For the last six years, we have been constantly watching Rahul Gandhi alleging that PM Modi was working at the behest of industrialists like Ambani and Adani, but what about the 10 years of UPA rule prior to that? At that time, every Congress leader, including Rahul, was speaking in favour of private and foreign investment in the farming sector.
Delhi Police stopped the Congress convoy which was headed to the Rashtrapati Bhavan on December 24, and later detained party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Even as the world is grappling with new deadly variants of Coronavirus by clamping travel restrictions, a section of Indian Muslims led by some clerics is raising the bogey of the Covid-19 vaccines being ‘anti-Islamic’ because of reported use of pork gelatin.
9 Muslim organizations met on the news of the use of pig fat in the corona vaccine. In the meeting, the organizations decided that if there is any misunderstanding among the people about the vaccine, they would try to remove it.
The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration called the Gupkar Alliance consisting of seven parties including Farooq Abdullah’s National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party, gained a significant lead in the valley, with a large number of independents holding the key to the councils.
Apart from the address, PM Modi also released a postal stamp to mark the occasion. This is the only second time a sitting prime minister of the country has been at the varsity in its 100 years of existence.
It is really tragic that even before the Covid vaccine has been introduced on a massive scale, fresh trouble has erupted with the emergence of the new variant of Coronavirus, throwing all schedules in disarray. Sitting in India, it is difficult to gauge the level of gloom and despair that has descended on families in the UK and Europe, who had been waiting for months to celebrate Christmas and New Year.
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan during a press conference on December 21 on the new strain of coronavirus in UK urged people to not create panic. He said, "The government is alert. There is no need to panic."
In his direct address to the farmers of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed to them “with bowed head and folded hands” to rejoin the dialogue with the Centre on issues relating to the three new agrarian laws.
Two decades before Modi government passed the new farm law to open up the agriculture market for private players, Punjab experimented with contract farming.
The Delhi Assembly on Thursday witnessed high drama as ruling Aam Aadmi Party MLAs, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tore copies of the three new agricultural laws against which thousands of farmers are protesting at several border points
Visuals of an Adani Wilmar branding on an Indian Railways rolling stock took over social media on Wednesday, triggering theories of the privatization of the national carrier.
Modi said, those in the opposition who are misleading the farmers today, were trying to push these same reforms when they were in power, but they could not take a decision. Today, when the country has decided to take a historic step, they are misleading the farmers, he added.
The farmers who met me today have supported the three farm laws. They said that they are with the bills and govt. As some farmers are spreading misconception so they were also misled : Narendra singh tomar
On Monday, the agitating farmers observed a day’s fast. They have been carrying on their agitation peacefully, but elements owing allegiance to the Left are trying to inject hatred and violence.
slogans calling for death to Prime Minister Narendra Modi were raised at the ongoing farmers’ protest. This comes on the heels of rising allegations that the protests are being hijacked by “anti-social” and “ultra-Left” forces.
In a nutshell, most of the farmer leaders from Punjab owe their allegiance to Left Parties, both moderate and extremist. There was a period in Punjab politics, when Communist leaders, including Harkishen Singh Surjit, used to hold sway over farmers’ outfits.
The protesting farmers' unions are claiming to be politically non-aligned and fighting for the rights of the farmers, but a different reality emerges on a closer look.
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On Thursday, when I initially saw the video I could not believe my eyes. How could women farmers, most of them illiterate, hold placards carrying pictures of these ‘tukde-tukde’ gang activists?
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