Raman takes on UPA on rising food prices

Amid the UPA government facing criticism over spiralling prices,Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has asked the Opposition Congress...

Amid the UPA government facing criticism over spiralling prices,Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has asked the Opposition Congress to reveal what happened to the UPAs poll promise to provide 25 kg of rice or wheat to families living below the poverty line. Announcing withdrawal of entry tax of 0.25 per cent being levied on sugar,Singh told the Congress in the Assembly,Sugar is now being sold at Rs 40 per kg as against Rs 10 five years ago. Now the poor cannot even afford to have onions. Where is your subsidised rice and wheat scheme? Please find out. During the last Lok Sabha elections,the Congress had pledged to enact a law to provide 25 kg of rice or wheat a month at Rs three per kg to BPL families. A food security scheme giving subsidised foodgrains to the poorest of the poor is already being implemented by the state.

IPS body up in arms over SC lawyers comment

The Chhattisgarh IPS Association is furious over Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushans remark that the states Director General of Police Vishwaranjan would either end up in jail or himself become a victim of violence. During his recent visit to the state,Prashant Bhushan had stated that if activists are falsely implicated,false cases registered,scribes from outside the state are not allowed to visit the state and human rights violations continue then a person who carries out a reign of terror is likely to either end up in jail or himself become a victim of violence. The Association has decided to write to the Bar Council of India to register its protest against the remark.

Ajit Jogis son ditches politics for law

Amit Jogi,son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi,has been awarded a gold medal in LLB from Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University and has declined to contest the Youth Congress organisational elections in Chhattisgarh. He said he preferred to establish himself as a lawyer. After having been mired in controversies for long including in a murder case where he was subsequently acquitted by the trial court Amit chose to quietly complete his studies and came out with flying colours,topping the LLB exams and securing the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Gold Medal. This gold medal has brought joy and happiness to me and my parents. Its much more than winning any election, Amit Jogi wrote in his blog.

Where there are 8 voters and 3 candidates

Its going to be an interesting election to a Panchayat ward in Dharsivan block in Raipur district of Chhattisgarh there are only eight voters and three of them are doubling up as candidates. And anyone who gets a total of four votes is set to win. According to the state election office,seven personnel a returning officer,three assistants and three security personnel will be deployed at the polling booth to be set up at ward number 13 of village Matia. Similarly,three are only 23 voters in another ward in Jora Pirda village. The ongoing Panchayat elections,scheduled to be completed by the end of this month,are being held on non-party lines.