Quite satisfied with the Uttar Pradesh-style of police high-handedness that is increasingly being compared to the Gestapo of the Nazi Germany, Pawan Kumar Jaiswal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Dhaka constituency said the same style of policing was required in Bihar to get a grip on crime.
“Bihar is in need of UP-like ‘overturning of vehicles’ to get control over crime,” Jaiswal said on Thursday referring to the death of notorious criminal Vikas Dubey who died when, while being transported to UP from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, the vehicle ‘accidentally’ turned over and crashed killing Dubey on the spot.
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NOIDA: The District Fee Regulation Committee (DFRC) of GB Nagar has not held a single meeting in the past one year. The DFRC has also not responded to any RTI query sent by parents, claimed All Noida School Parents’ Association (ANSPA). The last meeting of the DFRC, Noida, was held in February 2020.
The DFRC, which was constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government in 2018 to regulate fee hikes by private schools, was supposed to meet frequently to take up parents’ complaints against schools and facilitate face-to-face meetings between parents and school authorities to resolve the issues.
During lockdown, when several schools started protesting against irregularities and fee hikes, DFRC did not hold any meeting virtually or physically.
The CM said the GDP of the state was Rs 10.90 lakh crore in 2015-16 (when the state was being run by the Samajwadi Party government) which has grown to Rs 21.73 lakh crore in four years. "If it has increased more than twice in four years, then when we come to power after 2022, UP will become the largest economy. The team is working towards that goal," he said.
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NEW DELHI: Five farmers from each Uttar Pradesh village will fast for eight hours daily and send messages to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking withdrawal of the three farm laws and legal guarantee for MSP, Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan (RKMS) president V M Singh said on Tuesday.
The RKMS had withdrawn its support from the ongoing farmers agitation against the three contentious central laws following the violence in Delhi on Republic Day. It joined 21 other farmer outfits on Sunday to form the Uttar Pradesh Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (UPKMM). Five farmers from each village in Uttar Pradesh will observe a fast from 9 am to 5 pm. At 3 pm, these farmers will record two-minute messages, introducing themselves to Prime Minister Modi and sharing their grievances on the new farms laws, which will be uploaded on our website, Singh said at a press conference here.
NEW DELHI: Twenty-two farmer organisations of Uttar Pradesh have joined hands to launch village-level agitation across the state from March 1 where five farmers from each village will observe fast for eight hours every day and record messages for Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking withdrawal of three farm laws and legal guarantee to purchase at minimum support price (MSP).
“Idea behind this kind of protest is to take it to every nook and corner of the state instead of joining the protesters at Delhi borders. We have devised a new way of protest where the farmers can stay in their villages and also take part in the agitation without neglecting their day-to-day farm operations,” said V M Singh of Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan (RKMS).