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She said pensation and the BJP ahead of 8 on Wednesday dialogue can the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. ! ays after Prime Minister start ‘the moment Pakistan Trying to project the event 7 DImran Khan renewed his stops terrorist activities in as a show of strength of the offer for restarting the stalled India’.” Opposition, Rahul said, “We dialogue process with India, It is perhaps for the first may have different ideologies, Army chief General Bipin time that Rawat has expressed but for the future of the farm- + ' ! Rawat on Friday said Pakistan an opinion about the religious ers and the youth, we are all cannot “stay together with character of the neighbouring standing together on one stage. 8 India” as long as it is an Islamic country apparently responsible We want to tell Modi ji and the & state. He also said India has for the strained India-Pakistan BJP that if we need to change taken the first step many times ties. On earlier occasion, he has the laws, change the Chief 7(,+ ' and now it is Islamabad’s turn always conveyed his concerns Ministers or even the Prime & to show some concrete action over cross-border terror ema- Minister, we do that for the sake against terror. nating from Pakistan. of future of farmers. We will not The Army chief made “If they (Pakistan) have to budge even an inch, you may do & these remarks while respond- stay together with India, then whatever you want.” ing to Khan’s statement that they have to develop as a sec- The Gandhi scion, who ! "# ! Pakistan will take two steps ular state,” Rawat said on the recently promised farmers’ loan forward if India takes one. sidelines of the Passing Out waiver within 10 days of com- back (kisano ke peeth mey “There is a contradiction in Parade of the 135th course at ing to power in the three poll- chhura bhonka hai),” he alleged. what they are saying. One step National Defence Academy. bound States, trained his guns He said the Union Government 2 from there should come in a “See this staying together, at Prime Minister Narendra should implement the report in positive manner, we will see if staying separate, ispe Pakistan & Modi alleging that if 30,000 five months. the step has an effect on the ko apni andruni halat dekhni crore can be given to Anil The Opposition parties ground. Till then our nation hogi. Pakistan ne apne state ko Ambani — an apparent refer- have been looking for oppor- 6+### has a clear policy-terror and Islamic state bana diya hai. ence to the Rafale fighter jet tunities in recent times to join R talks can’t go together,” the Hum log secular state hai deal — “why can’t loans of hands to stop the Modi jug- Army chief said. (Pakistan has to look at its farmers be waived”. gernaut in the next general Ram. They (BJP) want to He said, “India has always internal situation. They are Farmers from 24 States elections. All the leaders have divide India on communal & ! .-1 -23% Women protesters from carrying seven skulls and maintained that Pakistan- an Islamic state, we (India) are joined the protest to press for taken up the cause of farmers lines. We are 70 per cent Madhya Pradesh performed bones, said their leader P sponsor terrorism was its “core a secular state),” he said. their demands, including debt and unemployed youths to Muslims (in Kashmir) and we housands of farmers from their traditional dance on way Ayyakannu. relief and remunerative prices cash in on voters grievances. will live and die for India. Your Tacross the country carrying towards Parliament. Some He said the skulls and for their produce. The leaders also took up the worries are our worries and we flags of different colours and other women were seen walk- bones were of the farmers Kejriwal alleged the PM Ram Temple issue during the are standing with you. wearing their traditional dress- ing with photographs of their who committed suicide. Nine has “stabbed farmers in the farmers’ agitation. Elections are coming, let us es, including green turban and dead husbands, who commit- farmers, without clothes, lay back” by not fulfilling the While Sitaram Yechury stand together and not let kurta pyjama, began their ted suicide due to farm distress. down in front of the stage by promises made to them and said the BJP, Modi and the RSS them divide us and let us march to Parliament Street Widows of farmers, who keeping bones on their bodies, warned him that they would have only one weapon in hand overthrow them,” Abdullah around 10.30 am on Friday. committed suicide after they and demanded profitable price “wreak havoc” in 2019 gener- that is Ram Temple, Abdullah said. The farmers, who were did not get adequate compen- for agricultural produce, waiv- al elections if those promises too raked up the temple issue Addressing famers, Rahul campaigning at the Ramlila sation from Telangana and er of loans, interlinking of are not fulfilled. and said Muslims are not called for a farm loan waiver, Ground since Thursday, con- Centre Government, were car- rivers and pension for farmers “The Government had against Ram Mandir. asserting that peasants are ask- verged near Parliament Street rying yellow flags and human over 60 years. made a number of promises to “Muslims are not against ing for what is due to them and police station after they were skulls on their bodies. Five Gurdwaras in the farmers in the last election the temple. The hatred that is not a “free gift”. denied permission by the Delhi About 1,300 members of Delhi region have extended (2014), but it has not fulfilled being spread by the The farmers gathered to Police to march towards the National South Indian their help to the farmers. Also those promises. By not imple- Government that Muslims are press for their demands, Parliament. Over 3,500 police River Interlinking Farmers students from various univer- menting the Swaminathan against the Ram Mandir is not including debt relief and remu- personnel were deployed on Association reached the sities turned out in large num- Commission report, Modi ji true. Whenever elections nerative prices, for their pro- the route of the farmer’s march national Capital in the early bers to lend support to the $ % & " % '() has stabbed the farmers in the come, these people remember duce. to maintain law and order. hours of Thursday and were farmers. % ! % $ *+ R ! " P O P O #$ N O .-1 -23% tively. He is out on bail in .-1 -23% of Bikaner complained about both the cases. alleged forgery in the allotment Delhi Court on Friday Kropha, who was then he Enforcement of land in the area, considered Aconvicted ex-coal secre- the Joint Secretary, Ministry .-1 -23% TDirectorate (ED) has sum- sensitive due to its proximity to tary HC Gupta in a corruption of Coal, retired in December moned Robert Vadra, contro- the India-Pak border. case relating to allotment of 2017 as the Chief Secretary of ndia’s economy slowed to 7.1 per versial businessman and broth- The ED has sought Vadra’s coal blocks in West Bengal dur- Meghalaya. He has also been ! Icent in the July-September quar- er-in-law of Congress president presence for questioning him ing the previous UPA regime at convicted and sentenced to "## $ ter of the year from 8.2 per cent in Rahul Gandhi, in connection about the operations of Skylight the Centre. two years in another coal %& the previous quarter on the back with the money laundering Hospitality Private Limited, Five others, including one block allocation scam and has of a sharp drop in manufacturing, probe in the Bikaner land scam which had purchased land in retired and another serving been on bail. ' agriculture and mining activities, case of Rajasthan. the area. The agency is also public servant — KS Kropha Samria then held the rank ( ) * + Government data showed on Vadra has been asked to seeking to confront Vadra with and KC Samria — were held of Director in the Ministry of $,$ Friday. appear before the investigating the statements of those linked guilty for various offences Coal and is now working as The GDP growth in July- officer (IO) of the case next The ED had registered a to him. under the Prevention of a Joint Secretary in Ministry ! September quarter is the lowest in week. This is the second sum- criminal case in connection The ED is also probing the Corruption Act and the IPC. of Minority Affairs. He has " # three quarters but better than 6.3 mons to him for recording his with the deal in 2015, taking role of a major steel firm that Gupta, who was the Coal already been convicted and per cent in the same period of the statement under the Prevention cognisance of a number of gave loans to a company that Secretary from December 31, sentenced to two years jail previous year, helping the coun- of Money Laundering Act FIRs and chargesheets filed by bought the land from firms 2005 to November 2008, has term in another case and has try retain the tag of the world’s (PMLA), officials said.
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