Fancy dress at the Red Fort
Fancy dress competitions used to be held in schools and colleges so far. students used to dress up like Bhagat Singh, Subhash Chandra Bose and other national leaders shout Jai Hind get uploaded for the performance and win hearts. But one cannot become those leaders the moment you wear the dress. Once you get down from the stage you have to change it. Ok app does not make you a believer of Bose like the broom will not make you were Gandhi follower and the short does not make you the Iron Man like Patel. If one believes all these metaphors can make them great leaders it would best be called an Illusion of a fertile mind.
The speech that Prime Minister Narendra Modi deliver from Red Fort on the occasion of 75th anniversary of Subhash Chandra Bose's Azad Hind resembled one such fancy dress competitions. Subhash Chandra Bose played very important role in the freedom fight of this country. Though he did not believe in the non violence Subhash Chandra Bose had great regard and respect for leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi. do Gandhi did not agree with Bose noise of fighting the British deep down he nursed great respect for the leader.
Subhash Chandra Bose's choice to drive the British away was more or less like riding the tiger. Bose’s travel to Germany and join hands with Hitler. He had planned to change the British out by second world war with the help of Hitler. He built a separate Army for the purpose. The army was a secular one because Hindus and Muslims together join hands with bows to fight the British. Jai Hind was coined by Zain Ul Abideen a very close confidant of Bose. He joined Bose's struggle for freedom fight after quitting his engineering education midway. He left Behind everything for the call of freedom. Hence it is our duty to remember him on the 75th anniversary of Azad Hind.but the speech delivered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives rise to the doubt whether he used Red Fort to further drive his ‘hate Nehru’ agenda into people's minds.
While he remembered the sacrifices made by Bose and other prominent leaders Modi kept reiterating that only one family was getting all prominence in this country. No one in the country believes that the nation is only indebted to Jawaharlal Nehru. Bose and Nehru had different personalities. Bose's choice of road to freedom was not a sustainable one. Hitler was a dictator. Enter achieved freedom by using one Dictator against another was a very complicated thinking. Boys had a very soft stance about authoritarianism. He believed India was not prepared for democracy even after few years into its independence.
Bose failed in his chosen route. Nehru fought for independence and he even became the architect of modern India with is farsightedness in growing agriculture industry science technology and other areas. He took the India that was destroyed by internal bickerings towards the path of progress. For somebody who occupies the chair of prime minister to put two leaders against each other and compare them to divide and other one is not something that's very dignifying.
Fernandes when Bose was building Azad Hind Cena one of the organisations who would stop him from doing so was Hindu Mahasabha as well. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar or any other leaders on the Hindu brigade never joined hands with any of the freedom fighters. So if the Prime Minister wants to reconstruct history by adding false information to it it does not pay any respects to the departed leader. Let's consider Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Modi government things they are paying greatest respect to the leader by erecting his biggest statue. Patel was always seen with Gandhij and identified with Gandhiji path to freedom. Mahatma Gandhi tried to bill the whole Nation on the value of ahimsa. But now the whole world knows what Modi is opinion is about ahimsa.
Patel brought the country together emotionally and geographical e under the leadership of Nehru. But RSS had lied to Patel that they would take part only in cultural manner broke its promise and ensured the ban on them was withdrawn. Today they play a role that totally contradictory to what they stood for, then. The statue is a cross that stands on the grave of Patel and it is no great respect that Modi is showing towards Patel.
If Modi really respect leaders like both Patel and others the first thing he would do is to control the communal outfits in the country. He would also try to put a stop to the violence that increasing in the country. Without doing this if he wears was his cap and Gandhi is broom along with hotels shawl it measures mean that he is performing a brilliant fancy dress and people may merely applaud only for that.
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PM must explain why his govt scrapped Backward Region Grant Fund: Congress
New Delhi(PTI): The Congress on Friday hit out at the BJP for "scrapping" the Backward Region Grant Fund in 2015 and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to explain why his government "callously" did away with the "forward-thinking" scheme of the UPA.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh posed questions to the prime minister ahead of his rallies in Uttar Pradesh.
"Why has the Modi Sarkar scrapped the Backward Regions Grant Fund? Why has the BJP neglected UP's mentha farmers? Why has CM Yogi repeatedly lied about reopening the Budhwal Sugar Mill?" Ramesh said.
Elaborating on what he said were "jumla details", the Congress leader said the Backward Region Grant Fund, aimed at uplifting the backward districts of India, was "callously scrapped" by the Modi government in 2015.
"This forward-thinking scheme was established by the UPA government in 2006 and by 2013, Uttar Pradesh's backward districts had received benefits worth Rs 4000 crore from it," he said.
Ramesh pointed out that in 2015, the Modi government discontinued separate budgetary allocations for this scheme, transferring it to states and slashing annual funding to the Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyan (RGPSA) from Rs 1,006 crore to just Rs 60 crore.
"This came as a significant blow to districts like Fatehpur that received crucial development funds from the scheme. Can the outgoing PM explain why his government so callously scrapped the Backward Region Grant Fund?" Ramesh said in a post on X.
Pointing out that India is the world's largest producer and exporter of mentha oil and UP alone accounts for 90 per cent of India's total production, Ramesh claimed that the mentha oil industry is now reeling from convoluted tax classifications, high GST, and general government neglect.
"Instead of trying to support farmers and processors, the government is trying to extract maximum revenue from the industry. First, the government follows a dual policy for mentha - it is classified as an industrial product under GST, but it is classified as agricultural produce when it comes to the Mandi Tax," he said.
This enables double taxation - GST as an industrial product, Mandi Tax as an agricultural product, Ramesh said.
"Farmers already have to pay the 12% GST on mentha oil sales, and under the new Reverse Charge Mechanism (RCM), RCM is levied on purchase. Mentha oil processors are forced to take on the tax liability when purchasing mentha oil from farmers and therefore take on dual tax liability," he said.
Finally, despite mentha being an entirely export-oriented product, the government provides no incentives to boost production, processing, or export, Ramesh claimed.
Why have the outgoing PM and the BJP neglected such an important Indian export, he asked.
"Even after repeated promises from PM Modi and CM Yogi, the Budhwal Sugar Mill remains inactive," he said.
"The PM first promised to revive all of UP's inactive sugar mills in 2014.Then in 2017, before assembly elections, Yogi Adityanath said that the mill would be revived if the BJP formed the government. The BJP won and formed the government but the mill remained inactive," Ramesh said.
Again, in 2022, CM Yogi Adityanath promised to restart the mill and even approved a supplementary budget of Rs 50 crore for the project, he said.
"The government also began to acquire land near the mill, raising hopes of its revival. However, months have now passed and no construction work has been initiated. After all of the BJP's promises, can the outgoing PM explain why the Budhwal Sugar Mill still remains inactive?" Ramesh said and asked the prime minister to break his "silence" on these issues.
