Tag: reluctance

  • Yechury questions Centre’s reluctance in allowing JPC to probe Adani issue

    Yechury questions Centre’s reluctance in allowing JPC to probe Adani issue

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    Thiruvananthapuram: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Saturday lambasted the BJP-led government at the Centre for not allowing a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to examine the alleged “Adani scam” and charged that it is to hide the nexus between the corporate house and Prime Minister Narendra Modi dispensation.

    If there is nothing to hide and nothing is wrong, why is the Modi government refusing to inquire into the scam? he asked.

    Charging that the “communal corporate nexus” that has emerged under the Modi government is actually together destroying the foundational pillars of the Indian constitutional order, he also said the worst form of “crony capitalism” has developed under the BJP regime.

    Yechury was speaking after inaugurating the culmination of the month-long “Jana Jagratha Yatra” led by party’s state secretary M V Govindan here highlighting the anti-people policies of the Centre.

    “If there is nothing wrong, why they are not allowing a Joint Parliamentary Committee to examine the said issue (Adani scam)? The JPC, according to Parliamentary norms, will be headed by the party that has maximum number of MPs which is BJP,” he said adding that but still they were afraid of the JPC.

    Because, what is being hidden is the link between the corporate house and the Modi government and the truth of the crony capitalism, the Marxist veteran said.

    If anybody questions the PM or the government, then they are immediately branded as anti-nationals and that is the most serious thing happening in the country now-a-days, the leader said giving the example of the recent BBC documentary on Gujarat riots.

    “If you are questioning the Prime Minister, you are questioning India…you are anti-national….Any question of Modi is anti-national and any question of Adani is anti-national.”

    Like the country had given a reply to the slogan “India is Indira and Indira is India” decades ago, he urged the people to give a firm reply to Narendra Modi also in the coming Lok Sabha polls.

    India is neither Indira nor Modi-Adani but people of the country and it can be asserted only if this government at the Centre is removed from office, he said.

    Noting that removing the Modi government from office is of paramount importance to defend the Constitutional order, democracy and democratic rights of people, Yechury said that is the most “patriotical duty” of all Indians today.

    “And that is the final test of Indian nationalism and that is the final test of whether we are for the interest of India or for enemies of the country.”

    The Left leader also alleged that the four foundational pillars of the Constitutional order-secular democracy, economic self-sovereignty, social justice and federalism-are facing threat under the BJP rule.

    He claimed that there is much focus on the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government in Kerala as the BJP and the central government are well aware that it is the only non-BJP state government in the country that is offering an alternative model for development.

    There are a lot of false stories being spread to defame Kerala, but President Droupadi Murmu’s recent words praising the achievements of the state in various sectors is the befitting reply for that false propaganda, he added.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Germany faces backlash over reluctance to send tanks to Ukraine

    Germany faces backlash over reluctance to send tanks to Ukraine

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    Germany is facing a backlash from allies over its reluctance to supply Leopard 2 tanks to bolster Ukraine’s fighting capacity in the nearly year-long war with Russia.

    On Friday, 50 countries agreed to provide Kyiv with billions of dollars’ worth of military hardware, including armoured vehicles and munitions needed to push back Russian forces.

    But the German defence minister, Boris Pistorius, told reporters at the US Ramstein airbase in Germany that despite heightened expectations, “we still cannot say when a decision will be taken, and what the decision will be, when it comes to the Leopard tank”.

    Ukraine on Saturday denounced the “global indecision” of its allies in providing heavy-duty modern tanks, saying “today’s indecision is killing more of our people”.

    “Every day of delay is the death of Ukrainians. Think faster,” tweeted presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak.

    Several allies echoed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in saying the tanks were essential to Ukraine’s fight with its much larger neighbour.

    In a joint statement – and a rare public criticism of Europe’s top power – the foreign ministers of the three Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania said they “call on Germany to provide Leopard tanks to Ukraine now”.

    “This is needed to stop Russian aggression, help Ukraine and restore peace in Europe quickly. Germany as the leading European power has special responsibility in this regard,” said the statement, tweeted by the Latvian foreign minister, Edgars Rinkēvičs.

    Graphic showing Leopard 2 tank

    Berlin has been hesitant to send the Leopards or allow other countries to transfer them to Kyiv, with reports earlier in the week saying it would agree to do so only if the US provided its tanks as well. Washington has said providing its Abrams tanks to Ukraine is not feasible, citing difficulties in training and maintenance.

    But expectations had grown ahead of Friday’s Ukraine contact group meeting of about 50 US-led countries at Ramstein airbase that Germany would at least agree to let other countries operating Leopards transfer them to Kyiv’s army.

    The US senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina who is visiting Kyiv, called on both sides to supply the machines.

    “To the Germans: send tanks to Ukraine because they need them. It is in your own national interest that Putin loses in Ukraine.

    “To the Biden administration: send American tanks so that others will follow our lead,” he tweeted.

    The pleas came as the Russian army said its troops had launched an offensive in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, where fighting intensified this week after several months of an almost frozen front.

    In its daily report on Saturday, Moscow’s forces said they had carried out “offensive operations” in the region and claimed to have “taken more advantageous lines and positions”.



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    ( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )