Dehradun Apr 25 PTI Senior Congress leader and Chakrata MLA Pritam Singh on Monday sought an FIR and legal action against three news portals for carrying a misleading report stating that he had resigned Naming the news portals in a letter to SSP Dehradun Singh said the misleading news that he had resigned was run on Sunday conspiratorially without confirmation and with an intention to tarnish his image Singh who went to the SSPs office with a delegation of party leaders to hand over the letter to him personally requested the SSP to lodge an FIR against the owners and editors of the news portals and initiate appropriate legal action against them for trying to hurt his image and causing him mental stress Earlier at a joint press conference with PCC president Karan Mahra Singh spoke against the news portals for carrying such a misleading piece of news without confirming it Singh said he has been elected MLA for the sixth time his father Gulab Singh was also an eight time MLA and he will serve the Congress as long as he can Singh who was formerly PCC president and also Leader of Opposition in Uttarakhand Assembly was not given any position this time in the Congress when the partys state unit was revamped earlier this month He is said to have been sulking ever since he was accused of factionalism in a report looking into the factors that had led to the Congress defeat in the recent assembly polls The report had been prepared by the partys central observers for Uttarakhand PCC president Karan Mahra who was also present at the press conference said Pritam Singh had been accused of indulging in factional politics but he had not been heardThere will be a meeting between Singh and the party high command at an appropriate time and everything will be resolved Mahra said PTI ALM RCJ

Ferozpur (Punjab) [India], December 21 (ANI): Congress Ferozpur (Urban) MLA Parminder Singh Pinki on Tuesday alleged that the newly-appointed Director-General of Punjab Police, Siddharth Chattopadhyaya has been roaming around with a rape-accused police fugitive.

Guwahati Dec 20 PTI Opposition Congress MLA Sashi Kanta Das joined the government in Assam on Monday the first day of the winter session of the Assembly and will work in association with it though he will not resign from the party immediately Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said The Congress slapped a show cause notice on Das within hours and asked him to clarify his stand and intentions within a day The show cause inssued by Assam Congress general secretary Bobbeeta Sharma said that Das was seen under full media glare offering support to the BJP government and his allegiance to Sarma and BJP state unit president Bhabesh Kalita Sarma and Kalita welcomed Das at the chief ministers chamber inside the Assembly complex while the House was in progress Das has decided to join the government to develop Raha constituency from where he was elected It is not decided yet whether he will join our political party Sarma told reporters while welcoming the opposition MLA He will continue to remain a Congress MLA and not resign from it immediately he said Das is a first time MLA from Raha in Nagaon district who has been in Congress for several decades since his NSUI days He as elected from the seat in the Assembly poll held earlier this year Asked if Das will attend the BJP legislature party meetings Sarma said Sometimes he will sit in our room But in the House he will sit with the Congress Replying to a question if there will be by-poll in Raha in view of the development he said There are two systems First by-election will take place in some constituencies and second there will be no by-poll but the opposition MLAs will work with us When asked Das said he is impressed by the proactive steps initiated by the Sarma-led government for the development of all communities in Assam I have trust in Sarma for many years I met him for some developmental issues of Raha and he was very positive on them I am with the government for developmental purposes only but have not decided anything on leaving Congress he added Sarma had been in the Congress and was a minister in the Tarun Gogoi government before he joined the BJP in 2015 Asked repeatedly by scribes whether he will join the BJP the Congress MLA said The situation has not arisen yet I am still a Congress MLA and will sit with them I will support development To a query whether he will accompany Congress legislators in case of a walkout in the House over an issue Das said If the issue is logical then I will be with them Congress The Congress show cause to Das said that his statements and actions have created misgivings in the minds of party workers and tarnished its image and discipline Reacting to the development Leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia Cong said Das has been in Congress since the bad days for the party and his move is a shocking development for us Das was tortured by the ULFA for being in Congress Such was his commitment to the party We did not anticipate this when the House was in the first day of its winter session Saikia said Former minister and senior Congress MLA Rakibul Hussain with whom Das shares a close association said that the move was planned inside the Assembly complex and took place on the first day of winter session to deviate the partys attention from crucial issues The opposition including the Congress staged a walkout in the Assembly amidst chaotic scenes on Monday after Speaker Biswajit Daimary rejected an adjournment motion moved by the party to discuss the alleged land scam by a company co-founded by the chief ministers wife BJPs strength in the 126-member Assam Assembly is currently 62 while its allies UPPL has seven and AGP nine MLAs In the opposition camp the Congress strength is 27 AIUDF 15 BPF three and CPIM has one MLA There is an Independent MLA too PTI TR KK KK KK

Chandigarh Dec 17 PTI Haryana Congress MLA Aftab Ahmed on Friday slammed the BJP-led state government for not paying adequate attention to the Mewat region saying up to 50 per cent posts of teacher are lying vacant in schools there During the Question Hour in the State Assembly here the Nuh legislator said under the previous Congress regime a Mewat cadre was created with an aim to provide quality education and ensure that adequate number of teachers are posted in schools Up to 50 per cent posts of teacher are lying vacant in schools in Mewat The seriousness of the government to tackle this is evident from the fact that many teachers have been transferred out of the district said Ahmed Haryana Education Minister Kanwar Pal told the House that at present a total of 8506 posts of different categories of teachers are sanctioned in the Mewat cadre At present 4325 teachers are working in 938 government schools of Nuh district he said Kanwar Pal said since 2015 93 principals and 91 elementary education headmasters have been appointed by promotion in the high schools of the Mewat cadre Apart from this a total of 619 elementary teachers have been recruited through direct recruitment he said He told the House that a demand has been sent to the Haryana Staff Selection Commission for recruitment against 315 posts of PGT 370 of TGT and 952 of PRT in the Mewat cadre The commission has informed that the recruitment process will be completed in a period of about four to five months the minister told the Assembly He said as far as filling posts of teacher of different categories reserved for promotion is concerned the process of filling those posts has been started which will be done soon Replying to another question raised by BJP MLA Assem Goel minister Anil Vij said whenever cases of sending people abroad through illegal means are reported immediate action is taken An SIT was constituted last year under the chairpersonship of IPS officer Bharti Arora to tighten the noose around those involved in such cases As many as 591 people were arrested and 485 FIRs and an amount of Rs 8138800 recovered from them To another question raised during the Question Hour Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said a detailed plan has been prepared to deal with the problem of waterlogging in the state A special scheme will be started by the December-end and a dedicated portal for it will be launched in January Khattar said The chief minister said the problem of waterlogging is not new to the state as a large area is affected due to this There is a problem of waterlogging on about four to five lakh acres he said Therefore the state government has made a plan to deal with the problem initially on one lakh acres he said PTI SUN VSD RDK RDK

New Delhi [India], November 27 (ANI): Delhi Police on Saturday said that it has arrested former Congress MLA Asif Mohammad Khan for abusing and assaulting on-duty Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) staff and for obstructing government work in the Shaheen Bagh area of the national capital.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], November 20 (ANI): Rebel Congress MLA Aditi Singh on Saturday slammed party's general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and said that she has run out of issues to politicise so she questioning the Centre's decision to repeal the three farm laws.

Indore Nov 17 PTI Describing Lord Ram as a personalty who is ideal of all people a Congress MLA from Indore district on Wednesday announced to take residents from his constituency for pilgrimage to Ayodhya at his own expense to fulfil their desire to visit the temple town in Uttar PradeshThe first batch of 600 pilgrims from here will leave for Ayodhya the birthplace of Lord Ram on December 18 by a train Sanjay Shukla the Congress MLA from the Indore-1 constituency said in a statementShukla said Lord Ram is ideal of all of us I want to fulfil the desire of every person of my assembly constituency to visit the Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya The Congress MLA said 17 wards of the Indore Municipal Corporation fall in his assembly constituencyThe legislator said he will take common citizens of each ward for Ayodhya visit every month at his own expenseThe BJP took potshots at Shukla over the announcementIndore city BJP president Gaurav Ranadive said Lord Ram has given wisdom to Shukla Lord Ram belongs to everyone Accusing the Congress of seeing common people only as a vote bank the BJP leader said Shukla should not select citizens for Ayodhya visit on the basis of their political leanings PTI HWP ADU RSY RSY

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 16 (ANI): Congress MLA Zeeshan Siddique on Tuesday wrote to party interim chief Sonia Gandhi and alleged that Mumbai Congress chief Bhai Jagtap misbehaved with him.

Bhopal Oct 24 PTI Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Sachin Birla on Sunday joined the ruling BJP in the presence of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at an election rally for Khandwa Lok Sabha bypoll Birla had won the Assembly election on a Congress ticket from Badwah seat in Khargone district in 2018 Badwah Assembly seat represented by Birla falls in Khargone district but it is a part of Khandwa Lok Sabha seat where the bypoll is scheduled on October 30 along with three other Assembly seats in the state MLA Sachin Birla joined the BJP in the presence of the chief minister BJPs media in-charge Lokendra Parashar said in a tweet while sharing the video that showed Birla being welcomed by Chouhan Agriculture Minister Kamal Patel and other BJP leaders on stage during a rally at Bedia PTI ADU NP NP