Jammu: PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed will be the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister after his party reached an agreement for forming a government with the BJP, top party sources said on Saturday.
Sources close to PDP patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, who returned to winter capital Jammu Friday after spending a week in Mumbai, told IANS an agreement had been reached on all contentious issues between the PDP and the BJP.
“Yes, main agreement has been reached on the draft of the CMP (common minimum programme) on contentious issues like article 370, armed forces special powers act (AFSPA) and the plight of West Pakistan refugees.
“It has been agreed that without any written reference to it, both the parties would respect the wishes of the people of the state in consonance with the constitution of the country with regard to article 370,” a top party source told IANS.
As per the agreement, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed will be the chief minister for the full six years.
The PDP insider who is engaged with the BJP in the dialogue process on government formation on behalf of his party also said instead of accepting the demand that the AFSPA should be revoked from the entire state within one year, it has now been agreed by the two parties that a committee would be formed which would recommend gradual, but timely, revocation of the act from areas in the state.
Sources in the BJP said: “The PDP has agreed to the BJP demand that the CMP should accept that the problems faced by West Pakistan refugees should not be politicized, but treated as a humanitarian issue that needs to be addressed on humanitarian grounds.”
When asked to comment on media reports that government formation in the state was imminent because the PDP and the BJP had agreed on the draft of the common minimum programme (CMP) for governance, party chief spokesman Naeem Akhtar told IANS in winter capital Jammu: “I am meeting Mufti Sahib today and if anything has been worked out, we will hold a briefing about it during the day.”
Unlike his steady dismissal of any agreement with the BJP during the last nearly two months when he maintained the “structured dialogue between the BJP and the PDP had not even started”, Akhtar sounded less circumspect Saturday about his lack of knowledge regarding an agreement on the common minimum programme with the BJP.
West Pakistan refugees are those over 25,000 families who came to the state after the India-Pakistan wars of 1947, 1965 and 1971.
Since these people were not citizens of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir as it existed before accession to India in 1947, they cannot vote in the state assembly elections, nor buy property in the state.
These refugees cannot apply for government jobs since all the state government jobs in Jammu and Kashmir are reserved for permanent residents of the state.
As an anomaly, the West Pakistan refugees can vote in the parliament elections, but not in the state assembly elections since the state has a constitution of its own in addition to the country’s constitution and both apply concomitantly to the state.
With regard to the PDP demand on return of NHPC owned hydro-electric power projects in the state to state ownership, the sources said it had been agreed that the two would work together for central assistance for state ownership of these projects.
“The nuts and bolts job has been completed. All that now remains is an announcement on the agreement between the two which could be made within the next two to three days,” said sources.
The sources added that Mufti Mohammaad Sayeed would formally call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the PDP and the BJP announce having formalized the draft of the CMP.
IANS
Drawing attention to the delay in clearing his name for Chancellorship of Nalanda University for a second term — although the Governing Board unanimously recommended it — economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on Thursday “excluded” himself from continuing in the position after his term ends in July.
In a letter to the board written with a “heavy heart,” Sen said that it was “hard for him not to conclude that the government” wanted him to “cease” being Chancellor. In the letter, Sen says that academics in the country remains “deeply vulnerable to the opinions of the ruling Government.”
He added that it’s because of the absence of Government’s approval that the Visitor, President Pranab Mukherjee, has not been able to give his nod to the board’s decision of granting Sen a second term.
“It is hard for me not to conclude that the Government wants me to cease being the Chancellor of Nalanda University after this July, and technically it has the power to do so. This delay as well as the uncertainty involved is leading, in effect, to a decisional gap, which is not helpful to Nalanda University’s governance and its academic progress. I have, therefore, decided that in the best interest of Nalanda University, I should exclude myself from being considered for continuing as Chancellor of Nalanda University beyond this July, despite the unanimous recommendation and urging of the Governing Board for me to continue,” Sen said.
Sen, whose term as Chancellor ends in July this year, was unanimously picked by the Nalanda University Board to serve in the position for a second term during its last meeting on January 13-14 this year.
In his letter, the noted economist has said the board’s unanimous decision that was “firm and enthusiastic” was conveyed to the President, the Visitor of all Central Universities, in mid-January “drawing his attention to the urgency of the matter” but no response has been received yet.
Sen has pointed out that as per the Nalanda University Act of Parliament, the decision of the governing board becomes operational only after the Visitor’s assent.
“More than a month has passed since then, and it now seems clear that the Visitor has been unable to provide his assent to the Governing Board’s unanimous choice, in the absence of the Government’s approval. The Governing Board has not been favoured with a reply to its request, either from the President’s office or from the Ministry of External Affairs. As Board members are aware, our Visitor (President Pranab Mukherjee) has always taken a deep personal interest in the speedy progress of the work of Nalanda University, and given that, we have to assume that something makes it difficult — or impossible — for him to act with speed in this matter,” he says in his letter.
The Nobel Laureate, who in 2013 has come out against then Gujarat Chief Minister and now Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating he did not want him to become PM, had recently remarked, at Express Adda, that although he disagreed with Modi on many issues, the Prime Minister had been able to give “a sense of faith to people that things can happen.”
“I am also sad, at a more general level, that academic governance in India remains so deeply vulnerable to the opinions of the ruling Government, when it chooses to make political use of the special provisions. Even though the Nalanda University Act, passed by the Parliament, did not, I believe, envisage political interference in academic matters, it is formally the case — given the legal provisions (some of them surviving from colonial days) — that the Government can turn an academic issue into a matter of political dispensation, if it feels unrestrained about interfering,” Sen says in the letter.
Adding that “non-action is a time-wasting way of reversing a Board decision”, Sen said this had also happened to the “revised Statutes that the Governing Board passed unanimously last year”, many of which he claims never received “formal acceptance or rejection from the Ministry of External Affairs, which had the role of coordinating with the Visitor’s office.”
“As you would also remember, there was considerable disquiet among Board members about the Government’s evident unwillingness to appreciate the international character of Nalanda University and to pay appropriate attention to the multi-country Governing Board of Nalanda. In particular, the Governing Board was kept completely in the dark about an attempted unilateral move by the Government to rapidly reconstitute the entire Board, and to do this in violation of some of parts of the Nalanda University Act,” the letter added.
Sen had threatened to quit the university last year before the Lok Sabha election after the finance ministry raised queries on the financial management of the university’s revival plan.
Doval raised an alarm over the frequent reporting of classified matters in the media. A TV channel’s report saying the Prime Minister was shown images of INS Arihant, a nuclear submarine, at a DRDO function proved to be the last straw, said sources. He then asked RAW to initiate action, TOI was told.
The NSA is learnt to have written to the cabinet secretary, Ajit Kumar Seth, sometime in mid-October, saying such reports based on classified information undermined national security and were an offence under the Official Secrets Act. Doval also pointed out that most leaks came from government offices and there was a need to follow official protocol related to classified information.
Seth then took up the matter with the ministers. The probe led to the petroleum ministry where Asharam, a peon with access to petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan office, turned out to be one of the key men in the racket.
READ ALSO: How it unfolded, what was leaked
Ministries and other government departments were alerted and asked to beef up their security. Once the probe began, dozens of phones were officially intercepted, after clearance from the home ministry. The investigators now have about a hundred hours of recordings to back their case.
Sources said on several occasions during the past four months fake papers were made to look like important ones to fool people under suspicion and even mock conversations were carried out to ensnare suspects. When such papers were leaked, the agencies could narrow down their probe.
Finally, armed with concrete leads and evidence, the agencies briefed ministers and bureaucrats. The NSA was informed about the breakthrough and the PM given the news. Decks were then cleared for Delhi Police commissioner B S Bassi to be brought into the picture in the second week of February. The initial choice was CBI but a top home ministry official had the last word and Bassi was asked to launch the crackdown.
The commissioner discussed the issue with two special commissioners and assigned the probe to the crime branch. The agencies also handed over crucial evidence, including call detail analysis, photographs, phone numbers and addresses of the suspects to the police. The crime branch then moved in and picked up the accused
NEW DELHI: In a sensational twist to the corporate espionage case in which sensitive petroleum ministry documents were being leaked, the crime branch on Friday evening arrested senior executives of India’s top private energy companies – Reliance Industries, Essar, Cairns India, ADAG Reliance and Jubilant Energy. Here are ten developments in the case so far.
1. The total number of arrests in the case has gone up to 12.
2. The cops are also looking for another petroleum ministry employee, Lokesh, who is currently absconding.
3. The probe has also revealed that coal and power ministry papers were being similarly leaked
4. The arrested petroleum ministry staffers also confessed that they tried to access the defence ministry but failed because the “modules” of that office were different and difficult to crack.
5. Police have denied reports appearing on TV channels that the petroleum ministry had been bugged.
6. TOI has accessed the FIR registered in case which give details of the papers recovered from the accused and reveals that even the input material on national gas grid for the FM’s forthcoming Budget speech had been leaked out.
8. Four accused in the corporate espionage case – former multi-tasking staffers at Shastri Bhawan, brothers Lalta Prasad, Rakesh Kumar, energy consultant Prayas Jain and former newspaper reporter Santanu Saikia – were on Friday remanded to police custody till February 23 by a trial court after police said the accused had to be interrogated on various aspects of the case.
The other three accused, Ishwar Singh, Asharam and Rajkumar Chaubey, were sent to two weeks of judicial custody after police said they were not required for custodial interrogation.
9. Cops tapped senior executives’ phones
The ongoing probe into leaked government documents is likely to lead to the arrest of more senior executives of top energy companies.
Investigative agencies have in their possession more than 100 hours of recorded phone conversations of five people connected with the racket, including two executives of a top energy company. These tapes indict a number of senior corporate executives, police said.
While one of two energy company officials whose phones were tapped has reportedly gone missing. The other has told cops that he has swine flu and would join investigations later.
These conversations were tapped by agencies in December and January in which the exchange of papers and the considerations involved are mentioned. The cops have also got to know around 12 bank accounts in which money was being transferred by the information seekers.
10. Govt says it is committed to transparency
The Centre on Friday said the action is aimed at inspiring “confidence in the minds of people that any wrongdoing shall not go unnoticed or unpunished”.
Speaking to the media on the issue, commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman said: “I think the government has taken a firm decision to act on this. The minister himself has said that firm action will be taken and that is the right take. It is definitely not in the interest of the country. The investigation will tell us whether it is an inherited issue. I am happy to say that this is something which has been very closely adhered to. We are on the side of keeping processes transparent and not on the side which will lead to corrupt practices.”
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UK-based billionaire Sanjay Hinduja tied the knot with Anu Mahtani this week in Udaipur, and the wedding was an Indian fairytale.
Think three days (starting February 10) spent in a palace, celebrating with Bollywood stars and watching performances by international celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and ex-Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger, who flew down specially for the event. Doesn’t get much bigger than that.
The guest list was hefty, with stars like Preity Zinta, Shilpa Shetty, Raveena Tandon, Sophie Choudry and Dino Morea joined by designer Manish Malhotra (who dressed the bride). Other stars attending also joined Lopez and Scherzinger in the performances: Arjun Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, and Shibani Dandekar. Sohail and Seema Khan also attended, along with Maheep and Sanjay Kapoor.
Some of the best Instagram posts you’ll find under the newlyweds’ many hashtags – #SanjayAnuWedding, #SanjayHinduja and #SanjayAnu – include a video of Jennifer Lopez killing the stage in a black leotard…
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Islamabad: Pakistan on Saturday said all outstanding issues with India will be discussed during Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar’s upcoming visit to Islamabad.
Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said so far dates for the visit of the Indian foreign secretary had not been finalised.
Pakistan is committed to having a meaningful dialogue with India and had never backtracked, she said at a news briefing.
She also criticised India over the ‘boat’ controversy saying Pakistan had already stated that its boats were not involved in the incident.
Aslam said that contradictory statements issued by top Indian officials prove “the boat issue was a drama that has now been exposed”.
She also said that India had not shared any reports about the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing that killed 68 people, mostly Pakistanis, adding that the Indian government should share complete details of the investigation with Pakistan.
PTI
Mumbai: Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam Friday demanded that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis should intervene to ensure that MERC rejects the proposal of Reliance Energy to hike the electricity rates for Mumbai suburban consumers.
Talking to reporters here, Nirupam, former MP from Mumbai North parliamentary constituency, said Fadnavis should also probe the nexus between the power supply company and MERC.
“The government led by my party’s Chief Minister did not do anything in this regard. My agitation against the unjust power tariff levy of Reliance Energy went in vain as no action was taken,” he said recalling his hunger strike against the high electricity rates for low-end users.
Nirupam said people of Mumbai had voted for BJP in large numbers and hence Fadnavis should take steps to ensure that they are not burdened with unnecessary power tariff hike.
“As per the proposal, there will be 16 per cent hike for 0-300 units consumption while 45 per cent hike for high-end users. Fadnavis should see to it that the hike for poor consumers is not allowed while some adjustments can be made for high-end users,” Nirupam said.
“The government should represent the case of common man of Mumbai with the MERC,” he said.
Nirupam said the nexus of MERC officials and the company should also be probed.
“I will resume my agitation again if the demand is not met,” he said.
The proposed hike will adversely impact lives of lakhs of consumers who are already burdened with high cost of most essentials, he said.
“I am particularly concerned about the low end users who are not in a position to pay increased electricity tariff. Several analysts have also opined that the hike is unjustified,” he said.
PTI
Mumbai: With swine flu taking alarming proportions, Mumbai Mayor Snehal Ambekar on Thursday called it a “heart disease” and made a bizarre suggestion that the municipal authority will plant trees to check the disease.
“Swine flu is a heart disease… Hence, BMC will plant trees, develop gardens and parks to check swine flu,” Ambekar told reporters after garlanding the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj here today, on the occasion of his birth anniversary.
Swine flu, caused by an infection of H1N1 virus, has claimed over 650 lives across the country and affected over 10,000 people. In Maharashtra, 83 disease-related deaths have been reported so far.
PTI
New Delhi: After a week in office, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said his government was going to cut power tariff and launch a free water scheme “very soon” in line with election promises made by Aam Aadmi Party.
Kejriwal said his government has already finalised a “blue-print” on issues relating to power and water which were focus areas for AAP during the election campaign while it will take at least a year to make Delhi a “wi-fi city”.
“Our team has rolled out a blue-print for electricity and water. I hope to give the good news to you all very soon to reduce the rates of power and water. We are working on the lines of our governance model that we followed during our 49- day stint,” Kejriwal said.
The Chief Minister said his government was also working on implementing the poll promise of free wi-fi and added that it will take at least one year.
“A few days back, you all voted for us giving a heavy majority. Congratulations to you all. It’s a big burden. It’s a big responsibility. You all have very high hope. We are working round-the-clock. We are focusing on work and talking less,” Kejriwal said.
He was speaking after inaugurating the annual Garden Tourism Festival at Saket in South Delhi.
In its manifesto, AAP had promised to cut power tariff by 50 per cent immediately after coming to power and said the rates will be revised based on the findings of an CAG audit which the Kejriwal government had announced during its first stint.
He said people of the city have lot of expectations from his government on the electricity and water issues and it was going to fulfil them.
The AAP in its manifesto had also promised 20 kilolitres (20,000 litres) of free water to every household per month. The previous AAP government had introduced the free water scheme but it was discontinued after it quit.
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