1. Home
  2. BJP-Sena alliance back in trouble

BJP-Sena alliance back in trouble

September 25, 2014

New Delhi, Sep 25: Smaller outfits on Wednesday put the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance on tenterhooks by rejecting the meagre seats allotted to them in the seat sharing arrangement for the Maharashtra Assembly elections.

BJP-SenaSwabhimani Paksha, Shiv Sangram and Rashtriya Samaj Paksha, the minor outfits of the grand alliance, threatened to walk out if they were not given “an honourable deal” forcing the principal parties back to the negotiation table, just three days before the closure of filing of nominations for the October 15 polls.

BJP president Amit Shah is expected to be in Mumbai on Thursday, when a decision is expected. On Tuesday, the Sena and the BJP had agreed on a seat sharing formula of 151 and 130 seats respectively, leaving seven seats for the minor outfits, which triggered a revolt.

The fourth outfit RPI (A) has declared that it had no problems with the formula.The seat-sharing talks of the ruling Congress-NCP combine also remained deadlocked after the NCP demanded rotation of the chief minister’s post among the allies.

The Congress was not ready to make the concession and maintained distance from the NCP throughout the day.

“We kept waiting for the invitation for talks but none came. We are ready to contest all the seats if our alliance falls apart,” NCP spokesman Nawab Malik said.

AICC spokesman Anand Sharma said the Congress and the NCP were engaged in discussions over the seat sharing. “We are talking together and hopefully will remain together,” he said, adding that the priority was to defeat the communal forces.

A section of the Congress is not in favour on the continuance of the alliance with NCP contending that time was ripe to snap ties and rebuild the party in the state. “If impossible conditions are put, things become difficult,” Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said in Karad, from where he is keen on contesting.

Minor partners of the saffron alliance asked the Shiv Sena-BJP to take a final decision on the seat sharing by Wednesday night, failing which their candidates would go ahead with the filing of nomination papers.

Swabhimani Paksha chief Raju Shetti suggested a new formula of 150 seats for the Shiv Sena, 120 for BJP and 18 for the four smaller parties. Shetti held separate consultations with the Shiv Sena and BJP leaders.

By Wednesday evening, a new formula of 150 seats for Shiv Sena, 125 for BJP and 13 for minor allies was being discussed.

Comments

Add new comment

About text formats
  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.
News Network
January 28,2020

Mumbai, Jan 28: Flag carrier Air India has kept one of its 423-seater jumbo planes ready in Mumbai for the evacuation of Indian citizens from Wuhan in China in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in that country, an official source said on Tuesday.

The airline is awaiting necessary approvals from the ministries of external affairs and health to operate the special flight, the source said. The health ministry's nod is required because the operating crew has to fly in a virus outbreak territory.

"We have kept a Boeing 747-400 ready in Mumbai to operate an evacuation flight to China whenever we get a go ahead from the government," the source said.

Some 250 Indians are to be evacuated.

At a meeting of top secretaries called by the cabinet secretary on Monday, the government decided to be prepared for possible evacuation of Indian nationals in Wuhan.

Accordingly, Ministry of External Affairs will make a request to the Chinese authorities for evacuation of Indian nationals, mostly students, stuck in Wuhan city. The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Ministry of Health will make arrangements for transport and quarantine facilities respectively, an official release said on Monday.

Wuhan along 12 other cities have been completely sealed by the Chinese authorities to stop the virus from spreading. The death toll climbed to 80 with 2,744 confirmed cases.

Comments

Add new comment

About text formats
  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.
Agencies
August 2,2020

New Delhi, Aug 2: The Centre has written to all states and Union Territories stating that smartphones and tablet devices should be allowed for hospitalised Covid-19 patients so that they can interact with family and friends through video conferencing, which would provide them psychological support.

Though mobile phones are allowed in hospital wards, the missive was issued following some representation from the kin of patients alleging otherwise.

Director-General of Health Services (DGHS) in the Health Ministry Dr Rajiv Garg in the letter to the principal secretaries of health and medical education of states and Union territories said appropriate protocols for disinfecting devices and allotting timeslots can be developed by the hospital concerned to facilitate contact between patients and their family.

He underlined that administrative and medical teams should be responsive to the psychological needs of patients admitted in Covid-19 wards and ICUs of various hospitals.

"Social connection can calm down patients and also reinforce the psychological support given by the treating team. Please instruct all concerned that they should allow smartphones and tablet devices in patient areas so that the patient can video conference with their family and friends," stated the letter issued on July 29.

"Though mobile phones are allowed in the wards to enable a patient stay in touch with his or her family, we received representations from the patient families from some states stating mobile phones are not being allowed by hospital administrations because of which they were not being able to stay in contact with the patient," said Dr Garg.

Comments

Add new comment

About text formats
  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.
News Network
March 4,2020

Mar 4: Twenty-one Italian tourists and three Indian tour operators have been sent to an ITBP quarantine facility in Delhi on Tuesday for suspected coronavirus exposure, official sources said.

Health Ministry sources said these foreigners, 13 women and eight men, were in the same group of which an Italian and his wife have tested positive in Rajasthan capital Jaipur.

“His (Italian in Jaipur) condition is stable,” a source said.

Three Indians, who were accompanying this Italian group as tour operators, have also been sent to the ITBP facility in Chhawla area of south-west Delhi, they said.

All these people, staying at a five-star hotel in south Delhi, have been put in “preventive isolation” at the ITBP camp and their samples will be taken on Wednesday, sources said.

The centre already has 112 people, 76 Indians and 36 foreigners, since February 27 after they were evacuated by an IAF plane from Wuhan in China, the epicentre of the coronavirus.

The first samples of these 112 people had tested negative when reports came in last week.

Comments

Add new comment

About text formats
  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.