Development in BJP’s tenure at Centre is a mirage: CPI(M)
The Hindu
‘Giving a few people key political post can’t ensure social justice for all’
The development in the last eight-year tenure of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre is like a mirage, CPI(M) Andhra Pradesh unit secretary V. Srinivasa Rao has said.
Addressing the media on the second day of the Andhra Pradesh Rythu Sangham State annual conference on Sunday, Mr. Srinivasa Rao demanded that the BJP must list out at least eight achievements in the past eight years, which had benefitted the poor in the country. “The only achievement of the BJP is handing over public assets to corporate groups,” he said.
The BJP is creating divide among the people in the name of religion, at a time when the Centre should focus on controlling the spiraling prices of essential commodities, he said.
Making light of the social justice being claimed by YSRCP in Andhra Pradesh, he said, “ it will become possible only when the living conditions of the BCs, STs, SCs and minorities will change. giving key posts to a few people can not ensure social justice for all,“ he said.
He alleged that the safety for women and the Dalits had deteriorated.
The Opposition Congress demanded that the government open the Gandhi Vatika Museum, depicting Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy and freedom struggle, built at a cost of ₹85 crore in Jaipur’s Central Park last year, during the Congress-led regime in Rajasthan. The museum has not been opened to the public, reportedly because of the administration’s engagements with the State Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
Almaya Munnettam (Lay People to the Fore), group in the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church opposed to the synod-recommended Mass, rejected a circular issued by Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil and apostolic administrator Bosco Puthur on June 9 to implement the unified Mass in the archdiocese from July 3.
Pakistan coach Gary Kirsten stated that “not so great decision making” contributed to his side’s defeat to India in the Group-A T20 World Cup clash here on Sunday. The batting unit came apart in the chase, after being well placed at 72 for two. With 48 runs needed from eight overs, Pakistan found a way to panic and lose. “Maybe not so great decision making,” Kirsten said at the post-match press conference, when asked to explain the loss.