Haryana’s JJP is having a hard time explaining its stance on farm laws. Deputy CM Dushyant has backed partner BJP, but other MLAs have sided with farmers.
Malviya had claimed Rahul Gandhi’s tweet showing a cane-wielding policeman charging an old farmer was ‘propaganda’, but fact-checkers have shown it was real.
The farmers at the Delhi-Noida border belong to various districts of western UP and want to reach Delhi to join the bigger stir launched by Punjab and Haryana farmers.
Protesting the contentious agriculture laws, farmers have come prepared, with at least 2 months worth of ration, blankets to fight Delhi’s winter and even cards to pass time.
The Congress leader in a Twitter post said that everyone was indebted to the farmers for their hard work and this debt would be repaid only by giving them justice.
The consequence of the Modi govt skipping steps of a deliberative democracy is that the farm bill’s policy argument plays out in emotions instead of economics.
At a public meeting in Varanasi, PM Modi said the same people who played tricks with farmers in the name of MSP, loan waiver & fertiliser subsidy, were opposing the reforms today.
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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