Yogi Adityanath to take oath as UP CM tomorrow; PM, industrialists to attend

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Dear Reader, Yogi Adityanath was today unanimously elected as the leader of the legislature party. He will take oath tomorrow in a mega ceremony attended by PM Narendra Modi, top BJP leaders and leading industrialists, including Mukesh Ambani. The BJP top brass gave final touches to Yogi's team taking into account a variety of factors like caste, age and regional balance. Mamata Banerjee visited the village in Birbhum where 8 people were burnt alive in a suspected fallout of the murder of a ruling TMC panchayat official. She promised her government would hunt down the culprits. A TMC block president is among those arrested in the case. Here are the top political stories of the day...

Yogi Adityanath elected leader of BJP legislative party, to take oath tomorrow After being elected as the leader, Yogi Adityanath will meet Governor Anandiben Patel and stake his claim to form the government in the state. Read more

PM Modi, industrialists to attend Adityanath's oath ceremony The BJP-led alliance had won 273 of 403 seats in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. The alliance led by the main opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 125 seats. UP BJP general secretary J P S Rathore said, "Invitations to dignitaries are being sent both by the party and the state government. Read more

BJP top brass gives final touches to UP govt formation exercise Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is also the party's observer for the legislative party meeting, BJP president J P Nadda and Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who was his party's in-charge for the state polls, met on Thursday for deliberations. While the BJP and its allies have won over two-thirds majority in the 403-member assembly, the ruling party is likely to keep its further political expansion and future challenges in mind during the formation of the new government. Read more

Birbhum culprits will be hunted down and strictest punishment given: Mamata "Police will ensure strictest punishment is handed out to culprits responsible for the Rampurhat carnage. The case filed before the court should be water-tight," she said. The chief minister announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to the next of the kin of the victims, and Rs 2 lakh each for rebuilding the damaged houses. Read more

TMC block president Anarul Hossain arrested over Birbhum killings Searches were conducted in various parts of the district including Hossain's residence, after which he was nabbed from Tarapith. Hossain was picked up from near a hotel after police tracked his mobile phone tower location, a senior officer said. Read more

SC transfers to CBI probe against former police commissioner Param Bir Singh "We are of the prima facie view that there is some concerted effort which needs the investigation by CBI. What is the truth, who is at fault how does such scenario come to prevail is something which investigation must get into. CBI must hold an impartial inquiry into all these aspects". Read more

Governors, ED are targeting only govts of Maharashtra and Bengal: Raut ​​The home ministry of Maharashtra has a great tradition and it will never pursue vendetta against anyone unlike central agencies, Raut further said. Asked about a temple management in Udupi district of Karnataka deciding not to allow 'people from other faith' to do business on its land during an annual festival on the request of some pro-Hindu organisations, Raut said such actions would create a situation like the one which prevailed before Partition. Read more

Maharashtra passes bill to make Marathi mandatory in local authorities State minister Subhash Desai said the introduction of the bill was necessitated as the Maharashtra Official Language Act, 1964 did not make it mandatory for the local authorities to use Marathi in their official works. He also cited examples of the authorities taking "advantage" of the lack of the provision in the Act. "It is our effort to do away with that mistake," Desai said. Read more

All five AAP candidates elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Punjab The AAP had nominated former cricketer Harbhajan Singh, party leader Raghav Chadha, Lovely Professional University founder Ashok Mittal, IIT Delhi professor Sandeep Pathak and industrialist Sanjeev Arora for the March 31 elections. Read more

Congress calls meeting on Saturday to discuss organizational elections All India Congress Committee General Secretaries and in-charges will be present at the meeting which will be chaired by General Secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal. Read more

PM Modi does not care about people, Covid patients: Rahul Gandhi He cited news reports that claimed that India saw an increased number of suicides due to an economic upheaval over the last two years and that Covid patients did not receive free treatment under the government's "much-hyped" Ayushman Bharat scheme. Read more

Demand for simultaneous Lok Sabha, Assembly elections made in Rajya Sabha D P Vats (BJP) said the country "is in permanent election mode" with some or the other elections happening in parts of the country. This, he said, was a burden on the resources - both manpower and material. He suggested extending tenures of the state assemblies or using other means to help hold simultaneous general elections as well as those to elect governments in the states. Read more

TRS demands recruitment in '1 million vacant' central govt jobs The Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Thursday staged a walkout in Lok Sabha demanding action from the government to check the alleged suicides by the unemployed youths, and recruitment in one million vacant posts in central government. As soon as the House met, the TRS members, led by floor leader Nama Nageswara Rao, came to the Well of the House demanding a discussion on the unemployment issue. Read more

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