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Lucknow, March 6 (IANS) Uttar
Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party
(SP) received a shot in its arm
on Sunday as it won 23 out of 28 local
bodies seats in the legislative council.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won
two seats, the Congress one and the
Bharatiya Janata Party drew a duck.
Two other seats were bagged by
independent candidates. With Sunday’s
victory, the SP has gained a majority
in the 100-member upper house. Seven
SP candidates were declared elected
unopposed.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) claimed
that the victory was “acceptance and
endorsement” of the governance and
developmental agenda pushed by the
Akhilesh Yadav government in the state.
SP national general secretary Ram
Gopal Yadav said that the mood of the
state showed that the party will romp
back to power in the state assembly
polls, slated for early 2017.
The BJP, which was handed over
a stunning defeat, however sought
to downplay the victory of the ruling
party, attributing it to muscle and
money power. “The victory has very
little meaning as it was won on basis of
political power, muscle and money” said
state BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur
Pathak.
One-sided polls
As the results of the legislative council
elections through local bodies were being
announced, there was a mad scamper by
News Nation
about policies and projects in progress
the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) to bill
its winning 23 of the 28 council seats as
“acceptance of its development agenda”.
In contrast, the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP), licking its wounds over
the woeful defeat at the hustings, was
terming it the result of the “use of money,
power and muscle” by the ruling party.
The two parties that stand at the
extreme ends of the political spectrum
seem to have sadly read the message
wrong.
First, the ruling party’s gloating
over an indirect election did not behove
it since the victory was marred by
allegations of intimidation, allurements
and arm-twisting.
That apart, only last month the
SP was put through an embarrasing
situation when it lost two of its seats in
the bypolls to the state assembly. This,
despite the fact that the SP had fielded
family members of its late legislators to
cash in on sympathy and sentiments.
The voters gave it an emphatic thumbs
down. The ruling party won the lone
Bikapur assembly seat by a narrow
margin.
So, why is there jubiliation in the
ruling camp now?
Party insiders say that the ruling
dispensation was clinging to every
straw that came its way, as many
realised that they were facing a strong
anti-incumbency move, despite some
development work initiated by Chief
Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
09 Mar to 15 Mar 2016
SP sweeps UP legislative council polls, BJP draws a duck
Uttar Pradesh
On the eve of the counting for the
legislative council polls, three persons
were killed in broad daylight in the state
capital, pointing to a soaring crime graph
and poor law and order situation. That
could be the nemesis of the Akhilesh
regime in future polls.
The only consolation for the SP is it
now has a majority in the upper house
of the Uttar Pradesh legislature which
will help it push through important
legislations for the remainder one year
of its term.
At the other end of the spectrum is
the BJP, which harbours big dreams of
romping back to power in the state after
being pushed into political oblivion for
more than a decade.
Its hopes of riding on the Modi wave,
which gave the party a stunning 71 of
the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state in
2014, seems to have met with serious
roadblocks over the past two years.
While insiders admit that the party was
not “in perfect shape” for the 2017 state
assembly polls, publicly it’s putting up a
brave face despite the rout in the council
elections.
Jayalalithaa urges
Modi to intervene for
fishermen’s release
Tamilnadu
Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa
on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to
intervene personally and secure the release of Indian
fishermen from Lankan custody.
In a letter to Modi, the text of which was released to the
media here, Jayalalithaa requested the former’s personal
intervention to issue instructions to the Ministry of External
Affairs to take up the matter with Sri Lanka and secure the
release of 64 Indian fishermen and 77 fishing boats.
“There is an urgent and imperative need to ensure that
our fishermen are not arrested and abducted on the high
seas. Proactive action needs to be initiated at the highest
level to ensure a permanent solution to this sensitive issue
that plagues the livelihoods of thousands of Tamil Nadu
fishermen,” she said.
Jayalalithaa drew Modi’s attention to the apprehension
of 29 Indian fishermen and their four fishing craft from near
Tamil Nadu by the Sri Lankan Navy on Sunday.
A narrow strip of sea divides India and Sri Lanka. Indian
fishermen are arrested by the Lankan Navy on the charge
that they fish in Lankan waters.
Sri Lanka continues to keep the apprehended Indian
fishing boats even though it releases the fishermen.
Airbus eyes $2 billion worth
procurement from India by 2020
Karnataka
Bengaluru, Global aerospace major Airbus
group plans to procure components and
sub-systems worth $2 billion per annum
by 2020 for its civil and defence projects, up from
$500 million in 2015, the French consortium
said on Monday.
“We have set our sight to exceed $2 billion
in cumulative procurement annually by 2020
from over $500 million worth aerospace goods
in 2015 for civil and defence projects,” the
Indian arm of the Airbus said in a statement
here.
Procurement value increased 15 percent in
2015 over that of 2014.
About 6,000 skilled people at 45 state-run
and private suppliers side across the country
provide engineering and IT services, aerostructures,
detail parts and systems, materials
and cabins to the group for many of its leading
platforms, including A380, A350 XWB, A320
family, A330, C295W, A400M, Eurofighter,
Tiger and NH90.
Claiming every Airbus commercial aircraft
was partly ‘made in India’, Airbus chief
procurement officer Klaus Richter said Indian
suppliers were a cornerstone of its globalisation
strategy.
“As many projects with our Indian partners
have been successful, we aim to strengthen
these relationships in the future,” Richter said
on the occasion.
According to Airbus Group India president
and managing director Pierre de Bausset, the
company is ready to set up system integration
and final assembly lines if its proposal of
producing C295W military transporters in
India with Tata and military helicopters with
Mahindra fructify.
Further elaborating on its Indian
procurement collaborations, Airbus said
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
manufactures half of A320 family forward
passenger doors while Dynamite Technologies
makes flap track beams.
Mahindra Aerospace has a contract with
Airbus Group company Premium Aerotec to
supply more than one million aero-components
per annum while Wipro received technology
transfer to produce 8,000 aerospace actuators
per year.
“Infosys provides SAP development and
maintenance services while Geometric supports
on product lifecycle management (PLM)
applications and CAD services. Tech Mahindra
provides consulting services on Quality and
Business Support,” said the statement.
UDF to nominate A.K.
Antony, M.P. Veerendra
Kumar to Rajya Sabha
Congress leader A.K. Antony and M.P.
Veerendra Kumar of the JD(U) will file
their nominations for the Rajya Sabha
on Wednesday, United Democratic Front (UDF)
convener P.P. Thankachen said on Monday.
Both the politicians belong to the UDF, the
ruling coalition in Kerala.
Three Rajya Sabha seats from Kerala will
fall vacant this month; the elections for the new
members will be held on
March 21.
Given its strength in
the Kerala assembly, the
Congress-led UDF will
be able to get two seats
and the CPI(M)-led Left
Democratic Front (LDF)
one.
Kerala
The LDF has yet to
name its candidate.
Antony, 75, has served
two consecutive terms since 2005 in the Rajya
Sabha, the upper house of parliament. He was
also Rajya Sabha member from 1993 to 1995. He
is now seeking another term.
He is a member of the Congress Working
Committee, which is the top executive body of the
party, and served three terms as chief minister
of Kerala. He was also Union defence minister
in the previous government of the Congress-led
United Progressive Alliance.
M.P. Veerendra Kumar, 79, is the leader of the
Janata Dal (United) in Kerala and also a media
baron, heading the Mathrubhumi group.
He was a member of the Kerala assembly
once and was elected to the Lok Sabha twice. He
changed sides from LDF to UDF ahead of the Lok
Sabha election in 2009. Kumar lost the 2014 Lok
Sabha polls from the Palakkad seat in Kerala.
BJP promising corruption-free
government in Manipur
Imphal, The Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) is promising a
corruption-free government in
Manipur if it is voted to power after
the February 2017 state assembly
elections.
To keep up the winning streak
of the party after it won the two
byelections to the assembly in
November last year, the Manipur
BJP president and others are
harping on the allegation of “the
rampant corruption of the Congress
government”.
The state BJP had exposed what
it called the Rs.500 crore “scam”
in clearing the floating biomass
concretion in Loktak, the largest
fresh water lake in eastern India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
and senior ministers had assured
of appropriate actions into the
“scam”. However, the Loktak
Development Authority officials
told IANS they were yet to receive
any official information about the
CBI or vigilance investigations.
Speaking to party workers on
Sunday evening here, state BJP
president Thounaojam Chaoba
said: “The Congress government
cooked the book to claim that
there were 100 days of works
in a year in Manipur under the
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme.
On this basis, Manipur got an
award as the best performance
state.”
“In fact, there was no work
even for 20 days in a year and the
government should be ashamed of
it.”
He was also very sceptical about
the implementation of the National
Food Security Act in Manipur
under which a beneficiary will be
given 35 kg of rice in a month at
Rs.3 per kg.
Chaoba said, “...the new
scheme will give a free hand to the
ministers, MLAs and agents and
sub-agents.”
India to launch sixth
navigation satellite
Chennai. India is slated to put into
orbit its sixth navigation satellite on
Thursday evening, the Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) announced
here on Monday.
The 1,425-kg IRNSS-1F - Indian Regional
Navigation Satellite System-1F - would
hurtle into space
on board its Polar Tamilnadu
Satellite Launch
Vehicle (PSLV) on March 10, the ISRO said.
The rocket will blast off around 4 p.m.
from the spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra
Pradesh, about 80 km from here.
This will be already the second rocket
launch for India in 2016. The first one was
on January 20 when a PSLV rocket put into
orbit the IRNSS-1E satellite in text-book
style.
Till date India has launched five regional
navigational satellites (IRNSS-1A, 1B,
1C, ID and 1E) as part of a constellation of
seven satellites to provide accurate position
information service to users across the country
and the region, extending up to an area of
1,500 km. Though the full system comprises
nine satellites -- seven in orbit and two on
the ground as stand-by -- the navigation
services could be made operational with four
satellites, ISRO officials had said earlier.
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