BJP President Nadda chairs party’s General Secretary meeting in Delhi

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New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President J.P. Nadda chaired the BJP General Secretary meeting in the national capital on Tuesday to hold discussions over the Delhi Assembly Elections, the party’s
organisation elections and some other issues, party sources said.

BJP’s first list of Delhi Assembly elections will be released soon, sources said.

The meeting lasted for almost two hours in the BJP headquarters late on Tuesday night.

“BJP National President @JPNadda presided over a meeting with BJP National General Secretaries at BJP Headquarters in New Delhi,” the BJP said in a post on X.

In view of its organisational elections, parliamentary board member K. Laxman was appointed as the National Election Officer.

National Election Officer K. Laxman and Joint in-charge Sambit Patra also attended the meeting.

The Good Governance Day program to commemorate the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on December 25, and Veer Bal Diwas were also discussed in the meeting, sources added.

Organisational General Secretary B.L. Santhosh, General Secretary Tarun Chugh, Dushyant Gautam, Radha Mohan Agrawal, BJP National General Secretary Vinod Tawde, and Arun Singh were present in the meeting.

The Assembly polls in Delhi are expected to be held in early 2025.

The Aam Aadmi Party has already released the list of all 70 candidates for the Delhi Assembly polls.

After winning 67 out of 70 seats in 2015, AAP again won 62 seats in the 2020 Assembly elections. While BJP took its tally from three to eight seats, Congress failed to open its account for the second straight time.

Earlier on November 23, workshops were also organised regarding BJP’s organisation elections, where all national office bearers from across the country, presidents of all states, and organisation ministers took part.

The meeting also saw the presence of all the BJP state in-charges, co-in-charges, national presidents of fronts, and election officers.

According to a BJP source, the process of election of Mandal Presidents will be completed from December 1 to December 15. The process of election of district presidents will be held from December 16 to December 30. After that, the process of election of state presidents will start.

The workshop will be held on December 30 to elect the state president.

The process of election of state president is expected to be completed by January 15.

According to the sources, the next BJP President can be announced by the end of January or February.

–IANS

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SC imposes Rs 5 lakh costs on employer for taking wage and termination dispute to arbitration

New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court has imposed Rs 5 lakh costs on an employer for dragging a wage dispute and legality of termination of an employee to arbitral proceedings.

A bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and K.V. Viswanathan said the application filed under Section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1961 was a clear abuse of the remedial process.

The appellant, Dushyant Janbandhu, contended that the dispute with the respondent-employer is governed by statute under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 and the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

The appellant was appointed as an Assistant Manager in March 2019. After the Covid-19 pandemic, when Hyundai AutoEver India directed the employee to resume physical attendance, he refused to comply. He was issued a charge memo for violation of certain contractual clauses, including non-cooperation and absenteeism and ultimately, an order of termination was passed in January 2021.

During the pendency of disciplinary action, as the appellant was not paid his salary, he issued a legal notice for payment of wages under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 and filed a petition before the concerned authority.

As a counterblast, the employer issued a notice alleging that the disputes must be settled through arbitration and proceeded to unilaterally appoint an arbitrator.

When the unilaterally appointed arbitrator commenced the arbitral proceedings, the employee filed an application calling upon the arbitrator to rule on his competence.

The arbitrator himself held that the constitution of the arbitral tribunal was not in accordance with or in consonance with the provisions of Section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act and closed the arbitral proceedings.

The appellant contended that the claim related to the stoppage of payment of wages was within the jurisdiction of the authority under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936.

The employer moved a petition before the Madhya Pradesh High Court under Section 11(6) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act in August 2022 seeking the appointment of an arbitrator.

In its impugned order, the MP High Court proceeded to appoint an advocate as the arbitrator.

Quashing the impugned decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the appellant approached the authority under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 much before the order of termination and the said authority would exercise jurisdiction under Section 15(2) of the PW Act to the exclusion of civil courts and these disputes are non-arbitrable.

“Equally, legality of the order of termination dated 21.01.2021 is within the jurisdiction of the Industrial Tribunal under Section 2(A) of the Industrial Disputes Act and it is important to mention that the jurisdiction of the Industrial Court is also to the exclusion of the civil courts and is not arbitrable,” it added.

Considering the factual background in which the Section 11(6) petition has been filed, the apex court said it was an “abuse of process” and was clearly intended to threaten the appellant for having approached the statutory authorities.

“We allow the Civil Appeal and set aside the judgment and the order passed by the High Court and dismiss the petition under Section 11(6) filed by the respondent under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act. The appellant will also be entitled to cost quantified at Rs 5 lakhs payable within a period of 3 months,” it ordered.

–IANS

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