Prime Minister Narendra Modi will likely be on a two-day tour of Jammu and Kashmir from Thursday, which is able to mark his first go to to the Union Territory (UT) after being sworn in because the PM for his third time period earlier this month within the wake of the 18th Lok Sabha elections.
On Thursday night, PM Modi will take part in an occasion, ‘Empowering Youth, Remodeling J&Okay’, on the Sher-i-Kashmir Worldwide Convention Centre (SKICC) in Srinagar. He would inaugurate and lay the inspiration stone of a number of improvement tasks in J&Okay. He’s additionally set to launch the Competitiveness Enchancment in Agriculture and Allied Sectors Challenge (JKCIP) there.
On Friday morning, PM Modi will lead the tenth Worldwide Day of Yoga (IDY) celebrations on the SKICC in Srinagar. He may even deal with the gathering on the event.
PM Modi’s go to comes within the run-up to the J&Okay Meeting elections slated for later this yr.
J&Okay has not had an Meeting because it was dissolved in 2018. In June of that yr, Governor’s Rule was imposed after the BJP ended its alliance with the Mehbooba Mufti-led Folks’s Democratic Occasion (PDP) and introduced down the ruling coalition.
Then in November that yr, Mehbooba Mufti staked a declare to kind a authorities with the assist of the Nationwide Convention and Congress — she cited a collective energy of 56 MLAs within the 87-member Home. A separate declare to kind a authorities was made by Sajad Gani Lone of the then two-member Folks’s Convention who claimed assist of the BJP and 18 MLAs from different events.
Citing the “impossibility of forming a secure authorities by the approaching collectively of political events with opposing political ideologies” and the “fragile safety state of affairs within the state… the place there’s a must have a secure and supportive atmosphere for safety forces”, then J&Okay Governor Satya Pal Malik went on to dissolve the state Meeting.
Article 370 was abrogated a yr later, in August 2019.
Final yr, the Supreme Courtroom ordered the Election Fee (EC) to carry the J&Okay Meeting elections by September 30 this yr, whereas upholding the August 5, 2019 abrogation of Article 370 and splitting the erstwhile state into two Union Territories.
Earlier this month, the EC determined to simply accept functions from political events for using frequent symbols for his or her candidates for the J&Okay Meeting polls.
In keeping with EC sources, a short-term particular abstract revision of the electoral roll can be carried out earlier than the Meeting elections. The choice to begin taking functions for frequent symbols was step one, they stated.
J&Okay recorded a voter turnout of 58.58% within the Lok Sabha elections. In an announcement on Could 27, after the completion of polling within the UT’s 5 Lok Sabha seats, the EC stated the voter turnout was the best in 35 years and there had been a 23% enhance within the variety of candidates as in comparison with 2019.
Odisha Speaker
Senior BJP chief and Ranpur MLA Surama Padhy on Wednesday filed her nomination papers for the election to the publish of Speaker of the Odisha Legislative Meeting.
Accompanied by the brand new Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and Deputy Chief Ministers KV Singh Deo and Pravati Parida, Padhy submitted her nomination papers with Dasarathi Satpathy, the secretary of the Odisha Meeting.
Earlier, the BJP Legislature Occasion had unanimously selected Padhy’s identify for the publish of Speaker.
Odisha Parliamentary Affairs minister Mukesh Mahaling advised reporters that the CM has requested BJD president Naveen Patnaik to assist Padhy’s candidature.
Padhy is probably the lone candidate within the fray for the Speaker’s election because the principal Opposition BJD has not fielded any candidate towards her. She is prone to be declared because the Speaker on Thursday.
Padhy will change into the second girl Speaker of the state after Pramila Mallik of the BJD, who served because the Speaker within the earlier time period.
-With PTI inputs