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One Nation One Election: First meeting to be held on September 23, says panel chief Ram Nath Kovind

The first official meeting of One Nation One Election will take place on September 23.

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The first meeting of One Nation One Election, a policy to conduct national and state elections simultaneously, will take place on September 23, the panel chief and former President of India Ram Nath Kovind said.

The central government made an announcement about the One Nationa One Election and formed an eight-member committee to see the possibility of conducting national and state elections simultaneously.

The eight-member committee list was released includes Home Minister Amit Shah, Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Ghulam Nabi Azad, NK Singh, Subhash C. Kashyap, Harish Salve, Sanjay Kothari, and panel chief Ram Nath Kovind.

As a special invitee, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal will also attend the meetings of the committee. Legal Affairs Secretary Niten Chandra has been appointed as a secretary to the panel.

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury rejected the offer to be part of the eight-member committee, which was made by the central government to explore the possibility of a One Nation One Election.

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in his letter to Home Minister Amit Shah, said that the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge had been excluded from the panel list, instead they included former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad. It further said that this was a deliberate insult to the system of Parliamentary democracy.

On August 31, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi took to X, formerly Twitter and announced a special session of the parliament from September 18 to 22.

Holding Lok Sabha and state assembly elections simultaneously across the country is what One Nation One Election is all about. The issue has been discussed by the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on numerous occasions and was also part of the party’s manifesto for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

In India, conducting simultaneous polls was a common practice until 1967 and four elections were held in this manner. However, this practice was discontinued after some state assemblies were dissolved prematurely in 1968-69. In 1971, the Lok Sabha was dissolved a year earlier than scheduled, and mid-term elections were announced.

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Chhattisgarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi hits out at Congress, accuses party of dividing Hindus

PM Modi quoted his predecessor PM Manmohan Singh and said the minorities had the first right to the country’s resources. PM Modi added Congress is now saying the population of the community will decide who will have the first right to the country’s resources.

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Chhattisgarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi hits out at Congress, accuses party of dividing Hindus

Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed Congress after the Bihar government’s caste census results were declared. He said the Congress party is dividing the Hindus as the poor people formed the largest part of the population. PM Modi was addressing a rally in Poll bound Chhattisgarh Jagdalpur

PM Modi quoted his predecessor PM Manmohan Singh and said the minorities had the first right to the country’s resources. PM Modi added Congress is now saying the population of the community will decide who will have the first right to the country’s resources. PM Modi asked if the Congress party wanted to decrease the rights of the minority. He further inquired whether the Congress party wanted to remove the minorities.

PM Modi continued to his attack on the Congress and asked whether the Hindus who formed the largest section of India’s population come forward and take their rights. PM Modi further added the Congress party is not run by its people and has been outsourced. He said senior Congress leaders did not have their say in the decisions made by the Congress party.

PM Modi said the Congress party is trying to divide the Hindus. He added the Congress party is dividing the poor. They are trying to destroy the country. PM Modi slammed the Congress party for playing with the emotions of the poor. He added the Congress party has divided India on the basis of caste lines for sixty years.

The Bihar government released the findings of its caste census. According to the survey extremely Backward classes (EBC’s) and other backward classes (OBC’s) constitute 63 percent of total population of Bihar. The Congress party has promised a caste based census in the country if it came to power at the Centre.   

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India-Canada ties: India asks Canada to withdraw 40 diplomats by October 10

Canada has currently a total of 62 diplomats in India. New Delhi has instructed Canada to decrease the number to 41 at their high commission.

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India-Canada ties: India asks Canada to withdraw 40 diplomats by October 10

India has asked Canada to withdraw around 40 diplomats by October 10 as the diplomatic row between the two nations over Ottawa’s allegations of New Delhi’s involvement in the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. According to reports India has threatened to remove the diplomatic immunity of any candian diplomat if they remained in India after October 10.

Canada has currently a total of 62 diplomats in India. New Delhi has instructed Canada to decrease the number to 41 at their high commission. Boehm said PM Justin Trudeau does not expect to back down. He added India sees Canada as an easy mark. He said India is aware of Ottawa’s limited capacity to retaliate because of the presence of a minority government in Canada.

Trudeau is the leader of the Liberal Party. He shares power with Canadian Sikh leader and Indian origin Jagmeet Singh who is the head of the New Democratic Party in Canada. India had previously said it wanted an equal number of diplomats posted in the country and Canada. At the High commission in Delhi Canada has many diplomats compared to what India has in Ottawa.

Diplomatic crisis between Canada and India emerged after Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said the Canadian agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegation of a potential link the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar and the Indian government. India had stated Nijjar as a terrorist in 2020. India rejected Canada’s allegations and called them motivated and absurd.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar was the chief of the banned Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF). He was shot dead outside a Gurudwara in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada in the month of June. Ottawa expelled an Indian official over the case. India in response expelled a Canadian diplomat. Visa services were also expelled by the Indian government for Canadian citizens.

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Earthquake of 6.2 magnitude on Richter scale shakes up Delhi-NCR, North India  

Reports said the tremors were felt acutely by people residing in high rises and many fled by staircase to the groundfloor and were awaiting more aftershocks.

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Earthquake of 6.2 on Richter scale jolts Delhi-NCR  

Strong tremors lasting almost a minute rocked parts of Delhi-National Capital Region, and several northern states after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake at its epicentre hit Nepal.

Reports said the tremors were felt acutely by people residing in high-rises and many fled by staircase to the groundfloor and were awaiting more aftershocks. Similar sights were visible in the region’s office districts. The tremors were also felt in parts of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand just after 2.45 pm. According to the Delhi Disaster Management Authority website, “Delhi is located in zone IV which has fairly high seismicity where the general occurrence of earthquakes is of 5-6 magnitude, a few of magnitude 6-7 and occasionally of 7-8 magnitude. Delhi thus lies among the high-risk areas.” The site adds that Delhi and the union territory region has already seen five earthquakes of the 5.5 to 6.7 scale since 1720.

There has been no report of damage to life and property as of now and reports are awaited on the situation in Nepal. Seismologists said the epicentre was 5 km underground in Bhatekhola in Nepal. The Himalayan country has already faced a massive quake on April 25, 2015 of 7.8 magnitude. Some 9,000 people died and injured more than 20,000.

According to the National German Research Centre for Geo sciences has said that magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Nepal region. According to National Siesmological Centre an earthquake measuring 5.3 magnitude hit western parts of Nepal. No loss of property or life has been reported.

The earthquake was recorded with epicenter at Talkot area of Bajhang district, 700 km west of Kathmandu. Two earthquakes of magnitude 4.6 and 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted Nepal. The two tremors were felt within half an hour time. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya came out of Nirman Bhawan with others, as strong tremors hit different parts of North India.

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