THE TIMES OF INDIA, KOLHAPUR 6 TIMES NATION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2021 Don’t feel anger, I forgive India urges Modi blames previous govts Opec to ease my father’s killers: Rahul for petrol import dependence output cuts New Delhi: India, the world’s Puducherry: Congress lea- had plenty of friends inclu- third-biggest oil consumer, on der Rahul Gandhi on Wed- I don’t have anger or ding those both with political Wednesday urged Saudi Ara- nesday said the killing of his hatred towards any- background and people who ‘Middle Class Wouldn’t Be Burdened If It Was Addressed Earlier’ bia and other global oil pro- father Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 body.Of course, I lost my shared similar interests. ANI ducers to ease production brought him tremendous pa- father and When the student repea- New Delhi: On a day when ister further said it was a col- cuts, saying rising interna- in but he nursed no anger or for me it was ted the question on girl fri- petrol crossed the Rs 100 mark, lective duty to work towards tional oil prices are hurting hatred towards those respon- a very diffi- ends, he said, “We leave that Prime Minister Narendra Mo- clean and green sources of en- economic recovery and de- sible for it and he pardoned for another day.” To a student di on Wednesday said the mid- ergy as well as energy inde- mand. them. cult time. But who said she could not pursue dle-class would not have been pendence. “Our government Demand recovery should During an interaction the I don’t feel engineering though she loved burdened if the previous gov- is sensitive to the concerns of take “primacy” over oil prices Congress MP had with stu- anger, I don’t it, he advised her to chase her ernments had focussed on re- the middle class. That is why at least for the next few dents of a state-run women’s feel any dream and assured her of sup- ducing India’s energy import India is now increasing the fo- months, oil minister Dhar- college here, a pupil posed,” hatred or any anger. I forgive port and he would speak to her dependence. cus on ethanol to help farmers mendra Pradhan said. your father was killed by the parents if she wanted. Without referring to the re- and consumers,” he said. International oil prices LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Rahul Gandhi | CONGRESS LEADER Though most parties sup- lentless increase in retail fuel Ethanol extracted from have been on the boil since Tamil Eelam) what are your ported the release of seven prices, which are linked to in- PM Modi lays foundation of key projects in the oil and gas sector in sugarcane is being doped in Saudi Arabia pledged addi- feelings about these people? me Minister Indira Gandhi, convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi ternational rates, he said In- Tamil Nadu via video link from New Delhi on Wednesday petrol to reduce the require- tional voluntary output cuts and he answered by saying he said, “Violence cannot take assassination case, the Tamil dia imported over 85 % of its ment of imports. Currently, of 1 million barrels per day in violence cannot take away away anything from you... my Nadu Congress Committee oil needs in the 2019-20 finan- 8.5 % of petrol is ethanol and February and March under a anything. father is alive in me...my fat- (TNCC) had opposed it. Rajiv cial year and 53 % of its gas re- Meghalaya cabinet regularises this proportion is targeted to deal between the Organiza- “I don’t have anger or hat- her is talking through me.” Gandhi was killed on May 21, quirement. “Can a diverse and be raised to 20 % by 2025, help- tion of the Petroleum Export- red towards anybody.Of cour- Gandhi interacted with 1991 by a woman suicide bom- talented nation like ours be so decision to revise fuel tax rates ing cut imports as well as give ing Countries (OPEC) and its se, I lost my father and for me students of Bharathidasan ber at Sriperumbudur near energy import dependent?” Shillong: The Meghalaya cabinet on Wednesday regularised the farmers an alternate source of allies including Russia, a it was a very difficult time,” Government College for Wo- Chennai in a poll rally. he asked, addressing an online decisions of the government to revise the tax rates for petrol and income. group known as OPEC+. he said, adding, it was similar men and asked them to not The LTTE was defeated in event to inaugurate oil and gas diesel twice this month, reducing fuel prices by over Rs 7 per litre, CM India, he said, is looking to This has resulted in oil to having one’s heart severed. address him as ‘sir’ and inste- the 2009 civil war in Sri Lan- projects in poll-bound Tamil Conrad K Sangma said. The tax rate was first revised last week cut energy import depend- prices rising to $63 per barrel, “I felt trememdous pain, ad call him ‘Rahul,’ while ka. TNCC chief K S Alagiri Nadu. which slashed the retail prices of both petrol and diesel by Rs 2 a litre. ence as well as diversify its the highest level in more than but I don’t feel anger, I don’t fe- most addressed him as Rahul had said a few months ago that “I do not want to criticise The state government on Tuesday again lowered value-added tax sources to reduce risks. a year, leading to retail pump el any hatred or any anger. I ‘Anna’ (elder brother). if the Rajiv case case convicts anyone but I want to say (that) (VAT) on the two petroleum products resulting in reduction in the The focus now is also to- rates in India breaching the forgive,” he said to rounds of He earlier had a dialogue were to be set free, a demand had we focused on this subject prices by over Rs 5 per litre. PTI wards using renewable sourc- Rs 100 a litre mark. applause. To the next ques- with people from the fisher- would arise for the release of much earlier, our middle-class es of energy, which will by 2030 “The rising crude oil pric- tion related to his political in- men community here. Answe- all “murder convicts” who would not be burdened,” he spiralled in recent weeks. While global rates have re- form 40 % of energy generat- es during the last few weeks is nings despite losing his father ring a question on his friends had spent over 25 years in pri- said. Price of petrol crossed Opposition parties includ- bounded with pick up in de- ed in the country, he said, list- hurting the fragile global eco- and grandmother, former Pri- and ‘girl friends,’ he said he son. PTI the Rs 100 per litre mark in Ra- ing Congress have criticised mand, the government has not ing measures such as in- nomic recovery due to signifi- jasthan after fuel rates were the price hikes, blaming it on restored the taxes, which are creased share of solar power, cant demand contraction, hiked for the ninth day in a the Modi government raising at a record high. focus on public transport, which might even mirror the row. Since India imports the taxes to scoop out the benefit Central and state taxes switching to LED bulbs, scrap- impact of Covid-19 in its ini- majority of its oil needs, retail that arose from international make up for 60 % of the retail page policy for vehicles and tial stages,” Pradhan said at HC extends cover to Khadse till rates are benchmarked to in- oil rates plunging to a two-dec- selling price of petrol and over use of solar pumps in the 11th IEA IEF OPEC Sympo- ternational prices, which have ade low in April/May last year. 54 % of diesel. The Prime Min- irrigation. PTI sium on Energy Outlooks. With Saudi oil minister February 24 in land deal case Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud and OPEC Secretary Mumbai: The Bombay high for the ED, had told a bench of her hearing in the case to Fe- General Mohammad Sanusi court on Wednesday extended justices SS Shinde and Ma- bruary 24 and extended till SC lets Himachal, MP to be parties in Barkindo listening, he said a till February 24 the interim nish Pitale that an ECIR was then, the interim protection balanced approach needs to be protection from coercive ac- not like an FIR but an internal that it had granted to Khadse adopted at this juncture. tion granted to state NCP lea- document. Therefore, there on the last hearing. In mid-Ja- petition against laws on conversion Petrol sales, which reac- der Eknath Khadse in a land was no question of quashing nuary, Khadse (68), who quit hed pre-Covid levels six deal case. of the ECIR, Singh had said. the BJP and joined the NCP New Delhi: The Supreme of Muslims are being haras- the laws and issued notices to marriages. months back, fell below pre- The former BJP minister The summons and ECIR last year, had appeared before Court Wednesday permitted sed under these laws across both the state governments During the brief hearing, pandemic levels in the first approached the high court in pertain to a case the ED had the ED in connection with the an NGO to make Himachal the country. on the petitions. senior advocate C U Singh ap- half of February.“There is an January urging it to quash lodged in connection with the case. Pradesh and Madhya Pra- The apex court on Janua- The pleas, filed by advoca- peared for the NGO and so- urgent need to allow con- the summons issued by the 2016 land deal involving Khad- He had resigned from the desh as parties to a pending ry 6 had agreed to examine te Vishal Thakre and others ught impleadment of Hima- sumption-led recovery, that Enforcement Directorate se’s family in Pune’s Bhosari Devendra Fadnavis cabinet in petition challenging the controversial new laws of Ut- and an NGO ‘Citizens for Jus- chal Pradesh and Madhya has just taken root in several (ED) in an Enforcement Case area. Senior advocate Abad 2016 after facing allegations controversial state laws re- tar Pradesh and Uttarak- tice and Peace’, have chal- Pradesh as parties saying emerging and developing Information Report (ECIR) Ponda, who appeared for regarding the controversial gulating conversions due to hand regulating religious lenged the Constitutional va- they have also framed laws economies, including India to registered by the agency in Khadse, argued on Wednes- land deal. inter-faith marriages. conversions due to interfaith lidity of the Uttar Pradesh on the lines of Uttar Pradesh continue in the coming October 2020. Last month, the day that the NCP leader was It was alleged that he mi- A bench headed by Chief marriages. Prohibition of Unlawful Re- and Uttarakhand. months,” he said. ED had opposed Khadse’s entitled to seeking every reli- sused his official powers to fa- Justice S A Bobde also allo- The bench, also compri- ligious Conversion Ordinan- The controversial UP or- “Time has come once plea, saying it was “not main- ef from the high court, inclu- cilitate the purchase of go- wed Muslim body Jamiat sing Justices A S Bopanna ce, 2020 and the Uttarakhand dinance was cleared by the again for allowing the collec- tainable.” ding the quashing of sum- vernment land by his family. Ulama-I-Hind to become a and V Ramasubramanian, Freedom of Religion Act, state Cabinet and given tive interests of both produc- Additional Solicitor Gene- mons. Khadse has repeatedly denied party to the petition on the however refused to stay the 2018 which regulate religious ascent by Governor Anandi- ing and consuming countries ral Anil Singh, who appeared The court adjourned furt- any wrongdoing. PTI ground that a large number controversial provisions of conversions of interfaith ben Patel on November 28. PTI to be promoted,” he said. PTI
Modi Blames Previous Govts for Petrol Import Dependence
