Twitterati to celebrate PM Modi’s birthday as “National Unemployment Day” on September 17
New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will turn 70 on September 17, 2020. His party, the ruling BJP has added that it will celebrate the PM’s birthday in a week-long ‘Seva Saptah’ from September 14-20.
On the other hand on Twitter, the netizens have decided to mark the day as “National Unemployment Day” to highlight the Prime Minister’s failure to create jobs and provide employment for the people of the country. An agenda, riding on which Modi had contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2014.
Twitter users, on Friday afternoon, tweeted thousands of posts with hashtag #17Sept17Hrs17Minutes and called on people to take part in the Twitter campaign on September 17.
Several users asserted that the youths of the country were frustrated over the unemployment and lack of opportunities in the market.
Along with #17Sept17Hrs17Minutes another hashtag in Hindi was trending on Friday #राष्ट्रीय_बेरोजगार_दिवस.
Let's celebrate National Unemployment Day on Modi Ji's birthday..#राष्ट्रीय_बेरोजगार_दिवस#17Sept17Hrs17Minutes pic.twitter.com/XojM0EtCfN
— Asad Ali Ansari (@asadaliansari17) September 11, 2020
The Youth of India need to take back the Nation India into their control & Make India of the Dreams of
— Meraj (@merajsiddiqui1) September 11, 2020
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sahdev, Bismil & millions of others who laid down their lives so that India gets Independence!#17Sept17Hrs17Minutes #राष्ट्रीय_बेरोजगार_दिवस
#राष्ट्रीय_बेरोजगार_दिवस
— Ashok Ambedkar (@AmbedkarAshok) September 11, 2020
It's time to fight....Time to unite...Time to speak.
We want job !!!
We have the power to change the world. And we will change the world..?#17सितम्बर_राष्ट्रीय_बेरोजगार_दिवस #17Sept17Hrs17Minutes pic.twitter.com/CgD949iYkc
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SC seeks ED's response on journalist's bail plea in money laundering case
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file its response within three days on a bail plea of journalist Mahesh Langa in a money laundering case linked to an alleged financial fraud.
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi also asked senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the jailed journalist, to file rejoinder, if needed, to the ED's response within two days of it being filed.
The top court fixed the case for further hearing on December 15.
During the brief hearing on Monday, Sibal said a journalist has been facing as many as six cases.
"The journalist is accused of extortion," the counsel for the ED said and sought a short adjournment on the ground that Solicitor General Tuhar Mehta was unavailable at the moment.
The top court on September 8 sought responses from the Gujarat government and the ED on Langa's bail plea.
While issuing the notices on Langa's bail plea, the bench asked, "What kind of a journalist is he?"
"With due respect, there are some very genuine journalists. But there are also people who on their scooter say we are 'patrakar' (journalists) and what they actually do everybody knows," the bench told Sibal.
Sibal replied that these are all allegations.
"In one FIR, he gets anticipatory bail, then a second FIR is lodged and again anticipatory bail is granted but now he is booked under a third FIR for income tax evasion. There are other things also against him," Sibal submitted.
He added that there is a background to the case also.
On July 31, the Gujarat High Court rejected Langa's bail plea in the money laundering case on the grounds that if released on bail, prejudice would be caused to the prosecution case.
On February 25, the ED said it arrested Langa in a money laundering investigation linked to an alleged financial fraud.
He was first arrested in October 2024 in a GST fraud case.
The money laundering case against Langa stems from two FIRs filed by Ahmedabad police on charges of fraud, criminal misappropriation, criminal breach of trust, cheating and causing wrongful loss of lakhs of rupees to certain people.
