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  • ‘Largest evidence of honesty’, says Kejriwal after CAG document presentations earnings surplus all through AAP regime

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    NEW DELHI” Mentioning a CAG document which mentioned the Delhi executive used to be operating in benefit, Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday mentioned the numbers had been the “largest evidence of its honesty”. AAP’s honesty has disadvantaged the combatants in their sleep, he mentioned.

    The Comptroller and Auditor Normal (CAG) document tabled within the Meeting on Tuesday mentioned the Delhi executive has had a earnings surplus from 2015-16 to 2019-20.

    It, alternatively, discussed that the Delhi executive used to be in a position to handle the earnings surplus in large part for the reason that pension liabilities of its workers had been being borne by means of the central executive and the Delhi Police’s expenditure used to be borne by means of the Union Ministry of House Affairs.

    “That is the CAG document. It says the Delhi executive is operating in benefit since AAP got here to energy. That is the largest evidence of the honesty of AAP. This honesty has disadvantaged our combatants in their sleep,” Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi.

    The earnings surplus of the Delhi executive in 2019-20 used to be Rs 7,499 crore, indicating that its earnings receipts had been enough to satisfy the earnings expenditure, the document mentioned.

    The CAG document, 2021, on state funds for the yr ended March 2020 used to be offered within the Meeting consultation by means of Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia.

    The audit document on state funds supplies an analytical assessment of the yearly accounts of the Executive of the Nationwide Capital Territory of Delhi and the functioning of the Public Sector Undertakings for the yr ended March 31, 2020.

  • Delhi govt’s liquor coverage: Shops say coverage favours wholesalers

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    NEW DELHI: The Executive of Delhi NCR headed by way of Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal carried out a brand new excise coverage in Delhi efficient November 15, 2021. It withdrew from liquor trade the 4 state govt firms particularly DSIDC, DTTDC, DSCSC and DCCWS that previous ran nearly part of all of the liquor vends within the town and had been accountable for almost 50% of liquor gross sales in Delhi. This actually driven the state’s liquor business into the palms of personal avid gamers.

    Amongst personal avid gamers, the coverage is alleged to be tilted in favour of wholesalers, giving them energy to regard shops another way. The brand new coverage has given a handful of wholesalers providing manufacturers of Pernod Ricard India Pvt Ltd and Diageo India a vital regulate over the provision to retail vends and the quantum of cut price to presented. Pernod Ricard India Ltd and Diageo India account for over two-thirds of the India liquor manufacturers offered in Delhi.

    BJP chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa, in a criticism to the CBI, mentioned that “the coverage has been drafted and notified with the only real intent to facilitate growing of monopoly within the liquor marketplace…” He mentioned “the coverage has been tailored” for a couple of wholesalers as probably the most eligibility prerequisites to bid for a wholesaler’s license (L-1) used to be to have a minimal annual turnover of Rs 150 crore for 3 earlier years. This eradicated small avid gamers from the bidding procedure.

    Delhi’s deputy leader minister Manish Sisodia, who headed the gang of ministers that finalized the brand new excise coverage, didn’t reply to the query at the rationale in the back of protecting the turnover at Rs 150 crore, and whether or not this prime access restrict helped larger corporations getting a monopolistic regulate of Delhi’s liquor business.The brand new excise coverage awarded a set benefit margin of 12% for the wholesalers regardless of the gross sales and exact earnings of outlets. Business resources mentioned the prime mounted benefit safe the wholesalers’ hobby however squeezed out the shops who’ve began surrendering their licenses.

    The brand new coverage additionally gave out store’s licenses for which it  divided the nationwide capital into 32 zones with 27 stores in each and every zone. With a median reserve value of roughly Rs 225 crore consistent with zone, the reserve value for those zones added as much as just about Rs 7,000 crore. By contrast, the Delhi govt earned about Rs 9,000 crore thru aggressive bidding.

    However after working the zones for a couple of months, as many as 10 out of a complete of 32 zonal shops have surrendered their licenses as a result of lower-than-expected revenues and unfair festival. The shops who’ve surrendered their licenses in large part blamed the discriminatory coverage for the non-viability in their trade. Resources mentioned that gigantic liquor producers had been providing reductions thru wholesalers to make a choice shops whilst denying the similar to others, thereby tilting the enjoying box in favour of a make a selection few.

    The sooner excise coverage expressly denied producers the permission to provide discretionary reductions, rebates and incentives to shops. Within the remarkable case of a producer short of to provide some present packs to shops, he needed to deal with all shops similarly. The brand new coverage, on the other hand, got rid of this situation and gave a unfastened hand to the producers to provide reductions and incentives to the shops.

    This put shops on the mercy of producers and wholesalers who’re selecting their favorite retailing zones for providing concessions. Shops who’ve surrendered their licenses say that the reductions being presented by way of some producers and wholesalers to make a choice shops are so heavy that those shops are in a position to provide buy-one-get-one-free schemes. This predatory pricing by way of shops favoured by way of some producers and wholesalers has killed different shops who had been left with out a choice however to give up their license.
    Resources mentioned a lot of petitions were filed, together with one by way of the Delhi Liquor Investors’ Affiliation which has with regards to 150 participants, within the Delhi Top Courtroom.

  • ‘Whole nation stands shoulder to shoulder with you’: Kejriwal to Kashmiri Pandits

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    NEW DELHI: Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday greeted Kashmiri Pandits at the instance of ‘Jyeshtha Ashtami’ and stated all of the nation stands shoulder to shoulder with them of their happiness and sorrow.

    The Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) nationwide convenor’s remarks got here within the backdrop of the spate of focused killings of Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir.

    “Lately is the holy day of Jyeshtha Ashtami. (I prolong my) heat needs to all Kashmiri Pandit brothers and sisters in this auspicious day. Would possibly the blessings of Maa Kheer Bhavani all the time be with you all,” Kejriwal stated in a tweet in Hindi.

    “I wish to guarantee the Kashmiri Pandit neighborhood that all of the nation is status shoulder to shoulder with you for your each and every happiness and sorrow,” he stated.

    The AAP has been elevating the problem of focused killings of Kashmiri Pandits for the previous few weeks.

    The birthday celebration held a ‘Jan Aakrosh Rally’ at Jantar Mantar right here on June 5 over the problem.

    Addressing the rally, Kejriwal lashed out on the BJP-led central govt for failing to offer safety to Kashmiri Pandits within the Valley.

    He additionally demanded that the Centre put forth an motion plan to forestall the killings.

    The Delhi leader minister on Tuesday stated he has sought an appointment with Union House Minister Amit Shah to speak about the killings of Kashmiri Pandits within the Valley.

    The spate of focused killings in Kashmir began in Would possibly, which incorporated that of Rahul Bhat, a clerk, who was once shot useless throughout the tehsildar’s place of job in Budgam district’s Chadoora.

    Of the 8 focused killings since Would possibly 1, 3 sufferers have been off-duty policemen and 5 have been civilians.

    Expressing worry over “grim safety state of affairs” in Kashmir within the wake of unabated focused killings, Jammu-based Dogra Sadar Sabha (DSS) president G S Charak on Wednesday suggested the federal government to contain civil society and mainstream leaders to revive peace and prevent “exodus” of minorities and “nationalist Muslims” from the Valley.

    He additionally denounced makes an attempt through mischievous parts to hurt communal cohesion in Jammu and Kashmir and stated “any miscreant, regardless of faith, area, caste and color, should be dropped at guide with none bias”.

    “We’re involved over the location which is slipping again to the Nineties with minority Hindus and Sikhs at the side of nationalist Muslims making plans emigrate from the valley,” Charak, a former minister, informed newshounds right here after a core crew assembly of his organisation.

    Accusing the central govt of mishandling the location, he stated the use of police and different safety companies and propagating that the entirety is beneath regulate isn’t going to lend a hand give a boost to the safety state of affairs within the valley.

    “The ruling birthday celebration wishes to study its insurance policies, each inside Jammu and Kashmir and on the world degree, to scuttle nefarious designs of Pakistan which was once a hit in using out minority Kashmiri Pandits in 1990 and is as soon as once more making efforts on this path.

    “The space between the folk and the federal government is widening with each and every passing day which isn’t a excellent signal and a priority for all people.

    The federal government must have a relook on its coverage in opposition to J-Ok and contain civil society and mainstream politicians from all events,” Charak stated.

    “Any person supporting Pakistan will have to be taken to process however the ones leaders who consider in India and its democratic procedure will have to be taken into self assurance and consulted for recovery of peace and normalcy,” he stated.

    He stated Dogra Sader Sabha is over a century outdated organisation however its repeated requests for a gathering with the Lieutenant Governor was once now not replied to.

    “We’ve performed a key function every time there was once a disaster like state of affairs previously. We’ve written to the LG for a gathering however there was once no reaction until date, which could be very unexpected,” he stated.

    Interesting to Top Minister Narendra Modi for giving key posts to native bureaucrats, he stated the officials from out of doors have no idea the bottom realities and are inflicting extra hurt than any excellent.

    Previous, Charak stated the core crew of the Sabha condemned Pakistan and its intelligence companies for its persevered reinforce to terrorism in J-Ok.

    “The federal government will have to take efficient punitive measures towards Pakistan who sponsors, helps and offers hands for killings of the blameless inhabitants of Kashmiri Hindu, Muslim and Sikhs, but even so different non-Kashmiri Indians who’re engaged in offering more than a few services and products to the average citizen there,” he stated.

  • Kashmiri Pandits pressured to go away their houses, BJP can not maintain Kashmir: Kejriwal

    “I need to inform Pakistan to prevent petty ways. Kashmir will at all times be a part of India,” Kejriwal stated on the rally held in opposition to focused killings in Kashmir.

  • Punjab CM Mann meets Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi

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    NEW DELHI: Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann met his birthday celebration leader Arvind Kejriwal at his place of abode right here on Thursday, because the state govt faces opposition assault following the homicide of singer-politician Sidhu Moose Wala.

    An Aam Aadmi Celebration supply stated it was once a “standard” assembly. Moose Wala was once shot useless on Would possibly 29 by means of unidentified assailants in Punjab’s Mansa district, an afternoon after the state govt had curtailed his safety duvet. His cousin and a chum, who have been travelling in a jeep with him, have been additionally injured within the assault.

    Mann has already introduced putting in a judicial fee headed by means of a sitting top court docket pass judgement on to probe the incident.

    Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, referred to as Sidhu Moosewala, was once a few of the 424 other folks whose safety was once withdrawn or curtailed by means of the Punjab govt on Would possibly 28.

    The state govt got here below heavy complaint of opposition events after the incident with the Congress and BJP hard it will have to be pushed aside.

  • Manish Sisodia will quickly be arrested in ‘faux’ case: Delhi CM Kejriwal 

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    NEW DELHI: Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday alleged that his deputy Manish Sisodia will quickly be arrested in a “faux” case like Well being Minister Satyendar Jain.

    Jain, who holds well being, energy and residential portfolios, was once on Monday arrested by way of the Enforcement Directorate in a case associated with cash laundering.

    ALSO READ | Case towards Satyender Jain faux, politically motivated: Kejriwal 

    “I had learnt from dependable assets a couple of months again that Satyendar Jain was once going to be arrested in a faux case and now I’ve learnt from the similar assets that Manish Sisodia goes to be arrested in the following couple of days in any other faux case,” Kejriwal mentioned at a media briefing.

    Calling Sisodia the “father of schooling motion in Delhi” and the most productive schooling minister of unbiased India, the executive minister mentioned he has labored to reinforce the way forward for youngsters learning in govt colleges.

    “Now not most effective in Delhi, however he gave hope to youngsters around the nation that they are able to get just right schooling in govt colleges. I need to ask the oldsters of kids learning in govt colleges, ‘Is he corrupt?’,” he mentioned.

    Accusing the Centre of seeking to prevent the great paintings being executed in schooling and well being sectors within the nationwide capital below Sisodia and Jain, Kejriwal mentioned their arrests is a loss to the rustic.

    “I beg High Minister Narendra Modi to arrest all of the AAP MLAs in a single move. Arresting them one at a time places a brake at the just right paintings being executed. Arrest them in combination in order that after the arrest (when they’re launched), we will be able to raise at the just right paintings,” he mentioned.

  • Reduction on course, Thyagraj stadium gates open as Delhi government extends time till 10 pm

    FOR THE first time in weeks, guards on the Delhi government-run Thyagraj Stadium didn’t get started blowing whistles at 6.30 pm for athletes to go away the sector, chopping brief their coaching.

    On Thursday, after The Indian Categorical reported on how the sector used to be being cleared early, via 7 pm, in order that Delhi’s Foremost Secretary (Earnings) Sanjeev Khirwar can stroll his canine at the tracks later, Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal issued an order for all wearing amenities within the town to stay open until 10 pm.

    “The subject got here to me these days morning. Because of the warmth and emerging temperature, sportspersons are going through issues in proceeding coaching and the stadium closes via 6 pm. So, we’ve determined to permit all stadiums below the Delhi Govt to stick open until 10 pm,” Kejriwal stated.

    Posting a picture of The Indian Categorical file, Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia tweeted: “Information reviews have dropped at our understand that positive sports activities amenities are being closed early inflicting inconvenience to sportsmen who want to play until overdue evening. CM Arvind Kejriwal has directed that every one Delhi authorities sports activities amenities keep open for sportsmen until 10 pm.”

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    Information reviews have dropped at our understand that positive sports activities amenities are being closed early inflicting inconvenience to sportsmen who want to play until overdue nite. CM @ArvindKejriwal has directed that every one Delhi Government sports activities amenities to stick open for sportsmen until 10pm %.twitter.com/LG7ucovFbZ

    — Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) Would possibly 26, 2022

    The Indian Categorical file had highlighted the complaint of coaches and their trainees. “We used to coach until 8-8.30 pm below lighting previous. However now, we’re requested to go away the bottom via 7 pm in order that the officer can stroll his canine at the flooring. Our coaching and follow regimen has been disrupted,” a trainer had stated.

    IAS officer Sanjeev Khirwar at Thyagraj stadium in Delhi. (Categorical picture via Abhinav Saha)

    On Thursday night time, The Indian Categorical used to be on the stadium, the place trainees took their time to chill down and weren’t in a hurry to go away. “It’s just right that the stadium is open until overdue now. We’ve sufficient time to coach,” a junior athlete stated. Khirwar didn’t flip up.

    Stadium administrator Ajit Chaudhary, who had previous informed this newspaper that the power used to be open most effective from 4 pm to six pm and that he wasn’t acutely aware of who used it after 7 pm, didn’t reply to calls from The Indian Categorical on Thursday.

    A Delhi authorities legit stated: “On seeing the scoop file within the morning, the Leader Minister took the one plan of action he may and ordered that stadiums stay open until 10 pm in order that athletes don’t must endure. Because the services and products departments, like land, legislation and order and police, come below the Centre by the use of the L-G, transfers, postings, grievances in addition to disciplinary motion additionally come below him. The Delhi authorities can not take motion on this subject.”

    Thyagraj Stadium, which used to be constructed for the 2010 Commonwealth Video games, is a centrally situated multi-discipline wearing complicated.

  • Kejriwal hosts lunch for KCR; discusses political state of affairs in nation

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    NEW DELHI: Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal met his Telangana counterpart Ok Chandrashekar Rao on the AAP chief’s place of dwelling right here on Sunday.

    The 2 leader ministers had lunch in combination and mentioned quite a lot of problems, together with the present political state of affairs within the nation. Later, they left for Chandigarh, officers stated.

    “Hon’ble Leader Minister Shri @ArvindKejriwal hosted Hon’ble Leader Minister of Telangana, Shri Ok Chandrashekar Rao at his place of dwelling for lunch, nowadays,” the Delhi Leader Minister’s Administrative center tweeted.

    Kejriwal and Rao, in conjunction with Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann, are scheduled to pay tributes to the martyrs of the Galwan Valley conflict towards the Chinese language troops and the farmers who died throughout the anti-farm regulation stir remaining yr, in Chandigarh later within the day.

    On Saturday, the Telangana leader minister, accompanied through Kejriwal, had visited colleges and Mohalla clinics of the Delhi govt.

    Rao is in Delhi as a part of his week-long excursion to wait national-level political and social programmes. On Saturday, he had additionally met Samajwadi Birthday party leader Akhilesh Yadav.

  • Omission of lesson on Bhagat Singh from Karnataka college guide insult to martyr: Arvind Kejriwal

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    NEW DELHI: Hitting out on the BJP govt in Karnataka over reviews about elimination of a lesson on Bhagat Singh from a faculty textbook, Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday mentioned it is an insult to the sacrifice made by means of the long-lasting freedom fighter, and demanded a roll again of the verdict.

    Taking to Twitter, the AAP nationwide convenor mentioned the rustic won’t tolerate such insult of its martyrs, and requested the BJP why “its folks” hate Bhagat Singh such a lot.

    Kejriwal’s response got here an afternoon after some organisations, together with All-India Democratic Scholars Organisation (AIDSO) and All-India Save Schooling Committee (AISEC), claimed that the Karnataka govt has unnoticed a lesson on freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and integrated a speech by means of RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in a revised Kannada textbook for college students of sophistication X.

    शहीद ए आज़म भगत सिंह जी से BJP की नफरत सबके सामने आ गई

    कम उम्र में देश के लिए जान देकर इंकलाब की लौ जलाने वाले सरदार भगत सिंह को पढ़ कर आज भी युवाओं में देशभक्ति की लहर दौड़ जाती है

    देश भक्ति के इसी जज़्बे से डर के मारे BJP की रूह कांपती है https://t.co/QH4w764rcM

    — Bhagwant Mann (@BhagwantMann) Might 17, 2022

    “Why do BJP folks hate Amar Shaheed Sardar Bhagat Singh ji such a lot? Elimination of Sardar Bhagat Singh ji’s identify from college books is an insult to the sacrifice of the amar shaheed. The rustic won’t tolerate such humiliation of its martyrs in any respect. The BJP govt should take again this resolution,” Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi.

    The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) referred to as the elimination of the bankruptcy on Bhagat Singh from the Kannada textbook “shameful” and demanded that the Karnataka govt repair the lesson within the college textbook.

    SHAMEFUL

    BJP’s Karnataka government REMOVES bankruptcy on Bhagat Singh ji from College Books!

    Why does BJP hate Shaheed-E-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh ji such a lot?

    BJP will have to take again this resolution. India won’t tolerate such humiliation of our Freedom Combatants!https://t.co/5kz9lbpOKc

    — AAP (@AamAadmiParty) Might 17, 2022

    “SHAMEFUL. BJP’s Karnataka government REMOVES bankruptcy on Bhagat Singh ji from College Books. Why does BJP hate Shaheed-E-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh ji such a lot? BJP will have to take again this resolution. India won’t tolerate such humiliation of our freedom combatants,” the celebration tweeted from its respectable Twitter deal with.

    Karnataka Number one and Secondary Schooling Minister BC Nagesh has defended the inclusion of a speech by means of Hedgewar in a revised Kannada textbook for college students of sophistication X.

    Nagesh has mentioned the textbook does no longer comprise anything else about Hedgewar or RSS, however most effective his speech on what will have to be an inspiration to folks, particularly the formative years, and that those that have raised objections have no longer long past throughout the textbook.

  • Kejriwal looking to ‘scare, blackmail’ other people over the anti-encroachment pressure: BJP

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    NEW DELHI: The Delhi BJP Monday accused Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal of looking to “scare and blackmail” other people over the civic our bodies’ anti-encroachment pressure, and stated town’s bona fide citizens is probably not harmed even supposing they reside in unauthorised colonies or slum clusters.

    Then again, Bangladeshis, Rohingyas, rioters and the ones interested by unlawful actions, “who’re safe via the Aam Aadmi Celebration”, is probably not spared, he stated.

    His observation got here after Kejriwal claimed at a press briefing that the BJP-ruled municipal firms have deliberate to demolish homes and retail outlets which might be regarded as unlawful, and that may render 63 lakh other people homeless.

    In reaction, Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta addressed a press convention, accusing Kejriwal of “merely feigning lack of knowledge”, and “mendacity, as soon as once more”. “Kejriawal has expressed his ache so I need to guarantee that no Bangladeshis, Rohingyas, rioters and the ones interested by unlawful actions and who’re safe via AAP, shall be spared,” he stated.

    However no bona fide Delhiite dwelling in unauthorised colonies or slum clusters had to fear because the BJP and the Modi executive stand with them, he stated.

    Kejriwal does now not need to face the reality over the anti-encroachment pressure, he stated. “As soon as once more, Kejriwal has attempted to scare the folks of Delhi. This blackmailing is not going to proceed Kejriwal ji, other people understand how giant a liar you’re! There don’t seem to be 63 lakh homes in Delhi as you might have claimed,” he stated.

    The Modi executive has given possession rights to 40 lakh other people in uanuthorised colonies, which the AAP may just now not do regardless of being in energy for over seven years, he stated.

    “The Kejriwal executive saved the report for regularisation of unauthorised colonies and Jahan Jhuggi Wahan Makan scheme information for 3-4 years,” he charged. He stated the BJP helped other people and labored for the advance of town throughout the birthday celebration’s 15-year rule within the 3 municipal firms.

    Gupta additionally charged that AAP MLAs and volunteers have been tough cash from other people via “scaring them and promising assist” in saving their homes from demolition.

    “I’ve won lawsuits from Paschim Vihar and Burari. AAP MLAs are indulged on this reprehensible factor asking volunteers of the birthday celebration to visit other people to inform them that their homes shall be demolished and insist cash from them to avoid wasting them,” he alleged.

    Gupta charged the Kejriwal executive sat over the ‘Jahan Jhuggi Wahan Makan’, or in-situ slum rehabilitation, scheme for 4 years, ahead of the Centre took it ahead and readied 15,000 homes to this point.

    In his press convention previous, Kejriwal had slammed the anti-encroachment pressure being performed in more than a few portions of town via the BJP-ruled municipal firms, announcing if bulldozers raze retail outlets and homes of 63 lakh other people in Delhi which might be regarded as unlawful it’ll be the “largest destruction” in unbiased India.

    At a gathering with Aam Aadmi Celebration MLAs at the subject, he instructed them that they must oppose the anti-encroachment pressure even supposing that supposed going to the prison.