Politics
PM Modi to share winning mantra with BJP national office-bearers on Friday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will share a winning mantra tomorrow virtually with BJP national office-bearers who are gathered in Rajasthan to brainstorm on the forthcoming assembly and lok Sabha 2024 polls.
The three-day national office bearers meeting started in Jaipur on Thursday which will continue till May 21.
Bharatiya Janata Party flags can be seen across the city to welcome the saffron party national office bearers.
BJP National President JP Nadda is reaching Jaipur later on Thursday.
On Thursday evening, a meeting of the national general secretaries will be held at Hotel Leela in Kukas. It is being reported that in this meeting, different tasks will be given to the party office bearers regarding the upcoming assembly elections.
Earlier, BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh, who reached Jaipur on Wednesday evening, once again said that assembly elections in Rajasthan will also be contested on the PM’s face, spreading awareness about the schemes launched by the Central government.
In Rajasthan, leaders have started promoting the schemes of the Central government with the face of PM Modi. This is the strategy for winning the Lok Sabha elections 2024, said party workers.
Before the Lok Sabha elections, assembly elections are to be held in 12 states including Rajasthan.
As per the schedule, JP Nadda will leave for Hotel Leela directly from the airport. 75 gates have been put up to welcome him. Nadda will chair a meeting of national general secretaries at 7 p.m. On May 20, PM Narendra Modi will deliver a virtual speech at Hotel Leela at 10 a.m. Modi’s speech will be followed by meetings in four sessions till 6 p.m. Nadda will deliver his speech in the concluding session.
On May 21, Nadda will hold a meeting of organization secretaries of all the states. There will be a special focus on Rajasthan.
Maharashtra
Navi Mumbai Congress hits road against Rahul Gandhi’s jail sentence

The Navi Mumbai unit of the Congress party took out a protest march and raised slogans ‘Jail Bharo’ to condemn the two-year jail sentence given to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi by a Surat court.
The protest march was taken under the guidance of the district president of the party Anil Kaushik.
Party leaders, former corporators, office bearers of various cells, and activists participated in the demonstrations and agitations were held all over the country to protest against the sentence.
Navi Mumbai Congress under the guidance of district president Anil Kaushik started their protest by staging a demonstration outside the Vashi Police Station. They alleged that the central government is acting with malice.
The party workers expressed their determination to intensify the agitation in the future.
Other leaders present at the protest included Jawaharlal Manch Cell Maharashtra Pradesh President Nila Limaye, Regional Spokesperson Nasir Hussain, and former corporator Meera Patil.
The protest was attended by a large number of Congress workers, including Navi Mumbai District Congress Secretary Vidya Bhandekar, Sandhya Kokate, Rakhi Patil, Cell President Ritesh Tandel, Ex-Corporator Babasaheb Gaikwad, Gyandeep Singh Chandok, Sunil Parkar, Vinod Patil, Vijay Patil, Dilip Nagpal, Balaji Salve, Bharat Malve, Abhijit Kakade, Sonwane, and Surendra Prasad
National News
CAG frowns at BMC in Special Audit of expenses during MVA rule

The Accountant General (Audit-I) Maharashtra has rebuked the country’s biggest and richest civic body, BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), for certain lapses and irregularities in a Special Audit of 76 identified works worth Rs 12,000 crore.
The audit, covering nine key BMC departments, was performed for works carried out between November 28, 2019 – the day when Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) came to power in the state and Uddhav Thackeray took oath as the Chief Minister – and October 31, 2022.
Ordered on October 31, 2022 by the new government headed by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, the audit also included the expenditure on 13 Jumbo Covid Centres, 24 ward offices, five major hospitals, six specialised hospitals, 17 peripheral hospitals, one dental hospital and others.
However, the BMC had sent a legal notice to the CAG on November 17, 2022, not to go ahead with any audit of acts, works or decisions taken for Covid management or expenditure of Rs 3,538.73 crore, referring to the Epidemic Act, 1897 and Disaster Management Act, 2005.
The state government, in November 2022, rubbished the BMC’s contentions, and despite many reminders, the Mumbai civic body did not produce records related to Covid-19 management.
Accordingly, the Special Audit has omitted the Covid-19 management part on grounds that without the relevant records, no confirmation can be made in audit on the propriety, efficiency, economy and effectiveness of Covid 19 related expenditure by BMC.
“Needless to mention that non-cooperation of BMC in producing the Covid-19 management records for the purpose of Special Audit, apart from impinging on the Constitutional Aresponsibilities devolved on the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, also deprived BMC of crucial audit inputs. As per the powers and functions entrusted under Constitution and DPC Act and in keeping with legal replies filed as mentioned above, further appropriate steps, are reserved,” said the Audit Report.
Established in 1873, the BMC administers an area of 480 sq km through three divisions, seven zones and 24 Wards, that makes up the country’s commercial capital.
Maharashtra
Mumbai: Decision on information commissioner appointment after budget session

Mumbai: The decision on appointment of chief information commissioner and information commissioners will be taken after the budget session, said senior Mantralaya officials. The government, they said, will be considering applications of candidates other than administrative background as envisaged under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
Additional Chief Secretary (ARO&M), general administration department, Sujata Saunik said that the Chief Minister will decide on the date. “We will be filling up all vacancies. There is no decision at present on increasing the number of benches. Vacancies of only the existing benches will be filled,” she said.
Only 8 posts created in Maharashtra
The RTI Act provides that people of “eminence” in public life can be appointed as commissioners. In Maharashtra, only eight posts have been created, including that of the chief commissioner. However, the post has mainly been occupied by bureaucrats.
As of now, four posts of information commissioners are vacant and that of chief commissioner will become vacant after April 13 when chief information commissioner Sumit Mullick retires. Manu Kumar Srivastava is said to be among the contenders for the post.
The state government in February this year had issued an advertisement for three vacancies. “I have applied but we are yet to hear anything on it,” said Mohammed Afzal, one of the applicants from non-administrative background.
Shailesh Gandhi, former central information commissioner, said, “I think they should be appointing people before they retire. It is too little too late to fill vacancies when posts have been vacant for long. Some activists should also get selected and the government should consider selecting some younger.”
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