The Canadian Parvasi - Issue 46

The International News Weekly india
May 18, 2018 | Toronto 08
Karnataka government: what happens next?
Continued 10 page 01
One of the possibilities is
that the court would advance
the date for a floor test and
leave the party with the most
number of members to form a
government. The BJP has 104
members while the Congress
and the JD(S) jointly have 117
members, which is well past
the majority mark.
If after the floor test, Mr.
Yeddyurappa is unable to
prove his majority, it would
be incumbent on the part of
the Governor to invite the
combination of Congress and
the JD(S) to form a government.
Under the Sarkaria Commission
report of 1988, if the
single largest party fails, the
next in the pecking order is a
post poll alliance.
This is the formula endorsed
by the Supreme Court
in several judgments.
Besides, Mr. Singhvi
has asked whether the Karnataka
Governor had taken
into consideration the fact
that Sarkaria Commission
required the largest single
party to have the support of
other parties, including “Independents”,
in order for them
to gain priority over a post
poll alliance to form a government.
After BJP's 'largest-party theory'
in Karnataka, opposition to stake
claim to govt in four other states
NEW DELHI: A day after
Karnataka governor Vajubhai
Vala invited BJP, the
single-largest party, to form
a government in the state,
Opposition parties are demanding
that the governors
of four other states — Goa,
Bihar, Meghalaya and Manipur
— should invite them
to stake claim to the government
as they were the singlelargest
parties in last assembly
polls held in these states.
While the Congress announced
it will be meeting
Goa governor Mridula Sinha
to ask him to invite the party
to stake claim to the government,
RJD leader Tejashwi
Yadav also asked the Bihar
governor Satya Pal Malik to
dissolve the assembly and invite
his party to form a government
in the state.
Later in the day, opposition
parties in two more
states stake claim to form the
government. Former Manipur
CM Okram Ibobi Singh
and former Meghalaya CM
Mukul Sangma sought time
from respective governors
of the state for a meeting tomorrow.
In Goa's 2017 assembly
election, Congress was the
single-largest party with 21
seats in the 40-seat assembly,
however, it was the BJP
through a post-poll alliance
Highlights
• The Congress announced that it will be meeting Goa
governor to ask him to invite the party to stake claim
to the govt
• RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, meanwhile, asked Bihar
governor Satya Pal Malik to dissolve the assembly
• The Karnataka governor had invited BJP, the singlelargest
party, to form the government in the state
that ended up forming the
government, In Bihar, the
RJD was the single-largest
party with 80 seats in the 243-
seat assembly in the 2015 assembly
election, but it ended
up in the opposition.
In Manipur assembly
elections, the Congress was
three short of the majority
mark with 28 seats in the 60-
seat assembly.
The saffron party, with
21 seats, joined hands with
National People's Party (four
seats), Naga People's Front
(four seats) and the Lok Janshakti
Party (one seat) to
form the first BJP government
in the state.
In Meghalaya, Congress
was the largest party with 21
seats, followed by National
People's Party (NPP) with 19
seats in the assembly polls
held in 2017. NPP's Conrad
Sangma formed the government
with the support of 34
MLAs.
According to reports
on ANI, Congress's Goa incharge
Chella Kumar today
said he along with more leaders
will meet the governor of
Goa and ask him to invite
his party to form the government.
The party is also planning
to parade its 17 MLAs at
the governor house, according
to a source.
Soon after, in an apparent
show of unity against the
events unfolding in Karnataka,
RJD leader Tejashwi
Yadav followed suit, asking
governor Satya Pal Malik to
dissolve the Bihar assembly
and invite RJD on account
of it being the single-largest
party in the state.
"We would be holding a
one-day dharna tomorrow
against the murder of democracy
in Karnataka. We
also request the Bihar governor
to dissolve the state government
and like in Karnataka
invite the single largest
party, which in Bihar is the
RJD," said Tejashwi Yadav.
Delhi will be world's
biggest city by 2028: UN
Continued from page 01
He was speaking at the release of
the revisions to the World Urbanisation
Prospects 2018 report. It said that after
surging past Tokyo in 2028, the population
of Delhi urban agglomeration would
grow to 39 million by 2030 from 29 million
now. Tokyo's ageing population is projected
to stay constant at the current level
of 37 million, according to the data accompanying
the report. "It is interesting
to note that around the same time India
is expected surpass China as the country
with the world's total largest population,"
Wilmoth said.
According to an earlier UNDESA estimate,
India's population is expected to
reach 1.438 billion in 2024, exceeding China's
1.436 billion. The urbanisation data
projected that in 2030 the urban agglomeration
of Mumbai will hold on to its rank
as the sixth largest with a population of
25 million, up from 19 million in 2015.
Kolkata will move down in 2030 to the
16th place from 13th in 2015, even though
its population would increase from 14
million to 18 million. Bengaluru, which
ranked 29th in 2015, will move up to the
21st spot as its population grows from 10
million to 16 million. Other Indian cities
do not figure in the list of the world's 30
most populous cities.
Shanghai will continue to be the
world's third biggest urban area with a
population of 33 million in 2030 and Dhaka
will be fourth with a population of 28
million, followed by Cairo with 26 million,
according to the data.
India's current rural population of 893
million is the largest in the world and is
59.1 per cent of India's total population of
1.35 billion.
The year 2046 will mark an inflection
point when more than half the Indian
population will be urban. Its total population
would cross 1.65 billion in 2045.
"We have to see urbanisation as a
positive thing," Wilmoth said outlining
its benefits. It is easier to more efficiently
and economically provide infrastructure
and services like education and healthcare
in urban settings where the population
is concentrated compared to rural
areas where it is scattered, he said.
Urbanisation minismises environmental
impact of humans by concentrating
its impact in certain areas and allowing
the preservation of land elsewhere,
he added.
But he said that rapid urbanisation
has been occurring in developing countries
which do not have the resources to
deal with populations moving to cities resulting
in slums and unplanned growth.
To counter these trends there has to
be better management and good planning
for urban growth, he added.