Siddaramaiah conspiring to win poll through ulterior motive: PM Modi
Chikmagaluru, May 9: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that despite losing almost all states in the country, AICC president Rahul Gandhi, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and CM Siddaramaiah are behaving in arrogance.
Addressing the election rally organized here on Wednesday, PM Modi said that the time has to wipe out the Congress from the country. In the last four years, the Congress has lost all elections. It was defeated in almost all states in Uttar Pradesh. Even then, the arrogance of the Congress leaders has not come down, he said.
AICC president Rahul Gandhi camped in Karnataka for Assembly election. He has been criticizing the BJP government at the centre and praising Siddaramaiah government. But being the Lok Sabha Member, he has forgotten the development of his constituency Amethi. Now, he has eyed on PM chair. He has the concern only on PM chair and not the country. Congress party has become Gandhi family and in Congress, the PM chair belongs to only Gandhi family, he blasted.
Both Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi were on bail in Rs 5000 crore fraud. The Congress has lost its ground when this scam was exposed. In May 12 election, Karnataka people would permanently send mother-son duo to home. As Siddaramaiah came to know about this truth, Siddaramaiah has conspired to win the election through ulterior motive. But people would not accept it, he said.
When the Congress did not have ground in North India, Indira Gandhi had come to Chikmagaluru where she had won the election and entered the Lok Sabha. After she had won the election, she did not visit her constituency once. What was her contribution to Chikmagaluru which had given political rebirth to her? In the same way, Sonia Gandhi had promised Ballary people that she would bring Rs 3000 crore package to develop the constituency. Has she fulfilled her promise, he asked.
When Modi began his speech in Kannada and wished the people, people yelled in joy. Before the stage programme, BJP workers took out a bike rally and procession in the city.
BJP candidates CT Ravi, MP Kumaraswamy, DS Suresh, Belli Prakash and Suresh were present. Thousands of party workers from Hassan, Beluru, Sakaleshpur, Chikmagalur, Sringeri, Mudigere, Tarikere, Kaduru assembly constituencies were present.
‘Cong doesn’t believe in democracy’
Earlier, the Congress had misused the power given to them in the country and engaged in misrule. The entire world has accepted the working style of Election Commission of India. But the Congress has been saying that the Election Commission is not good. According to it, only Congress is good in this country. EVMs are wrong, they are right. It has been saying that even CBI and NIA are also not good, he said.
It is unfortunate that the Congress does not have belief on Army and defence system of the country. The Congress has tarnished the image of the country before the world through Bofors scandal. It does not have faith on the judiciary. If the naxalites, jihadis and terrorists were cracked, the Congress would find fault in that act also. When the RBI implemented new economic policies, the Congress is criticizing that. When the entire country expressed good thing about India, Congress has been alleging that Modi has purchased the entire world leadership, he charged.
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Single higher education regulator bill tabled in LS; Oppn flags ‘centralisation,' JPC likely
New Delhi: A bill to set up a 13-member body to regulate institutions of higher education was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan introduced the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, which seeks to establish an overarching higher education commission along with three councils for regulation, accreditation, and ensuring academic standards for universities and higher education institutions in India.
Meanwhile, the move drew strong opposition, with members warning that it could weaken institutional autonomy and result in excessive centralisation of higher education in India.
The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025, earlier known as the Higher Education Council of India (HECI) Bill, has been introduced in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
The proposed legislation seeks to merge three existing regulatory bodies, the University Grants Commission (UGC), the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), into a single unified body called the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan.
At present, the UGC regulates non-technical higher education institutions, the AICTE oversees technical education, and the NCTE governs teacher education in India.
Under the proposed framework, the new commission will function through three separate councils responsible for regulation, accreditation, and the maintenance of academic standards across universities and higher education institutions in the country.
According to the Bill, the present challenges faced by higher educational institutions due to the multiplicity of regulators having non-harmonised regulatory approval protocols will be done away with.
The higher education commission, which will be headed by a chairperson appointed by the President of India, will cover all central universities and colleges under it, institutes of national importance functioning under the administrative purview of the Ministry of Education, including IITs, NITs, IISc, IISERs, IIMs, and IIITs.
At present, IITs and IIMs are not regulated by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
Government to refer bill to JPC; Oppn slams it
The government has expressed its willingness to refer it to a joint committee after several members of the Lok Sabha expressed strong opposition to the Bill, stating that they were not given time to study its provisions.
Responding to the opposition, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said the government intends to refer the Bill to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) for detailed examination.
Congress Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari warned that the Bill could result in “excessive centralisation” of higher education. He argued that the proposed law violates the constitutional division of legislative powers between the Union and the states.
According to him, the Bill goes beyond setting academic standards and intrudes into areas such as administration, affiliation, and the establishment and closure of university campuses. These matters, he said, fall under Entry 25 of the Concurrent List and Entry 32 of the State List, which cover the incorporation and regulation of state universities.
Tewari further stated that the Bill suffers from “excessive delegation of legislative power” to the proposed commission. He pointed out that crucial aspects such as accreditation frameworks, degree-granting powers, penalties, institutional autonomy, and even the supersession of institutions are left to be decided through rules, regulations, and executive directions. He argued that this amounts to a violation of established constitutional principles governing delegated legislation.
Under the Bill, the regulatory council will have the power to impose heavy penalties on higher education institutions for violating provisions of the Act or related rules. Penalties range from ₹10 lakh to ₹75 lakh for repeated violations, while establishing an institution without approval from the commission or the state government could attract a fine of up to ₹2 crore.
Concerns were also raised by members from southern states over the Hindi nomenclature of the Bill. N.K. Premachandran, an MP from the Revolutionary Socialist Party representing Kollam in Kerala, said even the name of the Bill was difficult to pronounce.
He pointed out that under Article 348 of the Constitution, the text of any Bill introduced in Parliament must be in English unless Parliament decides otherwise.
DMK MP T.M. Selvaganapathy also criticised the government for naming laws and schemes only in Hindi. He said the Constitution clearly mandates that the nomenclature of a Bill should be in English so that citizens across the country can understand its intent.
Congress MP S. Jothimani from Tamil Nadu’s Karur constituency described the Bill as another attempt to impose Hindi and termed it “an attack on federalism.”
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