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Welcome all of you to Prabhasakshi News Network’s special program Poorvottar Lok. The general public is getting many benefits due to the Lok Sabha elections. In such a situation, the government has opened its doors for the people of North-East also. Under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MNREGA) scheme, wages have been revised and wages have been increased by four to 10 percent in different states. According to a notification, now under the scheme, unskilled workers will get the highest wage of Rs 374 per day in the country in Haryana, while the lowest wage they will get in Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, where workers working under this scheme will get Rs 234 per day. Will get wages of Rs. The wage rate in three panchayats of Sikkim – Gnathang, Lachung and Lachen – is Rs 374 per day. Due to the Model Code of Conduct being imposed for the Lok Sabha elections, after the approval of the Election Commission, the Union Ministry of Rural Development issued a notification regarding changes in the wages given under the scheme.
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for increasing the wages by Rs 4 to Rs 10 per day under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA), saying congratulations to the MNREGA workers. The Prime Minister has increased the wages by seven rupees. Wages under MNREGA have been revised. Under this, an increase of between four to 10 percent has been made for different states.
Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu and four other BJP candidates are sure to be elected as MLAs unopposed as no other candidate filed nomination from their assembly seats on the last day of filing of nominations on Wednesday. Assembly elections and Lok Sabha elections will be held simultaneously in Arunachal Pradesh. Voting for the 60-member Assembly and two Lok Sabha constituencies (Arunachal West and Arunachal East) will be held on April 19.
Apart from this, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday filed his nomination papers as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Arunachal West Lok Sabha seat. Election officials said Rijiju filed his nomination papers at Aalo, the headquarters of West Siang district.
On the other hand, Biuram Wahge, state president of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Arunachal Pradesh, has said that his party is confident of eliminating Congress from the political scene of the state in the upcoming elections. He said in an interview that in the elections to be held on April 19 on two Lok Sabha and 60 assembly seats of the state, such an atmosphere is created that the oldest party of the country will have to face a humiliating defeat.
Assam
Notification was issued on Thursday for the voting to be held on April 26 on five Lok Sabha seats under the second phase of Lok Sabha elections in Assam. An election officer gave this information. In the second phase, voting will be held in Nagaon, Darrang-Udalguri, Diphu (SC), Silchar (SC) and Karimganj.
Apart from this, popular singer Zubeen Garg said that the people of Assam will never accept the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and protests against it should continue without violence. He said that he will continue to protest against CAA on various platforms. He also called for concrete steps to win the legal battle for repeal of the Act. In his post on the social media platform ‘Facebook’, Garg said that he has been opposing this bill ever since it came in 2017 and he stands firm on his stand.
Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal filed his nomination on Tuesday as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Dibrugarh parliamentary constituency in Assam. An officer gave this information. Accompanied by Chief Minister Himanta Vishwa Sharma, Sonowal filed his nomination papers before Returning Officer Bikram Carey.
Manipur
ITLF has asked members of the Kuki-Zo community not to contest from the Outer Manipur Lok Sabha seat. However, the organization in a statement asked members of the community to vote in the Lok Sabha elections. “We advise our community members to exercise their right by voting in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, but refrain from contesting the Outer Manipur seat,” the Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum (ITLF) said in a statement issued on Monday. The decision was taken after consultation with the constituent tribes, the statement said.
On the other hand, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday canceled the ticket of sitting MP and Union Minister Rajkumar Ranjan Singh from Inner Manipur Lok Sabha seat and made state Education Minister T. Basantkumar Singh its candidate from this seat. T. Basantkumar (59) is the son of former Union Minister T. Chaoba Singh. Basant Kumar, a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, is currently the MLA from Nambol assembly seat in Bishnupur district.
Congress has given tickets to JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) professor Angomcha Bimol Akoijam from Inner Manipur Lok Sabha seat and former MLA Alfred Kannagam Arthur from Outer Manipur Lok Sabha seat for the upcoming elections. This information has been given in an official statement.
Mizoram
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Mizoram’s lone Lok Sabha seat, Vanlalhamuaka, on Monday asked the people of the state to change their perception about the BJP. BJP Mizoram unit president Vanlalhamuaka said Mizoram should also learn ways to cooperate with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Center like other north-eastern states for greater development.
Mizoram’s ruling party Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) will start its campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from April 1. A senior ZPM leader gave this information on Monday. Voting for Mizoram’s lone Lok Sabha seat will be held on April 19.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday announced that it will support the ruling National People’s Party (NPP) on both the Lok Sabha seats in Meghalaya and the Naga People’s Front (NPF) on one of the two parliamentary seats in Manipur. The ruling party at the Center also announced its support to the state’s ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) in Nagaland’s lone Lok Sabha seat.
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