No tie-up with AAP in LS elections: Sheila Dikshit
New Delhi: Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Sheila Dikshit on Sunday clarified that the Congress party will contest the Lok Sabha elections on its own, and will sweep all the seven seats in Delhi. Addressing workers’ conventions at Mehrauli and Badarpur, Dikshit said,”Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was confusing the people by saying that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will have tie-up with the Congress in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Congress Party will contest the Lok Sabha elections on its own and there would be no tie up with AAP.” ”Delhi now want change as the people are tired of the hollow promises of Narendra Modi Government at the Centre and Kejriwal’s Government in Delhi,” she said. She said that in three months’ time the Lok Sabha elections will be held and the Congress party, under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, will form a Government at the Centre. She appealed to the voters to elect the Congress candidates in the coming Lok Sabha elections in Delhi for a stable and development-oriented Government at the Centre. She said that the manner in which the Congress party works, no other party can do for the progress and development of the country. ”Both the Modi and Kejriwal Governments make big promises, but they remain as just promises,” she said. (UNI)
Delhi govt plans 50 pc higher MSP for grain
New Delhi: The Delhi government said here on Sunday it plans to implement the Swaminathan committee report and allow 50 per cent higher minimum support price (MSP) for farmers. Under the proposed “Mukhya Mantri Kisan Mitra Yojna”, the MSP with 50 per cent margin at the cost of production is likely to be Rs 2,616 per quintal for wheat and Rs 2,667 per quintal for paddy, an official told IANS. “The proposed MSP structure is higher than the Centre’s MSP by Rs 776 per quintal for wheat and Rs 897 per quintal for paddy” the official said. “Based on all relevant factors and views, the MSP in respect to wheat and paddy has been decided in view of the higher production cost in Delhi compared with other states,” the state government said. Cabinet Minister Gopal Rai has directed the Development Department to prepare a note to be put up before the cabinet to implement the new scheme for the farmers’ welfare. (IANS)
Burglars escape with ATM
Agra: Burglars carried away an ATM from outside a degree college in Kiraoli late on Saturday night, police said. Police officer Namrata Singh said: “The chowkidar Chaudhary Raghunath Singh was on duty on Saturday night. When he reached at the Bank of India ATM that was placed outside a degree college in Kiraoli, he noticed it was not there. Singh, then, raised an alarm and informed the police”. “A police team later found the ATM lying in a field in Raseelpur village in Fatehpur Sikri area but the cash was missing from it,” she said. A case has been registered against unidentified burglars. (IANS)
Students tested with H1N1 virus
Kasargod: Five students of a centrally-administered residential school near here have been tested positive for H1N1 virus while 67 others with suspected infection kept under observation, a health official said Sunday. The five – four girls and one boy – were students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya near here. All the five have been taken to their homes by their parents. Of the 67 under observation, most of them were girls, the district health officer told PTI. “However, everything is under control. Since the institution is a residential school, parents are a bit worried. But we would like to tell everyone that there is no reason to panic,” he said. A medical check-up was underway at the school, the health officer said, adding three doctors have been deputed for the purpose. The residential school has over 500 students and over 200 staff. The health authorities have opened a separate ward in the school and two isolation wards for boys and girls. (PTI)
500-bed hospital demanded
New Delhi: The Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) teachers’ organisation has requested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for setting up of a 500-bed hospital in the university to cater to the training needs of dentistry students. The Jamia Teachers’ Association (JTA) raised the demand for the hospital with Kejriwal on Saturday, when the Delhi Chief Minister met a few “locality intellectuals” at Okhla, which included varsity teachers. “Although we are running the bachelor degree course in dentistry. But the JMI is forced to send students to other hospitals, as we do not have our own facility,” JTA Secretary Majid Jamil wrote in the letter to the Chief Minister. “The university is situated in a densely populated area, where many underprivileged people desperately need quality medical facilities,” Jamil said and added they could not be served for lack of a hospital in the vicinity. The addition of a 500-bed hospital would enhance the level of the university and lead to accessibility of quality medical services at a nominal cost for the neglected population residing in JMI’s vicinity, he said. “We request you to establish a new 500-bed hospital in the Jamia Millia Islamia, which could be converted into a medical college,” he said. The university, which imparts education from the nursery to the doctorate level, will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2020. (IANS)