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  • Sonia Gandhi discharged from medical institution, urged leisure at house 

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi used to be discharged from the Sir Ganga Ram Medical institution right here on Monday night time and used to be urged leisure at house, the birthday party mentioned.

    She used to be admitted to the medical institution on June 12, days after she examined sure for COVID-19 on June 2.

    “Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi has been discharged from Sir Ganga Ram Medical institution this night time and urged leisure at house,” birthday party basic secretary Jairam Ramesh mentioned.

    Ramesh had mentioned previous that Gandhi used to be admitted to the medical institution after profuse bleeding from the nostril following a contemporary Covid an infection.

    She used to be right away put beneath remedy and underwent a follow-up process on June 15, he mentioned.

    “A fungal an infection in her decrease breathing tract used to be additionally detected upon admission. She is recently being handled for it, at the side of different post-Covid signs,” he had mentioned on Friday.

    Gandhi, 75, used to be scheduled to seem prior to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a cash laundering case on June 8 however had sought extra time from the probe company in view of her Covid an infection.

    The company has issued a contemporary summons to her for look prior to it on June 23.
     

  • Modi has weakened environmental regulations in India, posing as eco-champion on global level: Ramesh

    He accused High Minister Narendra Modi of hypocrisy and alleged that whilst he has weakened all environmental and woodland regulations in India, he’s posing as an eco-champion at the global level.

  • Most sensible leaders in race as Congress would possibly get 11 Rajya Sabha seats, strengthen its place in Higher Space 

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Congress is prone to get 11 Rajya Sabha seats within the upcoming election cycle with a few of its best leaders, together with P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh, eyeing some other time period.

    This may additionally lend a hand Congress beef up its birthday celebration place within the Higher Space of Parliament from the present 29 to 33 contributors.

    Every other best Congress leaders, together with Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Mukul Wasnik, Randeep Surjewala, Ajay Maken and Rajeev Shukla, are ready within the wings to get a Rajya Sabha nomination.

    Of the 55 vacancies bobbing up within the Rajya Sabha within the subsequent two months, seven Congress contributors — Chidambaram (Maharashtra), Ramesh (Karnataka), Ambika Soni (Punjab), Vivek Tankha (Madhya Pradesh), Pradeep Tamta (Uttarakhand), Kapil Sibal (Uttar Pradesh) and Chhaya Verma (Chhattisgarh) — will probably be finishing their phrases.

    The Congress will probably be gaining 3 to 4 seats within the Higher Space if it manages to get the entire 3 seats which are falling vacant in Rajasthan.

    Whilst the birthday celebration gets two seats in Chhattisgarh, the place it’s in energy, it’ll get one seat every in Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Maharashtra, the place it stocks energy with different like-minded events.

    The Congress may be prone to get one seat every in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka at the power of its MLAs in those states.

    Assets stated whilst Chidambaram and Ramesh are hopeful that the birthday celebration management would give a nod to them for some other time period, there are a bunch of different leaders who’re looking forward to a Rajya Sabha berth for a while now.

    Chidambaram is eyeing the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Tamil Nadu.

    He has already met Tamil Nadu Leader Minister and DMK chief M Ok Stalin.

    On the other hand, former Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s staff is pushing for a tender face in Praveen Chakravarty, the pinnacle of the birthday celebration’s Knowledge Analytics division, for the seat.

    3-time Rajya Sabha member Ramesh gets a fourth time period if his title is cleared for the lone seat in Karnataka, from the place Surjewala may be a contender.

    In Haryana, Surjewala, Kumari Selja and Kuldeep Bishnoi are vying for the lone seat, however former leader minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is pushing for the nomination of Anand Sharma.

    The previous Union minister is a outstanding member of the “Staff of 23” and is regarded as on the subject of Hooda, who may be a member of the grouping.

    Assets stated Kapil Sibal was once introduced a Rajya Sabha berth via best friend Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), however the Congress management was once no longer in a position.

    Sibal hand over the Congress on Wednesday and were given a Rajya Sabha nomination from Uttar Pradesh as an Unbiased with the fortify of the Samajwadi Celebration (SP).

    In Chhattisgarh, the Congress has two seats and Shukla is vying for some other time period from the state.

    The Congress will certainly get two seats from Rajasthan and may additionally get some other seat with the fortify of a few MLAs.

    Maken and Azad are stated to be sturdy contenders for the seats.

    In Maharashtra, the place the birthday celebration stocks energy within the Maha Vikas Aghadi executive, it’s going to get one Rajya Sabha seat, and Wasnik and Avinash Pande are within the race for it.

    The race may be between the outdated guard within the Congress and the younger leaders, who’re prepared to get a Rajya Sabha nomination, holding in view the birthday celebration’s push for the adolescence.

    On the other hand, this won’t occur instantly because the “50 under 50” system might not be acceptable within the present Rajya Sabha nominations, the assets stated.
     

  • Rajya Sabha polls to 57 seats from 15 states on June 10: Election Fee

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Elections shall be hung on June 10 to fill 57 Rajya Sabha seats from 15 states falling vacant because of the retirement of participants on other dates between June and August, the Election Fee stated on Thursday.

    Distinguished amongst the ones retiring are Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Congress leaders Ambika Soni, Jairam Ramesh and Kapil Sibal, and BSP’s Satish Chandra Misra.

    Individuals are retiring between June 21 and August 1.

    Whilst 11 seats are falling vacant in Uttar Pradesh, six participants every are retiring from Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, 5 from Bihar and 4 every from Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Karnataka.

    3 participants every from Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, two every from Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Punjab Jharkhand and Haryana, and one from Uttarakhand also are retiring.

    The notification for the polls shall be issued on Might 24 and vote casting shall be hung on June 10.

    In step with established follow, counting will happen an hour after the belief of polling.

    Lots of the new participants who get elected are prone to vote within the President’s election, due someday in July.

  • Chidambaram, Jairam Ramesh amongst Congress most sensible minds to bid good-bye to Rajya Sabha

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    NEW DELHI: Because the curtain falls at the funds consultation of Parliament, most sensible minds of the Congress within the Rajya Sabha, together with the birthday party’s leader whip Jairam Ramesh, former Union House Minister P Chidambaram and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s shut aide Ambika Soni are set to retire prior to the monsoon consultation is convened.

    Whilst some might make a comeback to the higher space, others could have an extended wait to be elected to the Rajya Sabha following the grand outdated birthday party’s shrinking footprint in state Assemblies. The loss within the contemporary 5 Meeting elections has additional harm the birthday party’s possibilities in Rajya Sabha seats.

    In the second one lot of vacancies that can be created between June and August this yr, the birthday party will see senior leaders and key audio system throughout essential debates in the home — Ramesh, who represents Karnataka, and Chidambaram, elected from Maharashtra — retiring from the higher space.

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    Resources stated the birthday party is predicted to carry them again from states the place it’s prone to acquire seats.  

    The birthday party’s deputy chief within the Rajya Sabha Anand Sharma retired on April 2. Sharma’s different G23 dissident colleagues within the Rajya Sabha – senior recommend Kapil Sibal, elected from Uttar Pradesh, and Vivek Tankha, elected from Madhya Pradesh – also are finishing their six-year phrases. Each are not likely to make a comeback to the home. Additionally retiring is Chhaya Verma, elected from Chhattisgarh, who has again and again raised problems with significance within the higher space.       

    The birthday party is predicted to achieve a couple of seats from Rajasthan (4 vacancies), the place the birthday party is in executive, and in states the place it’s in an alliance – Tamil Nadu (6 vacancies), Maharashtra (6 vacancies), and Jharkhand (2 vacancies). The birthday party’s provide power within the higher home is 30.

    Within the Rajya Sabha elections on March 31, the Congress has already misplaced two seats in Assam and one in Himachal Pradesh. Within the subsequent segment of the Rajya Sabha elections between June-August, the Congress is ready to lose two seats in Punjab and one every in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

  • There was once no drama, no ministerial tamasha previous: Jairam Ramesh takes swipe at government over ‘Operation Ganga’

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    NEW DELHI: Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday took a swipe on the govt over the evacuation of Indian nationals from war-hit Ukraine, announcing there was once no drama or ministerial ‘tamasha’ when other people had been introduced again from Libya, Lebanon and the Gulf previously.

    “PM bragged evacuation from Ukraine presentations energy of self-proclaimed ‘New India’. Executive of India prior to 2014, with out fanfare and PR, evacuated over 15000 Indians from Libya (2011), about 2300 from Lebanon (2006) and virtually 170000 from Gulf (1990). There was once no drama, no ministerial tamasha,” he stated on Twitter.

    The federal government has despatched 4 of its ministers in a foreign country to coordinate evacuation of Indians from Ukraine.

    Quite a lot of ministers have additionally been deputed to welcome Indian scholars on their go back again house.

    Ramesh additionally hit out at High Minister Narendra Modi on his declare of rate legislation in non-public clinical faculties, announcing the Status Committee of Parliament analyzing the Nationwide Clinical Fee Invoice in December 2017 advisable no less than 50 p.c seats in non-public clinical faculties will have to have regulated charges.

    “Really odd what our PM will get away with! He now says 50% of seats in non-public clinical faculties may have regulated charges. The unique Nationwide Clinical Fee Invoice presented in December 2017 proposed such legislation for at maximum 40% of seats…The Status Committee in March 2018 advisable for a minimum of 50%. Ultimate Act that got here into impact in August 2019 dropped no less than however saved 50%. What’s the PM now claiming credit score for,” the Congress chief requested.

  • Flora and fauna Coverage (Modification) Invoice poorly drafted, has massive shortcomings: Jairam Ramesh

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Senior Congress chief and previous atmosphere minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday mentioned the Flora and fauna Coverage (Modification) Invoice, which has been despatched to the parliamentary status committee headed by way of him, is poorly drafted and has massive shortcomings.

    Ramesh, who heads the Parliamentary Status Committee on Science and Generation, Setting, Wooded area and Local weather Exchange, mentioned he’s crushed by way of the over 70 responses won from professionals and establishments at the Flora and fauna Coverage (Modification) Invoice, 2021.

    “The Invoice had now not been according to in style consultations. It’s poorly drafted and has massive shortcomings,” Ramesh mentioned on Twitter.

    Now the Status Committee has an excessively difficult job of analyzing the 50 amendments proposed, he mentioned.

    “We are hoping to finish this workout within the subsequent 45 days. I am involving a lot of execs for the duty. Frankly, that is what the ministry must have finished within the first position!” Ramesh mentioned.