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Nagaland Post, Dimapur MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Delhi opted for ‘real nationalism’: Tejashwi Says Nitish Kumar will be shown door for riding ‘communal bus’
Meanwhile, security agencies have received an input related to the video that a meeting of terrorist groups was held in PoK earlier this month, and officials of ISI and Pakistan Army were also present in that meeting. It was decided in the meeting that Hizbul Mujahideen should be activated. According to sources, it was also discussed that terrorists operating in Kashmir should be given “more responsibility” instead of Pakistani terrorists.
HYDERABAD, FEB 16 (PTI) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said the 2020-21 union budget was prepared keeping the FRBM (Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management) in mind even as she maintained she would be remembered for presenting the “longest prepared budget” than for “longest speech” on it. “So in a way all these (measures) and more has been done that the FRBM, as an Act, we have to keep in mind and also comply with it. So we have not really breached the FRBM. We have not gone outlandish on it. “We have kept fiscal discipline, which is a USP for both the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government and also for the Shri Narendra Modi government,” she said. The Centre had earlier said it was committed to reducing fiscal deficit -- the gap between total expenditure and revenue -- to 3 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2020-21
and eliminate the primary deficit as per the FRBM Act. The government has utilised ‘escape clause’ under the FRBM Act, which allows the Centre to breach its fiscal deficit target by 0.5 percentage points at times of severe stress in the economy, including periods of structural change and when growth falls sharply. The Union Budget earlier this month raised the fiscal deficit target to 3.8 per cent of the GDP for 2019-20, from the 3.3 per cent pegged earlier, due to revenue shortage. The Minister was addressing a gathering of industry representatives and trade here. Sitharaman said the budget was prepared between July last year and February this year, with inputs from all stakeholders, including various ministries. “It was probably for the first time, many people do tell me, for the first time, this was the longest speech. I would rather be remembered in fact that it was the longest prepared budget between July
and February,” she said. Replying to query, she said the government is trying to reduce the dependence of the pharma industry on API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient). “We were at one point of time dominant producers of API. Today we don’t any of them left. The government is of course is spending a lot of time on how best we can encourage production of the API... So some work is going on partly addressing the issue,” she said. Sitharaman said the capital stressed MSMEs were offered additional
terms loans through their respective banks and given them additional working capital. On GST, she said from April 1, a “simplified regime” will begin, also to ease the technical glitches if any. She asked the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs to reach out people and clarify their doubts. “I donot want any more doubts on GST. 1st of April onwards we are bringing a simplified compliance regime for the GST and that has already been final-tested. So GST glitches because of the system will be completely addressed,” she added.
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S R I NAG A R , F E B 1 6 (IANS): Ahead of US President Donald Trump’s India visit, terror outfit Jaishe-Muhammad (JeM) has released a video that calls for “revenge” and says “the killers would not be forgiven”. The video threatens the Indian government, and says “the way you harassed the Muslims and destroyed their settlements will be avenged”. In the video, a person citing Quran Sharif, can be heard saying: “We have heard a lot of lullabies on peace... now every excuse has gone... it’s time to see things ‘unrestrained’.” Sources say the video and its contents are Pakistan’s attempt to show during Trump’s tour that “Kashmiris are angry after the removal of Section 370 and they are carrying out terrorist attacks”. Trump and first lady Melania Trump are scheduled to visit India on February 24-25.
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JAMMU, FEB 16 (PTI): ing its president Farooq Ab- Ali Mohammed Sagar, are in The National Conference, dullah, vice president Omar detention under the stringent one of the main political Abdullah, general secretary Public Safety Act. parties in Jammu and Kashmir, has expressed willingness to participate in next month’s Panchayat polls but wants “roadblocks” placed in its way to be removed so that it can campaign freely. The party, which had stayed away from the 2018 Panchayat polls, said the detention of its top leaders will hamper the process of candidate selection and campaign. It has expressed its willingness to take part in the poll process this time as the election will be held on party lines. In a letter to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Shailendra Kumar, NC central secretary Rattan Lal Gupta said the party is a strong votary of democratic process and wishes to participate in the eight-phase elections starting March 5 in over 11,000 seats. A copy of the letter has been marked to the Chief Election Commissioner. The letter states that it is practically impossible for the party to participate in the election when its top leaders, includ-
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in ICU, law and order has completely collapsed, his own MLAs, MPs, Union ministers are questioning the deteriorating law and order, farmers are dejected... And with all these failures he has failed the aspirational citizens of Bihar,” Yadav alleged. “In such a gloomy situation, the only option that this government has is to play communal politics. And Nitish Kumar will ride the same communal bus, but this time communal and divisive politics will not bear any fruit,” he asserted. Ta l k i n g a b o u t h i s ‘Berozgari Hatao Yatra, Yadav said unemployment is the biggest issue that is bothering the educated youth as Bihar has the highest rate of unemployment in the country. “Nitish Kumar’s 15year rule had been totally directionless and visionless. He failed to attract a single major investor or any industry worth mentioning. All he could offer to the young people was temporary contract jobs with exploitative fixed salaries,” Yadav alleged.
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Citizens). He didn’t utter even a single word on the recent reservation issue. He doesn’t have any courage to criticise any of the BJP’s policies,” the Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Assembly said. While the Janata Dal (United) helped the Bharatiya Janata Party in getting the citizenship bill passed in Parliament, Kumar only said his government will not implement the NRC in the state, Yadav said. “Nitish Kumar is a cunning politician. He knows that once the BJP makes NRC an Act, he can do nothing but comply. Then he will cry over his helplessness in light of constitutional norms. His party could have made
the RJD leader said. Union ministers are delivering veiled “incendiary and communal” speeches against citizens who are protesting, he said. Voters of Delhi have shown the nation the right path and now it is up to the people of Bihar and the whole country to emulate them, the former Bihar deputy chief minister said. Delhi elections were assembly polls which should be fought on local and statelevel issues, but the way the BJP is trying to rake up national issues every time sets a “very dangerous precedent”, Yadav said. For 15 years in power, Nitish Kumar kept on terming his rule as “sushasan (good governance) and misused state exchequer for filling the coffers of a few obliging media houses to project his image”, he alleged. He claimed that Kumar’s days as the chief minister and a politician are numbered as people will not stand “false propaganda” anymore. “He (Kumar) has destroyed the education system, health services are
NC willing to participate in J-K Panchayat polls, wants ‘roadblocks’ to be removed
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a difference during voting for the CAB in Parliament, but there he exhibited his true communal character,” the 30-year-old leader said. The whole exercise of the CAA, NPR and the NRC is for dividing and polarising the nation on religious lines for political gains and Kumar has no qualms in shunning his “secular veil to show his true colours”, Yadav alleged. Talking about the Delhi polls won by the Aam Aadmi Party comprehensively, Yadav said the message was loud and clear not only for the Bihar polls but also for the whole nation that if the government works for necessary amenities and social and financial security, then no diversion will work. “Welfare of the citizens is real nationalism. Dividing people on communal lines is proving catastrophic for the nation. Youth is on the streets fighting, lynching and abusing. Union ministers are pushing the citizens to indulge in violence against those who are asking questions of the government,”
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NEW DELHI, FEB 16 (PTI): Delhi voters have shown the way by opting for “real nationalism” and the electorate in Bihar should emulate them to vote out Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who has no qualms in taking off his “secular veil” on issues such as the CAA, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said on Sunday. The onus of defeating the “divisive agenda” of the NDA government in Bihar also lies on the opposition that should provide a “formidable and unified” alternative, Yadav told PTI in an interview ahead of his ‘Berozgari Hatao Yatra’ starting on February 23 with a massive rally in Patna. He said the ‘mahagathbandhan’ (grand alliance) was ready to take on the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) against its “divisive agenda and 15 years of misrule” in the assembly polls. “Nitish Kumar has never criticised the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act), NPR (National Population Register) and the NRC (National Register for
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