The Chief Minister’s remarks came after two Congress ministers and a legislator on Sunday alleged here that no development works took place in the last seven-eight months under Kumaraswamy’s administration and claimed that former Congress Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was their leader and was a better administrator.

While Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal and in-charge of party affairs in the state asserted that the party high command has “full faith in Kumaraswamy”, a party leader in Delhi claimed “all was well” within the coalition. 

“In a coalition, there are and there will be issues. But our coalition is strong and whatever issues there are will be resolved. The leadership of both the parties are discussing and soon things will be amicably resolved,” a Congress leader told IANS here. 

A hung verdict in the May 2018 Assembly elections led the Congress with about 80 lawmakers support the JD-S with 37 legislators to form a coalition government after the BJP with 104 MLAs failed to prove a simple majority in the 225-member House.

Nasheman News :  Batting for consumers’ right to get good quality, adulteration-free products, Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday called for tougher provisions to punish food adultrators.

His directions came during an Inter-Session Consultative Committee Meeting of the Ministry to review the functioning of Food Corporation of India (FCI) and Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). 

Reviewing the functioning of the BIS, the committee suggested that consumers should be given good quality, adulteration-free products and tougher provisions should be made for punishing food adultrators as it had adverse effect on the health of the consumers.

Paswan said it was a matter of public concern and that regular inspection of all stock should be done to ensure quality product is delivered to the final consumer.

The BIS officials told the committee about several new initiatives such as digitisation of various activities, online approval of licenses besides future plans to utilise surplus funds towards construction of more field offices, new lab.

Paswan said the main objective of the FCI was to ensure that farmers get their due share and all possible efforts were made to ensure that. 

In context of the creation of 4,000 new vacancies at the FCI soon, Paswan asked for a special provision to provide reservation to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in the backdrop of 10 per cent quota to the general category.

Nasheman News : Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday sought the removal of Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde over his controversial remarks concerning religion and women, saying he was an embarrassment to every Indian.

“This man is an embarrassment to every Indian. He’s unfit to be a Union Minister and deserves to be sacked,” Gandhi tweeted. 

Hegde, Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, during a public event in Kodagu district of Karnataka on Sunday said that “any hand that touches a Hindu girl should not exist”. 

“We should be aware of what is happening around us. Regardless of caste and religion, any hand that touches a Hindu girl should not exist,” the Minister had said.

On Monday, Hegde was also locked in a Twitter war with Karnataka Congress President Dinesh Gundu Rao over their achievements and contributions.

Responding to Hegde’s tweet that he knew Rao as “a guy who ran behind a Muslim lady”, the latter retorted that it was sad to see the Central minister stoop to such “low levels as to bring in personal issues”.

Gundu Rao, a Congress lawmaker, is married to Tabu Rao.

Nasheman News : Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said here on Monday the entry of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra into active politics will strengthen the Congress and that she has already made an impact.

“From all the reports that I am getting, it appears that she (Priyanka) has already had an impact on the electorate. She is not yet active but when she becomes active, the impact of her personality would be even greater,” Sinha said in response to a query at a media interaction here.

He said that the Congress party would be “strengthened” by Priyanka’s entry, but whether a stronger Congress would eat into the SP-BSP votes or into the Bharatiya Janata Party’s votes, is “still to be seen”.

Nasheman News :The BJP on Monday hit out at former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over his indecent behaviour with a woman in the state and dared Congress president Rahul Gandhi and State Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy to take action against him.

“Rahul Gandhi must first tell the people about what he will do with Siddaramaiah. He is a former Chief Minister, it is visible how he misbehaved with a woman,” Union Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters at the party headquarters here. 

“The way in which he has insulted a woman shows how the Congress looks at women,” he said. 

“They only know how to respect women in the family and not others. This is Congress mantra. They have learnt nothing from the Tandoor case,” he said. 

The BJP leader also said that the Karnataka Chief Minister now faces a test as to what action he will take against Siddaramaiah. 

“It will be interesting to see if he shows any courage to take action against Siddaramaiah,” he said. 

Javadekar was responding to a question about Rahul Gandhi demanding the resignation of Hegde over his controversial comments at a public event that any hand that touches a Hindu girl “should not exist”. 

Hitting out at the Congress chief, Javadekar said that instead of asking for the BJP Minister’s resignation, Gandhi should take action against his own former Chief Minister.