Farmer leader floats party for Punjab polls
The Hindu
Charuni bats for opium farming in State
Farmer leader Gurnam Singh Charuni on Saturday floated his political party to contest the Punjab Assembly polls next year and batted for opium farming in the State.
Mr. Charuni told reporters that their aim is to ‘purify’ politics and bring good people forward.
“We are launching the Sanyukt Sangharsh Party,” he told the media here.
The fear of being caught for traffic rule violation has indeed compelled many two-wheeler riders to wear helmets. But one cursory look at riders at any traffic junction in Bengaluru shows that more than half the riders have on their heads non-standard helmets, designed solely to evade the eye of law, with little concern for the safety of their own heads.
When Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997, Beijing promised to retain the city’s Western-style civil liberties for 50 years. However, since the introduction of the 2020 law, Hong Kong authorities have severely limited free speech and assembly under the rubric of maintaining national security.