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Drinking water from sea soon at 5p per litre: Nitin Gadkari
Union Minister of Water Resources Nitin Gadkari who is also the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, has said that India would soon have access to potable water from sea at just 5 paise per litre.
The minister, while addressing a gathering at the fifth ‘Nadi Mahotsav’ in Madhya Pradesh, revealed that trials of conversion of sea water to potable water have already begun in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, according to a report by Times of India (TOI).
Addressing the inaugural session of the two-day Nadi Mahotsav at Bandrabhan, Gadkari said it was unfortunate that some states were fighting over river water distribution while nobody is concerned about river water going to Pakistan. India shares 6 rivers with Pakistan.
Gadkari pressed on the fact that the Indian media and MLAs equally were obsessed with the water wars between states while they won’t write or protest against the flowing of water into another country.
“Water from three rivers is flowing into Pakistan. But neither does any newspaper write on it, nor does any MLA demand to stop it,” Gadkari said.
He omitted to mention that the share of water from these rivers is determined by international agreements and just by being the upper riparian country does not entitle India to do as it pleases – just as China does not have the right to unilaterally decide usage of Brahmaputra waters.
Gadkari called for preservation of land, forest and water as they were gifts endowed by nature. He also stressed on the need to conserve water from being wasted and shared government’s plan to sell treated sewage water to wash railway coaches and power industries.
Last year, Nitin Gadkari had spoken of creating a water grid that would divert water to areas with scarce quantity, which would be at par with the power grid in India. Gadkari said he was serious on the issue and would start work on five projects of river connectivity as per PM Modi’s guidelines, reported the Financia Express.
He also said that besides water grid would begin work on three of the five river inter-linking projects worth Rs 50,000 crore in the next three months, said the FE report.
Gadkari has promised to clean up Ganga and make it ‘aviral and nirmal’ and increase the irrigation capacity of India. Nitin Gadkari, last month, had promised that by March 2019 Ganga would be 80-90 per cent clean. Gadkari also spoke about a series of 189 initiatives for Clean Ganga that would help provide clean water. He also proposed Rs 3,000 crore to develop Ganga banks and built multimodal hubs on the river.
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Amit Shah accuses Congress of preserving Article 370 for 70 years
Shah was addressing a Lok Sabha election rally in Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh where he said the Congress and the Samajwadi Party preserved Article 370 for 70 years, due to which terrorism in the country increased.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday attacked Congress on Sunday for preserving Article 370 of the Constitution, due to which terrorism increased in the country. He further added that BJP will never let another division of the country happen. Shah was addressing a Lok Sabha election rally in Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh where he said the Congress and the Samajwadi Party preserved Article 370 for 70 years, due to which terrorism in the country increased.
Addressing the people Shah said they had made Modiji the prime minister for the 2nd time and he abrogated Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019. He compared the situation to earlier times in the valley, when the Army had to be taken along for hoisting the tricolour, at that same Lal Chowk (Jammu and Kashmir) to the situation now when the shobhayatra of Lord Krishna is being taken out. The rally was organised to garner support for B P Saroj, the BJP candidate from the Machhlishahr Lok Sabha constituency in Jaunpur.
Shah further added that the divisive policies of the Congress want to divide the country again but BJP will never let that happen again. The Union Home Minister accused the grand old party of spreading lies that if PM Modi comes to power for a 3rd time at the centre then he will abolish reservation.
Shah Pointed out that the prime minister has been in majority for the last 10 years and he did not use it to abolish reservation. Shah said, he wanted to ask (SP chief) Akhilesh Yadav and (Congress leader) Rahul Gandhi that when their government was in power for 10 years, what did Uttar Pradesh get in that period? The UPA government gave Rs 4.9 lakh crore to Uttar Pradesh in 10 years as compared to the NDA government which gave Rs 19.11 lakh crore.
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Arvind Kejriwal says BJP started Operation Jhaadu to crush AAP
The Delhi chief minister alleged BJP has started Operation Jhaadu so that they do not grow big and become a challenge to them
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday alleged BJP has started Operation Jhaadu to crush the Aam Aadmi Party since its popularity among the people is rising too fast. Kejriwal was addressing Aam Aadmi Party workers at the party office in New Delhi where he claimed the AAP’s bank accounts would be frozen after elections and they will be brought on the roads and left without an office.
The Delhi chief minister alleged BJP has started Operation Jhaadu so that they do not grow big and become a challenge to them. He further added that through Operation Jhaadu, AAP’s big leaders will be arrested; they are being arrested, and in the coming days, Aam Aadmi Party’s bank accounts will be frozen.
Kejriwal pointed out that ED’s lawyer has already given this statement in court that soon after the election, AAP’s bank accounts will be frozen. He said that if they freeze their accounts now, then AAP will get sympathy. As a result after the election, ED will freeze AAP’s bank accounts. He said AAP’s party office will be cleared out, and the party will be brought to the streets. Kejriwal said these are the 3 plans made by the BJP.
The Delhi chief minister claimed that no gold or money has been recovered from him, and the BJP, by creating false cases has got AAP leaders arrested. Kejriwal recalled that since the time he came to power in 2015, many allegations had been against him by the BJP. He said after the liquor policy scam has happened people are asking them if the scam happened then where is the money. He pointed out that in other places, when raids happen, notes and gold are recovered, but here nothing was found. Kejriwal asked the people that where is all the money? He said BJP had made fake cases and arrested AAP leaders.
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PM Modi says Congress is the mother of corruption, party was involved in coal and 2G scams
PM Modi said, Congress and JMM know nothing about development and their only job is to speak lies, loudly, again and again, and everywhere, their only objective is to do an the X-ray of poor people’s wealth and steal it.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an election rally in Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur on Sunday (May 19) amid the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections 2024. While addressing the election rally in Jamshedpur PM Modi said, people’s excitement told him what result will come on June 4 in Jamshedpur.
He recalled the time when he used to work as a BJP party worker for many years and used to ask people at that time they would come at 10 or 11 am to attend an election rally. But today he was witnessing a huge crowd here. The prime minister thanked all of them and said Lok Sabha election decides and strengthens the future of the country.
During a public rally in Jamshedpur, PM Modi said, Congress and JMM know nothing about development and their only job is to speak lies, loudly, again and again, and everywhere, their only objective is to do an the X-ray of poor people’s wealth and steal it. He further accused the Congress and JMM of snatching the reservation of SC and ST and the party leaders of the two parties are continuously abusing Modi every day. He asked if they are not able to think beyond this? He said the whole country has realised their truth.
PM Modi said, Congress and their ally parties, wherever they have governments, he challenged those chief ministers and this is not his political statement. The prime minister said Congress’s Shehzada keeps opposing business industries, businessmen and investments.
PM Modi asked which businessman will go and invest in those states? What will happen to the youths of those states? He said all investors who come to him and say that they would not go to these states because of their ideology against them. He said businessmen are verbally abused there and investors are forced to think that since Shehzada has this kind of thoughts, his ally parties would have the same thoughts as well. PM Modi added Congress is the mother of corruption and party was involved in coal and 2G scams as well
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