Inappropriate, insulting : Assam CM faces Opposition heat over comment on Akhil Gogoi s mental health
The state Congress said that the chief minister s comment is extremely unfortunate as society is still fighting against the stigma on mental health issues.
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GUWAHATI: The Congress and the Raijor Dal of Akhil Gogoi on Tuesday separately described the statement of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the assembly that the jailed anti-CAA activist and MLA is a patient of mental disease as highly inappropriate and insulting .
The state Congress said that the chief minister s comment is extremely unfortunate as society is still fighting against the stigma on mental health issues.
Ministers tweets too manipulative, Congress to Twitter
May 25, 2021
People tend to take information put up by a Union Minister at face value
Congress has written to Twitter demanding that tweets by other BJP leaders and Union Ministers should also be tagged as manipulative media, applying the same yardsticks it used towards the tweets on the allegedly forged toolkit by BJP spokesman Sambit Patra. The party had filed an FIR against the BJP leaders for forgery of documents.
In a letter to Twitter s Lead for Legal, Policy and Trust & Safety Vijaya Gadde and its Deputy General Counsel and Vice President Jim Baker, AICC General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala said the social media platform should urgently affix the ‘Manipulative Media’ tags to the tweets of Union Ministers in the Narendra Modi Government for spreading false and malicious propaganda.
State lawmakers urge federal government to remove the term “Negro” from Texas place names
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Texas lawmakers are asking the federal government to remove the term “Negro” from dozens of places across the state where the word appears in the location’s name.
The move by the Legislature comes three decades after Texas passed a law that was supposed to rename the places after Black Americans
who made a significant contribution to Texas. But the U.S. Board for Geographic Names, the federal entity with the final say over any natural place name in the country, blocked the changes, saying there was a lack of demonstrated local support for the proposed new names or opposition to current ones.
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Centre, states should fight pandemic unitedly; PM should walk the talk: Anand Sharma
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His statements came in the backdrop of some opposition-ruled states accusing the Centre of not lending a helping hand in procuring vaccines from abroad, and in the larger fight against the pandemic.
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Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Tuesday called for unity between the Centre and states in fighting the Covid pandemic.
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Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Tuesday called for unity between the Centre and states in fighting the Covid pandemic, saying it is time Prime Minister Narendra Modi walk the talk on cooperative federalism.