Tag: Madhya Pradesh
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How the fodder crisis in Madhya Pradesh is affecting milk production and impacting children
Berasiya (Bhopal): It seems that gradually, Madhya Pradesh is coming into the grip of fodder shortage. Fodder scarcity has led its prices to rise many folds and many farmers are finding it difficult to take care of cattle. As a result, milk – considered to be a good source of protein is getting increased and…
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Damoh defeat brings to the fore dissensions within Madhya Pradesh BJP
The defeat of BJP candidate Rahul Singh Lodhi at the hands of Ajay Kumar Tandon of the Congress in the Damoh Assembly by-election (held in April-May) has brought to the fore the deep-rooted dissensions within the State unit of the party. The State leadership suspended from the primary membership of the party half a dozen…
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MP’s Chouhan competing with Modi in ‘jumlebazi’
Shivraj Singh Chouhan is no less ‘jumlebaz’ than Narendra Modi. If he were sincere about implementing even a fraction of the promises he has made since November 2005 when he became Chief Minister for the first time, Madhya Pradesh would not have acquired the dubious status of being one of the most crime-prone and corrupt…
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BJP ruled states in India is undoing of Indian Constitution by attacking minority’s worship places– IAMC
Kolkata: On January 26 India will celebrate its Republic day which honors the date on which India adopted the Constitution of India. The Constitution is a collective resolution of the people of India to secure for all its citizens justice, liberty and equality and to promote fraternity among them all, without regard to caste or…
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Bhopal Gas Leak survivors have particular reason to remember Motilal Vora
Motilal Vora who died on December 21, a day after he had turned 93, had a humanitarian quality not so common among the political class. Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster have a particular reason to remember him. According to the late Abdul Jabbar, Convener of Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sangathan (BGPMUS),…
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Kalidas Samaroh, once a pride of India, reduced to a minor government function by Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Annual Kalidas Samaroh (reduced from usual seven days to three days ‘because of coronavirus’) was jointly inaugurated by Usha Thakur and Mohan Yadav in Ujjain on Devotthayini Ekadashi (November 25). Usha Thakur is Madhya Pradesh Minister of Tourism, Culture and Spirituality (Adhyatma) and Mohan Yadav is Minister of Higher Education. Both have post-graduate degrees but…
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Need for a comprehensive review of law governing Election Commission of India
In an article in The Tribune, eminent journalist and author Rasheed Kidwai has focussed attention on the inadequacies of the Election Commission to hold elections with a modicum of fairness and deal appropriately with those violating its guidelines or the Model Code of Conduct. He has suggested, among other things, the induction of a retired…
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CBI, country’s premier crime investigation agency, losing trust of the people
Maharashtra’s is the latest non-BJP government to withdraw general consent to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for taking up investigation of a crime in the State on its own. Rajasthan, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Punjab have already done that. This shows the growing distrust of the people in the CBI. Under the relevant law,…
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Madhya Pradesh Assembly by-elections and disquiet within the ruling BJP
The 28 Assembly by-elections in Madhya Pradesh are becoming more problematic for the ruling BJP than for Congress. Of the BJP candidates, 22 are those who had quit Congress along with Jyotiraditya Scindia, to bring down the Congress government of Kamal Nath, resigned from the Assembly and joined BJP. They are at the root of…
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BJP’s gamble on Scindia puts the party in a difficult situation in two states
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s central leadership gambled in Madhya Pradesh when it gave too much importance to Jyotiraditya Scindia by persuading the State unit to induct as many as 11 of his supporters (none of them a member of the Assembly) in the 34-strong Council of Ministers and allot all of them important portfolios…