July 9, 1982, Forty Years Ago: Opposition Walkout... Shri Radhe

The installation of the Bhajan Lal government by the Haryana governor and the alleged misuse of government machinery to bolster the Congress-I candidate Zail Singh’s campaign rocked both Houses of Parliament. The half-hour furore in the Lok Sabha ended with the opposition parties, barring the DMK and Muslim League, staging a walkout. Their grouse was that the Speaker’s refusal to take up their adjournment motion.

USSR Warns US

The Soviet Union has warned the United States not to land troops in Lebanon. President Leonid Brezhnev, in a message to Ronald Reagan has said that if American troops went into Beirut, the Soviet Union would “build its policy on that fact”. Meanwhile, five American ships of the Sixth Fleet, carrying 1,800 marines have arrived in the Lebanese waters, to be on hand in the event of the evacuation of Palestinian fighters from beseiged West Beirut. While artillery exchanges in Beirut continue, some hopes have been raised of progress in the negotiations on a nine-point plan put forward by the American presidential envoy, Philip Habib. Israel announced that it accepts seven of the nine points.

Suspension Revoked

The four-day tussle between the government and the Opposition over the Monghyr killings ended with the Bihar Assembly adopting a motion revoking the suspension of 98 opposition MLAs with immediate effect. As in the case of suspension, the resolution was moved by the chief minister and adopted by voice vote in the afternoon. The members will be attending the House three days prior to the original date of the suspension lifting. The withdrawal of the suspension came only after the opposition members had forced their entry into the House.

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PM Modi remembers his friend Shinzo Abe. Shri Radhe Shri radhe

Narendra Modi writes: Even when he was not the prime minister of Japan between 2007 and 2012, and more recently after 2020, our personal bond remained as strong as ever...

Hare Krishna hare Krishna hare Krishna hare Krishna...

Shinzo Abe — an outstanding leader of Japan, a towering global statesman, and a great champion of India-Japan friendship – is not among us anymore. Japan and the world have lost a great visionary. And, I have lost a dear friend.

I first met him in 2007, during my visit to Japan as the chief minister of Gujarat. Right from that first meeting, our friendship went beyond the trappings of office and the shackles of official protocol...

Delayed payments for small firms stifle economic growth..hare Krishna hare Krishna hare Krishna

Kinjal Sampat and Arun Singh write: For every day that a payment is delayed for credit-starved MSMEs, there is an erosion of value. If this issue is not addressed now, it will only add to the burden on these firms

Glimpses of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s wedding were reassuring and heartwarming.... Shri Radhe

In the visuals of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s wedding to Gurpreet Kaur on Thursday, there was a sense of heavily-painted curtains parting to offer a heartening glimpse of normal life backstage...

Amid apocalyptic headlines, it is reassuring to catch sight of a member of the ruling political class doing something so ordinary as getting married. In the visuals of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s wedding to Gurpreet Kaur on Thursday, there was a sense of heavily-painted curtains parting to offer a heartening glimpse of normal life backstage.

The nature of politics, with its brutal cut-and-thrust and high-stakes power play can make its practitioners seem remote to the aam aurat and aadmi. Politicians may be representatives of the people but only rarely, despite the facade of intimacy created by social media, do they seem of the people. To watch one such representative — a chief minister, to boot — get married felt like a humanising revelation. This was especially so because it was a small and intimate ceremony, the happy couple posing with the mother of the groom, a menu that offered regular wedding fare, like vegetable jalfrezi, dal makhani and gulab jamun. There were only a few lal batti guests, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha. This is in sharp contrast to the big, fat Punjabi wedding, with large numbers, lavish multi-cuisine buffets and luxurious venues. Or the showy political wedding where the guest list is as much a demonstration of power and clout as a floor test.

Ever since he took oath of office on March 16, Mann has had much on his plate. His government has inherited a deepening agrarian crisis, a drug problem that can’t simply be wished away, a resurrected spectre of separatist politics and a broken economy that finds it hard to keep pace with the aspirations of Punjab’s young. But even a chief minister must have a life away from the daunting challenges of his job. Lakh lakh vadhaiyan to the newly-weds!..

Om namo shivai Rudra..i ..

The clock is ticking on the issue of energy poverty

Narendra Taneja writes: India's PM spoke on behalf of energy-poor, from Lima to Hanoi to Nairobi. Powerful platforms like the G-20 and the BRICS need to focus more on energy access, poverty and security.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke for all the energy-poor countries, from Chile to Indonesia to Rwanda, when he invoked the need for the impoverished to be able to access energy as much as the rich global north at the recently-concluded G-7 Summit in Germany. Experts estimate the total number of energy-poor people in Latin America, Asia and Africa to be in the region of three billion people. In South Asia alone, over one billion people are struggling with extremely limited access to energy, despite the LPG and the LED revolutions in India..

BJP’s Murmu gameplan has worked. Opposition loses the plot in presidential elections Shri Radhe

BJP’s nomination of Draupadi Murmu as its candidate for the presidential election has stumped the opposition. Murmu is proving to be an inspired choice for BJP. Her candidature has left opposition parties uneasy because nearly every state has a significant Adivasi belt. With the community most influential in the central, eastern and northeast regions, it is the opposition parties in these belts feeling the heat most.

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Mamata Banerjee who showed the greatest urgency and zeal to pitch a joint opposition candidate has all but given the short shift to her partyman and candidate Yashwant Sinha. Mamata has been left bemoaning that Murmu could have been a consensus choice had BJP meaningfully engaged with the opposition. With the Santhal tribe to which Murmu belongs an influential votebank in North Bengal, BJP, for months on the backfoot in Bengal, will be pleased at having scored a big political point over TMC.

Read also: How BJP’s choice is breaking whatever unity opposition has

Not surprisingly, Sinha reportedly won’t be visiting Bengal to canvas votes. The situation is no different in his home state Jharkhand where UPA ally JMM has announced support for Murmu. Even Uddhav Thackeray is finding it hard to drum up support for Sinha in his depleted camp. The outcome of the presidential election is now a foregone conclusion. BJP has yet again bested the opposition, and these parties will be more circumspect for the vice presidential election. Will there be a consensus or will the opposition wait this time for the BJP candidate before announcing a pick?

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