BJP’S Bihar and Delhi units get new chiefs in Rai, Tiwari
NEW DELHI: After almost two years’ delay, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah appointed Parliamentarians Manoj Tiwari (45) and Nityanand Rai (50) as party’s Delhi and Bihar unit presidents, respectively, on Wednesday.
Political observers feel, though other two strong contenders and party Parliamentarians Ramesh Bidhuri and Meenakshi Lekhi were in the race, but it is also believed that the appointment of Bhojpuri singer-turned-politician Manoj Tiwari came after viewing the demographic change of Delhi, with significant chunk of population consisting of the settlers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Keeping this in mind Tiwari was made to contest Lok Sabha polls from Northeast Delhi despite his request for ticket from Buxar in Bihar in 2014 elections.
Adding more, now the main task for Tiwari is to restrategies to beat the decadelong ant incumbency factor against the BJP in the upcoming MCD elections and checking the rise of the AAP at the municipal ward level.
Apart from AAP, Congress chief Ajay Maken, who has been also working in the slum colonies and unauthorized colonies to lay the path of the revival of the party in the national capital, could also be very challenging to the Parliamentarian.
On the other side post Bihar-debacle, the saffron party also realized to go for non Brahmin face as they share only 5.04% of the entire population in the state. Nity- anand Rai, who is a Yadav face and enjoys support of RSS surfaced in Shah’s list of state chiefs as Yadavs share 14.04% of the entire population. Despite being a Yadav, a loyal support base of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, and thrice having got elected as MLA from Hajipur, which has significant presence of people from the community, Rai would seek to make inroads into the core constituency of the RJD chief. He along with a few other state leaders had rebelled against the leadership of Sushil Kumar Modi a few years ago. NEW DELHI: Union Health Minister JP Nadda has lauded government-run PSU Hospital Services Consultancy Corporation (HSCC) for a massive jump in its turnover which rose over 92 per cent to Rs 1,106 crore in the last fiscal.
“The minister congratulated HSCC on its remarkable turnover jump of 92.26 per cent. HSCC posted a dividend of 683 per cent on paid up capital, amounting to Rs 16.38 crore, out of current year’s profit for the year 2015-16,” an official statement said. The 33rd Annual General Body Meeting of HSCC (India) chaired by Health secretary CK Mishra was held on Tuesday wherein a dividend of 683 per cent on paid up equity capital was declared.
HSCC CMD Gyanesh Pandey informed the Board about the remarkable growth of the company during financial year 2015-16 wherein the total turnover achieved by the company was Rs 1,106.98 crore as compared to Rs 575.77 crore in the previous year which is a “significant and remarkable” growth of 92.26 per cent, the statement said. The statement said that in FY 2015-16, HSCC has posted pre-tax profit of Rs 87.98 crore as against Rs 37.95 crore during previous year thereby achieving 131.83 per cent growth in pretax profits for the year 2015-16.
The company earned an excellent net profit of Rs 54.62 crore (FY 2015-16) as compared to 24.54 crore earned in previous year posting 122.58 per cent growth.
“This is the 32th consecutive year the company declared the dividend. Upon paying this year’s dividend, cumulative dividend paid to government would be Rs 56.90 crore, around 24 times of current paid up equity capital of the company,” the statement added.