Modi government announces no programmes for farmers: Medha Patkar
Bengaluru, November 23: Social activist Medha Patkar said that the Narendra Modi government has introduced not even a single major programme for the farmers in its four year administration.
Speaking at an endowment lecture on social activist Fr. Dr Ambrose Pinto at St. Joseph College in the city on Friday, she said that the voluntary organizations should strive hard to reach the farmers problems to the government. The effective implementation of the Dr Swaminathan report would ensure solutions to many of the problems. Since the farmers were not getting the scientific price for their crops, they were committing suicide. To avoid this trend, the government should take steps to announce scientific price for crops, she opined.
Even after 70 years of independence, the farmers were finding it difficult to adopt scientific farming methods in their fields due to which, they have failed to create market for their produces in international market. The political parties announce waiver of farm loans in their manifestos. But once they came to power, their promises made in the manifestos would be put into cold storage, she added.
Jails become stage
When the government’s moves against the Constitution were questioned, such persons were being branded as urban naxals and put them behind bars. But such jails are being turned into stages and they would contribute for strengthening the protest.
- Medha Patkar, Social Activist
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ED searches: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah accuses Centre of targeting Cong leaders
Chamarajanagara (Karnataka) (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday accused the central government and its agencies of consistently targeting Congress members by using searches on their properties, and questioned why similar action is not taken against BJP leaders.
He was reacting to searches conducted by the Enforcement Directorate on Monday on several individuals, among them the sons of Karnataka Congress MLA N A Haris and the grandson of former Union Cabinet minister K Rahman Khan, in connection with a cryptocurrency-linked money laundering case.
"The central government always targets Congress leaders. Will they raid the houses of BJP leaders?" Siddaramaiah said in response to a question. More than a dozen premises in the city were searched as part of the operation carried out by the ED under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The premises searched comprised those of Mohammed Haris Nalapad and Omar Farook Nalapad, the sons of the MLA; Aqeeb Khan, the grandson of veteran Congress leader K Rahman Khan; and an alleged crypto hacker, Srikrishna Ramesh, alias Sriki, officials said.
The money laundering case stems from Karnataka Police FIRs and charge sheets filed in a 2017 case involving the hacking of national and international websites, theft of bitcoins, and the sale of these stolen virtual digital assets (VDAs) through crypto platforms by the alleged hacker Sriki and his associates.
Mohammed Haris Nalapad, Omar Farook Nalapad, and Aqeeb Khan are alleged to be beneficiaries of the proceeds of crime generated through this crypto-linked activity, officials added.
