Archives for 2019

Nasheman News : Actor-politician Pawan Kalyan on Tuesday announced that he will not attend the all-party meeting called by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu over the demand for special category status on Wednesday.

The Jana Sena chief in an open letter to Naidu expressed surprise over the government extending invitation on Tuesday evening for a meeting to be held on Wednesday.

Pawan said the meeting without giving sufficient time to the parties and without deciding the agenda would serve no purpose. “This gives rise to the suspicion that the meeting is being convened for political mileage,” he wrote.

The actor made it clear that Jana Sena remained committed for a joint struggle to achieve special category status and implementation of commitments made in Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act. He said the party would join hands only if there was sincerity in the struggle.

Naidu on Tuesday decided to call an all-party meeting on Wednesday to discuss special category status and incomplete implementation of Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act.

The ruling Telugu Desam Party appears to be trying to bring the issue of special status to the centre-stage before the last Parliament session.

Stating that TDP is taking the Centre head-on over the issue of the state’s rights, Naidu told TDP leaders that all the parties should join hands with them in carrying forward this battle.

Nasheman News :  Veteran activist Kisan Baburao Hazare alias Anna Hazare on Wednesday launched a fresh hunger strike at his Ralegan-Siddhi village seeking Lokpal and Lokayuktas as promised by the government.

An aide said that carrying the tricolour, Hazare, 81, went around in a procession in the village with a large number of supporters and hoisted the national flag before starting the indefinite fast.

He also paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of Martyrs’ Day before launching the agitation.

Three days ago, Hazare had served an ultimatum to the Maharashtra government demanding the implementation of the Lokayukta in the state failing which he would launch his hunger strike.

Earlier, he addressed several letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to implement the Lokpal authority and said his communications were not acknowledged.

Meanwhile, the Maharashtra government has initiated the process to bring the office of Chief Minister under the jurisdiction of the Lokayukta but Hazare said he will be on protest till it becomes a reality.

Besides these main demands, Hazare has also taken up the farmers causes including implementation of the M.S. Swaminathan Commission Report and related issues.

Nasheman News : Interacting with students and their parents at the ‘Pariksha pe Charcha 2.0’ event here on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s snappy and witty answers left the audience in splits.

In an instance where a mother raised concerns about her son being too involved in online games, Modi asked her: “Ye PUBG wala hai kya?” 

The question led to thunderous applause among the audience.

Modi highlighted that technology comes with its good and bad aspects depending on what side of it the children explore.

The Prime Minister also emphasised that if parents try to make efforts, children would hopefully move back to the playground from the playstation.

Launched in December 2017, PlayersUnknown Battleground (PUBG) is an online, multi-player battle game that connects users from around the world in real-time and allows them to fight missions, and is known to indulge players into long hours of gaming. 

Nasheman News :A decision on the day and time for conducting the last rites for George Fenandes, the former Defence Minister who died here on Tuesday, will be taken soon, his wife Leila Kabir said.

In a statement, she said Fernandes died peacefully at his home in the early hours of Tuesday and his body was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for embalming.

“We plan to conduct his last rites soon after our son, Sean Fernandes, arrives in India. The body is kept at our house S-114 Panchsheel Park for friends and associates to pay their last respects,” Leila said.

As soon as Sean arrives from the US, the family will finalize the timing of the last rites, she said.

“I and my son are grateful to every one who has come/messaged us to share our grief,” Leila added.

Nasheman News : Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday re-enacted his ‘thrust and hug’ policy once again, this time in Goa, when he suddenly dropped in to pay a courtesy call to ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, just a day after he charged Parrikar with possessing “explosive files” related to the Rafale deal.

The move, which caught everyone including the media, the treasury benches as well as several Congress MLAs unawares, is similar to the drama which played out in Parliament in July, when after a rousing speech in which Gandhi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the National Democratic Alliance government, the Congress president hugged a surprised Modi in the Lok Sabha and followed it up with a not-too-discreet wink.

While the Gandhi’s dexterous choreography took the attention away from the Congress losing the trust vote in Parliament, Rahul’s surprise visit to the Goa legislative assembly, ostensibly to pay a courtesy call to the ailing Chief Minister on Tuesday, potentially pulls the attention away from the day’s biggest story: Parrikar’s dramatic return to the state legislative assembly in the midst of his battle against cancer.

There was speculation as to whether the visibly unwell Parrikar would attend the ongoing three-day budget session. When Parrikar walked into the assembly on Tuesday, with medical appendage strapped to him, the former Defence Minister had to be helped to his seat in the state assembly by marshals, who also helped him stand up to bid the Governor Mridula Sinha farewell after she delivered her formal address to legislators.

According to state Congress president Girish Chodankar, the meeting with Parrikar at the state assembly complex, was in keeping with Rahul Gandhi’s politics of dealing with all with love, compassion and no ill-will even to the political adversaries.

“It is not just a courtesy call but one of care and concern and mirrors our party’s ideology of believing in politics of compassionate behaviour with humanity and society at heart,” state Congress president Girish Chodankar said.

On Monday, a tweet by Gandhi, who is holidaying in Goa with his mother Sonia, in which he said that Parrikar had a hold over Modi, because he posses explosive document related to the Rafale deal had stoked controversy.

The state Congress president also alluded to Gandhi’s hug in Parliament.

“You may recall that our president had even hugged Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament, passing on the message that Congress knows to spread love even to the arch political rivals. That is why despite being on a private visit, our national president managed to take time off to meet him,” Chodankar said.