Manju Singh, mother of late Captain Anshuman Singh, met the Congress MP in Raebareli. She slammed the Agnipath scheme, saying that facilities must be equal for all soldiers.
In a 6-minute video, mother and son talk about the family's long history with the two Uttar Pradesh constituencies, going back to a visit by Jawaharlal Nehru to Rae Bareli in 1921.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi adopted Urwa gram panchayat in UP pocket borough Raebareli in 2014. Since then, she has neither set foot here nor made any major changes.
Ex-world chess champion Kasparov says hopes his joke about Congress's Rahul Gandhi contesting from Rae Bareli 'does not pass for advocacy or expertise in Indian politics.'
Congress MP adopted village in 2014, while Union minister did in 2019. Roads have come up & so have other amenities, but much remains to be done, especially in interior areas.
For local residents of these two constituencies, the fact that Rahul & Sonia seem to have taken them for granted is more hurtful than BJP’s political rhetoric suggests.
The Congress has promised Rs 50,000 assistance to each woman but as we've seen in many recent elections, voters seem to be conscious of the proverb: 'A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.'
Fears that an escalation of the conflict could heighten a fuel squeeze & endanger the economy unnerved traders, with NYT reporting Iran stopped negotiating a truce with the US.
French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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