Amid the stalemate in Parliament due to repeated adjournments, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor slammed the BJP-led Centre over the logjam and said that the objective behind the Tiranga Yatra is to send out the message that let's protect and safeguard our democracy.
"We need not be so thin-skinned, I think it's very important that as govt we take something in stride. If we react to every comment, we are doing ourselves a disservice. I will strongly urge EAM Jaishankar to cool a little bit," said Tharoor.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the central government is working tirelessly to provide pure drinking water to the people under Jal Jeevan Mission and Har Ghar Nal scheme.
As part of the demonstration, taken out on Thursday, hundreds of members from various scheduled caste Hindu groups, such as the Kolhi, Bheel, Meghwar, Oad, and Bagri held a sit-in outside the provincial legislature under the banner of the Pakistan Darawer Ittehad.
Sharing an instance of him writing to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, seeking a GST exemption for certain life-saving drugs required by a cancer patient, Tharoor thanked the former for granting his request.
The company has written Central Power Purchasing Agency -Guaranteed (CPPA-G) a number of letters, most notably one on February 22, 2023, in which it asked for payment of its unpaid debts and alerted CPPA-G of impending debt servicing needs totalling Rs 28 billion.
Sharing a clip from various newspapers on Twitter, highlighting Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as a Member of Lok Sabha (MP), Tharoor said, "They tried to silence a voice. Now every corner of the world hears the voice of India."
At a side event titled "Human Rights Violations in Pakistan", a panel of Sindhi activists including Fatima Gul, Muzafar Talpur, Reva Tharwani and Sindhu Rustamani highlighted the situation of the region with an aim to seek the world's attention on the repression of Sindhi people.
After Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from being a Lok Sabha MP, party leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday took a dig at the order and said that he was stunned by the "rapidity" of the action and termed it as "politics with the gloves off".
In the final held at the Asian Town Cricket Stadium in Doha, Asia Lions, cheered by a packed stadium, scored an emphatic seven-wicket victory with 23 balls to spare.