GUWAHATI: The Guwahati high court, while rejecting the bail plea of peasant leader Akhil Gogoi on Thursday, upheld the verdict of a special NIA court and ruled that the anti-CAA protests in the state led by him in 2019 were not in line of non-violent “satyagraha” but “squarely falls within the definition of terrorist act as defined in in Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.”
A division bench comprising Justice Kalyan Rai Surana and Justice Ajit Bathakur in its order stated, “By use of violence, the appellant (Akhil)-led mob had brushed aside the noble concept of non-violent protest, which is popularly known as satyagraha and that such conduct of paralyzing the government machinery, causing economic blockade, causing enmity between groups, disruption of public peace an widespread disharmony and dissatisfaction towards the government, are acts which are prejudicial/for national integration and such acts squarely falls within the definition of “terrorist act” as defined
Forces pressurised Manmohan Singh, Sharad Pawar not to implement farm sector reforms: Narendra Singh Tomar By Pragya Kaushika (ANI) | Updated: Dec 28, 2020 14:49 IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday said that even former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar who served as the Agriculture Minister during the UPA government wanted to implement reforms in the farm sector but could not due to external forces .
Tomar stated that many Chief Ministers had tried to implement the same farm laws that the Narendra Modi government has formulated for agriculture sector reforms in the country but could not implement them due to these external pressures.
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External pressure stopped ex-PM Manmohan Singh, Sharad Pawar from implementing farm laws: Tomar
The statement came a day before the government is set to resume talks with farmers unions protesting against three Central farm laws. File photo: Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar (Source: ANI)
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Updated: Dec 28, 2020, 03:15 PM IST
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday said that even former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar who served as the Agriculture Minister during the UPA government wanted to implement reforms in the farm sector but could not due to external forces .
2020: Bihar went to polls amid COVID 19; NDA scraped through, opposition came out stronger
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The state was relatively less affected by the deadly coronavirus, accounting for under five per cent of the total cases in the country, and an even smaller percentage of fatalities, despite being home to almost one-tenth of its population.
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The state saw many demonstrations against the CAA- NPR-NRC before COVID-19 struck and large public gatherings were banned.
Patna: In a year that left the world in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bihar pulled off a mammoth electoral exercise which saw the NDA retain power but a reinvigorated opposition snapping at its heels.