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SP member snatches copy of Quota Bill from minister

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December 19, 2012

quotabillNew Delhi, December 19: In a shocking incident, a Samajwadi Party member stunned the Lok Sabha this afternoon snatching the copy of the quota in promotion Bill from Minister V Narayanasamy and was sought to be thwarted by Congress President Sonia Gandhi.

 

The sudden action of member from Nagina Yashveer Singh came when Minister of State for Personnel Narayanasamy was moving the bill for consideration from the second row and Ms Gandhi, who is also the UPA Chairperson, was occupying her usual front seat.

 

Mr Singh had, meanwhile, passed on the Bill to his party colleague Neeraj Shekhar which fell down.

 

Shocked by Mr Singh’s action, which caused commotion in the House, some Congress members led by Ms Gandhi immediately came to the Well to stop Mr Singh, which created a near scuffle like situation. The Congress members included K Bapiraju and Vilas Muttemwar.

 

This was because the SP members were already in the Well in strength vociferously protesting against taking up the measure.

 

The situation led to a verbal spat between the Congress and SP members.

 

Speaker Meira Kumar was so shocked by the incident that she abruptly adjourned the House for the day.

 

Amid the melee, several Congress members rushed to the Well and surrounded Ms Gandhi in an apparent bid to protect the leader who was being questioned by SP members for thwarting Mr Singh.

 

Although the Speaker left the House, the commotion persisted.

 

In order to calm the tempers in the surcharged House, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath walked up to SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav who was surrounded by his party colleagues including Mr Singh.

 

Congress members also sought to reach out to the BJP in the wake of incident but not to much success.

 

Samajwadi Party has been isolated on its opposition to the Bill which will ensure quota in promotion in government jobs for SC/ST employees.

 

BSP supremo Mayawati, an arch detractor of Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh politics, has been seeking to take credit for the passage of the Bill in the Rajya Sabha.

 

Terming the incident as “very deplorable and extremely unfortunate”, Mr Kamal Nath later told reporters, “We will urge the Speaker to condemn it and take action against the member.” “The Bill will be taken up tomorrow when the House meets,” he said, maintaining that such an act “frustrates parliamentary democracy.”

 

Mr Nath said since Ms Gandhi was closest to the spot where the snatching incident occurred, she asked the member to return the papers he had snatched.

 

“In democracy, if you are against something, you vote against it. But you can’t do this. I condemn it. If they show such an attitude, there is no need for democracy or Parliament or the media,” the Minister said.

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August 7,2020

New Delhi, Aug 7 : Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed the Central government as India crossed the 20 lakh COVID-19 positive cases.

Taking to Twitter, the Congress leader reiterated his earlier tweet, sent out on July 17, which stated "The 10,00,000-mark has been crossed.

With the rapid spread of COVID-19, by August 10, more than 20,00,000 will be infected in the country. 

The government must take concrete, planned steps to stop the epidemic."
"20 lakh-mark has been crossed, Modi government is missing," the Congress leader tweeted today.

The Union Health Ministry has said active cases as a percentage of total cases have seen a significant drop from 34.17 per cent on July 24 to 30.31 per cent.

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January 13,2020

New Delhi, Jan 13: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) has alleged that the varsity administration has blocked the registration of 300 students on the basis of 'fake Proctor inquiries'.

The union had on Saturday asked students of the university to pay their academic tuition fee but not the hiked hostel fee.

"Today the Vice Chancellor first blocked the fee payment portal and then blocked the payment of tuition fees. It is clear that the VC was lying through the teeth when he said students want to register but are not being allowed to by protesters," JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh said.

She said the VC has also blocked the registration of 300 students based on fake proctor enquiries which are not even completed.

"The truth is that it is the administration which does not want students to register and is blocking their registration," she said.

JNUSU vice president Saket Moon said that in the meetings held in HRD ministry, it was decided that the administration would take a lenient view on the students' protest and not take action against them.

He said many students, who opened the portal for registration found they had been academically suspended and could not register.

He said the JNUSU had softened its stand by saying that they would register by paying the old fees but that has been kept on hold.

On Sunday, the administration extended the date for the winter semester registration till January 15.

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March 11,2020

Jaipur, Mar 11: A 85-year-old man in Jaipur, who had returned from Dubai on February 28, has tested positive for coronavirus, a state government official said on Wednesday.

He was found presumptive positive in the first test on Tuesday and hence, a second test was conducted with fresh samples, the reports of which arrived late Tuesday night, Additional Chief Secretary, Medical and Health, Rohit Kumar Singh, said.

“The man who travelled to Dubai has been tested positive for coronavirus. It has been confirmed now,” Singh said.

“We have also got the manifest of the Spicejet flight he took from Dubai to Jaipur and are doing due diligence on that,” the official said, adding that intense contact tracing was underway.

The man has been kept in isolation at the SMS Hospital here.

“The man came to the hospital on Monday with symptoms of the virus. After the first test, his wife and son too have been kept in isolation at the hospital. The two, however, do not have coronavirus affliction symptoms,” Singh said.

A total of 235 people who came in contact with the octogenarian and his family have already been traced and are being monitored, he said.

Other contacts are also being traced, Singh added.

An Italian couple, who tested positive for COVID-19 last week, are also admitted in the hospital but their condition is improving, he said.

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