Bhopal Feb 20 PTI A video showing Congress Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh exhorting party leaders to stand united failing which it would be tough to find workers post the 2023 Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh surfaced on social media on Sunday leading to the ruling BJP saying it was yet another example of groupism gripping the grand old party The video which has been purportedly shot in Ratlam has Singh telling party workers about the urgent need for unity You are not ready to sit together I am here but you are standing separately This will not do I am telling you the election of 2023 Assembly elections of Madhya Pradesh will be the last one If you will not contest elections honestly then be ready to sit at home The Congress will not make a comeback and even finding workers for the party will be hard he says in the video Ratlam District Congress City president Mahendra Kataria told PTI Singh was speaking to party workers outside the local circuit house on Saturday On Saturday morning Singh told party workers who had come to meet him to gather at the lawn He expressed displeasure after seeing the workers who came from Jaora a town in Ratlam district standing in groups separately So he told them to be united Kataria said Mocking the Congress over the video state BJP secretary Rajneesh Agrawal said Singh was highlighting groupism in the party and that the video was aimed at unseating Kamal Nath as the state unit president Singh already knows the truth that it is a distant dream for Congress to regain power in MP in 2023 He knows his party will become non-existent after that However Singh purposefully mentioned groupism in the party in the video to highlight that all this was happening under the leadership of Kamal Nath Agrawal claimed PTI ADU BNM BNM BNM

New Delhi Jan 23 PTI Researchers from various IITs have developed a new technology for charging Electric Vehicles which costs about half of the current on-board charger technology and can help to significantly reduce the cost of two-and-four-wheeler EVs According to the team the lab scale development has already been done at IIT BHU and upgradation and commercialisation was in progress One of the countrys leading electric vehicle manufacturer has also shown interest in this new technology and is ready to develop a full-fledged commercial product that can be applied to existing electric vehicles the team claimed without naming the company The technology has been developed at IIT BHU Varanasi in collboration with experts from IIT Guwahati and IIT Bhubaneshwar The rising prices of petrol and diesel in the country is worrisome for the common man Amidst the rising cost of petroleum products and rising pollution levels electric vehicles EVs are the best alternative to conventional IC engines but lack of high power off board charging infrastructure forces automakers to incorporate onboard chargers into the vehicle itself said Rajeev Kumar Singh Chief Project Investigator IIT BHU The vehicle owner can charge the vehicles through the outlet and hence this leads electric vehicles become very expensive In the proposed onboard charger technology we are reducing one additional power electronics interface required for propulsion mode and therefore the components involved are reduced by 50 pc The proposed charger is reconfigurable that can act as a charger for charging mode and inverter for propulsion mode he told PTI Singh explained that because of this technology the cost of the onboard charger will be reduced by almost 40-50 pc in comparison with the existing one The cost reduction in the charger will subsequently reduce the cost of the EV as well In this way the proposed technology is giving low cost technology for EVs The technology will be completely indigenous and will have a significant impact on driving electric vehicles on Indian roads in a big way he said IIT BHU Director Pramod Kumar Jain said the techno-commercial social economic and environmental impact of technology will also be positive The technology will improve charging infrastructure and support the governments mission to bring electric vehicles on Indian roads he said PTI GJS GJS AQS AQS

Lucknow Oct 31 PTI Rakesh Pratap Singh Samajwadi Party SP MLA from Gauriganj constituency in Amethi on Sunday tendered his resignation from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly alleging non-fulfilment of promises by the states BJP government Speaking to PTI Singh said Today I met Speaker of UP Legislative Assembly Hriday Narayan Dixit and tendered my resignation Accusing the BJP government of peddling lies Singh said he had raised some demands and the government had assured him of fulfilling them However the demands were not fulfilled He sat on an anshan protest fast at the Mahatma Gandhi statue in the state capital PTI ARNAV CJ SMN SMN

Lucknow Oct 31 PTI Rakesh Pratap Singh Samajwadi Party SP MLA from Gauriganj constituency in Amethi on Sunday tendered his resignation from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly alleging non-fulfilment of promises by the states BJP government Speaking to PTI Singh said Today I met Speaker of UP Legislative Assembly Hriday Narayan Dixit and tendered my resignation Accusing the BJP government of peddling lies Singh said he had raised some demands and the government had assured him of fulfilling them However the demands were not fulfilled When contacted Speaker Dixit told PTI MLA Rakesh Pratap Singh met me today and submitted his resignation letter The matter will be examined as per rules and a decision will be taken He sat on an anshan protest fast at the Mahatma Gandhi statue in the state capital The government is speaking lies Hence there is no point in sitting in the House Officials are weakening the democratic system and do not follow the directions of the elected government he alleged Mentioning the repair of two damaged roads in his constituency Singh said On February 25 the government assured the House that the damaged roads will be repaired within three months but the work has not started till now On October 2 I submitted a memorandum to the District Magistrate of Amethi that if the repair of the two roads does not start I will resign from the membership of the UP Legislative Assembly and sit on an anshan But despite this the work did not start he added Uttar Pradesh goes to Assembly polls early next year PTI ARNAV SMN SMN