Hyderabad, June 1st: Meira may become first women Loksabha speaker. The stage is set for the unanimous election of Ms. Meira Kumar as the speaker of the 15th Loksabha. She will be the first Dalit women to occupy this high constitutional office in the country’s parliamentary history. Ms. Kumar is the daughter of former deputy prime minister Jagjivan Ram.
While Ms Kumar is the candidate of the Congress and its allies in the UPA, the main opposition party BJP has announced that it will support her. Sources indicate that the other parties like Left, Samajwadi Party, BSP, RJD, Telugu Desam which has Dalit woman speaker in the state, Ms Pratibha Bharati and the BJD and ALADMK would do so as well.
Ms Kumar’s nomination papers will be filed on Tuesday. The congress president and UPA chairperson, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi is expected to propose Ms. Kumar’s name in the nomination paper. If election for the post is required, it will be held on Wednesday. Asked about the post of deputy speaker, the opposition party leader, Mr. L.K Advani said that the BJP parliamentary board would take a decision on Tuesday. The names of Mr. Karia Mundra, Mr. Sripad Naik and Mr. Ramesh are doing rounds for the post.
Hyderabad, June 1st: The Southwest monsoon has further advanced to Rayalasemma and south coastal Andhra Pradesh on Monday. Every year the monsoons are likely to hit the state in the first week of June but this year they entered the state a week before giving a good relief to the people from heavy t...
Hyderabad, June 1st: The Marks of Eamcet (Engineering and Medical Common Entrance Test)-2009 were released here on Monday. The entrance exam for the same was conducted on May 14. Nearly 3, 02,646 students appeared for the engineering stream out of which 89.9 percent were qualified. For the 62,656 s...
Kakinada, June 1st: The number of tuberculosis (TB) cases has gone up in the district with the detection of 2,016 positive cases in the first quarter of the year 2009. For the same period in 2008, 959 cases and 999 cases in 2007 were detected in East Godavari district. The increased number of cases...
Kakinada, June 1st: According to the district collector, Mr. Gopala Krishna Dwevedi the district administration is going to organize two day workshop for the various department officials associated with e-parishkaram on June 4 and 5. The administration is going to start the SMS based grievances tra...
Hyderabad, June 2nd: All the newly elected MLAs for the 13 th assembly will administer the oath by protem speaker, Mr. J.C Diwakar Reddy today. Elaborate arrangements were done by the police for the session. The new assembly has around 147 first time MLAs and the state legislature has asked the first...
Kakinada, June 2nd: District educational officer, Mr. Mallikarjuna Sastry warned the parent to check the status of the schools about recognition by government before joining their children. He advised the parent to join their kids in schools recognized by the government and local bodies as the cert...
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