- Monday, March 10, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Here are news in brief related to Indian politics for Thursday, September 15, 2022:
Indian home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said several efforts have been made to make the northeastern part of India developed, the most important of which is to establish peace in the region, Press Trust of India reported. He said this while presiding over the signing of an agreement among the central and Assam governments and representatives of eight Adivasi (tribal) groups. The agreement was signed here to end the decades-old crisis of Adivasis and tea garden workers in Assam, an official statement said. The home minister said in accordance with prime minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a peaceful and prosperous northeast, this agreement will prove to be another important milestone in the direction of making the Northeast extremism free by 2025.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, who has taken an initiative to unite the Opposition ahead of the 2024 general elections, on Thursday renewed his party Janata Dal (United)’s attack on the Narendra Modi government for not giving a special status to his state, announcing that all backward states including Bihar will get special status if the opposition parties formed the next government in New Delhi. “We are trying to unite as many people (parties) as possible… If we get a chance to form the next government at the Centre, all backward states will definitely get special category status. There is no reason why it cannot be done,” Kumar told the media after an event in state capital Patna.
The K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Telangana Rashtra Samithi government of Telangana on Thursday said it has decided to name the new state secretariat complex here after India’s iconic Dalit leader Dr B R Ambedkar, Asian News International reported. According to an official statement by the chief minister’s office, Rao has directed the state chief secretary to take action in this regard. “Naming of the (secretariat) complex in the name of Dr BR Ambedkar is a source of pride for all the people of Telangana. This decision is ideal for India. The Telangana government is moving forward with the philosophy of Ambedkar that all the people of India should get equal respect in all fields. In the social, political, economic and cultural fields, the self-governing state, which continues to maintain the status quo, is ideal for the country,” the chief minister said in a statement released by his office.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the probe into the mysterious death of Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sonali Phogat in Goa last month, officials said on Thursday, PTI reported. The central probe agency re-registered the first information report of Goa Police on a reference from the ministry of home affairs which was routed to it through the Department of Personnel and Training, they said. Teams of the CBI along with CFSL (Central Forensic Science Laboratory) experts will reach Goa to collect documents and interact with the local police officials and doctors who had examined the former TV anchor after she was brought to the hospital. The sources said viscera samples will give a definitive clue about the causes of Phogat’s death. The ministry had referred the case to the CBI after Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant wrote to Indian home minister Amit Shah requesting a probe by the CBI.
The Indian National Congress’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ (Unite India movement) will now resume from Kerala’s Kollam on Friday (16) after a one-day break on Thursday, ANI reported. Taking Twitter on Wednesday, senior Congress leader Jairam confirmed this. The yatra completed its seventh day on Wednesday which started from Navayikkulam in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram. On the seventh day, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi interacted with students at Chathannur in the Kollam district of Kerala.
