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Rohit Pawar launches 'Jail Bharo' agitation over farm loan waiver scheme

Rohit Pawar launches 'Jail Bharo' agitation over farm loan waiver scheme

Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP SP) leader Rohit Pawar on Monday launched a fresh agitation in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, accusing the Maharashtra government of failing to honour its commitment to discuss farmers’ concerns over the newly announced farm loan waiver scheme, reported the PTI. Addressing reporters before the protest began, the Karjat-Jamkhed MLA claimed the government had deployed a heavy police presence to discourage demonstrators and warned that a ‘jail bharo’ movement would be launched if the protest was suppressed. Pawar recalled that he had suspended his indefinite hunger strike in Pandharpur earlier this month after Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan assured him that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis would convene a meeting with farmers before the state legislature’s monsoon session. However, Pawar alleged that despite the legislature session being underway, no such meeting had taken place. He said the farmers had withdrawn their earlier agitation in good faith but accused the government of betraying that trust by failing to fulfil its assurance, according to the PTI. Warning of ‘Jail Bharo’ movement The opposition leader claimed …

PM Modi reacts to row over Amit Shah’s Ambedkar remarks, hits out at Congress’ ‘rotten ecosystem’ | Latest News India

PM Modi reacts to row over Amit Shah’s Ambedkar remarks, hits out at Congress’ ‘rotten ecosystem’ | Latest News India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday responded to the opposition’s protest over home minister Amit Shah’s remarks on BR Ambedkar in Rajya Sabha, saying the Congress played dirty tricks to obliterate the legacy of the Dalit icon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi.(PTI) “If the Congress and its rotten ecosystem think their malicious lies can hide their misdeeds of several years, especially their insult towards Dr. Ambedkar, they are gravely mistaken!” he wrote on X. “The people of India have seen time and again how one Party, led by one dynasty, has indulged in every possible dirty trick to obliterate the legacy of Dr. Ambedkar and humiliate the SC/ST communities,” he added. The prime minister accused the Congress of denying Bharat Ratna to Ambedkar and also denying space to his portrait in Parliament’s Central Hall. “The list of the Congress’ sins towards Dr. Ambedkar includes: Getting him defeated in elections not once but twice, Pandit Nehru campaigning against him and making his loss a prestige issue, denying him a Bharat Ratna, denying his portrait a place of …