Raipur, October 12, 2010
Colonialism is not only anachronistic, archaic and outmoded, but also contravenes the fundamental tenets of democracy, freedom, human dignity and rights. The words were expressed by Korba Parliamentarian Charan Das Mahant while he was addressing the representatives of different nations during United Nations Sixty-fifth General Assembly’s Decolonisation Committee meeting at New York on Tuesday.
Mahant delivered his speech in Hindi and became the third Indian representative after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and BJP’s former national president Rajnath Singh who had addressed the United Nations in Hindi.
Mahant said decolonisation was one of the more visible achievements of the United Nations and the fact that fewer than two million people lived under colonial rule in the remaining 16 non-self-governing-territories when compared to 750 million in 1945 was a testimony to this august body. However, there still is a long way to go and the journey is not complete, he added.
Mahant said efforts should be maximised and commitments reaffirmed while the task needed a sense of urgency and activism, on the one hand, and sensitive and circumspect handling on the other. Ascertaining the political aspirations of the people in each of the remaining territories is a critical input, he said.
In India, he said, the milestone poverty eradication programmes, such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) aimed at ensuring inclusive growth so the benefits of development reached every section of society, would help make it possible to do away with even the residual vestiges of colonialism, which only exacerbated societal divisions and disadvantages.
On Pakistan Ambassador Abdul Hussein Haroon’s remark over Jammu and Kashmir, Mahant said, “The State of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and its people have regularly exercised their franchise in free and fair elections.” He concluded his speech quoting Mahatma Gandhi – ‘Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be’.
DCC disciplinary panel formed
Raipur, October 12, 2010
The District Congress Committee (Raipur Urban) president Inderchand Dhariwal on Tuesday constituted five-member disciplinary committee that would probe into the complaints pertaining to indiscipline and submit reports to the DCC. The members of this committee are – DCC (Urban) vice presidents Ambar Shukla and Madan Lal Taleda, president of state civic bodies cell Santosh Agrawal and DCC (Urban) general secretaries Niranjan Haritwal and Suresh Mishra.
No power, water supply in half of city today
Raipur, October 12, 2010
The power and municipal water supply in about half of the city will remain disrupted on Wednesday owing to electricity maintenance works to be done by the Chhattisgarh State Power Holding Company Limited (CSPHCL). Since there will be no electricity supply from 10 am to 5 pm, eleven areas of the capital would not get municipal water, informed Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak. The maintenance works will be carried out in 33 kv intake well feeder and 11 kva filter plant feeder. The areas that would remain affected on Wednesday are – Bairon Bazar, Devendra Nagar, Sanjay Nagar, Idgah Bhatha, Dagania, Ganjpara, Gudhiyari, Rajendra Nagar, Telebandha, Shankar Nagar and Khamtarai.
Cong corporators to complain AICC against RMC Mayor
Raipur, October 12, 2010
Alleging that Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak had adopted biased attitude while selecting candidates during zone president election and reshuffling Mayor-in-Council (MiC) on October 8, 2010 and had given more importance to the independent corporators instead of aspirants from the party, the dissident Congress corporators, after complaining against her to the DCC president, are now heading towards New Delhi to demand from the AICC general secretary and Chhattisgarh incharge V Narayanasamy to take disciplinary action against her.
In this regard, the former MiC member and president of Public Works department Lakhwant Singh Gill (corporator from Pt Ravishankar Shukla ward) has already reached New Delhi while Brigadier Usman ward corporator Satnam Singh Panag left for the national capital on Wednesday.
The dissident corporators informed that Nayak had assured them to give berth either in MiC or to field for zone president poll. However, when she neglected them and picked independent corporators in MiC and asked the party corporators to vote for an independent corporator for zone 6 president despite of DCC president’s directives to refrain from voting for that particular zone, they decided to raise the issue to AICC.
In this regard, Satnam Singh Panag, Radhika Nagbhushan Rao, Sundar Jogi, Afroz Anjum, Babul Yadav, Ghasiram Sahu, Rekha Ramteke and Anita Futan had held a significant meeting on October 11, 2010. According to information, the two independent corporators – Prem Birnani and Deenbandhu Singh Thakur who have been axed from the MiC on non-performance are also supporting the dissident Congress corporators in their campaign against Nayak. It was decided in the meeting that Panag will fly to New Delhi to inform about their grievances to Narayanasamy.
The dissidents inform that Panag will first meet to PCC president Dhanendra Sahu who is already in New Delhi and then would seek appointment from Narayanasamy.
They said Nayak should clarify them and the party bosses about her expected decision that caused rift among the Congress corporators. “It is strange that Nayak picked independent corporator Purnprakash Jha in the MiC despite being aware that he follows the BJP ideology and had closer ties with BJPians,” they said. “Besides, Jha became member of district appellate committee on Nayak’s recommendations and now she has inducted him in the MiC which is strange as how can a person hold two posts,” the dissidents added.
They further pointed out that Jha belonged to Veer Shivaji ward from where Congress had lost corporator’s seat for the past couple of times. “Now, with Jha being elevated in the RMC as MiC member, how can the party expect that its workers in Veer Shivaji ward would upheld their spirit for the next civic body polls?” they questioned.
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