PA resolution demands President to seek vote of confidence

LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Monday passed a resolution unanimously demanding President Pervez Musharraf to seek vote of confidence.

A total of 321 votes supported the resolution whereas only 25 went against it.

The resolution states that under the Constitution, Punjab Assembly is part of Electoral College and that the house deems Presidential election of October 2007 as un-constitutional.

President Musharraf suspended the Constitution twice, violated the Constitution and overthrew democratic government.

The resolution said President is supposed to be a representative of the Federation but President Musharraf weakend the Federation and inter-provincial harmony leading to a sense of deprivation among provinces.

His policies plunged the country into political, economic as well as power crisis.

The resolution demanded President Pervez Musharraf to seek vote of confidence from the four provincial assemblies including Punjab Assembly. Failing to get the vote, an impeachment motion would be moved against him, it added.

Source : The News JANG

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Jaya back from Kodanad sojourn

Chennai: With the political situation in Tamil Nadu hotting up in the wake of Left parties preparing to distance themselves from the DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance (DPA), AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa ended her four-month-long sojourn in the cool climes of her Kodanad estate and returned to the city on Sunday night.

Jayalalithaa, who arrived with Sasikala and her aides after her longest stay away from the state capital in recent times, was given a rousing welcome by AIADMK functionaries at the airport here.

Party cadres thronged the airport with welcome banners, while AIADMK flags and festoons fluttered along the entire route from the airport to her Poes Garden residence.

Source & Details : Times Of India

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BNP, allies give govt 72 hours

DHAKA ( BanglaDesh) : The BNP-led alliance on Sunday gave a 72-hour ultimatum to the government to free the alliance’s supremo, Khaleda Zia. They threatened that otherwise they would launch agitation programmes.
The BNP’s secretary-general, Khandakar Delwar Hossain, issued the ultimatum from a rally held at the Institution of Diploma Engineers to underscore the demand for Khaleda Zia’s release, sending Tarique Rahman abroad, lifting the state of emergency and containing the price-spiral of essentials.
‘Free Khaleda Zia and send Tarique abroad within 72 hours. If the government fails to do so, the alliance will immediately announce action programmes to realise the demand,’ Delwar told the rally.

Source & Details : NewAgeBD

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Pak assembly begins session on Musharraf's impeachment

ISLAMABAD: The crucial session of Pakistan National Assembly began on Monday during which President Pervez Musharraf is likely to be impeached.

Ahead of the convening of the 342-member National Assembly, lower house of Parliament, the lawmakers from the PPP-led ruling coalition held a meeting chaired by Premier Yousaf Raza Gilani to discuss how they would go about the procedure to impeach the President.

During the coalition's meeting, it was decided that the Assembly session will continue till Musharraf's impeachment. The 100-member Senate, the upper house, is already in session.

Source & Details : Times Of India

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Political plunge: Chiranjeevi inaugurates party office

Hyderabad: The dust has settled on whether Chiranjeevi, the Telugu superstar will take a political plunge or not.

Chiranjeevi has already opened his party office in Hyderabad in the early hours of Monday, August 11.

"We have opened our party office today but we have not launched the party yet.

We will announce the date of the launch in a few days," promised Chiranjeevi.

Chiranjeevi is expected to officially announce the name of his party and its agenda on August 15.

Source : IBNLive

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Embattled Musharraf seeks Saudi Arabia's help

Islamabad: Disappointed by his American friends, President Pervez Musharraf, who faces impeachment by the ruling coalition, has sent an "SOS message" to the Saudi authorities, a source said on Monday.

"The message was sent through a senior Saudi diplomat based in Islamabad," the source said, adding the president has received a response that is "not very positive".

The source said the Saudi authorities, however, are sending a senior government official to gain a first hand view of the situation arising out of the impeachment move.

Source & Details : Times Of India

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I don't want to join govt: Amar Singh

NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party (SP) workers feel that the party would benefit by joining the UPA government at the Centre though he himself was not interested, Senior SP leader Amar Singh today said.

At the same time, the SP general secretary bluntly said that without his party, Congress has no future in Uttar Pradesh.

"I don't want to join the government. But workers (of Samajwadi Party) think we well benefit (If I join the government)," the SP general secretary said.

To a poser on as to why he was not interested in joining the government, Singh said "I just do not want to". He said he will have to "accept the leadership of Congress under Soniaji and the administrative leadership of Manmohan Singh whether I remain inside or outside the cabinet."

In a dig at the Left parties which had often been accused of wielding power without responsibility while propping up the Manmohan Singh government, he said "I cannot duplicate the style of the Left in supporting the government."

Source and details : UTV

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Karat and comrades in city (PATNA) to woo Dalits

PATNA: Top Left leaders, CPI general secretary A B Bardhan, CPM general secretary Praksh Karat, All India Forward Bloc general secretary Deb Brata Biswas and Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (RSPI) general secretary T J Chandrachuran would address a meeting at Srikrishna Memorial Hall here on Monday as a part of the Left parties' nationwide political campaign against Indo-US nuclear deal, sky-rocketing prices and neo-liberal economic policies.
It will be for the first time that the general secretaries of the four Left parties would be sharing the same platform in Bihar.


Source And Details : Times Of India

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BJP deadline for AGP on poll tie-up

NEW DELHI, Aug 11 – Frustrated by lack of forward movement, BJP has given Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) time till September to make up its mind on forging an alliance. The BJP is as confused as anyone else about the regional party's plan of action for the next Lok Sabha polls. BJP State leaders said while they were open to both seat-sharing and alliance, the regional party seems to be in two minds.

"The ball is in their court and it is for them to decide," said BJP State unit president Ramen Deka talking to newsmen on the sidelines of the BJYM rally.

"But it cannot be an endless wait, as we too have to prepare for the elections," he added.

Source And Details : Assam Tribune

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MNS targets I-T exam centre, demands jobs for local youths

MUMBAI: MNS activists created a ruckus at the venue of a staff selection exam for the post of income-tax assistant on Sunday. They were protesting against the "inadequate representation" of locals in the exam, which was held at the BMC's T-Ward building in Mulund.

It was a repeat of the November 2003 incident in which Raj Thackeray's supporters (then with the Shiv Sena) disrupted a Railway Board exam in Kalyan by preventing candidates from other states, mainly the north, from appearing.

On Sunday, more than 210 candidates from Mumbai, Goa and Gujarat gathered at the BMC building to take the computer proficiency exam for the post of tax assistant.

Source And Details : Times Of India

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Economic boost: Tata Motors transforms Singur

KOLKOTA : 11 Aug 08: Like it or curse it, the Tata Nano factory in Singur is happening. No matter what Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Mamata Banerjee say or do from here on, the very presence of Tata Motors has had a spinoff on the local economy that villagers -- and both parties -- can hardly ignore.

Land prices in the areas along Durgapur Expressway, 40 km from Kolkata, have shot up at least five times since December 2006, when the government started the land acquisition. Roadside land in the Khaserbheri mouza is selling at Rs 50 lakh an acre. Two years ago, the rate ranged between Rs 8.7 lakh and Rs 12.8 lakh. Investors -- from Jindals to Haldiram Bhujiawala -- have already bought land outside the project area.

Source and details : Times of India

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BJP flays Cong over Bangla influx

NEW DELHI, Aug 10 – With an eye on the forthcoming Parliamentary polls, the BJP today made an all-out effort to rake up the anti-foreigners' issue, with national president of the party, Rajnath Singh, asserting that India should throw out all illegal migrants who entered the country after the cut-off date. Rhetoric was the order of the day, as leaders after leaders of BJP thundered and fumed against the Congress party for turning a blind eye to the massive infiltration from Bangladesh in the interest of ‘vote-bank politics’. The occasion was a dharna organised by the Assam State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) at Jantar Mantar here today.


Source : Assam Tribune

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PML-Q to stand by Musharraf over issue of impeachment

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Q has announced to fully support President Musharraf over the issue of his impeachment by the ruling coalition.

This was announced in a press conference by PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Syed and former Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi after a meeting of PML-Q central executive committee here.

Source : Jang

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SAD ducks but BJP accepts Cong challenge

JALANDHAR: While the SAD has not yet responded to the Congress challenge of holding an open debate over the issue of nuclear deal, the BJP has offered to accept it.

Punjab state chief of BJP Investor Cell, Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal, has said that as Congress spokesperson Bir Devinder Singh has thrown the challenge, the party should first clarify its stand on some vital and preliminary issues related to the deal. The Congress in place of creating wrong perceptions over the issue should first state how much energy requirements can be met through this civil nuclear deal, with the existing infrastructure and at what cost, apart from disclosing the cost-benefit techno-commercial analysis of the nuclear power with other sources of energy.


Source :
Times Of India

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JD(S), Cong start work for bypolls

BANGALORE: The week ahead could see hectic activity in the Congress and JD(S) camps with former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy scheduled to meet AICC president Sonia Gandhi on forging an alliance for the legislative assembly by-polls .

Though no poll date has been fixed for the five assembly constituencies , which fell vacant after three Congress and two JD(S) MLAs quit to join the BJP, JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda is reportedly keen on preparing the ground from now itself. Kumaraswamy's meeting with Sonia will be scheduled after she returns from Beijing.

Source : Times Of India

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