‘When King is a businessman,citizens will become beggars’: BK Hariprasad lashes out at Narendra Modi
Shivamogga, October 29: Lashing out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rajya Sabha Member and Congress leader B.K. Hariprasad said that when King became the businessman, the citizens would become beggars.
Speaking to reporters here on Monday, Hariprasad said that when Narendra Modi had visited Japan earlier, he had said that there was a businessman in every drop of his blood. According to Chanakya, when the King became the businessman, the citizens would become the beggars and the present situation would prove it, he said.
Narendra Modi-led Central Government has failed on all fronts. General people were finding it difficult to lead their life. One has to use telescope to find how many times Narendra Modi spoke about farmers and labourers in his four and half years administration, he said.
Modi has been telling that he would extend the Gujarat-model development to other states. Every day, more than 70 flights would fly from Bengaluru to Delhi. But only a few flights would fly from Ahmadabad to Delhi. Is it the Gujarat model development, he asked.
“There is nothing to learn from RSS. They speak lies often to make it truth. Former chief minister Yeddyurappa who presented farmers budget with green towel, fired against the farmers. The Congress-JDS candidates would win in all the constituencies including Shivamogga Lok Sabha constituency, he exuded confidence.
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NATO, others turn down US call for help in Hormuz: Trump
Washington (PTI): President Donald Trump on Tuesday said NATO and most of US' other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran entered the third week.
In a social media post, Trump asserted that Iran’s military has been “decimated” and he no longer felt the need for assistance from NATO countries or anyone else.
Last week, Trump had sought help from European nations and others who depend on oil supplies transiting from the Hormuz Strait to safeguard the critical waterway.
“The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon,” the US President said in a post on Truth Social.
Iran's attacks on Gulf nations and its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil is transported, have sparked increasing concerns of a global energy crisis and are unnerving the world economy.
“I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one-way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need,” Trump said.
He said Australia, Japan and South Korea too have turned down his call for help.
“Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military – Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again,” Trump said.
He said that given the scale of recent military successes, the US no longer "need" or desires assistance from NATO countries, adding that it never relied on such support in the first place.
Speaking as President of the United States, the "most powerful" country in the world, "we do not need" help from anyone, Trump said.
The West Asia conflict began on February 28 when the US-Israeli combine conducted airstrikes on Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, has effectively been shut following the US and Israel attack on Iran and Tehran's sweeping retaliation.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said that from Tehran's "perspective", the strait is "open". "It is only closed to Iran's enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies.”
Earlier in the day, a second Indian-flagged LPG tanker, Nanda Devi, reached the country after safely sailing from the war-hit Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the first ship, Shivalik, reached Mundra port in Gujarat.
As of now, 22 Indian vessels remain on the west side and two on the east side of the strait.
Indian authorities are in constant touch with all the relevant stakeholders in the region to secure the safe passage of the remaining ships, officials said.
