Take decision after conducting meeting of scholars, educationists: Minister H.D. Revanna
Opening English Medium Schools
Bengaluru, Dec 31: PWD Minister HD Revanna advised Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy to take a suitable decision on opening one thousand English medium schools only after eliciting the opinion of scholars and educationists.
Speaking to reporters at the Vidhana Soudha here on Monday, he said that the Congress-JDS coalition government would complete its five years. Former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa has been waiting for the coalition government to collapse for the last six months, he ridiculed.
There was no need to learn a lesson from Minister RB Thimmapur on giving positions to dalits. When there was no reservation, it was former prime minister HD Deve Gowda who had given ZP president’s post to ST community. It was Deve Gowda who had ensured 33 per cent reservation for women and 5 per cent for Muslims. It was HD Kumaraswamy who had appointed dalit IAS officer Gonal Bheemappa as the KPSC chairman. The Congress leaders should recall it, he said.
“It is far from truth that I have interfered in the affairs of Home Department. I have not interfered in the affairs of the Home department. If people have doubts still, let former Home Minister and DCM Dr G Parameshwar give clarification”.
- HD Revanna, PWD Minister
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TMC MLA Humayun Kabir apologises for claiming 'coterie' influencing Mamata's decisions
Kolkata (PTI): Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir has apologised to the party's leadership for his recent comment that a "coterie" was influencing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's key decisions.
Kabir, the MLA of Bharatpur in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, expressed his apology on Friday in reply to a show cause notice issued by the party's disciplinary committee.
"Yes, I have sent a reply. I will certainly follow party discipline. But I think being a person from the rural belt, not conversant with the ways of the city, I faced this situation for speaking my mind. However, I had not said anything against my party or its leadership," he told reporters.
"Our CM epitomises the spirit of 'Maa-Mati-Manush' and being a person of the grassroots level, I always stay rooted to the ground. Maybe I should have been more careful about my way of expressing," he said.
A senior member of the TMC's legislative disciplinary committee said the reply to the show cause letter was received, and a decision on it will be communicated soon.
Kabir, however, said some other TMC MPs had on earlier occasions made comments against party colleagues but were not censured.
On Thursday, he met the CM in the assembly's lobby where she had asked him to reply to the show-cause notice first.
On November 26, Kabir had said a coterie within the party was taking certain decisions to cement their position and was influencing the CM's key decisions for their short-term gains.
He had said this a day after the TMC national executive meeting where the party had categorically asked its leaders not to make comments in public against any internal decision and formed disciplinary committees at different levels.
Kabir had earlier advocated for giving more responsibility to TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, reiterating that the Diamond Harbour MP was undoubtedly the number two in the party's hierarchy and those trying to undermine his influence would not succeed.
