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Javadekar violates election code
Sunday saw a plethora of BJPs national leaders converging on Telangana to campaign for the party candidates N Ramachandra Rao and E Ramamohan Rao in the MLC elections. They include Union Ministers Prakash Javadekar, M Venkaiah Naidu and Nirmala Seetharaman. The speeches of the Central leaders, particularly that of Javadekar, who showered many assurances could amount to the violation of Model Code of Conduct (MCC).
Hyderabad: Sunday saw a plethora of BJPs national leaders converging on Telangana to campaign for the party candidates N Ramachandra Rao and E Ramamohan Rao in the MLC elections. They include Union Ministers Prakash Javadekar, M Venkaiah Naidu and Nirmala Seetharaman. The speeches of the Central leaders, particularly that of Javadekar, who showered many assurances could amount to the violation of Model Code of Conduct (MCC).
Union Environmental Minister Prakash Javadekar has announced that the Centre was on the threshold of giving environmental clearance to the proposed Thermal Power Plant at Damaracherla in Nalgonda district. Participating in electioneering for the upcoming MLC elections in Hyderabad on Sunday, he said that final meeting of the appraisal committee would be held in New Delhi on March 17 to give its final nod to the power plant.
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He further pointed out that this was the first instance when permissions were being granted in record one-month time after Telangana submitted its proposals to the Centre. Besides this, the Centre has decided to give ECs (Environment Clearances) to Singareni Open Cast Mining project in Manuguru and Army Firing Range in Rachakonda Hills, he said, adding that the Centre was examining five other proposals sent by the Telangana government.
Is this nationalism or the BJP's sense of civility?" he said. Condemning the decision, Goa's lone Rajya Sabha member Shantaram Naik said BJP leaders claim they hold Gandhi in high esteem and started worshipping him in recent times, but actually denigrate him on every available opportunity. When Manohar Parrikar was chief minister of Goa, the government had sought to scrap a few public holidays, including Gandhi Jayanti, Good Friday and Old Goa Feast, but had to give up the move due to public outcry.
Meanwhile, responding to criticism after Gandhi Jayanti was excluded from the list of public holidays, the Chief Minister said it could be an act of “mischief” or a “typing mistake”. Strongly opposing the BJP-ruled state’s decision, senior Congress leader P C Chacko said, “BJP’s mindset is a very sick mindset. ... Can any state government take a decision like this? This kind of decision they have taken is anti-national.” He said the Central government “should immediately direct the state government to correct this. I am still in shock after hearing about this. No government in India has the right to do that. This is a very senseless decision which they have taken.”
