Category: Politics

Devbhoomi Patrakar Union hoisted the flag

                         

*Dehradun, 26 January.* The strong union of journalists of the state “Devbhoomi Patrakar Union” (regd.) hoisted the flag today on the occasion of 76th Republic Day at the state office located on Saharanpur Road. The flag hoisting was done by the state president of the union, Anil Verma.

On this occasion, in his address, Anil Verma said that on this day the citizens of the country got their constitution to protect their rights. It is a matter of great pride that Indians living in the country and abroad are celebrating the 75th anniversary of Republic Day. India, the world’s largest democracy, is once again moving towards becoming a world leader.

Senior Vice President Pandit Subhash Chandra Joshi said that the union deserves congratulations for starting the tradition of flag hoisting on the national festival. The country comes first, everything else comes later. Apart from these, Dr. V.D. Sharma, Dr. Jamshed Usmani, Raj Chhabra, Naveen Joshi etc. expressed their views. On this occasion, Mrs. Vinod Uniyal, Sarojini Semwal, Mrs. Manju Verma, Bhuvan Upadhyay, Rajesh Bhatnagar, Surya Prakash Sharma, Rajat Sharma, Gaurav Bhardwaj, Rohit Rawat, Shivang Gupta, NK Gupta, Honey Chhabra, Hitesh Sharma, Manmohan Sharma etc. were mainly present.

Uttarakhandi saved Saif Ali Khan’s life

         

The driver whom Nawab Saif called home and said thank you….. The driver Bhajan Singh Rana who was blessed by famous actress Sharmila Tagore and who is being discussed in the media today is a Uttarakhandi about whom you might not know. Actually Saif Ali Khan thanked the auto driver Bhajan Singh Rana who took him to the hospital and also gave him a secret amount. But auto driver Bhajan told that he will never tell anyone about the amount.

Auto driver Bhajan Singh Rana who saved Saif Ali Khan’s life is now in the headlines. Saif Ali Khan has thanked him for taking him to the hospital. Before this, Bhajan also met Saif’s mother Sharmila Tagore in the hospital where Sharmila blessed him. After the 5 minute meeting between Saif and Bhajan, there are speculations in the media that Saif has given a huge amount to the auto driver as a reward. But Bhajan himself told how much truth is there in this.

Bhajan Singh Rana, a resident of Uttarakhand, made it clear in a conversation with the media that he will not disclose the amount of help he received. He said- I have promised Saif Sir. I will stick to it. Bhajan Singh Rana is a resident of Khatima. Bhajan Singh Rana has been living in Mumbai for the last 20 years. He is driving an auto rickshaw in Mumbai. In 2004, he moved from Khatima to Mumbai for work. Since then Bhajan Singh has been working in Mumbai. Bhajan Singh is a resident of Mohanpur village of Khatima in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand. Bhajan Singh’s family includes mother Kusumvati, wife Ragini Devi, daughter Sheetal, son Mohit, brother Ashok Singh, sister-in-law Sandhya, Ruby.

Uttarakhandi Bhajan lives in a 1 room flat in Khar, Mumbai. Bhajan told that Saif praised him. He introduced him to his mother Sharmila. He said that whenever he needs any help, he should tell him. According to Bhajan, he has been driving an auto for the last 15 years. No celebrity has sat in his auto till date.

*Uttarakhand’s prestige increased: President Murmu honored him

Shooting coach Subhash Rana got Dronacharya Award

         

Amaanullah Usmani

Dehradun – Uttarakhand’s para shooting coach Subhash Rana was awarded the Dronacharya Award. President Draupadi Murmu honored him by giving the award. There is a wave of happiness and pride across the state on him getting the honor. On this occasion, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, Sports Minister Rekha Arya and other prominent people have congratulated Rana.

CM Dhami said that it is a proud moment for all of us that Subhash Rana, a resident of Devbhoomi and para shooting coach, was honored with the Dronacharya Award. Hearty congratulations and best wishes to him for the historic achievement.

Subhash Rana, a resident of Chilamu village of Nainbagh area in Uttarakhand, has been the coach of the para shooting team in the country. He has won four international gold and two silver medals. He participated in the World Shooting Championship held in Italy in 1994 and Spain in 1998. As a coach, he trained the shooting team that participated in Tokyo Paralympics 2020. This team won five medals in the Paralympics.

On this occasion, Uttarakhand Sports Minister Rekha Arya said, “Hearty congratulations to the son of Devbhoomi, Subhash Rana, on receiving the Dronacharya Award from President Draupadi Murmu. Subhash has done a great job with great dedication in grooming the para athletes of the country. Especially in the year 2020, under his guidance in the Tokyo Paralympic Games, the players won five medals for the country. By achieving this honor, he has made the people of Uttarakhand proud.

Information about the services and works of all departments will be available on the All in One Portal

Amaanullah Usmani

Dehradun – Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami launched various digital projects developed by the Department of Information Technology and NIC at the Secretariat.

During this, the Chief Minister said that in the present times, to make public services more efficient, fast and inclusive in the digital age and to meet the challenges of cyber security and data security, various online platforms have been jointly developed by ITDA and NIC by assimilating new technology. Through which the general public will be able to easily get various types of services on a single platform on the lines of *All in One*. The progress of the work of the departments can be seen online; which will increase transparency and accountability.

He said that the websites of all the departments built in S3WaaS (Secure, Scalable and Accessible website as a Service) framework will prove to be a milestone in terms of cyber security.

The Chief Minister said that it is important that ITDA in the state has been made AUA (Authentication User Agency) -KUA (User Agency) by UIDAI. After this, services related to Aadhaar authentication and E-KYC can be provided through portals developed by various departments of the state such as UCC, Virtual Registry etc.

The Chief Minister said that the State Data Center has also improved itself after the cyber attack. Near Disaster Recovery has been established in the Secretariat. It is a big thing that in the said Near Disaster Recovery, various sensitive applications and websites of the state can be made operational within 15 minutes in case of any emergency. Said that from the security point of view, the Security Operation Center under the State Data Center is working 24 * 7. This step is a commendable effort to further strengthen and improve the digital system under the state of Uttarakhand.

The Chief Minister directed all the departments to make a better setup for better implementation of digital digitization. He directed all the departments to keep their departmental information updated.

He directed the ITDA to guide all the departments to work smoothly and speedily on the new platform developed.

The Chief Minister appreciated the efforts made by NIC and ITDA and in future also inspired ITDA and NIC to do better work in the field of IT in Uttarakhand with mutual coordination.

During this meeting, Chief Secretary Radha Raturi, Additional Chief Secretary Anand Vardhan, Principal Secretary RK Sudhanshu and L Fanai, Secretary R Meenakshi Sundaram, Nitesh Jha, Pankaj Pandey, Deependra Chaudhary, Dr. R Rajesh Kumar, Director ITDA Nitika Khandelwal and other concerned officials were present.

Congress candidate’s nomination cancelled, huge anger among supporters, MLA made serious allegations against BJP

         

Mangalore. Mangalore MLA Qazi Nizamuddin said in a press conference that the Election Officer has strangled democracy by cancelling the nomination papers of Mangalore’s chairman candidate Chaudhary Islam and the two nomination papers filed with him as part of a big conspiracy. He said that this day will be seen as a black day. When all three nomination papers of the same candidate were cancelled whereas in all the previous elections no objection was raised in this matter. The candidates on the basis of whom the nomination papers were cancelled have contested the municipal elections four times and have been elected twice. While making allegations, he said that it is also necessary to get the details of the Election Officer’s phone so that it can be known that in the meantime, the leaders of which political parties called him and on whose instructions this big conspiracy was carried out. Accusing the BJP, he said that they carried out this conspiracy to take revenge for the Mangalore by-election. MLA Qazi Nizamuddin clearly said that this is a well-planned conspiracy of the Bharatiya Janata Party under which the nomination of the winning Congress candidate was cancelled.

Jhabreda MLA Virendra Jati also said that the cancellation of Chaudhary Islam’s nomination was a conspiracy of the BJP.

Direct contest between Congress and BJP for Mayor in 11 corporations of the state on most seats

         

Amaanullah Usmani

Dehradun. The process of filing nomination papers for the municipal elections has been completed. Both the parties had released the list of their candidates for all the corporations including Dehradun late night. After which the nomination papers of the candidates were filed today. The special thing is that both the parties have tried to balance all the equations.

 

There are 11 municipal corporation seats in the state, the face-to-face contest has become clear on all the seats. The most interesting contest will be seen on the Dehradun seat. BJP has bet on former state president of Yuva Morcha Saurabh Thapliyal from Dehradun. While Congress has given ticket to Virendra Pokhriyal. Both are new and young faces.

In Uttarakhand, BJP has fielded Saurabh Thapliyal for Dehradun Mayor, Shambhu Paswan for Rishikesh, Anita Devi Agarwal for Roorkee, Gajraj Singh Bisht for Haldwani and Deepak Bali for Kashipur. Kiran Jaisal has been given OBC women candidate from Haridwar, Asha Upadhyay from Srinagar on women’s seat, Shailendra Rawat from Kotdwar on general seat, Kalpana Dewal from Pithoragarh on women’s seat, Ajay Verma from Almora on OBC seat and Vikas Sharma from Rudrapur on general seat for mayor. Congress has given tickets to Virendra Pokhriyal from Dehradun Municipal Corporation, Ranjana Rawat from Kotdwar, Mohan Kheda from Rudrapur, Bhairav Goswami from Almora, Amresh Waliyan from Haridwar, Puja Gupta from Roorkee, Deepak Jatav from Rishikesh and Anju Lunthi from Pithoragarh seat. Elections to 100 municipal bodies, including 11 municipal corporations, 43 municipal councils and 46 nagar panchayats in the state are scheduled to be held on January 23. Voting will be done through ballot papers and the results will be declared on January 25. There are a total of 30,83,500 voters in the state, of which 14,93,519 are women, 15,89,467 are men and 514 are others.

92 year old former PM Manmohan Singh passed away

Wave of mourning across the country due to the death of former Prime Minister

         

Dr. Manmohan Singh passed away at the age of 92 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He died after a long illness. As the 14th Prime Minister of the country, he led the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for two consecutive terms. Dr. Manmohan Singh, who was the Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014, was also the Governor of the Reserve Bank. There is a wave of mourning across the country due to his death. The Congress party has canceled all its programs. The death of PM Manmohan Singh was confirmed on the official X handle of Delhi Congress. Apart from this, many senior Congress leaders also condoled the death of Dr. Manmohan Singh on their social media handles. Know the special things related to his life India’s 14th Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is no longer among us. But he led unprecedented growth and development for more than a decade. Under the leadership of Dr. Manmohan Singh, India saw the highest growth rate in its history, averaging 7.7% and became an economy of about two trillion dollars. India’s 14th Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has passed away at the age of 92. He was well known as a thinker and scholar. He was known for his humility, diligence and commitment towards work. He was born on 26 September 1932 in a village in the Punjab province of undivided India.

Education of former PM Manmohan Singh

He completed his matriculation from Punjab University in 1948. After that he received his further education from Cambridge University, UK. In 1957, he obtained a first class honors degree in economics. After this, in 1962, he did D. Phil in Economics from Nuffield College, Oxford University. He criticized the export-based trade policy in India in his book ‘Exports and Self-Reliance and Development Prospects in India’.

Manmohan Singh was also the Secretary General of the South Commission

After this, he worked as a teacher at Punjab University and Delhi School of Economics, which shows his academic excellence. Meanwhile, he also worked for the UNCTAD Secretariat for a few years. On this basis, he was appointed as the Secretary General of the South Commission in Geneva in 1987 and 1990.

In 1971, Dr. Manmohan Singh joined the Ministry of Commerce as an economic adviser. In 1972, he was appointed as the Chief Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance. He served as Secretary of the Ministry of Finance; Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission; Chairman of the Reserve Bank of India; Advisor to the Prime Minister; Chairman of the University Grants Commission.

Several legal reforms were made for the post of RBI Governor

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 16-09-1982 to 14-01-1985. During his tenure, extensive legal reforms relating to the banking sector were carried out and a new chapter was added to the Reserve Bank of India Act and the Urban Banks Department was established. After his tenure at the RBI, he held several positions before being appointed the Finance Minister. His tenure as Finance Minister was notable for the fact that he initiated liberalization and extensive reforms in India.

Dr. Manmohan Singh served as the Finance Minister of India from 1991 to 1996 which was a defining time in the economic history of independent India. His role in formulating the comprehensive policy for economic reforms has been appreciated by all. These years are known in India as an integral part of his personality.

He was honoured with many awards and honours

Among the many awards and honours received by the former Prime Minister, the most prominent ones are – India’s second highest civilian honour Padma Vibhushan (1987); Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress (1995); Asia Money Award for Finance Minister of the Year (1993 and 1994); Euro Money Award for Finance Minister of the Year (1993), Adam Smith Prize of Cambridge University (1956); Wright Prize for Distinguished Performance at St. John’s College, Cambridge (1955). He has been honoured by the Japanese Nihon Keizai Shimbun and other associations. Dr. Manmohan Singh has been awarded honorary degrees by Cambridge and Oxford and many other universities.

Led the country twice in a row

Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has represented India in many international organisations and conferences. He led the Indian delegation at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Cyprus in 1993 and the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna. In his political career, he has been a member of the Upper House of the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) since 1991 where he was the Leader of the Opposition from 1998 to 2004. Dr. Manmohan Singh was sworn in as Prime Minister on 22 May 2004 after the 2004 general election and became Prime Minister for the second time on 22 May 2009.

Former PM Dr. Manmohan Singh is known not only for his vision that made India an economic superpower, but also for his hard work and his humble, soft-spoken demeanour. He is a Prime Minister who will be remembered not only for the leaps and bounds he took India forward, but also as a thoughtful and honest person.

A wave of defection begins in Uttarakhand before the civic elections

Shock to Congress in Garhwal, many join BJP

 

Amaanullah Usmani

Dehradun – BJP is seen in action mode regarding the civic elections. The organization is working every day from the selection of candidates to increasing the support base of the party. In this sequence, the entry of veteran leaders is being done in the party. Before the civic elections, BJP has given a big blow to Congress in Garhwal. Along with this, BJP has also included former Srinagar Municipality President Vipin Maithani in the party.

Formal membership was given to former Municipality President Vipin Maithani in the presence of State President Mahendra Bhatt and Cabinet Minister Dhan Singh Rawat at the Dehradun party headquarters. On this occasion, independent candidate Asha Upadhyay, who lost the Municipality President election by a small margin in the past, Congress councilor Jagat Negi from Rishikesh and former Congress candidate Pushkar Bangwal have also joined the BJP.

On this occasion, the state president welcomed all the new members by garlanding them and tying the party’s sash to them. In his address, he congratulated all the new members and urged them to get involved in the civic elections. He said, the continuous arrival of people from different parties shows that the wind in the state is blowing in favor of the BJP. He urged that in the first month of 2025, everyone has to work together so that we are able to break all the previous records of victory in the civic elections as well.

Dhami will flag off the torch relay related to National Games

The torch procession will reach Dehradun on January 25

         

Amaanullah Usmani

The torch procession related to the National Games will leave today Nainital. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami will flag off the torch procession related to the upcoming National Games from Haldwani on Thursday. Nainital District Magistrate Vandana said on Wednesday that the torch procession is being organized to connect the people of the state with the National Games. It will pass through all 13 districts. National Games are being organized for the first time in Devbhoomi Uttarakhand. This Maha Kumbh will run from January 25 to February 14 next month. On this occasion, there will also be a cultural road show from Shaheed Park to Mini Stadium, which will show a glimpse of the mountain culture. The mascot of the National Games ‘Mouli’ will also be the center of attraction. Along with this, selfie points have also been made at various places to promote the national game and connect the youth.

This is the route of the torch rally*

Nainital (26-27 December 2024)

Haldwani, Bhimtal, Dhari, Okhalkanda, Betalghat, Bhawali, Nainital, Kaladhungi, Ramnagar.

Udham Singh Nagar (28-29 December 2024)

Kashipur, Jaspur, Bajpur, Gadarpur, Rudrapur, Sitarganj, Khatima.

Champawat (30-31 December 2024)

Banbasa, Tanakpur, Champawat, Lohaghat, Pati, Barakot.

Pithoragarh (01-02 January 2025)

Pithoragarh, Moonakot, Kanalichina, Dharchula, Jauljibi, Madkot, Munsiyari, Thal, Didihat, Berinag, Gangolihat.

Almora-(03 to 05 January 2025)

Danya, Lamgara, Almora, Takula, Hawalbag, Tarikhet, Tipola, Bhikiyasain, Salt, Syalde, Chaikhutia, Dwarahat, Someshwar, Kausani.

Bageshwar(06 to 08 January 2025)

Garud, Bageshwar, Kapkot, Gwaldam.

Chamoli-(09 to 11 January 2025)

Dewal, Tharali, Narayanbagh, Gairsain, Karnaprayag, Nandprayag, Chamoli, Jyotirmath, Gopeshwar, Pokhari.

Rudraprayag (12 to 14 January 2025)

Pokhri, Ukhimath, Agastyamuni, Jakholi.

Tehri-(15 to 16 January 2025)

Ghansali, New Tehri, Kirtinagar, Devprayag, Narendranagar, Chamba.

Uttarkashi-(17 to 19 January 2025)

Chinyalisaur, Dunda, Uttarkashi, Bhatwadi, Barkot, Purola, Mori, Naugaon, Mussoorie.

Haridwar-(20-21 January 2025)

Haridwar, Bhagwanpur, Roorkee, Khanpur, Laksar, Haridwar.

Pauri-(22 to 24 January 2025)

Pauri, Kotdwar, Lansdowne, Rikhnikhal, Bironkhal, Dhumakot, Thalisain, Pabau, Pauri, Kaljikhal, Satpuli, Gumkhal, Yamkeshwar, Lakshmanjhula, Rishikesh.

Dehradun-(25 to 27 January 2025)

Civic elections will be held on January 23, while counting will be done on 25

       

Amaanullah Usmani

Dehradun – The final list has been released regarding the reservation for Uttarakhand civic elections. After settling the objections till late night, today on Monday, the government has released the final list of reservation for the posts of mayor and chairman in the municipal bodies. At the same time, the date of election has also been announced. Civic elections will be held on January 23. While counting will be done on 25th.

Changes have been made in the reservation in Srinagar, Haldwani and Almora Municipal Corporation. The mayor seat in Haldwani Municipal Corporation has been reserved for general, OBC in Almora Municipal Corporation and the mayor seat in Srinagar has been reserved for women.

Preparations for civic elections are at their peak. After working till late night, the Urban Development Directorate settled the objections on the reservation of Mayor, Nagar Palika and Nagar Panchayat Presidents and sent the report to the government. On Sunday, along with all the districts, the Urban Development Directorate also remained open as usual.

The objections were examined and settled as per the rules under which the Urban Development Directorate had prepared the reservation roster and issued the provisional notification. The report has been prepared under this. Similarly, the District Magistrates have also heard and settled the objections at their level as per the rules.