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  • As UK parliament panel questions Sunak, Jairam Ramesh says it is inconceivable in ‘Mom of Democracy’ 

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Saturday referred to British Top Minister Rishi Sunak’s wondering through a UK Parliamentary panel to take a swipe at PM Narendra Modi, announcing such an interplay is “inconceivable within the self-declared Mom of Democracy”.

    Jairam Ramesh mentioned Top Minister Modi has now not spoken on problems with nationwide significance together with on China and Manipur.

    That is fairly improbable even through British requirements. Without a doubt such an interplay is inconceivable within the self-declared ‘Mom of Democracy’ the place eloquence=silence from the Top Minister on problems with nationwide significance. https://t.co/0Ggu8pcYsb

    — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) July 8, 2023

    “That is fairly improbable even through British requirements.

    Without a doubt, such an interplay is inconceivable within the self-declared ‘Mom of Democracy’ the place eloquence = silence from the Top Minister on problems with nationwide significance,” Ramesh mentioned on Twitter.

    Tagging a video by which Sunak is being wondered through a Parliamentary panel for now not saying the Nationwide Well being Carrier Group of workers Plan in Parliament when it was once in consultation, Ramesh mentioned, “And a few PMs won’t ever talk on problems like China, Manipur, and so forth.”

    The United Kingdom panel requested Sunak why he didn’t announce the NHS team of workers plan in Parliament whilst reminding him that after Parliament is in consultation, an important bulletins of presidency coverage must be made within the first example in Parliament.

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Saturday referred to British Top Minister Rishi Sunak’s wondering through a UK Parliamentary panel to take a swipe at PM Narendra Modi, announcing such an interplay is “inconceivable within the self-declared Mom of Democracy”.

    Jairam Ramesh mentioned Top Minister Modi has now not spoken on problems with nationwide significance together with on China and Manipur.

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    That is fairly improbable even through British requirements. Without a doubt such an interplay is inconceivable within the self-declared ‘Mom of Democracy’ the place eloquence=silence from the Top Minister on problems with nationwide significance. https://t.co/0Ggu8pcYsb
    — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) July 8, 2023
    “That is fairly improbable even through British requirements.

    Without a doubt, such an interplay is inconceivable within the self-declared ‘Mom of Democracy’ the place eloquence = silence from the Top Minister on problems with nationwide significance,” Ramesh mentioned on Twitter.

    Tagging a video by which Sunak is being wondered through a Parliamentary panel for now not saying the Nationwide Well being Carrier Group of workers Plan in Parliament when it was once in consultation, Ramesh mentioned, “And a few PMs won’t ever talk on problems like China, Manipur, and so forth.”

    The United Kingdom panel requested Sunak why he didn’t announce the NHS team of workers plan in Parliament whilst reminding him that after Parliament is in consultation, an important bulletins of presidency coverage must be made within the first example in Parliament.

  • Sengol factor: BJP’s ‘faux manufacturing facility’ stands uncovered, says Jairam Ramesh

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The BJP’s declare that the ‘Sengol’ was once a logo of switch of energy from the British to former top minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been uncovered, Congress chief Jairam Ramesh stated on Friday mentioning an interview quoting a Tamil Nadu-based spiritual frame’s leader.

    Bringing up the interview in a day by day that quoted the top Swamigal of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam, he stated neither Lord Mountbatten nor C Rajagopalachari have been provide on the turning in of the ‘Sengol’ to Nehru. The ceremonial sceptre was once introduced to Nehru at 10 pm on August 14, 1947, at his place of dwelling.

    Forward of the inauguration of the brand new Parliament construction and the set up of the ‘Sengol’ in Lok Sabha on Would possibly 28, the BJP had alleged that the Congress displayed omit for Hindu traditions via calling the sacred ‘Sengol’ a “golden stick talented” to India’s first top minister Nehru and tucking it away in a museum.

    The vesting of the “sacred ‘Sengol” with Nehru, at the eve of India’s Independence, was once the precise second of switch of energy from the British to India, BJP chief Amit Malviya had stated on Would possibly 26. Even then, Ramesh had stated there’s no documented proof of Mountbatten, Rajagopalachari, and Nehru describing the ‘Sengol’ as a logo of switch of energy via the British to India.

    Rajagopalachari was once the primary Indian-born Governor-Basic who succeeded Mountbatten.

    In a tweet on Friday, the Congress chief stated, “So the BJP’s ‘FakeFactory’ stands uncovered lately via none as opposed to the respected head Swamigal of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam himself in The Hindu. No Mountbatten, no Rajaji, no section within the respectable switch of energy on August 14, 1947. However sure, the majestic ‘Sengol’ was once certainly introduced to Nehru as I’ve been pronouncing all alongside.”

    “Listed below are some extra information to nail the lies of lately’s Raja and his drumbeaters,” he stated mentioning an commercial dated August 29, 1947, at the presentation of the ceremonial sceptre to Nehru at 10 pm on August 14, 1947, at his place of dwelling.

    “It was once obviously an initiative of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam itself,” he stated.

    Within the photograph, he stated, the famed Nagaswaram virtuoso TN Rajaratnam Pillai is marked.

    “Here’s what is alleged about him in a piece of writing on a site of the Union Ministry of Tradition: When India attained independence, Rajaratnam was once despatched to Delhi via the Pandarasannadhi of the Tiruvaduturai Matam to provide on his behalf a mace of cast gold senkol (image of righteous management). Rajaratnam was once overjoyed via this proud privilege.

    It was once Dr P Subbaroyan who presented him to top minister Jawaharlal Nehru to whom Rajaratnam performed the Nagaswaram sooner than turning in the mace,” Ramesh tweeted.

    “There’s no point out of Mountbatten and even Rajaji.

    Rajaratnam Pillai is himself the topic of an enchanting new biography via an eminent Jap ethnomusicologist by which the August 14, 1947, episode is discussed,” the Congress chief stated on Twitter.

    The Congress normal secretary has been claiming that the Sengol was once by no means introduced sooner than Mountbatten or Rajagopalachari.

    NEW DELHI: The BJP’s declare that the ‘Sengol’ was once a logo of switch of energy from the British to former top minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been uncovered, Congress chief Jairam Ramesh stated on Friday mentioning an interview quoting a Tamil Nadu-based spiritual frame’s leader.

    Bringing up the interview in a day by day that quoted the top Swamigal of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam, he stated neither Lord Mountbatten nor C Rajagopalachari have been provide on the turning in of the ‘Sengol’ to Nehru. The ceremonial sceptre was once introduced to Nehru at 10 pm on August 14, 1947, at his place of dwelling.

    Forward of the inauguration of the brand new Parliament construction and the set up of the ‘Sengol’ in Lok Sabha on Would possibly 28, the BJP had alleged that the Congress displayed omit for Hindu traditions via calling the sacred ‘Sengol’ a “golden stick talented” to India’s first top minister Nehru and tucking it away in a museum.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The vesting of the “sacred ‘Sengol” with Nehru, at the eve of India’s Independence, was once the precise second of switch of energy from the British to India, BJP chief Amit Malviya had stated on Would possibly 26. Even then, Ramesh had stated there’s no documented proof of Mountbatten, Rajagopalachari, and Nehru describing the ‘Sengol’ as a logo of switch of energy via the British to India.

    Rajagopalachari was once the primary Indian-born Governor-Basic who succeeded Mountbatten.

    In a tweet on Friday, the Congress chief stated, “So the BJP’s ‘FakeFactory’ stands uncovered lately via none as opposed to the respected head Swamigal of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam himself in The Hindu. No Mountbatten, no Rajaji, no section within the respectable switch of energy on August 14, 1947. However sure, the majestic ‘Sengol’ was once certainly introduced to Nehru as I’ve been pronouncing all alongside.”

    “Listed below are some extra information to nail the lies of lately’s Raja and his drumbeaters,” he stated mentioning an commercial dated August 29, 1947, at the presentation of the ceremonial sceptre to Nehru at 10 pm on August 14, 1947, at his place of dwelling.

    “It was once obviously an initiative of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam itself,” he stated.

    Within the photograph, he stated, the famed Nagaswaram virtuoso TN Rajaratnam Pillai is marked.

    “Here’s what is alleged about him in a piece of writing on a site of the Union Ministry of Tradition: When India attained independence, Rajaratnam was once despatched to Delhi via the Pandarasannadhi of the Tiruvaduturai Matam to provide on his behalf a mace of cast gold senkol (image of righteous management). Rajaratnam was once overjoyed via this proud privilege.

    It was once Dr P Subbaroyan who presented him to top minister Jawaharlal Nehru to whom Rajaratnam performed the Nagaswaram sooner than turning in the mace,” Ramesh tweeted.

    “There’s no point out of Mountbatten and even Rajaji.

    Rajaratnam Pillai is himself the topic of an enchanting new biography via an eminent Jap ethnomusicologist by which the August 14, 1947, episode is discussed,” the Congress chief stated on Twitter.

    The Congress normal secretary has been claiming that the Sengol was once by no means introduced sooner than Mountbatten or Rajagopalachari.

  • Jairam Ramesh seeks CBI probe into Amit Shah’s ‘Sangma government maximum corrupt’ commentary

    By means of IANS

    NEW DELHI/SHILLONG: Congress Basic Secretary Jairam Ramesh has requested the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to summon House Minister Amit Shah over his commentary describing Meghalaya govt headed by means of Leader Minister Conrad Okay Sangma, in its earlier time period, as “maximum corrupt” and to research the declare.

    Attaching his letter to CBI Director Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, he tweeted: “I’ve written to the Director of CBI asking CBI to query the House Minister additional on his express statement that Conrad Sangma’s Executive in Meghalaya was once essentially the most corrupt within the nation

    “That in fact didn’t save you BJP from supporting the similar Conrad Sangma once more”.

    Ramesh, in his letter to Jaiswal, stated that Shah had stated in his public speech on February 17 that the then Meghlaya govt headed by means of Sangma was once essentially the most corrupt govt within the nation.

    “Amit Shah may be the House Minister of India. In his capability because the House Minister, he would definitely have had get admission to to knowledge and info that led him to the above conclusion. For some inexplicable causes, the House Minister, who may be the previous nationwide President of Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration, has didn’t act upon the tips in regards to the corrupt practices and cases of the then Meghalaya govt,” he stated.

    Ramesh asked the CBI Director to summon Shah and ask him to put up the entire knowledge and info that led him to state review and examine the subject.

    “We additionally urge you to research if the House Minister of India was once below any undue duress from his celebration or different forces, to suppress the tips associated with the corruption of Meghalaya, in an effort to allow his celebration Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration to make stronger the similar Leader Minister after the new Meghalaya elections,” the letter stated.

    The Congress letter additionally hooked up media experiences on Shah’s remarks all the way through the campaigning for Meghalaya Meeting polls, hung on February 27.

    The Congress leaders in Meghalaya were criticising the BJP for supporting a central authority led by means of Nationwide Folks’s Birthday celebration leader Sangma even after terming the former govt led by means of the similar celebration because the “maximum corrupt”.

    The Congress additionally termed the NPP led coalition shaped for the second one consecutive time period as a “marriage of comfort”.

    The BJP with two MLAs is part of the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) govt ruled by means of the NPP, which secured 26 seats within the 60-member Meeting. Quite a lot of different native events are supporting the MDA govt.
     

    NEW DELHI/SHILLONG: Congress Basic Secretary Jairam Ramesh has requested the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to summon House Minister Amit Shah over his commentary describing Meghalaya govt headed by means of Leader Minister Conrad Okay Sangma, in its earlier time period, as “maximum corrupt” and to research the declare.

    Attaching his letter to CBI Director Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, he tweeted: “I’ve written to the Director of CBI asking CBI to query the House Minister additional on his express statement that Conrad Sangma’s Executive in Meghalaya was once essentially the most corrupt within the nation

    “That in fact didn’t save you BJP from supporting the similar Conrad Sangma once more”.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Ramesh, in his letter to Jaiswal, stated that Shah had stated in his public speech on February 17 that the then Meghlaya govt headed by means of Sangma was once essentially the most corrupt govt within the nation.

    “Amit Shah may be the House Minister of India. In his capability because the House Minister, he would definitely have had get admission to to knowledge and info that led him to the above conclusion. For some inexplicable causes, the House Minister, who may be the previous nationwide President of Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration, has didn’t act upon the tips in regards to the corrupt practices and cases of the then Meghalaya govt,” he stated.

    Ramesh asked the CBI Director to summon Shah and ask him to put up the entire knowledge and info that led him to state review and examine the subject.

    “We additionally urge you to research if the House Minister of India was once below any undue duress from his celebration or different forces, to suppress the tips associated with the corruption of Meghalaya, in an effort to allow his celebration Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration to make stronger the similar Leader Minister after the new Meghalaya elections,” the letter stated.

    The Congress letter additionally hooked up media experiences on Shah’s remarks all the way through the campaigning for Meghalaya Meeting polls, hung on February 27.

    The Congress leaders in Meghalaya were criticising the BJP for supporting a central authority led by means of Nationwide Folks’s Birthday celebration leader Sangma even after terming the former govt led by means of the similar celebration because the “maximum corrupt”.

    The Congress additionally termed the NPP led coalition shaped for the second one consecutive time period as a “marriage of comfort”.

    The BJP with two MLAs is part of the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) govt ruled by means of the NPP, which secured 26 seats within the 60-member Meeting. Quite a lot of different native events are supporting the MDA govt.
     

  • No Opposition entrance is conceivable with out Congress: Jairam Ramesh

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: No Opposition entrance to take at the BJP is conceivable with out the Congress and if a coalition is shaped for the 2024 common elections, the birthday party can have a central function in it, senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh has mentioned.

    In an interview with PTI, Ramesh, alternatively, mentioned it used to be too early to discuss all this at the moment because the Congress’ first precedence used to be the approaching elections in Karnataka and the string of state polls this yr.

    Ramesh’s remarks come after each Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Uttar Pradesh’s Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Celebration (SP) mentioned the 2 events would avoid each the Congress and the BJP, and indicated conceivable talks with different regional gamers forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    Requested whether or not the TMC and SP’s movements may just jolt Opposition harmony, Ramesh mentioned, “The TMC, Samajwadi, other folks stay assembly, the 3rd Entrance, Fourth Entrance will proceed to be shaped, however it is crucial to have the Congress within the Opposition. If an Opposition coalition is shaped, the Congress will play a central function in it. No entrance is conceivable with out the Congress. However it’s too early to discuss this,” he advised PTI.

    First, there’s an election in Karnataka. After that, there are elections in Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram, he famous.

    “This yr, we will be able to be utterly busy with state elections, we will be able to see about 2024 elections later,” the previous Union minister mentioned. “At the moment conferences will proceed, positioning will proceed. ‘I can shape a 3rd entrance, I can shape a fourth entrance, I can shape a 5th entrance’, all this may proceed,” he added.

    Ramesh asserted {that a} reinforced Congress is vital for any opposition alliance, however the birthday party’s precedence these days used to be the Karnataka elections, adopted through the elections in different states.

    “Our (birthday party) president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leaders will paintings on no matter technique needs to be ready and perform talks with events in regards to the 2024 elections,” he mentioned.

    Requested whether or not the TMC staying clear of protests through the Opposition at the Adani factor and the NCP now not coming all out in give a boost to has dented the Opposition harmony, he mentioned, “No, I don’t suppose so. The TMC will have its personal common sense, I don’t need to say the rest greater than that.” He mentioned 16 political events are united at the call for for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into the Adani factor.

    The Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) didn’t signal the letter to the director of the Enforcement Directorate, however they have been with us in spirit if now not in frame, he mentioned.

    “There are 16 events and let me say something very categorically that the Perfect Court docket committee is not any change for a JPC. The phrases of reference of the Perfect Court docket committee are restricted in scope, it is just a JPC that may resolve the overall dimensions of this politico-economic rip-off,” he mentioned at the Adani factor.

    “No matter Mr Adani has finished in India and out of the country, he has finished with the overall blessings, give a boost to and patronage of the high minister. The Perfect Court docket-monitored inquiry isn’t going into any of those problems,” he mentioned.

    Up to now, the Congress birthday party has raised 93 questions, quickly we will be able to be achieving 100, Ramesh famous, speaking concerning the birthday party’s ‘Hum Adani ke Hain Kaun’ collection underneath which it’s been asking inquiries to High Minister Narendra Modi at the Adani factor.

    “We’ve got raised 93 questions up to now. The ones kinds of questions which can be extremely minute, pointed, granular, and explicit, transcend the phrases of reference of a Perfect court-monitored inquiry. So this JPC is admittedly crucial. The Perfect Court docket inquiry is not any change, it is just an strive at legitimisation and exoneration,” Ramesh alleged.

    Requested if makes an attempt of a 3rd entrance would undermine the combat in opposition to the BJP, Ramesh mentioned at the moment the Congress is concentrated that its call for for JPC is met.

    “At the moment efforts are directly to be sure that our voices get heard and this false propaganda and canards which are being unfold, this intimidation, this harassment this is being tried in opposition to Mr Gandhi in particular, we’re ready to counter. All different problems can wait,” he mentioned.

    Requested whether or not the Adani factor will resonate with the folks at the floor, Ramesh mentioned, “We need to do what we need to do.”

    The birthday party has held press meetings around the nation, raised 3 questions day-to-day during the last about 31 days and can proceed to boost them, the Congress common secretary mentioned. “Mr Gandhi has spoken widely in this within the Lok Sabha, Mr Kharge raised those problems widely within the Rajya Sabha, even if their remarks have been due to this fact expunged. So we will be able to proceed to do what we need to do. We imagine those are elementary problems,” he mentioned.

    The Congress believes in liberalisation and in giving complete incentives to personal firms and personal marketers, he mentioned.

    “India’s financial enlargement goes to be fuelled through non-public funding, through marketers, through startups, however what the Congress birthday party is in opposition to is this sort of cronyism the place one industry team will get entire favorite remedy from the high minister,” he mentioned.

    The Congress needs liberalisation, deregulate as the rustic wishes quicker exports, and massively larger quantities of personal investments, however it’s in opposition to this sort of blind privatisation which we’ve got observed in relation to airports, he mentioned.

    On disruption somewhat than debate changing into the norm, Ramesh mentioned the Opposition does now not have a say as it’s also now not allowed to talk about problems akin to Adani, China in addition to financial issues.

    “Some of the elementary regulations of parliamentary democracy is that the Opposition will have to have its say and the federal government can have its method. We all know we shouldn’t have the numbers within the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, however we aren’t even allowed to have our say,” he mentioned.

    Ramesh additionally mentioned that the BJP used to be “anxious and rattled” as a result of because of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, there used to be a “huge exchange” in now not simply the Congress birthday party’s symbol however that of Rahul Gandhi.

    “It (the yatra) has been a booster dose for our organisation and persons are taking a look at Rahul Gandhi from a brand new point of view. This is the reason some of these efforts are being made to defame the Congress and Rahul Gandhi. That is the BJP’s technique,” he mentioned in a connection with the BJP’s assault on Gandhi over his remarks in the United Kingdom.

    NEW DELHI: No Opposition entrance to take at the BJP is conceivable with out the Congress and if a coalition is shaped for the 2024 common elections, the birthday party can have a central function in it, senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh has mentioned.

    In an interview with PTI, Ramesh, alternatively, mentioned it used to be too early to discuss all this at the moment because the Congress’ first precedence used to be the approaching elections in Karnataka and the string of state polls this yr.

    Ramesh’s remarks come after each Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Uttar Pradesh’s Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Celebration (SP) mentioned the 2 events would avoid each the Congress and the BJP, and indicated conceivable talks with different regional gamers forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Requested whether or not the TMC and SP’s movements may just jolt Opposition harmony, Ramesh mentioned, “The TMC, Samajwadi, other folks stay assembly, the 3rd Entrance, Fourth Entrance will proceed to be shaped, however it is crucial to have the Congress within the Opposition. If an Opposition coalition is shaped, the Congress will play a central function in it. No entrance is conceivable with out the Congress. However it’s too early to discuss this,” he advised PTI.

    First, there’s an election in Karnataka. After that, there are elections in Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram, he famous.

    “This yr, we will be able to be utterly busy with state elections, we will be able to see about 2024 elections later,” the previous Union minister mentioned. “At the moment conferences will proceed, positioning will proceed. ‘I can shape a 3rd entrance, I can shape a fourth entrance, I can shape a 5th entrance’, all this may proceed,” he added.

    Ramesh asserted {that a} reinforced Congress is vital for any opposition alliance, however the birthday party’s precedence these days used to be the Karnataka elections, adopted through the elections in different states.

    “Our (birthday party) president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leaders will paintings on no matter technique needs to be ready and perform talks with events in regards to the 2024 elections,” he mentioned.

    Requested whether or not the TMC staying clear of protests through the Opposition at the Adani factor and the NCP now not coming all out in give a boost to has dented the Opposition harmony, he mentioned, “No, I don’t suppose so. The TMC will have its personal common sense, I don’t need to say the rest greater than that.” He mentioned 16 political events are united at the call for for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into the Adani factor.

    The Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) didn’t signal the letter to the director of the Enforcement Directorate, however they have been with us in spirit if now not in frame, he mentioned.

    “There are 16 events and let me say something very categorically that the Perfect Court docket committee is not any change for a JPC. The phrases of reference of the Perfect Court docket committee are restricted in scope, it is just a JPC that may resolve the overall dimensions of this politico-economic rip-off,” he mentioned at the Adani factor.

    “No matter Mr Adani has finished in India and out of the country, he has finished with the overall blessings, give a boost to and patronage of the high minister. The Perfect Court docket-monitored inquiry isn’t going into any of those problems,” he mentioned.

    Up to now, the Congress birthday party has raised 93 questions, quickly we will be able to be achieving 100, Ramesh famous, speaking concerning the birthday party’s ‘Hum Adani ke Hain Kaun’ collection underneath which it’s been asking inquiries to High Minister Narendra Modi at the Adani factor.

    “We’ve got raised 93 questions up to now. The ones kinds of questions which can be extremely minute, pointed, granular, and explicit, transcend the phrases of reference of a Perfect court-monitored inquiry. So this JPC is admittedly crucial. The Perfect Court docket inquiry is not any change, it is just an strive at legitimisation and exoneration,” Ramesh alleged.

    Requested if makes an attempt of a 3rd entrance would undermine the combat in opposition to the BJP, Ramesh mentioned at the moment the Congress is concentrated that its call for for JPC is met.

    “At the moment efforts are directly to be sure that our voices get heard and this false propaganda and canards which are being unfold, this intimidation, this harassment this is being tried in opposition to Mr Gandhi in particular, we’re ready to counter. All different problems can wait,” he mentioned.

    Requested whether or not the Adani factor will resonate with the folks at the floor, Ramesh mentioned, “We need to do what we need to do.”

    The birthday party has held press meetings around the nation, raised 3 questions day-to-day during the last about 31 days and can proceed to boost them, the Congress common secretary mentioned. “Mr Gandhi has spoken widely in this within the Lok Sabha, Mr Kharge raised those problems widely within the Rajya Sabha, even if their remarks have been due to this fact expunged. So we will be able to proceed to do what we need to do. We imagine those are elementary problems,” he mentioned.

    The Congress believes in liberalisation and in giving complete incentives to personal firms and personal marketers, he mentioned.

    “India’s financial enlargement goes to be fuelled through non-public funding, through marketers, through startups, however what the Congress birthday party is in opposition to is this sort of cronyism the place one industry team will get entire favorite remedy from the high minister,” he mentioned.

    The Congress needs liberalisation, deregulate as the rustic wishes quicker exports, and massively larger quantities of personal investments, however it’s in opposition to this sort of blind privatisation which we’ve got observed in relation to airports, he mentioned.

    On disruption somewhat than debate changing into the norm, Ramesh mentioned the Opposition does now not have a say as it’s also now not allowed to talk about problems akin to Adani, China in addition to financial issues.

    “Some of the elementary regulations of parliamentary democracy is that the Opposition will have to have its say and the federal government can have its method. We all know we shouldn’t have the numbers within the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, however we aren’t even allowed to have our say,” he mentioned.

    Ramesh additionally mentioned that the BJP used to be “anxious and rattled” as a result of because of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, there used to be a “huge exchange” in now not simply the Congress birthday party’s symbol however that of Rahul Gandhi.

    “It (the yatra) has been a booster dose for our organisation and persons are taking a look at Rahul Gandhi from a brand new point of view. This is the reason some of these efforts are being made to defame the Congress and Rahul Gandhi. That is the BJP’s technique,” he mentioned in a connection with the BJP’s assault on Gandhi over his remarks in the United Kingdom.

  • Congress alleges government granted ‘monopolies’ to Adani Crew, allowed it to ‘fleece’ shoppers

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday alleged that the federal government has granted “monopolies” to the Adani Crew, permitting it to “fleece” shoppers who want to use crucial infrastructure services and products equivalent to airports and electrical energy.

    The opposition celebration additionally stated that power call for for a JPC at the Adani factor used to be to not embarrass Top Minister Narendra Modi however to get to the bottom of its complete dimensions.

    Posing a collection of 3 inquiries to Top Minister Narendra Modi as a part of the celebration’s “Hum Adani ke Hain Kaun” sequence, Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh stated the point of interest of the posers used to be on how the “monopolies granted” to the Adani Crew have allowed it to “fleece” shoppers who want to use crucial infrastructure services and products like airports and electrical energy.

    The PM might create as many diversions as he needs however he can’t get away direct questions at the Adani MahaMegaScam. This is HAHK (Hum Adanike Hain Kaun)-22

    Chuppi Todiye Pradhan Mantriji %.twitter.com/htBIj6N4jh

    — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) March 4, 2023

    The Congress is persisting with its assault at the executive weeks after Adani Crew shares took a beating at the bourses after US-based brief vendor Hindenburg Analysis made a litany of allegations, together with fraudulent transactions and share-price manipulation.

    The Gautam Adani-led crew has pushed aside the costs as lies, announcing it complies with all rules and disclosure necessities.

    In his commentary addressed to the high minister, Ramesh claimed that the Adani-operated Chaudhary Charan Singh Global Airport in Lucknow, India’s eleventh busiest airport, has proposed an “exorbitant building up” within the consumer construction price (UDF) paid through passengers.

    “If authorized through the Airports Financial Regulatory Authority (AERA), consumer charges will upward push from Rs 192 to Rs 1,025 for home passengers and Rs 561 to Rs 2,756 for world passengers through the fiscal 12 months 2025-26,” the Congress common secretary claimed.

    AERA has already authorized a six-fold price building up for home passengers and a 12-fold price building up for world passengers flying out of the Adani-operated Ahmedabad airport through 2025-26, he stated.

    “And AERA outdid itself when it comes to the Adani-operated Mangaluru airport through now not best climbing consumer charges for departing passengers but in addition enforcing them on arriving passengers,” Ramesh claimed.

    Is that this now not the “inevitable consequence of the PM’s determination to grant an airports monopoly to his good friend Gautam Adani through handing him six out of six airports over the objections of the NITI Aayog and the Ministry of Finance”, the Congress chief requested.

    “Will consumers need to pay out in their wallet for the electoral bonds that your cronies are moving to BJP coffers?” Ramesh stated.

    He additionally claimed that during 2008, Adani Energy signed an influence acquire settlement (PPA) with Haryana’s state-owned energy distribution firms to offer 1,424 megawatts (MW) of electrical energy for 25 years at a levelised tariff of Rs 2.94 in line with unit.

    However it all started to default on its energy provide tasks in December 2020, forcing Haryana to shop for spot electrical energy at Rs 11.55 in line with unit, he claimed.

    ALSO READ | Gujarat government bought electrical energy price Rs 8,160 crore from Adani Energy in 2021-22: Meeting advised 

    “Some distance from convalescing what it used to be due, the Manohar Lal Khattar executive made up our minds to approve a supplementary PPA on June 27, 2022, by which it is going to procure a discounted 1,200 MW from Adani at Rs 3.54 in line with unit and can supply the rest 224 MW at a a long way upper charge from Adani,” he alleged.

    “Did you power CM Khattar to bail out your cronies once more? What number of hundreds of crores of rupees will likely be fleeced from Haryana shoppers through Adani to pay for the BJP’s electoral bonds?” Ramesh stated.

    He additionally claimed that on March 1, 2023, Adani Energy made a disclosure to the Bombay Inventory Trade and the Nationwide Inventory Trade that it had signed supplementary PPAs with Haryana’s two energy distribution firms.

    On the other hand, no such PPA were signed at the moment, he alleged. Used to be this a crude try to shore up flagging Adani percentage costs, Ramesh requested.

    ALSO READ | Vinod Adani working shell firms in ‘collusion with Chinese language nationals’: Congress

    “Will this be but every other case of SEBI turning a blind eye to blatant violations and deceptions through your favorite industry crew?” he stated.

    Responding to a media record which quoted senior attorney Harish Salve as announcing that the call for for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe used to be aimed toward best embarrassing the Centre, Ramesh tweeted, “My good friend Harish Salve with whom I labored intently as surroundings minister is totally incorrect.”

    The power call for for a JPC at the Adani rip-off isn’t to embarrass the PM however to get to the bottom of its complete dimensions, which no technocratic committee can or will likely be keen to do.

    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday alleged that the federal government has granted “monopolies” to the Adani Crew, permitting it to “fleece” shoppers who want to use crucial infrastructure services and products equivalent to airports and electrical energy.

    The opposition celebration additionally stated that power call for for a JPC at the Adani factor used to be to not embarrass Top Minister Narendra Modi however to get to the bottom of its complete dimensions.

    Posing a collection of 3 inquiries to Top Minister Narendra Modi as a part of the celebration’s “Hum Adani ke Hain Kaun” sequence, Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh stated the point of interest of the posers used to be on how the “monopolies granted” to the Adani Crew have allowed it to “fleece” shoppers who want to use crucial infrastructure services and products like airports and electrical energy.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The PM might create as many diversions as he needs however he can’t get away direct questions at the Adani MahaMegaScam. This is HAHK (Hum Adanike Hain Kaun)-22
    Chuppi Todiye Pradhan Mantriji %.twitter.com/htBIj6N4jh
    — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) March 4, 2023
    The Congress is persisting with its assault at the executive weeks after Adani Crew shares took a beating at the bourses after US-based brief vendor Hindenburg Analysis made a litany of allegations, together with fraudulent transactions and share-price manipulation.

    The Gautam Adani-led crew has pushed aside the costs as lies, announcing it complies with all rules and disclosure necessities.

    In his commentary addressed to the high minister, Ramesh claimed that the Adani-operated Chaudhary Charan Singh Global Airport in Lucknow, India’s eleventh busiest airport, has proposed an “exorbitant building up” within the consumer construction price (UDF) paid through passengers.

    “If authorized through the Airports Financial Regulatory Authority (AERA), consumer charges will upward push from Rs 192 to Rs 1,025 for home passengers and Rs 561 to Rs 2,756 for world passengers through the fiscal 12 months 2025-26,” the Congress common secretary claimed.

    AERA has already authorized a six-fold price building up for home passengers and a 12-fold price building up for world passengers flying out of the Adani-operated Ahmedabad airport through 2025-26, he stated.

    “And AERA outdid itself when it comes to the Adani-operated Mangaluru airport through now not best climbing consumer charges for departing passengers but in addition enforcing them on arriving passengers,” Ramesh claimed.

    Is that this now not the “inevitable consequence of the PM’s determination to grant an airports monopoly to his good friend Gautam Adani through handing him six out of six airports over the objections of the NITI Aayog and the Ministry of Finance”, the Congress chief requested.

    “Will consumers need to pay out in their wallet for the electoral bonds that your cronies are moving to BJP coffers?” Ramesh stated.

    He additionally claimed that during 2008, Adani Energy signed an influence acquire settlement (PPA) with Haryana’s state-owned energy distribution firms to offer 1,424 megawatts (MW) of electrical energy for 25 years at a levelised tariff of Rs 2.94 in line with unit.

    However it all started to default on its energy provide tasks in December 2020, forcing Haryana to shop for spot electrical energy at Rs 11.55 in line with unit, he claimed.

    ALSO READ | Gujarat government bought electrical energy price Rs 8,160 crore from Adani Energy in 2021-22: Meeting advised 

    “Some distance from convalescing what it used to be due, the Manohar Lal Khattar executive made up our minds to approve a supplementary PPA on June 27, 2022, by which it is going to procure a discounted 1,200 MW from Adani at Rs 3.54 in line with unit and can supply the rest 224 MW at a a long way upper charge from Adani,” he alleged.

    “Did you power CM Khattar to bail out your cronies once more? What number of hundreds of crores of rupees will likely be fleeced from Haryana shoppers through Adani to pay for the BJP’s electoral bonds?” Ramesh stated.

    He additionally claimed that on March 1, 2023, Adani Energy made a disclosure to the Bombay Inventory Trade and the Nationwide Inventory Trade that it had signed supplementary PPAs with Haryana’s two energy distribution firms.

    On the other hand, no such PPA were signed at the moment, he alleged. Used to be this a crude try to shore up flagging Adani percentage costs, Ramesh requested.

    ALSO READ | Vinod Adani working shell firms in ‘collusion with Chinese language nationals’: Congress

    “Will this be but every other case of SEBI turning a blind eye to blatant violations and deceptions through your favorite industry crew?” he stated.

    Responding to a media record which quoted senior attorney Harish Salve as announcing that the call for for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe used to be aimed toward best embarrassing the Centre, Ramesh tweeted, “My good friend Harish Salve with whom I labored intently as surroundings minister is totally incorrect.”

    The power call for for a JPC at the Adani rip-off isn’t to embarrass the PM however to get to the bottom of its complete dimensions, which no technocratic committee can or will likely be keen to do.

  • ED, CBI, IT dept have grow to be tools of political vendetta beneath Modi executive: Jairam Ramesh 

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday alleged that establishments just like the ED, the CBI and the Source of revenue Tax Division have grow to be tools of “political vendetta” beneath the Narendra Modi executive and opposition leaders are selectively focused to ruin their popularity.

    The statement got here on an afternoon a distinct court docket despatched Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia to five-day CBI remand after the company sought his custody for efficient interrogation to get to the bottom of the alleged rip-off within the now-scrapped excise coverage for 2021-22.

    CBI arrested Sisodia on Sunday after round 8 hours of wondering.

    With out naming any individual or any specific case, Congress normal secretary Jairam Ramesh stated in a tweet, “The Congress has at all times held the realization that establishments like ED, CBI and Source of revenue Tax Division have grow to be tools of political vendetta and harassment beneath Modi Sarkar.” 

    “Those establishments have misplaced all professionalism. Opposition leaders are selectively focused to ruin their popularity,” Ramesh stated.

    On Sunday, Delhi Congress leader Anil Chaudhary stated Sisodia’s arrest via the CBI in reference to the Delhi excise coverage rip-off case is a welcome step.

    He had claimed that the AAP “used energy to amass wealth”.

    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday alleged that establishments just like the ED, the CBI and the Source of revenue Tax Division have grow to be tools of “political vendetta” beneath the Narendra Modi executive and opposition leaders are selectively focused to ruin their popularity.

    The statement got here on an afternoon a distinct court docket despatched Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia to five-day CBI remand after the company sought his custody for efficient interrogation to get to the bottom of the alleged rip-off within the now-scrapped excise coverage for 2021-22.

    CBI arrested Sisodia on Sunday after round 8 hours of wondering.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    With out naming any individual or any specific case, Congress normal secretary Jairam Ramesh stated in a tweet, “The Congress has at all times held the realization that establishments like ED, CBI and Source of revenue Tax Division have grow to be tools of political vendetta and harassment beneath Modi Sarkar.” 

    “Those establishments have misplaced all professionalism. Opposition leaders are selectively focused to ruin their popularity,” Ramesh stated.

    On Sunday, Delhi Congress leader Anil Chaudhary stated Sisodia’s arrest via the CBI in reference to the Delhi excise coverage rip-off case is a welcome step.

    He had claimed that the AAP “used energy to amass wealth”.

  • Congress’s Jairam Ramesh urges RBI, SEBI to probe allegations in opposition to Adani Crew 

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh has written to the Reserve Financial institution of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das and Securities and Change Board of India (SEBI) Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and sought an investigation into allegations of economic irregularities and inventory manipulation in opposition to the Adani Crew.

    In his letter to Das posted on Twitter on Wednesday, Ramesh suggested the RBI to be sure that “over the top debt publicity” via the Adani Crew, recently and sooner or later, does no longer destabilise India’s banking device.

    “The Adani Crew has been described as ‘deeply over-leveraged’ – if the Adani Crew has artificially inflated the worth of its inventory via manipulation via offshore shell corporations and raised finances via pledging the ones overestimated stocks, the new sell-off in inventory costs is developing vulnerabilities for the Adani Crew to search out financing, and via implication for India’s banking device,” the Congress MP mentioned in his letter dated February 14.

    Ramesh referred to as at the RBI to seem into two aspects- what’s the true Adani Crew publicity of the Indian banking device and what are the express and implicit promises that the Adani Crew has been for the reason that it’s going to be bailed out via Indian banks if overseas investment dries up.

    “Will the RBI be sure that Indian banks don’t seem to be compelled to step in to replace for any shortfall in overseas financing, particularly given the Adani Crew’s political connections,” Ramesh requested.

    Public sector monetary establishments just like the Lifestyles Insurance coverage Company of India and the State Financial institution of India had been “strangely beneficiant” to the Adani Crew lately, the Congress chief alleged.

    The RBI will have to be sure that dangers to monetary balance are investigated and contained, he mentioned in his letter.

    The hazards of contagion from any cave in within the Adani Crew’s talent to protected financing will have to be monitored continuously, Ramesh argued.

    “Because the steward of the monetary device, the RBI will have to do the whole thing imaginable to offer protection to India’s banks and fiscal establishments, and we urge you to behave within the nationwide pastime to be sure that India’s taxpayers don’t pay the fee for the ‘misgovernance’ and doable ‘illegalities’ of 1 influential industry space,” he wrote to Das.

    Ramesh additionally posted his letter to SEBI leader Buch on Twitter pronouncing, many Indian electorate have been disturbed via the allegations that the Adani Crew has indulged in “brazen inventory manipulation” and “accounting fraud” by way of a “huge labyrinth of offshore shell entities”.

    “Except the possible violation of a number of Indian rules, this is going in opposition to the whole thing that the Securities and Change Board of India (SBI) stands for. We urge you to analyze all doable violations and to make sure entire transparency about who’s making an investment in Adani Crew corporations,” Ramesh mentioned.

    “Given the Adani Crew’s measurement and political connections, it’s incumbent that such investigations are observed as truthful and entire, with out a favour proven to the influential industry crew,” the Congress basic secretary wired.

    Any failure to take action will forged a shadow on Indian company governance and on India’s monetary regulators, and may impact our talent to lift finances globally, he argued.

    In his letter, Ramesh requested why monetary establishments of nationwide significance such because the Lifestyles Insurance coverage Company of India (IIC) and the State Financial institution of India (SBI) have “closely purchased” Adani Crew fairness when maximum personal finances had been critically underweight on account of issues over company governance and indebtedness.

    “LIC, which 30 crore Indians consider with their existence financial savings, has misplaced hundreds of crores in Adani Crew inventory in fresh days. Will have to we no longer be sure that such public sector monetary establishments are extra conservative of their investments than their personal sector opposite numbers and loose from force from above?” Ramesh mentioned.

    The inclusion of Adani Enterprises within the broadly used Nationwide Inventory Change Nifty 50 index in September 2022 happened in spite of the company’s susceptible basics, an over the top price-to-earnings ratio and a tiny loose glide, he alleged.

    He additional claimed that including Adani Enterprises pressured supposedly conservative Nifty index finances to make important purchases of this dangerous inventory, together with the Staff Provident Fund Organisation, India’s greatest pension fund.

    “In fresh days, international inventory indices have suspended Adani Crew corporations whilst the subject is investigated, however the NSE has did not take any equivalent motion to offer protection to traders,” Ramesh mentioned.

    Is it no longer SEBI’s duty to be sure that index traders are secure from making an investment in questionable companies, he requested.

    “We urge SEBI to play its position because the steward of India’s monetary markets on behalf of the crores of Indians who think about the equity of India’s monetary markets,” the Congress chief mentioned.

    Ramesh shared the letters on Twitter and mentioned that he has expressed the hope {that a} “full-fledged impartial investigation shall be carried at the a large number of allegations in opposition to the ‘PM-blessed’ Adani Crew”.

    The Congress has been tough a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the allegations in opposition to the Adani Crew via US-based short-seller Hindenburg Analysis.

    The Adani Crew has pushed aside the allegations as baseless.

    NEW DELHI: Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh has written to the Reserve Financial institution of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das and Securities and Change Board of India (SEBI) Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and sought an investigation into allegations of economic irregularities and inventory manipulation in opposition to the Adani Crew.

    In his letter to Das posted on Twitter on Wednesday, Ramesh suggested the RBI to be sure that “over the top debt publicity” via the Adani Crew, recently and sooner or later, does no longer destabilise India’s banking device.

    “The Adani Crew has been described as ‘deeply over-leveraged’ – if the Adani Crew has artificially inflated the worth of its inventory via manipulation via offshore shell corporations and raised finances via pledging the ones overestimated stocks, the new sell-off in inventory costs is developing vulnerabilities for the Adani Crew to search out financing, and via implication for India’s banking device,” the Congress MP mentioned in his letter dated February 14.

    Ramesh referred to as at the RBI to seem into two aspects- what’s the true Adani Crew publicity of the Indian banking device and what are the express and implicit promises that the Adani Crew has been for the reason that it’s going to be bailed out via Indian banks if overseas investment dries up.

    “Will the RBI be sure that Indian banks don’t seem to be compelled to step in to replace for any shortfall in overseas financing, particularly given the Adani Crew’s political connections,” Ramesh requested.

    Public sector monetary establishments just like the Lifestyles Insurance coverage Company of India and the State Financial institution of India had been “strangely beneficiant” to the Adani Crew lately, the Congress chief alleged.

    The RBI will have to be sure that dangers to monetary balance are investigated and contained, he mentioned in his letter.

    The hazards of contagion from any cave in within the Adani Crew’s talent to protected financing will have to be monitored continuously, Ramesh argued.

    “Because the steward of the monetary device, the RBI will have to do the whole thing imaginable to offer protection to India’s banks and fiscal establishments, and we urge you to behave within the nationwide pastime to be sure that India’s taxpayers don’t pay the fee for the ‘misgovernance’ and doable ‘illegalities’ of 1 influential industry space,” he wrote to Das.

    Ramesh additionally posted his letter to SEBI leader Buch on Twitter pronouncing, many Indian electorate have been disturbed via the allegations that the Adani Crew has indulged in “brazen inventory manipulation” and “accounting fraud” by way of a “huge labyrinth of offshore shell entities”.

    “Except the possible violation of a number of Indian rules, this is going in opposition to the whole thing that the Securities and Change Board of India (SBI) stands for. We urge you to analyze all doable violations and to make sure entire transparency about who’s making an investment in Adani Crew corporations,” Ramesh mentioned.

    “Given the Adani Crew’s measurement and political connections, it’s incumbent that such investigations are observed as truthful and entire, with out a favour proven to the influential industry crew,” the Congress basic secretary wired.

    Any failure to take action will forged a shadow on Indian company governance and on India’s monetary regulators, and may impact our talent to lift finances globally, he argued.

    In his letter, Ramesh requested why monetary establishments of nationwide significance such because the Lifestyles Insurance coverage Company of India (IIC) and the State Financial institution of India (SBI) have “closely purchased” Adani Crew fairness when maximum personal finances had been critically underweight on account of issues over company governance and indebtedness.

    “LIC, which 30 crore Indians consider with their existence financial savings, has misplaced hundreds of crores in Adani Crew inventory in fresh days. Will have to we no longer be sure that such public sector monetary establishments are extra conservative of their investments than their personal sector opposite numbers and loose from force from above?” Ramesh mentioned.

    The inclusion of Adani Enterprises within the broadly used Nationwide Inventory Change Nifty 50 index in September 2022 happened in spite of the company’s susceptible basics, an over the top price-to-earnings ratio and a tiny loose glide, he alleged.

    He additional claimed that including Adani Enterprises pressured supposedly conservative Nifty index finances to make important purchases of this dangerous inventory, together with the Staff Provident Fund Organisation, India’s greatest pension fund.

    “In fresh days, international inventory indices have suspended Adani Crew corporations whilst the subject is investigated, however the NSE has did not take any equivalent motion to offer protection to traders,” Ramesh mentioned.

    Is it no longer SEBI’s duty to be sure that index traders are secure from making an investment in questionable companies, he requested.

    “We urge SEBI to play its position because the steward of India’s monetary markets on behalf of the crores of Indians who think about the equity of India’s monetary markets,” the Congress chief mentioned.

    Ramesh shared the letters on Twitter and mentioned that he has expressed the hope {that a} “full-fledged impartial investigation shall be carried at the a large number of allegations in opposition to the ‘PM-blessed’ Adani Crew”.

    The Congress has been tough a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the allegations in opposition to the Adani Crew via US-based short-seller Hindenburg Analysis.

    The Adani Crew has pushed aside the allegations as baseless.

  • Who ‘moo-ted’ thought within the first position, Jairam Ramesh’s dig after withdrawal of ‘Cow Hug Day’ attraction

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Friday took a swipe over the Animal Welfare Board of India chickening out its attraction to have fun February 14 as ‘Cow Hug Day’ following instructions from the federal government, asking who had “moo-ted” the speculation within the first position.

    The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) on Friday stated it has withdrawn the attraction to have fun February 14 as ‘Cow Hug Day’ following instructions from the federal government amid standard complaint on social media.

    “Who moo-ted the speculation within the first position?” Congress basic secretary Ramesh stated in a tweet.

    The withdrawal of the attraction got here only a day after Union minister Parshottam Rupala stated it is going to be just right if other folks reply definitely to the decision given by way of the board to have fun February 14 as ‘Cow Hug Day’.

    February 14 is seen as Valentine’s Day internationally.

    “As directed by way of the Competent Authority and Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying the attraction issued by way of the Animal Welfare Board of India for the birthday celebration of Cow Hug Day on 14th February 2023 stands withdrawn,” the board’s secretary S Okay Dutta stated in a understand posted on its website online.

    It used to be for the primary time that the AWBI had appealed to cow fans within the nation to have fun ‘Cow Hug Day’.

    NEW DELHI: Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Friday took a swipe over the Animal Welfare Board of India chickening out its attraction to have fun February 14 as ‘Cow Hug Day’ following instructions from the federal government, asking who had “moo-ted” the speculation within the first position.

    The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) on Friday stated it has withdrawn the attraction to have fun February 14 as ‘Cow Hug Day’ following instructions from the federal government amid standard complaint on social media.

    “Who moo-ted the speculation within the first position?” Congress basic secretary Ramesh stated in a tweet.

    The withdrawal of the attraction got here only a day after Union minister Parshottam Rupala stated it is going to be just right if other folks reply definitely to the decision given by way of the board to have fun February 14 as ‘Cow Hug Day’.

    February 14 is seen as Valentine’s Day internationally.

    “As directed by way of the Competent Authority and Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying the attraction issued by way of the Animal Welfare Board of India for the birthday celebration of Cow Hug Day on 14th February 2023 stands withdrawn,” the board’s secretary S Okay Dutta stated in a understand posted on its website online.

    It used to be for the primary time that the AWBI had appealed to cow fans within the nation to have fun ‘Cow Hug Day’.

  • Modi, his executive can’t cover from questions pronouncing ‘Hum Adani Ke Hain Kaun’: Congress

    Jairam Ramesh stated that amid the allegations in opposition to the Adani Staff, the Modi govt has maintained a “loud silence which smacks of collusion”.

  • Taking part in in opposition to BJP on Congress-prepared pitch because of Yatra: Ramesh

    Through PTI

    DAUSA: Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Sunday stated the Bharat Jodo Yatra has ensured that the Congress is now surroundings the political narrative within the nation and the BJP has been made to play on a pitch keen by means of his celebration.

    In an interview with PTI at the yatra finishing 100 days, Ramesh additionally stated that Rahul Gandhi is attempting to sharpen the ideological foundation of the Congress and is operating at the side of the celebration’s elected president, Mallikarjun Kharge, as a ‘jugalbandi’ (in combination).

    Requested whether or not the celebration may adopt some other such yatra subsequent yr, Ramesh stated, “I’d surely love to take part in a Porbandar (Gujarat) to Parshuram Kund (Arunachal Pradesh) Yatra however whether or not we will do it subsequent yr and the way we will do it subsequent yr, it must be mentioned and debated in suitable celebration boards.

    ” The Congress basic secretary in-charge communications asserted that in the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gandhi has given a brand new course to the political discourse and the Congress has set the narrative for the remaining 100 days.

    “The Congress has been applauded, criticised, praised, reviled. What it method is that we had been at the defensive, we had been all the time reacting to what the BJP used to be pronouncing or what it used to be doing however in the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra I believe we have now succeeded to an overly massive extent in having the ability to set the phrases of discussion and the narrative within the political discourse,” Ramesh stated.

    He stated the yatra has had an “electrifying inner impact” at the organisation in addition to at the exterior international of Indian politics.

    Ramesh claimed that because of the yatra, the BJP is at the “again foot, disturbed and fearful”.

    “I believe we have now succeeded in converting the phrases of the talk. The narrative is on our pitch now. We’re enjoying cricket in opposition to the BJP on a pitch this is keen by means of us, we don’t seem to be enjoying cricket in opposition to the BJP on a pitch keen by means of them, that’s the distinction,” he stated.

    Requested if Rahul Gandhi used to be now the conscience-keeper of the celebration, Ramesh stated that is a robust phrase and one does no longer emerge as a conscience-keeper thru only one yatra.

    “He (Gandhi) is elevating problems which will have to be of deep worry to the Indian voters. He’s surely observed because the ideological compass for the Congress celebration. We now have a full-time elected Congress president and in Rahul Gandhi we have now anyone who is attempting to sharpen the ideological foundation of the Congress,” he stated.

    “He and Kharge ji are operating as a jugalbandi. To that extent he (Gandhi) has surely succeeded in energising the celebration organisation, Congress employees, supporters and giving them a brand new hope that the Congress celebration will re-establish itself because the pre-eminent political drive within the nation,” he stated.

    Requested if the yatra would have an electoral affect within the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Karnataka that move to polls subsequent yr, Ramesh reiterated that it isn’t an electoral yatra however an ideological one.

    “This can be a yatra to seize the battlefield of concepts, battlefield of ideologies. Sure we don’t seem to be an NGO, we don’t seem to be a ‘sanyasi’ battalion, we’re a political celebration and we exist to struggle elections and struggle elections to win however whether or not this Bharat Jodo yatra can have a favorable electoral affect, it relies completely at the Congress organisation,” he stated.

    “If we have now harmony, if we have now self-discipline, if we have now a way of collective function, then I believe we will take ahead the message of the Bharat jodo Yatra and achieve electoral luck,” he added.

    The yatra used to be no longer began to win Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha, however to support the ideological moorings of the Congress, re-establish the relationship with the folk, toughen a way of collective function to fight the 3 giant demanding situations of monetary inequality, building up social polarisation and established political authoritarianism.

    Requested in regards to the tussle between Rajasthan Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot and his bete noire Sachin Pilot, Ramesh reiterated Gandhi’s previous remark that each leaders are property for the celebration.

    “No matter approach ahead is located by means of the Congress celebration and the prime command, the primary may be very transparent, the organisation is splendid. Folks come and people move however it’s the organisational pursuits which might be paramount,” he stated.

    “I’d rigidity at the supremacy of organisational passion and I’m certain that’s what is at the minds of the Congress president and others who’re operating to discover a resolution,” he stated.

    Ramesh additionally contended that as a result of the Bharat Jodo Yatra Gandhi has been ready to re-establish within the public eye who he in reality is – being concerned, compassionate and delicate.

    “I’ve stated previous and I wish to repeat this isn’t a brand new Rahul Gandhi, that is the actual Rahul Gandhi which the rustic is seeing in the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra,” he stated.

    Ramesh additionally slammed those that criticise the Congress unnecessarily, pronouncing the Congress bashing is a favorite passion of no longer simplest the right-wing but in addition of the liberal commentariat.

    “I believe that should prevent. To a big extent as a result of the Bharat Jodo Yatra this Congress bashing has moderated in tone. I do not believe it has vanished however it has moderated in tone,” he stated.

    Ramesh stated the huge liberal constituency in our nation will have to recognise the one strategy to defeat the “polarising and toxic” schedule of the RSS-BJP is by means of strengthening and reinvigorating the Congress celebration, its values and its ideology.

    The yatra, which used to be introduced on September 7 in Kanyakumari, has finished 102 days and traversed 8 states — Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and now, Rajasthan.

    DAUSA: Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Sunday stated the Bharat Jodo Yatra has ensured that the Congress is now surroundings the political narrative within the nation and the BJP has been made to play on a pitch keen by means of his celebration.

    In an interview with PTI at the yatra finishing 100 days, Ramesh additionally stated that Rahul Gandhi is attempting to sharpen the ideological foundation of the Congress and is operating at the side of the celebration’s elected president, Mallikarjun Kharge, as a ‘jugalbandi’ (in combination).

    Requested whether or not the celebration may adopt some other such yatra subsequent yr, Ramesh stated, “I’d surely love to take part in a Porbandar (Gujarat) to Parshuram Kund (Arunachal Pradesh) Yatra however whether or not we will do it subsequent yr and the way we will do it subsequent yr, it must be mentioned and debated in suitable celebration boards.

    ” The Congress basic secretary in-charge communications asserted that in the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gandhi has given a brand new course to the political discourse and the Congress has set the narrative for the remaining 100 days.

    “The Congress has been applauded, criticised, praised, reviled. What it method is that we had been at the defensive, we had been all the time reacting to what the BJP used to be pronouncing or what it used to be doing however in the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra I believe we have now succeeded to an overly massive extent in having the ability to set the phrases of discussion and the narrative within the political discourse,” Ramesh stated.

    He stated the yatra has had an “electrifying inner impact” at the organisation in addition to at the exterior international of Indian politics.

    Ramesh claimed that because of the yatra, the BJP is at the “again foot, disturbed and fearful”.

    “I believe we have now succeeded in converting the phrases of the talk. The narrative is on our pitch now. We’re enjoying cricket in opposition to the BJP on a pitch this is keen by means of us, we don’t seem to be enjoying cricket in opposition to the BJP on a pitch keen by means of them, that’s the distinction,” he stated.

    Requested if Rahul Gandhi used to be now the conscience-keeper of the celebration, Ramesh stated that is a robust phrase and one does no longer emerge as a conscience-keeper thru only one yatra.

    “He (Gandhi) is elevating problems which will have to be of deep worry to the Indian voters. He’s surely observed because the ideological compass for the Congress celebration. We now have a full-time elected Congress president and in Rahul Gandhi we have now anyone who is attempting to sharpen the ideological foundation of the Congress,” he stated.

    “He and Kharge ji are operating as a jugalbandi. To that extent he (Gandhi) has surely succeeded in energising the celebration organisation, Congress employees, supporters and giving them a brand new hope that the Congress celebration will re-establish itself because the pre-eminent political drive within the nation,” he stated.

    Requested if the yatra would have an electoral affect within the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Karnataka that move to polls subsequent yr, Ramesh reiterated that it isn’t an electoral yatra however an ideological one.

    “This can be a yatra to seize the battlefield of concepts, battlefield of ideologies. Sure we don’t seem to be an NGO, we don’t seem to be a ‘sanyasi’ battalion, we’re a political celebration and we exist to struggle elections and struggle elections to win however whether or not this Bharat Jodo yatra can have a favorable electoral affect, it relies completely at the Congress organisation,” he stated.

    “If we have now harmony, if we have now self-discipline, if we have now a way of collective function, then I believe we will take ahead the message of the Bharat jodo Yatra and achieve electoral luck,” he added.

    The yatra used to be no longer began to win Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha, however to support the ideological moorings of the Congress, re-establish the relationship with the folk, toughen a way of collective function to fight the 3 giant demanding situations of monetary inequality, building up social polarisation and established political authoritarianism.

    Requested in regards to the tussle between Rajasthan Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot and his bete noire Sachin Pilot, Ramesh reiterated Gandhi’s previous remark that each leaders are property for the celebration.

    “No matter approach ahead is located by means of the Congress celebration and the prime command, the primary may be very transparent, the organisation is splendid. Folks come and people move however it’s the organisational pursuits which might be paramount,” he stated.

    “I’d rigidity at the supremacy of organisational passion and I’m certain that’s what is at the minds of the Congress president and others who’re operating to discover a resolution,” he stated.

    Ramesh additionally contended that as a result of the Bharat Jodo Yatra Gandhi has been ready to re-establish within the public eye who he in reality is – being concerned, compassionate and delicate.

    “I’ve stated previous and I wish to repeat this isn’t a brand new Rahul Gandhi, that is the actual Rahul Gandhi which the rustic is seeing in the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra,” he stated.

    Ramesh additionally slammed those that criticise the Congress unnecessarily, pronouncing the Congress bashing is a favorite passion of no longer simplest the right-wing but in addition of the liberal commentariat.

    “I believe that should prevent. To a big extent as a result of the Bharat Jodo Yatra this Congress bashing has moderated in tone. I do not believe it has vanished however it has moderated in tone,” he stated.

    Ramesh stated the huge liberal constituency in our nation will have to recognise the one strategy to defeat the “polarising and toxic” schedule of the RSS-BJP is by means of strengthening and reinvigorating the Congress celebration, its values and its ideology.

    The yatra, which used to be introduced on September 7 in Kanyakumari, has finished 102 days and traversed 8 states — Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and now, Rajasthan.