NEW DELHI: Two days after BJP chief JP Nadda wrote a stinging letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi citing party MP Rahul Gandhi’s “duplicity” in criticising the Modi government’s Rs 20,000 crore Central Vista projection despite the raging coronavirus pandemic, but carrying on with the construction of a new assembly building in Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh, the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government announced a complete halt to all construction activities related to the new legislature in the state.
In an attempt seen as the Congress-ruled state daring the Union government to follow suit, the Chhatisgarh government said in statement released on Thursday afternoon that in view of the circumstances arising in the state due to coronavirus infection, the Chhattisgarh government has halted construction works of all major projects with immediate effect and also decided to take even more stringent measures for austerity.
When Process Is Punishment: Hidme Markam s Activism and the Sketchy Cases Against Her
Markam knew she would soon become a target â every tribal rights activist confronting state repression in Bastar faces a similar fate.
Hidme Markam amid heavy paramilitary deployment at a protest in Dantewada. Photo: Deependra Sori
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh): Hidme Markamâs arrest was inevitable.
Over the past decade, the 28-year-old Adivasi rights activist from Permapara in Burgum village of Dantewada district in southern Chhattisgarh had immersed herself in the peopleâs movement, fighting both the police and the Naxals in equal measure. There are hardly any villages in the conflict-torn Dantewada district that Markam hadnât reached â gathering evidence of both police and Naxal excesses, and strategising ways to fight a legal battle. As a pivotal part of the Jail Bandi Rihai Manch (Committee for the Release of Arrested Persons), Markam, along with other tribal rights acti
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Speed up work on Jagdalpur hospital, Chhattisgarh told
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The development comes days after a deputy commandant of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) Vikas Kumar, who was injured in an IED blast in Sukma district of Bastar region on Sunday, died due to his injuries in Raipur on Monday.
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NEW DELHI: After a spate of casualties among the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)’s elite Commando Battalion in Chhattisgarh, the Centre has asked the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government to hasten the construction of a super-speciality hospital and trauma centre at Jagdalpur. At present, emergency cases and those injured by IEDs are flown to Raipur with the chances of survival being less due to the delay in transit. The medical facility at Jagdalpur will help cut down travel time by more than 40 minutes, said officials.
The sit-in protest by tribals at Kanker district. (Express)
The Ram Van Gaman Paripath Rath Yatra, marking two years of the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government in Chhattisgarh, was obstructed on Wednesday when members of the Sarva Adiwasi Samaj an amalgam of tribal organisations blocked one of the two chariot rallies in Kanker district, 150 km away from its destination Chandkhuri, by staging a sit-in.
As part of the yatra, members of district bikers associations, along with a chariot, are touring the Ram Van Gaman circuit, being developed as a tourist trail by the state in a Rs 134-crore project.
The SAS has objected to the yatra. In a letter sent to the CM and the Governor, it said, “We are against the entire construction of this project. This is against our customs. The Adiwasi is neither atheist nor a believer. She just believes and worships nature.”