Rajya Sabha aspiration makes people do many things, says Manish Tewari
The Hindu
A day after former Law Minister and Congress leader Ashwani Kumar resigned from the party, Congress leader Manish Tewari on Wednesday termed it “very unfortunate”.
“If anyone quits the Congress party, it’s a loss to the party. Mr. Ashwani Kumar was Congress MP from Punjab, he was a senior Minister, was our colleague, and if he has left it’s very unfortunate. But at the same time let me tell you that aspiration for Rajya Sabha seat makes a person do several things,” he said in Ludhiana.
Mr. Kumar, in a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, had stated that he would “proactively pursue public causes inspired by the idea of transformative leadership”.
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.