PM Modi to launch projects worth Rs 487 crore on August 5 in Ayodhya

PM Narendra Modi, who is relied upon to visit Ayodhya on August 5 to establish the framework of Lord Ram sanctuary, will likewise dispatch improvement, the travel industry and foundation ventures totalling Rs 487 crore during his concise visit to the sanctuary town.
While ventures worth more than Rs 161 crore would be introduced by the PM, others worth almost Rs 326 crore would observer their establishment laying in Ayodhya.
As per the Uttar Pradesh government, the activities proposed to be initiated one month from now relate to the wellbeing, the travel industry and transport divisions. They incorporate common and improvement works in the nearby government medical clinic costing Rs 135 crore, aside from the beautification of Laxman Qila Ghat at an expense of over Rs 10 crore.
The undertakings arranged for establishment laying relate to the urban turn of events, culture, the travel industry and open works division (PWD) offices. It incorporates extending of the parkway associating Bahraich, Ayodhya and Azamgarh with the undertaking cost pegged at about Rs 252 crore.
On July 17, boss pastor Yogi Adityanath had held a video gathering with senior authorities in Ayodhya and underlined the need concurred by the state government to the different tasks in the sanctuary town taking into account the proposed laying of the Lord Ram sanctuary.
A week ago, the UP Bullion Association had given silver blocks gauging in excess of 33 kg to the Temple Trust for establishing as framework for the much anticipated sanctuary. The Trust was established on the headings of the Supreme Court for encouraging the development of the sanctuary.
Prior, Temple Trust president and unmistakable soothsayer Mahant Nritya Gopal Das had seen that the sanctuary would be built with assets and deliberate commitments from the overall population.

As per the provisional program, a silver piece weighing about 40 kg will be set in the sanctum sanctorum of the proposed Lord Ram sanctuary during the establishment laying service by the PM. The strict ceremonies would be managed by the clerics from Varanasi. The establishment of the sanctuary is planned to be laid around 12.13 pm, considered as the favorable time dependent on galactic counts by the Hindu clerics and soothsayers.

UP cops arrest Dr Kafeel Khan from Mumbai airport for 'inflammatory' speech

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The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has captured Dr Kafeel Khan from Mumbai air terminal for purportedly offering fiery expressions at AMU during fights the Citizenship Amendments Act (CAA) a month ago, authorities said.
Khan was captured on Wednesday night with help from Mumbai Police at the air terminal when he landed in the city to go to against CAA fights, an authority said.
"Authorities of the UP STF captured Dr Kafeel Khan for a situation which was enrolled at Civil Lines Police Station under segment 153 An (advancing animosity between various gatherings) of IPC. Our police group helped our UP partners on their solicitation," said an authority from Mumbai Police.
He asserted that Khan had offered incendiary expressions on December 12 a year ago during the dissent close Bab e Syed Gate outside the Aligarh Muslim University before in excess of 600 understudies.
The authority additionally affirmed that the Gorakhpur specialist had offered questionable remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The FIR against Khan makes reference to that Swaraj India's leader Yogendra Yadav was likewise present during the discourse at AMU.
Following the capture for the situation, Khan was taken to the Sahar Police Station and in the wake of finishing customs he will be taken to UP on travel remand, the authority said.

Khan, a pediatrician, had gone to the spotlight in 2017 when a contention broke out after the demise of more than 60 kids in under seven days at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur, UP...Read More

In next ten days, 5,000 more Shaheen Baghs to come up across country: Azad

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In the following 10 days, there will be 5,000 more dissent destinations like Shaheen Bagh the nation over, Bhim Army boss Chandrashekhar Azad said on Wednesday evening as he arrived at the famous show spot in south Delhi to stretch out his help to the ladies challenging CAA and NRC.
Tending to a gigantic social event, the Dalit pioneer said the Citizenship Amendment Act is a "dark law" that is separating individuals on strict lines.
"I compliment the individuals who have taken an interest in this dissent. This isn't only a political unsettling. We need to spare the Constitution and solidarity of the country," he told the ladies who have been organizing a protest against the CAA for over a month now.
Azad said even the record-breaking cold has not had the option to break the resolution of the ladies dissidents. The group, singing Faiz Ahmed Faiz's Urdu ballad 'Murmur Dekhnege' before Azad's appearance, got charged as he arrived at the setting.
Holding the Constitution, he stated, "I guarantee you that in next 10 days there will be in any event 5,000 Shaheen Baghs the nation over". Azad said that prior everybody had caught wind of Jallianwala Bagh, yet now they were discussing Shaheen Bagh. "In the event that you have the boldness of penance, at that point you need to forfeit with holding your exhibition calmly," he said. "Till the Bhim Army is here, this law would not be relevant and they need to experience my body (to execute it)," Azad said.

"The court is stating that we should regard our Prime Minister. I do and I will do in light of the fact that the constitution says this. Be that as it may, the Prime Minister likewise needs to regard the constitution of this nation," he said. The dissenters hailed Azad and brought mottos up in his help... Read More

In UP, income tax for CM and ministers is paid by the treasury, since 1981

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The Uttar Pradesh state government exchequer has been paying the income tax of all the chief ministers and ministers since 1981, reports Times of India. A law, Uttar Pradesh Ministers' Salaries, Allowances and Miscellaneous Act 1981, passed by then Chief Minister VP Singh, stated that since the ministers were poor and had meagre salaries and could not afford to pay the tax. It should be noted that UP is one of the poorest states in India.
Since then UP had 19 Chief Ministers and over 1,000 minsters.
A section of the Act says, “Every minister and minister of state shall be entitled, throughout term of his office, to a salary of one thousand rupees per month. Every deputy minister shall be entitled, throughout the term of his office, to a salary of six hundred and fifty rupees per month. "The salary referred to in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall be exclusive of the tax payable in respect of such salary (including perquisites) under any law relating to income tax for the time being in force, and such tax shall be borne by the state government.”
The list of chief ministers who have had the UP treasury pay their tax includes Kalyan Singh and Rajnath Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party, Mayawati of Bahujan Samaj Party, and the incumbent Yogi Adityanath.

 In the current financial year, the income tax bill of Adityanath and his council of ministers was around Rs 86 lakh and was paid from the state treasury. UP principal secretary (finance) Sanjiv Mittal, confirmed as much to Times of India.

Chasing govt jobs, desperate youth flock coaching hubs year after year

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GN Shakya is a veteran of Allahabad’s test preparation centres. Like many others, he has been in pursuit of a secure government job for years--in his case, 16 years. During this time, he has amassed five degrees (BA, MA, LLB, B.Ed and M.Ed), and performed odd-jobs, all while studying for the professional examinations. “What work will we do when half our life goes by in finding a job?” he asked when we visited in early April 2019.

This near-dejection has not caught hold of Deepak Maurya yet. Dressed in a white vest and shorts, the 17-year-old has just completed his 12th grade exams and taken a train to Allahabad, “taiyyari ke liye”--“to prepare”.

Maurya is staying with a relative in a room in one of the many lodges in the neighborhoods around the University of Allahabad.

This particular lodge houses about 20 people in a handful of 8ft by 9ft rooms, all of them doing taiyyari--for competitive exams for government jobs.

The test-preparation industry thrives in many parts of India, some of the most prominent in the north being Delhi; Allahabad, which attracts aspirants from eastern Uttar Pradesh; Jaipur and Jodhpur in Rajasthan; as well as smaller cities such as Sikar in the eponymous district in Rajasthan for those who cannot afford to go to big cities such as Jaipur.

Localities such as Vivek Vihar in Jaipur, Katra and Baghada neighbourhoods of Allahabad, and Mukherji Nagar, Rajendra Nagar and Munirka in Delhi, contain concentrations of the educated unemployed--those who constitute India’s historic demographic potential, vying for a shrinking pool of secure employment opportunities.


 In near-identical neighbourhoods across these cities, thousands of youngsters spend some of their most productive years preparing for exams that may or may not get them government jobs.

Four crucial messages emerging from the Mayawati-Mulayam kiss-and-make-up

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When Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav recently held a joint rally in Mainpuri in which the Bahujan Samaj Party chief appealed to the public to vote for Mulayam Singh Yadav, it created a new political frame that sough to bury the long-standing animosity between the BSP and the Samajwadi Party.

It may be recalled that the two parties fell out in response to the 'guesthouse scandal' in Lucknow 24 years ago, when the Mayawati outfit's withdrawal of support to the coalition led to the collapse of Mulayam Singh government in 1995.

But in this rally, Mayawati, seated between Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav, accorded full respect to the SP patriarch when he came on the dais. The body language of the three leaders reflected good chemistry between these once political rivals. Mulayam Singh Yadav appealed to his supporters to respect Mayawati, stating that she always extended support when it was needed. Mayawati, on her part, appealed strongly to her supporters to vote for Mulayam Singh and the gathbandhan in this election, asserting that he was the real leader of the backward classes, unlike Narendra Modi, whom she called a fake backward.

What are the messages that emerged from this joint rally and what will their impact be in the 2019 elections long-term politics of Uttar Pradesh?


 The first is that Mayawati was trying hard to convince her followers to support Mulayam Singh Yadav and other candidates of the gathbandhan, most of whom are Samajwadi leaders in a region in which the third phase of polling will take place in UP. This domain is typically a Yadav bastion and is famously called ‘Yadav-Land’, although it has a sizeable population of Muslims as well. The constituencies here include Sambhal, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Badaun, Aonla, Bareilly, and Pilibhit. This is an area where the Yadavs own lands on which many Dalits work as landless labourers. It is also a region in which an emergent rural and urban Dalit middle class is lending voice to its weaker brethren...Read More

Reservation should be based on population, says BJP UP ally Apna Dal

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Diverse views of BJP allies Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) and Apna Dal (Sonelal) in Uttar Pradesh on reservation to backward classes have become thorn in the flesh for the ruling party ahead of Lok Sabha polls.

While the SBSP has given 100 days' ultimatum to the BJP to implement recommendations of a social justice committee on backward reservations, the Apna Dal (Sonelal) has raised questions on the basis of the report without caste census.

The committee constituted in May last year had in its recommendations to the state government favoured division of backward castes in three categories -- backward, 'ati picchda' (very backward) and 'sarvadhik picchda' (most backward).

"The recommendations of the committee cannot be implemented without caste census. The government should first do caste census and then implement any such recommendation.

The reservation should be according to 'jiski jitni sankhya bhari, uski utni bhagidaari' (based on population). And when the government has not done any census, how can it provide quota within quota," Union minister and Apna Dal (S) leader Anupriya Patel said.

"If without caste census, the government implements the recommendations, it will be seen as a move of the government to create infighting among backwards," she said.


 On the other had, SBSP chief and cabinet minister Om Prakash Rajbhar said, "If the government does not implement recommendations of the report within 100 days, my party will leave the BJP and contest on all 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh."

Priyanka takes up Congress role in UP after over a decade behind the scenes

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With the general elections less than 90 days away, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday appointed his sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, general secretary in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, which constitutes roughly 40 Lok Sabha seats, including their family bastions of Amethi and Rae Bareli and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi constituency.

Priyanka, who turned 47 earlier this month, has been an important, behind-the-scenes figure in the party’s decision-making processes for over a decade, but Wednesday’s announcement marks her official political debut. With UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi having already indicated her desire to retire from electoral politics, the move could pave the way for Priyanka’s entry into the electoral arena and she could contest from Rae Bareli, the seat currently represented by her mother, party sources said.

Her appointment, however, opened the Congress to renewed attacks from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over “dynastic politics” and "lack of inner-democracy". BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra said the Congress had admitted to Rahul Gandhi having “failed” in providing leadership.


 The Congress's allies, including Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav, welcomed the news, though. Congress strategists believe Priyanka's charisma would help the party perform better in key states of UP and Bihar in the Lok Sabha polls. The appointment has ramifications, at least in UP, not just for the principal rival BJP, but also the frenemies Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP)...Read More