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NATIONAL AFFAIRS - April 2024

Apr 2024

Apr 03, 2024

Sheyphali Sharan Takes Charge as Principal Director General, Press Information Bureau

  • Sheyphali B. Sharan assumed charge as the Principal Director General, Press Information Bureau, upon the superannuation (retirement) of Manish Desai. Sharan is an officer of the 1990 batch of Indian Information Service.
  • During her illustrious career spanning over three decades, Sharan has held cadre portfolios of largely looking after media publicity work as Press Information Bureau officer for Ministries such as Finance, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. She has also served as the Spokesperson for Election Commission of India.
  • The Press Information Bureau, commonly abbreviated as PIB, is a nodal agency of the Government of India under Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It is based in National Media Centre, New Delhi.
  • t is available in 14 Indian official languages, which are Dogri, Punjabi, Bengali, Oriya, Gujarati, Marathi, Meitei (Manipuri), Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Konkani and Urdu, in addition to Hindi and English, out of the 22 official languages of the Indian Republic.
  • Press Information Bureau was established in June 1919 as a small cell under Home Ministry under the British government.
  • In 1941, J. Natrajan became the first Indian to be head the Bureau as Principal Information Officer.

Poll Panel Appoints Special Observers in States

  • The Election Commission (EC) appointed 17 retired bureaucrats as its special observers in eight states where they would supervise the randomisation of personnel, security forces and EVMs and tackle the influence of money and muscle power during the 2024 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
  • The EC also transferred eight district magistrates and 12 SPs in Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The EC also transferred DIG/IG rank officers. The decision was taken at a review meeting chaired by CEC Rajiv Kumar, Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and EC Sukhbir Singh Sandhu.

Manmohan Singh Retires From Rajya Sabha

  • Former and 13th Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and first PM outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to complete a full term in office, completed a remarkable political innings in the Rajya Sabha spanning 33 years.
  • The architect of India's economic liberalisation and the force behind the 2008 Indo-US nuclear agreement, Singh headed a government that transformed the social welfare framework with a bouquet of rights-based legislation and ushered in a slew of reforms including Direct Benefit Transfer and launched Aadhaar.
  • Singh entered the Upper House in October 1991, four months after he became the Union Finance Minister in June 1991. He represented Assam for five terms in the Upper House and shifted to Rajasthan in 2019.

Apr 01, 2024

RLD Vice President Shahid Siddiqui Resigns from Party over Alliance with BJP

  • Shahid Siddiqui, the national vice president of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), tendered his resignation from the party over Jayant Chaudhary's joining hands with the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
  • The RLD joined the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and declared its candidates for two seats in Uttar Pradesh for the coming Lok Sabha elections. In the 2014 Parliamentary polls, the RLD fought in alliance with the Congress and in 2019, it fought in alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).

Rajnath Singh to Head BJP's 27-member Manifesto Panel

  • The BJP constituted its 27-member election manifesto committee under the chairmanship of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for the Lok Sabha elections.
  • Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was named the convener of the committee and Union Minister Piyush Goyal is the co-convener.
  • Some of the other members of the committee include Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav.
  • The manifesto-preparation exercise will incorporate suggestions from people online and also via the party's offline outreach to voters, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced some time ago. The BJP is already in the process of seeking suggestions from different groups and its national president J. P. Nadda had last month flagged off 'Viksit Bharat Modi ki Guarantee' video vans, which are meant to travel across the country to collect people's inputs on the contents of its manifesto.
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