Kerala polls: CM Vijayan to contest from Dharmadam; 6 CPI-M ministers in fray; FM Isaac denied ticket
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March 10, 2021
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and six of his Cabinet colleagues have been fielded by the ruling CPI(M) for the April 6 state assembly elections, while Finance minister Thomas Issac has been denied a ticket this time.
The party on Wednesday released the list of 83 of its 85 candidates including nine CPI(M) supported independents. Health Minister K K Shailaja, Labour minister T P Ramakrishnan, Power minister M M Mani, Devaswom minister Kadakkampally Surendran, Fisheries minister Mercykutty Amma and Local Self Government minister A C Moideen are trying their luck once again.
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Subsidies have been cut even as LPG prices have surged across the country, with a cylinder now costing over Rs 800. Providing cooking gas has been one of the biggest successes of the Modi govt s welfare push, which also included building toilets and houses for the poor. The elephant in the room is the price rise, says an analyst.
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Provisions for the LPG cooking fuel subsidies were halved in this budget.
Five years ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government offered Indian women a chance to dramatically improve their lives with cooking fuel subsidies in what became one of his administration’s most celebrated campaigns.
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(Bloomberg) Five years ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government offered Indian women a chance to dramatically improve their lives with cooking fuel subsidies in what became one of his administration’s most celebrated campaigns.
Now, hamstrung by a widening fiscal deficit, New Delhi has been slowly reducing the size of those handouts a shift that risks upsetting women voters and potentially exposing millions to heavier levels of pollution.
In Allauddinnagar, a village in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, Laxmi Kishore, a 35-year-old homemaker, is worried. Cooking food for her family used to be an ordeal that involved using cheap fuels like cow dung, crops and wood, which burn with a sooty flame and left her teary eyed and choking. When Modi’s program made liquefied petroleum gas cylinders affordable to her some
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