The BJP today slammed the UPA government and said inspite of reprimand by Supreme Court the Centre seems little concerned about Rs 58,000 crore worth of food grains rotting in FCI godowns. Around 180 lakh tones food grain is lying in open at various open godowns in Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan and UP belonging to government under central pool, BJP National Secretary Kirit Somaiya told reporters here. The Food Corporation...
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Land reforms, bataidari' tops Left agenda by Arun Kumar
The newly floated Left Front, comprising CPI, CPM and CPI-ML (Liberation), is contesting the state assembly polls on the plank of land reforms and "bataidari (sharecropping)". The leaders of the three parties made a joint appeal to the people at the Janshakti Bhawan here on Sunday to vote for Left candidates in view of the fact that the Congress, RJD and NDA had failed to deliver the goods. CPI national executive member...
More »Leh record: 50,000 saplings planted in less than an hour
The 'cold desert' of Leh on Sundat entered the Guinness Book of World Records after 50,000 saplings were planted at a village here in less than one hour by 9,000 volunteers under a drive supported by Buddhist monks to mark the 'green' Commonwealth Games in Delhi. The earlier record was held by Peru where 40,000 saplings were planted during an one-hour event by 8,000 volunteers. The programme was flagged off by Drukchen...
More »Cash, liquor flow free in UP panchayat polls by Virendra Nath Bhatt
This time in Uttar Pradesh, panchayat elections — the first phase starts Monday — are being fought with an intensity never seen before. Eight persons have already died in poll-related violence over the past 15 days. All the trappings of a typical poll are there — hoardings; free flow of liquor, money and clothes for voters; and candidates moving about in SUVs. “So much money and violence was seen neither in the...
More »BJP MP threatens to distribute foodgrain among poor, arrested
BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP and former member of the Punjab State Human Rights Commission Avinash Rai Khanna was arrested on Friday and later released by Hoshiarpur police for leading a march to the godowns of Food Corporation of India (FCI) in New Grain Market. Khanna had announced that he would pick the grains from the godowns of FCI in the grain market and distribute it among the poor. A large number...
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