Reddy claimed that there are corruption allegations against K Sudhakar, Munirathna, C N Ashwath Narayan, Byrathi Basavaraja, R Ashoka, Shashikala Jolle

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Karnataka convenor Prithvi Reddy on Wednesday dared the BJP government to sack corrupt ministers in the state. Following Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann sacking his health minister Vijay Singla, Reddy demanded similar measures from BJP in Karnataka to remove tainted ministers. Addressing media persons here, Reddy said Singla was sacked as soon as allegations about his corruption came to light and before the opposition or media demanded his resignation. Addressing media persons here, Reddy said Singla was sacked as soon as allegations about his corruption came to light and before the opposition or media demanded his resignation. However, most of the ministers in the BJP-led Karnataka have remained in their positions as no action has been taken against them in spite of several corruption charges, he alleged. The AAP has filed several complaints against ‘40% commission’ in the state. Yet, the BJP has done nothing, he added. Reddy claimed that there are corruption allegations against K Sudhakar, Munirathna, C N Ashwath Narayan, Byrathi Basavaraja, R Ashoka, V Somanna, Shashikala Jolle among others and demanded action against them.

After fast rise in Congress, Kapil Sibal’s sudden exit; big blow to rebel G23

Having emerged as one of the most trenchant critics of the Gandhis in the last two years, Kapil Sibal’s exit may not really ruffle them. In fact, some in the leadership are heaving a sigh of relief, at being spared of his frequent acerbic attacks.

Kapil Sibal perhaps always had a rebellious streak in him. While his exit from the Congress, two months after he openly asked the Gandhis to step aside from leadership roles and give some other leader a chance, was swift and the circumstances leading to it eventful, it was not the first time the lawyer-politician had gunned for the leadership. In fact, he had hit out at the leadership as early as 2000, nine years after he joined the Congress. He had then hit out at the advisors of Congress president Sonia Gandhi for the party’s downslide and had called for introspection and free and frank discussions. Those were his initial years in the grand old party, but he has always spoken his mind. During his over three-decade association with the Congress, starting 1991, Sibal has been as close to some of the regional satraps – such as Lalu Prasad, Mulayam Singh Yadav and later his son Akhilesh Yadav – as with the power centres in the Congress. In the Congress, he worked closely with the late Ahmed Patel, which ensured his proximity to Sonia. He, however, could never establish a good working relationship with Rahul Gandhi. Having emerged as one of the most trenchant critics of the Gandhis in the last two years, his exit may not really ruffle them. In fact, some in the leadership are heaving a sigh of relief, at being spared of his frequent acerbic attacks. His exit will also cripple the G23. In fact, one G23 leader said it was time to write the obituary of the ginger group. Of the original G-23 leaders, Jitin Prasada and Yoganand Shastri quit the Congress earlier. The opinion in the group, however, remains divided. Sibal was the core of the group, the central pillar which rallied many of the dissident leaders. The other senior leaders include Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Shashi Tharoor and Manish Tewari. Of them, Hooda has been placated by the leadership. With a close confidant of Hooda appointed president of the Haryana Congress even as he remains the CLP leader, the control of the party in the state, for all practical purposes, has been given to him. Sharma and Azad are hopeful of Rajya Sabha berths. Although they remain unhappy, Tharoor and Tewari are both Lok Sabha MPs and cannot afford to quit the party as they will lose their seats if they do so. Interestingly, there is a talk in Punjab Congress circles that Tewari may switch to the Aam Aadmi Party closer to the Lok Sabha elections of 2024. “If Azad and Sharma don’t get the Rajya Sabha seats, there will be some problems. In that case, they may also take a call about their future in the party in the months ahead. But I don’t know the fate of the group. I think it is over. It is time to write the political obituary of the group. The G23 is in disarray. Some of the members seem to be inclined to work within the Congress, some seem to be inclined to find their own solution,” a G23 leader said.

Five prominent leaders who quit Congress in 2022

IANS, MAY 25 2022

Kapil Sibal is the fifth high profile exit from the Congress this year as he parted ways with the party and filed his Rajya Sabha nomination as independent candidate with Samajwadi Party backing from the state of Uttar Pradesh. Prior to Sibal, former Punjab Congress Chief Sunil Jakhar had left the party only to join the BJP.
Sibal, however, did not comment on the Congress after he quit but said that it was not an easy decision to take. It ended the three-decade long relationship with the party, he said.Former Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and ex-Union Minister R P N Singh too parted ways with the Congress and lately Hardik Patel, the Gujarat Congress working president, too left the party. Sunil Jakhar after joining the BJP had said that it was not easy to break 50 years of relationship with the Congress. “From 1972 to 2022, my three generations considered Congress as their family. Stood with the party in every good and bad time. But an attempt was made to suppress my nationalist voice in the Congress. I was given a notice for speaking in the interest of Punjab and the country,” he said. Gujarat Patidar leader Hardik Patel too has hit out at the party on hindutva issue and alleged that the Congress party is working to hurt the sentiments of the people. It always tries to damage the faith of Hindu religion, he had said.

40 BJP leaders held for protest seeking OBC reservation in polls

By: Express Web Desk | Mumbai |

Mumbai Monkeypox Cases Today News, Maharashtra, Mumbai Latest News, Mumbai Weather, Raj Thackeray News Live Updates, 25 May: ED issues summons to Shiv Sena leader Yashwant Jadhav; Sena’s Raut, Sanjay Pawar to file nomination papers for RS polls on Thursday.

The Mumbai police on Wednesday detained nearly 40 BJP workers, including senior party leaders Chandrakant Patil, Pravin Darekar and Sudhir Mungantiwar, while they were protesting outside the party office near the state secretariat, seeking reservation for the OBCs in elections. The detained BJP workers were taken to the Azad Maidan in south Mumbai and later released, an official said. Earlier, some BJP workers started the protest around 11.30 am outside their party office near the Maharashtra secretariat ‘Mantralaya’ in south Mumbai, demanding reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in elections. Shiv Sena’s chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said he and party colleague Sanjay Pawar will on Thursday file their nomination papers for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls. Shiv Sena’s Kolhapur district president Sanjay Pawar will be the party’s second candidate for the June 10 Rajya Sabha polls, Raut had said on Tuesday, in a clear snub to former MP Sambhaji Chhatrpati who was seeking support for his candidature. The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday issued summons to Shiv Sena leader and former BMC Standing Committee Chairman Yashwant Jadhav in connection with a case of FEMA violations they are investigating. Jadhav was recently raided by Income Tax officials.

School asks alumni to change Gyanvapi Mosque to Gyanvapi Temple on Google Maps

The school had also sent an email during the release of ‘The Kashmir Files’, encouraging the alumni to watch the movie and also equated some of the incidents and characters of the movie to Mahabharata.

By: Express Web Desk | Bengaluru |

A Bengaluru-based private school on May 20 allegedly sent an email to its alumni asking them to change the name of Gyanvapi Mosque to Gyanvapi Temple on Google maps. Preethi Krishnamoorthy, an alumnus based in Hawaii, received the controversial email on May 20. She even took to social media to expose the school’s “shocking” conduct. Amid the Gyanvapi Mosque row, the Mangaluru Police had to clamp Section 144 around the Assaiyeed Adbullahil Madani Mosque in Malali Tuesday after Hindu Right-wing activists planned to perform religious rituals near the mosque after claiming that it was built on a temple. Malali is located close to Mangaluru, which is regarded as a communally sensitive region. Any disturbance here will affect all the three coastal districts. The region is considered as a BJP bastion.

Karnataka government offers ‘unlimited’ entry at English-medium schools

Karnataka has a total of 44,615 government schools

The state government will offer “unlimited” admissions at its English-medium schools subject to the availability of infrastructure. The Department of Primary and Secondary Education took the decision because no new English-medium schools are being opened in the 2022-23 academic year. The second objective is to help parents who want to send their children to English-medium schools but are unable to pay the fees because of the pandemic-induced financial constraints. Earlier guidelines had capped admissions at government English-medium schools at 30. But this year, the department has asked officials at the local level to admit every child provided adequate infrastructure is available there. “Many government English-medium schools are asking for an increase in the intake. We will allow this wherever proper infrastructure is available to enrol more kids,” said an official from the department. infrastructure is available there. If there is a shortage of teachers, schools should hire guest teachers, the official added.

Navjot Singh Sidhu’s diet chart and its connection to what Punjabis ate more than a century ago

Experts said that the diet chart suggested to Navjot Sidhu aims to make him lose weight by drinking an assortment of juices, eating multi-grain rotis and munching dry fruit, while avoiding wheat and rice.

“Pet mein paiyan rotian, sabhe gallan mottian (He whose stomach is full talks loud),” reads the Phulkian States Gazetteer (Patiala, Jind and Nabha) compiled by the British in 1904.A seven-meal diet chart suggested by a panel of doctors on Tuesday for jailed Congress politician, Navjot Singh Sidhu, raised some eyebrows on social media, with many deeming it “torturous”. The diet — which suggests an assortment of tea, juices, fruits and one roti for Sidhu — however brings back memories of the frugal eating habits of residents of the erstwhile states of Punjab, as documented in the Gazetteer. Experts said that the diet chart suggested to Sidhu aims to make him lose weight by drinking an assortment of juices, eating multi-grain rotis and munching dry fruit, while avoiding wheat and rice. The food habits of Punjabis listed in the Gazetteer also shows that wheat and rice was eaten only by the rich and that the poor consumed those only on special occasions.

Yogi Government Starts Presenting Budget, Over Rs 500 Crore Allocated For Women Safety

By India.com Business Desk

Uttar Pradesh will announce its state budget for 2022-23 on Thursday. The budget is expected to be the biggest budget of the state till date. The announcement will be done by UP Finance Minister Suresh Khanna at 11 AM. A cabinet meeting will be held before the presentation of the Budget.

Raids Underway at Properties of Maharashtra Minister Anil Parab

Allahabad HC denies bail to 34 policemen accused of killing 10 Sikhs in 1991

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