Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Supreme Court declines to intervene in release of Narendra Modi biopic
The Supreme Court on Tuesday, 9 April, refused to step into the dispute over the release of a biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, holding that the matter lay with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and the Election Commission (EC) rather than the court. What the court said Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who headed a bench that also included Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna, remarked that “a lot of time of the court is being taken up in non-issues”. The bench declined to direct the EC toRead More
Congress responsible for the creation of Pakistan, says PM Modi in Maharashtra
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, 9 April, blamed the Congress for the creation of Pakistan, at an election rally in Maharashtra’s Latur district. Appeal to first-time voters In a remark seen as treading on sensitive ground, Modi asked young people voting for the first time whether they would dedicate their first vote to those who carried out the air strike at Balakot. Attack on the Congress and the NCP Modi said Pakistan would not have come into being had Congress leaders acted wisely before independence. He also claimed thatRead More
From the ‘BJP Eleven’ of 2014 to only Modi in 2019: a column on the BJP manifesto
A column published after the BJP released its 2019 Lok Sabha manifesto on Monday argued that the party had been fully remade around Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and that the manifesto’s cover showed this more clearly than anything else. Two covers compared The 2019 cover carries only Modi, with the slogan ‘Sankalpit Bharat, Sashakt Bharat’ (Resolute India, Strong India). The columnist wrote that the contents had moved away from jobs, unemployment and growth towards national security, with brief mentions of the surgical strikes of 2016 and the Balakot strikes ofRead More