Please stop fooling people in the name of Ram: Shiv Sena to BJP

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October 22, 2018

Pune, Oct 22: Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray has dared the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to come clean and confess before the public that building the Ram temple at Ayodhya is not possible for them.

“Since 1989, the party has been giving slogans for erecting a Ram temple at Ayodhya. Sena supremo Bal Thackeray had helped the BJP by evoking enthusiasm for the temple in Maharashtra. Yet, after all these years, why is the project still in limbo?” Mr. Thackeray said at a rally of Shiv Sainiks in the temple town of Shirdi in Ahmednagar district.

The rally marks Mr. Thackeray’s start of campaigning for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. “Why keep deceiving people on the Ram temple issue? Like all false promises of the Modi government, it ought to acknowledge that the one on Ram temple construction, too, is false.”

The Sena chief, whose visit comes on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Shirdi tour last week, said the PM only sought the blessings of Sai Baba to stay in power for the next five years. “I have no craving for position. I have prayed for the welfare of the public. Before my visit, someone else [Mr. Modi] had come to seek Sai Baba’s blessings, but what has he done with that? There has been no improvement in the situation of the common man and the poor in this country,” he said.

Mr. Modi had offered worship at Sai Baba temple during the closing ceremony of the Sai Baba Samadhi centenary celebrations. He had also handed over keys to houses to nearly 40,000 beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Gramin (PMAY- G).

Mocking Mr. Modi’s conversations with PMAY beneficiaries, Mr. Thackeray said the PM’s attempt to win hearts and minds by interacting with villagers in the vernacular language is a sham as people in the State have not benefited by the schemes of the BJP government.

“In many cases, beneficiaries are being tutored by the BJP government. But has the situation improved from what it was during earlier governments? The State has also been hoodwinking people with its farm loan waiver scheme,” he said.

The Sena president defended the party’s actions in criticising the BJP despite being part of the ruling coalition in the State and at the Centre.

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India would not discriminate among religions, we are not a theocratic country like Pakistan: Rajnath Singh

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January 22,2020

New Delhi, Jan 22: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said Indian values consider all religions equal, and that is why the country is secular and never became a theocratic state like Pakistan.

Speaking at the NCC Republic Day Camp in Delhi, Singh said: "We (India) said we would not discriminate among religions. Why did we do that? Our neighbouring country has declared that their state has a religion. They have declared themselves a theocratic state. We didn't declare so."

"Even America is a theocratic country. India is not a theocratic country. Why? Because our saints and seers did not just consider the people living within our borders as part of the family, but called everyone living in the world as one family," the minister said.

Singh underlined that India had never declared its religion would be Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist and people of all religions could live here.

"They gave the slogan of 'Vasudev Kutumbakam' -- the whole world is one family. This message has gone to the whole world from here only," he added.

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Very thoughtful and eye-catching statement by Defense Minister, Rajnath Singh.

Sir, I kindly request you to convey this beautiful message to your Party’s comrades, who are deprived of this dosage for long times and are badly need of this.

Also, for those from your Party, who are, time and again, spitting the venomous rhetoric against Dalits, Muslims, Christians and others alike.

Yashwant Sinhaji is now doing a wonderful job in this regard.

You will also follow his suit for sure in the days to come; that’s what your honest statement indicates.

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Insensitive and inhuman, says Rahul Gandhi on Modi govt’s decision to freeze DA

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April 24,2020

New Delhi, Apr 24: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has termed the government decision to freeze Dearness Allowance of Central government employees for a year as "insensitive and inhuman."

The former Congress President in a tweet said: "Lakhs and crores are being spent on the Bullet Train and New Delhi's Central Vista which should have been suspended, but the government has deducted DA of Central government employees and pensioners... It is insensitive and inhuman."

"The tragic part is that by deducting this amount from January 1, 2020 up to 30th June, 2021 for a period of 1.5 years, the government of India proceeds to deduct almost Rs 38 thousand crore from the income of these middle class government employees and pensioners, who rely completely on the pay and pensions that they receive," said Randeep Surjewala, chief spokesperson of Congress.

There are about 50 lakh such serving government employees and about 62 lakh pensioners.

"Even more tragic and objectionable is the fact that the government of India has not even spared our armed forces. The government has deducted Rs 11 thousand crore of the 15 lakh serving armed forces personnel and nearly 26 lakh military pensioners. What is their fault? They are serving the nation in times of all types of crises," said Surjewala.

The Congress alleged that the government did not spare the savings scheme.

Instead of curbing the wasteful expenditure, the government has been constantly hitting at the income of government employees and the middle class, it added.

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All 43 tested positive for COVID-19 attended Nizamuddin event : AP govt

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April 1,2020

Amaravati, Apr 1: All the 43 patients who were tested positive for COVID-19 in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday have returned after attending the event at Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz, said Chief Minister's Office, Andhra Pradesh.

With 43 new COVID-19 positive cases, the total number of coronavirus cases in Andhra Pradesh has reached 87, informed the state Nodal Office earlier today.

The 43 new coronavirus positive cases were reported between March 31, 9 pm and April 1, 9 am. A total of 373 samples were tested during this time period and of these samples, 330 were negative and 43 came out to be positive.

There has been an increase of 240 COVID-19 cases in the last 12 hours across the country.
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the total number of COVID-19 positive cases have reached 1637 in India, including 1466 active cases, 133 cured/discharged/migrated people and 38 deaths.

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