Laws are a complicated matter. Had it been simple, there would have been no need of lawyers. As regards politicians, they have always used laws to demonstrate action when in reality it does nothing more than a little activity on paper.
Recently Prime Minister announced “repeal of three farm laws.” Here is the problem:
Let me give an example of politicians exploiting laws to mislead people. India celebrates independence day on 15 August and believe that it gained independence in the year 1947. Was that correct?
British passed a law called India Independence Act, 1947 by which it created two dominions called India and Pakistan with King of England as head of there dominion. Jawahar Lal Nehru too an oath of allegiance to King George of England and served him till 1952 when India declared itself a republic. It is a common knowledge. So common that it is available on Wikipedia too. Yet every person I know, does not know it.
Back to the question. Will repeal means end of reforms on Farm Law?
It depends on the language of repeal. Generally repeal of an Amending Act merely removes dead wood (of old laws). So we have to wait and watch. May be Modi pulled a Nehru on agitators. After all if they could not tell as to what is wrong with reforms, how are they going to tell what is wrong with repeal. They will be referred to dictionary and asked ‘what is wrong with it? ‘
America, the world’s most powerful country, was horrified by Al Qaeda on this day in the year 2001 with the 9/11 plane attacks. In just 102 minutes, 2763 people lost their lives.
When it happened in 2001, it was late night and we were watching the TV channels playing and replaying the scene of planes hitting twin towers. The question was what next? Which country would be hit next?
Millions of children born on this day across the world have also turned twenty today and it has also been twenty years since the terrorist attack.
The so called war on terror went every where from Afghanistan to Iraq but the breeding ground of terror that is Pakistan remained it’s close ally. For every candle of terror extinguished by USA, two new candles of terrors were ignited by Pakistan. The truth behind bogus military campaign was fully exposed on 26 November 2008 when Pakistani trained terrorists attacked Taj Hotel in Mumbai and one pakistani terrorist ‘Kasab’ was caught red handed. He repeatedly gave details of his home town, relatives their phone numbers as also the details of his handlers in Pakistan.
Now al-Qaeda’s official media arm as-Sahab released a 60-minute video statement of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the group’s elusive leader who was rumoured to be dead. The documentary-style video, released on Telegram, is titled ‘Jerusalem will not be Judaised’.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, who took over the command of al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden, was underground for a long time. So much about finishing Al Qaida.
Today we stand at same place and USA is hoping that this time the terror factory i.e. Pakistan would be able to keep vigil and would not let any rogue terrorrist to be exported to USA. Meanwhile it is free to inflict injuries to India as per policy formulated in 1947 by UK and followed by USA when it took patronage of client country Pakistan.
There is one fundamental flaw in the presumption. Armies are raised and discipline is instilled in them at a huge cost both in terms of money and manpower. Terrorist created in a crash course to reach paradise ‘Firdous’ after blowing himself up, barely knows any discipline. Their loyalty is also attached to Allah. If any one could convince the cause of Allah, it does not matter to the mujahid as to who is killed and where.
The good thing is that these terror outfit can kill only a few hundred people at the time. So people of Europe and USA have to be careful not to be unlucky.
As regards India, it is the same old battle which started in Mopilla riots about hundred years back and institutionalized in 1947. Atleast 50,000 lives are lost since 1980 alone.
All the best India. Finish off this monster if it raises its head this time. No treaty. No assurance.
In an Islamic war treaty is a retreat to reposition better. It means nothing. So does the treaty of USA with Taliban.
America started its journey as a colony of British and declared independence. It’s forefathers refused to make it an ideological state and therefore the constitution of USA created complete separation between church and state.
The transition of America from being a colony to an independent nation could not have been smooth without help from France which included financial loans.
However when France needed USA’s help it chose to be neutral in the war between France and UK. Again a sign of not falling for ideology.
Yogi Adityanath is monk and is Chief Minister of State of Uttar Pradesh as member of BJP, the ruling party. Had this State been a country, it would have been fifth largest country with population of 23 Crore (230 million).
The BJP and its allies have won 67 out of 75 seats of zila panchayat chairpersons. These are Rural Local Government Election which belies earlier claims that the BJP was a net loser in Panchayat Election held before the second wave of Covid. Zila panchayat chiefs are elected from among the elected members of zila panchayats. One interesting fact about these elections is that these were conducted by ballot papers and electric EVM were not used.
Sharad Pawar, the proprietor of Nationalist Congress Party has invited Opposition leaders and other prominent personalities for a meeting today. Earlier the 80-year-old Prime Minister-ship aspirant for three decades, met poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Monday — the second time in 10 days. Speculation is rife that he is trying to stitch a coalition of non-BJP parties for the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
Earlier, the rumor that Pawar had met Home Minister in Ahmedabad, last month, was not denied by any of the parties to that meeting. The Coalition Government in Maharshtra is barely functional. News papers are excited about possible formation of new third front without Congress Party. But look at the guest list of Pawar. His party spokesman Nawab Malik disclosed it on Twitter. According to him:
“Pawar is working to unite all opposition leaders. May be, the meeting was to discuss it. The party’s national executive meeting is also taking place in the national capital tomorrow,”
Following is the guest list:
Prashant Kishor, Farooq Abdullah, Yashwant Sinha, Pawan Verma, Sanjay Singh, D Raja, Justice AP Singh, Javed Akhtar, KTS Tulsi & Karan Thapar, Ashutosh, Advocate Majeed Memon, MP Vandana Chavan, former chief election commissioner SY Quraishi, KC Singh, Sanjay Jha, Sudheendra Kulkarni, Colin Gonsalves, economist Arun Kumar, Ghanshyam Tiwari and Pritish Nandi.
At the outset I wonder, What is the role of Javed Akhtar, a script writer in movies who is out of action for a long time except blurting out provocative statements on twitter. Yashwant Sinha of course will represent Mamta Banerjee. What will SY Quraishi do? Perhaps he is for the Muslims of India? Amazing that after remaining in Government service all his life he is still a representative of Muslims only.
The three journalists namely Karan Thapar, Ashutosh and Pritish Nandi who had always been batting for Congress seems to have been invited as representatives of Congress Party in unofficial way. Actually this is the reason why I am sharing these facts. The activist journalists would for the first time be called upon to report truthfully to the Congress Party about the outcome of the meeting.
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