On August Kranti Day, farmers, NCP call to 'save India from BJP'
Darpan News Desk IANS, 09 Aug, 2021 12:10 PM
Mumbai, Aug 9 (IANS) On the 79th anniversary of the historic 'Quit India Movement' being celebrated all over the country, the Nationalist Congress Party, Left parties and thousands of farmers gave a 'Modi Sarkar Hatao, Desh Bachao' call, here on Monday.
State NCP President and Water Resources Minister Jayant Patil, Mumbai party President and Minister Nawab Malik and others visited the martyrs' memorial at the August Kranti Maidan in south Mumbai and paid homage to those who sacrificed their lives for the country's Independence.
"On August 9, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi gave the clarion call to the British rulers to 'Quit India', which was finally overthrown after five years. Today, the present government at the Centre is attempting to strangle democracy, and freedom of expressions by the use of Pegasus," Patil said.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) State President and Water Resources Minister Jayant Patil expressed confidence that the country would not survive without unity to preserve democracy and uphold the Constitution of India.
In the same August Revolution, the slogan 'Leave India' was chanted to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the British and the British were repatriated by adopting the path of non-violence. Even today, the government of the country is trying to strangle democracy. Jayant Patil also said that freedom of expression is being hammered by bringing things like Pegasus.
He expressed confidence that just as the people had heeded the slogan of unity by Mahatma Gandhi, even now the country will remain united to save the country and the Constitution.
Thousands of Left party workers and farmers staged demonstrations across Maharashtra and rest of India with a call for 'Modi Sarkar Hatao, Corporate Loot Band Karo, Desh Bachao', said All India Kisan Sabha President Dr Ashok Dhawale.
They included AIKS, CITU, AIAWU, AIDWA, DYFI, SFI and various other mass and grassroots organisations in different districts in the state which recalled the sacrifices of the martyrs of the Indian Independence movement.
Waving banners and posters the protesters raised anti-BJP slogans and reiterated the long-pending demands of repeal of the 3 contentious Farm Laws, 4 Labour Laws, withdrawal of the Electricity Amendment Bills, sought a Central law to guarantee MSP, end to privatization of the public sector by selling off the country's assets to corporates, controlling the prices of gas, diesel and petrol, curbing the runaway inflation, etc.
Addressing the media outside Parliament, Rahul Gandhi said, "Pegasus is classified by the Israeli State as a weapon and that weapon is supposed to be used against the terrorist. The Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) and Union Home Minister have used this weapon against the Indian State and against our institutions."
The numbers of key separatist leaders, politicians, human rights activists, journalists and business persons from Kashmir all figure in the snoop dragnet.
The accused has been identified as Manoj Kumar Prabhakar, a native of Bihar's Supaul district. According to the officials of the flying squad, they had received information about a man creating fake PAN, Aadhaar and voter cards to make money illegally.
In a statement on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of economic liberalisation, he said that on this day 30 years ago, in 1991, the Congress "ushered in significant reforms of India's economy and paved a new path for the nation's economic policy".
"Visit to Rashtrapati Bhavan and Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum Complex, which were closed since April 14, 2021 due to Covid-19, will reopen from August 1, 2021 for the public," the Rashtrapati Bhavan said in a statement.
