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Nagpur Municipal Commissioner Abhijit Bangar was transferred with immediate effect and is replaced by Tukaram Mundhe. Mundhe was the M.S. Project Manager AIDS Prevention society, and as Nagpur Municipal Commissioner from January 22 will take over.

Narendra Modi and Amit Shah endorse Nadda primarily because he has no strong personality in the public sphere.

The rise of Narendra Modi in the Bharatiya Janata Party and not many outside the Himachal Pradesh state knew who J.P. was. And it was Nadda. In Modi’s first term as prime minister, his tenure as Union health minister can hardly be called “eventful.

The only prominent announcement coming out of his ministry was the Ayushman Bharat Yojana, a federal insurance policy for the poor overseen by his ministry. Nevertheless, as the prime minister hogged all the limelight for the much-touted scheme itself, Nadda was pushed out of the spotlight of public opinion.

In June 2019, when the demure, soft-spoken and media-shy Nadda took over the reins of the BJP as “working president” shortly after the newly appointed Union home minister Amit Shah relinquished active control as the actual president–as part of the policy of’ one guy, one post’ of the saffron party–Sangh insiders felt that the so-called regime change was of little significance.

Nadda is not at all considered a Shah match. With Shah’s aggressive, action-packed stint of nearly six years as its precedent, most political observers feel Nadda’s current reputation as the Modi-Shah duo’s most trusted lieutenant, more than any other qualitative aspect, earned him the coveted position that would have suited a host of BJP heavyweights at a different time and age.

A transformed BJP On Monday, Jagat Prakash Nadda finally got rid of this odd “working” prefix and was unopposedly elected as the BJP’s official full-time president. He joined the line-up of top leaders of sangh parivar, such as Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Kushabhau Thakre and others.

Yet in the days ahead Nadda is likely to stay in the shadows of the Modi-Shah duo. He addressed BJP workers throughout the country quite frequently as working president, inaugurated multiple events, worked behind the scenes to expand and organize the party, and braved electoral reversals in Jharkhand, Maharashtra, and Haryana. But, with Shah’s dominant presence around him, he still managed to evade scrutiny.

In fact, the transformation of the BJP under the leadership of Modi and Shah as a well-oiled, highly centralized machinery has somewhat robbed the party president’s position of its earlier clout and grandeur.

Under the leadership of the duo, the saffron party has consistently preferred to reward men and women with their own individual clout or presence with a low profile, conformist members, and sideline. For example, instead of the more famous and feisty Saurabh Patel, Vijay Rupani was chosen to lead the Gujarat Government. Indeed the trend started in 2014 with the elevation of lesser-known state leaders such as Raghubar Das, Devendra Fadnavis or Manohar Lal Khattar to the roles of chief ministers in Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Haryana.

At the same time, the party’s state-level stalwarts such as Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Vasundhara Raje Scindia or Raman Singh no longer feature prominent leaders in the BJP’s list, even as veteran stalwarts such as Rajnath Singh or Nitin Gadkari–both former party presidents–remain within their respective ministries.

So much has been the dominance of Modi-Shah in both party and government that this has never been so blurred in the thin line between the two.

 

Within this political framework, Nadda fits the representation concept of the BJP, however tokenistic one might argue that is, very well. The party turned the politically progressive appointments of Ram Nath Kovind, a Dalit, as India’s president and OBC leader Venkaiah Naidu as the country’s vice president, along with Modi’s own backward-class identity, into a key electoral advantage.

Nadda, a Brahmin leader, as BJP’s president is the new element in the same representational matrix–an assurance to his core voter base that the party hasn’t fully moved away from its conventional characteristics of the upper caste. Nadda’s journey through the party In his first speech as president, Nadda spoke about how the BJP is the only party where a Himachal Pradesh commoner like him could rise to the top through the ranks. Anyone familiar with the workings of BJP, however, should realize there is a qualitative difference between his appointment and that of his predecessors.

The reserved Nadda was clever enough to turn his vulnerability into a blessing given the current state of affairs within the party. In fact, he has risen through the ranks in the BJP due to his extraordinary consistency in remaining out of public opinion. Nadda, now 59, was born in Bihar and studied there until college. He associated himself at Patna University with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh students ‘ wing.

He gained prominence in the JP anti-corruption movement and was elected to the 1977 polls as the president of the students ‘ union. Having decided to move his base to his home state, he went on to lead the Himachal Pradesh University student union as a law student, after first defeating the Indian Communist Party (Marxist)-backed Students Federation (SFI) in 1984. He held leadership positions in ABVP and Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha until 1993 when he first contested as a 33-year-old and won a seat at the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections.

In 1998 and 2007, he repeated his victories in the Bilaspur constituency and held ministries in the state in two BJP Governments. He gradually emerged as the chief minister’s prime rival, Prem Kumar Dhumal; however, Nadda resigned as a minister in 2010 over differences with the chief minister.

His national innings started when the then president of the BJP, Nitin Gadkari, first took him to New Delhi as the party’s national secretary-general and then elected him as Rajya Sabha MP in 2012. He’s then worked his way up to the good books of Modi-Shah. It is said that in the parliamentary elections of 2014 and 2019 he played an important role in the major electoral victories of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh.

His growth has been astonishing at the organizational level; however, the same can not be said of his ministerial stints. In 2014, he succeeded Harsh Vardhan as cabinet minister for health and family welfare and continued until 2019 in that capacity. Prime Minister Modi with L.K. Rajnath Singh, Advani and J.P. Nadda, on Monday, at BJP headquarters. Photo: Kamal Kishore / PTI A stained record Though his tenure was largely mediocre, it was not blemish-free.

Throughout his tenure as Union Health Minister, Nadda was accused of covering up several corruption scams worth Rs 7,000 crore at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The most notable controversy was when media reports claimed that Nadda was trying to hush up the investigation into a Rs 3,700 crore corruption scam at AIIMS related to engineering tenders.

Opposition parties, especially the Aam Aadmi Party, accused him of protecting the accused, Vineet Chaudhary, the then deputy director of AIIMS, who had worked closely with Nadda as a Himachal Pradesh Cadre IAS officer. Nadda reportedly had written several letters to his predecessor in the Ministry of Health between May 2013 and June 2014 to drop cases against Chaudhary.

He also wanted the removal of Indian Forest Service officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi, who had blown the whistle on at least 200 corruption cases during his deputation at AIIMS since 2012 as the then chief vigilance officer of AIIMS. By then, Chaturvedi had earned a reputation for being brutally honest–something the health ministry has repeatedly acknowledged in its assessment reports.

Yet, shortly after Modi came to power, he was relieved in August 2014 from his role as CVO, AIIMS, though he continued to be at AIIMS. Later, when Nadda replaced Harsh Vardhan, he reportedly tried not only to cover up the case against Chaudhary but also several other such corruption scandals revealed by Chaturvedi–one of them being a scam linked to the procurement of medical paraphernalia in which the then director of AIIMS, M.C. The primary accused was Mishra.

When Nadda became Minister of Health in November 2014, he tried to reassess Chaturvedi’s evaluation report, which described his success as “exceptional.” The Central Administrative Tribunal, questioned by Chaturvedi, prohibited Nadda from doing anything of this kind. A year later the parliamentary standing committee blamed Nadda’s ministry for failing to take any action on corruption scandals at AIIMS.

However, by December 2015, the Ministry of Health took away the work assigned to Chaturvedi without mentioning any specific reason, even though he received a full salary. Meanwhile, all investigations he had exposed to corruption cases were also canned.

Nadda’s elevation as president of the BJP party suggests that Modi and Shah are willing to ignore such a tainted track record in a leader as long as he proves to be a committed foot soldier in their expansion scheme. The new Chairman of the BJP party ticks those boxes well. Rajan Pandey, an election analyst who’s visited Himachal Pradesh extensively, had an interesting anecdote to tell.

“Dhumal’s son and Nadda’s rival Anurag Thakur have been lobbying with the Center for a long time to obtain an AIIMS facility in his seat in Hamirpur. But Nadda quickly got the government of Modi to open the facility at Bilaspur, his former constituency of assemblies. That made the gap between the two leaders deepen. Many thought it might have an impact on the prospects of the BJP in the state.

But Nadda not only openly supported Thakur’s candidacy in the Lok Sabha polls but also campaigned extensively for him. He also got those MLAs to campaign for Thakur who are seen on his side, “Pandey said. Eventually, Nadda’s understated organizational skills helped him to land the

Nagpur updates- Jagat Prakash Nadda is the BJP’s working president. He’s probably the next Leader of BJP. He will take over the charge from Amit Shah as the process of electing a new party leader begins today. It is expected that he will be elected today.

The Bharatiya Janata Party is organizing a function at the party headquarters. The function will be attended by all eminent leaders. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take the opportunity with Home Secretary Amit Shah. They will also deliver a speech to welcome the new Chief, as announced. Renowned names such as Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh and members of the parliamentary board, along with former party leaders, would suggest Jagat Prakash Nadda’s name for the post. All other members of the BJP National Council are said to have agreed to a joint decision. The selection process is likely to begin around 10:30 a.m. and Jagat Prakash Nadda may be the undisputed winner.

The time of the appointments will be extended from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and an overview of the appointment process will be carried out for one hour. Any nominee wishing to step back may withdraw his name from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. As per reports, Jagat Prakash Nadda is the only candidate to be nominated for a position and therefore no vote will be taken. If any other candidate is nominated, the vote will take place on Tuesday. Jagat Prakash Nadda’s nomination goes unchallenged for the post and therefore the announcement for the next party Chief will be made by BJP today.

From February, the district administration will conduct population censuses. Economic census has already begun. Government staff will go into each house and collect data for the 2021 Census. The name of the head of the family, names of family members and their age, occupation, and income will be recorded in the economic census. There will also be a note of the number of unemployed people, a statistical officer said. Next time around, the person’s caste will also be noted in the population census, and whether he or she is an OBC. Other than this, the individuals will also be asked for ethnicity, name and age. TOP COMMENT What s weong is caste sharing… WHO TAKE ALL FREEBEES OF Government Vande Mataram SEE ALL COMMENTS ADD COMMENT The officer appealed to people to provide factual information to officials. “It’ll help the government formulate policy. This knowledge will not be exchanged with anyone and so people should be assured about confidentiality, “he said. Census is conducted once every 10 years. It was last conducted in 2010-2011 and in 2012 the findings became public.

Moradabad: Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the RSS attends the Makar Sankranti Utsav in Moradabad, on Saturday, January 18, 2020. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Mohan Bhagwat said Saturday his group has no connection with politics and it only works to uplift the country’s political, economic, and human values.

The president of the RSS was in Moradabad with RSS staff for a four-day programme.At the conclusion of the event, addressing a large gathering, Bhagwat said that people from all walks of life are part of the organization, while some also run political parties.

“Elections tell us nothing. We are working over the last 60 years to maintain the country’s values, “he said. He also denied that the Bharatiya Janata Party was “remote controlling” the RSS pointing out that the organization worked for all 130 crore Indians. Working on the organisation, the 69-year-old explained that even if they do not come to their shakhas (activity camps) but should have the philosophy of national dignity, anyone can be called an RSS worker. Citing a meeting of the founder of the Bhoodan Movement Vinoba Bhave and former chief of the RSS M S Golwalkar, he said that the social reformer was a friend of the latter with the same philosophy, but not a member of the organization.

“There are so many top-class academics and social reformers who have our philosophy and not our allies. That is our success, “he proclaimed. Bhagwat said if one wants to spread one’s philosophy then gaining power is necessary. “Swami Vivekananda always used intellect and spirituality to fight for strength. So, always try to be strong, flourishing and safe, “he said. Russia, China, and the United States are strong problem-creating nations, and the United States is losing its independence, he said.

Bhagwat said that when it was founded in 1925, the RSS operated with very few people but developed into an organisation with 1,3 lakh branches across the country because of continued commitment to nation-building. In describing their work, he said that they adhered to the Indian Constitution preamble and welcomed all individuals who wished to serve the nation to come forward without any personal interest. Bhagwat cited several examples during his one-hour address to describe RSS’s work in the interests of Hindu ism, culture and history. Incidentally, he said that “all Indians are Hindus” because all of their ancestors were Hindus. He added that many countries have raised slogans of’ unity from diversity,’ but’ diversity from unity exists in India. Notably, Bhagwat has not commented on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the Citizens National Register.

A delegation of 15 residents from Prabhag, the Nagpur City Congress Committee and Congress Legal Cell met with Municipal Commissioner Abhijit Bangar, Additional Commissioner Ram Joshi and Assistant Commissioner Prakash Varade from the Dharampeth District, and submitted a memorandum highlighting enormous difficulties faced by people following poor quality and uneven construction of cement roads in town. The delegation said a network of cement roads is being established in the town. Inner cement roads under Prabhag 15 are being constructed in Dharampeth, Gadga and Gawlipura. Notwithstanding notifying the contractor and local corporator, the amount of cement roads has risen above the houses along the roads. This uneven construction has pushed a tight spot for citizens. People are exposed to numerous risks when conducting their daily tasks as contractors neglected basic safety considerations when carrying out work on the cement roads. Water gushed into resident’s houses during the recent rains. In fact, low building quality has raised resident’s woes. Instead of eliminating Reliance Jio Internet’s illegally built chambers, the contractor has raised the height of the chambers and brought them down to road level. One can imagine what would happen if someone were to lose balance on the rough road surface and the disparity in depth between tar road and the newly constructed concrete road is more troubling. The contractor should have ensured that this site is levelled equally during the construction period to ensure smooth vehicle passage. With officials less interested in monitoring the ongoing construction of concrete roads, contractors are busy designing more and more puzzles for road users, the delegation said.

The delegation was headed by Nagpur City Congress Committee Executive Member and Adv Akshay Samarth MPCC Legal Cell Secretary. Copies of the memorandum were also sent to the office of Major Sandeep Joshi, Deputy Mayor Manisha Kothekar, Health Officer, Opposition Leader in NMC.Reportedly, Municipal Commissioner Bangar told the delegation that the problem persists throughout the city, and not only in Prabhag 15. Nevertheless, taking serious note of the difficulties residents are facing, Bangar immediately phoned concerned officials and instructed them to undertake appropriate measures to reduce residents problems. Additional Commissioner Ram Joshi also listened to the residents’ grievances and promised that they would be looked into. Assistant Commissioner Varade has told himself that they will check the cement roads.Other delegation leaders include Devendra Rotele, Yugal Vidhavat, Yogesh Yersamwar, Adv Abhay Randive, Adv Ujwal Raut, Adv Shabana Divan, Adv Sunita Paul, Adv Archana Gajbhiye, Ramprasad Chaudhary, Rambhau Bante, Vivek Patkar, Naresh Naidu, Vishal Sayre, Nikhil Naidu, Chandan Pande, Dharampeth, Gadga, Gawlipura and Ramdaspeth.

The temple town of Shirdi in Maharashtra, known for the saint Sai Baba of the 19th century, will be’ closed indefinitely’ from 19 January as a mark of protest against the recent comment by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray describing Pathri in the district of Parbhani as the birthplace of the venerated saint and allocating Rs 100 crore for its development. The Sai Baba Samadhi administrative body took the decision to call for an indefinite shutdown. Speaking to the news agency, member of the Sai Baba Sansthan Trust, Bhausaheb Wakchaure, said, “We have announced the closure of Shirdi on 19 January against rumors. Tomorrow evening a meeting of villagers will be held to discuss the matter. Devotees won’t face any difficulties if they come to Shirdi. “Local residents are reported’ extremely upset’ at the portrayal of Pathri as the birthplace of Sai Baba by the chief minister. Locals claim that there is no record available on the birthplace of Sai Baba and suggest that during his stay in Shirdi, Sai Baba himself never shared any details on his birthplace or religion. While the town is conducting an indefinite shutdown, the temple itself and all its units were held outside the bandh’s purview. Similarly, Maharashtra State Regional Transport Corporation (MSRTC) buses will run on roads and hotels will operate as normal. However, public transportation is likely to be affected and could present obstacles to tourists visiting the temple city by air or rail.

A tiger whose front left paw was amputated after being wrapped in a steel trap set by poachers in 2012 will get a prosthetic limb on Saturday, with the doctor treating the big cat saying the operation is a world first. A tiger whose front left paw had been amputated after being wrapped in a steel trap set by poachers in 2012 will get a prosthetic limb on Saturday, with the doctor treating the big one. The project has been collaborated over the past two years by a team of orthopedic surgeon Shushrut Babhulkar, veterinary doctor Shirish Upadhyay, medical staff from Maharashtra Animal and Fisheries Science University (MAFSU), in addition to experts from IIT-Bombay and abroad. At the newly opened Gorewada Rescue Center in Nagpur, eight-year-old Sahebrao, mutilated near a waterhole in Palasagaon forest range in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur district in 2012, when it was just two years old, is held.

“When I first saw it in 2018, Sahebrao was massive but was unable to walk and would continuously growl in pain. We took X-rays, measurements, etc. as part of the procedure for fitting the prosthetic arm. Two to three months ago, we operated on a nerve that caused the tiger pain,” Shushrut Babhulkar told PTI. Shushrut Babhulkar added that the dislocation of one of its joints was treated next as was the fracture which was not healing for a long time.” The final part of the mission will take place on Saturday. We will fit a specially designed prothetic limb after consultation with an international medical expert forum. Veterinary surgeon Shirish Upadhay will be in charge of the operation,” said Shushrut Babhulkar. Shushrut Babhulkar is unable to operate on the tiger, as he is not a vet. He told that Leeds professor Peter Janadice will also participate in the operation.” This is the first time that something like this happens anywhere in the world,” said Shushrut Babhulkar.

Mumbai / Nagpur: 22 bureaucrats, including the Director-General for Information and Public Relations (DGIPR) Brijesh Singh and the additional commissioner of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Pravin Darade, known for their proximity to former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, have been transferred by the Maha Vikas Aghadi Government in a major reshuffle. Singh will continue as the special IG, cybercrime, while Darade will now be the new commissioner for social welfare for Pune. The new DGIPR will be Sindhudurg district collector DD Pandharpatte.

The Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have been strident in demanding the transfers of Singh and Darade, whom the previous BJP-led government pampered. Now that Darade’s posting will be in Pune, he’ll need to vacate the formidable Malabar Hill bungalow. There was a huge controversy in 2014 when he was the new local commissioner after it was assigned to him. His wife Pallavi Darade is the commissioner of food and drugs, Maharashtra.

Sanjay Nirupam, former chief of the Mumbai Congress, alleged that Darade had helped Vidarbha Infotech, an information technology firm, bag the contract for towing vehicles that had breached parking rules in Mumbai. Darade was then the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority’s additional commissioner and Fadnavis governor. Fadnavis ‘ office had, however, clarified that there was no wrongdoing in awarding Vidarbha Infotech the towing contract.

Sachin Sawant, a spokesman for the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee, had blamed Brijesh Singh for suspected mismanagement in tendering for the television show ‘ Mi Mukhya Mantri Boltoy.’ The office of Fadnavis also denied those charges.

The commissar for goods and service tax, Rajiv Jalota, was transferred as the secretary for rural development. He will replace the incumbent Asim Gupta, who is to be the new secretary of energy. The next GST commissioner will be the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company MD Sanjeev Kumar, the additional IAS official chief secretary-rank. The Free Press Journal in its Sunday edition had broken the story of the MVA’s plans for the reshuffle.

P Velrasu, Maharashtra’s member-secretary Jeevan Pradhikaran, will be Darade’s new additional municipal commissioner instead. Mrs J Mukherjee, managing director of the Maharashtra State Textile Corporation, was named additional chief secretary of the Minority Development Department and will succeed the incumbent, SA Tagde, who will be the new chief secretary of the textile department. The current chief secretary of the textile department KH Govindraj will take over as the additional Metropolitan Development Authority commissioner in Mumbai Metropolitan region.

Managing Director B Venugopal Reddy of the Maharashtra State Small Scale Industries Development Corporation has been appointed as the main secretary, forests, as the post had been vacant since the appointment of Vikas Kharge as the chief secretary in the office of the chief minister.

Sales tax commissioner Shaila A was moved to the Maharashtra State Power Generation Company as its chairman and managing director. Satara district collector Shweta Singhal is now the additional divisional commissioner, Pune, while the commissioner for soil and water conservation, Deepak Singla, will be the new collector of the district of Gadchiroli, replacing Shekhar Singh who will be the new collector of Satara district.

Manju Laxmi, CEO of Sindhudurg Zilla Parishad, will be the new district collector of the same district, while Solapur district collector RB Bhosale has been elected joint MD of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company. Pune Municipal Transport Corporation CMD Nayana Gunde is to become the tribal research and training institute’s new commissioner. Raigad District Collector VN Suryavanshi will replace her.

RS Jagtap, CEO of Bhandara Zilla Parishad, has been moved as the additional Nagpur Divisional Commissioner and will be succeeded by the new CEO of Nashik Zilla Parishad Bhuvaneshwari. Madan Nagargoje was appointed the information technology director.

The Central Railway has decided to start weekly special trains between Nagpur-Rajkot-Nagpur in the festive season from January 20 onwards to a strong rush of travellers.

 

Train No. 01207 Superfast Weekly Special will depart Nagpur at 7.50 p.m. each Monday from January 20 to March 30 (11 trips) and enter Rajkot the next day at 4.30 p.m.

Train No. 01208 Weekly Special leaves Rajkot every Tuesday from January 21 to March 31 (11 trips) at 22.00 hrs and arrives at Nagpur the next day at 22.15 hrs.

The stops: Wardha, Badnera, Akola, Bhusaval, Jalgaon, Dharangaon, Amalner, Nandurbar, Surat, Bharuch Jn., Vadodara Jn., Anand Jn., Ahmedabad, Viramgam Jn, and Surendranagar.

Composition: OneAC-2 Tier, ThreeAC-3 Tier, 9 sleeper tier, 2 second-class general.

Bookings for 01207 Superfast special charged trains will open at all PRS locations on January 17 and at www.irctc.co.in.

General second-class coaches of these specials will run as unreserved coaches and will be booked as applicable to superfast mail/express trains via UTS network.