Author: News Analysis India

A 34-year-old man was arrested for allegedly posting an “abusive” comment against Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel on social media, police said Wednesday. Lalit Yadav, a resident of Saragaon in Raipur district, was arrested Tuesday on charges of posting an “abusive and derogatory” comment against the Congress Chief Minister on his Facebook page, a senior police official said. A complaint about the post by Yadav, who works in a city hotel, was lodged by a Youth Congress worker, he said. Yadav’s comment was in response to a Facebook post pertaining to a skywalk being constructed to facilitate movement of pedestrians between…

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi attacked the BJP at a rally in her parliamentary constituency of Raebareli yesterday, accusing the ruling party of “crossing limits of dignity” to retain power and deliver a second successive term in office for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In her first public address since election results were declared last month, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson also alleged that “many types of doubts” had emerged over the country’s electoral processes. “All types of tactics were adopted to woo voters. Everyone in this country knows whether it was moral or immoral of whatever happened in the elections,” Ms…

Days after the BJP’s landslide electoral victory, some of the country’s leading Muslim leaders wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The signatories included All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMLPB) member Kamal Farooqi and Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind leader Mehmood Madani, and they sought confidence building measures from Modi. The letter welcomed two significant speeches made by the PM-the first at the BJP’s Delhi headquarter on May 23 where he appealed to his party men to win the trust of the minorities, adding ‘Sab ka vishwas (winning everyone’s trust)’ to his ‘Ab sab ka saath, sab ka vikas’ slogan. In…

The furore over junior doctors’ strike in Bengal following violence at a government hospital has taken a political turn, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleging that it is the result of a conspiracy between the BJP and the Left. The BJP has alleged that the Chief Minister is not taking action against the miscreants who beat up a doctor at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, because they are “her voters”. Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy has alleged that members of a particular community had carried out the attack on doctors and that the perpetrators belonged to the Trinamool Congress. “Providing…

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has ordered an immediate stay on all mining activities in Dantewada region on Tuesday, June 11. He took the decision after thousands of tribals from around 200 villages in the district protested against the mining activities in Bailadila iron ore deposit-13 managed by Adani Enterprise. thousands of tribals from villages of Dantewada and Bijapur districts had staged an agitation a few days ago opposing the excavation and mine development in the area, the contract for which was given to Adani Enterprises by the National Mineral Development Corporation (NDMC). Per a report published in Nai Duniya, Baghel met the representatives…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exhortation at the NDA parliamentary party meet last month that his new government would strive to win the trust of all sections of society has prompted prominent leaders of the Muslim community to ask for an active engagement on issues facing the community — education, jobs and what they term Confidence Building Measures (CBM) in the face of “hooliganism”. The letter addressed to Prime Minister Modi, comes from at least 20 leaders of various community bodies, including Maulana Mahmood Madani of the Jamat Ulama-i-Hind, Kamal Faruqui, former head of the Delhi Minorities Commission, Dr Fakhruddin Mohammad…

The face-off between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Bharatiya Janata Party further intensified on Wednesday after police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse BJP workers who were marching towards Lal Bazar to protest against the Trinamool Congress government. The saffron party workers, along with 18 newly elected MPs in the state and BJP state president Dilip Ghosh, were marching towards the Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar from the Wellington area of the city. Bengal’s BJP minder Kailash Vijayvargiya and senior party leader Mukul Roy also joined the march. Post-poll violence has been reported from various…

Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi will not get bail, said the High Court in the UK, where he is currently living. Nirav Modi was arrested on March 20 and has been in Her Majesty’s Prison Wandsworth, one of the largest prisons in Western Europe. The 48-year-old, wanted in India in the Punjab National Bank fraud case, had asked for a review of a lower court order that denied him bail. He will now need permission from a lower court to re-apply for bail at the magistrate’s court. Nirav Modi had argued that he had arrived in the UK in January…

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday unveiled a bust of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar at the Hare School ground. Trinamool Congress leaders, ministers in the West Bengal government, as well as some spiritual leaders, attended the event to mark the unveiling of social-reformer Vidyasagar’s bust. As per the event schedule, the unveiled bust will now be taken from here to Vidyasagar college where it will be re-installed at the same place where a similar statue was broken in May during a political clash. Moreover, the TMC chief will march to Vidyasagar College to participate in the re-installation event of…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday asked top bureaucrats to prepare a five-year plan for each ministry with well-defined targets and milestones in sync with the people’s mandate in the election to change the status quo and improve quality of life, officials said. In a meeting with secretaries of all ministries, the prime minister said each ministry should come out with an “impactful decision” for which approvals will have to be taken within 100 days, they said. The prime minister said people were yearning for a better life and the government must focus on ensuring ease of living, and asked the…