by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate, Corporate Governance, News, Politics
New Delhi : Industry body Ficci on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give the inaugural address at its 90th annual general meeting (AGM) which will held from December 13 to 14, 2017.
According to Ficci, this will be for the first time that Prime Minister Modi will speak at an AGM of a leading industry chamber in the country.
“At a time when economic growth has started showing signs of green shoots, the Prime Minister addressing India Inc. is expected to boost industry’s sentiments further,” the industry body said in a statement.
“His inaugural address at the two-day Ficci AGM (Dec 13-14) is also significant because though it has been an established practice in the past for Prime Ministers to attend the AGMs of business chambers, Prime Minster Mr. Narendra Modi will be doing this for the first time.”
“It is expected to strengthen the government’s efforts to engage with the industry after the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST).”
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Asaduddin Owaisi
Hyderabad : MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said the Sangh Parivar wants to use Ram temple issue to save Narendra Modi in the 2019 general elections as he has failed on all fronts.
He said the RSS, VHP and BJP should not be allowed to polarize the voters on temple issue and justified the stand taken by Sunni Wakf Board’s lawyer Kapil Sibal in Supreme Court that the hearing of the title suit be deferred till the elections.
Talking to reporters here, he said a leader of VHP has announced that the temple construction will begin in October 2018 while RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has stated that only a temple can come up in Ayodhya.
“These statements are all aimed at influencing and threatening Muslims and raking up the issue before the elections to save Mr Modi, who has failed to provide jobs, check farmers’ suicides and his actions like demonetization and GST have destroyed business in the informal sector. The elections should be held on these real issues,” he said.
“When you don’t allow release of a film in Gujarat on the ground that it will influence the elections, how can you ignore the impact the temple issue may have?” he asked.
The MP also dismissed criticism of Sibal in a section of media and said he was representing Sunni Wakf Board in the apex court and not the Congress.
He reiterated that Sunni Wakf Board need at least six months to present its arguments before the court as a voluminous record of 17,000 documents need to be translated.
Replying to a query, the Hyderabad MP sad Parliament can’t legislate on the temple till the matter is in the Supreme Court.
“We have separation of powers. The judiciary, executive and legislature are independent. If somebody wants to become a dictator, then people will decide,” he said.
Owaisi said the issue of Babri Masjid was not an issue of Muslims but a matter of justice.
“Even after 25 years of the demolition of Babri Masjid, the case against the accused who instigated people through their provocative speeches and which led to the demolition has not been heard,” he said.
He reiterated his support to the suggestion by Justice M.S. Liberhan (retd.), who had headed the commission probing the conspiracy behind the razing of the disputed structure, that the hearing of title suit be deferred till the criminal case was disposed of.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Corporate Jobs, Employment, Government Jobs, News, Politics, Private Jobs
Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi : Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi for keeping the youth of Gujarat unemployed and not implementing the 7th Pay Commission leading to the plight of contract and fixed salary workers in the state.
Keeping up at his 22 questions in the countdown to the Gujarat Assembly polls, as promised, Gandhi said: “22 salon ka hisaab, Gujarat mange jawaab. Gujarat ke haalat par Pradhanmantri se chatha sawal (as he directed his sixth query at Modi on Gujarat’s condition).
“The double whammy of BJP government — on one side the youths of the state are unemployed, while on other hand lakhs of contract and fixed salary workers condition is miserable.
“Despite Rs 18,000 salary per month as per the 7th Pay Commission, why only Rs 5,500 and Rs 10,000 is being paid to the fix and contract workers?” he asked.
Gandhi’s question comes in the wake of the party’s strategy to pose one question to Modi every day till the polling day on December 9.
Gandhi on Sunday raised concerns over safety, health, education and crimes against women in the state.
On Saturday, he questioned Modi on “extraction” of high fees from students by government educational institutes in Gujarat.
Polling for the 182-member Gujarat assembly will be held in two phases on December 9 and 14. The counting of votes will take place on December 18.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Interviews
Derek O’Brien
By Prashant Sood & Sidhartha Dutta,
New Delhi : The opposition should not pitch the next Lok Sabha polls as a presidential-style contest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, says Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien who feels a “collective leadership” would bring parties together against the BJP in each state.
He also says that Bengal will play a very important role in the collective leadership of opposition parties, an obvious reference to his party supremo Mamata Banerjee.
“In 2019, the opposition has to work out a strategy which will be to play to its strength in all 29 states. I am saying this as student of politics. For example, when we are fighting the election in Bengal, obviously it is going to be Mamata di who is the prime mover there,” O’Brien, Trinamool Congress leader in the Rajya Sabha, told IANS in an interview.
He also said that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee can play a role in bringing opposition parties together in crucial states such as Uttar Pradesh.
“In Uttar Pradesh, there is Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress. Who is the most credible person to make this thing happen? Congress is a player, SP is a player, BSP is a player. Mamata di is the good one to do this job in UP. They will have to listen eventually,” O’Brien said.
He said Mamata Banerjee has won a second term and has credibility of four decades.
“She has got a track record of people’s movement, struggles. They are not some five-six year phenomenon, this is an old track record. Those are the people who will take the important roles but it will be a collective leadership,” he said.
Asked if Mamata Banerjee could be prime ministerial candidate, O’Brien said: “I told you it is collective leadership. Bengal will play a very important role. Don’t ask me about personalities,” he said.
He said Trinamool Congress can play the role of a bridge between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi and, in the same way, the Congress can play the role of a bridge between the Trinamool Congress and the Left in West Bengal.
Answering another query, the chief national spokesperson of Trinamool Congress said the Prime Ministerial candidate is chosen from the party with largest seats in parliamentary democracy.
“This is not a Presidential election. Why should the Lok Sabha election be pitched as a Presidential election. This is not Trump versus Clinton,” he said.
On the likelihood of the Congress projecting party Vice President Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate, O’Brien said: “At this stage, it looks (like)… it’s easier to take on Modi with a strong face in each state.”
He said Rahul Gandhi will be president of his party and Trinamool Congress wishes him well.
Asked if he was suggesting there should not be a single candidate against Modi, O’Brien said he was not a spokesperson for 18 parties which have been coordinating their actions against the government.
He said opposition should play to its strengths in all the 29 states.
“Who says opposition does not have a face? Doesn’t Karnataka stand a better chance if Mr. Siddaramaiah is the face to take on whoever in the BJP?”
He said Rahul Gandhi’s imminent elevation this month was “Congress’ internal decision”.
“What I can tell you from what I have seen, again as a student of politics, is that there has been a lot of momentum after his US townhall style meetings. There has been some momentum in the Gujarat campaign… Obviously, if he keeps this momentum going, it’s good for the opposition. A strong Congress is good for the opposition,” he said.
Asked about leaders like Mamata Banerjee having a certain comfort level with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, O’Brien said: “Please give Rahul Gandhi some time as president of the Congress.”
He said Trinamool Congress will do what it takes to make the opposition stronger to defeat the BJP.
The party’s target, he said, is to win all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. “For two reasons people will vote for us — one is development, the other is communal harmony.”
O’Brien’s first political book, “Inside Parliament: Views From the Front Row”, was released last week. It has a chapter “BJP is beatable in 2019”.
The Trinamool Congress national spokesperson also said opposition parties have been coordinating inside and outside parliament and had made a statement by fielding good candidates for the presidential and vice-presidential polls.
Referring to 18 parties’ observing the first anniversary of demonetisation on November 8 as Black Day, O’Brien said: “We came to the conclusion that let us allow every party to interpret that protest in the local language and idiom, in the local situation and then make it a success.”
He said the opposition strategy to oust the BJP government was not a negative strategy. “It is a positive strategy. Strengthen federalism to run; that’s the positive strategy.”
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business Summit, Entrepreneurship, Events, Social Round-up, Women Entrepreneur
Washington : US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a phone conversation, “expressed satisfaction” over the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) the countries co-hosted in Hyderabad late last month, according to the White House.
The US delegation to the three-day event with the theme, “Women, First Priority for All”, was headed by the President’s daughter and senior advisor, Ivanka Trump, and included representatives from 38 states.
Her participation in the summit was announced during Modi’s visit to the White House in June.
Modi attended the inauguration of the summit with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitaraman on November 28.
About 1,500 delegates including entrepreneurs, investors and eco-system supporters from 150 nations participated in the event, more than half of them women.
On Thursday, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert told reporters the summit was “a tremendous success when we bring in 1500 entrepreneurs from around the world”.
—IANS
