Saturday, January 5th, 2019
Naveen Patnaik to hold farmers’ rally in Delhi on January 8 over paddy MSP
Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal president Naveen Patnaik has planned a farmers’ rally at Talkatora Stadium in Delhi on January 8 to protest against the Centre. It will be his first rally in the national capital, intended to display his party’s strength before the Lok Sabha and state assembly polls due later this year. BJD leaders said farmers from Odisha would travel to Delhi to register their protest against the NDA government. The demand on paddy prices At a press conference held by the party’s farmers’ wing, theRead More
Rafale will bring Modi back to power, Nirmala Sitharaman tells Lok Sabha
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman replied for nearly two hours to a heated debate on the Rafale jet deal in Parliament, accusing the Congress of abandoning an earlier deal for 126 jets while in power because it did not get money, and of putting what she called treasury security ahead of national security. Sitharaman’s reply Referring to the Bofors scandal that broke in 1986, when Rajiv Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi’s father, headed the government, she said: “Bofors was a scam and Rafale is not a scam.” She said the Congress had lostRead More