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BJP MP demands Bharat Ratna for PM Modi

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New Delhi: A BJP member of the Lok Sabha demanded on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi be conferred the Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award.
Participating in a discussion on the Union Budget for 2023-24, G S Damor, the MP from Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, said Prime Minister Modi is working for all sections of society, including Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
“The prime minister should be given Bharat Ratna,” he said.
Forty-eight persons have been conferred the Bharat Ratna so far.
Participating in the discussion, Congress member G S Aujla said unemployment among the youth is increasing in the country and the government should take steps to check it.
He said the opposition members do not abuse the prime minister, but only criticise him.
“You have to listen to the criticism…you are the prime minister of the country, nobody can abuse you in this country,” Aujla said.
S I Jaleel of the AIMIM alleged that the government has slashed the budgetary allocations for minorities.

He also said the increase in lending rates by the RBI has put burden on the salaried people.
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February 9, 2023
Kharge targets Centre, demands JPC probe on Adani

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New Delhi: Amid interruptions from the ruling party MPs and the chair, Mallikarjun Kharge, the Leader of the Opposition attacked the Central government over the demand for a probe by the joint parliamentary committee in the Adani case even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was seated in the House.
Kharge said, “There should be a joint parliamentary committee probe in the Adani row… when the government is not afraid of anything then constitute a JPC.”
While attacking the PM, Kharge alleged, “Wealth of one of the closest friends of the Prime Minister increased by 12 times in the last two and half years. In 2014 it was Rs 50,000 crore group while in 2019 it became Rs 1 lakh crore group, but what ‘jadu’ (magic) happened that suddenly in two years assets worth Rs 12 lakh crore came…whether it is due to the favor of friendship.”
#WATCH | Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar in exchange with LoP Mallikarjun Kharge who is demanding JPC on the Adani issue says, “it seems you will set up a JPC on me.”
(Video source: Sansad TV) pic.twitter.com/hGEt7oPeGz
— ANI (@ANI) February 8, 2023
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reacted sharply and said, “It is a very smart thing to say… We are giving data and we will corroborate it, but it is completely infused with insinuation against the Prime Minister and that is what we are objecting to. They are overtly insinuating the PM.”
While the chair asked for authentication, he said that there should be a discussion in the national interest. To this Kharge was furious, and said, “I speak the truth, is it anti-national? I am not anti-national and more patriotic than anyone here as I am ‘bhoomi-putra’. You are looting the country and telling me that I am an anti-national.”
Kharge alleged, “The responsible ministers, MPs are always Hindu-Muslim always and don’t get any other subject… Scheduled Castes people are beaten up upon entering temples, if they are considered Hindus why then the Scheduled Caste people not allowed in temples or educated…Many ministers show pictures of them eating at Scheduled Caste houses. Is that any achievement…”
During the motion of thanks on the President’s Address in the Rajya Sabha, Kharge said that “one person became rich as his wealth increased 12 times from 2019”, which drew objections from the Chair and treasury bench.
However, the chair and the treasury benches objected to it.

Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said, “You are insinuating the Prime Minister which can’t be allowed… Any report from any corner of the world cannot be quoted here.”
Kharge had mentioned the Hindenburg report while attacking the government. Even the leader of the House, Piyush Goyal said that LoP casting aspersions on the Prime Minister were unacceptable.
While BJP’s Sushil Modi raised the point of order that any allegations made, a notice should be given in advance which the chair will validate.
The Finance Minister too said, “The LoP is insinuating the Hon’ble Prime Minister.” The Congress members said that they have not taken the name of the Prime Minister. The LoP, however, continued its tirade against the Adani Group.
He said that the group is taking money from the public sector banks and purchasing public sector undertakings. “Privatisation is also diminishing the reservation system which they could have got in the PSUs,” said Kharge.

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February 8, 2023
BJP demands Delhi govt pay salaries to temple priests too

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New Delhi: The BJP organised a protest outside the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal against the city’s government’s “continuous discrimination” against temple priests.
More than 5,000 seers and priests from different areas of Delhi shouted slogans demanding the Kejriwal government pay them a monthly salary like for imams of mosques.
State BJP Working President Virendra Sachdeva, Leader of Opposition Ramveer Singh Bidhuri, MPs Manoj Tiwari and Ramesh Bidhuri and former Mayor Jaiprakash addressed the protest organised by the BJP Temple Cell.
Leader of Opposition Ramveer Singh Bidhuri said if imams of the mosques are being given a salary, then why not the priests of temples.
Tiwari claimed that the Hindu society is most tolerant, but when its tolerance ends, a war like the one in Mahabharata occurs. “Today, Kejriwal is behaving like Duryodhan with the priests of the temples of Delhi, which will not be tolerated,” he said, adding the BJP is determined that the priests should also get all the arrangements or facilities which other communities are getting.
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February 7, 2023
AISF demands 30% of Telangana budget for education

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Hanamkonda: The AISF (All India Students’ Federation) has demanded that the government should increase the allocation for the education sector from the existing 6.57 percent share of the total budget to 30 percent.
AISF general secretary Bashaboina Santosh in Hanamkonda District held that it was unfair to allocate just Rs 19,093 crore to the benefit of students from the state budget.
“While the total outlay of the budget is Rs 2,90,396 crores, the funds allocated to the education sector are 6.57 percent of the total budget. It is not appropriate to reduce the allocation from 7.30 percent last year to 6.57 percent this year,” stated the secretary in a press note.
The federation also demanded that a resolution must be passed in the Assembly against the new National Education Policy 2020 as the new policy was aimed at the saffronisation of education.
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February 7, 2023
Send DGP to Andhra Pradesh, demands Telangana BJP MLA

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Hyderabad: Telangana BJP MLA Raghunandan Rao on Sunday demanded Director General of Police Anjani Kumar be immediately sent to his cadre state, Andhra Pradesh.
He alleged that injustice was done to the Indian Police Service (IPS) officers from Telangana by the state government as it posted four IPS officers from Bihar in key positions.
The MLA told reporters that in the recent transfer of 93 IPS officers, Anjani Kumar, Sanjay Jain, Swati Lakra and Shahnawaz Qasim were given key posts.
He alleged that not even one IPS officer from Telangana was given an important post.
He said Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao appointed officials from Bihar to key posts like Chief Secretary and the DGP, which gives credence to the doubt that he hails from Bihar.
He alleged that CM KCR gave key posts to officials who were obeying the government’s orders by arresting leaders of opposition parties.
The BJP leader slammed AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi for his statement in the Assembly that AIMIM would win 15 Assembly seats but would work under Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) led by KCR.
Raghunandan Rao said this proved their allegation that AIMIM is ‘B’ team of BRS.

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February 5, 2023
Odisha minister murder case: Munda demands probe by an independent agency

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Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader and Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda on Saturday demanded investigation by an independent agency into the brutal murder of Odisha minister Naba Kishore Das.
Speaking to media persons here, Munda said the murder of the minister is a major concern for the law and order situation of the state. “If such an incident happens to a minister, then what would be the condition of the common people in the state?” he asked.
If such a situation arises in between police and a minister, whom will the common people trust? Munda further asked.
Therefore, the case should be investigated by an independent agency so that truth can come out, he demanded.
The Tribal Affairs Minister also blamed the Odisha government for non-inclusion of 169 communities into Odisha ST List.
“It is not a political issue. It is a constitutional matter. It cannot be resolved by making political statements,” he said.
The state government has not submitted a concrete proposal for inclusion of the communities in the ST list, Munda said.
As per process, he said, proper anthropological research is needed to be done about the communities. After examining those, the Centre can include the genuine tribals in the list.

“In the 120 cases, there is no document, no research is done. If we will take those into consideration after receiving just a piece of paper, the entire India will tell us to make them tribals,” the Minister said.
Munda is here to inform the people about the programmes and welfare measures taken by the Modi government in the Union Budget 2023-24.
Meanwhile, the state crime branch, which is investigating the minister’s murder case, has got another four-day remand of accused police ASI Gopal Krushna Das (now dismissed).
Crime branch ADG Arun Bothra briefed justice J.P Das about the status of investigation. Justice Das, a retired judge of Orissa High Court has been appointed to monitor the high-profile case.
Das said he was briefed about the status of investigation in the case and overall, it is going in the right direction. However, he is yet to see the documents. Das also informed that he will soon visit the crime spot at Brajarajnagar in Jharsuguda district.
The investigation in the sensational murder case is on the right track, justice Das reportedly said after crime branch ADG Arun Bothra met him at his house in Cuttack and briefed him on the progress in the probe.
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February 4, 2023
Judge demands answers after Jan. 6 defendant recants guilt

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In a brief order Friday morning, Mehta gave both sides one week to explain “why the court should not vacate Defendant’s convictions of guilt in light of his post-stipulated trial statements” included in the article. The judge also attached a copy of the news report.
It is unclear how the article in the Illinois newspaper came to the attention of Mehta, who sits at the federal courthouse near the Capitol.
Judges handling Jan. 6 cases have been repeatedly and increasingly irked by defendants appearing to be apologetic and contrite in court, only to make public statements days later minimizing their guilt and sounding cavalier about their actions. And judges are loath to accept what effectively amounts to a guilty plea from any defendant who doesn’t sincerely believe in their own guilt.
Adams, who told the Illinois newspaper he was recently fired from his job as a lawn care worker, acknowledged under oath Tuesday that he had committed the conduct Mehta ultimately found him guilty of. He acknowledged walking over broken glass as he went inside the Capitol and that he told the FBI his intent was to “occupy” the building for days, if necessary. Adams also acknowledged that he “knew that he did not have authorization” when he went into the Senate chamber and walked among the senators’ historic desks.
Entering the Senate chamber has been a sort of red line for prosecutors, with them insisting on felony guilty pleas or convictions to resolve cases against those who went inside, even briefly.
And so far they’ve been nearly unblemished in their prosecutions, though a judge recently acquitted a defendant of an obstruction charge despite his presence in the chamber.
Adams was on the Senate floor for about seven minutes before he was kicked out of the building, according to the statement of facts prosecutors and the defense agreed to in his case.
Stipulated trials have been used in recent months to seek to resolve about a dozen Jan. 6-related criminal cases where the defendant faced a felony charge of obstruction of a congressional proceeding. Almost 1,000 people have been charged criminally in connection with the unrest at the Capitol, which prompted a delay in the congressional session to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.

One of Mehta’s colleagues, U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols, ruled that the obstruction charge did not apply unless prosecutors could prove that a defendant intended to tamper with or damage the actual electoral vote documents being tallied that day.
No other judge to consider the issue has agreed with Nichols. Meanwhile, prosecutors are appealing his decision to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Unlike the guilty pleas typically offered in deals with prosecutors, stipulated trials allow defendants in other cases to preserve their ability to wipe out their obstruction convictions if the D.C. Circuit sides with Nichols. The obstruction charge carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence, although no Jan. 6 defendant has received a sentence close to that in a case not involving violence.
The harshest sentence to date — 10 years — was delivered by Mehta to retired New York City cop Thomas Webster, who took his case to trial. Webster was convicted of a brutal assault of a Washington Metropolitan Police officer outside the Capitol, and Mehta found that Webster lied on the stand about his actions.
Adams also admitted Tuesday to the facts needed to convict him on a misdemeanor charge of entering and remaining in the Capitol without permission. That carries a one-year maximum sentence. Mehta has set sentencing in the case for June 16.
The FBI appears to have zeroed in on Adams after he said on the day after the Capitol riot that he enjoyed the experience. “It was a really fun time,” Adams told Insider. He has since said he did not know of the violence taking place elsewhere in the building and on the Capitol grounds.
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February 3, 2023
Adani issue: RS, LS adjourned till 2.30 pm as Oppn demands discussion

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New Delhi: Both Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were adjourned on Friday till 2.30 pm following an uproar by the opposition members demanding a discussion on the Adani issue.
In Rajya Sabha
Soon after the house met for the day, RS Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar rejected the 15 adjournment notices filed by members of various opposition parties to discuss the Adani group issue in the wake of allegations made against the conglomerate by a US-based short seller.
The chairman urged members of the Rajya Sabha to maintain order and allow the listed business of the House to be taken up. But unrelenting opposition members raised an uproar over the rejection of their adjournment notices.
Dhankhar told the protesting members that Parliament is the essence and the North Star of democracy. It is a place for discussion and deliberation and not a place of disturbance, he said.
“I have received 15 notices under Rule 267 from different members…I have gone through all the notices. I am unable to accede to them as these are not fulfilling the requirements of rule 267,” the chairman said, leading to uproar from opposition members.
He then adjourned the house till 2.30 pm, as opposition members continued to cause uproar.
In Lok Sabha
Soon after the House met for the day, opposition members were on their feet shouting slogans and demanding a probe into the tanking of the Adani Group scrips and sought a probe into the business practices of the corporate giant.
Speaker Om Birla appealed to members to participate in the discussions during the Question Hour, which he termed as significant.

He said the House will take up the Motion of Thanks to the president for her address at the beginning of the Budget session.
Birla said as it was the first address to the joint sitting of the House by the country’s first tribal woman president, all members should participate in it.
He said he was ready to give the opposition enough time to raise their issues if they give proper notice.
However, an unrelenting opposition continued their protests and sloganeering, forcing the Speaker to adjourn the proceedings till 2 pm.
Adani Group stocks have taken a beating on the bourses after the US short-seller Hindenburg Research made a litany of allegations last week in its report, including fraudulent transactions and share price manipulation at the Gautam Adani-led group, which has denied the charges.
The market losses of the Adani Group have risen to nearly USD 103 billion (about Rs 8.5 lakh crore).
(This copy was edited by Siasat desk).
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February 3, 2023
Cong demands SC-monitored probe or JPC to look into fraud charges against Adani Group

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New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday demanded an impartial investigation under the supervision of the Supreme Court or a joint parliamentary committee to probe the charges raised in the Hindenburg report against the Adani Group.
A joint opposition raised the Hindenburg report in both the Houses of Parliament demanding a discussion on the issue. The opposition parties also created an uproar after adjournment notices by several members in this regard were rejected by the chair in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, leading to adjournment of the Houses for the day.
No business was transacted in the Houses.
The Congress has also decided to protest outside the offices of LIC and SBI in all districts across the country on February 6.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge termed it as a “scam” and said the opposition parties have also called for day-to-day reporting of the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) or the SC-monitored probe into the issue concerning public money.
“Keeping public interest in mind, we want a thorough probe into the Adani issue either by a joint parliamentary committee or a Supreme Court-monitored probe. There should also be day-to-day reporting of the investigation on the issue,” he told reporters.
Kharge said on behalf of like-minded opposition parties, he demands either a JPC or an SC-monitored investigation in the manner in which government owned companies “are forced to invest in firms that have been exposed by the Hindenburg report”.
He said along with him eight other opposition MPs had given notices in the Rajya Sabha for a discussion on the Adani Group crisis and investment of PSUs like Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) and State Bank of India (SBI) in the group.
“Whenever we have given a notice, it has not been accepted by the chair”, the Congress leader said, noting that this is the reason all opposition parties jointly decided to raise the issue in the Upper House.

“That is why, we decided to raise the (Adani) issue in one voice in the House as crores of money of common people is invested in LIC, and public money in banks is being given to such companies against whom foreign agencies have come out with charges of irregularities,” he said.
AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said responding to the “public sentiments and outrage against the moves of the government”, the Congress Party has decided to hold a nationwide district level protest on Monday, February 6, 2023, in front of LIC offices and SBI offices.
“The government can’t jeopardize the hard earned money of the people of India to profit the crony friends of the Prime Minister,” Venugopal said.
He also said all the PCCs (Pradesh Congress Committees) have been requested to issue necessary instructions to the District Congress Committees (DCCs), so that apart from senior leaders, party functionaries and workers’ mobilisation from Block Congress Committees, panchayat and booth level is ensured in full measure.
“The Modi government is protecting its best friend by repeatedly adjourning Parliament and scuttling the opposition’s voice. We demand a JPC and a Supreme Court-monitored probe to investigate the entire matter and the government’s involvement in this massive scam,” Venugopal said on Twitter.
He claimed that the LIC has “invested a total of Rs 36,474.78 crore” in Adani Group, whereas Indian banks together have “invested nearly Rs 80,000 crore” in the same and they continue to do so even when there is allegations of stock manipulation, accounting fraud and other malfeasance.
AICC head of media and publicity department, Pawan Khera, said the Congress has raised three important demands from the Narendra Modi government.
“An impartial investigation under the Chief Justice of Supreme Court, with day-to-day reports, should be carried out, or a JPC should be formed to investigate the Hindenburg Research report in detail,” he said at a press conference.
“Risky investments” by LIC, SBI and other nationalised banks in Adani Group should be discussed in Parliament and appropriate steps be taken to protect the investors, he said.
Congress leader and whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore, who had given an adjournment notice in the Lower House to discuss the row, also said that the party wants a JPC probe into the entire matter along with a discussion on the issue.
Congress MP Manish Tewari tweeted “JPC on Adani Saga” and said the party will demand that a JPC be constituted to investigate the allegations.
“It is not a question about one promoter, but about the efficacy of the entire regulatory system,” he said, adding that the Congress and other political parties demand JPC on “a-la-affaire Adani”.
Earlier, the Congress was supported by several other opposition parties, including DMK, TMC, SP, JD(U), Shiv Sena, CPI(M), CPI, BRS, NCP, IUML, NC, AAP, Kerala Congress and RJD in demanding the JPC probe or SC-monitored investigation into the row.
Khera said the Congress strongly underlines that when Rahul Gandhi talks about “Suit Boot Ki Sarkar”, “Hum Do, Hamare Do” and now “Mitra Kaal”, he is not talking about any particular industrialist, “he is talking about the murky system that Modi ji has set up for his selected friends to loot the country”.
“We are not against any particular Indian corporate house, we are against crony capitalism. When the rules are changed to benefit selected billionaires, we are against it,” he said, alleging that “Hum Do Hamare Do” of “Mitra Kaal” are brazenly selling the “Family Silver” of the nation.
“The ‘Pradhan Mentor’ handed over shares in LIC and SBI to a group which has been accused of biggest corporate fraud of this country. The ‘saheb’ has left no stone unturned in sinking the deposits of crores of Indians,” he said, asking when will the serious allegations made by Hindenburg Research against Adani be investigated.
He also said the Modi government has maintained a stoic silence on the report.
“We want to tell PM Modi that we have nothing to say if you cheat your best friend, but shall not keep quiet if you cheat the investors of India – 29 crore policy holders of LIC and 45 crore account holders of SBI,” the Congress leader said.
“The family silver of the country is at stake due to the sinking of the Adani Group, the hard-earned money of crores of investors and crores of policy holders is at risk,” he alleged.
Adani Group stocks have taken a beating on the bourses after Hindenburg Research made a litany of allegations in its report, including fraudulent transactions and share price manipulation at the Gautam Adani-led group.
Adani Group has dismissed the charges as lies, saying it complies with all laws and disclosure requirements. It called the Hindenburg report baseless and has threatened to sue the short seller.
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February 2, 2023
AAP MP Sanjay Singh demands confiscation of Adani’s passport

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New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Thursday said that he had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demanded to confiscate the passport of industrialist Gautam Adani.
“I have written a letter to PM, ED, and CBI demanding the confiscation of Adani’s passport, or else If he also flees from the country like other industrialists and capitalists, then crores of people of this country will be left with nothing,” Singh told ANI.
Further launching his tirade against the Adani Enterprises Ltd chairman Gautam Adani, the AAP leader said that the former’s “mountain of lies and fraud is crumbling like a pack of cards”.
“Adani’s mountain of lies and fraud is crumbling like a pack of cards. Crores of investors in the country are worried. Those who have invested in LIC, and SBI because both of them have given loans worth crores of rupees. The Prime Minister should come forward and address the issue. The Finance Minister should tell what the RBI, ED, and CBI are doing. Why is the government silent on such huge corruption? FPO is just the beginning, the mountain of lies will fall,” he added.
Singh also gave a suspension of business notice to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar demanding a discussion on the allegations of financial irregularities and fraud against the Adani group.
Serving the notice under Rule 267, Singh mentioned that a case of manipulation of shares, financial irregularities and fraud on a large scale by the ‘Adani Group’ has come to the fore. “These allegations are so serious that Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) which holds the shares of Adani Group’s stocks worth more than Rs 81 thousand crores had a loss of about Rs 16,580 crores,” he said.
Quoting the Hindenburg Research Report, he said in the notice that crores of rupees of many public sector banks of the country including the State Bank of India (SBI) are at stake as the Adani Group has currently a debt of more than Rs 2.2 lakh crore.
“According to the report, seven listed companies of the Adani Group have been over-evaluated for more than 85 per cent. These companies have taken loans by mortgaging their shares on a large scale. There have been several cases registered against the members of Adani’s family and his group officials,” the notice said.

He further mentioned that many government institutions including LIC, and SBI continued to invest in Adani Group despite the latter’s role in serious offences like money laundering, and theft of taxpayers’ money. Even the grant of a Follow-on Public Offer (FPO) worth Rs 20,000 crore to the Adani enterprises and the nod for the demand of investor’s money without the completion of SEBI’s investigation also hints at wider economic impropriety, he claimed.
“Taking cognizance of such a serious matter, the sooner the investigation is started, the sooner the interests of investors and the general public can be protected, otherwise, it will destroy the lives of crores of Indians who invest their money for savings in companies like LIC and SBI. Considering the above critical circumstances, you are humbly requested to postpone other works of the House under Rule 267 and discuss this very serious matter related to the public interest in the House,” he said in the notice.
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February 2, 2023