On April 6, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) marked its forty-first
Sthapana Divas (Foundation Day) with quiet online celebrations, both at the national and district levels. This was to be expected, given that the whole country is in the middle of a second Covid-19 wave, even more virulent than the earlier one.
With the latest daily caseload of over 150,000, the figures are nothing short of alarming. The good news, however, is that over 100 million Indians have already been vaccinated and the fatality rates in this second surge are considerably lower, even if the new strains seem to be highly infectious and transmissible.
Khela Shesh: Didi just another sacrifice in Modi’s Ashwamedha April 9, 2021, 4:57 PM IST
The author is a senior journalist and a political commentator.
Life has come a full circle for Mamata Banerjee. She was saved from political oblivion by the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee but today a BJP prime minister is out to annihilate her politically. Pranab Mukherjee called her a born rebel who “has an aura about her which is difficult to explain but impossible to ignore”. He gave her the credit for building her own career – “fearlessly and aggressively – and what she is today is the outcome of her own struggle, labour and hard work”. But now in the battle for Bengal, which is an acid test of BJP- RSS’s Machiavellian game plan, she has put her trust in the non-politician Prashant Kishor. People elect the government they want.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said lies and rumours are being spread by the opponents of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to create political instability in the country. Addressing the BJP workers on the occasion of the party s 41st foundation day, Modi said: Wrong narratives are created against CAA, farm laws and labour law. it s a pre-planned conspiracy to create political instability in the country. These people spread rumours, lies and create atmosphere of imaginary fear like Constitution will be changed, reservation will end, land will be taken away. All these rumours are lies, Modi said, hitting out at the party s opponents.
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New Delhi: The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu today emphasised the need to maintain civility of words and decency of language in public discourse and said that it is necessary for a healthy and strong democracy.
Addressing the concluding ceremony of the 25-day long ceremonial ‘Dandi March’ organised as part of ‘Aazadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ in the historic Dandi village of Gujarat, the Vice President asked everyone to take inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi who always used polite and respectful language even for his opponents. “Gandhi Ji’s principle of non-violence was not limited to physical violence alone, rather it encapsulated non-violence in words and thoughts too”, he said adding that political parties should treat each other as rivals not as enemies.