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Sep 28, 2021

BJP Gets First MP from UT in Rajya Sabha

Union Ministers Sarbananda Sonowal and L. Murugan were elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Assam and Madhya Pradesh, respectively.
BJP nominee S. Selvaganapathy was declared elected unopposed to the lone seat in Rajya Sabha from Puducherry, the first time the saffron party has got representation in the Upper House from the Union Territory, while DMK's two nominees, Kanimozhi N V N Somu and K R N Rajeshkumar, were elected without contest from Tamil Nadu.
Sushmita Dev, who left the Congress and joined the Trinamool Congress a little over a month ago, was declared elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from West Bengal.

Former Goa CM Luizinho Faleiro Resigns as Congress MLA

Former Goa Chief Minister and Congress leader Luizinho Faleiro resigned as member of the state Legislative Assembly and is likely to join the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Faleiro, who represented the Navelim Assembly seat and was recently made the Goa Congress's campaign committee chief in the wake of the state polls due next year.
With his resignation, the Congress's strength in the 40-member House has been reduced to four.

BJP MLA Nimaben Acharya Gujarat Assembly's First Woman Speaker

Veteran legislator Nimaben Acharya was unanimously elected the first woman Speaker of the Gujarat Assembly, which met for the two-day monsoon session.
A three-time BJP MLA and a two-time Congress MLA, Ms. Acharya is one of the senior most MLAs in the State.
The name of the MLA from Bhuj, Kutch, was proposed by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and the Opposition Congress supported her nomination.
For the first time after the formation of Gujarat in 1960, the Assembly has a woman Speaker.
The election has been necessitated after Rajendra Trivedi resigned and joined the Cabinet which took over earlier this month when Vijay Rupani and his entire Cabinet had resigned.

Sep 27, 2021

Yogi Inducts Seven New Ministers

Jitin Prasada, who switched from the Congress to the BJP was inducted in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet while six others took oath as ministers of state.
Jitin Prasada was allotted the technical education portfolio.
The expansion of the council of ministers took place as the BJP prepares for the assembly elections in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh early next year.
The oath was administered by Governor Anandiben Patel at a function in the Gandhi auditorium in the Raj Bhavan in the presence of the Chief Minister.
The new MoS are Paltu Ram, Chhatarpal Gangwar, Sangeeta Balwant Bind, Dharamveer Prajapati, Sanjeev Kumar Gaur and Dinesh Khatik.

Punjab Cabinet Expansion

The oath-taking ceremony of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi-led Punjab cabinet took place at the Raj Bhawan and saw the induction of new faces.
As of now, Congress MLAs Brahm Mohindra and Manpreet Singh Badal, Tript Singh Bajwa, Aruna Chaudhary, Sukhbinder Sarkaria, and Rana Gurjeet Singh took oath as Cabinet ministers in the Channi-led Punjab Government, at Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh.
They were administered the oath of the office of by Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit.

PM Launches Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, under which a digital health ID will be provided to people that will contain their health records, and asserted that it has the potential to bring revolutionary changes in healthcare.
In his address after the launch, Modi said that the mission marks a new phase in efforts of the last seven years to strengthen health facilities.
The pilot project of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission was announced by the Prime Minister on August 15, 2020.
Currently, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is being implemented in a pilot phase in six union territories.

Sep 26, 2021

Anirudh Tiwari is New Punjab Chief Secretary

The new political dispensation in Punjab, headed by Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, has chosen Anirudh Tiwari as the new Chief Secretary. He was serving as the Additional Chief Secretary, Development.
Tiwari replaces Vini Mahajan, handpicked by former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh in June 2020. Mahajan was the first woman to be appointed to the post.

Sep 25, 2021

Former Nagaland Governor R. N. Ravi Resigns as Centre's Interlocutor for Naga Peace Talks

Former Nagaland Governor R. N. Ravi resigned as the Centre's interlocutor for Naga peace talks.
The Ministry of Home Affairs accepted his resignation with immediate effect.
Ravi currently serves as the Governor of Tamil Nadu.
Ravi was leading the peace negotiations with the Nagaland insurgent group NSCN-IM since 2014. He continued his role as the interlocutor even after he was appointed the governor of Nagaland in July 2019.

Sep 24, 2021

UP Elections 2022: BJP to Contest in Alliance with Nishad Party, Apna Dal

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be contesting the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in alliance with Nishad Party and Apna Dal, BJP's UP election in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan announced.
Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh said that the election will be fought under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Rajiv Bansal Appointed Aviation Secretary

Air India Chairman Rajiv Bansal has been appointed as the new aviation secretary as part of a major top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre.
K. Rajaraman, Additional Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs, has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Telecommunications.
Rajaraman will take over the charge from Anshu Prakash who is due to superannuate on September 30.
Bansal, a 1988 batch lAS officer of Nagaland cadre, will replace Pradeep Singh Kharola, upon his retirement this month-end.

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