Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ready to fulfill eminent economists and sectoral specialists on Tuesday to elicit their views and recommendations for the upcoming Price range, a senior authorities official stated.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to current the Price range for 2025-26 within the Lok Sabha on February 1, 2025. Apart from economists and sectoral specialists, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Suman Bery and different Niti Aayog members will even attend the assembly.
The PM has routinely held these conferences forward of Budgets previously too, together with most lately in July after starting his third time period in workplace.
In the meantime, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is headed to america on Tuesday for a six-day journey, the primary high-level go to since Donald Trump received the presidential elections in November. It isn’t instantly identified whether or not Jaishankar will meet any official within the Trump camp. The Republican chief will take cost because the US president for his second time period on January 20.
Cong, BSP protests
The Congress is ready to organise the Babasaheb Ambedkar Samman March on the district-level throughout the nation on Tuesday. “On 24 December, all throughout the nation, we’ll maintain Babasaheb Ambedkar Samman Marches and submit a memorandum to the President of India by way of District Collectors demanding Amit Shah’s resignation,” stated Okay C Venugopal, the Congress’s basic secretary (organisation).
The celebration has latched onto Union House Minister Amit Shah’s feedback on Ambedkar through the Constitutional debate in Parliament, and held protests inside and outdoors Parliament, together with to demand Shah’s resignation.
The Congress has alleged that Shah’s remarks “belittled Ambedkar” and “deeply harm these upholding constitutional values”. “Regardless of this, neither Shah, the Prime Minister nor the BJP has expressed remorse. As an alternative, they provocatively defended their stance,” Congress basic secretary (organisation) Okay C Venugopal stated final week.
The protest marches on Tuesday days forward of the Congress Working Committee assembly in Karnataka Belagavi on December 26 and its ‘Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan’ rally on December 27.
It’s not simply the Congress that’s protesting in opposition to Shah; the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP) can also be calling for a nationwide protest over Shah’s feedback. The celebration has additionally accused each the BJP and Congress of “disrespecting” Ambedkar’s legacy and “exploiting Dalit votes”. “In mild of the disrespectful feedback, the BSP is asking for peaceable demonstrations in district headquarters throughout the nation tomorrow. I attraction to all communities to make sure the success of those protests. These exploiting Ambedkar’s identify for deceitful politics have to be stopped,” Mayawati stated.
Delhi Police to probe Parliament clashes
The Delhi Police Crime Department is more likely to go to the Parliament on Tuesday in reference to the scuffle that occurred on its premises, resulting in the harm of two BJP MPs, an official supply stated on Monday.
A face-off between the Opposition and NDA MPs in Parliament over the alleged insult to Ambedkar left BJP MPs Pratap Chandra Sarangi and Mukesh Rajput injured on December 19. The BJP accused Rahul Gandhi of pushing them and inciting different members of his celebration, a cost rejected by the Congress chief. The identical day, police booked Gandhi and others in reference to the matter and transferred the investigation to the Crime Department.
– With PTI inputs
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