Former Team Anna members urge Hazare to delink from Kejriwal

September 9, 2012

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New Delhi, September 9: A day after India Against Corruption started a survey on forming a political party, some prominent members and volunteers of erstwhile Team Anna today urged Anna Hazare to delink himself from Arvind Kejriwal and revive the "apolitical" anti-graft movement.

The appeal to Hazare came after a meeting of IAC volunteers, who were opposed to the movement taking a political plunge, attended by former Team Anna Core Committee member Sunita Godhara, NAPM organsier Madhuresh and online activist Shivendra Singh, who had earlier opposed alleged attempts to turn the movement "Kejriwal-centric".

In a statement, the volunteers urged Anna to "restart apolitical" movement for Janlokpal, saying the voice of continuing the anti-corruption movement demanding Janlokpal is gaining more support from different quarters. Volunteers who gathered here discussed on the merits of continuing the movement as opposed to forming political party as announced by some leaders of civil society, it said.

Some of the volunteers will go to Ralegan Siddhi to meet Hazare and request him to "form a separate movement from PCRF and establish a secretariat under his command."

"Movement has not failed but there has been a temporary setback. Need of the hour was to retreat and reflect and come back stronger at a later time instead of initiating an altogether new step," Madhuresh of National Alliance for People's Movement (NAPM) said. In the meeting, Godhara alleged that the August agitation was called off in haste and demanded that Hazare should restart it soon.

She had earlier claimed that Hazare had distributed a note citing Mahatma Gandhi in which he expressed doubts about changing the character of the movement. Those who participated in this meeting included volunteers who had been part of IAC since its beginning in November 2010.

Several students, senior citizens and activists from rural areas of Delhi NCR also attended the meeting. IAC City coordinators from Lucknow, Varanasi and Rampur also attended the meeting, the statement said.

The erstwhile Team Anna was divided over the movement taking a political plunge and Kiran Bedi and Justice Santosh Hegde were among the prominent dissenting voices.

Kejriwal and others plan to announce the formation of the party on Gandhi Jayanti and had met Hazare yesterday who asked them to get wider suggestions from public. Hazare is said to be not very enthusiastic about formation of a party and has already said there is no need for a party or for contesting elections.

In a statement issued in New Delhi yesterday, Kejriwal-led IAC had yesterday said they will conduct a nationwide survey on the issue of political alternative. "Anna wants to know what people think about this and has asked us to get the views from the public through means like SMS, mails, website and other modes," it said.

Kejriwal today claimed that they were getting immense response to their survey and the phone lines crashed after getting around 60,000 missed calls.

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Mega merger of PSU banks comes into force from April 1: RBI

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March 29,2020

New Delhi, Mar 29 : Notwithstanding the 21-day coronavirus lockdown, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to go ahead with the merger plan of ten state-run banks into four larger bank from April 1. The apex bank has issued four separate releases announcing that the branches of merging banks will operate as of the banks in which these have been amalgamated from next month.

RBI's statement comes after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's clarification on Thursday that the mega bank consolidation plan was very much on track and would take effect from April 1.

The government on March 4 had notified the amalgamation schemes for 10 state owned banks into four as part of its consolidation plan to create bigger size stronger banks in the public sector.

Bank officers' unions, however, earlier this week wrote to the prime minister seeking to defer the merger schemes of lenders due to the lockdown triggered by coronavirus outbreak.

As per the scheme, Oriental Bank of Commerce and United Bank of India will be merged into Punjab National Bank; Syndicate Bank into Canara Bank; Allahabad Bank into Indian Bank; and Andhra and Corporation banks into Union Bank of India.

Under this, the branches of Oriental Bank of Commerce and United Bank of India will operate as branches of Punjab National Bank from April 1, 2020, and branches of Syndicate Bank as that of Canara Bank, the RBI said in a separate releases.

Allahabad Bank branches will operate as those of Indian Bank while the branches of Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank will function as the branches of Union Bank of India from the beginning of next fiscal year 2020-21, the RBI said.

"The Amalgamation of Oriental Bank of Commerce and United Bank of India into Punjab National Bank Scheme, 2020 dated March 4, 2020, issued by the Government of India... The scheme comes into force on the 1st day of April 2020," RBI said.

Customers, including depositors of merging banks will be treated as customers of the banks in which these banks have been merged with effect from April 1, 2020, the RBI noted.

Banking services across the country are impacted due to the effect of COVID-19 as a near shut down is being observed across the country.

In a letter written to the Prime Minister on March 25, the All India Bank Officers'' Confederation (AIBOC) said, "The finance minister yesterday announced a slew of measures in view of the deleterious effect of the contagion. We are also expecting an extension of closing related activities and the revision of the closing date itself from March 31 to June 30, which is the need of the hour."

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Rajasthan Assembly passes resolution against CAA

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January 26,2020

Jaipur, Jan 26: Rajasthan on Saturday on Saturday became the third state in the country to pass a resolution urging the Centre to repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

he resolution was passed in the state Assembly amid opposition by the BJP which accused the ruling Congress of pursuing appeasement politics.

It is the second Congress-ruled state to pass such a resolution after Punjab. The Kerala Assembly too had passed such a resolution against the CAA moved jointly by the ruling Left Front alliance and the opposition Congress-led UDF.

The Rajasthan Assembly resolution, passed by voice vote, also asked the Centre to withdraw the new fields of information that have been sought for updation of the National Population Register (NPR) 2020.

"It is evident that the CAA violates the provisions of the Constitution. Therefore, the House resolves to urge upon the government of India to repeal the CAA to avoid any discrimination on the basis of religion in granting citizenship and to ensure equality before law for all religious groups of India," the state's parliamentary affairs minister Shanti Dhariwal said, moving the resolution.

Leader of the opposition Gulab Chand Kataria of the BJP questioned the state's right to challenge the Act.

"Granting citizenship is a matter for the Centre. In such a situation do we have the right to challenge the CAA? The Congress should stop doing appeasement and vote bank politics," he said.

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Salute to Rajasthan Govt for rejecting communal and black CAA bill. This bill is agaisnt the teach of our Constitution and bjp has never done anything as per our constitutin. Its trying its best to scrap the constitution and restore it with RSS agenda. We should oppose any move by bjp against the value of constitution. As bjp has no respect to our constitution, it has no right to be in power. Many of bjp leaders are giving statemetns against the value of constitution and such leaders should be treated as anti indians and action be taken on them.

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Ayodhya priest, 16 policemen test covid-19 positive ahead of Bhoomi pujan

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July 30,2020

Ahead of the grand foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Ram Temple on August 5, Ayodhya priest and 16 police personnel, involved in the mega event on August 5, have tested positive for COVID-19. Priest Pradeep Das is one of the four priests who regularly perform puja at the Ram Temple site in Ayodhya.

Das has been placed under home quarantine and contact tracing is underway, reported.

Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh police and Sashastra Seema Bal have been put on high alert in the districts bordering Nepal ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Ayodhya on August 5.

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On July 29, Uttar Pradesh reported a record single-day spike of 3,570 COVID-19 cases, taking the infection tally to more than 77,000, while 33 fresh fatalities pushed the death toll to 1,530.

"There are 29,997 active COVID-19 cases in the state and 45,807 patients have been discharged after treatment," Additional Chief Secretary, Medical and Health, Amit Mohan Prasad told reporters. "The death toll due to the disease has reached 1,530," he said.

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