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NATIONAL AFFAIRS - October 2015

Oct 2015

Feb 03, 2021

BJP Appoints Election in-charges for Puducherry, 3 Poll-bound States

  • The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced election in-charges for three poll-bound states and Union Territory of Puducherry that will pick new assemblies in the next few months.
  • Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar has been appointed the election-in-charge for Assam while Union minister of state (MoS) in the Prime Minister's Office, Jitendra Singh has been given the additional charge.
  • The BJP leadership also appointed MoS for home affairs G. Kishan Reddy as the in-charge for Tamil Nadu and Dr. VK Singh as the deputy in-charge.
  • Prahlad Joshi, Union minister for parliamentary affairs will oversee elections in Kerala and deputy CM of Karnataka, Ashwath Narayan will be the deputy in charge. For Puducherry, the party has named Union minister of state for Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and parliamentary affairs Arjun Singh Meghwal as in-charge and national spokesperson Rajeev Chandrasekhar as the deputy.

PFRDA Allows Aadhaar-based Online, e-KYC to Open NPS Account

  • The Pension Funds Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) allowed online Aadhaar e-KYC process for onboarding of new subscribers under the National Pension System (NPS).
  • The permission given by Dept of Revenue to perform online e KYC shall further simplify the process of account opening since the process offers the Subscribers a unique experience of NPS Digital Journey.
  • Last year in May, the regulator had allowed Aadhaar-based offline paperless KYC (Know Your Customer) for onboarding of new subscribers under the pension plan. The process helped in immediate activation of NPS accounts following instant KYC verification and also immediate deposit of NPS contribution by the subscriber.

Aero India takes off on Feb 3 amidst Covid, buzz around 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat'

  • With a combination of both physical and virtual exhibition, the 13th edition of the biennial international event at Air Force Station Yelahanka will be the world's first hybrid aerospace show.
  • The country's premier aerospace and defence exhibition, Aero India 2021 takes off here amidst the Covid-19 pandemic with buzz around "AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan" and "Make in India" push.

Feb 02, 2021

AAP Launches Campaign "Uttarakhand me bhi Kejriwal"

  • Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leader and deputy chief minister of Delhi launched a mass outreach campaign named "Uttarakhand me bhi Kejriwal (Kejriwal in Uttarakhand too)" to prepare for the 2022 assembly polls in the state.
  • During the event, Sisodia flagged off 70 vans with five party workers each. The vans will travel to each of the 70 constituencies and AAP members will hold a total of 6,500 public meetings in the next 45 days with a target to add one lakh new party members in the state.
  • The senior AAP leader alleged that the BJP and Congress have taken turns to exploit the state in the last 20 years while depriving its people of development.

Darjeeling's GJM, an Ally of TMC, Wants National Body for Gorkhas

  • The Binoy Tamang faction of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), which is in charge of Darjeeling's autonomous administrative body, demanded the formation of a national statutory body, to be named All India Gorkha Assembly, for the development of Gorkhas across India.
  • The Tamang faction of the GJM is an ally of West Bengal's ruling party Trinamool Congress (TMC).
  • The All India Gorkha Assembly should be formed by amending the Constitution. The proposed body will not operate within any designated geophysical area. It will be a pan-India statutory development body and all elected people's representatives from the community should be its members.
  • "The Indo Bhutan Treaty of 1949 and Indo Nepal Friendship Treaty of 1950 should be reviewed to grant constitutional justice to Gorkhas," said Tamang.

Ramesh Pokhriyal Addresses the ASEAN India Hackathon

  • The Union Education Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal addressed the ASEAN India Hackathon.
  • Pokhriyal highlighted that, The ASEAN-INDIA Hackathon was inaugurated to further strengthen the India and ASEAN ties.
  • The background of the India-ASEAN hackathon lies in the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's call during the India-Singapore hackathon in the year 2019.
  • The common challenges of the countries are categorsed under two themes namely the "Blue Economy" and "Education".
  • The hackathon provides an opportunity to take forward the economic and cultural ties of both ASEAN and India through their collaboration in education, science and technology.
  • The hackathon will help in the enactment of six fundamental virtues of our civilisation namely, dialogue, respect, peace, cooperation, prosperity and innovation.
  • The ASEAN-INDIA Hackathon initiative is undertaken by the Ministry of Education. In the year 2021, the hackathon is being organized online from February 1 to 3, 2021. The hackathon will offer new opportunities for all the 10 ASEAN countries and India to strengthen their economic and cultural ties by collaborating into the fields of education, science and technology.

Darjeeling's GJM, an Ally of TMC, Wants National Body for Gorkhas

  • The Binoy Tamang faction of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), which is in charge of Darjeeling's autonomous administrative body, demanded the formation of a national statutory body, to be named All India Gorkha Assembly, for the development of Gorkhas across India.
  • The Tamang faction of the GJM is an ally of West Bengal's ruling party Trinamool Congress (TMC).
  • The All India Gorkha Assembly should be formed by amending the Constitution. The proposed body will not operate within any designated geophysical area. It will be a pan-India statutory development body and all elected people's representatives from the community should be its members.
  • "The Indo Bhutan Treaty of 1949 and Indo Nepal Friendship Treaty of 1950 should be reviewed to grant constitutional justice to Gorkhas," said Tamang.

Maharashtra Tops Justice Delivery in India Justice Report 2020

  • The second edition of the India Justice Report, India's only ranking of states on delivery of Justice to people, was announced. Maharashtra once again at the top of the 18 Large and Mid-sized states (with a population of over one crore each) in the 2nd Edition of the India Justice Report, an initiative of Tata Trusts, followed by Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Punjab, and Kerala.
  • Through a rigorous 14-month quantitative research, the India Justice Report 2020 once again tracks the progress states have made incapacitating their justice delivery structures to effectively deliver services to all. It takes account of latest statistics and situations as they existed prior to March 2020. It brings together otherwise siloed statistics from authoritative government sources, on the four pillars of Justice delivery–Police, Judiciary, Prisons and Legal Aid.
  • The India Justice Report (IJR) is an initiative of Tata Trusts in collaboration with Centre for Social Justice, Common Cause, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, DAKSH, TISS–Prayas, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and How India Lives. The maiden IJR was announced in 2019.

Feb 01, 2021

Nadda Affirms BJP-AIADMK Poll Alliance in Tamil Nadu

  • The BJP announced the pre-poll alliance with the AIADMK and like-minded parties in Tamil Nadu.
  • BJP chief JP Nadda made the announcement regarding formalisation of the alliance in Madurai.
  • The Assembly elections are expected in April or early May.

Rajasthan ULB Polls

  • The ruling Congress has won 1,197 out of 3,034 wards in 90 urban local bodies in Rajasthan for which the results were announced. 
  • The elections were held in 3,035 wards of 90 urban local bodies across 20 districts. The results have been announced in 3,034 wards.
  • The opposition BJP won 1,140, BSP 1, CPI(M) 3, NCP 46, RLP 13 wards while 634 independent candidates won the elections.
  • Polling in the local bodies was held in Ajmer, Banswara, Bikaner, Bhilwara, Bundi, Pratapgarh, Chittorgarh, Churu, Dungarpur, Hanumangarh, Jaisalmer, Jalore, Jhalawar, Jhunjhunu, Nagaur, Pali, Rajsamand, Sikar, Tonk and Udaipur districts.

Delhi Congress Unit Passes Resolution to Make Rahul Gandhi Party President

  • The Delhi Congress has passed a resolution to make Rahul Gandhi president of the party with immediate effect and in the process become the first state unit to start the campaign "Rahul Returns". 
  • AICC Incharge Shakti Singh Gohil passed a resolution in a meeting consisting of the senior leaders. In a meeting held at PCC Office, the resolution was passed unanimously which was proposed by Delhi Congress Chief Anil Chaudhary.
  • After the resolution was passed, Chaudhary said that being a president of the Delhi Unit he has seen the sentiments of Delhi Congress workers and supporters for Rahul Gandhi that only he can fight against the ruling party, BJP.

Kunwar Manvendra Singh Acting Chairman of UP Legislative Council

  • Kunwar Manvendra Singh administered the oath of office as the acting chairman of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. The oath was administered by Governor Anandiben Patel at a function held at Raj Bhavan.
  • The tenure of incumbent chairman Ramesh Yadav ended on January 30.
  • Singh was among the 10 BJP and two Samajwadi Party candidates who were elected unopposed to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council on January 21.
  • Kunwar Manvendra Singh was earlier the acting chairman of UP Legislative Council from May 2002 to August 2004.

SC Collegium Withdraws Approval for Appointment of Justice Pushpa Ganediwala as Permanent Judge

  • The Supreme Court Collegium has withdrawn its approval to a proposal for the appointment of an additional judge of the Bombay High Court, Justice Pushpa Ganediwala, as a permanent judge of the court following her two controversial verdicts in sexual assault cases.
  • The decision was taken after the judge faced flak for her interpretation of sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
  • The collegium headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde, at a meeting held on January 20, had okayed the proposal for making Justice Ganediwala a permanent judge.
  • She was a panel advocate for various banks and insurance companies and was also an honorary lecturer in various colleges of Amravati and gave lectures to the MBA and LLM students of the Amravati University.
  • She was directly appointed as a district judge in 2007 and was elevated as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court on February 13, 2019.

Jan 31, 2021

India and Bangladesh Discuss Development Cooperation, Defence Line of Credit

  • India and Bangladesh discussed ways to speed up development cooperation and operationalise a $500-million line of credit for defence ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Dhaka in March.
  • The matters figured in foreign office consultations that were co-chaired by foreign secretary Harsh Shringla and his Bangladesh counterpart Masud Bin Momen in New Delhi. The two sides focused on deliverables that could be implemented by the time of PM Modi's visit to participate in celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Bangladesh, people familiar with developments said on condition of anonymity.
  • Bangladesh is perceived as a key pillar of India's "Neighbourhood First" policy and has benefited from development cooperation worth about $9 billion, including $7.8 billion in lines of credit at concessional rates. India provided seven million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, including two million doses as a grant, to Bangladesh this month.
  • The two sides also discussed the operationalisation of the line of credit of $500 million for Bangladesh to procure defence equipment from India. The agreement for this was signed last year and the two sides are exploring the supply of "kinetic and non-kinetic equipment.

Jan 30, 2021

Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren Launches JMM Poll Campaign in Bengal

  • Jharkhand Chief Minister and JMM working president Hemant Soren rekindled the hope of a greater Jharkhand while launching the party's West Bengal assembly poll campaign from Jhargram, the tribal dominated hinterland.
  • Addressing the JMM rally from Jamda circus maidan he said that it was a calculated move by the Centre to fool the tribals creating two separate states - Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh while nurturing the tribal aspirations of their own homeland.
  • Birbhum, Midnapur, Jhargram, Bankura of West Bengal were parts of the greater Jharkhand movement launched by his father Shibu Soren along with a few districts of Odisha and Chhattisgarh, he said and reiterated that the people, tribals in particular, would have to launch a fresh stir to achieve that. West Bengal has five per cent of tribal population, he reminded.

Pranesh Elected Karnataka Legislative Council Deputy Chairman

  • BJP MLC MK Pranesh was elected as the deputy chairman of the Karnataka Legislative Council, the post which was vacant following the suicide of the former deputy chairman SL Dharme Gowda last month.
  • As expected, the JD(S), which is eyeing on the chairman's post, backed the BJP candidate in the deputy chairman's election held on the second day of the state legislative session. The Congress had fielded senior leader KC Kondaiah despite his slim chances of winning. None of the three parties enjoy a majority in the three party council.
  • The JD(S) that supported the BJP during the deputy chairman's election, has sought the ruling party's support in the election to the post of legislative council chairman. JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda has announced senior party leader Basavaraj Horatti as the candidate.
  • The post of chairman is expected to fall vacant as the BJP has issued a notice of no-confidence motion against chairman Prathap Chandra Shetty from the Congress. The notice for no-confidence motion will come up for consideration next month and in all likelihood, Shetty is expected to give his resignation. 

Over 50 Transgenders Join BJP in Vadodara

  • More than 50 members of the transgender community joined the BJP ahead of the civic body polls slated in February in Vadodara.
  • In the presence of heir of the erstwhile Rajpipla royal family Manvendrasinh Gohil, who also runs the Lakshya Trust in Vadodara to deal with issues of the LGBTQ community, the transgender joined the party in an attempt to make their issues reach the mainstream.
  • The event, held at the BJP's office in Vadodara, in presence of the city unit chief Dr Vijay Shah and other leaders, was the party's first attempt to include transgender in the party. The party has included the group into the page committee meant to interact with voters at booth levels.
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