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Saturday said the Union Budget (Amendment) Bill, which Now people chosen by the 2021-22 has set the pace for includes the AGMUT cadre in masses will rule J&K, not those aatmanirbhar India and hit #$ !" the Jammu & Kashmir, Shah born to “kings and queens”, he hard at Congress leader Rahul told the Lok Sabha that the said, attacking dynastic parties Gandhi for his “hum do, healthcare capacity building have patience to listen to replies Modi Government’s top prior- in the region. Even our rivals humare do” barb saying he is and development of agriculture on allegations levelled against ity is nothing but the develop- could not allege any wrongdo- becoming a “doomsday man” infrastructure, among others, the Government. ment of the region. ing in these polls which were for the country by constantly which are expected to have a “We need to recognise “You people are asking me conducted fairly and peaceful- insulting Constitutional func- multiplier effect on the econo- these two tendencies of the what happened after scrap- ly, he said. tionaries and creating fake nar- my. Congress party... this makes it ping Article 370 in 17 months Work on two AIIMS in the ratives. With regards to increasing clear that their belief in a while forgetting how three !" region has begun, and the Replying to a debate on the allocation for rural job guar- democratically elected families ruled the State for 70 Kashmir valley will be con- Union Budget in the Lok antee scheme, Sitharaman said Parliamentary system is com- years!” said the Home Minister Narendra Modi Government is Premachandran. The Rajya do with Statehood, and Jammu nected to the railways by 2022, Sabha, the Finance Minister the Government will allocate pletely finished,” Sitharaman reiterating that the Statehood committed to bringing peace Sabha has already passed the & Kashmir will be accorded the the Union Home Minister said. said the challenges of the Covid more funds for Mahatma said. will be given in “appropriate and development in the region Bill. status at an appropriate time, He also gave assurance to the pandemic did not deter the Gandhi National Rural Responding to former time”. first,” said Shah. Taking a dig at Shah at one Shah reiterated. people of Jammu & Kashmir Government from undertaking Employment Guarantee Congress president’s speech “You people don’t read the Slamming the Opposition point, Chowdhury said, “You He said the region’s Union that “no one will lose their reforms for maintaining long- (MGNREGA) scheme for on Thursday, during which he Bill properly. This is just about for objecting to the posting of claim all development in Territory status is temporary land”. The Government has term goals of the country. 2021-22, if needed, as against spoke about farm laws but not AGMUT Cadre inclusion in Hindu officer in Muslim-pop- Jammu & Kashmir has been and then took a swipe at the sufficient land for develop- “The reforms undertaken Budget estimate of 73,000 on the Budget, she said, “He is J&K and Ladakh. This Bill has ulated region, Shah said, “I am done by Narendra Modi. Please Congress and other parties — ment works, Shah said. will lay the path for India to crore. probably becoming a dooms- nothing to do with Statehood. amazed that you people are also claim Dal Lake was also which had backed Article 370 The Bill seeks to replace the become one of those fastest- Hitting out at the day man for India.” You people during debate just now talking about secularism created by Modi,” said of the Constitution that gave Ordinance to merge the J&K growing economies in the Opposition, she said the The Minister said that the talk on Article 370. It is gone. but what kind of secularism is Chowdhury. special status to Jammu & cadre of civil services officer world, she said, adding the Government under Prime Congress leader laid the “foun- It was only a temporary clause this?” The Home Minister also Kashmir — saying this was a with the Arunachal Pradesh, Budget has set the pace for Minister Narendra Modi dation” but did not speak about which you people kept for 70 He was replying to the slammed some Opposition temporary provision but they Goa, Mizoram Union Territory India to become aatmanirbhar”, “works for common people the Budget during the discus- years and now asking me when objections against the Bill members for their claim that continued with it for over 70 (AGMUT) cadre. Shah said the she said. and not for crony capitalists.” sion on it. the Statehood will be given raised by Opposition leaders the proposed law negates the years before the Modi Government expects that The Finance Minister said In her sharp riposte to “I wanted to know from back. I am telling you the Adhir Ranjan Chaowdhury, hopes of the region getting Government annulled it in around 25,000 Government the Budget has laid emphasis Rahul, she said the former the Congress why it took a U- Statehood will be given on an Assaduddin Owaisi, Manish back its erstwhile Statehood. August 2019. jobs will be created in J&K by on increasing capital expendi- Congress chief was creating turn on the farm laws but no appropriate time. The Tewari and NK This legislation has nothing to Jammu & Kashmir has 2022. ture, raising allocation for fake narratives but does not reply came,” she said. ( !" # # $ !"#$% &'( ) * 789)85 The study interviewed around 2,500 respondents, L ! ! 789)85 Day violence, over 500 police said that 122 farmers had so ndia has one of the worst including 1,647 respondents "M! " ! personnel had been injured, far been arrested by Delhi Iroad safety records in the from low-income households, " & rotesting farmer unions on while a protester had died. Police in connection with 14 world with a total of 1,50,000 432 from high-income house- ! PSaturday demanded a high- On January 26, thousands of the 44 FIRs, adding that fatalities and 4,50,000 injuries holds and 420 truck drivers in " ' level judicial enquiry into the of protesting farmers who SKM will provide legal and in road accidents every year, the four selected States (Uttar violence during the tractor reached ITO from the financial aid to all the arrest- resulting in social-economic Pradesh and Bihar represent- rally in Delhi on January 26 Ghazipur border clashed with ed farmers. losses equivalent to a shocking ing Low-Capacity States and and the alleged “false” cases the police. The SKAM leaders claimed 3.14 per cent of GDP every Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra "( ! slapped on the peasants. Driving tractors, many of that “false” cases were being year. representing High-Capacity ! ) Addressing a press confer- them reached the Red Fort and slapped on farmers charging As per World Bank report States) across urban and rural & ( ence at the Singhu border, hoisted a religious flag there. them with serious offences like released by Union Minister areas. *+ Samyukta Kisan Morcha lead- At the press conference, dacoity and attempt to murder for Road Transport and The qualitative part of the ! , -*+ ers asked farmers who are get- another leader Ravinder Singh to “harass” them. Highways Nitin Gadkari on study included focus group .'/+ & !! " ting police notices not to Saturday, India has one per cent discussions with road crash ' appear before the force direct- ! %#& # ' of the world’s vehicles, but it The study, released by centage terms, the number of survivors and their family " " ly and instead approach the accounts for 10 per cent of all Gadkari, reveals that more accidents decreased by 3.86 per members and in-depth inter- L !M legal cell constituted by the + ,- % ( road crash victims. than 75 per cent of poor cent in 2019 as compared to views with adolescents aged ' unions for any assistance. And more alarming is the households in India reported a 2018, while accident-related 14-18 years. Kuldeep Singh, a member New Delhi: Three more men ) fact that 70 per cent of the fatal- decline in their income as a deaths decreased by 0.20 per “We have taken a number !" of SKM’s legal cell, said that a have been arrested in connec- # ities are in the age group of 18 result of a road traffic crash. cent and those injured of positive initiatives to reduce retired judge of the Supreme tion with the violence during to 45 years. The financial loss for the poor decreased by 3.86 per cent. road crash deaths in India. "" Court or high court should the farmers’ tractor parade in New Delhi: The Delhi Police’s With the National Road amounted to more than seven The World Bank report With the support of all stake- 012 " probe the incidents to unravel north Delhi’s Burari area on Crime Branch on Saturday Safety Month underway, the months’ household income, highlights the disproportionate holders in our society, I am " 1&.*3 the “conspiracy” behind the Republic day, police said on took actor-activist Deep Sidhu World Bank in association with while it was equivalent to less impact of a road crash on committed to reducing road " & January 26 violence and the Saturday.