Current Affairs 26th December 2017

Current Affairs 26th December 2017 - Important Points

• Putin critic Navalny banned from Russian Presidential Election on - 25th December 2017
• Pakistan allowed mother and wife of Kulbhushan Jadhav to meet him at -   Pakistan Foreign Bureau
• Jai Ram Thakur to be sworn in as 14th Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh on- 27th December 2017

Current Affairs 26th December 2017 - Details

Putin critic Navalny banned from Russian Presidential Election on - 25th December 2017

Russia's central election commission voted on Monday 25 th December 2017 to ban opposition politician Alexei Navalny from going in a Presidential Election coming year, informing that he was non-eligible due to a previous criminal judgement.
The commission informed the judgement, for which Mr. Navalny got a suspended order and which he continuously has explained as politically-stunt, thus he could not undergo for President Elections to be held in March 2018. 12 representatives of the total 13-representative commission supported to ban Mr. Navalny. Only 1 associate of the commission formally declined, mentioned a possible conflict of interest.

Pakistan allowed mother and wife of Kulbhushan Jadhav to meet him at -   Pakistan Foreign Bureau

After 22 months, Pakistan claimed to have arrested Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav for spying, a
allegation refused by India, Jadhav finally met his mother Avanti and wife Chetankul with a glass wall in-
between them, at the Pakistan Foreign Bureau.
This was Jadhav's 1st meeting with his family after he was manifested to be grasped in Pakistan and
punished to death by a secret military court where no outside body could confirm the evidence against
him. Pakistan was banned by the International Court of Justice recently this year from conveying the death punishment against the Kulbhushan Jadhav. A day before, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif informed during a Television talk show, that India had been provided with a consular entry to Jadhav, explaining it as a compromise.
Where Pakistan insisted that the meeting was as the result of humanitarian deliberations, it was clear that there was an attentive effort by it to use the optics and utilize the occasion to show itself as a victim of terrorism funded by India. It continuously declared 25 th December was chosen for this meeting on the occasion of the birthday of Qaid-e- Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

Jai Ram Thakur to be sworn in as 14th Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh on- 27th December 2017

5-time BJP MLA Jai Ram Thakur was nominated as the fourteenth Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh along with being nominated as the leader of the BJP legislature party in the state. He will took oath in at the historic Ridge Ground in Shimla on 27th December 2017.
His oath ceremony will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah and other senior Ministers of BJP-ruled states. The 52-year- old BJP leader edged previous party veterans in the race to the leading position and he will be the 1st leader from the politically-significant Mandi area to escort the hill state. Mandi has 10 Assembly seats, 2nd only to Kangra's 15.
Talking on the occasion, the Chief Minister-designate Jairam Thakur told that he will do his best to come up to assumptions of people in the state. Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman were designated as central observers by the BJP.
More about Jai Ram Thakur

• He was nominated as CM of Himachal Pradesh and BJP legislative party leader on 24th December 2017 after the beating of the party’s prime chief ministerial candidate Prem Kumar Dhumal in the November assembly elections.
• Even though Dhumal was still in the race for the chief minister's post, he opted to opt out.
• Thakur has been an MLA in Himachal Pradesh Assembly since 1998 and earlier worked as Cabinet Minister in the BJP Government of Himachal Pradesh.
• He worked as the Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj from 2007 to 2012.
• He is nominated to the present Himachal Pradesh Assembly from Seraj in Mandi.