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দুদিনের সফরে আজ ভুটান পৌঁছোলেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী নরেন্দ্র মোদি । তাঁকে বিমানবন্দরে রিসিভ করেন ভুটানের প্রধানমন্ত্রী লোটে তাশেরিং । পারো আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দরে মোদিকে গার্ড অফ অনার দেওয়া হয় । প্রধানমন্ত্রী হওয়ার পর এনিয়ে মোদির এটি দ্বিতীয়বার ভুটান সফর ।
পারো বিমানবন্দরে মোদি
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Published : Aug 17, 2019, 1:30 PM IST
| Updated : Aug 17, 2019, 3:27 PM IST
পারো (ভুটান), 17 অগাস্ট : দুদিনের সফরে আজ ভুটান পৌঁছোলেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী নরেন্দ্র মোদি । তাঁকে বিমানবন্দরে রিসিভ করেন ভুটানের প্রধানমন্ত্রী লোটে তাশেরিং । পারো আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দরে মোদিকে গার্ড অফ অনার দেওয়া হয় ।
প্রধানমন্ত্রী হওয়ার পর এনিয়ে মোদির এটি দ্বিতীয়বার ভুটান সফর । রওনা হওয়ার আগে প্রধানমন্ত্রী বলেন, "ভারত-ভুটান সম্পর্ক নয়াদিল্লির 'প্রতিবেশী প্রথম' নীতির একটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ স্তম্ভ । আমি আত্মবিশ্বাসী যে, এই সফর দুই দেশের মধ্যে সম্পর্ককে আরও উন্নত করবে ।"
থিম্পুতে প্রধানমন্ত্রীকে স্বাগত জানানো হচ্ছে সফরে মোদি ভুটানের রাজা জিগমে খেসার নামগায়েল ওয়াংচুক এবং ভুটানের চতুর্থ রাজা জিগমে সিঙ্গিয়ে ওয়াংচুকের সঙ্গে দেখা করবেন । পাশাপাশি দেশটির প্রধানমন্ত্রীর সঙ্গে বৈঠকে বসবেন । তাঁর সফরের দ্বিতীয় দিন মোদির ভুটানের জাতীয় স্মৃতিসৌধ ছর্টনে যাওয়ার কথা রয়েছে । এছাড়া তিনি বৌদ্ধ বিহার তাসিছোডজং-এ একটি সাংস্কৃতিক অনুষ্ঠানে অংশ নেবেন । পরে ভুটানের রয়্যাল ইউনিভার্সিটিতে শিক্ষার্থীদের উদ্দেশে বক্তব্য রাখবেন । সফরকালে দুদেশের মধ্যে 10টি MOU স্বাক্ষরিত হওয়ার কথা । পাঁচটি প্রকল্পের উদ্বোধনও হবে বলে আশা করা হচ্ছে । তার মধ্যে রয়েছে মঙ্গদেচুতে জলবিদ্যুৎ কেন্দ্র এবং থিম্পুতে ISRO-নির্মিত আর্থ স্টেশন ।
পারো (ভুটান), 17 অগাস্ট : দুদিনের সফরে আজ ভুটান পৌঁছোলেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী নরেন্দ্র মোদি । তাঁকে বিমানবন্দরে রিসিভ করেন ভুটানের প্রধানমন্ত্রী লোটে তাশেরিং । পারো আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দরে মোদিকে গার্ড অফ অনার দেওয়া হয় ।
প্রধানমন্ত্রী হওয়ার পর এনিয়ে মোদির এটি দ্বিতীয়বার ভুটান সফর । রওনা হওয়ার আগে প্রধানমন্ত্রী বলেন, "ভারত-ভুটান সম্পর্ক নয়াদিল্লির 'প্রতিবেশী প্রথম' নীতির একটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ স্তম্ভ । আমি আত্মবিশ্বাসী যে, এই সফর দুই দেশের মধ্যে সম্পর্ককে আরও উন্নত করবে ।"
থিম্পুতে প্রধানমন্ত্রীকে স্বাগত জানানো হচ্ছে সফরে মোদি ভুটানের রাজা জিগমে খেসার নামগায়েল ওয়াংচুক এবং ভুটানের চতুর্থ রাজা জিগমে সিঙ্গিয়ে ওয়াংচুকের সঙ্গে দেখা করবেন । পাশাপাশি দেশটির প্রধানমন্ত্রীর সঙ্গে বৈঠকে বসবেন । তাঁর সফরের দ্বিতীয় দিন মোদির ভুটানের জাতীয় স্মৃতিসৌধ ছর্টনে যাওয়ার কথা রয়েছে । এছাড়া তিনি বৌদ্ধ বিহার তাসিছোডজং-এ একটি সাংস্কৃতিক অনুষ্ঠানে অংশ নেবেন । পরে ভুটানের রয়্যাল ইউনিভার্সিটিতে শিক্ষার্থীদের উদ্দেশে বক্তব্য রাখবেন । সফরকালে দুদেশের মধ্যে 10টি MOU স্বাক্ষরিত হওয়ার কথা । পাঁচটি প্রকল্পের উদ্বোধনও হবে বলে আশা করা হচ্ছে । তার মধ্যে রয়েছে মঙ্গদেচুতে জলবিদ্যুৎ কেন্দ্র এবং থিম্পুতে ISRO-নির্মিত আর্থ স্টেশন ।
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SHOTLIST:
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Srinagar - 12 August 2019
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1. Various of protesters shouting and carrying posters against the Indian government's revocation of Kashmir's special status
2. A protester on a rooftop waving the Pakistani flag
3. Various of Eid prayers
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4. Various of soldiers guarding the streets
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New Delhi - 8 August 2019
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5. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister:
"I have full faith that under this new setup, we will all get together and rid Jammu and Kashmir of terrorism and separatism."
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New Delhi - 6 August 2019
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6. Wide of Indian Home Minister Amit Shah about to speak before lawmakers passed a bill downgrading the status of Kashmir, lawmakers thumping their desk
7. Mid of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
8. Various of lawmakers cheering and thumping their desks in the parliament
9. Wide of Modi and Shah
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17. Supporters celebrating
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18. Modi walking on red carpet visiting Hindu Kedarnath shrine
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ARCHIVE: Kanyakumari - 1 March 2019
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22. SOUNDBITE (English) Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister:
"We are in an era where the news reads, 'Armed forces have full freedom to do what they want.' Influence of terrorists and terrorism has been curtailed and it is going to be curtailed even more. This is a new India."
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ARCHIVE: Kevadiya - 31 October 2018
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32. Various of army vehicles with soldiers after an attack on the Indian air force base
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34. Modi shaking hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during state visit
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37. Modi being congratulated on stage by BJP President Rajnath Singh after winning the general election
STORYLINE:
The achingly beautiful Himalayan valley was flooded with soldiers and roadblocks of razor wire.
Phone lines were cut, internet connections switched off, politicians arrested.
Public gatherings were banned.
The prime minister of the world's largest democracy had clamped down on Kashmir to near-totalitarian levels.
And Narendra Modi's country reacted with roaring approval: As he had Kashmir stripped of statehood and its special constitutional status, even some of his political opponents were calling out support.
Modi, a Hindu nationalist by the time he was 10 years old, had upended life in India's only Muslim-majority state, flexing those nationalist muscles for his millions of followers.
They loved him for it.
"All of Kashmir is ours!" a jubilant middle-aged demonstrator, draped in the saffron-coloured scarf of a Hindu, shouted during a New Delhi street celebration just before Parliament voted to end Kashmir's decades of semi-autonomy.
To his critics, Modi is an authoritarian manipulator who wants to turn India into an avowedly Hindu nation.
But to his supporters, Modi is an incorruptible ascetic unafraid to tell the truth - a man who understands what it means to be poor but, like so many of his supporters, wants India to be treated with respect by the rest of the world.
Indian prime ministers have long been expected to be unapproachable and intellectual.
They were people like Indira Gandhi, scion of India's most powerful family, and Manmohan Singh, with his expressionless face, blue turban and Ph.D. in economics.
Not Modi, who has carefully crafted a different public image.
Even as he avoids unscripted moments - he rarely talks to reporters, and most of his appearances are in TV speeches or political rallies - he is still seen by many as an Indian everyman.
Born in 1950 to a poor family in a small town in the western state of Gujarat, Modi proudly talks of his humble beginnings, growing up without running water or electric lights.
He has been separated from his wife, to whom he was engaged as a child in an arranged marriage, for decades.
He has no children.
Unlike most Indian politicians, he has no circle of relatives hovering around him in search of powerful contacts or lucrative government contracts.
He has his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, and the cause of Hindu nationalism.
That is all.
Modi, who first became prime minister in 2014, has reinforced his power with nearly every election since then.
These days, Modi is seen around the world as a pivotal Asian leader.
He's known for welcoming foreign heads of state with bear hugs.
He has addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
He clearly enjoys seeing himself as the embodiment of an increasingly muscular India.
Modi has faced fierce criticism in recent years.
It came amid growing attacks by Hindu mobs that attacked Muslims and Dalits, the low-caste people once known as Untouchables, saying they had killed cows, which devout Hindus see as sacred.
Some of these self-styled "gau rakshaks" - cow protectors - have ties to the BJP or other Hindu nationalist groups.
Most often, Modi meets the attacks with silence.
Modi first made a name for himself as a roving organizer for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS, a Hindu nationalist group with millions of followers that eventually gave rise to the BJP.
Many of Modi's early beliefs were shaped in the RSS, with its heavy emphasis on paramilitary drills, Hindu prayers and personal sacrifice.
The current head of the RSS, Mohan Bhagwat, turned heads last year when he said Muslims were welcome in India, but also insisted that everyone living in India was a Hindu.
Today, Modi's Hinduism often goes unspoken but is regularly on display.
While things like yoga and vegetarianism have little religious connotation in the West, their Hindu connections are clear to Indian voters - especially when practiced by a politician.
So when Modi sits in the lotus position in front of TV crews on International Yoga Day, or talks about the benefits of vegetarianism, or names a state water programme after the Hindu concept of divine energy, all of India understands the message: Finally, a leader who is openly and proudly Hindu.
Shah, his closest aide, is widely seen as the architect of the government's Hindu agenda.
Both men have long argued for the revocation of special status for Kashmir, a mountainous Muslim state of pine forests, clear streams and highly fertile lowland soil.
Its tortured modern history reaches back to partition in 1947, when British India was divided into largely Hindu India and overwhelmingly Muslim Pakistan.
In the wake of the India-Pakistan war that followed partition, when Pakistan seized control of part of Kashmir, the Indian constitution was amended to give special rights to the state, including limited decision-making powers and laws forbidding non-Kashmiris from settling there.
The state, divided between India and Pakistan but claimed by both, has been wracked by cycles of separatist violence and brutal crackdowns since the late 1980s, when New Delhi rigged local elections and Pakistani weapons and militants began filtering across the border.
Some 70,000 people have been killed in the violence.
Over the decades, most special rights had been whittled away.
But they remained symbolically powerful across Indian-controlled Kashmir, where most people want independence from India or a merger with Pakistan.
The restrictions on the sale of land to non-Kashmiris were particularly important, seen as a way to keep outsiders from swamping the state and changing its makeup.
But why bother to take away protections that, for the most part, now mean little? Enter Modi, who said he wanted to bring Kashmir more fully into India, ending the insurgency and jump-starting development.
"A new age has begun," he said in a nationally televised speech last week, saying the old system had created "secessionism, terrorism, nepotism and widespread corruption."
To some Modi critics, the timing of the Kashmir vote was about deflecting attention from India's stumbling economy, with its record levels of unemployment and falling foreign investment.
But it could also simply be about power.
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