- Monday, March 10, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Here are news in brief related to Indian politics for Wednesday, September 21, 2022:
Punjab’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) reacted after state governor Banwarilal Purohit on Wednesday turned down the government’s demand for a special session of the assembly to introduce a confidence motion. The governor withdrew the order to summon a special session of the state assembly on Thursday (22). Delhi chief minister and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal reacted sharply to the decision asking in a tweet, “How can the governor refuse a session called by the cabinet? Then democracy is over. Two days ago, the Governor gave permission for the session. When Operation Lotus started failing and the number was not completed, a call came from above asking to withdraw the permission.”
A Madhya Pradesh Congress leader’s alleged objectionable remarks about the Brahmin community have triggered a controversy with the state’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) threatening to prevent former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s ongoing ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ (Unite India March) from entering the state if the leader is not expelled from the party, Press Trust of India reported. However, Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee media cell chairman KK Mishra, to whom the objectionable remarks have been attributed, claimed his comments have been “twisted” by the ruling party as they are rattled by the huge response Gandhi’s mass contact drive was getting across the country.
Senior Congress leader and parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor, who is preparing to contest the All India Congress Committee (AICC) presidential polls, met the party’s central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry on Wednesday and enquired about nomination formalities, PTI reported. Sources said that during the meeting, Mistry assured Tharoor that the election would be free, fair and open. Tharoor reached the AICC headquarters in New Delhi and spoke to Mistry at his office, a day before the Congress’s Central Election Authority was set to issue the notification for the polls to elect the next Congress president. Asked about his meeting with Tharoor, Mistry told PTI that he cleared his enquiry on the voters’ list, election agent and the filing of nomination.
The Election Commission of India has sent a notice to Andhra Pradesh’s ruling YSR Congress Party over allegations that state chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy had been made its permanent president. The poll commission said it “categorically rejects any attempt or even a hint of any organisational post being of permanent nature”. Such a measure, it said, is “inherently anti-democracy”. “Any action which denies the periodicity of elections, is in complete violation of the extant instructions of the Commission,” the letter read. The commission guidelines say that political parties have to conduct polls within a specific time frame to choose a president. There is alsoa provision to de-recognise a party if it doesn’t hold polls regularly.
Security forces have won a decisive victory in the ongoing battle against left-wing extremism across the country, said India’s ministry of home affairs on Wednesday, adding that compared to before 2014, incidents of left-wing extremism violence have come down by 77 per cent, Asian News International reported. Fulfilling the Modi government’s vision of left-wing extremism-free India and a zero tolerance policy against extremism, the home ministry said it has reached the final stage of the decisive battle against left-wing extremism across the country. It said the security forces on Wednesday achieved a decisive victory in the ongoing fight against left-wing extremism by entering the ‘Budhapahad’ situated at the border of the states of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand and the extremely inaccessible areas of Chakrabandha and Bhimabandh of the state of Bihar and successfully ousting the Maoists from their strongholds where permanent security forces camps have been set up.
BJP president J P Nadda will be on a two- day visit to Tamil Nadu starting Thursday (22) where he will address a public meeting besides holding several party meetings, PTI reported. BJP chief spokesperson Anil Baluni said Nadda will address a rally at Karaikudi on Thursday and meet eminent personalities from various fields in Madurai. He is also scheduled to offer prayers at the historic Pillayarpatti Vinayaka Temple in Karaikudi on Friday. Nadda will also pay tributes to great freedom fighters, Marudhu Brothers, in Tirupattur.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena on Wednesday moved the Bombay High Court seeking permission to hold its annual Dussehra rally at the Shivaji Park in central Mumbai, PTI reported. The petition was filed by the Shiv Sena and its secretary Anil Desai. The plea said the party was constrained to approach the HC as the Mumbai civic body was yet to take a decision on their applications submitted in August seeking permission for the rally. The petition sought directions to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to forthwith grant permission for the Sena’s Dussehra rally at the Shivaji Park. The petition was mentioned before a division bench headed by Justice R D Dhanuka on Wednesday, seeking urgent hearing.
The Congress’ state units in Punjab and Telangana on Wednesday passed a resolution backing former president Rahul Gandhi for the post of the party president, PTI reported. Around a dozen Pradesh Congress Committees have so far come out in support of Gandhi, even as it appears that after over two decades, the Congress is likely to see a contest for the post of party chief. Former central minister and Kerala parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor is looking set to enter the fray and Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has indicated that he could throw his hat in the ring if Gandhi does not agree to take on the party’s reins. The Congress’s central election authority will issue a notification for the All India Congress Committee’s presidential polls on Thursday (22), setting the ball rolling for electing the successor to the longest-serving party chief Sonia Gandhi.
