 Hello and welcome to NewsClick. I am Sumedha. On this episode of the Daily Roundup, we give you a glimpse of some of the most important stories that we report about at NewsClick. Take a look at our top stories of the day. In a symbolic show of strength, Mayawati and Mulayam Singh have shared the dias together after 24 years after the infamous Guest House episode. Both Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav will address a rally in Menpuri which they did today for the SP and BSP Mahagat Vandan. In 1995, the alliance between the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party broke when the Samajwadi Party workers allegedly attacked the state guest house where the BSP chief was holding a meeting with her supporters. The two parties have however now come together once again for the Lok Sabha election of 2019 to defeat the BJP in Uttar Pradesh. We now have with us Prabir to discuss about the significance of what this means coming you know 24 years later. So what is the significance of this and how is this going to play out in the election season? So let's first get one fact straight. It was not an alleged attack. It was an attack on the BSP and particularly on its current chief, Mayawati, who was at that time the general secretary of the party. Kashira was still alive. Now if we see this issue, it's also the fact that 300, more than 300 people with guns, rods attacked the BSP meeting, beat up some of the senior leaders present there and would have also assaulted Mayawati if she had not locked herself in a room. Now this is not a minor issue. It's an alliance partner who at that time was felt would be pulling out of their alliance and staking claim to becoming the chief minister, which she actually did later. But the point is irrespective of what the quote unquote provocation could be, breaking of an alliance. This is barbaric behavior, certainly not befitting of any political party and certainly not of a ruling chief minister and his party, which Mulayam and SP was at the time, of course in alliance with the BSP. I think the other part of it is the significance of this. Let's not forget the alliance at that time came after the Babri Masjid was pulled down post 1992, where both BSP and SP felt the really the threat of the commonization of UP taking place post Babri Masjid. And that is also the threat today, that BJP is a threat to the common harmony of UP, complete commonization of UP. In fact, what has happened? And therefore now both the parties coming together as a consequence of the same threat that brought them together in 1993. Now we're moving ahead to another big story that we've been covering. The lies of about 20,000 employees and even more at jet airways are left in a lurch. They're faced with the delay in payments of the salaries and the prospects of joblessness. Hundreds of airline employees have gathered in Delhi and also in Mumbai to voice their concerns and appeal to the government to intervene for the revival of the company. The staff from across various departments, which includes engineering, maintenance, guest relations, has come together to talk about the jet airways. So on Wednesday, the jet airways had suspended its operations indefinitely. The airlines revival, the airlines revival now depends on the kind of loan that it may end up getting from the FBI. And there is nothing sealed on the fate of that loan as well. The company currently owns rupees 8,000 crores to its lenders, suppliers, pilots and other oil companies as well. The airline only had you know five jets and the dozens of others were seized by the creditors in the recent weeks. The lenders were reportedly searching for prospective buyers for the company and the carrier had also asked a rupees 400 crore rupees as an emergency fund. After it was denied the fund, the decision to ground the remaining planes was taken. The company got into the financial tailspin in 2007 as well when it decided to expand its operations and buy Air Sahara for over 1000 crore rupees and naming it jet life. So many believe, naming it jet light. Many believed at this point in time when the jet went ahead to acquire Air Sahara that this could potentially lead to a doom for the company because it was paying a very hefty price for the loss making airline. And Naresh Goyal who is the head of jet who is now stepped down from the board. His style of management was also questioned and the employees are currently some of them are also blaming him for the situation that they are in. So as a result of the crisis that jet is in, many of the other airlines are using this opportunity to fleece other customers by increasing the prices of the tickets faced with the shortage of the tickets as well. So this is a major consequence which is happening to the lives of consumers and travelers who are left also in a lurch because of the crisis in jet. Now moving on at NewsClick we have been covering Gujarat extensively and we are showing you a story of farmers fighting the land acquisition by reliance industry. This is a story of their grit and preservance. About 10,000 acres of land had been acquired by reliance industries from 17 villages in Jamnagar in Gujarat between 2006 and 2008 without the consent of the farmers. However about 60 farmers in 5 villages have been resisting this and they have fought and held their land inside the cordoned area of the reliance industry. Take a look at Damyantidhar's ground report from Jamnagar in Gujarat. What is the reason behind this? Did Damyantidhar not coat the ground properly or did you not have to give the land? Damyantidhar has given absolutely less land and that is why we have not given our land. Our land is very precious. You will see that you do not get 20 rupees per meter of a shirt. This is land that will never end. They have coated 20 rupees of that shirt in red. This is the maximum. You cannot get more than that. What was the minimum coat? The minimum coat was 16 rupees. How about the toys? Each meter is a fertile land that has 3 crops. The entire water is available. The maximum 20 rupees per square meter of the same land was covered in red. The company and they both got it. You are the owner of the land along with the reliance industry. You do not have direct contact with the reliance industry. No. The government has given us a direct notice. The government has sent us an award that we have acquired your land in the name of the company. We have not been asked where you want to give or not. What can be the rate of your land? What can be the rate of people around you? How much is the market value? There is nothing. The government has given us a very high rate of land. What is the rate of waste land and waste land? The minimum rate of waste land is 121 rupees per square meter. The company has given us 30% extra money. The maximum rate is 384 rupees per square meter. The government has given us 30% extra money. For the goucher? Yes, for the goucher and for the government land. This is the rate. And the land is next to it. Yes. There is no waste land in it. If there is a goucher, then the land is kept to eat the cow. The land will be accepted. But the waste land has such a high rate. The land is 20 rupees per square meter. What is the difference between the land and the sky? Yes, the difference between the land and the sky. The government has asked this question. Yes, no one has any answer to this question. We don't have any official answer to this question. Your land is still in your name? Yes, we are already collecting it. We are still collecting it. When a new land came in 2013, there was some improvement. There was an improvement of 5 years. If the farmers' land is bought by the land, whether the company has given money or not, and if the land is kept by the farmer, the land will be returned. And the land acquisition will be completed. It will be considered as a lapse. We are now looking into the international segment where we are focusing today on Argentina and the ongoing protests in the country. We have with us Prashant. Prashant, my first question to you is that the country has been witnessing protests in the last few months. What was the immediate trigger to the protests? Actually, there have been protests almost every day in Argentina over the last couple of months. Two of the more recent events were on the 17th of April. You had students and teachers protesting. The government enacted a massive cut in education. The march was called the March in Defence of Science. This is because science researchers are going to have their budgets massively slashed. Almost 80% of students are going to be affected. 2000 applications of students were rejected purely because of this cut. On the other hand, you had farmers coming out and distributing their produce for free. The protest is called the Verduraso where they distribute vegetables and grain for free because they are angry at the government for ignoring their plight. These two protests by different sectors of the economy actually indicate the extent of the crisis in which Argentina is in. What has been the broader context because this has been happening like you rightly pointed out. There are multiple segments which are coming together one day or the other. What is the broader context? What is actually happening in the country? Argentina was a playground for the International Monetary Fund and they brought in all their structural adjustment policies demanded that the government reduce expenditure and because of that the people really suffered. The only people who benefited from these IMF policies were the rich whose wealth increased whereas the poor people did not even have food on their tables. So there were massive protests and finally in 2007 Argentina basically kicked the IMF out. Now ever since the new president Mauricio Marqueri came to power in 2015 there has again been a revival of these policies and last year the IMF and Argentina signed a loan for 57 billion dollars and as a result of this their condition has been that the government should reduce the deficit in two years and now this has led to some horrific consequences. For instance in February there was a 40% increase in transportation fares, a 32% increase in electricity fares in March for instance there was another 38% increase in drinking water again April more hikes in drinking water and electricity. So the prices are skyrocketing and the unions across the country have mobilized massively to demand that Marqueri actually resign and there are elections coming up in December so this is one of the contexts and across Argentina various sectors have come together because there is no sector which has been left untouched and a very good example is a G20 protest that happened on November 30th where from people across the country gathered to protest the G20 policies and Argentina's government as well and it's also important to remember that Marqueri is part of Donald Trump's coalition in Latin America and there is a very good larger context in which this is happening So thank you so much for that Prashant We at Newsclick will be following this more on the Daily Roundup as well as the story Develops. 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