Former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav’s home has become a camp for the 79 MLAs of the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Together with 16 MLAs from the Left, 16 out of the 19 Congress MLAs went straight to Mr. Yadav’s home on Sunday night.
Returning to Patna were the BJP MLAs who had been camping at a resort in Bodh Gaya. They were brought to Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha’s home. Late in the evening, Mr. Kumar called a Legislature Party meeting with the 45 Janata Dal (United) MLAs at the official residence of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Choudhary.
#WATCH | Bihar former CM Rabri Devi arrives at the residence of former Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, in Patna. pic.twitter.com/OpdurKbHlA
In the meantime, two weeks after switching allegiance from the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), a coalition of the JD(U), RJD, and Congress, to the NDA bloc, Nitish Kumar’s government in Bihar is scheduled to face a trust vote today. The Assembly is scheduled to take up the motion of no confidence against Speaker Awadh Bihari Choudhary at the start of the Budget session, after Governor R V Arlekar addresses both Houses of the legislature.
#WATCH | Former Bihar Deputy CM and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav arrives at the Bihar Assembly in Patna. pic.twitter.com/cdy6ICRNUQ
#WATCH | Bihar Deputy CMs Samrat Choudhary & Vijay Kumar Sinha and BJP MLAs show victory signs as they arrive at the State Assembly in Patna. pic.twitter.com/NM4RQFL46O
Kulwant Singh Bunty, a former member of the Khadi Board and member of the BJP State Working Committee, met Tarun Chugh, the national secretary of Bhartiya Janta Party, formally on Saturday at the BJP National Office in New Delhi.
When Mr. Bunty saw the bundle of flowers, he gave him a warm greeting during this time. Tarun Chugh, the national general secretary of the BJP, has also been named Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh’s election coordinator by the BJP
On the afternoon of 11 Feb 20244, an electric auto driver crashed onto a pole situated near Nature’s park, Jawahar Nagar, Mango, Jamshedpur. The vehicle went out of control and hit the pole causing serious damage to the vehicle and the driver.
Luckily there was no passenger inside the auto and the driver sustained injuries on his head. Local residents of Azad Basti assisted the driver and took him to the hospital in conscious condition.
During the fire occurrence no children or adult was injured. All the passengers of the bus quickly escaped the bus when they saw fire bus catch fire. In a major relief, all the pupils and teachers were able to get out safely.
However, this raises concern of the safety standards of the machinery used in schools and other organizations. Investigation should be conducted to check the bus safety standards along with pre inspection report to prevent future mishaps from occurring anywhere across the nation.
#WATCH | Gujarat | A school bus burst into flames en route Wilson Hills in Dharampur, Valsad. The bus was bringing 30 schoolchildren and 3 teachers from Silvassa for a picnic. No injuries reported as all the occupants had deboarded the bus before incident. pic.twitter.com/v85XxcUzaE
The High Court’s ruling was overturned by a bench led by Supreme Court Justice Aniruddha Bose, who also issued an order directing the prompt appointment of District Judges to fill the nine open positions.
Case history
The High Court began the process of selecting 22 District Judges in 2022. But the High Court later altered the appointment procedure, raising the bar for qualifying marks to 50%, among other things. In addition, the High Court suggested that applicants be appointed to 13 of the 22 positions on the merit list, leaving 9 spots unfilled.
A Supreme Court petition was submitted contesting the ruling of the High Court. The High Court has the authority to alter the rules in this regard, the Supreme Court noted. These adjustments, though, ought not to have been made after the appointment procedure had begun. The Court decided that any modifications to the regulations ought to have been made prior to the exam’s start.
Farmers in Noida and Greater Noida have been protesting since December 2023, calling for increased pay and developed plots in return for the land they previously had purchased from local development authorities. In support of these demands, the farmers’ groups called for a “kisan mahapanchayat” and a protest march to Parliament.
Farmers will not accept Electricity bill meter
Rakesh Tikat, president of Bhartiya Kisan Union on a live tv telecast mentioned that the government has come up with point of setting up electricity bill meter in the lands of farmers. The farmers on the other hand has mutually agreed with the government that the electricity meter will be setup in the farmers land after the year 2027.
According to Rakesh Tikat, as per the declaration letter shared by the government, free electricity was promised by the government. And the setting up of electric meter is a clear violation of declaration letter shared by the government in the past.
Farmers has to change tractors more than 10 years old
President of Bhartiya Kisan Union, Rakesh Tikat also mentioned the point that according to the new law the farmers are required to change the tractor if it is more than 10 years old. He playfully pointed out that the move of government is illogical and cannot be implemented among the farmers.
Budget 2024 brings controversial laws
The farmers mainly from the north states of India are not happy with the budget passed by the government of India recently. Rakesh Tikat, mentioned in an interview that the budget will increase the loan burden on the farmers inturn causing them to sell their lands to private players.
The private big companies will capture the lands of farmers and will sell the KCC. As per Rakesh Tikat, any such instances will not be dealt easily and farmers will protest across the nation to make their conditions favourable and sustainable.
Delhi Chalo on February 13. What is happening in Noida?
According to sources, Government of India has requested the farmers to stop the delhi march which is going to be held on February 13 and asked the farmers to attend a formal meeting session.
Key persons from the government will be attending the meeting including Arjun Munda, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare of India Piyush Goyal, Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha Nityanand Rai, Minister of State for Home Affairs of India
Police warns farmers not to take part in “Delhi Chalo” #Farmersportest2024
As per sources, local police authorities have been using loudspeakers to inform farmers not to take part in farmers protest otherwise strict action will be taken against the violaters.
It is heard in the video that police officials states that no farmer should take part in the farmer protest organized on Feb 13 and if anyone takes part in the protest then legal actions will be taken against the farmer and passport of violaters will be seized by the authorities.
Roads blocked to prevent farmers from entering Delhi
On the one hand, to give the Bharat Ratna to the farmers' leader and on the other hand to close the gates of Delhi for the same farmers. The Modi government is welcoming the farmers' agitation by putting barbed nails in the road….#FarmersProtest2024pic.twitter.com/IRFyuDISrH
Haryana government blocks the Shambhu border and orders the suspension of bulk SMS and mobile internet in seven districts
The Haryana government on Saturday closed the state’s border with Punjab in Ambala and ordered the suspension of mobile internet and bulk SMS services in seven districts starting at 6 AM on February 11, ahead of the farmers’ planned Delhi Chalo march.
An official directive states that mobile internet services will be unavailable in the districts of Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar, Fatehabad, and Sirsa until 23:59 on February 13.
Haryana Police sealed the highway at the Shambhu barrier over the Ghaggar River in Ambala on both sides using metal sheets and concrete blocks. According to officials, the Ghaggar river bed was also excavated to stop farmers from using tractors to access the highway. On February 13, the day of the planned march, police also made elaborate plans to seal the Punjab-Haryana borders in the districts of Jind and Fatehabad. They also released a traffic advisory asking commuters to limit their use of the main roads and to leave only in an emergency.
More than 200 farmers’ unions have announced that they will march to the nation’s capital on February 13 to put pressure on the Center by joining the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha.
On Feb 9 a video surfaced on X showing angry mob beating a Muslim man along with his family. The news started spreading like fire across the nation. Muslim husband and wife were beaten by Hindu mob and forced to raise slogans of Jai Shri Ram.
In the video the mob is heard forcibly beating and asking the Muslim man, Asif to chant jai sri ram.
On the next day a local news media from Mumbai took the interview of the family. Eye opening facts came into limelight.
Asif also mentioned in a interview that the goons who forced them to chant jai shri ram attacked his kid and threw hot tea on the kid’s face. He also reported that the local police authority put pressure on him to withdraw the complaint.
The interview was covered on a Mumbai based News company Gallinews
After invalidating the Jharkhand High Court’s full court resolution that set a 50% aggregate mark requirement for district judge selection, the Supreme Court declared that increasing the aggregate marks after the exam was completed was “unjust and impermissible”. Setting cut-off marks has been given to the High Court, but it must be done before the start of an exam, according to a bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Sanjay Kumar.
The High Court administration cannot use the rule to make a general decision to deviate from the rules specified selection criteria, the court further stated. The bench stated that although the “no change in the rule midway” principle has become an essential component of the service legal precedent, the court would continue to follow it.
In order to fill the current announced vacancies, the High Court should recommend candidates who have been selected based on merit or other criteria. This recommendation should be made without following the full court resolution, which mandates that each candidate receive 50% of the possible points. The court granted the writ petitions filed by Sushil Kumar Pandey and others.
In the case in question, the High Court on March 23, 2023, adopted a resolution by the entire court establishing a 50 per cent aggregate score (combined marks from the main exam and viva voce) as the minimum requirement for recommendation to the 22 district judge positions in the recruitment process that was started in 2022.
Applying a higher aggregate mark is not prohibited by the rules or regulations, according to the High Court. Additionally, it stated that simply being on the selection list did not grant a candidate any legal claim to be appointed to the position in question. The bench did note that it was “impermissible” for the High Court administration to have attempted to depart from the statutory guidelines governing the selection process itself.
“If precluding a candidate from appointment is in violation of the recruitment rules without there being a finding on such candidate’s unsuitability, such an action would fail the Article 14 test and shall be held to be arbitrary,” the court stated. Better candidates should be found, which is the rationale behind the full court resolution. However, the court made clear that this is not the same as finding a candidate who was rejected from consideration for an appointment to be unfit.
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As per the BJP’s yearly audit report that was filed with the Election Commission, the party was given ₹2120 crores in FY 2022–2023; of this, ₹1294 crores, or 61%, came from electoral bonds.
The BJP contributed ₹1775 crores in total in FY 2021–2022, which is noteworthy. Concurrently, the party’s total revenue in FY 2022–2023 was ₹2360.8 crores, up from ₹1917 crores in FY 2021–2022. However, in terms of revenue generated from electoral bonds, the Congress lags well behind the BJP. In FY 2022–23, the Congress received ₹171 crores from electoral bonds, compared to ₹236 crores in FY 2021–22. The Congress and the BJP are both national parties.
Revenue from 2022–2023 Electoral Bonds
BJP: ₹1294 Crores Congress: ₹171 Crores
How much money did parties at the state level receive?
When it comes to state-level parties, in 2021–2022 the Samajwadi Party was given ₹3.2 crores through ballot bonds. But in FY 2022–2023 the Samajwadi Party received no contribution from bonds. Ten times more money than the previous fiscal year, or ₹34 crores, was given to the state-level party TDP through electoral bonds in 2022–2023.
Based on available data, the BJP’s interest income for the preceding fiscal year was ₹237 crores, while for the 2021–22 fiscal year it was ₹135 crores. During the 2022–2023 election campaign, the BJP used aircraft and helicopters at a cost of ₹78.2 crores, which came from its total expenditure. Furthermore, the candidates received financial support amounting to ₹76.5 crores from the BJP.
The significance of this news lies in its depiction of the BJP’s increasing financial power in Indian politics. One major advantage the BJP has over other parties is its capacity to raise substantial sums of money through electoral bonds.
Saturday morning, February 10, on his 73rd birthday he suddenly had chest pain. He was getting a little fidgety and his condition kept getting worse after which and he was taken to the hospital by an ambulance. In the hospital, he is receiving treatment. About his condition, nothing is known at this time.
In the Indian film industry, Mithun Chakraborty is a well-known actor. In more than 300 films, he has acted in Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. He has hosted multiple reality shows and is a well-known television personality.
As a prominent backer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chakraborty is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). 2014 saw him win a seat in the Lok Sabha from West Bengal’s Ranaghat constituency.
His supporters and well-wishers are fervently hoping for a swift recuperation for him.
