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ఎవరిపై ద్వేషం లేదు: రాహుల్​

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Published : Mar 13, 2019, 7:36 PM IST

మాజీ ప్రధాని రాజీవ్ గాంధీ హత్య కేసు దోషులపై తనకు ఎలాంటి ద్వేషం లేదని తెలిపారు కాంగ్రెస్​ అధ్యక్షుడు రాహుల్​ గాంధీ. వారి విడుదలపై కోర్టు నిర్ణయం తీసుకోవాల్సి ఉందని చెప్పారు.

రాజీవ్ గాంధీ హత్య కేసు దోషులపై తనకు ఎలాంటి ద్వేషం లేదని తెలిపారు కాంగ్రెస్​ అధ్యక్షుడు రాహుల్​ గాంధీ

తన తండ్రి, మాజీ ప్రధానమంత్రి రాజీవ్​ గాంధీ హత్య కేసు దోషులపై తనకు ఎలాంటి ద్వేషం లేదని కాంగ్రెస్​ అధ్యక్షుడు రాహుల్​ గాంధీ స్పష్టం చేశారు. శిక్ష అనుభవిస్తున్న వారి విడుదలపై న్యాయస్థానం నిర్ణయం తీసుకోవాల్సి ఉందని తెలిపారు. రాష్ట్రంలో లోక్​సభ ఎన్నికల ప్రచారాన్ని ప్రారంభించేందుకుతమిళనాడులో పర్యటించిన రాహుల్​ ఈ వ్యాఖ్యలు చేశారు.

రాజీవ్ గాంధీ హత్య కేసు దోషులపై తనకు ఎలాంటి ద్వేషం లేదని తెలిపారు కాంగ్రెస్​ అధ్యక్షుడు రాహుల్​ గాంధీ

" మా తండ్రి హత్య నాకు, మా కుటుంబానికి వ్యక్తిగతమైన విషయం. మరొకటి చట్టపరంగా నిర్ణయించాల్సిన సమస్య. న్యాయస్థానం ఎలాంటి నిర్ణయం తీసుకున్నా మాకు సంతోషమే. కోర్టు వారిని విడుదల చేయాలని మేమూ అనుకుంటున్నాం. ఎవరిపై మాకు శత్రుత్వం, ద్వేషం లేదు. కోర్టు తుది నిర్ణయం తీసుకోవాల్సి ఉంది." - రాహుల్​ గాంధీ, కాంగ్రెస్​ అధ్యక్షుడు

అధిక స్థానాలు గెలుస్తాం

రానున్న లోక్​సభ ఎన్నికల్లో విపక్షాల కూటమి అత్యధిక స్థానాలు గెలుస్తుందని ఆశాభావం వ్యక్తం చేశారు రాహుల్​. కాంగ్రెస్​ పార్టీ అధికారంలోకి రాగానే వస్తుసేవల పన్ను విధానంలో సంస్కరణలు చేస్తామని హామీ ఇచ్చారు. కనీస ఆదాయ పథకం తీసుకొస్తామని తెలిపారు.

ప్రధానికి భయమెందుకు

రఫేల్​ సామర్థ్యంపై తమకు ఎలాంటి సందేహం లేదని రాహుల్​ స్పష్టం చేశారు. తాము మాట్లాడేది కేవలం ఒప్పందంలో జరిగిన అవినీతిపైనేనని, దానిపై కచ్చితంగా విచారణ జరగాలని డిమాండ్​ చేశారు. అధికారంలోకి వస్తే ఒప్పందాన్ని రద్దు చేస్తారా అని అడిగిన ప్రశ్నకు సమాధానమివ్వలేదు రాహుల్.

మోదీ అవినీతికి పాల్పడ్డారని ఆరోపించిన రాహుల్​... మీడియా ముందుకు రావడానికి ప్రధాని ఎందుకు బయపడుతున్నారని ప్రశ్నించారు​.

SOUTH AFRICA OSTRICH
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LENGTH: 7:39
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Oudtshoorn, South Africa - 24 February 2019
1. Various of ostriches on a farm on the outskirts of Oudtshoorn
2. Various of ostriches to farmer Rudy Potgieter
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rudy Potgieter, Farmer and Oudtshoorn Farming Community Chairperson.
"The farmers are struggling in this area, and that you can see by the decline on the amount of people in the industry, as well as the amount that has been slaughtered during each year. There has been a nose dive in those quantities. Normally we were slaughtering about 240,000 (ostriches) and this year I don't think we will slaughter 120,000. So it's 50% off, from the normal average, and it's about 30% down from last year."
4. Mid of ostrich at a farm fence
5. Close of ostrich
6. Wide of ostriches in an enclosure
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Johan Keller, Ostrich Farmer outside Oudtshoorn:
"To be an ostrich farmer today is a big challenge. It's low profit margins, we are facing the worst or we are dealing with the worst drought, as I said. in 300 years. So there is no food, there is no water. The two the dams Stompdrift and Kammanassie have like three percent and four percent of water. So some of our fields, which we irrigated in November 2017, it's a long time ago, and it is such a wonder that we have lucerne plants left, because you can see when you drive through the fields that a lot of the lucerne died in these circumstances that we are facing now."
8. Various of aerials over a dry lucerne field ++MUTE++
9. Aerial of ostrich roaming in lucerne field ++MUTE++
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Oudtshoorn, South Africa - 25 February 2019
10. Wide of dry farmers dam outside Oudtshoorn
11. Mid of fence around a dry dam
12. Wide of farm worker working inside dry dam
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Oudtshoorn, South Africa - 24 February 2019
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Johan Keller, Ostrich Farmer:
"I am farming 27 years now and we have never experienced what is happening now. We were all full of belief that we were going to have lovely rain over November, December and January as well. We still have about a month left for thunder storms and then we start entering more the winter, the cooler season, which is not known for thunder storms, and we need basically a big flood now, in order to fill the dams, to fill the rivers, and to get our fields irrigated, that we can farm under normal conditions again."
14. Wide of farm land, Oudtshoorn, and the mountains in background.
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Oudtshoorn, South Africa - 25 February 2019
15. Wide aerial of Oudtshoorn around the centre of town ++MUTE++
16. Mid of vehicles driving down the main roads of Oudtshoorn
17. Close of sign reading community members (Afrikaans): "Save Water"
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Oudtshoorn, South Africa - 24 February 2019
18. Various of Veterinarian Adriaan Olivier inside his office
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Adriaan Olivier, Veterinarian, South African Ostrich Business Chamber.
"We farm in a desert area, the Klein Karoo, which is also one of the major ostrich production areas of South Africa, and in the world of course. There's low rain fall, but over the past 5 years the rainfall has been very erratic and very low, so all our dams feeding the irrigation schemes along the river have dried up. And the farmers have not been able to produce feed or fodder for the ostriches. So our challenge now is that it is expensive to buy in feed from out lying areas from the irrigations schemes up north, and to feed the ostriches."
20. Close of ostrich fillet cooking inside an Oudtshoorn restaurant
21. Mid of cook seen turning ostrich fillet inside restaurant
22. Various of fillet being cooked
23. Various of ostrich fillet being plated and served.
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Adriaan Olivier, Veterinarian, South African Ostrich Business Chamber:
"Because they are being fed a balanced ration made up of plant based raw materials like lucerne and maize and a little bit of soya, and that's why they are keeping their conditions quite well. What is really happening is that the farmers are only being able to feed them for a shorter period and not necessarily twelve months maybe, but less, ten months and then they will also be processed after ten months of age, and not usually a little bit older age. The birds are not suffering, the birds are being very well looked after, because we are in the export industry and you need to maintain good animal welfare and also good protection of the environment, because we are also custodians of the environment."
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Oudtshoorn, South Africa - 25 February 2019
26. Various of ostriches in the early morning
27. Aerial of ostriches as they run across barren farmland ++MUTE++
28. Aerial of dried river bed ++MUTE++
29. Various of dried-up dam, Oudtshoorn vegetation
30. Farming areas on the outskirts of Oudtshoorn town
LEADIN:
In drought hit South Africa ostrich farmers are struggling to feed their animals.
In Oudtshoorn, the local authorty has warned that water will run out in two months time if the area does not get any rainfall.
It's dire news for the ostrich farmers that have already halved the amount of livestock on their farms because of ongoing drought conditions.  
STORYLINE:
Heads held high and their beaks open, these ostriches are trying to stay cool.
Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape's Klein Karoo, boasts one of the world's largest ostrich populations.
With not a single cloud in the sky, ostrich farmers are worried about the climate conditions.
Rudy Potgieter has been farming ostrich for over 30 years.
As the months go by without any sight of rain he wonders if the farm will continue to be profitable.
"The farmers are struggling in this area, and that you can see by the decline on the amount of people in the industry, as well as the amount that has been slaughtered during each year. There has been a nose dive in those quantities. Normally we were slaughtering about 240,000 (ostriches) and this year I don't think we will slaughter 120,000. So it's 50% off, from the normal average, and it's about 30% down from last year."
Dams, rivers and irrigation feeders have been empty for some time.
Another big expense is the importing of food for their animals from nearby provinces, as well as water to sustain life on their farms.
Ostrich farmer Johan Keller says they face a big challenge.
"It's low profit margins, we are facing or we are dealing with the worst drought, as I said. in 300 years. So there is no food, there is no water. The two the dams Stompdrift and Kammanassie have like three percent and four percent of water."
Keller also plants lucerne (alfalfa) to feed his ostriches. But he says there's a huge shortage of the plants.
"Some of our fields, which we irrigated in November 2017, it's a long time ago and it is still a wonder that we have lucerne plants left, because as you see when you drive through these fields, that a lot of the Lucerne died in the circumstances that we are facing now."
It's a barren landscape - with only a few lucerne plants left standing in the cracked soil.
Some believe that the community has lost almost a billion Rand (ZAR) (70 million USD), after heading into the fourth year of harsh drought conditions.
Veterinarian Adriaan Olivier says:
"We farm in a desert area, the Klein Karoo, which is also one of the major ostrich production areas of South Africa, and in the world of course. There's low rain fall, but over the past 5 years the rainfall has been very erratic and very low, so all our dams feeding the irrigation schemes along the river have dried up. And the farmers have not been able to produce feed or fodder for the ostriches. So our challenge now is that it is expensive to buy in feed from out lying areas from the irrigations schemes up north, and to feed the ostriches."
Oudtshoorn was recently placed under level 4 water restrictions, limiting individual households to 12 kilolitres a month. The Oudtshoorn Municipality believes that if there's no rainfall it will only have enough water to last until May (2019).
Olivier explains, "What is really happening is that the farmers are only being able to feed them for a shorter period and not necessarily twelve months maybe, but less, ten months, and then they will also be processed after ten months of age, and not usually a little bit older age."
As the municipality starts to drill boreholes in Oudtshoorn, farmers are still not at ease, as much of their farming water comes from rivers and irrigation dams built previously.
For now these ostriches take sanctuary in the somewhat cooler early morning sun.
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