On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will spend the day with participants at the ‘Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue’, being held as part of an effort to bring one lakh youths having no political link into politics. The programme is being held on National Youth Day, which marks the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.
An official statement said Modi will engage with 3,000 young leaders from across India and discuss various subjects aimed at building a ‘Viksit Bharat’, the government’s target to make India a developed nation by 2047.
During the dialogue, which starts on Sunday, the young leaders will engage in competitions, activities, and cultural and thematic presentations.
Sunday also marks the beginning of events in the run-up to the eighth edition of Modi’s Pariksha Pe Charcha event, in which the PM interacts with students appearing for board examinations. As many as 2.79 crore students, teachers and parents have registered for the event. A series of related activities will be held from January 12 to 23.
Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah is in Maharashtra on Sunday. Shah is scheduled to visit temples in Ahilyanagar, formerly Ahmednagar, and Shirdi. Later, he will also attend a BJP convention of its Maharashtra unit in the Ahilyanagar district, where 1,500 delegates are expected to converge. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and state party chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule are also expected to attend the convention.
Farmers protesting at Khanauri and Shambhu along the Punjab-Haryana border on Saturday wrote to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) calling it to advance the a joint meeting of farmers’ groups from January 15 to Sunday or Monday in light of the “deteriorating” health of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is now on the 48th day of his fast-unto-death and continues to refuse any medical aid.
A six-member committee of SKM, which visited the Khanauri protest site on Friday, had invited the SKM (non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) for a meeting on January 15 in Patiala for unity among farmer bodies for a joint fight to push the farmers’ demands, including a legally guaranteed minimum support price (MSP) for crops.
Leaders of the SKM (Non-Political), of which Dallewal is the convener, and the KMM on Friday had appealed to the SKM to support and strengthen their ongoing agitation without any delay. The SKM, which had led the 2020-21 agitation against the now-scrapped farm laws, is not part of the ongoing protest.
– With PTI inputs
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