MADHYA PRADESH
CONGRESS NEVER GAVE PATRONAGE
nce you came out against Thackeray brothers, dubbing them as Bihari with substantial facts and figures, your adversaries too have turned into your appreciators. Your TRP in Bihar jumped up overnight.
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I shall like to thank all those for this appreciation. At the same time I would like to remind my detractors that I never issue any statement without having substantial facts. I have all the
his party would lay ‘siege' to the prime minister's residence if Rajapaksa visits the country again. All commercial establishments near Sanchi were closed by authorities and as 5,000 security personnel were deployed on roads leading to Sanchi to ensure full security. All 11 trains scheduled to stop between Vidisha and Bhopal were thoroughly checked and some of them were not allowed to halt on the stretch.
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proof in support of what I said; I have also the book- ‘Prabodhankar Thackeray Samagra Wangmay’ with me. Prabodhankar Thackeray, father of Bal Thackeray had compiled it. The book clearly reveals the truth. What more do you want in support of my claim?
allocation. The party is being labeled with some or the other charges every day. What strategies is the party adopting to cope up with such accusations?
Through the duration of the function at Sanchi several neighbourhood villages spent hours in curfew-like situation. The Sri Lankan president was flown from Bhopal to Sanchi by helicopter while the Bhutanese prime minister was driven down to the venue as he was averse to flying. The Lankan president’s response to the protests, however, was in keeping with the spirit of peace professed at the function. ‘My journey to Sanchi, is pri-
marily an act of gratitude on behalf of the people of my country; I am here as a pilgrim, in veneration of sacred Sanchi, saluting and celebrating the glorious past of this region,’ the president added. In this context, it is our hope that the wisdom that will in time come from the work of the ‘University of Buddhist and Indic Studies’ becomes a beacon of light for our region as we battle against intolerance and hatred separatism and ethnic
Coal block allocations have been made as per the rules framed for the purpose. The observation of the CAG is startling. When no work has started in the coal blocks, how can there be any loss? People are already suffering with skyI must tell you that rules for aucrocketing prices of essential goods tion are different for different minand services. Still the governerals. Under the MMRD, there was ment has hiked the prices no rule for big minerals. of diesel. You being in Allocations have been the organisation, The Congress is according to the would you regisbeing slammed left and same rules that ter your protest right for coal blocks’ allocation. were in force to this move? Congress general secretary Digvijay during the NDA Government Singh asserts that recommendations of regime. has to work the state governments’ were given There is in the interprimacy while making allocations. If no scam est of the anything has gone wrong, the state in any country. governments can’t shun the responsibility allocation. Sometimes, as the real ownership of these coal-blocks considering lie with states only. Lokayat State govthe economic correspondent had an extensive talk ernments exigencies, on the current imbroglio with Singh, say that their government has the former chief minister of recommendato take certain Madhya Pradesh. A few tions were not tough decisions, excerpts: honoured. Does this which may not be of not mean that the the liking of the public. I Centre must own complete am sure, before raising the prices, responsibility for the mess without the prime minister must have taken all casting aspersion on state governaspects into serious consideration. ments? It appears Congress has gone on the There is not even an iota of truth in this back-foot on the issue of coal block entire theory of scam. If the govern-