In order to quell the infighting in Delhi BJP, the party’s central leadership has assigned key roles to the Members of Parliament from the city for the election campaign. While Union Minister Dr. Harshvardhan would be leading the important manifesto committee, thematic assignments have been earmarked for other parliamentarians.
While New Delhi MP Meenashi Lekhi would be looking after issues related to women’s safety, North East Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari would handle issues related to Poorvaanchalis – one of the major vote banks in the city. East Delhi MP Maheish Girri would take care of the NGOs and religious institutions, while Mr. Udit Raj has been given charge of leading the party activities in the JJ clusters.
Sources said the members of the Delhi BJP have been directed to assist these leaders in their work. Party leaders said these duties have been assigned to the party MPs as the central leadership has decided to control the party campaign from the front, as the state unit has been riddled with factionalism.
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Several state committee office bearers are themselves vying for a party ticket. While, addressing a State Executive meeting last week, in presence of mediapersons, party president Amit Shah clearly told the party workers not to be involved in lobbying.
The Delhi High Court has extended the scope of the IT-friendly e-filing system to all categories of cases, in addition to the company and taxation matters for which e-filing is being used as of now.
For availing the new system, the High Court’s Registry has made it mandatory for the lawyers and litigants to procure digital signature certificate.
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The digital signature certificate (class two), applicable for e-filing in the High Court, is approved by the Union Government’s Controller of Certifying Authorities. In a notice issued recently, the High Court’s Registrar (Computerisation), Girish Sharma, said any lawyer or party-in-person willing to use e-filing system must digitally sign their electronic documents.
Interestingly, the issues concerning the use of e-platforms by the government departments as well as the validity of digital signatures are being considered by a Division Bench of the High Court in an ongoing public interest litigation moved by former BJP ideologue K.N. Govindacharya, who has sought directions against foreign internet companies not paying service tax in India.
According to the notice of the Registrar (Computerisation), the lawyers availing the facility of e-filing system will have to submit proof of their Bar Council registration number.
The litigants filing the cases on their own will have to submit the proof of identity and address at the e-filing centre established at the Lawyers’ Chambers Block-I on the High Court premises.
Neither the alarming jump in crime statistics nor the issue of women’s safety dominated the annual Delhi Police Conference last week as much as concerns over the timing of lunch.
Held at the India Habitat Centre (IHC) on Friday at noon, the police administration was reportedly approached by a group of journalists to ensure that they got food on time in lieu of the event being organised earlier than usual.
According to a source, the delegation complained that the timing of the conference, which commenced at 12 p.m. sharp, would interfere with their breakfast and would ‘force’ many of them to skip it so that they could make it to the venue on time.
This was coupled with the argument that the annual press conference was, usually, a long one for police reporters given all the number crunching and reportage it involved for them after the police release crime data pertaining to the previous year. The police, however, went a step ahead with the Commissioner himself referring to lunch several times during the conference to duck seemingly controversial questions from journalists.
By Vishal Kant, Mohammed Iqbal and Jatin Anand