For a change, BJP lawmakers are asking questions from their leadership
For a change, BJP lawmakers are asking questions from their leadership
When asked about challenges in their constituencies, BJP legislators used to say: ‘Arre, Modi ji hain na.’ But Covid has shaken them out of their comfort zone.
D.K. Singh 10 May, 2021 10:41 am IST Text Size:
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath must be scratching his head in confusion and dismay. He visited Bareilly on Saturday, Union Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar’s Lok Sabha constituency, to take stock of the Covid situation. The next day, a letter from Gangwar, written on Thursday, surfaced on social media. The letter is a virtual indictment of the Adityanath administration, with the labour and employment minister pointing out shortage of empty oxygen cylinders due to hoarding, black marketing of ventilators and other medical equipment, patients having to run from one place to anot
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Farmers reject Centre s 3-point draft proposal; call for pan-India protests on Dec 14
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