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  • PM Modi to handle BJP ‘Chintan Shivir’ in Jaipur as saffron birthday celebration plans huge display of energy in Congress-ruled state

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    NEW DELHI: The BJP’s proposed 3-day lengthy ‘Chintan-Shivir’, ranging from Would possibly 19 to 21 at Jaipur in poll-bound Congress-ruled Rajasthan, will form a brand new spherical of birthday celebration methods for the approaching polls in six states-Gujarat, MP, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh with a renewed electoral vigour to reveal each the Congress Birthday party and the AAP. 

    A grand preparation has been made for the Jaipur accumulating of birthday celebration’s greater than 150 senior leaders and office-bearers.

    “The Jaipur assembly will convey us Jai Jai (victory) in all states within the upcoming meeting elections and the LS elections additionally in 2024. We now have imaginative and prescient to translate into politics for prosperity and peace”, remarked a senior chief on Wednesday night after the assembly of Rajasthan BJP’s core committee concluded.

    Arun Singh- in command of Rajasthan BJP advised the media that each one nationwide vice-presidents, presidents of all fronts and state presidents and organisational heads but even so a number of former ministers and different senior leaders from around the nation will attend the assembly.

    “All from Kashmir to Kanyakuamri and Kutch to Kamrup will attend this assembly, which is able to form a brand new imaginative and prescient for making the birthday celebration extra victorious and colourful forward”, Singh advised the media, including that nationwide president pf birthday celebration JP Nadda will inaugurate the 3-day assembly on would possibly 19.

    On Would possibly 20, detailing about time table , Singh stated that Top Minister Narendra Modi inaugurate the assembly of nationwide office-bearers, state presidents and organisation heads nearly and cope with the members.

    “There will probably be additionally being a program of discussion with then folks of Jaipur with birthday celebration president. We need to come into energy in all states, Rajasthan incorporated, thru folks’s spontaneous helps in opposition to the ruling Congress Birthday party’s misrules”, a senior chief, tenting in Jaipur stated. 

    Lashing out on the Rajasthan authorities Arun Singh stated that state has fallen within the grip of unabated crimes, atrocities in opposition to girls and the folk of Agenda Castes. 

    “The state has grow to be a synonymous with corruption and an instance of kakistocracy”, he stated.

    “The BJP has emerged because the hope of Rajashthan folks and can take construction to each and every corner and nook below the imaginative and prescient of the PM Modi and make sure peace after dislodging the Gehlot government-failed on all fronts”, Singh claimed.

    The Rajasthan unit of BJP, elated on the assembly simply after the lately–held Chintan-Shivir of Congress Birthday party, has planed to erect the welcome gates at 75 puts symbolising the 75 years of Independence and on-going ‘Aazadi Ka seventy fifth Amrit Mahotsava” to welcome the leaders.

  • ‘Evidence of pudding is in consuming’: Tharoor on Chintan Shivir results

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    NEW DELHI: Describing the celebration’s Chintan Shivir as an workout in reform and revival, Congress chief Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday mentioned “the evidence of the pudding is within the consuming” and it continues to be noticed whether or not the “procedure” will finally end up the place many leaders sought after it to.

    Tharoor, some of the crew of 23 leaders who had written to celebration leader Sonia Gandhi in 2020 in search of large-scale reforms, mentioned “reformists” on the finish of the day sought after a extra consultative procedure the place all kinds of voices can be heard and brought under consideration ahead of selections had been made.

    “If such discussions happen within the proposed advisory council, the aim would had been served,” he instructed PTI in an interview.

    However that continues to be noticed, Tharoor added.

    “Our proposals just like the revival of the parliamentary board and the theory of elections to the Running Committee had been each supposed to convey contemporary voices to the desk. The overall selections after such discussions would at all times leisure with the management,” he asserted.

    Following the Might 13-15 brainstorming consultation in Udaipur, Sonia Gandhi introduced an advisory crew drawn from the Congress Running Committee.

    She mentioned it used to be “no longer a collective decision-making frame” and would lend a hand her get the advantage of senior colleagues’ huge revel in.

    Relating to the deliberations on the Shivir, Tharoor mentioned, “Critical discussions had been held in a optimistic spirit amid a lot communicate of exchange within the air. However whether or not it is going to finally end up the place many people had sought after continues to be noticed.”

    “Let’s consider a procedure has begun that also must spread over the following few months. The cliché holds true: the evidence of the pudding is within the consuming,” the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram added.

    He mentioned the problem of Rahul Gandhi as celebration president used to be no longer mentioned to the most efficient of his wisdom.

    Whilst a few of his colleagues indubitably made such ideas, they weren’t a part of a structured dialogue, the Congress chief mentioned.

    “Nonetheless, there stays indubitably that Rahul Gandhi can be the most well liked number of an vast majority of celebration employees. He has no longer indicated whether or not he desires the task.”

    “I assume we will be able to must watch for the proposed AICC (All India Congress Committee) to settle that factor,” Tharoor mentioned.

    At the factor of ‘comfortable Hindutva’, hotly debated on the Shivir, he mentioned it’s transparent the celebration’s elementary dedication to India’s pluralism and variety is “non-negotiable”.

    “We now have lengthy used the phrase secularism for this, however secularism implies a distancing from faith, while we in India are deeply implicated in spiritual practices, customs, rituals, gala’s and conventions. The Congress has no downside with its participants appearing appreciate for all religions,” Tharoor mentioned.

    As an MP, he stressed out, he is going to temples, church buildings and mosques in his constituency always – to temples as a devotee, to the others to show appreciate for the sacred ideals of his constituents and fellow-citizens.

    “This won’t appear very secular, however it isn’t ‘comfortable Hindutva’ in anyway. Hindutva is a political ideology that has little to do with faith or the Hindu religion – this can be a doctrine that preaches the supremacy of a selected cultural id, in violation of the important thing Hindu guiding principle that teaches us the acceptance of distinction,” Tharoor mentioned.

    This sort of majoritarian politics is alien to the Congress, he asserted.

    Responding to regional events such because the RJD criticising Rahul Gandhi’s remarks that they can’t struggle the BJP-RSS as they lack ideology, Tharoor mentioned he does no longer assume any slight used to be supposed as opposed to to indicate that their imaginative and prescient is by way of definition regional while the Congress is a countrywide celebration with a presence in each and every district of the rustic.

    “My private view is that every one folks like-minded events, each regional and nationwide, should paintings in combination to take at the NDA in 2024. Differently, we will be able to see an irrevocable transformation of India into an illiberal, narrow-minded autocracy led by way of a majoritarian-minded BJP,” he mentioned.

    Requested about reform measures akin to a collective management and a parliamentary board no longer being totally authorised on the Shivir, Tharoor mentioned he used to be within the political committee and no longer aware about discussions within the organisation committee the place such issues had been handled.

  • Assam: Former minister Nilamani Sen Deka expelled from Congress

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    GUWAHATI: Opposition Congress in Assam on Wednesday expelled former minister Nilamani Sen Deka with quick impact for “violating” social gathering self-discipline.

    Assam Pradesh Congress Committee basic secretary (Admin) Apurba Kumar Bhattacharjee in an order stated that Deka, an government member of the state unit, has been expelled as directed through APCC president Bhupen Kumar Borah “for again and again violating the social gathering self-discipline”.

    “It can be discussed right here that previous additionally on a number of events he used to be requested to not make damaging statements towards the social gathering, and regardless of his written assurance, he’s attractive in anti-party actions,” Bhattacharjee stated.

    Deka used to be the agriculture minister within the erstwhile Congress govt right through former Leader Minister Tarun Gogoi’s tenure, and unsuccessfully contested the meeting elections from Dharampur constituency in 2016.

    The 2-time MLA had grabbed headlines in July 2013 when he, additionally the then horticulture and meals processing minister, stated that 8 individuals could have a right kind meal for handiest Rs 20.

  • India seems so much like Sri Lanka, distracting folks may not trade info: Rahul Gandhi

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit out on the executive over emerging inflation and unemployment and stated India seems a “lot like Sri Lanka” and the Centre will have to no longer distract folks.

    The Congress has been accusing the federal government of distracting folks with different problems to cover its disasters and problems with value upward thrust and unemployment. “Distracting folks may not trade the info. India seems so much like Sri Lanka,” Gandhi stated on Twitter.

    Distracting folks gained’t trade the info. India seems so much like Sri Lanka. %.twitter.com/q1dptUyZvM

    — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) Would possibly 18, 2022

    He shared graphs of unemployment, petrol value and communal violence appearing identical pictures of India and Sri Lanka bringing up quite a lot of resources together with armed battle location and match knowledge undertaking, Lok Sabha unstarred query, CMIE, Petroleum Making plans and Research Cellular and Central Financial institution of Sri Lanka.

    The Congress has been attacking the federal government over the problem of value and inflation and emerging unemployment and feature stated that the placement in India goes the Sri Lanka approach, the place the high minister needed to surrender in view of the deteriorating state of affairs.

  • ‘Deeply pained, disillusioned’: Congress slams govt over unlock of Rajiv Gandhi murderer

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    NEW DELHI: The Congres on Wednesday expressed ache and sadness over the discharge of Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict AG Perarivalan, and slammed the federal government for growing “a state of affairs” within the court docket to get the killer of a former top minister launched for his or her “petty and inexpensive politics”.

    Congress leader spokesperson Randeep Surjewala mentioned nowadays there’s a sorrow and fury no longer most effective in each Congress employee over the improvement, however in each citizen who believes in India and Indianness. “A terrorist is a terrorist and will have to be handled as one. Lately, we’re deeply pained and disillusioned on the choice of the Very best Court docket ordering the discharge of Rajiv Gandhi’s murderer,” he mentioned.

    He mentioned that it’s condemnable and really unlucky that the murderer of a former top minister has been launched. “Lately is a tragic day for the rustic. There’s a sorrow and fury no longer most effective in each Congress employee, however in each Indian who believes in India and Indianness, who believes in combating towards extremism and each power that demanding situations the sovereignty and integrity of India,” he informed journalists.

    ALSO READ| SC verdict on Perarivalan a victory for state autonomy & federalism, says Stalin

    He additionally questioned if the lakhs of convicts dealing with existence phrases will have to be freed. This isn’t a query about Rajiv Gandhi, however a few top minister who used to be killed, he mentioned, including the soul of each individual combating towards terrorism has been harm.

    “Rajiv ji had sacrificed his existence for the rustic, no longer for the Congress. And if nowadays’s govt creates a state of affairs within the court docket to get his killers launched for his or her petty and inexpensive politics, then it is extremely unlucky and it’s condemnable. We condemn this within the most powerful conceivable means. All Indians should see what sort of governments are in energy nowadays and what’s their perspective in opposition to extremism is,” he mentioned.

    Invoking its unusual energy beneath Article 142 of the Charter, the Very best Court docket on Wednesday ordered the discharge of AG Perarivalan, who has served over 30 years in prison within the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. A bench headed through Justice L Nageswara Rao mentioned the Tamil Nadu state cupboard’s recommendation recommending the untimely unlock of all seven convicts within the case used to be binding at the governor.

    The apex court docket additionally discarded the Centre’s argument that the president completely has the facility to grant pardon in a case beneath phase 302 the Indian Penal Code, announcing this could render article 161 (energy of governor to grant pardon) functionless.

    ALSO READ| Perarivalan’s family on cloud 9

    The bench, additionally comprising Justice BR Gavai, held that states have the facility to advise and assist the governor in case of pleas of pardon beneath article 161 made through convicts in homicide circumstances. Article 142 of the Charter offers with the Very best Court docket’s energy to workout its jurisdiction and move order for doing whole justice in any reason or topic pending earlier than it.

    The item used to be extensively utilized within the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case. The Centre had previous defended the Tamil Nadu governor’s choice to ship the mercy plea of Perarivalan to the president.

  • Centre pressuring states to buy imported coal, alleges Ashok Gehlot

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    JAIPUR: Rajasthan Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday alleged that the Centre is pressuring states to buy imported coal, which prices 3 times extra the only produced within the nation.

    He additionally steered the Centre to take away the requirement of buying imported coal, which he stated has been greater to ten in step with cent of the entire acquire.

    In keeping with a unlock, Gehlot stated the cost of imported coal is 3 times upper than that of supplied by way of Coal India.

    The executive minister stated Rajasthan will have to undergo a burden of Rs 1,736 crore if it purchases the imported coal.

    “The Union ministry of energy had issued an advisory in December 2021 to the Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam for 4 in step with cent imported coal mixing and in April, it’s been made obligatory to shop for 10 in step with cent,” a unlock quoting Gehlot stated.

    “The cost of this imported coal is greater than 3 times the cost of coal being given by way of Coal India Restricted.

    Its value is predicted to be about Rs 1,736 crore, which is far upper than the price of home coal,” the discharge stated.

    The executive minister expressed fear over the extra burden at the not unusual shopper because of imported coal.

    In a assessment assembly of the power division, he directed officers to verify a clean operation of energy era devices within the state and build up the manufacturing.

    The CM additionally directed to get the accident-prone energy traces repaired.

  • Congress Will Speak about UFOs For First Time In Extra Than 50 Years And Other folks Have Questions

    Officers shall be ‘martian’ to another drummer on Tuesday as they talk about unidentified flying items (UFOs).

    The file, issued by way of the Administrative center of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence, decided that “maximum” UFOs “more than likely” represented bodily items. It additionally detailed the “strange flight traits” of UFOs along side their talent to pose “flight” and “nationwide safety” issues.

    The listening to will kick off at 9 a.m. ET and will also be considered beneath:

    UFO enthusiasts took to social media to proportion their anticipation forward of the listening to:

  • Punjab Congress to release statewide marketing campaign to “wake” AAP government from its ‘honeymoon shut eye’

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    CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Congress on Monday stated it’s going to quickly release a statewide marketing campaign to “wake” the AAP executive from its “honeymoon shut eye” and remind the birthday celebration of its pre-poll guarantees.

    After presiding over a gathering of the birthday celebration’s mayors, senior deputy mayors and deputy mayors, the Congress’ state unit running president Bharat Bhushan Ashu claimed that individuals had been offended with this executive.

    Consistent with a Congress commentary, he accused the AAP executive of “doing not anything except for indulging in hole talks”.

    “However we can get it of their minds that they’re in energy and now it’s time to ship at the guarantees,” Ashu stated, including the Congress will move to any extent to convey this executive out of its “honeymoon shut eye”.

    Concerning the assembly on Monday, Ashu stated the birthday celebration sought after to take comments from the mayors, senior deputy mayors and deputy mayors concerning the scenario within the state, in particular its towns.

    He stated other people had been totally “alienated and upset” with the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration executive because it had “failed” in all its guarantees and commitments made prior to the elections.

    “What are we able to discuss unfastened energy. Even within the city spaces other people don’t seem to be getting paid energy whilst the agricultural spaces are totally drowned in darkness on this sizzling summer time,” Ashu stated.

    The Congress will quickly release a statewide marketing campaign to remind the federal government of its guarantees because the “honeymoon length” is already over, he stated.

    In the meantime, SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday slammed the AAP executive over the alleged breakdown of legislation and order in Punjab because it got here to energy two months in the past and stated he was once stunned on the approach during which the state was once being “misgoverned”.

    “Punjab has witnessed 27 murders. As many as 24 farmers have dedicated suicide and 61 youths have misplaced their lives because of drug overdose. As a substitute of offering succour to the typical guy and making sure the rule of thumb of legislation prevails. Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann is conserving phony photo-ops in Chandigarh,” the Shiromani Akali Dal leader alleged in a commentary right here.

    “If that is the alternate the AAP had promised, then Punjabis are in for probably the most worst stages within the historical past of the state,” he stated.

    Badal additionally accused the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration of deceptive the folk of the state to protected their votes.

    He alleged the birthday celebration had no aim of tackling the drug risk.

    Badal additional demanded that the Centre elevate the ban at the export of wheat.

    He claimed farmers had been being victimised and being denied the advantage of upper export costs.

    It appears, the similar good judgment was once now not implemented to metal and cement exports, he stated.

    “Now we have witnessed a steep build up in metal and cement costs after their export was once allowed by means of the Centre, which has benefitted corporates.

    However wheat isn’t being allowed to be exported as a result of farmers don’t have any voice within the executive,” he added.

    Badal stated permitting the export of wheat would have allowed farmers to get better the losses suffered because of low yields because of unseasonal rains and prime temperatures.

    He stated the AAP executive has did not get the phenomenon declared as a herbal calamity.

    The state executive must take in the reason for farmers forcefully with the Centre and insist a reimbursement of Rs 500 in line with quintal for them.

    “No longer doing so may have an hostile have an effect on at the agricultural financial system of the state and impact all stakeholders,” he added.

    India has banned wheat exports as a part of measures to keep watch over emerging home costs.

    The Directorate Basic of International Business (DGFT) stated in a notification dated Might 13, “The export coverage of wheat is against the law with speedy impact.”

    On the other hand, the export shipments for which irrevocable letters of credit score (LoC) were issued on or prior to the date of this notification shall be allowed, the DGFT stated.

  • Ballot effects since 2018 puncture Rahul’s declare that Congress is best selection to BJP

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    NEW DELHI: Former Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s declare all the way through the ‘Chintan Shivir’ meet in Udaipur that it’s the best selection to the BJP/RSS has come beneath fireplace because the birthday party’s electoral efficiency displays it has misplaced 19 state meeting polls since 2018, many to regional avid gamers which are taking up the gap as soon as occupied via it.

    The knowledge displays that of the 8 states that went to the polls in 2018, the Congress received 3 key states – Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. It used to be one of the crucial very best performances because the 2014 Lok Sabha debacle and the credit score used to be given to management of Rahul Gandhi, who took over as birthday party leader in 2017.

    Alternatively, since then, the birthday party has now not received any meeting elections whilst it shaped governments as a junior spouse in Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu. In all, the grand previous birthday party misplaced 19 state meeting elections between 2019 and March 2022.

    Rahul’s feedback additionally invited grievance from a number of regional avid gamers who mentioned that the Congress chief must first assess his personal birthday party’s situation.

    ALSO READ: Rahul’s feedback on regional events ‘unusual’, out of sync with Congress’ personal declaration: RJD

    The JMM, which is an best friend of the Congress within the coalition govt in Jharkhand, referred to as it Rahul’s self-assessment. “He’s entitled to his opinion, however who gave him the authority to touch upon ideology? How are we working the birthday party with none ideology?” the birthday party mentioned.

    The Congress has suffered giant losses to regional avid gamers just like the Aam Aadmi Birthday party (AAP), Trinamool Congress and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), who’re within the technique of occupying area at its expense. The newest instance is Punjab, the place the AAP recorded a sweeping victory after the Congress management within the state used to be engaged in infighting. The AAP is having a look to increase its footprint in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, the place elections are due later this 12 months.          

    Calling it unlucky, the RJD, the birthday party’s best friend in Bihar, used to be of the opinion that had the previous Congress president been aware of the result of ballot fights towards the BJP, he would have realised “the ideological and electoral dedication this is introduced via such regional outfits, which he mentioned should not have the capability”.

    The birthday party additionally noticed a humiliating defeat within the Kerala meeting elections closing 12 months, with the Left events coming again for a document 2nd time period within the state. On the contemporary CPI (M) birthday party Congress, birthday party normal secretary Sitaram Yechury spoke a couple of weakened Congress and the way the birthday party isn’t observed as an electoral danger via the BJP/RSS.

  • Rahul’s feedback at regional events ‘peculiar’, out of sync with Congress’ personal declaration: RJD

    He referred to the Congress declaration on the camp to take a swipe at him, announcing Gandhi will revise his remark if he appears at information. These types of statements haven’t any traction with historical past, he stated