NEW DELHI: Federal home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed on Friday said Delhi will be granted full statehood and a bill to this effect will be introduced into parliament during the current session.
Sayeed, who was relying to a query by a BJP member, told the Lok Sabha that it had been decided to grant the status of full statehood to Delhi but certain issues like Law and order and land use remained to be sorted out.
He told Madan Lal Khurana (BJP) that his government would make efforts to ensure that the bill was passed during this session.
Earlier during the day, the house witnessed heated exchanges between BJP and Congress (I) members with both sides sharply differing whether the home minister should make a statement on this before the commencement of the discussion on an adjournment motion on Meham or after the debate
BOMBAY: Indian prime minister VP Singh decried the growing “nexus between media, money and politics” and cautioned journalists of the “subtle use” made of them by big business,” by tapping their capacity to arouse the minds of the people.
Politics arises in the minds of people…and it is in the people’s minds that politics is settled. So media becomes important and big business has now understood how to make subtle use of it in politics,” the prime minister observed here.
“In India the time has come when the whole set up has to be put in the crucible and melted even if it means putting several governments in the fire so as to change the system.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 11, 1990
