Congress slams Centre over hike in fertilizer prices
The Hindu
It will help “Mr. Modi’s friends” to increase their income, says Rahul
The Congress on Wednesday slammed the Narendra Modi government for , and claimed that it will put an additional burden of ₹20,000 crore on farmers. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, in a tweet, claimed that the government’s move will help “Mr. Modi’s friends” to increase their income. “What did Modi government increase? GST and petrol, diesel and fertilizer prices; income of ‘Modi’s friends’; atrocities on annadatas [food providers] even during the pandemic. What did it reduce? Agricultural subsidy, farmer’s income and dignity of the Central government,” Mr. Gandhi said on twitter and tagged a news report about the rise in diesel and fertilizer prices.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











