Tuesday, Feb 2 2021 | Time 20:44 Hrs(IST)
image
  • New Zealand qualify for inaugural ICC World Test C'ship final
  • House gutted in fire in HP's Nohradhar
  • Annual Budget indifferent towards woes of businesses, hoteliers, farmers, horticulturalists: NC
  • Delhi Court grants bail to scribe Mandeep Punia arrested at Singhu border
  • Union Budget 2021 is huge disappointment for common people: Tarigami
  • AP CM asks officials to create awareness on Disha programme services
  • History of 'Chauri Chaura' to be made accessible to youths: Yogi
  • Fisheries officer trapped in ACB net in Aurangabad
  • Malik slams Modi Govt over handling of farmer's agitation
  • Akhilesh attacks BJP over farmers' stir
  • LS ADJOURNED FOR DAY AFTER OPPOSITION RUCKUS OVER FARM LAWS
  • One nation, one budget didn't reflect in annual financial statement: Pawan Bansal
  • BWF Rankings: India's Satwik, Ashwini break into top 20
  • BWF Rankings: India's Satwik, Ashwini break into top 20
  • Three prominent leaders join TMC
States » NorthPosted at: Feb 2 2021 7:32PM


Akhilesh attacks BJP over farmers' stir

Lucknow, Feb 2 (UNI) Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday attacked the BJP government at the Centre over the police setting up barricades and road blocks at farmer agitation sites on Delhi's borders.
Farmers’ protest sites at Delhi’s borders have turned into fortresses with police beefing up security and strengthening barricades.
Iron rods have been hooked between two rows of cement barriers on a flank of the main highway at the Singhu border to further restrict the movement of protesters, agitating against the new farm laws. Another portion of the highway at the Delhi-Haryana border is practically blocked as a makeshift cement wall has come up there.
At Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, there are multi-layer barricades to stop the movement of vehicles. Barbed wire has also been put up to keep off people on foot. 'Politics you are awesome, with wall raised on the way and spiked wire, you say let’s talk,' Yadav said in a tweet in Hindi with hashtag #farmer #nahi-chahiye-BJP (no more BJP).
Farmer unions protesting against the three farm laws on Monday announced a countrywide 'chakka jam' on February 6 when they would block national and state highways for three hours in protest against the Internet ban in areas near their agitation sites, harassment allegedly meted out to them by authorities, and other issues.
Criticising the budget for 2021-22 presented by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in parliament on Monday, Mr Yadav said, "the BJP has been reduced to a trading company whose sole job is horse-trading for purchasing MLAs and privatising the assets of the government with the objective of mobilising funds for advancing its electoral interests’’. He alleged that the sole aim of the announcements made in the budget is to mobilise funds from the corporate houses for its coffers.
He said the budget has nothing to offer to the farmers as the outlay for the agriculture and allied sector is insignificant.
SP chief charged that no new reform measure has been announced in the budget to create fresh jobs. He said the BJP government had been making tall claims on creating fresh jobs while the outlay for the MNREGA has been slashed by 30 percent.
He said this will have adverse impact on rural households. He said during the past elections to stat assemblies and parliament BJP leaders promised moon to the farmers but nothing translated on the ground.
He said the BJP government failed to honour the promise of increasing the farmer’s income by increasing the minimum support price even as the inflation has increased by 31 per cent.
UNI MB JAL 1931
Tags: #Akhilesh attacks BJP over farmers' stir
More News
House gutted in fire in HP's Nohradhar

House gutted in fire in HP's Nohradhar

02 Feb 2021 | 8:33 PM

Shimla Feb 2 (UNI) A two-storey house was gutted in a fire in the Nohradhar area of Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district on Tuesday.

see more..
Union Budget 2021 is huge disappointment for common people: Tarigami

Union Budget 2021 is huge disappointment for common people: Tarigami

02 Feb 2021 | 8:27 PM

Srinagar, Feb 2 (UNI) Terming the Union Budget as a huge disappointment for the common people, CPI (M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami on Tuesday said that Centre has failed to address the issue of miseries of people, including rising unemployment, hunger and skyrocketing price rise.

see more..

Amarinder slams AAP over walk-out from all-party meeting

02 Feb 2021 | 8:17 PM

Chandigarh, Feb 2 (UNI) Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over their walk-out from the all-party meeting minutes before the Resolution in support of the agitating farmers was to be passed, saying this had once again exposed the double standards of Arvind Kejriwal’s party, which continued to put its vested political interests above those of the farmers.

see more..

COVID: J&K reports 44 new +ve cases, two deaths

02 Feb 2021 | 7:58 PM

Jammu, Feb 2 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir Government on Tuesday informed that 44 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (12 from Jammu division and 32 from Kashmir division), have been reported thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 124594.

see more..

PRI polls: BJP bags top posts in Hamirpur

02 Feb 2021 | 7:49 PM

Hamirpur (HP), Feb 2 (UNI) The BJP on Tuesday made a clean sweep of the top positions of the Zila parishad and Block samitis and thereby proving that Hamirpur is the citadel of the BJP.

see more..
image