Cong opposes MP UCC bill
Bhopal, July 21: The Congress Legislature Party on Tuesday staged a protest in the assembly premises against the BJP government’s efforts to “advance the RSS agenda” by enacting the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Before the assembly proceedings started, Leader of Opposition Umang Singhar and other Congress MLAs protested in front of three ‘corpses’ (party workers mimicking lifeless bodies). Pieces of paper stuck over the bodies identified them as “BJP”, “RSS” and “ABVP”. The BJP government was a “government of corpses” which remained completely inactive on the real public issues, the opposition party alleged. Singhar said that the government was sleeping as if it was a corpse in the face of the problems faced by the people. Farmers were facing fertiliser shortages, the youth were struggling for employment, crimes against women were rising, and scams were being exposed in the state, yet the government remained silent, he said. (PTI)
Killed in Ukraine, UP man’s remains to return home
Deoria (UP), July 21: The famliy of a 22-year-old man from Deoria, who was killed in a Russian missile strike on a cargo vessel near Ukraine’s Odesa port, on Tuesday urged the Centre to facilitate the return of his body to India. Abhishek Nishad, a resident of Karmel village, was working as a deck cadet aboard the cargo vessel Golden Leo. He had joined the vessel through a Mumbai-based shipping agency last month. His father, Kaushal Nishad, said that the vessel, carrying cargo from Ukraine to Syria, came under attack by three Russian cruise missiles in the Black Sea near the Odesa coast on July 19. He said the family was informed by a representative of the Mumbai-based shipping company that Abhishek had been killed in the attack. (PTI)
