Covid-19 in India: Good Samaritan gives dignified farewell to discarded victims
Joydeep Sen Gupta in New Delhi/New Delhi Filed on May 10, 2021
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The selfless act of Jitender Singh, alias Shunty, has struck a big chord with Delhi residents, who are living on the edge due to the pandemic.
Death is alive and the only constant that’s stalking the panic and grief-stricken hapless Indians.
But who will give a dignified farewell to the Covid-19 victims, whose lives are being snuffed out like fireflies, as the Narendra Modi-ruled Indian government appeared to have dropped the ball on contagion management and a bereaved nation mourns for the departed?
Former Indian minister Ajit Singh passes away due to Covid
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Leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, pay tribute to Singh on social media.
Former Indian union minister Ajit Singh, 82, passed away on Thursday at a hospital in Gurgaon near Delhi after battling Covid-19 for the past few days.
Son of former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, Ajit was a vastly different personality in Indian (especially Uttar Pradesh) politics. He had an IIT degree and was comfortable speaking in English, as well as the local dialects in UP, and had lived abroad for several years before returning to India in the 1980s.
BJP will play role of constructive Opposition in Bengal: Newly-elected MLA Ashok Lahiri
Lahiri, a former chief economic advisor to the Centre, was among the well-known professionals fielded by the BJP.
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KOLKATA: The BJP will play the role of a constructive opposition in West Bengal, said former Finance Commission member Ashok Lahiri, a newly-elected MLA of the party.
Lahiri, a former chief economic advisor to the Centre, was among the well-known professionals fielded by the BJP.
While the others in that list, including columnist Swapan Dasgupta, former deputy Army chief Subrata Saha and strategic analyst Anirban Ganguly, lost their maiden electoral foray, Lahiri who was tipped to be Bengal s finance minister in case the BJP formed a government in the state bested TMC s Shekhar Dasgupta by nearly 14,000 votes from Balurghat.
BJP will play role of constructive opposition in Bengal: Ashok Lahiri
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Last Updated: May 04, 2021, 12:07 PM IST
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Synopsis I have won my battle, but we have lost the larger war . This means we will be sitting in the opposition benches, but I can assure you that we will work as a constructive opposition, Lahiri said.
Lahiri had earlier said that he joined politics to come back and work for his home state and promised to focus on Bengal s education, health and infrastructure.
The BJP will play the role of a constructive opposition in West Bengal, said former Finance Commission member Ashok Lahiri, a newly-elected MLA of the party.
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New Delhi, April 30
Eminent jurist and former Attorney General of India Soli J Sorabjee died of Covid at a private hospital here on Friday morning, sources said.
He was 91.
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