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“Rejection Election”: Mamata Banerjee Urges People To Brush Off BJP In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls

Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee slams Centre over GST, price hike and accused BJP of breaking ties.

Mumbai: West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday pounced at the Centre and urged the people to turn the 2024 elections into a “rejection election” to brush off BJP from power.

On Martyrs Day, the TMC leader took a protest march to Delhi with the youths. Referring to the fall of the Thackeray allied regime in Maharashtra she said,  “They think, now that they’ve broken Mumbai, they will break Chhattisgarh and then Bengal. I warn them. Don’t come here. There is a huge Royal Bengal Tiger here.”

TMC’s Mamata Banerjee slammed the Centre’s move of imposing GST on food products, she said, “The BJP has lost its mind. They have put GST on muri (puffed rice), mishti (sweets), lassi (buttermilk), and curd.”

“What will people eat?”, she asked. “If a patient gets admitted to hospital, they’ll charge GST now.”
On the Agnipath scheme, Mamata slammed the BJP, saying the Centre is depriving armed forces in the name of a new recruitment scheme.

She accused the central government of withholding money from the state. “Listen, BJP. If you don’t give us our due, we will end up in Delhi. Don’t try to scare us with ED, CBI (central probe agency). We are not cowards. We will fight and we will win.”

The Chief Minister of West Bengal has accused the center of trying to rewrite history, saying: “Those who played no part in the country’s struggle for independence are now trying to rewrite India’s history.”

The police has arranged thousands of officers to manage the crowd and the traffic as July 21 is observed as Martyr’s Day to honour the day in 1993 during the leftist government, 13 people were killed when the Calcutta police fired on a protest of the Youth Congress led by Mamata Banerjee.

 

 

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Gautam Adani Becomes World’s 4th Richest Person, Surpasses Bill Gates

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According to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, Gautam Adani, Indian businessman and owner of Adani Group, has overtaken Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to become the world’s fourth richest person. On Thursday, Gautam Adani’s net worth jumped to $115.5 billion leaving behind Bill Gates whose fortunes are at $104.6 billion.

Mukesh Ambani, another Indian on the list, ranks 10th with $90 billion fortune.

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, who’s been in the midst of controversy over his to buy micro-blogging website Twitter only to abandon it later, is on the 1st rank in the list with $235.8 billion.

When Mr Adani took over Mr Ambani as richest man in Asia, Bloomberg had reported: “Some of Adani Group’s listed stocks have soared more than 600% in the past two years on bets his push into green energy and infrastructure will pay off as PM Modi looks to revive the $2.9 trillion economy and meet India’s carbon net-zero target by 2070.”

“In barely three years, Adani has gained control of seven airports and almost a quarter of India’s air traffic. His group now owns the country’s largest airport operator, power generator and city gas retailer in the non-state sector,” Bloomberg added.

In another deal which’ll add to its fortunes, the Adani group on Thursday said it  has won the tender for the privatisation of a port in Israel in partnership with Gadot.

Among Israel’s three major international seaports, the Port of Haifa is the largest one.

To begin its journey in communications sector, along with Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, Adani Data Networks has also applied to participate in the upcoming 5G auction. Scheduled to begin on July 26, the spectrum auction is likely to see intense and aggressive bidding for some frequency bands, as two of the India’s richest businessmen will contest against each other.

It is in the race to acquire spectrum, the Adani group said on Saturday. The group said it will be used to create a private network to support its businesses from airports to power as well as data centres.

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