In a jolt to BJP in Punjab, Navjot Singh Sidhu today resigned from Rajya Sabha, only about three months after his nomination by the government, as speculation raged that he could join Aam Aadmi Party and be its face in the Assembly polls next year.
The resignation of 52-year-old Sidhu, who was nominated on April 22, has been accepted by Chairman Hamid Ansari with immediate effect, the House was informed today.
While he was not available for comments, there is talk of Sidhu joining the AAP ahead of the state elections and may be made the party’s face in the state. Sidhu did not answer calls made to him.
Top AAP leaders Sanjay Singh and Lok Sabha member Bhagwant Singh Mann welcomed Sidhu’s decision to resign from Rajya Sabha but parried questions whether he would join the party and become its CM face.
In a brief statement on his resignation, Sidhu did not reveal much about his future plans but there were indications that he was miffed with the state of affairs in his party.
Today Sardar Navjoyot sidhu has resigned from RS.
“At the behest of the honourable PM, I had accepted the Rajya Sabha nomination for the welfare of punjab.
“With the closure of every window leading to Punjab the purpose stands defeated. It is now a mere burden. I prefer not to carry it.
“In the war of right or wrong, you can’t afford to be neutral rather than being self-centered. Punjab’s interest is paramount,” said the 52-year-old former cricketer-turned politician, who had represented Amritsar in the Lok Sabha between 2004 and 2014.
Sources said that Sidhu has been miffed with the party ever since he made way way for Arun Jaitley in Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
His wife, Navjot Kaur, who is Chief Parliamentary Secretary in Punjab where BJP shares power with Akali Dal, had created a flutter on April 1 (April Fool’s day) announcing her resignation from the BJP.
“The burden is over,” she had written on her Facebook post on April 1, but after a meeting with top BJP leaders in Delhi, she said, “All is well” and she is very much a part of BJP in Punjab.
Both Sidhu and his wife share an uneasy relationship with the Akali leadership and have made open attacks on Akali Dal and its leadership on governance issues.
Kickstarting AAP’s campaign for the 2017 Gujarat assembly polls, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal today asked the people to get rid of “hooligans” and “corrupt” persons.
Kejriwal, who is on a day-long visit to the state, visited the famous Somnath temple here and sought blessings of Lord Shiva. Thereafter, while addressing a gathering of farmers on the outskirts of Somnath city, he targeted the BJP governments at the Centre and the state.
“We will have to fight these goondas (hooligans). These goondas do not understand without a fight…Now, media will say that Kejriwal’s language is bad. But you need to tell a goonda that he is a goonda,” he said.
“These media-persons are asking me if I will fight the elections in Gujarat. I say that we are very small people and do not have the capacity to fight elections. It is for the people of Gujarat to decide whether we should fight elections here,” Kejriwal said.
He went on to ask the gathering if we should fight the elections to which those present answered in the affirmative.
Reacting to that, Kejriwal said, “If you want me to fight, you will have to give money, you will have to go to each house and seek votes. We will together teach a lesson to these corrupt people,” Kejriwal said.
Kejriwal’s scheduled visit to Surat tomorrow had to be cancelled after a trade body, which had invited him, withdrew its invitation, following which the AAP had alleged that this was at the behest of state BJP government.
The AAP leader accused Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel of getting the Surat programme cancelled.
“My original programme of Gujarat was of two days.
Today we were to visit Somnath and tomorrow we had meeting scheduled in Surat. But Anandibenji put undue pressure on businessmen in Surat and got our programme cancelled. I don’t know why Anandibenji is afraid of me,” Kejriwal said.
“Anandiben can stop my meeting of Surat. But she cannot stop my meeting with Lord Shiva, so I decided to come to Gujarat for a meeting with Lord Shiva here,” he said.
Like in Delhi, they are using the police to suppress the voice of those who are against them. In their view, only those who follow the ideology of BJP are patriots while all other are anti-nationals, he said.PTI
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today said the Narendra Modi-led NDA government will make academicians, teachers and students partners in improving quality of education.
In his first public programme after assuming charge of the crucial portfolio, the Minister also said he will try to solve the grievances of teachers and students on issues related to education.
Addressing students and teachers at a central school here, Javadekar, who has replaced Smriti Irani as HRD Minister, sought “cooperation of everybody” to improve quality of education, particularly in Kendriya Vidyalayas and other educational institutions in the country.
“That is what will make the nation great nation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid emphasis on quality of education and we all will be travelling in that direction.
“Therefore, there are educationists, there are officers, you are students, and teachers…all will be partner in our endeavour to improve the quality of education,” he said.
The Minister while interacting with students and teachers, received a memorandum from a teacher.
“If minister goes to a programme and he doesn’t receive a memorandum, he will feel that he has not done anything. But I am not only taking this memorandum, I will read it and I will solve it,” Javadekar said.
Soon after assuming charge, the minister had said education is not a subject for “party politics” and he was open to suggestions from everyone.
Javadekar had said education should be seen as an “emancipator” and “agent of change” and he would come out with a roadmap after consultations with the Prime Minister and others including Irani.
During the interaction with students, Javadekar said his 92-year-old mother who stays with him was a primary school teacher herself and he “values” teachers’ contribution to the society.
“My mother is 92. She was a primary school teacher. She taught me. Tomorrow, I am organising a programme in Pune.
Everybody wanted to felicitate me. I told them don’t felicitate me. Instead I will felicitate my teachers who taught me in Schools and Colleges. So, tomorrow I am organising a programme- Guruvandana– in Pune,” he said.PTI
Reliving history, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today retraced Mahatma Gandhi’s train journey in South Africa as he travelled to a railway station where Gandhi was thrown out of a train compartment that proved to be a turning point in his life.
On the second day of his visit to South Africa, Modi boarded a train at Pentrich and travelled to Pietermaritzburg, a distance of around 15 km, paying tribute to Gandhi’s fight against racial discrimination.
On 7 June 1893, while Gandhi was on his way to Pretoria from Durban, a white man objected to his presence in a first-class carriage, and he was ordered to move to the third- class compartment.
Gandhi had a valid first-class ticket and refused to obey the orders following which he was thrown out of the train at Pietermaritzburg station in a winter night.
He had stayed at the station that night in shivering cold and the bitter incident had played a major role in Gandhi’s decision to stay on in South Africa and fight the racial discrimination against Indians there.
The Prime Minister visited the spot where Gandhi was offloaded from the train.
Modi will also visit the Phoenix Settlement, which is very closely associated with Gandhi.
“PM travels from Pentrich Railway Station to Pietermaritzburg. Train resembles the one on which Gandhi ji travelled,” the PMO tweeted.
After talks with South African President Jacob Zuma, the Prime Minister yesterday had paid glowing tribute to Gandhi as well as Nelson Mandela.
“For me personally, this visit is an opportunity to pay homage to two of the greatest human souls to have ever walked this Earth – Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela,” Modi had said.
He further said, “We stood together in our common fight against racial subjugation and colonialism. It was in South Africa that Gandhi found his true calling. He belongs as much to India as to South Africa.PTI
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and over 60 Aam Aadmi Party legislators were detained by police today while they were on their way to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence here to protest the arrest of a party MLA.
The MLAs were detained for violating prohibitory orders around 7 RCR.
The protest march comes a day after AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya was arrested on charges of molestation and sexual harassment amidst high drama when he was addressing a press conference.
Mohaniya, who is also vice chairman of Delhi Jal Board, was picked up by a police team while addressing a press conference at his office in Khanpur. He was booked for allegedly misbehaving with a group of women who approached him with a complaint regarding water crisis in their locality.
Sisodia said although they were detained and taken to the Parliament Police Station, he and his partymen were ready to go to Tihar Jail.
“Modiji, you have arrested us and kept us in Parliament Street Police Station. We are ready to go to Tihar Jail. But do not stop the work of Delhi,” he tweeted.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had earlier tweeted, “Complaint filed against Manish Sisodia yesterday. Manish will go to 7, RCR today to surrender himself before PM,” he said.
Sisodia had yesterday tweeted, “Modiji, your enmity is with us. Arrest us. But do not stop the work of Delhi. We all are coming to surrender before you”.
The Deputy CM had yesterday said when he went for a surprise inspection at Gazipur Mandi, some people who were running illegal business, registered a complaint alleging that he had threatened them.
“I am sure that Modiji will tomorrow, will convert this complaint into accusations like violence, eve teasing a girl and extortion and get me arrested,” he had stated.
Referring to yesterday’s incident, Special CP Law and Order North S B K Singh said the president of Gazipur Aadhti Association had given a letter at Gazipur Police Station stating that Sisodia adopted a “dictatorial attitude” on hearing their grievances during his visit to Gazipur Mandi.
“He was worried that Sisodia could get something wrong organised due to his position. No police action is made out in the matter,” he said.PTI
India and Qatar are expected to give a fresh push to their economic ties, particularly in the hydrocarbon sector, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds talks with this energy-rich country’s leadership tomorrow amid his keenness to attract investments for development back home.
Modi will also address top business leaders of Qatar, a country which is India’s largest supplier of LNG requirements, accounting for 65 per cent of its total imports last financial year.
During the interaction with the business community tomorrow morning, the Prime Minister is likely to seek greater investments, particularly in the infrastructure sector.
He will then hold detailed talks with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on a range of bilateral issues as well as regional and international matters of mutual concern.
The discussions are expected to focus on energy but various other aspects of the relationship will also come up during the talks, sources said here today.
Both sides are expected to sign a few agreements.
Qatar is an important trading partner for India in the Gulf region with bilateral trade in 2014-15 exceeding USD 15 billion. It is also one of India’s key sources of crude oil.
At present, a number of Indian companies are involved in construction activities related to the FIFA World Cup being hosted by Qatar in 2022.
Modi, who is visiting Doha from today for a two-day trip, will also address the Indian workers at a labour camp here.
The Indian diaspora of over 6,30,000 form the largest expatriate community in Qatar and constitutes a substantial percentage of the country’s population.
The Prime Minister has been focusing on improving ties with the Gulf region which is crucial for India’s energy security. He has already visited United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
It will be the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Qatar in the last eight years. The then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had visited Doha in 2008.
“India’s historical and close relations with Qatar is marked by mutually beneficial commercial exchanges and extensive people-to-people contacts,” External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup had said a few days back while announcing the visit.
There has been regular exchange of high-level bilateral visits in the recent past. The Emir of Qatar had visited India in March 2015. Previously, the then Emir of Qatar had visited India in 1999, 2005 and 2012.
From here, the Prime Minister will travel to Switzerland on way to the US.PTI
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BJP President Amit Shah today charged the AINRC government here with having failed to bring in several welfare measures the NDA government had evolved and implemented in many states to help the youth, farmers, poor women and other sections of society.
“The AINRC government has failed to implement several welfare measures that the NDA government headed by Narendra Modi evolved and implemented in several states to help the youth, farmers, poor women and other sections of society,” he said at an election rally here.
BJP is fighting the May 16 Assembly polls in the union territory on its own.
Shah alleged that neither DMK, AIADMK, Congress nor AINRC governments had addressed the concerns of people, though the union territory offered good scope for development.
He listed various welfare measures the NDA government had brought about in the last two years and said the AINRC government had not emulated the MUDRA scheme for youth.
“This scheme has been of help for enterprising youth and more than l.5 crore persons had benefitted in different parts of the country. It is really sad that the AINRC government had not enforced the scheme here,” he said.
Shah said successive governments in Puducherry had not met the housing requirements of the poor.
“The Prime Minister’s Awas Yojana now implemented holds the key to tackle problem of housing of the poor and this will be taken up if BJP is voted to power in Puducherry”, he added.
Voicing concern over continued closure of industrial units due to “poor governance” by AINRC,he said the previous UPA regime at the Centre that was in power for 10 years had also not tackled the sufferings of Tamil fishermen in Sri Lanka.
Alleging more than 550 Tamil fishermen had been killed by Sri Lankan navy during the 10 year UPA rule, he said they had done nothing to relieve fishermen in the island republic of their sufferings.
He also charged Tamil Nadu and Puducherry governments with failing to take steps to protect the fishermen.
“Not even a single fisherman has been killed since the present NDA government was installed in office two years ago in Delhi,” he said, adding that the welfare of fishermen had been taken care of by the present Central government.
Shah said the scheme to provide free LPG cylinder connection would be implemented in Puducherry.
He urged people to vote BJP to power so that benefits of several Central government welfare measures would be available to them.PTI
The condition of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who was admitted to AIIMS with fever, chest congestion with features of pneumonia, is showing signs of improvement, the hospital today said.
“A medical team of specialists is looking after her. Her current condition is stable and she is showing signs of improvement,” a statement issued by AIIMS said.
A medical board has been constituted to formulate the combined treatment strategy for the minister.
64-year-old Swaraj was admitted to the Cardio-Neuro Centre of AIIMS on April 24.
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