26 Friday Dec 2014
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Shri Pranab Mukherjee, President of India, has signed the two ordinances on increasing FDI in Insurance from 25% to 49% and allotment of coal blocks, as forwarded by the Cabinet.
The BJP, which earlier opposed the ordinance route, has taken the same course, when in Government. Unable to pass in the Rajya Sabha, these bills have been pushed through ordinances. This is not good for democracy.
26 Friday Dec 2014
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This is completely wrong and unconstitutional ! The recent orders of the Rajasthan government putting a condition that only people with VIII standard can contest for the Panchayat and with Matriculation for Zilla Parishads is completely wrong, unconstitutional and intended to keep away the marginalised people like SC/ST, Backward class, women etc.
Both the Congress and BJP Governments utterly failed to improve the literacy. And the BJP government is penalising the innocent people for the same.
This order should be immediately scrapped.
26 Friday Dec 2014
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In a meeting at Varanasi, yesterday, 25th December, Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured the railway workers that there will be no privatisation of Railways, but private investment will brought for improving and expanding the same.
No Privatisation is OK. It is the demand of the 13 lakhs of railway employees, who have strongly opposed the move and are preparing for a serious struggle against the same.
But the private investment in the railways and PPP is part of the game of the government to gradually hand over this important sector to the private companies. The workers have to be warned about the same.
24 Wednesday Dec 2014
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My Best Wishes and Warm Greetings for a Merry X-Mas to all visitors, well Wishers, friends and Comrades for a Merry X-mas !
23 Tuesday Dec 2014
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It was 4.2% in Delhi yesterday, 22nd December 2014. It was almost freezing. The fog had its day, delaying a number of trains and flights.
Senior Citizens have been advised not to go for morning walk till about 08.00 AM, in order to avoid health problems and causalities.
To a certain extend it is tolerable for the persons with sufficient warm clothing and food. But what about those who are homeless, poor and sleeping on the pavements? Many may die, without any body caring.
Delhi was more cold than Shimla and some other hill stations. Of course, Delhi is the capital of India and deserves to be on the top.
23 Tuesday Dec 2014
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The pressure from the corporate and the India Inc is working like magic on the NDA government. The business tycoons did not had such a good opportunity any time earlier. The government is in a hurry to implement its assurances to them made at the time of general elections for getting huge donations for election. Further, it wants many clearance to satisfy US, before President Barack Obama reach India for attending the Republic Day celebrations.
The government is proposing of issuing ordinances for the Insurance Amendment, Amendment to the Land Act, GST etc. The wash out of the Parliament is only due to the adamant attitude of the government and not due to the opposition. The huge majority in the election does not mean that instead of discussing and passing the bills in the Parliament, the ordinance route is to be taken.
There should be strong condemnation of this procedure instead of democratic process.
22 Monday Dec 2014
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It is reported that the law ministry has informed that the list of black money holders before 2011 will not be supplied by the Swiss government since the agreement between the governments is only from 2011.
If the report is correct, this will mean that majority of the black money holders will be out of the inquiry and any action that may be taken. The big sharks are all going to be scotfree.
22 Monday Dec 2014
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Delhi is reeling under cold. Yesterday, 21st December 2014, was the coldest day for the last 11 years, especially for the maximum temperature in the day. It was 15 degree in day time and 6 degree in night. This may continue for a few days. because of the thick fog,many trains and flights were also delayed.
In Amritsar and many places in the North, the situation was worse with cold wind and rain.
22 Monday Dec 2014
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Disinvestment process goes on. Within a few years all the assets of the people will be sold to the corporates and rich by the Government, who is only the manager. Now it is the turn of the SAIL, Steel Authority of India Limited, a good profit company.
5% of the shares, coming to 42.77 crores of shares worth Rs.14,,900 crore will be disinvested. The present 68.94% shares of SAIL will come down to 63.94%.
21 Sunday Dec 2014
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December 21, 2014 Press Statement The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) now in session in New Delhi has issued the following statement: Prohibit Forcible Reconversion The BJP and the RSS are indulging in doublespeak by talking about religious conversions. The RSS organisations are conducting a reconversion campaign targeting the minorities. The RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat has justified this reconversion as bringing back people to their original faith. The episode of reconversion in Agra has exposed how false assurances and inducements were used for reconversion. At the same time the BJP and RSS leaders are demanding a law to ban forcible religious conversions. There is no need for such a law as Article 25 of the Indian Constitution provides for “freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religions”. If there is any forcible conversion it is already covered under Indian Penal Code (Section 153(a)) as it classifies forcible attempts in the name of religion as a criminal offence. In fact the RSS campaign for forcible reconversion and the call for a law to ban forcible conversions are both directed against the religious minorities and intended to use the issue of conversion to sharpen communal divisions. The Polit Bureau demands that the RSS sponsored reconversion campaign be prohibited using the provisions of the law. |
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