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DMK opposes ‘one nation, one ration card’ scheme, calls it against the idea of federalism

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DMK opposes ‘one nation, one ration card’ scheme, calls it against the idea of federalism

DMK has opposed the central government’s decision to implement ‘one nation, one ration card’ scheme calling it against the idea of federalism. DMK Chief MK Stalin asserted this decision of the Government of India would have its repercussions.

“Public distribution is a fundamental right of state governments. The Union food minister does not understand the repercussions that would follow if such a right is infringed upon,” Stalin claimed.

He accused the central government of trying to establish its dominance by implementing the scheme. “It is to be understood that the Centre, by implementing such initiatives, is trying to establish its dominance. Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government is desperately indulging in activities aimed at uprooting federalism”, he said.

AMMK leader T T V Dhinakaran also joined Stalin in opposing the one nation, one ration card scheme and said that if a considerable amount of foodgrain has to be allocated to migrants, the locals would have to undergo hardship. “Tamil Nadu is already burdened financially by complying with the Food Security Act. The public distribution system in the State will completely collapse because of the one nation, one ration scheme”‘, said Dhinakaran.

The central government has given a year’s deadline of June 30, 2020, to the states and the Union Territories for rolling out one nation, one ration card system. This scheme is will allow the beneficiaries to buy subsidized foodgrains from ration shops in any part of the country.

Stalin and Dhinakaran have also requested the ruling AIADMK government to oppose the center’s scheme in its nascent stage. This despite the Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan confirming the scheme is aimed to ensure no poor was left out of the PDS entitlement in case of a person shifting from one place to the another. Paswan also asserted the scheme will also help to weed out fake ration card holders.

We had reported earlier how Stalin had in his address at an election rally in Ottapidaram in Tamil Nadu on May 1, said the firing on Sterlite protesters done in May 2018 was executed at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Fresh trouble knocks at Rahul’s doors as PC Chacko overturns Shiela Dikshit’s order to dissolve Congress block committees

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Fresh trouble knocks at Rahul’s doors as PC Chacko overturns Shiela Dikshit’s order to dissolve Congress block committees

The internal feud within the Congress party, which is reeling under severe crisis, has come to the fore with PC Chacko overturning Delhi Congress chief Shiela Dikshit’s decision to dissolve all 280 block-level committees.

Chacko, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge for Delhi overturned Dikshit’s decision on Saturday, June 29.

Dikshit, the former Chief Minister of Delhi and incumbent chief of the Congress Delhi unit had been called for a meeting with Rahul Gandhi on June 28, which was also attended by Chacko. Gandhi was reported to have advised both the veteran leaders to work together in the wake of assembly polls scheduled for early next year in Delhi.

Meanwhile, Dikshit, taking cognizance of a report by a committee formed by her to probe the party’s debacle in recent Lok Sabha polls, dissolved all the block committees hours after meeting Gandhi.

Congress had lost all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi to BJP with huge margins.

According to party sources, Chacko resisted Dikshit’s stance to ‘stay’ the dissolution of block committees and forwarded copies of his order to party president Gandhi along with Dikshit.

Chacko is the same Congress sycophant who hailed Gandhi’s’ as the first family of India today and scorned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for being ‘negative’ towards them. Taking his sycophancy to a whole new level, he attributed everything the country has achieved in the last seventy years to ‘planning and initiatives’ conceived by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

Nevertheless, Chacko’s decision has come at a time when a delegation of senior party leaders protested against Dikshit’s move. The delegation consisting of leaders including Parvez Hashmi, Kiran Walia and Ramakant Goswami amongst others, reportedly met Congress general secretary (organization) KC Venugopal and Chacko on Saturday and disapproved Dikshit’s move to dissolve the block committees.

“We told the two leaders that block committees and their presidents were elected and they can not be dissolved all of a sudden before assembly elections since it takes a lot of time to form them,” said Chatar Singh, who was in the meeting.

The fissures re-appeared when the “anti-Dikshit group” claimed the block committees were dissolved “unilaterally” by her without consulting Chacko.

A senior Delhi Congress leader claimed, “The decision to disband the block committees formed under presidentship of Ajay Maken is an attempt by Dikshit to stamp her authority by reconstituting them under her leadership.”

The block committees were elected last year when Maken headed the Delhi Congress.

In hindsight, the differences between the two party leaders are not new. During the course of Lok Sabha elections when Chacko along with Maken had been pushing for an alliance with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Dikshit was the one who had strictly opposed the same.

AAP MLA Som Dutt convicted by special MP MLA court for assaulting a man during 2015 Assembly Elections

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AAP MLA Som Dutt convicted by special MP MLA court for assaulting a man during 2015 Assembly Elections

AAP MLA Som Dutt has been convicted by a Delhi court for assaulting a man during 2015 Assembly election campaign. A special MP MLA court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Samar Vishal held him guilty under section 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt without provocation) of the Indian Penal Code.

Dutt, who represents Sadar Bazar Assembly constituency, and his supporters had beaten up the complainant Sajeev Rana at his residence in Gulabi Bagh on January 10, 2015. “There is no doubt that on January 10, 2015, at around 8 pm, Som Dutt, along with his 50 supporters, went to flat no. 13 where the complainant was present. The complainant was beaten and assaulted by the accused and his associates due to which he suffered grievous injury”, said the court.

An FIR was filed against Dutt at Gulabi Bagh police station in North Delhi in 2015 alleging that he and around 50 of his supporters had come to the residence of Rana while campaigning in the locality. Rana had alleged that when he objected to it, Dutt hit him in his legs with a baseball bat and he was dragged on the road by his supporters who started beating him and caused grievous injuries to him.

Rana’s allegations were denied by Dutt who in turn accused Rana of fighting with him and his supporters under intoxication while they were peacefully campaigning. An FIR was also filed by Dutt against Rana. Charges were also framed by the court against Rana in the case on the allegation of quarrelling with Dutt and his party members when they were campaigning.

The quantum of punishment for the AAP MLA will be pronounced by the court on July 4.

A few days ago, another AAP MLA Manoj Kumar was convicted and sentenced to three months in jail for obstructing the election process at a polling booth in Kalyan Puri area of East Delhi during 2013 Assembly elections.

Uttar Pradesh: In an initiative taken by local BJP MLA, Hindus gift burial ground to Muslims in Ayodhya

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Uttar Pradesh: In an initiative taken by local BJP MLA, Hindus gift burial ground to Muslims in Ayodhya

In an overwhelming gesture, Hindus have donated land to the Muslim community to build a burial ground in Belrikhan village which falls under the Gosaiganj Assembly constituency in Ayodhya District, Uttar Pradesh.

The unique display of communal harmony which was propelled by the local BJP MLA Indra Pratap Tiwari, also known as Khabbu Tiwari, said, “The tradition of Hindu-Muslim brotherhood here is not new. This was a small token of love from Hindus to Muslims. I hope this amity will continue.”

This piece of land had been the reason for communal disharmony for several years, until one Surya Kumar Jhinkan Maharaj, a local seer, and eight other shareholders, prompted by the BJP MLA, signed the registered deed for 1.25 bighas of land on June 20 to end the dispute forever.

“The land belonged to Hindus as per records. It is by the side of a graveyard and some Muslims have buried their dead on the land. There were disputes and tension. But now, we have settled the matter,” Jhinkan Maharaj was quoted by IANS. “The deed is now in favour of the Qabristan Committee, Gosainganj and it will soon be entered in revenue records,” said Vais Ansari, President of the Qabristan Committee.

The other signatories to the land deed are Ram Prakash Bablu, Ram Singar Pandey, Ram Shabad, Jiya Ram, Subhash Chandra, Rita Devi, Vindhyachal and ​Awadhesh Pandey.

Sub-registrar SB Singh confirmed the land transfers to the Muslims for the graveyard and said, “It’s a gift from the Hindu community through a proper deed and stamp duty.”

Haji Abdul Haq, the chief Imam of Gosaiganj Jama Masjid, praising the heart-wrenching gesture said, “It is an exemplary act of kindness. It shows the world that we can coexist in peace and harmony,” the Imam said.

Moreover, overwhelmed by the sensitivity shown by Hindu’s, who donated the land to Muslims because it had tombs of their forefathers, some people of the Muslim community said that Muslim should also show equal sensibility and stop politicising and staking a claim on the disputed Ayodhya Rambhoomi site.

‘Who will migrate now that we have come to power’: CM Yogi dismisses reports of Hindu exodus from Meerut

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‘Who will migrate now that we have come to power’: CM Yogi dismisses reports of Hindu exodus from Meerut

Responding to the reports of the exodus of Hindu families in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ruled out the migration angle and said that there might be some cases of personal disputes but there was no migration.


Addressing a press conference today, CM Yogi said, “Who will migrate now that we have come to power?”

A complaint was registered by a BJP leader on NaMo app recently claiming that at least 125 Hindu families have migrated from Prahlad Nagar in Meerut owing to the harassment of Hindu women by the Muslims on the area. The area has Muslims in majority while the number of Hindy families is around 425.

The complaint received on NaMo app was forwarded by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to the Chief Minister’s office (CMO) which sought a report on the matter. BJP MP from Meerut Rajendra Aggarwal termed the situation serious and said that he would talk to the CM about the same. A letter was written by the Vishwa Hindu Mahasabha seeking security for Hindus in Meerut.

Telangana female forest officer attacked by TRS leader Koneru Krishna and his followers during plantation drive

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Telangana female forest officer attacked by TRS leader Koneru Krishna and his followers during plantation drive

A female forest officer in Komaram Bheem Asifabad district in Telangana was attacked with sticks by a group of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) members today. The men were allegedly led by TRS leader Koneru Krishna.


In the video shared on social media, the officer, Chole Anitha, can be seen standing on a tractor while a group of men holding wooden sticks surround her. They start attacking the vehicle and one of them hit Anita as well, fracturing her right hand. The injured officer is currently being treated at a hospital.

In a video taken at the hospital, Anita had named TRS leader Koneru Krishna Rao as the one who attacked her and led the mob. Krishna is a Zilla Parishad vice-chairman and is also the brother of Kagaznagar MLA Koneru Konappa.

Reportedly, Anitha along with her staff went to Sarsala forest village with tractors to plough 20-acre land for Harita Haaram, a mass tree plantation programme. This was a mandatory afforestation programme to compensate for the loss of forest land due to the government’s flagship Kaleswaram multipurpose irrigation project.

When she had ordered her staff to start the work, a few villagers of Sarsala arrived in a mob and started using filthy language and also attacked the officer. She alleges that Krishna Rao had dragged her by the hair. She then climbed the tractor to escape after which she was attacked by sticks. As per reports, an official letter of the Forest department clearly mentions Koneru Krishna as the one who led the attack.

While responding to the allegations Krishna said, “Forest department is terrorising the aboriginal adivasi farmers and confiscating their land forcefully. I was there to resolve the issue and to ensure justice for tribal as forest officials were destroying crops in the name afforestation. I tried to pacify department authorities but in vain, the attack was accidental action not intentional.”

The state government has taken serious note of the attack. Several men including TRS leader Krishna have already been booked. District superintendent of police Malla Reddy visited Anitha at the hospital and assured her of stringent action against those responsible.

There have been several reports of mob violence recently. Two days ago, in Uttar Pradesh, a Muslim mob attacked Dalits inside a temple for playing bhajans on the loudspeaker. In Mirzapur, a mob beats up a young man while he was going to the temple.

Petrol pump workers express disappointment at people mocking Team India’s orange jersey likening it to pump attendant uniform

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Petrol pump workers express disappointment at people mocking Team India’s orange jersey likening it to pump attendant uniform

Ever since Team India’s Away jersey was revealed, the ‘liberals’ have been up in the arms against the same. While some called it ‘saffronisation’ because of the orange colour, others chose to mock it by referring to it as ‘petrol pump’ uniform.

Apparently, the ‘liberal’ elites have no qualms in mocking the working class just because they don’t agree with a particular political ideology.

Team India’s Away jersey has colours which are similar to the Indian Oil’s logo and the pump attendants used to wear similar colour uniform earlier. OpIndia talked to a few Indian Oil petrol pump workers who said they are extremely proud that the team India is wearing their colours.

The petrol pump attendant above said that the new Team India jersey has colours similar to their previous uniform. He said that has put them up on an international platform. He says it is a matter of pride for India. “Those who mock, let them, but we are very happy,” said Shivkumar Verma, an Indian Oil petrol pump worker.

Dharamraj Diwakar, another petrol pump worker based in Ahmedabad said he is proud that the Team India is wearing uniform of colour similar to theirs. “We are getting respect even from the customers who used to talk to us rudely,” he said.

Prakash Verma, another petrol pump worker OpIndia talked to said that he is proud that Indian cricket team is wearing uniform which has colours similar to their uniform.

Team India’s new jersey has been embroiled in controversies since the new colour schemence was announced. It was previously reported that team India was required to change its colours while playing against England. This new rule of jersey by ICC is inspired by the concept of ‘home’ and ‘away’ jerseys in soccer, where if the two teams have the same colour kit, the home team can retain it while the visiting team has to use a different coloured kit.

Maharashtra: Mohammad Shaikh killed by 15-year-old brother for scolding him over playing PUBG game

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Maharashtra: Mohammad Shaikh killed by 15-year-old brother for scolding him over playing PUBG game

A 15-year-old minor boy from Bhiwandi in Thane district of Maharashtra allegedly killed his elder brother, Mohammad Shaik (19), for scolding him over playing the PUBG game on his mobile phone.

The minor boy infuriated by his brother’s interference allegedly banged the head of Shaikh against a wall and stabbed him repeatedly with scissors, said senior police inspector Mamata D’Souza.

Shaikh was rushed to the nearby government hospital where he was declared brought dead. A case has been registered under section 302 (Punishment for murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), said D’Souza.

PUBG is an online multiplayer battle game developed by a South Korean Firm. Several concerns have been raised across the world regarding the addictive nature of the game, which also has a tendency to push children towards violent behaviour. Parents and educators say the game incites violence and distracts students from their studies.

Addiction to PUBG has been highlighted in many instances before. There have been issues of lack of concentration, falling academic performance and sleep deprivation due to reduced physical activity reported among students and youngsters. Last month in Telangana, a 16-year-old boy had committed suicide after he was scolded by his parents for spending too much time being engrossed in the mobile game.

Several cities in Gujarat have banned PUBG by circulars issued by the respective police departments. The Gujarat Child Rights body had also sent a letter to the national Commission of child Rights and had asked the respective Child Rights bodies of all states to help curb the negative effects of the game.

On March 15, Gujarat police had arrested ten students, including six college students in Rajkot for allegedly playing the PUBG game on their mobile phones despite the police banning it. Similarly, the CRPF had also imposed a ban on its troops from playing the game as it affects the operational and socialising capabilities of the Jawans.

Madhya Pradesh: NSCB Medical College staff drags patient to X-ray room on a bedsheet

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Madhya Pradesh: NSCB Medical College staff drags patient to X-ray room on a bedsheet

A shocking video has surfaced in which the staff at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (NSCB) Medical College in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, was caught on camera dragging a patient to the X-Ray room on a bed sheet.


After the incident caught public attention, the Dean of the college, Dr Navneet Saxena said three people were suspended after the incident adding that an inquiry has been launched in the matter after which action will be taken against those found guilty.

“Three persons have been suspended by the administration. An inquiry is underway and action will be taken against all found guilty,” Dr Saxena told reporters in Jabalpur.

However, this is not the first incident throwing light on the government hospital’s apathy towards its patients. Recently, reports on the outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur had also revealed the unpreparedness and the apathy of the government and the hospitals falling under them in tackling the epidemic which consumed the lives of over 200 children in Bihar.

Recently, a JDU MLA had exposed the government’s callousness and negligence when it came to dealing with the recent crisis in the state of Bihar.

Apart from the government’s callousness, the pathetic conditions of the government hospitals also came in the forefront. Several skeletal remains had been unearthed behind the hospital premises of SKMC Hospital in Muzaffarpur, drawing serious concerns over the management issues and lackadaisical approach of healthcare authorities of Muzaffarpur’s biggest hospital.

The hospital and Bihar’s health system at large were constantly criticised in the media over the lack of adequate medical facilities, the filth on the premises, the dilapidated conditions of the hospital and unavailability of doctors.

Cricket World Cup semi final scenario: The fight for the 4th place

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Cricket World Cup semi final scenario: The fight for the 4th place

Australia has already qualified for the semi-final with 14 points in their eight games. India and New Zealand are almost sure to qualify with 11 points each even if they lose all remaining games in the tournament.

How? Let’s first look at the Points table.

Teams Mat Won Lost NR Points NRR
Australia 8 7 1 0 14 1.000
India 6 5 0 1 11 1.160
New Zealand 8 5 2 1 11 0.572
Pakistan 8 4 3 1 9 -0.792
England 7 4 3 0 8 1.051
Bangladesh 7 3 3 1 7 -0.133
Sri Lanka 7 2 3 2 6 -1.186
South Africa 8 2 5 1 5 -0.080
West Indies 7 1 5 1 3 -0.320
Afghanistan 8 0 8 0 0 -1.418

The minimum points required to qualify for the first three positions is 11. Both India and New Zealand have 11 points already.

INDIA

So even if India loses its next three games, they will still qualify because of their superior run rate.

NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand will also qualify if they lose the last game against England because of their high run rate. Even if they lose it by a considerable margin, their run rate will not go beyond 0.

ENGLAND

If they have to qualify, they have to win at least one game. They have 8 points before India’s game, now if they win both the games, they will have 12 points and will qualify with Australia, India and New Zealand. However, if they lose one of the matches, their fortunes will depend on India-Bangladesh and Bangladesh-Pakistan. To qualify they would need Bangladesh to lose against India and Pakistan to lose against Bangladesh. Also if Sri Lanka (6 points) win their next two games against West Indies and India, they will not qualify as England will have five wins, while Sri Lanka would have only 4 (2 points for washout).

PAKISTAN

After their win against Afghanistan, they are placed at number 4 in the points table with 9 points. They would want England to lose at least one game so that England has a maximum of 10 points and then Pakistan beat Bangladesh in their last group match. With 11 points they will qualify. Pakistan v Bangladesh will virtually become a quarter-final.

BANGLADESH

They have to win both games against India and Pakistan to reach 11 points. If England loses both the matches against India and New Zealand, then Bangladesh needs to win at least one against either India or Pakistan. With 9 points they will qualify with a better run rate. Of course, at the same time, they have to pray that Sri Lanka loses at least one game against India or West Indies.

SRI LANKA

They have to hope for England to lose both the games and then India needs to beat Bangladesh, and Bangladesh needs to beat Pakistan, in that scenario both Bangladesh and Pakistan will have 9 points, and if Sri Lanka win their last two matches against West Indies and India, they will have 10 points, and they will qualify.

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