Congress backs Rahul Gandhi, says BJP govt says one thing does another

Coming in support of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, the Congress on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government says one thing and does another.

“Whatever the Congress vice-president has said is true. Whatever he (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) is telling is not implemented. He has not provided employment to the youth; he has not brought back the black money and distributed to each family Rs. 15 lakhs. Even he has allocated less money for health, education and so many things,” Congress leader and leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge told ANI.

Kharge said Prime Minister Modi has reduced schemes like NREGA or generating employment. “So, we must see how this government is telling one thing and doing another. Therefore, what Rahul ji has said is right and we back whatever he is saying in the interest of the country,” he added.
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Gandhi yesterday accused Prime Minister Modi of doing politics of vendetta by “scrapping” projects in Amethi , his Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh.

“Projects in Amethi which would surely have guaranteed employment to the people, were cancelled by Modi ji. He came to Amethi and said he will not do politics of vendetta. But the truth is people of Amethi are being acted against. Modi cancelled Hindustan Paper Mill, Mega Food Park Scheme and IIIT. He has stopped the Central School,” Gandhi said.

The Congress vice-president said Prime Minister Modi was harming the people of Amethi by scrapping development projects. “There was no fault on the part of people of Amethi…Modi talks of development but he is harming them. The projects that could have changed the lives of people here have been either scrapped or diverted elsewhere,” he added.

Gandhi said not a single person has benefitted by the Prime Minister’s promises of controlling inflation, depositing Rs. 15 lakh in the accounts of each citizen and upgrading certain towns to smart city. Ridiculing the Make in India campaign, Gandhi said, “The Babbar Sher (mascot of Make in India campaign) does not squeak even like a mouse.” He said not a single person got employment under it.

Accusing the Central Government of stalling the works of the UPA government, Gandhi said though Prime Minister Modi moved about all over the world giving speeches but nothing is being done back home. “Thousand of crores of rupees of loans of industrialists are being waived but not those of poor farmers,” he said, adding the erstwhile Congress-led UPA government wrote off loans of farmers totalling Rs. 70,000 crore.”

Gandhi vowed to fight for the interest of the people. “We are not in the government but we will fight for the interest of people on the roads, Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha… We know people face several problems like power and water scarcity,” he said.

Thanking his party men for their continued support, Gandhi exhorted them to vote for the Congress in the upcoming assembly polls in the state where it has been out of power for years so that it can work for development of the state as well as Amethi and Rae Bareli. He also dedicated to the people several road projects in Amethi.

Source:-indianexpress
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Over 400 RSS Members Resign In Goa Over State Chief Velingkar's Sacking

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar with US Defence Secretary Ash Carter at a joint news conference at the Pentagon. CNN-News18

In between, by surpassing Russia, the Unites States has become India’s biggest arms supplier. Besides, India is now a country with which the United States conducts the largest number of peace-time military exercises bilaterally every year (nearly 70). All these have fitted well into their respective big scheme of things, with United States focusing on "a rebalance to the Asia-Pacific" and India reaching east to extend its reach in the broader Indo-Asia-Pacific region (Act-East policy).

However, in my considered view, the most important part of the joint statement happens to be just two-and-half lines mentioned in its second last paragraph: "They (Carter and Parrikar) also welcomed the signing of the bilateral logistics exchange memorandum of agreement (LEMOA), which will facilitate additional opportunities for practical engagement and exchange."

To begin with, LEMOA is a term that one has heard for the first time in the vocabulary of the Indo-US defence parlance. During his India-visit in April, Carter was using the term 'Logistics Support Agreement' (LSA), which the United States, incidentally, had been pressing India since 2004, along with Communication and Information Security Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA) and the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA). CISMOA would allow the United States to supply India with its propriety encrypted communications equipment and systems, so as to first secure peacetime and wartime communication between high-level military leaders on both sides, and then extend this capability to Indian and US military assets, including aircraft and ships. BECA would set a framework through which the United States could share sensitive data to aid targeting and navigation with India.

According to the Americans, the Indo-US strategic partnership can be really meaningful and enhanced once New Delhi signs LSA, CISMOA and BECA. Signing on the LSA has been the first step in that direction. The then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government led by Manmohan Singh was all for the conclusion of the LSA, but it did not have the courage to go for actual signing, afraid as it was that the opposition and Left-leaning experts will consider it as formalising a military alliance with the US by violating its traditional policy of not allowing foreign military presence (howsoever temporary it may be, on its soil except for purposes of training and joint exercises) and that China will be angered in the process.

RSS, the ideological mentor of the BJP, sacked its Goa chief Subhash Velingkar on Wednesday. (File)
Panaji:  More than 400 volunteers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) resigned from the organisation late Wednesday in protest against the unceremonious sacking of state RSS chief Subhash Velingkar earlier in the day.

The members who announced their resignation included district, sub-district and shakha heads.

The mass resignations followed a marathon six-hour meeting held at a school complex near Panaji, in which over 100 local RSS members and office bearers accused senior RSS and BJP leadership, including Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, of conspiring to sack Mr Velingkar.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting which was also attended by the office bearers of the Sangh's Konkan region, Ramdas Saraf, south district pramukh of the RSS said: "All office bearers from the district units, sub district units and shakhas ing with hundreds of others have decided quit from the RSS, until Velingkar Sir is reinstated".

"We will not work for RSS until the decision to strip him as Goa Vibhag Sangh Chalak is revoked," Mr Saraf said.

Source:-NDTV
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