CPM candidate Amit Sarkar to Win Purnea bypoll?

The Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) is backing Communist Party India (Marxist) candidate Amit Sarkar in the June 25 Purnea bypoll. Leader of Opposition in the Vidhan Sabha Abdul Bari Siddiqui and State RJD president Ramchandra Purve persuaded the Party to take this step. The CPM has repeated its old candidate Amit Sarkar, son of slain party MLA Ajit Sarkar. In the 2010 polls, Amit Sarkar had got a little over 23,000 votes and was at third position.

Lok Jansakti Party (LJP) is supporting Indian National Congress candidate Ramcharitra Yadav who had secured over 39,000 votes and was at second position. The RJD-LJP alliance has not put up its candidate for the seat. Both are extending support to the candidate of two different secular parties.

The by-election to the Purnia town Vidhan Sabha seat, caused by the killing of BJP member Raj Kishore Kesri allegedly by Rupam Pathak on January 4, 2011. The counting for the election would be held on June 29 as announced by the Election Commission.

BJP is making the police crackdown on Baba Ramdev and his supporters at Ramlila Ground in Delhi an issue. BJP national president Nitin Gadkari cleared the name of Kiran Kesri, widow of slain Kesri, to contest the Purnia by-poll. BJP would be trying to cash in on the sympathy factor. BJP has announced that if Kiran Kesri wins she would be made a minister in the state government.

Islamuddin of CPI-ML is also contesting the election. One wonders as to what happened to the Left Front formed at the time of Bihar assembly election. Like RJD-LJP, it seems even the Left alliance is over. There are three independents in the fray as well.In total there are 8 candidates.

Bihar Police Kills Woman & Child in Forbesganj, Araria

Four people were killed and over a dozen injured in police firing on a group of protesters in Bihar's Araria district on 3rd June evening. The police opened fire at a group of protesters in Farbisganj, about 350 km from Patna. The angry people were protesting against the blocking of a street due to the construction of the boundary walls of a glucose and starch factory of Roorkee based Auro Sundaram International Pvt. Ltd.

It has com eto light that the land for the maize processing unit for production of maize starch and liquid glucose and a 3-MW captive power plant at the Forbesganj Industrial Area was allotted to the company last year by the Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA).

A woman and a child were among the four killed in the police firing. Hundreds of villagers were protesting in the matter of a dispute over land acquisition. It has been reported that Garima Mallik, SP, Araria and the local SDM faced resistance while attempting to pacify the protesters. M. Sarvanan, District Magistrate, Araria appears tight lipped about the issue.
 
Md. Afzal, a Hyderabad based academician present in Araria, submitted a petition to the National Commission For Minorities seeking its intervention in the Forbesganj firing case.


A PTI releases dated June 7 reports, the state government has set up a judicial commission to be headed by either a sitting or a retired judge of the Patna High Court to probe police firing at Forbesganj town in Bihar's Araria district in which four persons were killed and several others injured.

"The decision to constitute a judicial commission to probe Forbesganj police firing was taken at the cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar," Principal Secretary (Cabinet Coordination and Secretariat) Ravikant told reporters in Patna.

"The commission will be headed by either a sitting or a retired Patna High Court judge, as the Chief Justice decides," he said.The commission will probe circumstances leading to the police firing on Friday and fixing responsibility on the cops involved in the incident, Ravikant said.

The decision was taken on the recommendation of Home Secretary Amir Subhani and Additional Director General of Police (ADG), Headquarters, Rajyavardhan Sharma, who visited Forbesganj for preliminary inquiry, Principal Secretary (Cabinet Coordination and Secretariat) said.

It is being sai that the interference of some local anti-social elements led to violence by the police.

The Communist Party of India(Marxist-Leninist) Liberation [CPI(ML)]'s Fact Finding team took stock of the in Farbisganj Police Firing. The CPI(ML) fact finding team comprising of Central Committee member and Bihar State Committee Member, Comrades K D Yadav and Rajaram Singh (the two are also national vice president and general secretary respectively of All India Kisan Mahasabha), alongwith Araria District Party incharge, Naval Kishore and block secretary of Forbesganj, Genalal Mahato visited Bhajanpur village in Forbesganj and met with the villagers and family members of the deceased Mustafa Ansari, Mukhtar Ansari, Sajmin Khatoon and 8-month old child Naushad.

The team learned from the villagers that the road from Bhajanpur to Raniganj is 60 years old and at various points in time the zilla parishad, gram panchayat, mukhiya and others have conducted the repairing work. Keeping the path till here in mind NH 57 has constructed a subway also. But in course of BIADA acquiring land and construction of private factory by BJP legislative councillor, Ashok Aggarwal, on 28 acres of land, a conspiracy was hatched by them to block and close this road. This road connecting Bhajanpur to Raniganj, connects Bhajanpur village mainly inhabited by minority community (1000 families), to Karbala, Idgah, hospital and local bazaar. So the demand of the villagers to maintain this road is fully justified.

On 2nd June a wall was constructed on one end of the road, on the directions of BJP MLC Ashok Agarwal and on other end a deep digging was done for laying foundation. On 3rd June the villagers held a strong protest against this and demolished the boundary wall.

The police from 6 stations was already present there and perpetrated most heinous firing, firing hundreds of rounds of bullets and even after Mustafa and Sajmeen were shot above their waist the police flung on to them and trampled their felled but still alive bodies with their boots.

Pregnant Sajmeen Khatoon was returning after feeding her husband Farooq Ansari who is a construction worker at this factory. Mustafa was returning from his shop with 8000 rupees and mobile and he was still alive after being shot but police trampled his chest and bled him to death. The 8 month old Naushad was killed on the NH in police firing and his mother is injured and admitted at PMCH. 18 year old Mukhtar used to labour outside and was returning to the village.

Within 6 months this is the second incident of barbarism against minorities in Nitish Govt. On 22 Dec 2010 when the villagers of Bamraha under Kursakanta were protesting against an incident of rape, the jawans of BSF murdered four people of minority community. These incidents expose the truth about good-governance in Nitish government.

The CPI(ML) has demanded immediate arrests of the police officers led by the SP who conducted the firing, BJP Councillor Ashok Aggarwal and his goons, charging them under IPC 302, cancelling the lease of the 28 acres land, maintain the said road as it was, compensation of rupees 10 lakhs to the family of the deceased, 3 lakhs rupees as compensation to those injured and judicial inquiry of the whole incident. All those injured in firing have been shot above their waist, more than 100 families of the 1000 are BPL families.

This incident exposes the true face of anti-rural, anti-minority character and barbaric face of Nitish Kumar led government, the CPI(ML)'s fact finding team observed.

Wasi Ahmed Shamshi, Convenor, All India Milli Council, Bihar  said, "this government is of industrialists and billionaires, the government supports them."

Husn Ahmed Quadri, General Secretary, Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, Bihar and Jharkhand said, "Bihar police has always been communal. That’s why we demand proportionate representation of Muslims in police forces. A similar case has happened during the regime of Lalu Yadav when police gheraoed a village of Muslims in the same Araria district, misbehaved with women and took away 54 people and brutally tortured them. Then there was a secular government. The fact is police is communal. So any government that wants progress with peace, they should ensure proper representation of Muslims in police forces."

Maintaining that the Bihar Deputy Chief Minister's role be also probed, the RJD on 7th June demanded an inquiry by a sitting judge of the Patna High Court into the Forbesganj police firing in which four people died. "The judicial probe should also inquire into the role of Deputy Chief Minister S K Modi, BJP MLC Ashok Agarwal and Forbesganj SDO Giriwar Dayal Singh," said Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly Abdul Bari Siddiqui.

He said, "The confrontation between the villagers and the police took place because of Modi's direction to the local administration that the land for construction of the starch and glucose factory and the approach road within the premises of the proposed unit must be acquired." Modi gave the directive during his meeting with local administration on May 29. Siddiqui alleged that Agarwal, an industrialist, had ruled out giving any land for construction of the road. He also demanded cases to be registered against the accused officials.

A joint delegation of RJD and LJP met governor Devanand Konwar here on 8th June and informed him about the police atrocity resulting in firing at Forbesganj in Araria district. They complained about deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi's alleged role in the incident.

The delegation comprised leader of opposition in Bihar legislative assembly Abdul Bari Siddiqui, RJD MP Ram Kripal Yadav, former RJD MP Alok Kumar Mehta, former LJP MP Ramchandra Paswan, general secretaries of LJP Raghvendra Singh Kushwaha, Mehtab Alam and Lallan Prasad Singh. They urged the governor to get the matter inquired by a sitting high court judge within a set time frame and bring deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, BJP MLA Ashok Agrawal and Forbesganj SDO Girwar Dayal Singh within the ambit of the probe.

They also demanded that an ex gratia payment of Rs 10 lakh each be made to the kin of deceased persons at the earliest; those found prima facie guilty in the killing be booked under Section 302 or 304 of the IPC; and security be provided to villagers who are living under constant threat from the ant-social elements.

Source: Agencies and websites

800 से ज्यादा विधानसभा सीटों में, भाजपा कों केवल 6

भारतीय जनता पार्टी को 800 से ज्यादा विधानसभा सीटों के लिए हुए चुनाव में केवल 6 सीटों से संतोष करना पड़ा है.

इन चुनावों में पश्चिम बंगाल की 294, तमिलनाडु की 234, असम की 126, केरल की 140 और पुडुचेरी की 30 सीटों को जोड़कर 800 से अधिक सीटों के लिए मतदान हुआ.

भाजपा केरल, पुडुचेरी और तमिलनाडु में खाता नहीं खोल सकी जबकि पश्चिम बंगाल में उसे एक और असम में 5 सीटें हासिल हुई.

Four New MLCs Take Oath

Four newly-elected MLCs of Bihar were administered oath of membership of Vidhan Parishad by its chairman Tarakant Jha on May 09,2011.

Jha administered the oath to JD(U)'s Mahachandra Prasad Singh and Awdesh Kumar Singh, BJP's Sanjeev Kumar Singh and Sanjeev Shayam Singh (Independent).

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, several members of his council of ministers and other dignitories were presented at the swearing in function.The four MLCs were elected last month.

Members of the Vidhan Parishad
Total number of seats : 75

Members of the Bihar Legislative Council are as follows:
Shri Anuj Kumar Singh
Shri Ashok Kumar Agrawal
Prof. Aslam Azad
Shri Awdhesh Narayan Singh
Shri Badshah Prasad Azad
Shri Baidhnath Prasad
Shri Baleshwar Singh Bharti
Shri Balmiki Singh
Shri Barhamdev Narayan Singh
Shri Basudeo Singh
Dr. Bhim Singh
Shri Binod Kumar Singh
Shri Birkeshwar Prasad Singh
Shri Chandan Bagchi
Shri Devesh Chandra Thakur
Dr. Dilip Kumar Jaiswal
Shri Dinesh Prasad Singh
Shri Ganesh Bharti
Shri Ganga Parsad
Shri Giriraj Singh
Shri Prof. Gulam Gaus
Shri Harendra Pratap Panday
Shri Harun Rasid
Shri Hira Prasad Vind
Shri Hulas Pandey
Shri Md. Israil Raen
Dr. Smt. Jyoti
Shri Kameshwar Choupal
Shri Kedar Pandey
Smt Kiran Ghai Sinha
Shri Krishna Kumar Singh
Shri Mahachandra Prasad Singh
Shri Manoj Kumar Singh
Shri Manoj Yadav
Shri Md. Tanveer Hassan
Shri Mishrilal Yadav
Shri Narendra Prasad Singh
Shri Narendra Singh
Prof. Nawal Kishore Yadav
Shri Niraj Kumar
Shri Nitish Kumar
Shri Prem Kumar mani
Shri Rajendra Prasad Gupta
Shri Rajendra Rai
Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh (Raju Yadav)
Shri Rajesh Ram
Shri Rajnish Kumar
Shri Rajvanshi Singh
Prof. Ram Kishore Singh
Shri Ramashraya Prasad Singh
Shri Ramchandra Prasad
Shri Ramdhani Singh
Shri Ranjan Kumar Singh (Munna Singh)
Smt. Renu Singh
Smt. Roma Bharti
Shri Rudal Roy
Shri Salim Parwez
Shri Salman Ragheeb
Shri Sanjay Kumar Jha
Shri Sanjay Kumar Singh
Shri Sanjay Prasad
Shri Sanjay Singh
Shri Sanjeev Kumar Singh
Shri Sanjeev Shyam Singh
Shri Satish Kumar
Dr. Shambhu Sharan Shrivastav
Shri Shiv Prasann Yadav
Shri Sunil Kumar Singh
Shri Sushil Kumar Modi
Shri Tarakant Jha
Shri Uday Kant Chaudhry
Shri Uday Narayan Rai
Shri Upendra Prasad
Shri Vijay Kumar Verma
Shri Vinod Kumar Choudhry

Mamata, Jayalalithaa, Tarun Gogoi, Oomen Chandy & N Rangasamy Win Assembly Elections May 2011

Partywise Results Assam Result Status Status Known For 126 out of 126 Constituencies Party Won Leading Total Bharatiya Janata Party 5 0 5 Indian National Congress 78 0 78 All India Trinamool Congress 1 0 1 All India United Democratic Front 18 0 18 Asom Gana Parishad 10 0 10 Bodoland Peoples Front 12 0 12 Others 2 0 2 Kerala Result Status Status Known For 140 out of 140 Constituencies Party Won Leading Total Communist Party of India 13 0 13 Communist Party of India (Marxist) 45 0 45 Indian National Congress 38 0 38 Nationalist Congress Party 2 0 2 Janata Dal (Secular) 4 0 4 Kerala Congress (M) 9 0 9 Muslim League Kerala State Committee 20 0 20 Revolutionary Socialist Party 2 0 2 Others 7 0 7 Puducherry Result Status Status Known For 30 out of 30 Constituencies Party Won Leading Total Indian National Congress 7 0 7 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 5 0 5 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 2 0 2 Others 16 0 16 Tamil Nadu Result Status Status Known For 234 out of 234 Constituencies Party Won Leading Total Communist Party of India 9 0 9 Communist Party of India (Marxist) 10 0 10 Indian National Congress 5 0 5 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 150 0 150 All India Forward Bloc 1 0 1 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 23 0 23 Pattali Makkal Katchi 3 0 3 Others 33 0 33 West Bengal Result Status Status Known For 294 out of 294 Constituencies Party Won Leading Total Communist Party of India 2 0 2 Communist Party of India (Marxist) 40 0 40 Indian National Congress 42 0 42 All India Forward Bloc 11 0 11 All India Trinamool Congress 184 0 184 Revolutionary Socialist Party 7 0 7 Samajwadi Party 1 0 1 Others 7 0 7

The Trinamool Congress bagged 184 seats in the assembly polls, its alliance partner Congress got 42 and the SUCI got 1 seat, in the 294-member assembly.

Agriculture 'cabinet' for farm sector in Bihar

Note:Bihar's Agriculture 'cabinet' ought to take note of what the Prime Minister assured a delegation of farmers on 8, 2011 saying, "every year, before the budget, the government will bring out a report on the state of Indian agriculture". The delegation raised a number of issues, including remunerative prices for farm produce, amendment to the Land Acquisition Act, 4 per cent rate of interest for loans other than crop loan, effective implementation of the Minimum Support Price mechanism, due consideration of sensitivities about GM crops, protecting the interests of Indian farmers while engaging with WTO, FTA, etc., health insurance for farmers, ensuring farmers' interests while framing the Seed Bill and separate budget for agriculture.

These issues are relevant for Bihar as well because the state government has approved hazardous asbestos plants in Bihiya and Giddha in Bhojpur and at several other places like Madhubani, Champaran, Vaishali and Muzaffarpur instead of promoting farm based industries.

Prime Minister has announced that he will convene a joint meeting with the Finance Minister and the Agriculture Minister to have an in-depth discussion on the various issues raised. It would appropriate if a farmers delegation from Bihar is also present the meeting.

Gopal Krishna

Agriculture 'cabinet' for farm sector in Bihar

Bihar has become the first state in the country to constitute an agriculture 'cabinet' with an aim to improve the agrarian sector and address the plight of the farmers.

The new 'cabinet' is headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and will have in it ministers of 18 departments including water resources, irrigation, energy, rural works, sugarcane industry, animal husbandry and disaster management.

'Agriculture sector is one way or another dependent on all these departments,' an official said.

The chief minister's agriculture advisor Mangal Rai, former director general Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), is a special invitee to this cabinet. The first meeting of the agriculture cabinet is to take place Tuesday.

'All these departments will work with a single goal to develop the agriculture sector,' the official said.

'It is not only a big news for the millions of farmers of Bihar, but beginning of turnaround for agriculture sector. This will help the state to achieve second green revolution,' state Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh told IANS.

Singh said the Bihar government has given highest priority to the agriculture sector and increased its budgetary allocation from Rs.25 crore to almost Rs.844 crore in 2011-12.

The news of a cabinet exclusively for the agriculture sector was cheered by the farmers.

'It appears that the Bihar government is turning its attention to agriculture sector,' Mahavir Mahto, a farmer near Patna, said.

In the last five years, Nitish Kumar has repeatedly said that he wants to have one or two agriculture product from the state on the plate of every Indian in the coming years.

The state government chalked out a roadmap for the agriculture sector in 2008.

'Several steps, including promotion of modern techniques of farming, organic farming, use of improved seeds among others, have been taken in last two-three years but it is still a long way to go in developing the agriculture sector,' an official of agriculture department said.

Atul Singh, an economist researcher in New Delhi-based Jawaharlal Nehru University, said that Bihar's agriculture growth instead of going up has shown declining trend.

'It is a hard fact revealed by the government's own economic survey,' Singh said.

According to the official data, against the national productivity average of 2 tonnes of rice per hectare, the state's rice productivity is about 1.5 tonnes per hectare.

In case of wheat, the state's productivity is 2.2 tonnes per hectare against the national average of 2.7 tonnes.

The state government holds repeated droughts and floods responsible for this poor production.

The state government admits on its official website that agriculture is the key to the overall development of the state economy.

Agriculture is the backbone of Bihar's economy, 81 percent of workforce, and generation of nearly 42 percent of the state domestic product, it says.

'Barring maize and pulses, productivity of various farm produce in Bihar is much below the national average. Though the area under cultivation is shrinking, there is tremendous scope for income generation, by improving productivity. Adverse climatic condition, like draught and floods, do play a role in decreasing products,' the official website says.

IANS

सत्ता छोड़, सत्ता छोड़, सत्ता छोड़

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मंहगाई जी सत्ता छोड़ ,जम्हाई जी सत्ता छोड़
बतपुतली जी सत्ता छोड़ ,कठपुतली जी सत्ता छोड़
सत्ता छोड़ ,सत्ता छोड़ ,सत्ता छोड़ ,सत्ता छोड़ .......I
लोभन सिंह जी सत्ता छोड़ ,परलोभन सिंह छोड़
भदमोहन सिंह सत्ता छोड़ ,पदमोहन सिंह सत्ता छोड़
सत्ता छोड़ ,सत्ता छोड़ ,सत्ता छोड़ ,सत्ता छोड़ ......I
कठमोहन सिंह सत्ता छोड़ ,भट्ठमोहन सिंह सत्ता छोड़
ठगमोहन सिंह सत्ता छोड़ ,हठमोहन सिंह सत्ता छोड़
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***पुष्पराज ***(भारत के गांवों से हजारों युवा सत्ता छोड़ ,सत्ता छोड़ ,सत्ता छोड़ ,सत्ता छोड़ ......का शोर करते हुए लाल किला की प्राचीर से किसी को खीच कर समंदर में फेंकने के लिए आगे निकाल चुके हें.ग्रामेर मानुष के के ग्रामगर्भ से यह स्वर उभर रहा है साथी .......)