Party’s leader gets trolled after beef remark Beef made Bolt win, says BJP MP
BJP MP and Dalit leader Udit Raj on Monday triggered a row after he tweeted that champion Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt went on to win nine Olympics gold despite being born in poverty after his trainer advised him to eat beef twice a day.
His tweet raised a few eyebrows within the party, which is avowedly against beef consumption, and drew a sharp response from the right-leaning people on Twitter, prompting him to claim that his comments were “misconstrued” and that they were meant to “inspire” Indian athletes and convey the view that they can excel in adverse circumstances. “Usain Bolt of Jamaica was poor and trainer advised him to eat beef both the times and he scored 9 gold medals in Olympics,” the MP from North West Delhi tweeted.
An all-party delegation led by home minister Rajnath Singh will visit Jammu and Kashmir on September 4 and is expected to interact with a cross section of people as part of efforts to bring peace in the Valley which has been witnessing unrest.
The delegation will visit Jammu and Kashmir on September 4 and the home minister will lead it, a home ministry spokesperson said.
The delegation is expected to meet a cross section of people, individuals and organisations in its efforts to bring peace in Kashmir Valley which has been witnessing The curfew was lifted from Kashmir Valley after 52 days on Monday morning except in two police station areas of Srinagar and southern Pulwama town.
The lockdown was part of tough measures taken by the authorities to contain widespread protests and violence triggered unrest after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan by the killing of Hizb-ul-Mujahedin’s poster boy Burhan Muzaffar Wani on July 8.
However, the restrictions had to be re-imposed in some parts of summer capital Srinagar including Batamallo, Sayeda Kadal, Kani Kadal, Guzarbal, Babademb and Saidpora following renewed street clashes and stone-pelting incidents. Wani. The home minister on Sunday had a hourlong meeting with BJP president Amit Shah, finance minister Arun Jaitley and MoS for PMO Jitendra Singh and discussed the modalities of the allparty delegation.
Sources said the meeting discussed the possible individuals and groups with whom the delegation may interact during its tour of the troubled state. The government has sounded out different political parties to convey the names of their functionaries who will be part of the team. On Sunday, Mr Modi PM the Kashmir situation in his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme. “Ekta (unity) and Mamata (affection) was the crux of all interactions I had recently on Kashmir situation,” he had said. The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Rajasthan government to bring self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, facing rape charges, to the AIIMS by air from jodhpur jail for medical check ups as he is said to be suffering from chronic ailments.
A bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and N.V. Ramana passed this