Tag: Jogesh Kumar Singh

Bhubaneswar: Congress MLA from Sundargarh, Jogesh Kumar Singh has urged the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry to set up the second regional campus of Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU) at Sundargarh. In a letter to Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar, Singh cited that Tribals constitute nearly 22 percent of the total population in […]

Cuttack: The election of Congress MLA Jogesh Kumar Singh to the Sundergarh Assembly Constituency was declared null and void by the Orissa High Court today on grounds of submitting fake caste certificate while filing his nomination for the 2014 Assembly Elections. The court pronounced the order during the hearing of two separate petitions. BJP candidate […]

The setting aside of the election of Jogesh Kumar Singh of the Congress as the Sundargarh MLA by the Orissa High Court on Tuesday has brought into sharp focus an issue that has not been adequately debated in public discourse: the filing of false affidavits by candidates at the time of elections. Singh has been […]