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" 01-02,$ ##$ *,! -$)!.,/ 01-02,$ efence Minister Rajnath DSingh on Thursday said aced with massive unrest “no power on the earth can Famong the farmers, the prevent” the Indian Army from Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on patrolling its area in Ladakh Thursday distanced itself from and India will not allow China its alliance partner BJP on the to unilaterally change the sta- issue of a set of agriculture Bills tus quo on the Line of Actual by “sacrificing” the Cabinet Control (LAC). berth in the NDA-led Central The Minister made these Government. observations while briefing the and sovereignty, the Minister stand the sensitivity of the Strongly opposing the farm Rajya Sabha about the current said. matter,” he said. Bills, Union Food Processing situation on the volatile border Repeatedly underlining Appreciating the issue, Minister and SAD’s lone rep- where stand-offs are on for the New Delhi’s stand that it want- Naidu urged Rajnath to call resentative in the Union past four months. Cutting ed to solve the complex issue select leaders for a separate Cabinet Harsimrat Kaur Badal across party lines, the entire through political and military meeting to address deeper resigned from the Ministry House expressed solidarity with level dialogue, Rajnath cau- issues and answer their ques- “in protest against anti-farmer the Government and the armed tioned “war can be started by tions. The meeting could be Ordinances and legislation”. president Sukhbir Singh Badal, % & ' forces in handling the ongoing anyone but no one is sure attended by senior defence The three Bills — Essential leaving open the possibility of ( )( tense situation at the border. about the end result.” officials, the chairman sug- Commodities (Amendment) walking out of the NDA. Chairman M Venkaiah Replying to questions by gested. Bill, 2020, the Farmers Produce The BJP has a few allies left Congress and the Aam Aadmi culture produce, and would existing procurement policy Naidu said the entire House the former Defence Minister Rajnath did not deviate Trade and Commerce after Shiv Sena walked out of Party (AAP), have all along also benefit the corporates. and the MSP regime, SAD, in should send out a message and senior Congress leader much from his statement given (Promotion and Facilitation) the NDA. been accusing the Badal fami- The Badal husband-wife a complete volte-face, claimed that the country is united in AK Antony and his colleague in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Bill, 2020, and the Farmers’ “I have resigned from the ly of indulging in “double couple represents the SAD in that the party was “not con- this crisis. It will be an apt Anand Sharma about China In the Rajya Sabha, he said the (Empowerment and Union Cabinet in protest speak”. They have been target- the Lok Sabha, while the Upper sulted” over the controversial rebuff to “propaganda” in a sec- obstructing Indian patrols, he LAC in the past too had seen Protection) Agreement of Price against anti-farmer Ordinances ing the SAD for opposing the House has three MPs. On farm Ordinances, and it would tion of the international media said “no power on earth can face-offs and they were ulti- Assurance and Farm Services and legislation. Proud to stand farm Bills while enjoying the Tuesday, Sukhbir voted against “destroy the food grain pro- that there are differences in prevent the Indian patrols. The mately resolved through dia- Bill, 2020 — were passed by the with farmers as their daughter Cabinet berth at the same time. the Essential Commodities curement system establishment India on the LAC issue, he said. patrolling pattern is tradition- logue. Lok Sabha on Thursday night. & sister,” Harsimrat tweeted The SAD has been at log- (Amendment) Bill in the Lok painstakingly over a period of Naidu also said India for cen- al and well-defined.” However, this time the sit- Led by the Congress nearly all ahead of the passage of the Bills gerheads with its ally BJP over Sabha, saying that the proposed 50 years”. turies has followed the path of He also said the stand-offs uation is very different both in the Opposition parties opposed in the Lok Sabha. the farm Bills, which has trig- legislation is against the inter- With Harsimrat’s resigna- peace and has never attacked take place as the Chinese try to terms of the scale of troops the Bill, calling it “anti-farmer”. Farmers form a sizable gered massive protests in ests of farmers. Later, it was tion, the SAD would aim at another country. stop the Indian patrols. The involved and the number of “We stand with the farm- chunk of the voting population Punjab and the neighbouring passed by Parliament by voice consolidating its stronghold in Updating the House, first face-off in May this year friction points, the Minister ers and will do anything for in the agrarian State of Punjab Haryana by farmer organisa- vote. the State’s farming communi- Rajnath said India has asked also started after the Chinese said adding India remains them. Next course of action will and political parties have all tions, apprehending that the Initially defending the ty in an apparent attempt to China to refrain from making intruded five km into India in committed to a peaceful reso- be taken by our party for which along made attempts to have new laws would bring to an end Ordinances, and even per- stage a comeback in the aggressive efforts to unilaterally the north bank of the Pangong lution. “Starting war is in our there will be a meeting short- agriculturalists by their side. the assured minimum support suading the farmers that it Assembly polls in 2022. change the LAC. He also Tso (lake) and obstructed an hands but the end is not in our ly,” said Shiromani Akali Dal SAD’s rivals, including the price (MSP) regime for agri- would have no bearing on Continued on Page 2 referred to his recent meeting Indian patrol near ‘Finger 4.’ hands. I am astonished at times with his Chinese counterpart This led to exchange of blows that peace is compromised. I Wei Fenghe in Moscow where between the two sides leaving want to tell our 130 crore ' 1 this point was conveyed. China scores of soldiers injured. countrymen that we will not let 445%65 747%464&7%5 was also asked to honour all the The Defence Minister said the country down. Neither will ( (2* ! 8458& %4%666 pacts to maintain peace and he will not be able to share we bow before anyone, nor is %&%5& 6846 549& tranquility at the LAC and much more because these were it our intention to make anyone told the Indian forces are deter- sensitive operational issues. “I bow before us,” he said. 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The terminal has 57 park- , 477 4896489 on Wednesday. these five vaccine candidates at 01-02,$ ing bays and can handle up to 998 465796 The non-governmental 5.9 billion doses, enough for 150 private jet flights per day. organisation analysed deals three billion people given that JP’s Rajya Sabha member It was inaugurated by Civil struck by pharmaceuticals and all five future vaccines will or BAshok Gasti, who was bat- Aviation Minister Hardeep vaccine producers for the five are highly likely to require two tling with Covid-19 in a criti- Singh Puri on Thursday after- leading vaccine candidates cur- doses. Supply deals have so far cal condition in a Bengaluru noon. rently in late-stage trials, based been agreed for 5.3 billion hospital succcumbed to it late The Minister said the Delhi on data collected by the ana- doses, of which 2.7 billion on Thursday. airport was handling around 40 lytics company Airfinity. have been bought by developed The BJP leader had taken “general aviation” flights per “Access to a life-saving vac- countries/union like the US, the oath as a Rajya Sabha day before the pandemic, and cine shouldn’t depend on the UK, EU, Australia, Hong member on July 22. it is currently handling around " where you live or how much Kong and Macau, Japan, Earlier in the day there was 20 such flights per day. money you have,” said Robert Switzerland and Israel. confusion about the condition Flight operations of private New Delhi: Union Home Silverman of Oxfam America. The remaining 2.6 billion of the MP and before the hos- multi-organ failure. He was jets are classified under the Minister Amit Shah, who “The development and doses have been bought by or pital issued the clarifications on life support in the Intensive “general aviation” category. recently recovered from Covid- approval of a safe and effective promised to developing coun- that Gasti was still critical, Care Unit (ICU).