Forty-two years since his association with the RSS and 31 years after his entry into the BJP, the Kewat caste organisational leader from MP’s Bundelkhand region, Mahesh Kewat, has been ushered in with two good fortunes in less than two months. Towards the end of April, he was appointed head of the MP Fishermen Welfare Board, and on June 11 he became BJP’s surprise winner of the third Rajya Sabha seat in MP. Political circles in Bhopal are now abuzz with the possibility of another political windfall in the form of his induction into Team Modi 3.0. With Union cabinet expansion likely soon, political pundits feel that he may be the surprise choice as MoS.
Ex-IAS officer bats for forced sterilisation
Often in the news for his candid comments, which have even brought him on the target of his own community, former MP bureaucrat Niyaz Khan is now in the news for advocating forced sterilisation of people in the country to control the population explosion. “The country’s one-and-a-half billion population has become a festering sore. Now the time has come to consider forced sterilisation of people. Either people get sterilised voluntarily, or the government enforces it. Muslim families have more children, so strict sterilisation must be applied to them as well. If we do not do this, the future will be shrouded in darkness,” Khan posted on X on Friday.
MP third in vegetable cultivation in India
MP ranks third in the country in vegetable production, particularly after a significant increase of 21.58 lakh metric tonnes over the last four years. With an annual output of nearly 259 lakh metric tonnes, the state is making a significant contribution to the country’s total vegetable production of approximately 217.7 million metric tonnes. The department of horticulture and food processing has formulated a comprehensive action plan to expand vegetable cultivation. The plan targets expanding vegetable cultivation across 54,000 hectares in the state, including 13,300 hectares under potato cultivation.
Anuraag singh
Our correspondent in Madhya Pradesh
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