BJP plans outreach to get PM farm message across Delhi
The PM will interact with farmers from six states as part of an event to release the next installment of financial benefits under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN). December 24, 2020 3:21:58 am
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)
Delhi BJP will set up screens in 280 municipal wards across the city on Friday to telecast Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s virtual meeting with farmers. Party members have been asked to ensure a gathering of at least 200 people in each place.
The PM will interact with farmers from six states as part of an event to release the next installment of financial benefits under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN). The event will be held virtually at noon and will be telecast live.
How Modiâs Parliament âBhoomi Pujanâ Breached the Constitutionâs Basic Structure
In anything to do with the parliament of India, the prime minister has less importance than a president and vice president.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays the foundation stone of new parliament building in New Delhi. Photo: PTI
Politics23/Dec/2020
Parliamentary protocols and proprieties are an integral part of the ethics and culture of parliamentary democracy. They constitute not only the form of parliamentary democracy, but also its soul and substance.
For example, in any parliamentary proceeding, if the presiding officer (speaker in the case of the Lok Sabha and chairman in the case of the Rajya Sabha, who happens to be the vice president of India) rises from his or her chair, even the prime minister has to sit down. Similarly, in any function in or outside parliament in which the president and/or the vice president are present, they enjoy a higher protocol than the prime mi
‘For Vajpayee, discrimination on faith was completely no-go’ (Book Review)
By IANS| Published: 23rd December 2020 8:42 pm IST
New Delhi, Dec 23 : At a time when inter-faith marriages have come under pressure and Uttar Pradesh has even promulgated an anti-conversion ordinance, a new book contends that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was vehemently opposed to discrimination based on faith and that religious conversions deeply offended his sensibilities – but he accepted them.
“Unlike Gandhi, who had detailed exposure of living in a non-Hindu milieu and extensive conversations with Christian theologians, Vajpayee was very much rooted in the larger Hindu traditions. Hence, for him, discrimination based on faith was completely no-go, and the ruler was not to be concerned with the belief systems of his subjects. This worked fine conceptually when boundaries between faiths are fluid and faith is not seen as all-pervasive,” Shakti Sinha, who had worked closely with
Trinamul Congress turncoat Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday said the BJP had helped his old party in its journey since its birth in 1998 and credited the saffron party for its role in the Nandigram movement that catapulted Mamata Banerjee to power in 2011.
“In past three days, many people are calling me a betrayer, a Mirzafar. Who were with Trinamul since 1998, in Assembly polls, panchayat polls and the Lok Sabha polls in 1999? If the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and BJP leader L.K. Advani had not helped Trinamul, the party would have wound up before 2001,” Suvendu told around 5,000 BJP workers at a rally in East Burdwan’s Purbasthali.
Vajpayee statue to be unveiled on Dec 25 in Bhopal
By IANS| Published: 23rd December 2020 8:33 pm IST
Bhopal, Dec 23 : A statue of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is all set to be unveiled at the Shaurya Memorial intersection of Madhya Pradesh’s capital.
The statue will be unveiled on December 25, on the occasion of Vajpayee’s birth anniversary.
Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inspected the statue site at the Shaurya Memorial intersection on Wednesday.
Former mayor Alok Sharma, Bhopal Municipal Commissioner and other officials were present at the time of site inspection.
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