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instagram.com/ @thesikhtimes facebook.com/ thesikhtimes qaumipatrika VISIT: PUBLISHED FROM Delhi, Haryana, Uttar www.thesikhtimes.in Pradesh, Punjab, The Sikh Times Email:[email protected] Chandigarh, Himachal and Jammu National Daily Vol. 13 No. 70 RNI NO. DELENG/2008/25465 New Delhi, Sunday, 25 July, 2021 [email protected] 9971359517 12 pages. 2/- Buddha's ideas more relevant now Mamata Banerjee new chairperson of TMC parliamentary party as humanity faces COVID crisis Z Although not unprecedented, it is rare for parties to appoint leaders who are not MPs as their parliamentary party leaders. New Delhi. Mamata Banerjee will PM Modi on Guru Purnima now be the chairperson of the Trinamool Congress parliamentary party, the TMC announced on Friday ahead of the West Bengal Chief Minister’s first visit to the national capital after her spectacular victory / in the Assembly elections. Quoting 'Dhamm Although not unprecedented, it is rare for parties to appoint leaders who are Pada', Modi said not MPs as their parliamentary party enmity does not leaders. In 1998, the Congress had appointed Sonia Gandhi as its were among those present at the quell enmity but is parliamentary party chairperson. She was Constitution Club here, where her address not an MP then. The Congress was broadcast live by her party. TMC MPs rather won over with parliamentary party had then amended its unanimously chose party chief Banerjee as provisions, making the party chief its ex- the chairperson of its parliamentary party. officio member. The move by the TMC, on Announcing the decision, Rajya Sabha floor love and a big heart. the other hand, is seen as part of the well- leader Derek O’Brien said she has been the choreographed efforts to set a narrative that guiding force behind the TMC Simmi Kaur Babbar Banerjee is eying a larger national role. parliamentary party for a long time. “We are teachings in times of tragedy. "The entire teachings, the prime minister said, "Harmony During her visit next week, Banerjee is just formalising a reality. Our chairperson is New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi world is moving in solidarity following the between our mind, speech, and resolve and expected to lay the groundwork for her a seven-time MP. She has the vision to guide said on Saturday (July 24) that Lord Buddha's teachings of the Buddha. In this, the 'care with between our action and effort can guide us party’s greater stress on national politics the parliamentary party. She has the ideas are all the more relevant now as prayer' initiative of the International Buddhist away from pain and towards happiness." even while its electoral success is limited to experience and insight. She was anyway humanity faces the COVID-19 crisis and Confederation is praiseworthy," the prime "This inspires us to work for general welfare Bengal. Ever since her third election guiding us,” he said. The decision, he said, asserted that India has shown how to face minister said, according to news agency PTI. during good times and gives us strength to victory, Banerjee has been giving has been taken both at a “conceptual and even the most difficult challenge by following Quoting 'Dhamm Pada', Modi said enmity does face difficult times. Lord Buddha gave us an indications that she intends to play a role in tactical level”. “She has always been a call the path shown by the founder of Buddhism. not quell enmity but is rather won over with eight-fold path to achieve this harmony," he national politics and pose a challenge to the away. We feel more empowered,” O’Brien In his message at Ashadha Purnima and a love and a big heart. "In times of tragedy, the said. When Lord Buddha, forged in the fire of BJP. She has appointed her nephew and said. Banerjee will be in Delhi for 3-4 days Dhamma Chakra Day programme, which world has felt this power of love and sacrifice and endurance, speaks, then these Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee next week. She is likely to meet Opposition marks the day when Buddha gave his first harmony. As this knowledge of Buddha, this are not mere words but an entire cycle of as the TMC’s all-India general secretary. leaders including Congress president Sonia sermon after attaining enlightenment, he said experience of humanity gets enriched, the 'Dhamm' begins and the knowledge flowing Earlier this week, she turned her party’s Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, AAP the world has felt the power of Lord Buddha's world will touch new heights of success and from him become synonymous with welfare annual Martyrs’ Day event into a national chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind prosperity," he added. Citing Buddha's of the world, the prime minister said. affair. Several senior opposition leaders Kejriwal. CPM MP calls Rijiju’s reply on Modi critic Dhiru Gajera set to return to judges’ vacancies ‘misleading’, All my phones tapped, says submits notice to move privilege Rahul Gandhi; hand them for BJP ahead of Gujarat assembly polls motion against him probe, counters BJP New Delhi. A day after Law Minister Kiren New Delhi. Days after it was reported that his Ahmedabad. Former Gujarat MLA who had rebelled, had been Rijiju told the Rajya Sabha that a time frame phone was on a list of potential targets for Dhiru Gajera, who had jumped unsuccessful at the hustings for filling up vacancies of judges cannot be surveillance using the Pegasus spyware, ship from the BJP to the Congress after they switched allegiance to indicated as it is continuous, integrated and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said 14 years ago, will rejoin the the Congress. collaborative process between the Executive Friday that not only all his phones are saffron party in the presence of A Surat-based businessman from and the Judiciary, CPI(M) MP John Brittas “tapped” but his security personnel had been state unit chief CR Patil on July 24 the Patidar community, with submitted a notice for moving a privilege asked to report to their seniors everything he at the party’s Surat headquarters. origins in Saurashtra, Dhiru motion against the minister, claiming that his said. Gajera had rebelled against then Gajera contested assembly reply was “misleading”. Gandhi accused the BJP government of having Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra elections on a Congress ticket on Rijiju’s reply came after a question from Brittas used the Pegasus spyware, which he called a Modi and left the party to join four separate occasions but asking him to provide details of the number of weapon, against the Indian state and Congress in 2007. Some 30 failed to win even once. He was High Court judges recommended by the institutions. Gandhi said he was not a Patidars (Patels), including Dhiru vice president of the Gujarat Supreme Court collegium for appointment potential target. “My phone is tapped. It is Gajera, had severed ties with the Congress when he left the party a during the last one year and how many judges clearly tapped, so it is not a potential target.” BJP and contested assembly few years ago. The ex-MLA is had been appointed out of those “It is not only this phone, every single phone elections as Congress candidates. recommendations. Brittas, in his notice, now returning to the BJP fold, as pointed out that the details provided by the of mine is tapped. And let me tell you A three-term BJP MLA, Gajera had the party looks to strengthen its another thing, I get phone calls from IB saffron party. He now admits that he, as Minister shows that “out of 80 proposals from contested Gujarat assembly polls from Patidar voter base ahead of the Gujarat the collegium, only 45 have been notified for people who tap my phone. They call me up Surat but had lost to a candidate from the well as the other Gujarat BJP members assembly polls in 2022. and say please be aware that we are tapping appointments between July 1, 2020, and July your phone. Also, by the way, my security 15, 2021. “The reply given by the Minister is people tell me that they have to debrief what in contravention to the order of the Supreme I say and they have to report to their seniors UN General Assembly President-elect Abdulla Shahid meets PM Modi Court wherein the Court specifically says that everything I say. So, I am under no New Delhi. Maldives Foreign Minister foreign minister. Prime Minister Modi discussed the rapid growth in the India- ‘if the Supreme Court collegium after pretensions that I am not tapped,” Gandhi Abdulla Shahid, the President-elect of the congratulated Shahid on his resounding Maldives bilateral relationship in recent consideration of the aforesaid inputs, still told reporters. “This has happened to me 76th session of the UN General Assembly victory in the election, noting that this years. Prime Minister expressed reiterates the recommendation(s) three-four times. My friends were called and unanimously, such appointments should be called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflects the growing stature of the Maldives satisfaction that bilateral projects are processed and appointment should be made told to tell Rahul Gandhi that his phones are here on Friday. He arrived in India on on the world stage. He also felicitated the progressing well despite the constraints of being tapped,” he added. The SPG cover of within 3 to 4 weeks’. It is reliably learnt that Wednesday on a three-day visit. Shahid is President-elect on his Vision Statement for the Covid-19 pandemic. He emphasised many proposals reiterated by the collegiums Gandhi as also his mother and Congress visiting India in his capacity as President- 'Presidency of Hope', and assured him of the importance of Maldives as a key pillar president Sonia Gandhi and sister and AICC are pending with the Government well elect of the 76th session of the UNGA, India's full support and co-operation of India's Neighbourhood First policy and beyond the stipulated time frame given by the general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra following the election held in New York on during his Presidency.

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