`605 CRORE BUDGET PASSED AMID HIGH-VOLTAGE DRAMA

Bhanwar S Charan

Kota: Amid fierce disputes, allegations and counter-accusations and uproar between the government and the opposition, the budget of Rs 605 crores of Municipal Corporation Kota (South) was passed on Saturday.

Two BJP MLAs Madan Dilawar and Sandeep Sharma also reached to attend the budget meeting. However, when Dilawar started alleging discrimination in works in North and South Corporation wards, the Congress councillors got agitated and a huge ruckus was created. The matter went on increasing amidst sloganeering and dharna. During the board meeting, Acting Commissioner Ambalal Meena was also targeted by the

MP Diya inaugurates medical camp in Bhim

First India Bureau councillors. A board of Narak Nigam was installed right in front of the first commissioner, and a councillor Lekhraj Yogi presented a lollipop to the officiating commissioner.

Rajsamand: BJP MP Diya Kumari reached Bhim on a two-day tour of her Lok Sabha constituency on Saturday. The MP reached Brar area of Bhim, where she inaugurated a medical camp.

During this, cases of non-distribution of sports material to councillors also arose along with allegations of corruption. Some councillors tore papers and threw them at the officiating commissioner. Later, Leader of

Opposition Vivek Rajvanshi termed the budget as fictitious and paper and alleged that the officials have failed to provide a roadmap for the city’s development along with the budget.

Better village infra will stop migration to cities: Birla

First India Bureau

This question is being raised again and again in the corridors of power in Delhi that after the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya — to be completed by the year end — what will be the next agenda for the BJP? An ideologue associated with the Sangh says that neither the Sangh nor the BJP lacks issues. Now ‘Uniform Civil Code’ and ‘Population Control Bill’ are to come, whose threat can be heard anytime after 2024.

However, in a written reply in Parliament, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju had said the government had requested the 21st Law Commission to undertake an examination of various issues relating to uniform civil code and to make recommendations. “The term of the 21st Law Commission ended on August 31, 2018. As per the information received from the Law Commission, the matter related to uniform civil code may be taken up by the 22nd Law Commission for its consideration,” he had said. The implementation of a uniform civil code was a poll promise made by the ruling BJP in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

K’TAKA POLLS: JD(S) KINGMAKER FOR BJP OR CONGRESS?

What the upcoming assembly elections in Karnataka mean for the BJP is known from the Union Budget presented in the Parliament on Wednesday as the irrigation scheme worth Rs 65,000 crore was announced for Karnataka. In any case, the recent opinion polls conducted by the party in Karnataka have raised eyebrows in the BJP leadership. So, to ensure its victory in the upcoming State Assembly elections, party strategists want to forge an electoral alliance with JD(S), a major party in the state. In this regard, when BJP strategists approached HD Deve Gowda, he bluntly said that ‘he can think of post-poll alliance with BJP.’ But the biggest problem before BJP strategists is that

Deve Gowda is more or less saying the same thing to Congress. Deve Gowda has an old friendship with Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. So, even though Deve Gowda did not go to Kashmir at the conclusion of Rahul’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, he did issue a letter in support of Rahul, much to the dismay of the saffron strategists.

So, these people have recently approached Kumaraswamy, son of Deve Gowda, who is said to be more inclined towards BJP than Congress. So, while father Deve Gowda was issuing letters in support of Rahul, son Kumaraswamy was voicing his mind on a local TV channel that ‘the country does not like Rahul Gandhi’.

People thanked her for fulfilling the longstanding demand of the residents of the area for a broad gauge. The MP thanked the Modi government at the centre for fulfilling the dream of broad gauge and assured the work on the broad gauge line would start soon. After the completion of the work in the coming time, the people of the area including businesses, and tourism will also get the benefit of easy travel.

“The BJP will take the state far in the dimension of development,” the MP said.

Kota: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has said that to stop migration of people to cities, the infrastructure of the villages will have to be developed and intensifying the efforts in this direction, in the coming days, constructions worth about Rs 150 crore will be done in Kota Bundi parliamentary constituency. Birla said this during an interaction with media after virtually laying the foundation stone of works approved under MADA scheme in Sultanpur and Khair-

Poonia not supporting Kirodi shows rift in BJP: PCC chief Dotasra in Sikar

Ramesh Sharma

Sikar: PCC Chief Govind Singh Dotasra targeted the BJP during a press conference here on Saturday by saying that Kirodi Lal Meena’s statement that State President Satish Poonia did not support him shows the rift in the BJP and people know this.

Dotasra said that the ‘Haath Se Haath Jodo’ campaign will start in Laxmangarh on Sunday. In the 15 kilometre yatra, people would be told about the public welfare schemes being run by the government.

Taking on the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, Dotasra said that people are worried due to inflation, constitutional institutions are being misused and there is an atmosphere of hatred and fear. “Under the campaign, we will go to the people in every village and at the booth level as well. It will be my endeavour to make Shekhawati a division,” he said.

Programmes will be held in Bharatpur division in Kota on February 7 and February 8.

Elevated To Supreme Court

abad Panchayat Samitis of Kota district.

Besides, asphalting work in Panchayat Samiti Sultanpur is being done at a cost of Rs 7 crore. A playground is being developed in Aaton village, water tank in

Bislai, work of crematorium in Jhargaon, Bambula Rawatan, Khedabhopal, construction of track and other development works in playground in school of Jalimpura village and Peepalda Biram village.

CP Joshi gets emotional about ‘maa’ in Nathdwara

Ashish Choudhary

Rajsamand: Speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, CP Joshi got emotional on stage during the Matri Pitra Poojan Day programme at a private school at Nathdwara in Rajsamand district. Remembering his late mother, the Speaker got emotional.

Joshi is on a four-day visit to Nathdwara. Addressing the people at the programme, he said that even if children have studied in Hindi medium schools, he emphasised on English.

“Mother is the first

HC bids farewell to CJ Mithal

Kamal Kant

Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal will be the Judge in Supreme Court. Farewell reference of the Chief Justice took place in the Jaipur bench of the High Court on Saturday.

Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal gave an address in Farewell reference. “I have no words to sing the glory of the holy land of Rajasthan. It is my good fortune that Rajasthan has played an important role in taking

CJ me towards the capital Delhi or should I say that it is Shrinathji’s grace only that they turned my face towards Supreme Court,” he said. He said that the land of Rajasthan proudly adopted him. “It is an act of justice, it is a divine act. It is my good fortune that the Lord chose me for this. For this divine work, the judge has to burn every moment like the sun with diligence, justice, wisdom, and simple nature,” he said. teacher of any child and leads the child to success. Children learn manners from their parents. Time is changing and along with being modern, it is necessary that children should also be cultured,” he said.

The Union Ministry of Law and Justice issued a notification on Saturday appointing Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal as a judge in the Supreme Court. Mithal had assumed office in the Rajasthan High Court on October 14, 2022. Before coming to Rajasthan, Mithal was CJ in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.

Raje to attend Beneshwar Fair in Dungarpur

First India Bureau

Dungarpur: The main fair will be held at Beneshwar Dham at Triveni confluence of Som, Mahi and Jakham rivers, on Magha Purnima on February 5. Mahant’s palanquin journey and royal bath will be the centre of attraction in the fair. Former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje will also visit Beneshwar Dham on Sunday.

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