India achieved economic independence after Modi became PM, says Tejasvi Surya
The Hindu
NCP’s Supriya Sule counters the BJP MP in the Lok Sabha
India may have become independent in 1947 but the country achieved economic independence only in 2014 after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister, and modern Indian history is divided between the “pre-Modi and post-Modi era”, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Tejasvi Surya said on Wednesday in the Lok Sabha during the debate on the Union Budget.
Attacking the Opposition for its “baseless and logic-less arguments” on growing unemployment under the Modi government’s watch, Mr. Surya said that “the dynast and the prince of the Congress party is confusing his political unemployment as the country’s unemployment”.

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government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday.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











