Mevani dares Modi to hold four-minute debate on achievements of his government
MYSURU: Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani on Wednesday dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold a four-minute debate on achievements in the last four years of his government.
Interacting with media persons here, Mevani, challenged Modi barely a day after the latter accepted a similar dare thrown at him by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.
Mevani said, Modi should have spoken about promises he had made — on checking unemployment, bailing out farmers from crises-like situations, reducing atrocities against Dalits and on providing shelter to all at the rate of 30 lakh to 40 lakh dwellings per annum.
While calling BJP and RSS, “fascists and communal forces”, Mevani said that he was not in favour of any political party.He said that he supported every civilian movement.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
