The Evening Wrap: BJP’s attempt to topple Maharashtra govt unethical, says Mamata

Amid the ongoing political crisis in Maharashtra, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has flayed the BJP for trying to “topple” the MVA government in that State in an “unethical and unconstitutional” manner. She said the saffron party has deliberately chosen to “disturb” the Maharashtra government at a time when the Presidential polls are approaching. “It’s an unfortunate fact that the federal structure has been totally demolished by the BJP-led central government. They are attempting to topple the Maharashtra government in an unethical and unconstitutional manner,” Banerjee told reporters at the state secretariat. Describing the situation in Maharashtra as “shocking”, the Trinamool Congress chief said, “We want justice for people, for the electoral mandate and for Uddhav Thackeray (Maharashtra CM).” In what seems to be an apparent bid to topple the Maha Vikas Aghadi government (MVA) in Maharashtra, dissident legislators of Shiv Sena, which heads the ruling coalition, left for Surat on June 21, where they had camped for the day, before flying to Guwahati in a chartered aircraft. This is perhaps the first time MLAs from a western State were flown to a northeastern State, following their rebellion against the party leadership. The exact number of rebel legislators that moved to Guwahati could not be confirmed, but the flight reportedly carried 89 passengers, including the crew. The TMC supremo asked the BJP to send the MLAs to Bengal instead, where they will be extended good hospitality. “Why are you disturbing the Assam government when they are facing floods? Send them (the MLAs) to Bengal and we will extend good hospitality and take care of democracy, too,” she said. ED asks Sonia Gandhi to depose late July in National Herald case The Enforcement Directorate has asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to record her statement with the agency sometime in late July after it accepted her plea to postpone her deposition in a money-laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper, officials said on June 23. She was issued a second summons for June 23 by the agency but the 75-year-old Congress leader could not keep the date as she “has been strictly advised to rest at home following her hospitalisation on account of Covid and lung infection”. Sources said the federal agency has postponed her questioning in the case for about four weeks and she has now been asked to depose sometime in the last week of July. Gandhi was first issued the notice for an appearance on June 8 but after she reported positive for COVID-19, the summons for June 23 was issued. The Congress president was on June 20 discharged from a private Delhi hospital where she was admitted for coronavirus-related complications. She was admitted to the hospital on June 12, days after she tested positive for COVID-19 on June 2. Her son and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has been questioned by the agency in the same case for about 54 hours over five days. The probe relates to alleged financial irregularities in the Congress-promoted Young Indian Private Limited, which owns the National Herald newspaper. BJP has ‘broken’ dream of lakhs of youth: Rahul on Agnipath Attacking the BJP over the Agnipath scheme, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the ruling party has “broken the dream” of lakhs of youth to serve the country and asserted that a storm will rise from their tears that will break Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “arrogance of power”. Taking to Twitter, Gandhi posted a video of a young man in tears expressing anguish over having lost the chance to join the armed forces. “There has not been any recruitment in the armed forces for the last two years. 2018-19: 53,431; 2019-20: 80,572; 2020-21: 0; 2021-22: 0,” the former Congress Chief said. “By bringing ‘Agniveers’ on a four-year contract, the BJP has broken the dream of lakhs of youth to serve the nation. Such a storm will rise from these tears that it will destroy the arrogance of power of the Prime Minister,” Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi. Addressing Congress parliamentarians and legislators from across the country who converged at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday to express solidarity with him after he was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate, Gandhi had alleged that the BJP government “which calls itself nationalist” was “weakening” the armed forces through the ‘Agnipath’ scheme. He had also said Modi will have to withdraw the military recruitment initiative just like he rolled back the farm laws. Several parts of the country witnessed protests after the announcement of the scheme that seeks to recruit youths between the age bracket of 17-and-half years to 21 for only four years with a provision to retain 25% of them for 15 more years. For 2022, the upper age limit has been extended to 23 years. Wait for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for pets gets longer End-users will have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for their pets with the Central government still working on issuing the necessary approvals to introduce the vaccine in the Indian market. Globally India is the third to produce SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for animals. Besides use in pets (cats/dogs) and zoo animals in India, the vaccine had export potential, said Yash Pal, Director, ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines. Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar earlier this month launched the animal vaccine and other diagnostic kits developed by the ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines. The Ancovax Vaccine is an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Delta (COVID-19) vaccine for animals. The immunity induced by Ancovax neutralises both Delta and Omicron Variants of SARS-CoV-2. It is safe for dogs, lions, leopards, mice and rabbits. SARS-CoV-2 infects lions/leopards/tigers/cats/dogs in order of disease severity. Currently the disease does not seem to be lethal in dogs, despite high prevalence (~40 %) of antibodies (subclinical infection). Also based on the mortality of lions/leopards/tigers in India and the rest of the world, the vaccine can be used to provide protection against SARS-CoV-2 in zoo/wild animals. The vaccine technology is ready, but necessary approval would be required to make the vaccine reach the end users. “The technology would be commercialised to scale it up,” said Dr. Pal. He added that as a research organisation they could only produce about 1,000 doses. Speaking about the vaccine, Dr. Pal said that his team started working on the vaccine in the beginning of the first wave of COVID-19 in India because immediately after the emergence of the pandemic in humans, there were reports of COVID-19 like illness in cats in the U.S. and Europe. He added that getting regulatory approvals (institute ethics committee, biosafety committee, animal ethics committee etc) took over a year to start the work. By the time regulatory approvals came, the second wave of COVID-19 in humans was in progress. “During the second wave, the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) which was identical to human SARS-CoV-2, was shown to be associated with the death of lions in Chennai zoo. Therefore it was decided to use the Delta variant to prepare the vaccine. Isolating the virus, its characterisation and vaccine preparation took about two to three months whereas animal experiments took about additional six months,” explained Dr. Navee Kumar, principal scientist (team leader). Meanwhile, the Centre has also launched a diagnostic kit — CAN-CoV-2 ELISA — which is a sensitive and specific nucleocapsid protein based indirect ELISA Kit for antibody detection against SARS-CoV-2 in canines. “There are no laboratory animals required for the preparation of the antigens. The kit is made in India and a patent has been filed for the same. No other comparable kits for detection of antibodies in canines are available in the market,” said the Central government. Germany faces gas supply ‘crisis’, declares alarm level Germany activated the second phase of its three-stage emergency plan for natural gas supplies on Thursday, saying Europe’s biggest economy faces a “crisis” and warned that storage targets for the winter are at risk due to dwindling deliveries from Russia. The government said the decision to raise the level to “alarm” follows the cuts to Russian gas flows made since June 14 and surging energy prices exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. The third and highest stage is the “emergency” level. “The situation is serious, and winter will come,” Economy Minister Robert Habeck said in a statement. “The reduction in gas supplies is an economic attack on us by Putin,” he said. “We will defend ourselves against this. But our country is going to have to go down a stony path now.” Russia, last week, reduced gas flows to Germany, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia just as the European Union countries are scrambling to refill storage of the fuel used to generate electricity, power industries, and heat homes in the winter. Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom blamed a missing part sent to Canada for repairs for the cutbacks through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline running under the Baltic Sea to Germany — Europe’s major natural gas pipeline. It comes on top of gas shutoffs to Poland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France and the Netherlands in recent weeks. Germany’s government said current gas demands are being met and its gas storage facilities are filled to 58% capacity — higher than at this time last year. But the goal of reaching 90% by December won’t be possible without further measures, it said. “Even if we can’t feel it yet: we are in a gas crisis,” Habeck said. He said Germany would not react to the situation by keeping all supplies it receives to itself and cutting off neighbouring countries. Instead, the government was urging industry and residents in Germany to reduce their consumption as much as possible. “The prices are already high, and we need to be prepared for further increases,” Habeck said. “This will affect industrial production and become a big burden for many producers.” To reduce demand, the government plans to hold auctions that would see large industrial consumers receive money if they relinquish their contracts. Since declaring the first phase of its emergency plan in March, Germany and other countries have been trying to get additional gas from European neighbours such as the Netherlands and Norway as well as liquefied natural gas from producers in the Gulf and further afield. To the horror of environmentalists, the government also announced Sunday that it would increase the burning of more polluting coal and reduce gas use for electricity production. The government said it had informed European partners of the move in advance. U.S. Supreme Court strikes down New York limits on concealed handguns The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional New York State’s limits on carrying concealed handguns in public, handing a landmark victory to gun rights advocates in a nation deeply divided over how to address firearms violence. The 6-3 ruling, with the court’s conservative justices in the majority and liberal justices in dissent, found that the state’s law, enacted in 1913, violated a person’s right to “keep and bear arms” under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment. The justices overturned a lower court ruling throwing out a challenge to the law by two gun owners and the New York affiliate of the National Rifle Association, an influential gun rights group closely aligned with Republicans. The decision represents the court’s most important statement on gun rights in more than a decade. The court in 2008 recognised for the first time an individual’s right to keep guns at home for self-defense in a case from the District of Columbia, and in 2010 applied that right to the states. The new ruling underscored how the 6-3 conservative majority on the court is sympathetic to an expansive reading of Second Amendment rights. Under the New York law’s “proper cause” requirement, applicants seeking an unrestricted concealed carry permits must convince a state firearms licensing officer of an actual, rather than speculative, need for self-defense. Officials could also grant licenses restricted to certain activities, such as hunting or target practice. The ruling could lead to many more people securing the licenses to carry concealed handguns in the state, undermine similar restrictions in other states and imperil other types of state and local firearms restrictions nationwide by requiring judges to scrutinise them with a more skeptical eye under the Constitution. Firearms safety groups and gun control activists feared that a sweeping ruling against New York could undermine gun measures such as “red flag” laws targeting the firearms of people deemed dangerous by the courts, expanded criminal background checks for gun buyers or restrictions on selling untraceable “ghost” guns assembled from components purchased online. They also feared that such ruling could jeopardise bans on guns in sensitive places such as airports, courthouses, hospitals and schools. The U.S. Senate is poised later on Thursday for a vote to advance a bipartisan gun control bill that supporters hope will help curb mass shootings in what could become the first new federal gun law in decades. In Brief The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Thursday appointed former Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta as the Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The 1987 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Punjab cadre was removed as the State DGP and moved to police housing corporation after Charanjit Singh Channi replaced Capt. Amarinder Singh as Punjab’s Chief Minister last year. Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Vini Mahajan, his wife, who was the chief secretary of Punjab during the tenure of Capt Amarinder Singh was appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Jal Shakti in January this year. The couple had earned the sobriquet of “power couple” during Capt. Singh’s tenure as CM. Iran has dismissed the powerful chief of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit, Hossein Taeb, Iranian state TV reported on Thursday, days after Israeli media accused him of being behind an alleged Iranian plot to kill or abduct Israeli tourists in Turkey. The station gave no reason for the change, but said Taeb had been appointed as an advisor to the Guards’ Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami. He will be replaced by Mohammad Kazemi, previously head of the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Protection unit. Israel raised its Istanbul travel advisory to the highest alert level on June 13 because of what it said was a threat of Iranian attempts to kill or abduct Israelis vacationing in Turkey. Evening Wrap will return tomorrow [logo] The Evening Wrap 23 JUNE 2022 [The Hindu logo] Welcome to the Evening Wrap newsletter, your guide to the day’s biggest stories with concise analysis from The Hindu. [[Arrow]Open in browser]( [[Mail icon]More newsletters]( BJP’s attempt to topple Maharashtra government unethical: Mamata Banerjee  Amid the ongoing [political crisis in Maharashtra]( West Bengal Chief Minister [Mamata Banerjee has flayed the BJP for trying to “topple” the MVA government]( in that State in an “unethical and unconstitutional” manner. She said the saffron party has deliberately chosen to “disturb” the Maharashtra government at a time when the Presidential polls are approaching. “It’s an unfortunate fact that the federal structure has been totally demolished by the BJP-led central government. They are attempting to topple the Maharashtra government in an unethical and unconstitutional manner,” Banerjee told reporters at the state secretariat. Describing the situation in Maharashtra as “shocking”, the Trinamool Congress chief said, “We want justice for people, for the electoral mandate and for Uddhav Thackeray (Maharashtra CM).” In what seems to be an apparent bid to topple the Maha Vikas Aghadi government (MVA) in Maharashtra, dissident legislators of Shiv Sena, which heads the ruling coalition, left for Surat on June 21, where they had camped for the day, before flying to Guwahati in a chartered aircraft. This is perhaps the first time MLAs from a western State were flown to a northeastern State, following their rebellion against the party leadership. The exact number of rebel legislators that moved to Guwahati could not be confirmed, but the flight reportedly carried 89 passengers, including the crew. [Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde interacts with MLAs supporting him at a hotel in Guwahati on June 23, 2022. ] The TMC supremo asked the BJP to send the MLAs to Bengal instead, where they will be extended good hospitality. “Why are you disturbing the Assam government when they are facing floods? Send them (the MLAs) to Bengal and we will extend good hospitality and take care of democracy, too,” she said. ED asks Sonia Gandhi to depose late July in National Herald case The [Enforcement Directorate has asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi]( to record her statement with the agency sometime in late July after it accepted her plea to postpone her deposition in a money-laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper, officials said on June 23. She was issued a second summons for June 23 by the agency but the 75-year-old Congress leader could not keep the date as she “has been strictly advised to rest at home following her hospitalisation on account of Covid and lung infection”. Sources said the federal agency has postponed her questioning in the case for about four weeks and she has now been asked to depose sometime in the last week of July. Gandhi was first issued the notice for an appearance on June 8 but after she reported positive for COVID-19, the summons for June 23 was issued. The Congress president was on June 20 discharged from a private Delhi hospital where she was admitted for coronavirus-related complications. She was admitted to the hospital on June 12, days after she tested positive for COVID-19 on June 2. Her son and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has been questioned by the agency in the same case for about 54 hours over five days. The probe relates to alleged financial irregularities in the Congress-promoted Young Indian Private Limited, which owns the National Herald newspaper. BJP has ‘broken’ dream of lakhs of youth: Rahul on Agnipath  Attacking the BJP over the Agnipath scheme, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday [said the ruling party has “broken the dream” of lakhs of youth to serve the country]( and asserted that a storm will rise from their tears that will break Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “arrogance of power”. Taking to Twitter, Gandhi posted a video of a young man in tears expressing anguish over having lost the chance to join the armed forces. “There has not been any recruitment in the armed forces for the last two years. 2018-19: 53,431; 2019-20: 80,572; 2020-21: 0; 2021-22: 0,” the former Congress Chief said. “By bringing ‘Agniveers’ on a four-year contract, the BJP has broken the dream of lakhs of youth to serve the nation. Such a storm will rise from these tears that it will destroy the arrogance of power of the Prime Minister,” Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi. [Congress leader Rahul Gandhi speaks during a “satyagraha” protest at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi on June 22, 2022.] Addressing Congress parliamentarians and legislators from across the country who converged at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday to express solidarity with him after he was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate, Gandhi had alleged that the BJP government “which calls itself nationalist” was “weakening” the armed forces through the ‘Agnipath’ scheme. He had also said Modi will have to withdraw the military recruitment initiative just like he rolled back the farm laws. Several parts of the country witnessed protests after the announcement of the scheme that seeks to recruit youths between the age bracket of 17-and-half years to 21 for only four years with a provision to retain 25% of them for 15 more years. For 2022, the upper age limit has been extended to 23 years. Wait for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for pets gets longer End-users will have [to wait a bit longer to get their hands on the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for their pets]( with the Central government still working on issuing the necessary approvals to introduce the vaccine in the Indian market. Globally India is the third to produce SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for animals. Besides use in pets (cats/dogs) and zoo animals in India, the vaccine had export potential, said Yash Pal, Director, ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines. Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar earlier this month launched the animal vaccine and other diagnostic kits developed by the ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines. The Ancovax Vaccine is an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Delta (COVID-19) vaccine for animals. The immunity induced by Ancovax neutralises both Delta and Omicron Variants of SARS-CoV-2. It is safe for dogs, lions, leopards, mice and rabbits. SARS-CoV-2 infects lions/leopards/tigers/cats/dogs in order of disease severity. Currently the disease does not seem to be lethal in dogs, despite high prevalence (~40 %) of antibodies (subclinical infection). Also based on the mortality of lions/leopards/tigers in India and the rest of the world, the vaccine can be used to provide protection against SARS-CoV-2 in zoo/wild animals. The vaccine technology is ready, but necessary approval would be required to make the vaccine reach the end users. “The technology would be commercialised to scale it up,” said Dr. Pal. He added that as a research organisation they could only produce about 1,000 doses. Speaking about the vaccine, Dr. Pal said that his team started working on the vaccine in the beginning of the first wave of COVID-19 in India because immediately after the emergence of the pandemic in humans, there were reports of COVID-19 like illness in cats in the U.S. and Europe. He added that getting regulatory approvals (institute ethics committee, biosafety committee, animal ethics committee etc) took over a year to start the work. By the time regulatory approvals came, the second wave of COVID-19 in humans was in progress. “During the second wave, the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) which was identical to human SARS-CoV-2, was shown to be associated with the death of lions in Chennai zoo. Therefore it was decided to use the Delta variant to prepare the vaccine. Isolating the virus, its characterisation and vaccine preparation took about two to three months whereas animal experiments took about additional six months,” explained Dr. Navee Kumar, principal scientist (team leader). Meanwhile, the Centre has also launched a diagnostic kit — CAN-CoV-2 ELISA — which is a sensitive and specific nucleocapsid protein based indirect ELISA Kit for antibody detection against SARS-CoV-2 in canines. “There are no laboratory animals required for the preparation of the antigens. The kit is made in India and a patent has been filed for the same. No other comparable kits for detection of antibodies in canines are available in the market,” said the Central government. Germany faces gas supply ‘crisis’, declares alarm level Germany [activated the second phase of its three-stage emergency plan for natural gas supplies]( on Thursday, saying Europe’s biggest economy faces a “crisis” and warned that storage targets for the winter are at risk due to dwindling deliveries from Russia. The government said the decision to raise the level to “alarm” follows the cuts to Russian gas flows made since June 14 and surging energy prices exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. The third and highest stage is the “emergency” level. “The situation is serious, and winter will come,” Economy Minister Robert Habeck said in a statement. “The reduction in gas supplies is an economic attack on us by Putin,” he said. “We will defend ourselves against this. But our country is going to have to go down a stony path now.” Russia, last week, reduced gas flows to Germany, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia just as the European Union countries are scrambling to refill storage of the fuel used to generate electricity, power industries, and heat homes in the winter. Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom blamed a missing part sent to Canada for repairs for the cutbacks through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline running under the Baltic Sea to Germany — Europe’s major natural gas pipeline. It comes on top of gas shutoffs to Poland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France and the Netherlands in recent weeks. Germany’s government said current gas demands are being met and its gas storage facilities are filled to 58% capacity — higher than at this time last year. But the goal of reaching 90% by December won’t be possible without further measures, it said. “Even if we can’t feel it yet: we are in a gas crisis,” Habeck said. He said Germany would not react to the situation by keeping all supplies it receives to itself and cutting off neighbouring countries. Instead, the government was urging industry and residents in Germany to reduce their consumption as much as possible. “The prices are already high, and we need to be prepared for further increases,” Habeck said. “This will affect industrial production and become a big burden for many producers.” To reduce demand, the government plans to hold auctions that would see large industrial consumers receive money if they relinquish their contracts. Since declaring the first phase of its emergency plan in March, Germany and other countries have been trying to get additional gas from European neighbours such as the Netherlands and Norway as well as liquefied natural gas from producers in the Gulf and further afield. To the horror of environmentalists, the government also announced Sunday that it would increase the burning of more polluting coal and reduce gas use for electricity production. The government said it had informed European partners of the move in advance. U.S. Supreme Court strikes down New York limits on concealed handguns The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional New York State’s limits on carrying concealed handguns in public, handing a landmark victory to gun rights advocates in a nation deeply divided over how to address firearms violence. The 6-3 ruling, with the court’s conservative justices in the majority and liberal justices in dissent, found that the state’s law, enacted in 1913, violated a person’s right to “keep and bear arms” under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment. The justices overturned a lower court ruling throwing out a challenge to the law by two gun owners and the New York affiliate of the National Rifle Association, an influential gun rights group closely aligned with Republicans. The decision represents the court’s most important statement on gun rights in more than a decade. The court in 2008 recognised for the first time an individual’s right to keep guns at home for self-defense in a case from the District of Columbia, and in 2010 applied that right to the states. The new ruling underscored how the 6-3 conservative majority on the court is sympathetic to an expansive reading of Second Amendment rights. Under the New York law’s “proper cause” requirement, applicants seeking an unrestricted concealed carry permits must convince a state firearms licensing officer of an actual, rather than speculative, need for self-defense. Officials could also grant licenses restricted to certain activities, such as hunting or target practice. The ruling could lead to many more people securing the licenses to carry concealed handguns in the state, undermine similar restrictions in other states and imperil other types of state and local firearms restrictions nationwide by requiring judges to scrutinise them with a more skeptical eye under the Constitution. Firearms safety groups and gun control activists feared that a sweeping ruling against New York could undermine gun measures such as “red flag” laws targeting the firearms of people deemed dangerous by the courts, expanded criminal background checks for gun buyers or restrictions on selling untraceable “ghost” guns assembled from components purchased online. They also feared that such ruling could jeopardise bans on guns in sensitive places such as airports, courthouses, hospitals and schools. The U.S. Senate is poised later on Thursday for a vote to advance a bipartisan gun control bill that supporters hope will help curb mass shootings in what could become the first new federal gun law in decades. In Brief The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Thursday [appointed former Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta as the Director General of the National Investigation Agency]( (NIA). The 1987 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Punjab cadre was removed as the State DGP and moved to police housing corporation after Charanjit Singh Channi replaced Capt. Amarinder Singh as Punjab’s Chief Minister last year. Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Vini Mahajan, his wife, who was the chief secretary of Punjab during the tenure of Capt Amarinder Singh was appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Jal Shakti in January this year. The couple had earned the sobriquet of “power couple” during Capt. Singh’s tenure as CM. Iran has [dismissed the powerful chief of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit, Hossein Taeb]( Iranian state TV reported on Thursday, days after Israeli media accused him of being behind an alleged Iranian plot to kill or abduct Israeli tourists in Turkey. The station gave no reason for the change, but said Taeb had been appointed as an advisor to the Guards’ Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami. 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