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BHOPAL: There is no reason to disagree with Rahul Gandhi's statement that BJP has reduced Jyotiraditya Scindia to the position of a backbencher. Since he joined the BJP he only got the gift of a Rajya Sabha membership and ministerial berths to his followers. Besides this he has not got any position in the organisation or in the government.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee filed her nomination paper from the Nandigram constituency last Wednesday for the coming assembly elections, sounding the reveille for the coming battle royal between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP. The TMC wants to come back to power for the third consecutive term. Mamata. Mamata’s main adversary is her former lieutenant and confidant Suvendu Adhikari who is now contesting as a BJP candidate. The BJP is expected to mobilize to the fullest extent its money, muscle and man-power to defeat Mamata who has, on her side the people who have all along been her strength.

With recording 22,854 new COVID-19 cases on March 10, India is back to the level of July 3, 2020. Just a month ago in February 2021, the number of new cases was around 9000, which was just at the level of June 3, 2020, and which many believed as a signal of success of the containment and prevention strategy being implemented by the government. However, the present upsurge upto 2.5 times of the lowest level in February proves our strategy has utterly failed after initial success. The concern is greater than ever before, since the continuous upsurge in the last month remained unbridled despite our vaccination drive being implemented. No doubt, the present containment of COVID-19 and vaccination strategies need a fresh relook.

It was four decades back when in United States, agriculture was corporatized, in the same way as in our country today. Situation has been not very different. It was a total structural change, as here the three farm laws profess. Added with it is the illusion of development. It was the same illusion that even led to recession in the world. The steps to corporatisation led to gross financial crisis. Basic essentials were absent. There were thousands dying and starvation became common in the US. The agenda was to divide the world to serve corporate led finance capital.

The Kerala Assembly elections are being fought by three alliances – the CPI(M)-led LDF, the Congress-led UDF and the BJP-led NDA. Both the Congress and the BJP have been targeting the LDF government with a string of false allegations which began with the gold smuggling case in July last year.

The campaign for the state assembly elections to the states of Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala along with the union territory of Puducherry is in full swing now. The polling starts on March 27 and ends on April 29 and the results will be announced on May 2.The major national parties as also the regional parties are involved and the outcome will have a bearing on shaping the national polity in the coming days.

Gurugram: Saaniya Sharma carded day's best round of 2-under 70 and emerged sole leader after the first round of the fifth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the DLF Golf & Country Club here on Wednesday.

Former Brazilian president LuizInacio Lula da Silva could be set for a comeback after the Supreme Court sensationally quashed his convictions for corruption on Monday.

Ever since the days of the Ronald Reagan presidency, the defining narrative in Washington has been that big government is an unruly animal that has to be tamed.

Political pyrotechnics in Pakistan touched a high point with the decisive victory of three-time Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani of Pakistan People’s Party, pulling a shock victory defeating the ruling Tehreek-e-Insaf candidate, Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh. It raised the PPP strength in the 100-seat Pakistan Senate, the upper house in the Pakistani parliament to 20 and taking the tally of Pakistan Democratic Movement to 53 against 47 of the ruling group of which the PTI strength is 26.