While the farmers' demand for legalising MSP is being questioned for the allegedly hefty expenditure the government would have to incur, the potential sundry benefits it would have for the agricultural sector in general outweigh the costs.
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Each year on the Punjabi festival of Lohri, peanut shells fly into the bonfire, challenging the biting January cold. “Uddam aa, dalidarr jaa,” elders recite a couplet. “Dalidarr di jarh chulle paa!” Throw the very roots of apathy into the fire, may it be replaced by fiery effort! Youngsters dance to tunes they fancy but not before the customary call-and-response (“hoye!”) folk song about “Dulla Bhatti waala” – the legendary hero who led a rebellion against Mughal emperor Akbar.
Major Narindar Saroop, cavalry officer, clubman and Tory candidate of traditional views – obituary
He wrote letters to The Telegraph on race relations, and in a memoir wrote that he strove to keep ‘fools, boredom and socialism at bay’
Saroop: touched by the spirit of Wodehouse
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Major Narindar Saroop, who has died aged 91, was the first person of Asian background to be chosen as a Conservative parliamentary candidate in the 20th century, when he ran a dashing though unsuccessful campaign in Greenwich during the 1979 general election.
At a time when most aspiring politicians were increasingly trying to prove their oneness with ordinary electors, and many immigrants were concerned with quietly getting on with their jobs, Saroop was an unashamedly elitist addition to the party list.
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“Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.”