Jan 15, 2021 - Last September, Kwan created an uproar after discovering that only 0.5 percent of $1.46 billion in the National Housing Co-Investment Fund went to affordable-housing projects in B.C.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte administers the oath of office of Benjamin Abalos Jr. as the new chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority at the Malacañang Palace on January 11, 2021. SIMEON CELI/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO
MANILA – Former Mandaluyong City Mayor Benhur Abalos took his oath before President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday as the new chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).
Abalos served as mayor for 15 years, from 1998 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2016, and as the city’s lone representative in Congress from 2004 to 2007. Abalos will now face his new challenge as the chairman of MMDA, a position that his father, Benjamin Sr., also held from 2001 to 2002.
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December 14, 2020
The state chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s recent announcements aimed at women are being seen as a renewed effort by the party supremo to win over more women voters. The Chief Minister had on more than one occasion announced that the Trinamool Congress-led government would weed out gender bias in the state police force.
The TMC’s apolitical front-Bango Janani will be in the forefront of a sort of social movement to reach out to more women in West Bengal. It is worth mentioning that women voters constitute more than 48 per cent of total electorate. Out of the 6.98 crore voters in the state during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, 3.39 crores or around 48 per cent of the voters were women.