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One nation one uniform: Uniformity against pluralism and Constitution, say opposition leaders

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5 months ago

October 28, 2022

Leaders of national Opposition parties have slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s proposal at the home ministers meet to have a single uniform for all police forces across the country. The leaders recalled the PM’s similar suggestions on uniformity and said that such suggestions went against India’s plurality and federal nature of the Constitution. Reacting to Modi’s proposal, the national spokesperson of the All India Trinamool Congress, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, told ET, “today it is one country, one police uniform. Tomorrow, it would be one country, one police, one bureaucracy, one party, one language, one religion, against India’s pluralistic society.”
CPM central committee member Sujan Chakraborty told ET, “this is an attack on the Constitution and its basic framework. Despite the federal structure of the country, the prime minister is talking about one nation, one religion, one language, one police, one uniform. There is an attempt of over-centralisation, which will lead to divisiveness. We oppose it.”

Congress also opposed Modi’s suggestion, saying it was an impossible proposition and cannot be implemented in a federal democracy. “They are trying to kill the federal structure and democratic rights of the states. One day, they will say there will be one uniform for military, CISF, BSF and police…It cannot be done in a federal structure. Someday they will say there will be no states but only Union territories. I think all the states, including BJP-ruled states, will oppose it,” Congress Rajya Sabha MP Pradip Bhattacharya told ET.

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Congress top brass meets after Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification

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March 24, 2023

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The Congress‘ top brass, including party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and former AICC chief Sonia Gandhi, met on Friday to deliberate on the party’s strategy going forward after Rahul Gandhi‘s disqualification from Lok Sabha. A meeting was already scheduled for Friday evening but after Rahul Gandhi’s conviction, top leaders assembled at 6 pm at the party headquarters with his disqualification being top of the agenda. Besides Kharge and Sonia Gandhi, Congress general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, K C Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Rajiv Shukla and Tariq Anwar, senior leaders P Chidambaram, Anand Sharma, Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik, Salman Khurshid and Pawan Kumar Bansal, among others, were also present at the meeting.

Sources said Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification and party’s strategy and plans for agitations were top of the agenda at the meeting.

Rahul Gandhi was on Friday disqualified from Lok Sabha following his conviction by a Surat court in a 2019 criminal defamation case, an action the party termed an attempt to “silence” his voice as it vowed to fight the battle legally and politically.

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Under PM Modi’s leadership, attempt is being made to destroy country: Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi Assembly

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March 24, 2023

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday and said under his leadership, an attempt is being made to destroy the country. In a speech in the Delhi Assembly, he also accused Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena of obstructing the work of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government. “I want to tell BJP people that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, an attempt is being made to destroy the country. Those who want to destroy the country should be in BJP and those who want to save the country should leave BJP,” he said.

There was an uproar in the Assembly when Kejriwal spoke about the prime minister.

Referring to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, Kejriwal targeted the central government and said “they are scared”. Gandhi was disqualification from the Lok Sabha upon his conviction and sentencing in a criminal defamation case.

Kejriwal asked LG Saxena to work together with the government for the development of Delhi.

“I want to tell LG sahab, ‘You have come from Gujarat. You are our guest’. I don’t think he would be knowing even the names of Delhi roads. But we don’t want fights. We want to work together. What will future generations say? They were fighting. We have to take sewer connections to every household, buy new buses, improve traffic situation…let’s do it together.

“We will work with you. It is not India-Pakistan war. When CM and LG start working together, it will actually be a double engine government,” he said.

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