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Nitish turns oath ceremony into anti-communalism convention

November 20, 2015

Bihar, Nov 20: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has turned his oath-taking ceremony into a national convention of anti-BJP forces.

nitiThough the gathering is not homogenous and unlikely to become a precursor of an anti-Modi grand alliance at national level, it will certainly open up possibilities of new alliances in states and some understanding at the national level.

“This would be a grand event. Ten chief ministers, national leaders like Rahul Gandhi, H D Deve Gowda, Sharad Pawar and Prakash Ambedkar, all are participating. “All the Congress-ruled state chief ministers will attend the event. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee are also participating,” JD(U) General Secretary Arun Shrivastav told Deccan Herald.

The guest list of Nitish shows his first priority — that the event should embarrass BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He has invited all those who are opposed to them. Two Shiv Sena ministers, Ramdas Kadam and Susbhash Desai are prominent names as far as this angle is concerned. Apart from causing embarrassment to the BJP, Nitish and Lalu carefully decided the guests list keeping in view their social and regional importance.

If the list includes regional leaders like JD(S) leader Deve Gowda, DMK’s MK Stalin, Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee and Ajit Jogi (Chhattisgarh) and Babulal Marandi (Jharkhand), it also balances social equations. The Mahagathbandhan has invited AIUDF leader of Asam Badruddin Ajmal and Dalit leader of Maharashtra Prakash Ambedkar.

Two top Left leaders Sitaram Yechury and D Raja are attending the meeting. This shows that national level anti-BJP alliances, which Lalu and Nitish are contemplating, should have broad political base.

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June 15,2020

New Delhi, Jun 15: A total of 1,15,519 samples of COVID-19 have been tested in the last 24 hours taking the total samples tested to 57,74,133 in the country, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said.

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January 31,2020

Jan 31: President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday hailed the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act as "historic" in his address to joint sitting of both houses of Parliament, prompting protests by some opposition members.

He also said that debate and discussion on any issue strengthens democracy while violence during protests weaken it.

"The Citizenship Amendment Act is a historic law. It has fulfilled wishes of our founding fathers including Mahatma Gandhi," he said.

"Debate and discussions strengthen democracy, but violence during protests weaken democracy," he said without directly referring to the anti-CAA protests in the country some of which have witnessed violence.

In a reference to abrogation of Article 370, Kovind said there is happiness among people of India that people in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have got rights on par with the rest of the country.

The president said Parliament has created record in the first seven months of the new government headed by Narendra Modi by enacting several landmark legislations.

"My government is taking strong steps for making this decade as India's decade and this century as India's century," he said.

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June 4,2020

New Delhi, Jun 4: India's Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, following which the defence ministry carried out a massive contact-tracing exercise, official sources said.

Kumar's condition is stable and he is currently under home-quarantine, they said.

At least 35 officials working at the ministry's headquarters in South Block in the Raisina Hills have been sent on home quarantine after reports of Kumar testing positive for the infection emerged on Wednesday morning.

There was no official comment on Kumar's health condition. The defence ministry spokesperson refused to comment on the issue.

It is learnt that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh did not attend office as part of a precautionary measure.

The offices of the defence minister, the defence secretary, the Army Chief and the Navy Chief are on the first floor of the South Block.

The sources said all laid down protocols on contact-tracing and quarantining of people are being scrupulously followed.

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