PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Varanasi, his Lok Sabha constituency, on 15 July. He is expected to inaugurate the Rudraksha Convention Center, built with the help of Japan.
Former IAS officer AK Sharma is credited with making Varanasi a relatively safer place in a state where Covid has wreaked havoc, exposing administrative inefficiency & mismanagement.
PMO sent one of Modi’s most trusted lieutenants — A.K. Sharma, now a BJP MLC in Uttar Pradesh — to Varanasi last month to supervise the Covid situation.
Varanasi is among the 4 high-burden districts in UP. Villagers said 'fever & cough' had claimed many lives before they realised the deaths had 'something to do with Covid'.
The Gyanvapi management had appealed the HC in 1998 to decide whether a civil suit in the case is barred under a 1991 law. The HC completed hearings only last month.
SC said in 2019 Ayodhya verdict that status of no other place of worship will be allowed to change. Yet, civil judge has ordered ASI to find if mosque is built over temple.
Top Muslim leaders said they would challenge the Varanasi court order while AIMIM questions legality of order. Opposition parties such as SP, BSP and TMC have refused to comment.
The prime minister had said the interaction would give first-hand opportunity to hear the experiences as well as get feedback from frontline warriors who are getting vaccinated.
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