KEJRIWAL NOT BEING ALLOWED TO MEET KIN IN PERSON: MINISTER
Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Saturday claimed that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was not being allowed in-person meetings with his family in Tihar jail.
Addressing a press conference, Singh said, “There is an attempt to break the morale of CM Kejriwal. “His family has not been allowed in-person meetings with him. They are only allowed to meet him through the jangla. This is inhuman. Even hardcore criminals are allowed in-person meetings,” the AAP leader said.
The ‘mulakat jangla’ is an iron mesh which separates the inmate from the visitor in a room inside the jail. A visitor and an inmate can talk to each other by sitting on different sides of the mesh. “In the same Tihar jail, many meetings take place but Arvind Kejriwal, a three-time elected chief minister, is being humiliated and made to meet his family through the jangla. This is happening at the behest of the BJPled Central government,” Singh said.
The gaming industry does not require any regulation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday while asserting that it must remain free and only then it will boom.
In an interaction with top Indian online gamers on a host of issues about the future as well as the challenges before the e-gaming industry, the PM posed questions to the gamers while trying his hands at some of the games. When a gamer Naman Mathur asked Modi if there was any need for regulations for the gaming sector, Modi said regulate wouldn’t be the right word because it is the government’s nature to intervene. “There are two things -- either you try to impose restrictions under a law or try to understand and mould it based on our country’s needs and bring it under an organised and legal structure and uplift its reputation,” Modi said. “My attempt is to uplift the nation to a level that by 2047 the government is out of the lives of middle-class families in particular. It is the poor who need the government, the government should be there with them in difficult times,” he added. Another gamer Animesh Agarwal said the government should recognise esports and gaming as a mainstream sport. To this, Modi replied, “It (esports and gaming) does not require any regulation. It must remain free, only then it will boom.” Gamers Tirth Mehta, Animesh Agarwal, Anshu Bisht, Naman Mathur, Mithilesh Patankar, Ganesh Gangadhar, and Payal Dhare had a half-anhour-long interactive session with PM Modi.