Politics

Senior Congress leader PN Singh today urged governor MOH Farooq to direct the departments concerned to immediately update the list of the people living below the poverty level in the face of severe drought in Jharkhand.

"Cards of different categories earmarked for the BPL people have not yet been issued. The governor should immediately initiate steps in this regard in the drought-hit state," AICC leader PN Singh said in a press release here.
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PATNA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary and co-incharge of the party's Bihar affairs Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday called Lalu Prasad's RJD as his party's "pratidwandi party (competitor party)" and also accused him of fomenting tension in society by observing that the era of an upper caste leader becoming the state's CM was passe.

Srinagar,August 30 (Scoop News) – The senior leader of Jharkhand Mukhti Morcha (JMM), Hemant Soren who is also son of the JMM Superemo and former Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Shibu Soren today called on Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah here.

Hemant Soren in his meeting with Omar Abdullah discussed the welfare of labourers working in Ladakh in the backdrop of recent flash floods and torrential rains there.

With 39 religious structures in Ranchi reportedly getting notice for alleged encroaching, BJP today said it would strongly oppose any move to demolish any structure by the district administration.

"Several priests have received notice from the district administration that their temples would be demolished. The BJP warns against any move to demolish temples will be met with stiff resistance," BJP’s state unit spokesperson Sanjay Seth told a news conference in Ranchi.

The JDU's Jharkhand unit spokesman, Pramod Kumar Mishra, said "Lalu Prasad is still in the mode of day dreaming despite the people of Bihar had rejected the RJD after experiencing the worst governance in the that state." "Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has shown the country how good governance can be delivered even after taking over from the worst situation five years ago...his government had overseen the largest flood relief after Koshi disaster last year," claimed Mishra.The JDU, he claimed, had confidence in the people of Bihar 'who will retain the Nitish Kumar government in the forthcom

Ranchi, Aug 14 (PTI) Jharkhand Governor M O H Farooq today said lack of delivery mechanism and weak administrative structure were the impediments in the development of the state since it came into being in 2000."The structure of administration is very weak and should be put in order...and the delivery mechanism is (also) weak and has to be strengthened," Farooq said here.At a programme celebrating the 26th foundation day of Hindi newspaper Prabhat Khabar, Farooq said he would not blame any political party or political leader because the past should be buried."Past is past.

Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), Aug 11 (PTI) Former MLA Surya Singh Besra has resigned from the primary membership of BJP in protest against the poor approach of the party in tackling corruption prevailing in the state.Besra, the founder president of All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU), sent his resignation letter to BJP state unit president, Raghuvar Das, on Monday.In a statement here today, Besra said he had joined BJP in October and contested the last assembly election from Ghatsila assembly constituency as BJP candidate.Besra, had resigned from the undivided Bihar assembly on August 12 about two d

“You would expect these things to happen in Jharkhand or Bhagalpur. They were hell bent on cheating the whole way through,” says Sandeep Goyal, group chairman, Dentsu and presidential hopeful at the recently concluded elections for the Advertising Agencies Association of India(AAAI). Referring to the executive committee of the AAAI that he was pitted against, he adds, “From people of that level of eminence you don’t expect this sort of a street fight.”

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha today demanded dissolution of the state assembly and pave way for elections along with Bihar, barely ten months after the state went to the polls.

"President's rule is no substitute for popular government. One cannot rule the state sitting from New Delhi," JMM-LP leader Hemant Soren told a news conference in Ranchi.

"JMM is ready for polls. Let the elections be held along with Bihar," Soren said.

With relations souring between allies Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric) and the Congress, the JVM(P) today announced that it would contest all the seats in the state as and when the assembly elections were here.

"We are readying ourselves to contest all the 81 seats, because the Congress has not been heeding to our demand for dissolution of the House and calling elections," JVM(P)'s Principal General Secretary Pradip Kumar Yadav told a press conference here.