Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav said on Saturday that an all-party meeting should be convened to discuss the provisions of the food security bill.
“We do not favor the bill in its present form. There are certain issues that we want to be deleted and an all party meeting will help in developing a consensus,” he told reporters here.
He said that in a democracy, consensus was a crucial ingredient and the Congress should realize this.
Mr Yadav denied that he was being ‘persuaded and pampered’ by the Congress to support the food security bill.
“No one has pampered or persuaded me till now. I do not know from where you get such reports,” he said.
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Many partymen killed in TN: BJP
AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi, July 20
Condemning the murder of its Tamil Nadu unit general secretary V. Ramesh, the BJP on Saturday said several of its activists have been either attacked or brutally killed in the recent past in the state. The party demanded that a SIT should be formed to probe these cases.
“V Ramesh was brutally killed close to his home and office in Salem. His murder is just one in a series, within a year, of targeted killings in TN,” BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said.
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Mamata to skip Martyrs’ Rally
age correspondent
KOLKATA JULY 20
Possibly for the first time since the formation of the Trinamul Congress, Mamata Banerjee will not be addressing the Martyrs’ Day rally on July 21. The rally has been rescheduled on August 21 because of the panchayat polls. Trinamul MP Sultan Ahmed said such a rally in the midst of the rural polls may have violated model code.
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Youth Cong journal site hacked
age CORRESPONDENT
SRINAGAR, July 20
The Youth Congress’s mouthpiece Congress Yuva Sandesh was on Saturday defaced by a group of hackers calling themselves “Anonymous Kashmir”.
The website of the month journal in Hindi had written on it “Congratulations! your occupation and oppression went unnoticed by the international community for one more year. Congratulation You Tagged Ramban Massacre as Terrorist Attack” in apparent reference to Thursday’s firing incidents in a remote village of J&K’s Ramban district in which four civilians were killed and many injured.