Rae Bareli received an unexpected gift from its MP Sonia Gandhi on Thursday — a degree college for girls in the memory of former Prime Minister Late Indira Gandhi. “Rae Bareli has been the ‘karmbhoomi’ of Indira Gandhi ji and it was her wish that a girls’ degree college should be built in her memory,” said Congress president Sonia Gandhi in her address after laying the foundation stone for widening of the Lucknow-Rae Bareli Road and other projects in her constituency on Thursday.
Mrs Gandhi is on a two-day visit to Rae Bareli — her first after the state Assembly elections. She said that the human resource development ministry has taken an initiative to set up a degree college here.
“The state government has also shown positive stand in giving land and as soon as land is provided, the work will begin and the college will be named after Indira Gandhi,” she said.
Mrs Gandhi said that the UPA government had taken concrete steps in the field of education. She pointed out that approval has been given for one model school in every block for which 75 per cent of the cost is being borne by the UPA government.
She disclosed that in Uttar Pradesh, money has been provided for 148 schools.
Mrs Gandhi further said that the society and country would progress only when maximum people get educated and the UPA government is working towards this because the key to a bright future is education.
She further said that the Lucknow-Rae Bareli Road would be converted into four-lane at a cost of `600 crores and the work on widening Rae Bareli-Allahabad Road would start soon at an estimated cost of `300 crores.
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Mp mlas’ case hearing aug. 7
LALIT SHASTRI
BHOPAL, July 26
Madhya Pradesh high court on Thursday fixed August 7 as the next date of hearing in the case relating to the termination of membership of Congress MLAs Chaudhary Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi and Kalpana Parulekar by a voice vote in the state Assembly on July 18. The House had voted for their termination in response to a resolution moved on behalf of the state Bharatiya Janata Party government.
According to available information, the Jabalpur high court advanced the date of hearing in this case on the request of lawyers representing the petitioners and the state Assembly. The mutual request for advancing the hearing in this case to the first week of August is being linked to the special one-day session of the Assembly being held on Friday. Obviously, the exclusive session has been convened to pave the way to revoke the termination of both the MLAs, who have tendered an unconditional apology to the Assembly Speaker.