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  • Pratibha Singh appointed President of Himachal Pradesh Congress 

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    CHANDIGARH: Lok Sabha Member of Parliament from Mandi, Pratibha Singh has been appointed because the President of Himachal Pradesh Congress, she is spouse of former Leader Minister Virbhadra Singh.

    But even so appointing Pratibha Singh as Himachal Congress leader, the celebration has appointed 4 running presidents, Harsh Mahajan, Rajinder Rana, Vinay Kumar and Pawan Kajal. In the meantime, Mukesh Agnihotri will keep as Himachal Congress Legislative Birthday party chief and Harshvardhan Chauhan is deputy CLP chief. Former Himachal Congress President and Nadaun MLA Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu has been appointed as Chairman of the marketing campaign committee and a member of the screening committee. “It’s for the primary time running presidents were appointed via the celebration within the state congress,” stated a senior chief.

    A couple of state celebration leaders are of the opinion that appointing Pratibha Singh as state Congress leader would fortify the celebration and the factionalism may come to an finish because the dominant staff inside the celebration is the previous CM’s circle of relatives. Additionally, they stated, the Rajput issue will paintings in her favour and a very powerful the sympathy wave given how after the demise of former CM Virbhadra Singh closing 12 months the state Congress has been a divided lot. 

    “To win the elections, the Congress with this transfer has attempted to place a united face in spite of its inner variations,” stated a celebration chief.

    Resources stated that the Congress would now not claim a primary ministerial face for the approaching meeting polls scheduled for later this 12 months because the ruling BJP has already declared sitting Leader Minister Jai Ram Thakur because the face of the celebration.

    In the meantime, Jagat Singh Negi is the manager whip and Dr Rajesh Sharma is the treasurer. Additionally, former union minister Anand Sharma has been appointed as Chairman of the steerage committee and Asha Kumari convenor. In the meantime Dhaniram Shandil would be the chairman of the Manifesto Committee, Ashish Butail would be the vice-chairman and Rohit Thakur convenor. Adjusting different leaders Kaul Singh Thakur has been named because the Chairman of the coordination committee and Ram Lal Thakur Chairman of the Election Control Committee.

  • Cong to represent ‘Empowered Motion Team-2024’, no readability on Prashant Kishor’s induction

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday introduced that an empowered crew shall be constituted to deal with the political demanding situations forward, days after deliberating at the presentation by means of ballot strategist Prashant Kishor over the birthday celebration’s plan for the 2024 elections.

    Congress President Sonia Gandhi additionally determined to convene a ‘Chintan Shivir’, a brainstorming consultation from Might 13-15 in Udaipur, the place birthday celebration leaders from around the nation would speak about inside problems confronting it and get a hold of answers to lend a hand make stronger the organisation and make it have compatibility to take at the BJP within the subsequent spherical of polls, birthday celebration leader spokesperson Randeep Surjewala informed journalists.

    Requested if there used to be any resolution on Kishor’s induction into the birthday celebration, Surjewala didn’t give a right away answer, and simply mentioned, “On every occasion the gang is constituted, you’ll know who is a part of it.

    The choices had been taken at a gathering of senior birthday celebration leaders to chalk the Congress technique for the following normal and meeting elections, together with the plan offered by means of Kishor.

    The Congress has been suffering to adapt its technique for upcoming elections within the wake of a chain of defeats on the hustings.

    “The Congress president gained a record from the eight-member crew on April 21. Lately, she mentioned the record with the gang and in accordance with the discussions, the Congress president has determined to represent an ‘Empowered Motion Team-2024’ with a view to cope with the political demanding situations forward,” Surjewala mentioned.

    The assembly used to be convened on the 10, Janpath place of dwelling of Sonia Gandhi, the place senior birthday celebration leaders together with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Ambika Soni, Ok C Venugopal, Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik, Digvijaya Singh, Jairam Ramesh and P Chidambaram had been amongst the ones provide.

    All the way through the assembly that lasted for over 3 hours, Gandhi mentioned the suggestions with the participants of the gang.

    Those 8 leaders had been a part of the gang who had mentioned and appeared into the birthday celebration’s technique for upcoming meeting and normal elections and submitted its record at the side of suggestions to the Congress president on April 21.

    “The Congress President has determined to convene the ‘Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir’ of the Indian Nationwide Congress in Udaipur on Might 13, 14 and 15, 2022, the place about 400 Congressmen and ladies from each and every state will take part,” Surjewala mentioned. The focal point of the deliberations shall be at the present political and financial scenario and the demanding situations they pose to our society and the country, he mentioned.

    Surjewala mentioned the ‘Chintan Shivir’ may also planned at the large means of the Indian Nationwide Congress for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    “Problems in relation to the welfare and wellbeing of farmers and farm labourers, and the trampling of the rights of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, OBCs, non secular and linguistic minorities and ladies social justice and empowerment and formative years may also be mentioned intimately. As well as, issues in relation to organisational restructuring and strengthening shall be deliberated,” a commentary from the birthday celebration mentioned.

  • Ex-Cong MLA Manilal Vaghela joins BJP forward of Gujarat Meeting polls

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    AHMEDABAD: Former Congress MLA Manilal Vaghela, who used to be denied price tag by way of the birthday celebration within the 2017 Gujarat Meeting elections, joined the BJP on Sunday together with a number of of his supporters, forward of the state polls due in December this yr.

    Gujarat BJP president C R Paatil welcomed Vaghela with a birthday celebration shawl on the ‘Vijay Vishwas Sammelan’ in Vadgam the town of Banaskantha district.

    Vaghela had gained the 2012 state election on Congress’s price tag from Vadgam seat, however used to be denied price tag within the 2017 Meeting election after the birthday celebration determined to reinforce impartial candidate and Dalit chief Jignesh Mevani, who gained by way of defeating his BJP rival.

    Vaghela, who used to be related to Congress for a very long time, had resigned from the birthday celebration in November final yr, mentioning displeasure over the birthday celebration sidelining him for Mevani. He had expressed objection to Mevani’s “provoctive speeches” and Dalit identification politics.

    Particularly, Mevani used to be arrested a couple of days again by way of the Assam police from Palanpur the town in Banaskantha over a tweet. He’s lately within the Assam police’s custody after his bail plea used to be rejected by way of a court docket within the north- japanese state.

    Quickly after becoming a member of the BJP, Vaghela criticised the Congress, terming it as a “direction-less birthday celebration” with no one to listen to the grievances of Congress employees.

    Vaghela mentioned he’ll ensure that the BJP victory from the Vadgam seat, which is reserved for Scheduled Caste applicants.

    “I contacted folks from the world and after visiting other villages and assembly sarpanchs and others, I determined to enroll in the BJP. I will be able to make sure that this seat is gained by way of the BJP, without reference to who will get the price tag to contest from the seat,” he mentioned.

  • Congress-BJP blame sport over temple demolition in Alwar

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    JAIPUR:  Politics has heated up within the wilderness state after a bulldozer was once run over a temple throughout an anti-encroachment power in Alwar district. Whilst the BJP stated the state’s ruling Congress was once doing “revenge politics”, the latter retaliated by way of mentioning that the temple demolition was once initiated by way of a BJP-ruled municipality board.

    The Rajgarh management claimed that motion was once taken to take away encroachments in line with the city’s grasp plan. In line with earnings information, there was once a highway of about 60 ft however now it isn’t even 25-foot-wide. Over time, there were numerous encroachments, the city management stated. 

    In the meantime, Hindu organisations accused Congress MLA  Johri Lal Meena, SDM Keshav Kumar Meena and EO Banwari Lal Meena of collusion to demolish the temple. They alleged the police didn’t record an FIR in spite of their grievance. 

    Whilst the chairman of the municipality board stated the motion was once taken on the stage of the management, native officers claimed a solution to transparent the encroachment was once handed by way of the municipality. A video of MLA Meena goes viral on social media. Within the video, he’s noticed telling those who that they had elected a BJP board and that was once why the demolition took place. He claimed within the video that 34 councillors of the BJP gave their consent to take away the encroachments whilst the Congress had just one councillor.

    District Collector Nakate Shivprasad stated the verdict to absorb the demolition power was once made unanimously in the second one assembly of the newly elected Municipality Board. “Motion was once taken on two 
    temples. One temple, which was once constructed lately, was once status on best of an present drain. The idols put in within the non-public temple constructed over the drain had been taken away by way of the temple government themselves ahead of the encroachment was once got rid of. Just a negligible a part of the second one temple was once demolished,” the collector stated.

  • Alwar temple demolition pressure: Congress, BJP business fees in Rajasthan

    Alwar's BJP MP Balaknath alleged that the idols at one of the crucial temples too had been broken within the demolition early this week.

  • Assam police arrests Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani over tweet

    Via PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Congress MLA Jignesh Mevani used to be arrested by way of Assam Police from Palanpur the town in Gujarat on past due Wednesday evening over a tweet and brought to Assam by way of air within the early hours, officers mentioned right here on Thursday.

    The outstanding Dalit chief from Gujarat used to be arrested quickly after a First Knowledge Record (FIR) underneath phase 153A of the Indian Penal Code, which offers with offences associated with selling enmity between communities, used to be registered at Kokrajhar police station in Assam, mentioned his aide Suresh Jat.

    “As in step with a file shared by way of the officers of the Assam police, an FIR has been lodged over a tweet by way of Mevani few days again. On the other hand, the tweet has been withheld by way of Twitter. It used to be about Nathuram Godse. Mevani used to be first dropped at Ahmedabad by way of highway after which taken to Assam by way of air early nowadays morning,” he added.

    Mevani is unbiased MLA from Vadgam seat in Banaskantha. He lately joined Congress. In a commentary, Mevani’s place of business mentioned he used to be arrested by way of Assam police from Palanpur circuit Area at 11:30 pm on Wednesday.

    Gujarat Congress president Jagdish Thakor and different Congress leaders rushed to Ahmedabad Airport after studying about his arrest and shouted slogans towards the BJP executive.

  • Preferrred Court docket rejects problem to SALT prohibit from New York, New Jersey

    Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., speaks right through a information convention pronouncing the State and Native Taxes (SALT) Caucus out of doors the U.S. Capitol.

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    The U.S. Preferrred Court docket has rejected a problem from New York and 3 different states to overturn the $10,000 prohibit at the federal deduction for state and native taxes, which is referred to as SALT, enacted throughout the Republican’s 2017 tax overhaul. 

    The order denied a request from New York, Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey to study an October ruling from the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the 2d Circuit, which rejected arguments that the SALT cap is an “unconstitutional attack” at the states’ taxing choices.

    “This choice by means of the Preferrred Court docket underlines the truth that any exchange to the SALT cap will come from an intentional act of Congress, no longer throughout the courts,” stated Garrett Watson, senior coverage analyst on the Tax Basis.

    “The criminal demanding situations to the cap itself have been all the time a longshot, so this choice by means of the Preferrred Court docket to say no the evaluate of the case used to be no longer completely sudden,” he stated.

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    The SALT cap has been a ache level for high-tax states as a result of citizens cannot deduct greater than $10,000 in state and native levies on their federal returns. And a few lawmakers from those spaces were preventing for aid as a part of a Congressional SALT Caucus.

    With a slender Democratic majority, the $10,000 prohibit used to be a sticking level in Construct Again Higher negotiations, and Space lawmakers in November handed an $80,000 SALT cap via 2030 as a part of their $1.75 trillion spending bundle. Then again, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., blocked the plan within the Senate, halting momentum for SALT aid. 

    “I do be expecting this choice will revive some dialogue about if and the way the deduction cap will have to be modified transferring ahead, particularly within the context of any revised Construct Again Higher bundle in Congress,” Watson stated.

    There stays skepticism of SALT cap adjustments in each chambers, which can make any legislative try to adjust the cap an uphill fight at perfect.

    Garrett Watson

    senior coverage analyst on the Tax Basis

    “There stays skepticism of SALT cap adjustments in each chambers, which can make any legislative try to adjust the cap an uphill fight at perfect,” he added.

    With out an extension from Congress, the $10,000 SALT prohibit will mechanically sundown in 2026, together with a number of tax breaks from the Republican regulation.

    Within the interim, many states have SALT cap workarounds for pass-through companies, permitting house owners to avoid the prohibit by means of paying for a part of their state taxes via their corporate.  

    Different roadblocks

    Whilst the SALT cap has been a hot-button factor in high-tax states and Congress, there are different financial components to believe, coverage mavens say.

    “There used to be the pandemic, and the commercial restoration from the pandemic, and those are the issues which are using present state coverage choices, no longer the state and native tax deduction,” stated Richard Auxier, senior coverage affiliate on the City-Brookings Tax Coverage Heart.

    The ones suffering from the $10,000 SALT prohibit are prosperous householders with “the power to make a large number of political noise,” he stated, and lots of have benefited from different provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

    If repealed, the highest 20% of taxpayers might obtain over 96% of the comfort, in step with a Tax Coverage Heart file, which might have an effect on most effective 9% of American families. 

  • G-23 excluded as Congress discusses Prashant Kishor’s proposals for 2024 Parliamentary polls

    By way of IANS

    NEW DELHI: The crowd of dissidents within the Congress — G-23 — appears to be disenchanted after no longer being consulted for the continuing discussions at the proposals given by means of political strategist Prashant Kishor as roadmap for the 2024 overall elections.

    On Wednesday, two Congress CMs, Ashok Gehlot from Rajasthan and Bhupesh Baghel from Chhattisgarh, have been referred to as to Delhi to talk about the proposals.

    Whilst a number of Congress leaders have been provide for the discussions, ever because the formal consultations started at the proposals, G-23 leaders weren’t made birthday party to them, together with one of the vital senior maximum leaders of the Congress, Ghulam Nabi Azad.

    Then again, one of the vital signatories of the letter written to Sonia Gandhi by means of the G-23 leaders, Veerappa Moily, has stated that this is a welcome transfer to rope in Kishor. In the meantime, Gehlot stated that “Kishor is a emblem now”, hinting that the birthday party is raring to induct the political strategist into its fold.

    In keeping with Congress general-secretary Randeep Surjewala, the birthday party will come to a decision inside 48 hours in regards to the proposals and the imaginable induction of Kishor into the Congress.

    The Congress is now extra interested in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, which is able to move to the polls later this yr, as good fortune in state polls might be a very powerful going to the overall elections in 2024. In overall, there are six giant state elections forward of the Lok Sabha polls.

    Right through the 3 conferences with Kishor held since Saturday, the ones provide integrated Sonia Gandhi, Ambika Soni, AK Antony, Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal and Randeep Surjewala, amongst others. “Prashant Kishor has given an in depth presentation for the 2024 elections and the Congress President has deputed a small workforce to appear into it and report back to her inside per week. A last resolution might be taken after that,” Venugopal had stated.

    In keeping with resources, Kishor stated all through Saturday’s assembly that the Congress should goal 370-400 seats and paintings on alliances anywhere the birthday party is vulnerable.

  • ‘Quockerwodger’: Congress chief Shashi Tharoor’s newest head-scratcher for Twitter lexicon

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    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Shashi Tharoor, recognized for throwing in rarely-used, continuously difficult-to-pronounce English phrases into Twitter lexicon, on Wednesday posted any other head-scratcher — quockerwodger.

    An invaluable addition to our political vocabulary!? #Quockerwodger %.twitter.com/iGSCMY6tzA

    — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 20, 2022

    The person of many phrases helpfully shared the which means too. “A quockerwodger was once a kind of picket puppet.In politics, a quockerwodger was once a political candidate appearing at the directions of an influential 3rd birthday celebration, somewhat than correctly representing their constituents,” he stated.

    “An invaluable addition to our political vocabulary!?” Tharoor added concerning the phrase he knowledgeable dates again to 1860. This isn’t the primary time the author-politician-wordsmith has despatched Twitterati scurrying for his or her dictionaries to verify whether or not this kind of phrase certainly exists.

    Ultimate 12 months, Tharoor took a dig on the BJP with the phrase ‘allodoxaphobia’, which he defined was once an irrational concern of reviews. Earlier than that, the Congress MP engaged in a pleasant banter with TRS operating president KT Rama Rao over COVID-19 medication names and threw within the difficult to understand ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’.

    Oxford dictionary describes ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’ because the motion or addiction of estimating one thing as nugatory. Up to now, he has stumped folks with phrases reminiscent of ‘farrago’ and ‘troglodyte’. Whilst ‘farrago’ approach a at a loss for words combination, a ‘troglodyte’ approach an individual considered being intentionally ignorant or out of date.

  • Congress leader Sonia Gandhi bureaucracy panel to test on Prashant Kishor’s technique paper for 2024 polls

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    NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has shaped a three-member committee comprising birthday celebration veterans AK Antony, Ambika Soni and Mallikarjun Kharge to inspect election strategist Prashant Kishor’s technique paper for contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The committee has been requested to publish its file in every week.

    Kishor had made a three-hour presentation at Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s place of dwelling on April 16. It used to be attended through former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi, and senior leaders AK Antony, Ambika Soni, Mallikarjun Kharge, Digvijay Singh, Mukul Wasnik, KC Venugopal,  Jairam Ramesh and Ajay Maken, but even so the Congress president.

    Within the presentation, Kishor defined the errors the birthday celebration has been making and introduced an alternate plan that might assist the birthday celebration be triumphant on the hustings.

    Amongst his tips used to be to center of attention birthday celebration sources on winnable seats, which he stated have been simplest 370 out of Lok Sabha’s overall energy of 543. He stated Congress is a smart product which lacks right kind advertising and marketing. He used to be in particular important of the birthday celebration’s media technique.

    He brushed apart the emerging communal polarization as a trifling factor and stated it might be countered through galvanizing and empowering staff on the sales space degree. He stated the birthday celebration must combat by itself in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and input into alliance in states like Andhra, Telangana, West Bengal and Maharashtra.

    After the presentation, Sonia requested the leaders about their opinion at the presentation. Assets stated Digvijay Singh and AK Antony gave the impression no longer very inspired through the proposal. Digvijay stated that is precisely what the birthday celebration had stated after its closing two chintan shivirs at Pachmarhi and Shimla. Antony stated lots of the issues discussed within the proposal have been very similar to the ones he had discussed in his file after the birthday celebration’s loss in 2014.

    The reaction of others used to be muted. However Jairam Ramesh used to be filled with reward for the guidelines introduced through Kishor and stated they have been value attempting.

    Kishor confronted a clumsy second all the way through the assembly. When he referred to media stories about his appointment as Congress common secretary, and stated he isn’t hankering after any birthday celebration place, Kharge lower him off and stated “PK, did not you come back to me asking me to suggest you to be made Congress vice-president.”

    After the assembly Congress leaders stated it used to be now positive that Kishor would sign up for the birthday celebration. He would possibly, then again, no longer get the quantity two slot within the birthday celebration. Going through what Kharge stated all the way through the assembly and what key birthday celebration functionaries really feel, Kishor were bargaining for a submit subsequent to simply the Congress president. He’s reportedly all for reporting simplest to the Congress president.

    Congress assets stated some leaders have been of the view that sooner than giving him complete accountability of strategizing the 2024 common elections, he must be requested to end up the efficacy of his plan within the approaching state elections.

    “Elections are due in over a dozen states sooner than the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Congress holds a bit of over 400 seats out of the 1500 plus seats in those states. Let him first assist the birthday celebration toughen its tally in those states sooner than taking a large chew,” stated a senior Congress chief.

    Kishor has already introduced that he can be a part of a political birthday celebration through Would possibly 2, when his sabbatical ends.