Season of newfound loves and golden promises
They came bearing gifts.
Christmas: time for the Magi, wise men from the East, to come with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Or just one magus, coming to the east from elsewhere. Gold is for earthly kingship, an aspiration embodied in the promise of a Golden Bengal; frankincense evokes deity, pertinently; myrrh is used for embalming, thus representing death all around us, from infectious sickness, or unscrupulous violence.
Violence was one of the themes of the Union home minister’s perorations on his pre-Christmas visit to West Bengal. The state is ill-famed for its poll-related violence and the home minister said that 300 Bharatiya Janata Party workers had been killed here. Even the national president of the BJP was attacked on his Bengal tour, which the home minister condemned, since “[the] BJP believes that in a democracy everyone should have the right to voice their views”. H
PM Modi was chief guest at the centenary celebrations Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
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He added: Politics can wait but development cannot
The remarks were seen in the context of the month-long farmer protests
Aligarh:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said development should not be seen through the political prism and when it came to the nation s progress, ideological differences must be secondary.
Addressing the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on its centenary celebrations, PM Modi said the nation was on a path today where everyone, irrespective of religion, was assured of their constitutional rights and their future and where no community was left behind. The government s schemes for the poor are reaching all sections without any religious bias , he asserted.
PM Modi addressed the centenary event at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
Aligarh:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the centenary celebrations of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) today via video-conferencing. He said the nation is on a path where no one should be left behind because of religion , adding that ideological differences are secondary when it comes to matters of the nation. PM Modi also released a postal stamp during the event. Last week, the media statement from the university had said that the Vice Chancellor, Professor Tariq Mansoor, has appealed to all concerned to keep the Centenary Programme above politics . The premier university has had a thorny relation with the BJP, whose leaders have repeatedly criticised the university students and even suggested that the name of the institution be changed.