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Political Record Rashtriya Janta Dal is a political party in India which has its political base mainly in Bihar. Laloo Prasad Yadav is its President. This party has remained in power in Bihar under the Chief Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav and then Rabri Devi, who is also Laloo’s wife for more than 13 years. But after the state assembly elections in February 2005, Bihar came under President’s Rule because no political party could win enough seats to prove its majority in the assembly to form a government. Then new elections brought to power the coalition government of Janta Dal (United) and Bhartiya Janta Party.

History Rashtriya Janta Dal was formed in 1997 when Laloo Yadav broke away from Janta Dal. The mass base of the party has traditionally been some of the backward classes and religious minorities. Laloo’s path to power was catalyzed by the strategic alliance he forged between the poor Yadav caste and the Muslims. He served as the Chief Minister of Bihar from 1990-1997 but was forced to resign following escalating corruption charges in the fodder scam. There after his wife Rabri Devi became the Chief Minister of Bihar. It was alleged Laloo continued to act and administer as a real CM with his wife being a ceremonial head. She was the first woman Chief Minister of the state of Bihar. She as a Chief Minister of Bihar came under severe sarcastical criticism and stiff opposition, because she was nearly illiterate and had no interest in politics.

National Party Presently Rashtriya Janta Dal is a partner on the Indian coalition government lead by Congress and its president Laloo Prasad Yadav is the Railway minister in the coalition government. He is currently a Member of Parliament in the 14th Lok Sabha from the Chhapra constituency. Election Commission on June 24 accorded the national party status to RJD. RJD was being recognized as a state party in Bihar, Jharkhand and Manipur fulfilled the conditions for recognition as a national party on the basis of its poll performance in the recently held Nagaland elections. The party has the seventh political party to get the national status. Its election symbol is hurricane lamp.

Manifesto RJD has promised to set up a “vikas sena”, besides toning up administrative units to ensure that the benefits of development reach dalits, backwards, minorities and other oppressed sections of society directly in its manifesto.

Court Controversial Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MP from Balia Suraj Singh alias Surajbhan Singh with two others were on Tuesday held guilty by a Bihar fast track court of murdering a farmer named Rami Singh over a land dispute 16 years ago. Surajbhan Singh represents

Bihar’s Balia constituency in parliament and is considered to be very close the Union Minister of Steel and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan.

Incident Rami Singh, a resident of Mathurapur village in Begusarai district was shot on Jan 16, 1992 allegedly by Surajbhan Singh and his henchmen to avenge the killing of an associate Ramadhar Singh in a land dispute, according to the police complaint in the case. While an accused Pappu Singh had sought a separate trial, two others-Suro Singh and Shankar Singh- also convicted in the same case had been killed in an encounter before the case could go to trial. The fast court judge R P Dubey convicted MP Surajbhan Singh, Jaijairam Singh and Radha Singh. The quantum of sentence will be announced on Wednesday.

Related Facts It may also be recalled that Begusarai public prosecutor Ram Naresh Sharma who was earlier handling the same case was shot dead in his house in Begusarai on November 8, 2007.Hundereds of people, mostly supporters of Surajbhan Singh, had gathered outside the court since early afternoon to hear the court’s verdict that was announced amid tight security. Surajbhan Singh is accused in several criminal cases, including those of murder, extortion, kidnapping and looting. Soon after the court found him along with the two other convicts, police took them into custody, were handcuffed and sent to jail under judicial custody.

Criminalization of Politics In the last two months the judiciary has pronounced some judgments in which most politicians or their relatives were convicted .There is only the judiciary left in which people have some belief. Though some political parties have taken steps to stop the criminalization of the politics by not allowing the criminals to contest in the elections on the party tickets but that is not enough. Some concrete steps are needed to purge and purify all the political system from the criminal impurities. Courts are the last option to deal with the criminals it is the duty of the people and the political parties to disallow the criminal elements from entering into the political circles.

Political Record Rashtriya Janta Dal is a political party in India which has its political base mainly in

Bihar. Laloo Prasad Yadav is its President. This party has remained in power in

Bihar under the Chief Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav and then Rabri Devi, who is also Laloo’s wife for more than 13 years. But after the state assembly elections in February 2005,

Bihar came under President’s Rule because no political party could win enough seats to prove its majority in the assembly to form a government. Then new elections brought to power the coalition government of Janta Dal (United) and Bhartiya Janta Party.

History Rashtriya Janta Dal was formed in 1997 when Laloo Yadav broke away from Janta Dal. The mass base of the party has traditionally been some of the backward classes and religious minorities. Laloo’s path to power was catalyzed by the strategic alliance he forged between the poor Yadav caste and the Muslims. He served as the Chief Minister of

Bihar from 1990-1997 but was forced to resign following escalating corruption charges in the fodder scam. There after his wife Rabri Devi became the Chief Minister of

Bihar. It was alleged Laloo continued to act and administer as a real CM with his wife being a ceremonial head. She was the first woman Chief Minister of the state of

Bihar. She as a Chief Minister of

Bihar came under severe sarcastical criticism and stiff opposition, because she was nearly illiterate and had no interest in politics. 

National Party Presently Rashtriya Janta Dal is a partner on the Indian coalition government lead by Congress and its president Laloo Prasad Yadav is the Railway minister in the coalition government. He is currently a Member of Parliament in the 14^th Lok Sabha from the Chhapra constituency. Election Commission on June 24 accorded the national party status to RJD. RJD was being recognized as a state party in

Bihar, Jharkhand and Manipur fulfilled the conditions for recognition as a national party on the basis of its poll performance in the recently held Nagaland elections. The party has the seventh political party to get the national status. Its election symbol is hurricane lamp.

Manifesto RJD has promised to set up a “vikas sena”, besides toning up administrative units to ensure that the benefits of development reach dalits, backwards, minorities and other oppressed sections of society directly in its manifesto.

 

 

 

Battling for Life Former Indian Army Chief Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw is battling for life in a military hospital in

Wellington in TamilNadu. According to the military hospital sources he is undergoing treatment for a lung cancer. When the reports last came in he has slipped into coma. He is in extremely critical condition and the doctors fear the worst. Manekshaw has been suffering of old age-related ailments for the past few years and was being treated at the Army Hospital in New Delhi and at the Military Hospital at Wallington, where he settled down after retiring as the army chief on Jan 15, 1973 after four decades of military service.

Life and Career Manekshaw is credited with crating the campaign that led India to victory in the 1971 Indo-Pak war and creation of

Bangladesh after the war. Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, born in Amritsar, Punjab on 03 April 1914, joined the first batch of 40 cadets at Indian Military Academy (IMA), DehraDun on 01 October 1932, after completing his schooling in Amritsar and

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College, Nainital. He passed out of the IMA in December 1934 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army. During his military service of four decades he fought five wars from the British era and World War II, to the three wars against China and Pakistan after

India’s independence in 1947.

Honor Sam Manekshaw is the first of only two Indian military officers to hold the highest rank of Field Marshal of the Indian Army. He was, awarded by the President of India, Padma Vibhushan in 1972, conferred the honorary rank of field marshal on 1 January 1973, for his stellar leadership during the Bangladesh campaign that saw the surrender of more than 90,000 Pakistani troops on December 16, 1971 in Dacca, then the capital of East Pakistan and which has now been renamed

Dhaka.

Contribution During his four decades of military service he showed, acumen for planning and administration while handling the issue related to partition in 1947, uncommon ability to motivate the forces, coupling with it a mature war strategy. He is known for, as Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee, welding the Army, Navy and Air Force in to a well-knit team, well planned and well executed operations during the war against

Pakistan in 1971.

 

 

 

Joint Venture Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s home banner A B Corp has entered into Rs. 1500-crore joint venture with RBE, which would include film production, reality shows, TV serials and internet and mobile content. This news has come after the news came in that Anil Ambani’s Reliance Entertainment is in talks with Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks SKG for an investment of around $500 million in equity. With the latest development Ambani has moved a step closer to building a media group spanning -

Hollywood and Bollywood.

Projects “Four directors have been short listed for projects which will go on the floor beginning 2008-end. A few other projects are at the consideration stage and will be announced shortly,” Wing commander P Ramesh, CEO of A B Corp told. To kick start the joint venture of the two stalwarts from the entertainment and business fields four directors-Rohan Sippy, Sujoy Ghosh, Chandraprakash Dwivedi and Balki-have been selected. It is said that Reliance Big Entertainment and A B Corp are equal partners in the film production in terms of creative input and finance. The Bachchan family will provide all the creative inputs while RBE will take care of the managerial, marketing and distribution of the projects.

 

Hollywood RBE earlier had this year had entered into agreements with Hollywood stars George Clooney, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt and moviemakers Chris Columbus and Jay Roach. From these developments one can expect that both the film industries coming closer and even working together. It would be a milestone for efforts by the Reliance Big Entertainment to bring the world’s two most prolific movie-making industries closer together.

 

Films With the deal RBI has become one of India’s biggest domestic names that has entered into deals with the stars and directors of

Hollywood and Bollywood. “This is in line with our strategy to tie up with the leading Indian and international creative talent,” said Rajesh Sawhney, president of Reliance Big. It was told that Abhishek Bachchan will work in Sippy’s film while Amitabh Bachchan will be in Ghosh and Dwivedi’s films. Except it both the father and son will together feature in R. Balakrishana’s film.