The BSP considers the BJP and the Congress, which ruled the country and a number of states for a long time, equally responsible for creating such a dreadful situation, Mayawati said.
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COVID-19: No door-to-door vaccine drive in national policy, Centre tells Bombay High Court
By PTI
MUMBAI The Union government on Monday told the Bombay High Court that its national guidelines do not at present allow a door-to-door drive to vaccinate people against COVID-19.The Union government’s counsel, Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh, said some state governments and municipal bodies had decided to ignore its advisory guidelines and were conducting door-to-door vaccination for special categories of citizens, but it was not possible yet to make such drives a part of the national policy.
ASG Singh was responding to a previous query posed by a bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni on what the Centre thought about the BMC’s request seeking its permission to conduct door-to-door vaccination for the elderly, bedridden, or such category of citizens.
“On the BMC’s permission letter to Union ministry of health and family welfare, the ministry says its current advisory against such drives has been formulated based on recommendations of experts,” ASG Singh said.
“Some states and municipal bodies have been carrying out door-to-door vaccination but from the national angle, the national policy should be followed. We request the court to bear with us for sometime. For the time being, it is not practical or possible,” he said.
The ASG said the Centre, however, kept improvising and updating its policy from time to time and perhaps, sometime in future, it might permit door-to-door vaccination drives.
ASG Singh said since the Union government’s policy was merely advisory in nature, it had not asked states such as Kerala, Odisha, Jharkhand, which were conducting such drives, to roll them back.
The HC then pointed out that in case Maharashtra, which has already expressed its desire to conduct door-to-door vaccination drives for the bedridden, decides to go ahead with it, then the state would stand on the same footing as the states mentioned above.
The bench also asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) if it would follow the Centre or the state’s guidelines in case Maharashtra began a door-to-door drive.
“We will follow the state’s guidelines. The state is thinking about the drive but issues like lack of manpower, since three persons will be needed to visit each person getting vaccinated, requirement of ambulance, and ensuring no wastage of vaccine, have to be be considered,” BMC counsel Anil Sakhre said.
The state’s counsel, Gita Shastri, told HC that while news reports had quoted state health minister Rajesh Tope expressing a willingness to begin door-to-door vaccination drives for the bedridden, and for formulating a separate protocol for the same, she was yet to take instructions as to when a final decision would be taken.
The court was hearing a Public Interest Litigation filed by lawyer Dhruti Kapadia, seeking door-to-door vaccination drive for citizens above 75 years of age, and for those who were specially-abled or bedridden.
HC said it will pass detailed directions on the same later this evening.
It will hear the plea further on June 22.
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Twitter lost BJP’s interest; became burden for govt: Saamana
The editorial believes Twitter has lost the political interest of BJP as the opposition has started responding to its alleged quot;false propaganda quot;.
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Farm laws: Navjot Sidhu accuses Centre of violating Punjab govt’s right to legislate
By ANI
CHANDIGARH: Congress leader Navjot Singh on Thursday accused the central government of violating the Punjab government’s right to legislate by implementing the three farm laws.Addressing a press conference here, the cricketer-turned-politician said that the farm laws are a clear infringement by the central government on the state’s right to legislate.
“The main subjects of the three acts are agriculture and market that are essentially state subjects as per the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution. However, the central government encroached its way into the legislation by misconstruing its authority on food items, which is a subject in the Concurrent List, as authority over the subject of agriculture. However, food items and agricultural products are distinct categories,” he added.
He mentioned that the state has enough grounds to completely deny the implementation of these “black” laws in Punjab, adding, “I do not understand, why in this case, we are just amending the central laws and sending them back, when we know very well that all these amendments will not be implemented until either approved by the President of India or if the central laws are first withdrawn.”
He said that Rajasthan and Punjab have passed amendment legislations for the farm laws but the Captain Amarinder Singh-led government need to take more affirmative actions and completely deny the implementation of the three “black” laws in Punjab.
“By means of mere amendments, we are going to the constitutional heads who may not choose to help us, and maybe is not a good position to be in at this decisive critical juncture. Instead, why not use the democratic power given to us by three crores of Punjabis by honouring their aspirations? They stand by us. We must do more and take affirmative action and completely deny the implementation of the three unconstitutional black laws in Punjab.” Sidhu added.
He further said that using the power to legislate and become game-changers.
“We need to take further progressive steps from now on and help Punjab’s farmers who are looking towards us with high hopes,” said the Congress leader.
Sidhu said there was a need to support farmers in creating storage facilities to counter the corporate onslaught by the Centre. “Once farmers had storage capacity, they would be in a position to negotiate the price of their crops. In this way, the farmers could be saved from the onslaught of the corporate.”
He said the government was spending a hefty amount on the purchase of cereals.
“Why cannot we give MSP on it? The Haryana government is procuring oilseeds and selling oil out of that. We too can do so. The farmers are ready for organic farming but at least someone should come forward to support them,” he said, adding that the state should also amend the cooperative laws and allow farmers to run the same and not the bureaucrats.
The Congress leader demanded that MNREGA-like income support to all agricultural labour of Punjab should be given.
“It will benefit not only the labour as an increment in their daily wages but also help the farmer as an agricultural labour subsidy and ease their financial burden. We should increase the minimum wages of labour, linking it to inflation and the government should directly pay the difference. 36 per cent of Punjabis are Dalits, owning only 2 per cent of the land, most of them work as labour, and let us support them,” he added.
Concluding the press conference, he said that the central government has not solved such problems, as it itself is the problem.
Farmers have been protesting on the different borders of the national capital since November 26 last year against the three newly enacted farm laws – Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
However, their implementation has been put on hold by the Supreme Court.
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Yogi Adityanath government presented largest budget in final year
Express News Service
LUCKNOW: The Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday presented the largest budget in the final year of its current tenure. With a total outlay of Rs 5,50,270.78 crore, the UP Budget 2021-22 presented by Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna aims to make the state ‘atmanirbhar.’The government estimates include new schemes worth Rs 27,598.40 crore, Khanna said, while presenting the state’s first paperless budget.Talking to the media after the presentation, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath termed it an all-inclusive budget representing the sentiments of 24 crore people of the state. “This is a true representation of the idea of sabka saath, sabka vikas and sabka vishwas which will generate new possibilities of development,” he said.
The CM said the budget reaffirms the government’s resolve to provide tap water and electricity to all households, irrigation facilities for every farm and work for every hand. “Efforts such as connecting rural areas with banking facilities through village secretariat, building common services centre, employing banking correspondent Sakhi in every village and employing women in community services will give a new dimension to women empowerment,” he added.
Referring to the Kisan Accident Insurance Yojana, the CM lauded the inclusion of farmers’ families and bataidars (share-croppers) in the scheme. He also mentioned the social security for almost one crore labourers in unorganised sectors. Other schemes include Mukhyamantri Saksham Suposhan Yojana for anaemic children, sainik schools and universities in each division, medical colleges under the PPP model, a law university in Prayagraj, Jal Jeevan Mission for all districts and new policies in aviation sector.
The state budget has a provision of Rs 300 crore for the construction of Ram temple and access roads to Ayodhya.The budget failed to impress the opposition. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said it is a deception for all sections, except capitalists. He said farmers were “deceived yet again” as the budget did not have anything to double their income as promised. BSP chief Mayawati said it was “disappointing”.
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Akhilesh Yadav alleges BJP government registering ‘false cases’ against Samajwadi Party workers
By PTI
FARRUKHABAD: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Monday alleged the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh is registering “false cases” against his party workers.He also alleged the BJP is indulging “in politics of lies, is instilling fear and hatred, and the SP is imparting training to its workers to tackle this”.
“The Yogi Adityanath government is registering false cases against SP leaders and workers, while serious cases registered against the Deputy Chief Minister is being withdrawn. Not only this, serious cases registered against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are also being withdrawn,” he told a press conference here, without mentioning any case.
Yadav once again reiterated his party’s support to the ongoing farmers’ protest and demanded the Centre withdraw the three new “anti-farm” laws and bring a new legislation.
The SP chief also attacked the BJP government, saying it is responsible for decreasing income of people, a “sinking” economy and joblessness, and the dispensation still pats itself on the back.
“While people have put a mask over their mouth and nose, the BJP government has even kept its eyes and ears closed,” he said.
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Gehlot accuses BJP of misleading people by ‘jumlas’
Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot accused the BJP on Thursday of governing and misleading people by ‘jumlas’ (rhetoric).
Gehlot launched the attack at the BJP at a poll rally in Rajasthan ahead of the State Assembly elections.
“The BJP Government had promised to deposit Rs 15 lakh in everyone’s bank account and bring black money. It was a ‘jumla’ and they are master in that. No one got the money,” Gehlot said.
He accused Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje of not taking plight of people in the last five years.
He alleged that the BJP government stalled and delayed various public welfare schemes, including a petroleum refinery in Pachpadra, the Banswara-Dungarpur rail route, Jaipur metro and irrigation projects in Hadoti region.