by Editor | Aug 26, 2024 | News, Politics
New Delhi: A resident doctor and a medical dresser were attacked allegedly by a patient’s attendant, just days after resident doctors resumed work following an 11-day nationwide strike over the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata.
The incident took place at Doctor Hedgewar Hospital in Karkardooma here late on Saturday night while the doctor was providing critical care.
The doctor who was assaulted told PTI, “Late Saturday night, around 1:00 am, a patient with a forehead injury was brought to the hospital. I took him to the dressing room to stitch the wound. After I finished the first stitch and was working on the second, the patient suddenly pushed me and began hurling abuses.
“His son, who was outside the room, came in, slapped me and they both started abusing me further.”
According to the doctor, who requested anonymity, the patient was intoxicated.
Hundreds of resident doctors in Delhi had resumed work on August 23, following an appeal by the Supreme Court and assurances from the government to address their concerns.
by Editor | Aug 26, 2024 | News, Politics
New Delhi: The AAP will hold a meeting on Monday to discuss the strategy for the Delhi Assembly polls due early next year, the party said.
The meeting will see the presence of all senior leaders of the party.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia recently held a meeting with senior leaders to discuss the strategy for the polls.
Sisodia, a trusted lieutenant of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, walked out of jail on bail on August 9 after spending 17 months behind bars in connection with the excise policy case.
Sisodia’s release from jail has come as a huge relief for the party grappling with the absence of its national convener Kejriwal and senior leader Satyendar Jain.
The AAP is eyeing a return to power in the polls. In the 2015 and 2020 assembly polls, the party had won 67 and 62 seats respectively.
by Editor | Aug 26, 2024 | News, Politics
Lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday asserted that she was not retiring from active politics and alleged that the “casteist media” had been “propagating such fake news”.
The 68-year-old Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president is a four-time former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
“To foil the conspiracies of opponents to weaken the Ambedkarite caravan of the Bahujans, like Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar and the venerable Kanshi Ram ji, my decision to remain dedicated to the self-respect and self-esteem movement of BSP till my last breath is firm,” she said in a post on X.
“That is, there is no question of my retirement from active politics. Ever since the party has put forward Akash Anand as the successor of BSP in my absence or in dire ill health, the casteist media has been propagating such fake news that people should be cautious,” Mayawati said in Hindi.
“Although earlier also rumours were spread about me being made the president (of India), whereas the venerable Kanshi Ram ji had rejected a similar offer and said that becoming the president meant retiring from active politics which was not acceptable to him in the interest of the party, then how was it possible for his disciple to accept it?” she said.
by Editor | Aug 26, 2024 | News, Politics
Srinagar: Senior Congress leaders arrived here on Monday to hold deliberations with the National Conference to iron out differences over seat-sharing for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls.
Congress leaders, including party’s general secretary organisation, K C Venugopal, Salman Khurshid, and J-K in-charge Bharat Solanki, arrived at the residence of NC president Farooq Abdullah and vice president Omar Abdullah in Gupkar area here, to hold talks over seat sharing, leaders in both the parties said.
They said the meeting was necessitated after “some differences” cropped up in seat-sharing arrangement during the talks between the local leadership of the parties.
The leaders said both the parties have agreed over the seat-sharing formula to a large extent.
“The central leaders of Congress will meet our leaderships to talk about alliance. Some clarification is needed on some issues, and this will be done today,” NC provincial president, Kashmir, Nasir Aslam Wani told reporters outside the residence of the Abdullahs earlier.
He expressed hope that by the afternoon, “everything will be clear”.
“Two parties have to contest the election together, there are many issues.We have to keep in mind the party cadre on the ground, we also have to consider the strength of the parties in specific seats,” he added.
Wani, however, said the seat-sharing issues will not have any impact on the alliance.
“Had we known the elections will be conducted, we would have sorted these things beforehand,” the NC leader said.
by Editor | Aug 26, 2024 | News, Politics
Srinagar: Hours after issuing a list of 44 candidates for the J&K Assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) withdrew it and released a new one with only 15 candidates for the first phase.
The fresh list of 15 candidates issued by the party has the same names as were in the earlier one, but the other two lists for the second and third phases have been withdrawn.
Interestingly, the first list of 44 candidates did not include senior leaders of the party, including the president of the J&K unit, Ravinder Raina and two former Chief Ministers, Kavinder Gupta and Nirmal Singh.
BJP sources said immediately after the list was made public there was a backlash from the J&K BJP leaders over the non-inclusion of the party’s senior leaders and also those promised party candidature for the Assembly polls in the UT.
“Some people who had recently joined the party had also figured in the first list and their inclusion at the cost of the party’s long-time loyalists created a sort of flutter in the party,” said sources.
The BJP has fielded seven candidates from Kashmir for the first phase and eight from the Jammu division for the 24 Assembly seats going to polls in the first phase.
These include Er Syed Showkat Gayoor Andrabi for Pampore seat, Arshid Bhat for Rajpora, Javed Ahmad Qadri for Shopian, Mohd Rafiq Wani for Anantnag West, advocate Syed Wazahat for Anantnag, Sofi Yousuf for Srigufwara-Bijbehara and Veer Saraf for Shangus-Anantnag East.
In the Jammu division, the candidates are Tariq Keen for Inderwal, Sushri Shagun Parihar for Kishtwar, Sunil Sharma for Padder-Nagseni, Daleep Singh Parihar for Bhaderwah, Gajay Singh Rana for Doda, Shakti Raj Parihar for Doda West, Rakesh Thakur for Ramban and Saleem Bhat for Banihal.
Voting for the first phase of the 3-phased Assembly election is being held on September 18, for the second phase on September 25 and for the last phase on October 1.
