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Patna, Sept. 28 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar on Saturday backed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for his controversial statement on the proposed ordinance for convicted lawmakers, and said the ruling party’s leader stock will go up for the stance that he has taken publicly on the issue.
“Getting the ordinance out after parliamentary debate was not appropriate. I believe what Congress’ leader Rahul Gandhi has said is correct. In the circumstances, the ordinance should be taken back—this is the best way,” Kumar said.
“As far as bringing in any law goes, I think it should be left to the Parliament to decide and debate. …
One’s standing does not go down when undoing a wrong thing. But if you stop an inappropriate act or don’t let it go ahead, I think that your stock goes up. I don’t think that it is a correct measure of standing,” he added.
Kumar also expressed that he was against bringing in laws through ordinances and strongly urged the Centre to constructively use parliamentary debates to introduce new bills.
“There should have been more debate on this in Parliament. Laws should not be made through ordinances. …They should take it back,” Kumar said.
Earlier, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi wrote to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, regarding his views on the ordinance pushed by the Government, after he made a controversial remark on the issue on Friday.
In the letter to the Prime Minister, Rahul Gandhi wrote: “I realize that what I feel about the Ordinance is not in harmony with the Cabinet decision and the Core Group’s view. I also know it would be exploited by our political opponents. You know that I have the highest respect for you and I look up to you for your wisdom. I have nothing but the greatest admiration for the manner in which you are providing leadership in extremely difficult circumstances. I hope you will understand the strength of my own conviction about this very controversial issue.”
In a major embarrassment to the Congress-led UPA II Government, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi dubbed the ordinance to negate the Supreme Court verdict on convicted lawmakers as ‘complete nonsense’, and said it should be torn up and thrown away.
“I personally think what the government is doing on the ordinance is wrong. It was a political decision, every party does it, and there is a time to stop this nonsense,” he said.
The developments came a day after President Pranab Mukherjee summoned senior Cabinet ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde, Kamal Nath and Kapil Sibal for consultations on the ordinance pending before him for signature.
The Union Cabinet had approved an ordinance to reverse the Supreme Court judgment mandating the immediate disqualification of lawmakers convicted for a criminal offence punishable with a jail term of more than two years.
The ordinance seeks to reverse the judgement that had not only disqualified lawmakers convicted of offences with two years or more , but also barred from contesting elections.

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New Delhi, Sep 27 : The Special Judge for CBI cases, Visakhapatnam has convicted Rakesh Prasad Yadav(ITS: 1998), then Executive Engineer (Electrical), BSNL, Electrical Division, Chuttugunta, Vijayawada, Krishna District(Andhra Pradesh) in a bribery case and sentenced him to undergo three years Simple Imprisonment with fine of Rs. 20,000/-.
The investigation revealed that the accused was caught red handed while demanding & accepting a bribe of Rs.3,000/- from the Complainant (an Electrical Contractor of Vijayawada) for recommending Extension of Time (EOT) and for effecting the final payment of the bill related to the work of Electrical Installations & other works executed by his firm.
After conducting regular trial, the Court pronounced judgement convicting the accused person Sri Rakesh Prasad Yadav, for the offences U/s. 7 & 13(2) r/w. 13(1)(d) of PC Act, 1988.
In another case, the Special Judge for CBI cases Mirzapur, Ahmedabad has convicted Shri Jayantilal Kalidas Patel, then Superintendent of Central Excise & Customs, Vadodara U/s. 7 and 13(2) r/w 13 (1) (d) of PC Act 1988, and sentenced him to undergo two years Simple Imprisonment with total fine of Rs. 15,000/- in a bribery case.
CBI had registered a case on 19.10.2000 against Jayantilal Kalidas Patel, then Superintendent of Central Excise & Customs, Range-IV, Division-III, Vadodara. Initially, the accused demanded illegal gratification of Rs.5,000/-. He was caught red handed for demanding & accepting a bribe of Rs.1,500/- from the complainant as first installment for clearing the pending defacement of the Invoice of his firms. A charge sheet in the case was filed on 24.11.2000.
The Trial Court found the accused guilty and convicted him.

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AIZAWL, Sept 27 NNN : Out of the total population of Mizoram (10,91,014) about 60,000 are government employees, receiving monthly salaries, and so they are quite fortunate and ought to be content and satisfied, said Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla today.
He said this while gracing Special Assembly of Muster Roll (MR) employees under Mizoram Government, held at Vanapa Hall here in Aizawl, which was organised by Trade Union Joint Action Committee (INTUM & FOMTU) as a thanksgiving programme to the State Government for raising the salary of the Muster Roll employees.
The Chief Minister lauded the MR employees for their moral sense to give thanks, saying this as per the wishes of God. He conveyed his best wishes to them to receive more blessings in future. The Chief Minister exhorted: “In serving the government, there is no such thing as small or big responsibility. Each duty is crucial, and it is most important to carry out our task with righteousness, faithfulness, God-fearingness and laboriousness.”
Addressing the grievances of government employees in general, the Chief Minister said, even the gratitude of the MR employees who gathered today may not be to the fullest, because other government employees who are paid higher salaries than them are discontent.
“Therefore, to redress the anomalies which they resented for, the state government is doing its best to find ways and means to get over the lacking of fund. For this, the governments take steps to enhance power sufficiency, to create good market for the cultivators, to strengthen business ties with foreign countries, to improve the poor living condition through NLUP, and to construct good roads and highways”, the Chief Minister said. Lal Thanhawla also said on the occasion that Mizoram does not have good labour law and administration as of now, which is a fact even the high ranking government employees are not yet aware of, he added. “It may be necessary to make Labour laws, and even set up labour court”, he added.
Talking about Professional tax, the chief minister said that all the government employees paid the same amount of professional tax, which is because professional tax is a central law, and so to make amendment for the same, the matter has been put up to the central government. Parliament approval will be required, he added.
Guest of Honour at the programme, Lalrinliana Sailo, Labour Minister appreciated for showing their heartfelt gratitude at the increase of their wages. He mentioned that during the term of the present government, minimum wages have been revised three times.
Lal Thanhawla and Lalrinliana Sailo were presented citation at the Assembly today. The salaries of MR employees has been raised through Variable Dearness Allowance and 25% of Wages plan, according to which: Unskilled Labour will now get- Rs. 220, Semi Skilled- Rs. 250, Skilled II -Rs. 310 and Skilled I -Rs. 380 . The new pay scale will be followed from Oct 2013.

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