Maya files nomination papers for Rajya Sabha
Bahujan Samaj Party president and outgoing UP chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday filed her nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha giving a clear indication that she will not move to national politics. Ms Mayawati said, “With the advent of the Samajwadi government in UP, the goonda raj has returned and all sections of the society have already started feeling the heat of this lawlessness. My party workers told me that while they will oppose the SP government here, I should go to Rajya Sabha and raise this issue on a national platform. Besides, the Lok Sabha elections are not too far and I will now devote all my time to prepare for the general elections in which the BSP is sure to make a comeback.”
Apart from Ms Mayawati, BSP leader Munkad Ali also filed his nomination papers.
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GJM stakes claim for rajya sabha seat
PARWEZ HAFEEZ
Kolkata, March. 13
The GJM further queered the pitch for the Congress by staking claim to a Rajya Sabha seat. On March 30, five Rajya Sabha members from the state will be elected. A party needs 49 votes to elect an MP. The Trinamul Congress with 185 MLAs will comfortably send three MPs to the Upper House.
In fact, the ruling party will have 38 surplus votes. The GJM, which has only four MLAs, has its eyes on these 38 surplus votes. After a meeting of the party’s central committee on Tuesday, the GJM leaders urged chief minister and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to offer their party a Rajya Sabha seat in the state. Even if Ms Banerjee offers her party’s 38 votes, the GJM will need seven more votes to get its candidate elected.
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Sc moved for vacating stay on hc scam order
age correspondent
New Delhi, March 13
Even as the new government is yet to take over in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court was approached on Tuesday for vacating its stay on the Allahabad high court order in the massive food scam during the tenure of successive governments in the past, including the one headed by SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav.
An application for vacating the stay was moved by Vishwanath Chaturvedi, a former activist of the Congress, whose petition against Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav in disproportionate assets case is pending. The top court had granted the stay in 2011 on three directions out of five given by the HC in an order of December 3, 2010 in the food scam, also known as the PDS scam worth several thousand crores.
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