LobbYing going on for bihar pcc chief’S poST

Hectic lobbying is going on for the post of Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee chief. The Congress general secretary in charge of Bihar, C.P. Joshi wants to make a new entrant from the RJD, Akhilesh Singh the PCC chief. But he is facing opposition from the Congress workers. Among the aspirants from the rank and file of the party are Anil Sharma, an ex PCC chief, and Shakeel Ahmad an ex PCC chief and ex Congress general secretary and UPA minister. Shakeeluzaman Ansari, an OBC Muslim is also in the race, as well as ex Youth Congress president Shyam Sunder Singh Dhiraj. Meanwhhile, C.P. Joshi who is also in charge of West Bengal, has appointed Akhilesh Singh as the party observer in the state during the visit of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

In May 2011, the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (CWS), a public authority, took away two children, two- and- a-halfyear old Abhigyan, and his five- month- old sister Aishwarya, ostensibly on charges that the children were not being looked after the way the Norwegian government expects them to be taken care of. Abhigyan and Aishwarya, who was being breastfed when she was taken away, were kept away from their parents in a standby home with strangers, on the basis of ex parte, post facto and non-judicial interim orders.

After winning the first appeal, the Indian couple lost the second one. The toddlers were to be placed under state care till majority, almost for 20 years, with parents allowed to visit their own children only thrice a year. Finally, after prolonged negotiations and diplomatic interventions, the children were handed over to their uncle, a 26-year-old bachelor in India, again out of reach for the parents. The latest case is that of Aryan, snatched away by the State.

The Norwegian Child Welfare Services, Barnevernet, literally meaning “child