| No Images? Click here  In an interview with Huffpost India’s Pavan Dahat, ahead of the Maharashtra assembly election, NCP leader Sharad Pawar hit out at the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre, saying it was the RSS that was effectively running this government. Pawar put up a brave face even as his party has been shaken by a number of defections to the BJP. Meanwhile, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman brought the American trend of blaming millennials for everything to India. She blamed the crisis in the auto industry on millennials, claiming they preferred to take Olas and Ubers instead of buying cars. Today is also World Suicide Prevention Day. Huffpost India's Rohini Chatterji had spoken to mental health experts in February who had said that while the extreme step is almost always taken as an impulse, it could be prevented with some steps, the most important of which is seeking therapy. “This government is acting selectively and taking actions against political leaders who do not belong to their thinking by using certain investigating agencies and sending them behind bars and trying to damage their image in the minds of people,” NCP chief Sharad Pawar said while taking a dig at PM Narendra Modi's “constant foreign tours”The 78-year-old veteran politician, whose party won just 4 out of 48 seats in the general election in May, also accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of effectively running the central government.  On Monday, data showed that India’s passenger vehicle industry recorded its worst sales performance in more than two decades in August. On Tuesday, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman came up with an explanation: a “change in people’s mindset”.According to BloombergQuint, the minister told reporters in Chennai that “some studies show that millennials do not want to commit to an equated monthly instalment to buy a vehicle, and prefer Ola, Uber and metro services”.  New to this email? You can sign up here.You can also follow HuffPost India on Flipboard.©2019 HuffPost India | Worldmark 3, FL 3, Aerocity, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037 |
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