States
Uttar
Pradesh
Pramod
Tiwari Sets World Record
 |
|
Mr.
Pramod Tiwari being felicitated by the Congressmen
after he won the Assembly election from Rampur Khas,
Pratapgarh (UP) and entered the Guiness Book of World
Records
|
PRATAPGARH
: The UP CLP leader, Mr. Pramod
Tiwari, who won the prestigious Rampur Khas assembly seat,
for 7th time
in a row defeating his nearest rival Mrs. Pushpa Devi of
Apna Dal by a margin of over 80,000,00 votes has entered
the Guiness Book of World Records.
According to the UPCC spokesmen,
Mr. Kishore Varshney, Mr. Tiwari, by winning the seat for
the 7th consecutive
time on the ticket of the same party, same symbol and from
same seat has booked his name in the Guiness Book of World
Records. He added that his historic victory is an unbreakable
record in the world.
After his election the people of entire
Pratapgarh took to streets with joy. He was profusely congratulated.
Dharna
Against Corruption
ALLAHABAD :
The District and City Congress Committee organised a joint
dharna here on 13 July against the corruption in the state
government, irregularities and police atrocities under the
BSP-BJP combine rule. Addressing the dharna, former Union
Minister, Shri Satyaprakash Malviya, said that the state
bureaucracy was dominant and corruption was at its peak.
The City Congress Committee president, Shri
Ram Krishan Srivastav, presided over the function. Others
present at the dharna were UPCC general secretary, Shri
Shekhar Bahaguna, Shri Jai Jairam Pandya, Shri Virendra
Mahil, Shri Ramesh Chandra Jaiswal, Md. Hussain Chand, Shri
Lakhan Lal, Shri Sanjay Singh, Shri Shakeel Ahmad, Shri
Himanshu Kharbanda and other local leaders.
Uttaranchal
Annual
Plan Approved
NEW
DELHI : The Planning Commission
approved on September 3, 2002 the 2002-2003 Annual Plan
size of Rs. 1,533 crores for Uttaranchal, almost 46 percent
more than last year’s Plan size of Rs. 1,050 crores.
The Plan was approved at
a meeting here between the Deputy Chairman of the Planning
Commission, K.C. Pant, and the State Chief Minister, N.D.
Tiwari. The Commission also expressed concern at the State
Government’s plan to set up a road transport corporation,
especially at a time when all States were moving towards
privatisation of transport operations. Consequently, Uttaranchal
was requested to review its plans and instead encourage
competition among private operations.
In his presentation, Mr. Tiwari said suitable
measures would be taken to bridge the revenue deficit and
the Government would make all efforts to increase its resources
while keeping non-Plan revenue expenditure to the minimum.
Jail
Bharo Andolan Big Success In Orissa
 |
|
Senior
Congress leader SK Shinde, honouring the former Orissa
Chief Minister, JB Patnaik, with Rashtriya Ekta Award
in New Delhi. The former Tamil Nadu Governor Bhishama
Narain Singh (extreme right), is also seen.
|
BHUVANESHWAR
: The "jail bharo" andolan
called by the Orissa PCC president, Shri Sarat Patnaik throughout
the state on August 9 received overwhelming response in
Bolangir district in protest against the anti-farmers’ attitude
of the Naveen Patnaik government. Apart from condemning
the anti-farmers policies of the state government, the PCC
demanded that the state be declared drought affected in
view of the dry spell prevailing now. Bolangir is known
as a drought-prone district of Orissa. The Congress President,
Smt. Sonia Gandhi, visited the district in the year 2000
to meet the drought affected people of this district.
Those arrested in the agitation included
senior leader and AICC member, Shri Radha Kanta Panda, DCC
president Satya Narayan Bhoi, Santosh Singh Saluja (MLA),
Surendra Singh Bhoi (MLA), president Z.P. Birdhi Chand Jain,
Muzafur Khan, DCC general secretaries Hemant Panda, Bhagban
Bagarty, Laxman Meher, Dambaru Chhatia, Rajani Pusty, Basudev
Pati, president DYC Bidhu Bhusan Tripathy, president district
NSUI Sontak Bohidar, Sevadal district Chairman Nabin Pruseth.
