I don’t have any differences with Shivakumar: Revanna clarifies on media report
Bengaluru, June 21: “I don’t have any differences with Minister DK Shivakumar. We are fine. But you people (media) are trying to divide us and giving free publicity”, said PWD Minister HD Revanna.
Speaking to reporters at Vidhana Soudha here on Thursday, Revanna said that both of them were in good terms. But media people have been making issues and giving publicity. “Why should we oppose when you are giving free publicity”, he said.
Common Minimum Programmes (CMP) meeting of the government was held on Wednesday and there was no difference between Shivakumar and himself after the meeting over loan waiver issue. Programmes would be introduced by merging the manifestos of both the parties. “It is our priority that CMP should give importance to loan waiver issue. I have informed our opinion. In the same way, we have placed our demand of giving Rs 6000 pension every month for senior citizens and Rs 5000 for pregnant women per month for five months. It is far from truth that both of us have exchanged verbal duals. We have good relationship. But the media is creating the issue”, he clarified.
Income Tax department conducted raids on Minister DK Shivakumar. But there should not be any vindictive politics in such issues. Power is not eternal. One who has the power today will be powerless one day. It is not good to hate anybody.
-HD Revanna, PWD Minister
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Rahul Gandhi to join Congress padyatra in Bihar, address party workers
Patna (PTI): Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, will join the party's ongoing 'Palayan Roko, Naukri Do' padyatra in Bihar's Begusarai district on Monday.
Later in the day, he will return to Patna from Begusarai to address the 'Samvidhan Suraksha Sammelan' (Save the Constitution Symposium). After that he will visit Sadaqat Ashram, the Bihar Congress office in Patna, to address party workers.
This will be Gandhi's third Bihar tour since January, when he had urged party workers to "inflict an ideological defeat" on the BJP in the assembly polls due later this year.
The Raebareli MP shared a minute-long video message on X on Sunday, urging the youth of Bihar to join him in the march in Begusarai wearing "white T-shirts".
"Our aim is to draw the attention of the world to the plight of Bihar's youth, who find government jobs getting scarce day by day and privatisation bringing no benefits. Let us bring the government in the state under pressure and change it," he said in the video.
Begusarai also happens to be the home district of Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been the star attraction of the padyatra, which began in East Champaran district last month.
The former JNU students' union president had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, on a CPI ticket, from the seat.
In the Bihar assembly polls, the Mahagathbandhan, comprising RJD, Congress and the Left, is pitted against the ruling Nitish Kumar-led NDA that also comprises the BJP.
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