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Time of India
4 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Bihar govt doubles pension for 'JP Senanis'
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel The Bihar government on Wednesday announced a two-fold increase in the pension amount for ' JP Senanis ', political activists who had been imprisoned during the Emergency for supporting socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan's proposal was cleared at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar , who himself was a key figure in the 'JP movement' that began in 1974, a year ahead of the proclamation of the Emergency."The pension for 'JP Senanis', who had spent more than six months behind bars, has been raised to Rs 30,000 per month from Rs 15,000, and for those who served shorter prison terms, it has been hiked from Rs 7,500 to Rs 15,000," a senior official development comes ahead of the assembly elections in the state, due later in the had launched the pension scheme named after Jayaprakash Narayan in 2009. Though the CM fulfils the criteria for the pension, he never applied for supremo Lalu Prasad is also one of the beneficiaries of the scheme.
News18
4 days ago
- Politics
- News18
Bihar govt doubles pension for ‘JP Senanis'
Patna, Aug 13 (PTI) The Bihar government on Wednesday announced a two-fold increase in the pension amount for 'JP Senanis', political activists who had been imprisoned during the Emergency for supporting socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan's movement. The proposal was cleared at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who himself was a key figure in the 'JP movement' that began in 1974, a year ahead of the proclamation of the Emergency. 'The pension for 'JP Senanis', who had spent more than six months behind bars, has been raised to Rs 30,000 per month from Rs 15,000, and for those who served shorter prison terms, it has been hiked from Rs 7,500 to Rs 15,000," a senior official said. The development comes ahead of the assembly elections in the state, due later in the year. Kumar had launched the pension scheme named after Jayaprakash Narayan in 2009. Though the CM fulfils the criteria for the pension, he never applied for it. view comments First Published: August 13, 2025, 18:00 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
The Hindu
08-07-2025
- Health
- The Hindu
Tiruchi Government Hospital team harvests organs from deceased patient
Organs harvested by doctors at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) from a 26-year-old patient, who had been declared brain dead, helped to save lives this week. According to an official press release, the male patient from K. Chinnathampatti, Dindigul district, was admitted to MGMGH in Tiruchi in the early hours of July 6 with spinal cord haemorrhage. When the patient did not respond to treatment, brain death was declared at 11.45 p.m. Upon being counselled, the bereaved family agreed to donate the organs of the deceased. As per the norms of Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu (TRANSTAN), the government hospital's surgeons harvested the deceased patient's kidneys and liver. In an operation led by nephrologist Jayaprakash Narayan on Tuesday, a team of doctors, under the guidance of S. Kumaravel, dean, K.A.P.V. Government Medical College, transplanted one of the harvested kidneys to a 30-year-old patient at MGMGH, who had been undergoing dialysis for the past two years and was enrolled on the TRANSTAN waiting list. The kidney transplant was the 42nd such procedure conducted at the hospital, and was carried out free of charge under the Chief Minister's Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme, said the release. The other kidney was sent to a renal patient at Thanjavur Medical College Hospital, and the liver was donated to a person receiving treatment at a private facility in Thanjavur.
Hans India
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Women, youth must enter politics in large numbers, says Kishan Reddy
Hyderabad: Union Minister Kishan Reddy on Wednesday took part in the 'Mock Parliament session' held at KMIT on the occasion of 50 years of Congress Emergency by state BJP Mahila Morcha. Speaking on the occasion, he said in the future, there was a need for youth and women to enter politics in large numbers in the country. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aspiration was to introduce moral and righteous politics and reminded that Modi had called for one lakh youth across the country to enter into politics. 'The young men and women who participated in this mock parliament should rise to the level of having to argue in Parliament in the future. The Indian Constitution is the best one in the world. In many countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, internal crises have arisen in those countries due to the violation of the constitution and suppression of democracy with military regimes. In India, we are implementing the constitution framed by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. However, in 1975, during the rule of Indira Gandhi, the Constitution was set aside, civil rights were suppressed, and freedom of the press was taken away, and Emergency was imposed. On that day, without discussing it in the cabinet, the President was forced to sign it at midnight and lakhs of people were arrested before dawn. Among those arrested were Jayaprakash Narayan, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani, V. Rama Rao, Venkaiah Naidu and Bandaru Dattatreya. We are organizing this mock parliament with the intention of making today's generation aware of the anti-democratic actions that took place during the Emergency,' he said. Reddy recalled during the rule of Indira Gandhi, when the problems of corruption and unemployment increased exponentially, Navnirman Samiti was formed in Gujarat and Bihar and added that a large-scale movement was launched by students against the Emergency and added that the police caned them. He recalled that in 1971, Socialist leader Raj Narayan, who lost the Lok Sabha elections, filed a case in the Allahabad High Court with evidence alleging that Indira Gandhi had engaged in electoral corruption and misused the power machinery. Indira Gandhi brought a new ordinance and postponed the elections in the name of internal crisis in the country. 'The elections that were supposed to be held once every five years were postponed for another year and an emergency was imposed. On that day, many Vidyarthi Parishad and Jana Sangh activists, women's groups, youth groups, reporters, and politicians in Hyderabad city were lathicharged and arrested under the MISA Act. The Indira Gandhi government violated the constitutional rights of the people who claimed that they had the right to speak out against the Emergency. After the elections in 1977, when the Emergency was lifted, only a few of those arrested were released. Later, the Janata Party, formed under the leadership of Jayaprakash Narayan, came forward to protect the country's democracy. In that election, all the ministers of the Indira Gandhi government were defeated and the Janata Party won through a silent revolution of the people,' he recalled.
Indian Express
29-06-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
When Indira asked I&B Minister Gujral to hold her raincoat: ‘You can't do any other work'
Decades after being eased out as the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for his 'softness' on media censorship soon after the imposition of the Emergency, I K Gujral said in an interview, 'Democracy and democratic institutions are a package… You cannot be partly democratic and partly non-democratic.' He added, 'Therefore, once you start compromising with institutions of democracy, you cannot be democratic. And that applies even today, and that will apply for all times to come.' Gujral, who later became PM, was moved to the Planning Ministry, with the I&B Minister portfolio going to V C Shukla, who was seen as more pliant by Mrs Gandhi when it came to carrying out her orders. In an early 2000s interview to the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) – now known as Prime Ministers' Museum and Library (PMML) – Gujral recounted an incident that led up to his removal. In the interview, part of the NMML's oral history project, he said Mrs Gandhi was so disappointed with his handling of the Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) Movement, leading up to the Emergency, that at a public rally in Gujarat, giving him her raincoat, she said: 'Please hold it. You could not do any other work.' On the JP Movement, Gujral said, 'Indira Gandhi was at a loss to know how to handle this rising tide… She was not adequately responding to the allegations of corruption in Gujarat. Jayaprakash Narayan emerged… later. Therefore, the more politically she felt out of breath, the more she blamed the media.' Once when she sent him a chit in this regard, he said he replied, 'Indira ji, the media in the last analysis is a marginal activity; under no circumstances a substitute for political action. Political battles have to be fought politically.' Gujral remembered another instance when someone close to the PM called him to say that JP's rally at Delhi's Boat Club had fizzled out, even though he had from his own office overlooking the venue observed that it was one of the largest rallies seen in the national capital. Also, when AIR announced that a Mrs Gandhi rally, held before JP's, was 'gigantic', Gujral recalled, the PM called him to argue whether 'gigantic' was the right word instead of 'very large' or 'unprecedented', finally agreeing that the word used in the news bulletin was fine. On June 12, 1975, when the Allahabad High Court declared Mrs Gandhi's election from Rae Bareli in the 1971 Lok Sabha polls null and void, the PM expected that Gujral as I&B Minister would handle its fallout. 'She was completely convinced that I could do anything,' Gujral said, adding that then Congress president D K Barooah alleged that all the 'damage' was being done by AIR. Gujral also remembered the night of June 25, 1975, when power supply at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg was cut off so that newspapers could not come out the day the country heard about the imposition of the Emergency in the country. He said he was not aware that the Emergency had been clamped, and came to know about it only at the Cabinet meeting held on June 26 at 6 am. He had been informed about power cuts and arrests by the Principal Information Officer at night, but did not sense the seriousness of things immediately, Gujral said. At the Cabinet meeting, Mrs Gandhi asked the then newly-appointed Home Secretary, S L Khurana, to brief the ministers. 'Everyone kept quiet except Swaran Singh who asked… 'But there is already an Emergency!'. (He was referring to the Emergency declared at the time of the 1971 Bangladesh War, which had not been formally withdrawn.) So, to that the Home Secretary said: 'That is an external Emergency, this is an internal Emergency'.,, She (Mrs Gandhi ) was composed, but concerned. Whatever I can recall… I would not say she was happy.' Gujral also recalled Sanjay Gandhi telling Education Minister Nurul Hasan just after the Cabinet meeting, 'I understand that there is a lot of activity of the Jana Sanghis in the University.' Hasan, Gujral recalled, replied, 'Yes, I have also heard and we have already made a list and sent it to your office.' Sanjay then told Gujral that he wanted to see the news bulletin, to which Gujral replied that he could only see it when it was broadcast. Mrs Gandhi intervened and assured Gujral that the matter would be resolved. Gujral did not pass any order for press censorship on June 26, he said in the interview. His father told Gujral that he had not taken part in the freedom struggle to see this day. His Information Secretary A Jamal Kidwai told him, 'Sir, you are in politics, you get out of it. I am a bureaucrat, I will fade out.' Gujral was called to the PM's residence by her P A RK Dhawan that morning (June 26) at around 11 am, he said. The PM was not there, but Sanjay told him, 'Look, it won't work like this.' Gujral recalled having shot back, 'Till I am here in the ministry, it would be as I wish it to be… I am accountable to the Prime Minister.' Once he returned home, he got a phone call from Union minister Om Mehta to send the list of (press) censors to Sanjay. He refused to send office papers to him, adding he was not imposing censorship. Gujral said that when he met Mrs Gandhi next, she did not seem happy about his handling of the censorship. When he said, 'Indira ji, this is not my cup of tea,' Mrs Gandhi said: 'Yes, that is what I wanted to inform you. It needs firmer handling and you are very soft.' He readily agreed, saying: 'Indira ji, thank you very much. You have been very kind to me all the time and I owe you a lot. But now I am talking to you, not as your minister, but as your friend… When I came home. I switched on the radio at about 9 o'clock or so. It was announced that V C Shukla has been appointed as Information Minister.' She made a very interesting observation in the Cabinet soon after, Gujral said. 'The Cabinet did not know that I had been relieved of the charge. She said the last minister… of information (referring to Gujral) was credibility-crazy. I thought it was a compliment, but she thought it was damnation.' Gujral remembered how Mrs Gandhi went on to send him to Moscow as India's Ambassador in 1976, perhaps because she still respected him personally. Gujral said he even asked her why she did not send a Communist like Nurul Hasan, to which she replied that she wanted an Ambassador of India in Moscow, and not an Ambassador of Russia in Moscow. Gujral added: 'The Emergency was a bad blot on our national life, but the nation learnt a lot. Nobody now talks in terms of harsh days, nobody talks in terms of compromising institutions and nobody talks in terms of 'committed judiciary' because we know that we have passed through that experience.' Gujral quit the Congress in the 1980s, joined the Janata Dal and went on to helm the United Front government as the PM from April 21, 1997 to March 19, 1998.
