Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman election
Hariprasad files papers as candidate from UPA
Strong leader from backward classes
Bengaluru, August 08: A strong leader from backward classes and voice of communal harmony and senior Congress leader BK Hariprasad filed his nomination papers for the post of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman post as UPA candidate.
Hariprasad was born on July 29, 1954 for A Kempaiah and K Gunavati in Bengaluru. He has completed his primary, higher and PU education in MES School at Malleshwaram. Later, he has done his graduation in Sheshadripuram College and law graduation from Renukacharya Law College.
He has identified himself as a student leader and joined the Congress when D Devaraj Urs was the chief minister in 1977. From the position of party worker, Hariprasad has reached the position of the highest leader in the party. He has entered the politics through NSUI and worked as its president. He has served in NSUI, Youth Congress and Seva Dal before becoming the most influential leader in Congress.
Always ready for fight
He had made futile attempts two times as MLA candidate from Gandhi Nagar constituency in 1983 and Bengaluru South Lok Sabha constituency in 1989. In 1980, Gundu Rao had said that ‘journalists should be thrown into Arabian Sea’. Against this, the newspapers had published reports very strongly. Against this, Youth Congress workers led by Hariprasad locked the offices of the newspapers, burnt the newspapers and started a big campaign. Because of this reason, Hariprasad did not get any position in the party till 1987.
Currently, being the AICC general secretary, Hariprasad was appointed as party incharge for Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh states assembly elections.
Voice against communalism
Being a strong voice of the backward classes, Hariprasad is also responding to the communal harmony. It is not an exaggeration that he is the leader of rationality to disclose the conspiracies of fundamentalists, communal RSS and Sangh Parivar and other organizations in a logical manner. A 64-year-old Hariprasad was elected as the Rajya Sabha Member from the state four times. Now, he has filed his papers for Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman post, for which the election would be held on August 09.
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TMC MP Mahua Moitra moves SC challenging Waqf (Amendment) Act
New Delhi (PTI): Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra has also approached the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.
Meanwhile, a three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and KV Viswanathan has listed for hearing on April 16 ten other petitions, including the one filed by AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi, challenging the validity of the law.
Samajwadi Party MP from Sambhal, Zia-ur-Rahman Barq, had recently also filed a plea on the issue in the apex court.
Moitra, who filed her plea on April 9, has said the controversial amendment not only suffered from serious procedural lapses but also violated several fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution.
“It is submitted that the violation of parliamentary practices during the law-making process has contributed to the unconstitutionality of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025,” the plea said.
“Procedurally, the Chairperson of the Joint Parliamentary Committee flouted parliamentary rules and practices both at the stage of consideration and adoption of the draft report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Waqf Amendment Bill and at the stage of presentation of the said report before Parliament,” it said.
The plea said that dissenting opinions from the opposition MPs were reportedly redacted without justification from the final report presented in Parliament on February 13, 2025.
Such actions undermined the deliberative process of Parliament and violated established norms as outlined in authoritative parliamentary procedure manuals, it said.
The plea said the new law allegedly infringed upon Articles 14 (equality before the law), 15(1) (non-discrimination), 19(1)(a) and (c) (freedom of speech and association), 21 (right to life and personal liberty), 25 and 26 (freedom of religion), 29 and 30 (minority rights), and Article 300A (right to property) of the Constitution.
Moitra sought striking down of the Act in its entirety, citing its procedural irregularities and substantive violations of the Constitution.
AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi, AAP leader Amanatullah Khan, Association for the Protection of Civil Rights, Arshad Madani, Samastha Kerala Jamiathul Ulema, Anjum Kadari, Taiyyab Khan Salmani, Mohammad Shafi, Mohammed Fazlurrahim and RJD leader Manoj Kumar Jha have also moved the top court on the issue.
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and Congress MPs Imran Pratapgarhi and Mohammad Jawed are other key petitioners in the case.
