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. 54 RNI NO. DELENG/2008/25465 New Delhi, Friday, 9 July, 2021 [email protected] 9971359517 12 pages. 2/- UP BJP prepares booklet on effective COVID-19 MEA gets 2 new ministers Cabinet rejig covers North, South, East and West Of India management to counter opposition New Delhi. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) now has two more Ministers of State (MoS) taking the UP BJP spokesperson Hero Bajpai said that the five-page booklet would help BJP party total number of deputies to External workers answer questions about the state administration’s handling of the pandemic. Affairs Minister S Jaishankar (MP from Gujarat) to three. The Cabinet and the party needs to be publicized involvement of state’s Chief expansion on Wednesday saw the ZUP BJP spokesperson Hero at the grassroots level. The MinisterYogiAdityanath. broadening of MEA with Meenakshi information includes all that we This booklet is being designed by the Lekhi (MP from Delhi) and Rajkumar Bajpai said that the five- have done for the people in the UP government to help BJP workers Ranjan Singh (MP from Manipur) page booklet would help BJP pandemic, right down to the village counter the opposition’s allegations being inducted while V level. We have a lot of on ‘ineffective’ COVID-19 Muraleedharan (MP from Kerala) party workers answer achievements on the national level management. was already MoS MEA. questions about the state and, at times, we tend to overlook As per the booklet, more than 5.6 crore External Affairs Minister Jaishankar, the achievements of the state," he coronavirus tests were conducted in who is in Moscow for an official trip, administration’s handling of said. The booklet, titled "Corona the state, which is more than 30 posted on Twitter to welcome his new Prabandhan ka UP Model", has 20 percent of its population. The colleagues. “Delighted to welcome the pandemic. Meenakshi Lekhi and Rajkumar government claims it increased Z Ranjan Singh to Team MEA. The booklet, titled "Corona oxygen supply from 250 metric Confident that together, we will who has not only served as the party spokesperson Prabandhan ka UP Model", tonnes to 1,000 metric tonnes per promote India’s interest abroad effectively,” defending the party’s policies and programmes, but day, following the oxygen Jaishankar wrote. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also served as a lawyer on the permanent commission has 20 sections and each scarcity. managed to cover all bases of the country in team MEA for women officers in the armed forces. She was section contains three bullet The five-page booklet also with representation from North, South, East and West appointed vice-president of the BJP's Mahila Morcha underlines the fact that the Yogi- of India, which would better help in engaging with the in 2010. As an MP, Meenakshi Lekhi has been a part of points. government in the state relaxed world and keeping Indians from every part of the the drafting committees of important Bills, including Simmi Kaur Babbar the COVID-induced curbs for country invested while also helping address diaspora the Women Reservation Bill and the Sexual New Delhi. The Yogi Adityanath-led industrial units during the corona issues. The latest induction from the Northeast will Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Uttar Pradesh government is curfew and provided keep India’s ‘Act East’ policy firmly in place. The Prohibition and Redressal) Bill. On the other hand, is preparing a five-page booklet on the sections and each section contains compensation to labourers. eastern front has been a focus area of the Modi Lok Sabha MP Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, who won ‘effective COVID-19 management’, three bullet points. All office-bearers, senior leaders, administration since it came to power. In the past, the Lok Sabha polls in 2019 from the Inner Manipur and asked party workers to reach out This document will have all the legislators, ministers, spokespersons regions used to be divided among the junior ministers seat. Born on September 1, 1952 at Kongba Makha to people about the state’s efforts to information about the steps which and grassroots workers of the party for them to handle. However, it is yet to be known how Nandeibam Leikai, Imphal East district, Singh mitigate the crisis. the authorities took to tackle the have been sent this booklet and they the responsibility would be delegated to the concerned graduated with an Honours degree from UP BJP spokesperson Hero Bajpai said second wave of COVID-19. The have been asked to reach out to the ministers by EAM Jaishankar. Meenakshi Lekhi, the Dhanamanjury College, Imphal from Gauhati that the five-page booklet would help booklet lists out several steps people. second-term BJP MP and Rajkumar Ranjan Singh took University in 1970. He completed his postgraduation BJP party workers answer questions including doorstep screening, It will help the BJP workers tackle the oath as Ministers of State for Ministry of External in Geography from Gauhati University in 1972. The about the state administration’s treatment, aggressive testing drives, allegations made by the opposition Affairs on Wednesday in what was one of the biggest academic-turned-politician is viewed as a unifier. The one-time MP joined the BJP in 2013 after his handling of the pandemic. vaccination, oxygen conservation, that the government mishandled the Cabinet expansions since 2014 with the induction of 36 new ministers and 7 elevations from MoS to retirement and contested the Lok Sabha elections the "The opposition has been spreading formation of the Team 9 response pandemic during the second canards on the issue of the pandemic. group, preparations for the possible Cabinet rank. Meenakshi Lekhi, a 54-year-old law very next year. However, his debut was unsuccessful. COVID-19 wave, which was in the graduate, has been an important member of the BJP He was successful in securing an MP seat in 2019. The work done by the government third wave, and the active month of April and May. Pratima Bhoumik becomes first politician from Tripura to join Union Cabinet Parshottam Rupala gets Mamata has people’s mandate: New Delhi. Fifty-two-year-old Pratima low profile despite being an active Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Bhoumik on Wednesday scripted politician for long. Earlier, Santosh BJP leader Rajib Banerjee urges history by becoming the first Mohan Deb and Triguna Sen were politician from Tripura to be made a elected as members of Parliament Husbandry and Dairying Suvendu to not attack TMC chief central minister. She has been from Tripura and inducted into the New Delhi. Senior BJP leader Parshottam Kolkata. West Bengal BJP leader Rajib appointed as the new Minister of State central Cabinet. However, they (MoS) in the Ministry of Social were not from the state. While Deb Rupala was on Wednesday promoted as a Banerjee, a TMC turncoat, has asked his Cabinet minister in the Modi government's colleague Suvendu Adhikari to refrain from Justice and Empowerment. hailed from Silchar in Assam, Sen Bhoumik, who is popularly known as was from West Bengal. major Cabinet reshuffle and given charge of targeting Mamata Banerjee, saying she has the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry the people’s mandate. Rajib Banerjee, who 'Pratima di', is a first-time MP. She Pratima Bhoumik was among the was elected from the West Tripura seven women leaders who were and Dairying. Rupala (66), who comes from was once a TMC heavyweight like Suvendu the influential Kadva Patidar or Patel Adhikari, urged him to be on the side of the constituency in the last general sworn in as ministers of state (MoS) elections in 2019. Meanwhile, in the renewed Council of Ministers community in Gujarat, will be in charge of the people affected by the rising prices of ministry formed recently in 2019 in order to petroleum products instead of targeting congratulating Bhowmick on her on Wednesday. Importance was achievement, Tripura Chief Minister given to the representation of promote allied farm activities for enhancing Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata becoming a Parliamentarian, Bhoumik was farmers' income. Earlier, Rupala was holding Banerjee, who was voted to power for the Biplab Deb tweeted: "A moment of women in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's immense pride for #Tripura that the general secretary of the Tripura unit of renewed Cabinet. Compared to the outgoing charge as minister of state for agriculture in third time. the BJP. At present, she holds the post of the Union Cabinet. Both Rajib Banerjee and Suvendu Adhikari @PratimaBhoumik ji, foremost Cabinet and Council of Ministers which representative of #NariShakti of the state, vice-president of the state unit. A graduate comprised five women, the renewed He will replace his cabinet colleague Giriraj had quit the party and as ministers in the in Science from Tripura Women's College in Singh, who has been shifted to the Ministry of Bengal government before joining the BJP has joined PM Shri @narendramodi led Cabinet and Council of Ministers have a Union Council of Ministers." Before Agartala, Bhoumik has always maintained a total of 11 women ministers. Rural Development and Panchayati Raj. ahead of the assembly elections. Suvendu Addressing fodder shortages, high prices of Adhikari managed to trump Mamata fodder and development of infrastructure to Banerjee in Nandigram. "I will urge the Former Himachal Pradesh CM Virbhadra Singh passes away encourage dairying and fishery processing are opposition leader: Do not direct your attack some of the challenges that the new minister towards the chief minister who has got the will face.