Follow UPA regime excise rates on petrol products to help people, says Sonia
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January 07, 2021 19:51 IST
Ahead of fresh round of talks with farmers, the Congress chief asks Modi govt. to withdraw farm laws.
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi. File Photo
Ahead of fresh round of talks with farmers, the Congress chief asks Modi govt. to withdraw farm laws.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday demanded that the Narendra Modi government charge the same rate of excise duty on petroleum products as the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance did and give relief to common people.
Excessive taxation by the Modi government has led to the highest ever price of petroleum products in the past 73 years and the government has so far collected ₹19 lakh crore in excise duty in the past six years, she alleged in a statement.
December 31, 2020
It’s patch-up time in the Congress party which is hopeful of getting a full-time president in the New Year 2021 and a possible upswing in its fortunes. Four months after the group of senior leaders, who came to be known as the G23, wrote a letter to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi in August demanding thorough organizational reforms and a visible and active full-time party chief, she started a process of reconciliation in December to keep the flock together.
From all accounts, the key December 19 meeting between Sonia Gandhi and the dissenters marked a thaw in the relations between the Congress’ first family and the seniors who had been at sea since August.
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Reality Belies Modi Govt Claims of Implementing Swaminathan Commission s Report
Of the 201 recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission, the Modi government has only implemented 25, and 175 had been done during the UPA regime.
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Government27/Dec/2020
New Delhi: The Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations are once again in the limelight amidst the ongoing nationwide farmers’ agitation against the three controversial agricultural laws passed by the Narendra Modi government.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar have recently claimed once again that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had failed to implement the recommendations of the National Farmers Commission, known as the Swaminathan Commission, for eight years, following which their party finally implemented them.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray
In a setback for Uddhavrao Thackeray led Shiv Sena, its alliance partner Congress s senior leader Ashok Chavan has cleared that the former is not a part of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and that the alliance between the two parties is limited to the State of Maharashtra,
Times of India.
This comes just a day after Shiv Sena s senior leader Sanjay Raut had tried to push for an expansion of the UPA while asserting that Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar also enjoyed support across parties like UPA s chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
Reacting to Raut s assertion, Chavan, who is also a senior minister in the ruling Government said that it was not proper for Thackeray led the party to comment on UPA s leadership. He stated that UPA allies trusted Gandhi s leadership and that there is no need to discuss the issue.