Congress to turn to agitational politics, highlight economic slowdown

Sonia Gandhi implored party leadership to have a “concrete agitational agenda” to go directly to the people instead of merely being aggressive on social media

Current Affairs :-The Congress on Thursday said it intended to dispatch a progression of challenges and showings the nation over from October 15 to 25, amidst the bubbly season, to feature the poor condition of the economy.

Looked with the test to revive gathering structure, capture the disintegration in its positions yet in addition to discover a language to associate with individuals, especially the young, the Congress divulged a huge number of projects.

It will have shows the nation over to feature the “financial stoppage” from September 20 to 30. It will hold padyatras the nation over on October 2, and sort out different occasions from October 3 to 9, to stamp the 150th birth commemoration of Mahatma Gandhi and spread the message of the qualities that he dedicated his life for. The Congress will dispatch a program to prepare party laborers to clarify its vision of patriotism and secularism and complete a participation drive. It asserted that its present participation was 2 crore.

At a gathering of the gathering chiefs in the national capital, Congress president Sonia Gandhi entreated party initiative to have a “solid agitational motivation” to go straightforwardly to the individuals rather than just being forceful via web-based networking media.

Previous head administrator Manmohan Singh said the nation was today amidst a “hazardously extended log jam”. He said a climate of “misery and fate” won with at any rate a million on the precarious edge of losing positions, except if the legislature mediated with an upgrade bundle, in just the vehicle division. He said there was no sign the legislature was thinking about an unmistakable strategy to capture this monetary lull, and reveling just in “corrective” measures.

Thursday’s was the principal meeting that Sonia Gandhi hosts led of the get-together subsequent to taking over as its leader a month back. Upwards of 32 pioneers talked at the gathering. A remarkable discourse was of Tripura Congress unit boss Pradyot Deb Barman. The 40-year-old said it had turned out to be hard to clarify the qualities that Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru represented to individuals who are 10-years more youthful to him, and the test was to have the option to speak with the adolescent.

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Demonetisation followed by faulty GST led to this slowdown: Manmohan Singh

The first step to fix it is to acknowledge that there is an economic slowdown, says the former Prime Minister

Current Affairs :-Previous Prime Minister Manmohan Singh trusts Indian economy is confronting a log jam, which is both basic and repetitive in nature. In a meeting with Hindi every day Dainik Bhaskar, he said the initial move towards tending to it ought to be to recognize the way that we are confronting an emergency.

Saying that India had the option to effectively deal with the 1991 and 2008 emergency notwithstanding not having a command as large as that of the present government, Singh said the administration needs to stop the propensity for feature the board and start connecting with specialists and partners to discover a route through the issue.

The previous PM proposed five measures to restore development:

1. Defense of GST, regardless of whether it prompts misfortune in income for the time being.

2. Concentrate ought to be on expanding provincial utilization and restoring the farming segment. He said government can take pieces of information from Congress statement, which sets out a few measures in such manner to free up agri markets.

3. Liquidity emergency should be tended to. He said that open segment banks as well as get duped.

4. Searching for approaches to resuscitate significant occupation creating divisions, for example, material, auto, gadgets and furthermore financed lodging. He said simple credits should be accommodated this reason, particularly to MSMEs.

5. Government needs to distinguish new fare markets opening up because of the continuous exchange war among US and China.

Further, Singh said government needs to address both auxiliary and patterned issues to return to the high development rate in 3-4 years.

On monetary stoppage

He called stoppage in truck deals particularly stressing as it showed an easing back interest for products and fundamental items. He included that in his estimation, it will take a couple of years to leave this retreat gave the administration currently acts carefully.

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Six surgical strikes under UPA, claims Congress; BJP calls it ‘farcical’

A war of words broke out between the BJP and the Congress on Thursday over the issue of ‘surgical strikes’ and listing of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a UN-designated terrorist

Elections:A war of words broke out between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress on Thursday over the issue of ‘careful strikes’ and posting of Jaish-e-Mohammed boss Masood Azhar as an UN-assigned fear based oppressor.

Previous PM Manmohan Singh said Indian military got a free hand to react to outside dangers amid the Congress-drove UPA’s residency. Singh named it “dishonorable and inadmissible” that the BJP was endeavoring to increase constituent mileage from military tasks.

The Congress, later, turned out with a rundown of six enemy of dread careful strikes did amid the UPA rule yet it never attempted to exploit from military tasks — a case which was named “false and ludicrous” by the BJP.

Prior in the day, senior BJP pioneer and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley amid a question and answer session said Azhar being recorded as a worldwide fear monger was an incredible conciliatory triumph for India and that Opposition parties were hesitant to praise the accomplishment since they believe they may need to pay a political cost for it.

The UN Sanctions Committee on Wednesday had assigned Pakistan-based Azhar a worldwide fear monger after China lifted its hang on a proposition to boycott him. Jaitley said the Narendra Modi government prevailing in an endeavor the nation has been making throughout the previous 10 years, “yet then they (Opposition) says ‘this is paltry, what is huge in it’.”

“On the off chance that India wins, Indians win, however there are companions in resistance who are not praising it as they may need to pay a political cost for it,” Jaitley said. “Psychological warfare will not go on without serious consequences and this presentation from the UN is critical. It is the consequence of persevering estimates taken by the outside issues service, under the administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” said Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who was likewise present in the press meeting.

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