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India politics news in brief for Aug 15: Telangana leader hacked to death after hoisting National Flag

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By: Shubham Ghosh

Here are some news in brief related to India politics for Monday, August 15, 2022:

Four unidentified persons hacked Tammineni Krishnaiah, a leader of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) political party, to death on Monday, minutes after hoisting the national flag in Khammam in Telangana and the authorities imposed Section 144 in the area which prevents large gatherings. The incident took place when Krishnaiah was returning from the flag-hoisting ceremony. According to the local police, the leader of Telangana’s ruling party was returning on a bike after hoisting a flag when at the entrance of the local Teladarupally village, four persons riding an autorickshaw attacked him and left him in a pool of blood.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said free education and healthcare are not freebies and said if people are given access to them, India can become one of the top countries in the world. Kejriwal was speaking at the Delhi government’s Independence Day event at Chhatrasal Stadium here. Asserting that the future belongs to India, he said the country’s 130 crore people need to come together and resolve to make India the number one country in the world. “We came together and sent the Britishers out. Today, if we come together, we can make India the top country in the world,” he said. Lamenting the fact that many nations that got independence after India surpassed it, he reiterated that education and healthcare are key to becoming a rich country.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the chief minister of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Monday (15), announced to make memories of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder KB Hedgewar “permanent” in the state and a memorial for heroes of the country’s freedom struggle. Addressing the state’s main function on the country’s 76th Independence Day in Bhopal’s Motilal Nehru Stadium amid heavy rains, Chouhan also announced to provide one lakh (0.1 million) government jobs within a year to youth and a housing scheme for those not covered under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. On the occasion, Chouhan hoisted the National Flag and took the salute of the combined march past of various security personnel. He also gave away the president’s police medals for meritorious and commendable services.

Indian home minister Amit Shah on Monday greeted the people of India on Independence Day and said it is an occasion to be proud of India’s culture, vibrant democratic tradition and achievements over the last 75 years. In a message, he said prime minister Narendra Modi is fulfilling the brave freedom fighters’ dream of a strong and self-reliant India by giving paramount importance to the national interest. “It is a day to be proud of India’s culture, vibrant democratic tradition and achievements over the last 75 years. I pay my homage to our freedom fighters who brought us freedom and our brave soldiers who sacrificed everything for the defence of the nation,” he said.

The ideal of secularism and brotherhood championed by Mahatma Gandhi is the urgent need for the nation today and the DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) regime’s Dravidian model embodied all such lofty principles for the common good of all sections of people, M K Stalin, the chief minister of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, said in state capital Chennai on Monday, Press Trust of India reported. Mahatma Gandhi epitomised all lofty humanitarian principles like secularism, equality, brotherhood, simplicity, honesty and discipline and he is among the great national symbols that should be reminded often to people, he said in his Independence Day address after unfurling the Tricolour from Fort St George. “These are the urgent and necessary ideals for the nation today. We are administering the Dravidian model government which encompasses all such ideals. Social justice, equality, self respect, racial rights, state autonomy, love for language. The DMK regime functioned on such humanitarian ideals,” he said.

The Indian National Congress, one of India’s major opposition parties, on Monday vowed to fight attempts to “trivialise” the sacrifices of freedom fighters and “distort” historical facts for political gains, as the opposition party marked the 76th Independence Day with flag hoisting and a march by senior leaders in New Delhi. Congress Working Committee member Ambika Soni unfurled the Tricolour in the presence of former party president Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders at the party headquarters as party chief Sonia Gandhi is suffering from Covid-19. Besides, Rahul Gandhi, top leaders such as Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Soni, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma and K C Venugopal were joined by hundreds of workers in a march from the party headquarters to Gandhi Smriti on Tees January Road as part of its Azadi Gaurav Yatra.

A man was stabbed in Shivamogga district of the southern Indian state of Karnataka on Monday as two groups clashed over a banner featuring the photo of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, whom the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party reveres as one of its biggest icons. Reports said one group had put up the poster and another removed it and tried to replace it with a poster of Tipu Sultan, the 18th century Muslim ruler who had fought against the British. The police soon confiscated the poster and resorted to force to disperse the crowd and bring the situation under control. Officials later installed India’s National Flag at the spot where the poster was placed.

Indian central minister Giriraj Singh on Monday targeted Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of the eastern Indian state of Bihar, after he addressed a rally on Independence Day, Asian News International reported. Speaking to ANI, Giriraj, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, said, “Nitish Babu will break the record of being chief minister for 20 years, but he is like a ‘amarbel’ (dodders) that will never be able to become a tree. The Bharatiya Janata Party made him the chief minister last year. I challenge Nitish to form his own government.” Kumar recently ended his party JD(U)’s alliance with the BJP to form a government in the state with ‘secular’ forces such as Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Indian National Congress.

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