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Ravi Shankar Prasad slams Digvijaya remark on surgical strikes, questions Rahul Gandhi’s silence

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New Delhi: BJP leader and Member of Parliament Ravi Shankar Prasad lashed out at Congress leader Digvijaya Singh for raising questions about the 2019 surgical strikes, saying that such statements boost the morale of the masters of terror.
“Is this a ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ or ‘Bharat Todo Yatra’?” said Prasad. Calling out to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the main face of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Prasad said, “Why are you silent? Those who are walking with you are busy breaking the country.”
Calling it unfortunate, the former Union Minister said that Digvijaya Singh had raised questions on the Batla House encounter too.
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh had on Monday said that while the BJP government at the Centre claims to have carried out a surgical strike against Pakistan, there was no proof of the same.
“They (Centre) talk about surgical strikes and that they have killed so many of them but there is no proof,” the Congress leader had said during his address in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Singh also targeted PM Modi over the Pulwama terror attack in which over 40 CRPF personnel were killed. The former Madhya Pradesh chief minister said that the 2019 terror attack could have been averted had the vehicle that launched the attack on the CRPF been properly checked.
The Congress on Monday distanced itself from the party leader’s statement stating that it supports “all military actions” in “national interest.’
Taking to twitter, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the statements are the personal views of Digvijaya Singh and not of the Congress Party.
“The views expressed by senior leader Digvijaya Singh are his own and do not reflect the position of Congress. Surgical strikes were carried out before 2014 by the UPA government. Congress has supported and will continue to support all military actions that are in the national interest,” Ramesh tweeted.

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Chhattisgarh: Petition in HC against Governor Anusuiya Uikey for stalling Reservation Bill

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Raipur: A petition has been filed in the High Court against Chhattisgarh Governor Anusuiya Uikey for stalling Reservation Bill in the state and seeking a direction to her to take a decision at the earliest.
Advocate Himang Saluja has filed a petition against Uikey calling her decision a “violation of the constitution” which is creating an “uncertainty” in the state over the rule. In the petition filed in the High Court, it has been said that the governor didn’t sign the bill even after the Assembly passed the Reservation Bill.
“On January 18, 2012, the state government had increased the percentage of reservations to 12 per cent for the SC category, 32 per cent for the ST category, and 14 per cent for the OBC category, which the Chhattisgarh High Court, while hearing various petitions, dismissed as unconstitutional. After this, the Chhattisgarh government increased the percentage of reservations in the state to 76 per cent on the basis of population and other grounds. A 4 per cent reservation given for economically weaker sections is also included. According to the rules, after the reservation bill was passed by the assembly, it went to the governor for signature, but the governor did not sign it,” the petition said.
The petition also mentioned the governor’s statement in Rajarao Pathar village wherein she said, “I had only asked the state government to call a special session of the assembly to increase reservation for the tribals and the government did it for everyone.”

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The petition also claimed that the government completed Uikey’s conditions of answering her questions.
“Through several newspapers, information about the statements of the Governor was received that I have asked ten questions to the government on the reservation bill. If I get their answers, then I will sign the reservation bill. Now the government has given its answer as well. Still, the governor has kept the reservation bill,” it added.
Petition, while accusing ikey of working as a “member of a certain party” not as a Governor of the state, said, “She is not in the role of the Governor but in the role of a member of a political party. Maybe that’s why she is not signing the bill. Whereas according to the constitution, if the assembly passes the bill, then the governor has to give assent to it within the stipulated time. The governor can return the bill to the assembly for reconsideration only once. And if the assembly sends it again to the governor with or without any kind of amendment, then he/she has to give approval within the stipulated time. But the governor is violating the constitution. Because of this, there is no information about the status of reservations in the state.”
The hearing of many petitions in the High Court has also come to a standstill because the percentage of reservations is not fixed in the state, it added.

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