Farmers jeer at Birender, Dhankar
Union steel minister Birender Singh and Haryana agriculture minister OP Dhankar had to face hooting from angry farmers during their address at the ‘Agri Summit’ organised in Rohtak recently. The farmers created so much ruckus that both ministers had to cut short their speech and spend most of the time requesting farmers to maintain silence. Union minister Nitin Gadkari, who spoke next, managed to calm the farmers and complete his address without too much trouble. But, soon after his address ended, farmers started hooting again and forced Himachal governor Acharya Devvrat to cut short his speech. The farmers were angry at nonprocurement of mustard crop by the state government due to which they were forced to sell to private players at lower rates than MSP. Of the quartet, the three leaders - Singh, Dhankar and Devvrat – who faced the ire are from Haryana. Guess one doesn’t need to try too hard to get the message.
of the Central University campus in Himachal Pradesh has got reignited after chief minister Jai Ram Thakur stated that the foundation stone would be laid in Dehra soon. The announcement has led to a war of words between consumer affairs minister Kishan Kapoor and Congress leader and former Dharamshala MLA Sudhir Sharma. Kapoor blamed Sharma for the delay in setting up of campus whereas the latter has hit back by accusing the minister of abandoning
the campus demand for a ministerial berth. Now, it remains to seen whether the university, which has been functioning from a temporary academic block for the past eight years, will finally get its own campus or not.