Ashna Butani

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Delhi CM pick Rekha Gupta is a grassroots leader with RSS–ABVP background

2 months ago | thehindu.com | Satvika Mahajan |Ashna Butani

With a 30-year career in politics, Shalimar Bagh’s Rekha Gupta is set to take over as the next Chief Minister of Delhi on February 20. A grassroots leader with an RSS–ABVP background, she began her political journey while she was a B.Com student at Delhi University’s Daulat Ram College. She joined the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in 1992. She was announced as the BJP pick after 48 MLAs from the party unanimously elected her as the leader of Delhi BJP legislature party.
Jamia protest: 14 students detained, police personnel deployed outside university campus

2 months ago | thehindu.com | Samridhi Tewari |Ashna Butani

Fourteen students of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) were on Thursday detained by the police for vandalising “public property” and “disturbing law and order”, an officer said. The detainees were among the students protesting against the university administration since Monday over show-cause notices to four students for organising a demonstration on December 15, 2024, the fifth anniversary of the Jamia violence.
BJP, AAP, Cong. dominate richest candidates list; top two have assets over ₹200 crore: ADR report

2 months ago | thehindu.com | Satvika Mahajan |Ashna Butani

Karnail Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee from north Delhi’s Shakur Basti seat with ₹259 crore assets, is the richest of the 699 candidates fighting the February 5 Assembly election, according to a report released on Monday by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). The report also stated that five candidates have assets of over ₹100 crore, and among the 10 wealthiest candidates, most belong to the BJP (5), followed by the Aam Aadmi Party (3) and the Congress (2).
‘AAP failed us’: Transwoman files nomination papers from Kalkaji

Jan 15, 2025 | thehindu.com | Ashna Butani

Stating that the ruling Aam Aadmi Party has “failed to uplift transgender community”, Rajan Singh, 27, who identifies herself as a transwoman, on Wednesday filed her nomination papers from the Kalkaji, the home constituency Chief Minister Atishi for the Delhi Assembly poll. Ms. Singh said in the past 10 years, “no work has been done” for the transgender community in Delhi, adding that she hopes to bring a change.
Delhi poll narrative not roti, kapdaa but makaan

Jan 13, 2025 | thehindu.com | Ashna Butani

Slum dwellers’ rehabilitation has become one of the focal points of the Delhi Assembly poll. The BJP, in Opposition, is taking the credit for constructing Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) flats in Ashok Vihar and Kalkaji under the Centre’s In-Situ Slum Redevelopment project (ISSR). On the other hand, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is banking on amenities like drinking water, healthcare, sanitation, and education. According to the 2011 census, Delhi’s slum population was 17,85,390.
Points to ponder: schools continue to flout norms for nursery admission

Dec 1, 2024 | thehindu.com | Ashna Butani

More than eight years after the Directorate of Education (DoE) issued a circular banning ‘unfair’ criteria for nursery admissions, several schools continue to give weightage to ‘parents’ education’ and ‘meritorious child’, among other prohibited parameters. The admission process for nursery, KG, and Class 1 in private unaided recognised schools for the 2025-26 academic year started on November 28. Parents can register for admissions until December 20.
Homes for transgender people | A safe space- threatened

Dec 1, 2024 | thehindu.com | Ashna Butani |Satvika Mahajan

Trigger warning: mentions of suicide and abuse. Wearing ornate self-stitched skirts and colourful crop tops, five transwomen lock their Garima Greh and head to Dabri Mor metro station, Janakpuri, in working-class west Delhi on November 24. From here, they will take a train to Barakhamba Road, 16stops away, to join the city’s Queer Pride parade, held since 2008.
The case of the missing students

Nov 30, 2024 | thehindu.com | Ashna Butani

Until two years ago, Ravi’s days in Jharkhand were filled with playing with friends, singing and piano practice with his bandmates for competitions, and working on school projects. These activities disappeared from his daily routine when he moved to Delhi and enrolled in a coaching institute. Now in Class 12, Ravi (name changed upon request), says, “I hardly move outside this building.” He lives and attends coaching classes within, barely stepping out.
Confusion looms over Delhi schools over order to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode

Nov 26, 2024 | thehindu.com | Ashna Butani

Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once.
For construction workers in Delhi, survival matters more than air pollution

Nov 24, 2024 | thehindu.com | Ashna Butani

The ban on construction activity in Delhi-NCR by authorities as a measure to tackle the air pollution crisis has hit the blue-collar workers hard. With almost no jobs, the labourers, who are generally migrants and survive on daily wages, are either thinking of returning home or picking up odd jobs. Some are even playing a cat-and-mouse game with law enforcement agencies as they continue to work at the sites despite the ban.