Udupi: Congress protests against failure of 4-year Modi rule
Udupi: The Udupi District Women's Congress Committee and various organizations of the party staged a protest against the failures of Narendra Modi-led NDA government's four-year rule on Saturday at Ajjarakadu Martyr’s Memorial.
Addressing protestors, District Congress Committee President Geeta Vagle said, "The Modi government has been fooling people by giving false assurances in the past four years. The black money has not returned yet which they had promised in their manifesto. The Ganga River is not cleaned, jobs are not created. In all, Modi has betrayed people of the country."
Speaking at the occasion, AICC member Amrut Shenoy said that the BJP, which had opposed foreign investment during the UPA government, has now invested foreign capital in railways and defense. Modi, who had been sternly opposed to Pakistan before coming to power, visited Pakistan that too without invitation.”
“In the four years' Modi rule, ‘achhe din’ have not come to anybody. Prime Minister Modi should answer whether India and banks are in profit. Youths are becoming victims of BJP's political Hindutva,” he criticised.
Congress leaders Janardhan Thonse, Meenakshi Madhava Bannanje, Narasimhamurthy, Janardhan Bhandarkar, Varonika Kernelio, Malyady Shivarama Shetty, Shankar Kundar, Kishan Hegde Kolkebailu, Sarasu D Bangera, Sarala Kanchan, Dr. Sunita Shetty, Bhaskar Rao Kidiyoor and others were present.
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Trump confronts South African president over killing of white farmers
Washington, May 21 (AP): President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing his country of failing to address the killing of white farmers.
“People are fleeing South Africa for their own safety," said Trump, who at one point dimmed the lights in the Oval Office to play a video of a communist politician playing a controversial anti-apartheid song that includes lyrics about killing a farmer. "Their land is being confiscated and in many cases they're being killed."
Ramaphosa pushed back against Trump's accusation. The South African leader had sought to use the meeting to set the record straight and salvage his country's relationship with the United States. The bilateral relationship is at its lowest point since South Africa enforced its apartheid system of racial segregation, which ended in 1994.
“We are completely opposed to that,” Ramaphosa said of the behaviour alleged by Trump in their exchange.
Experts in South Africa say there is no evidence of whites being targeted, although farmers of all races are victims of violent home invasions in a country that suffers from a very high crime rate.
