Again from his go to to Russia and Austria, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding a gathering with main economists Thursday to debate the Union Price range 2024-25 that will likely be offered by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on July 23.
This would be the first Price range of the Modi-led authorities in its third time period.
In accordance with a senior authorities official, economists, trade consultants and Niti Aayog vice-chairman Suman Bery will talk about fiscal methods and current their views and suggestions to the PM on the assembly.
The Price range Session of Parliament will begin on July 22 and conclude on August 12.
BIMSTEC international ministers’ retreat
Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will host his counterparts from member international locations of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Financial Cooperation (BIMSTEC) at a two-day retreat starting Thursday within the nationwide capital.
The retreat will current a possibility for the international ministers of seven South Asian and Southeast Asian international locations which might be members of the BIMSTEC to debate avenues to deepen cooperation throughout numerous sectors, together with safety, connectivity and commerce, stated the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA).
In addition to India, the BIMSTEC includes Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan.
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Myanmar’s Deputy Prime Minister U Than Swe has already arrived in Delhi to attend the retreat. Than Swe’s go to to India comes towards the backdrop of Myanmar witnessing intense combating between the army junta and resistance forces. The resistance forces have already captured a number of cities.
India has been making concerted efforts to make the BIMSTEC a vibrant discussion board for regional cooperation as initiatives below SAARC (South Asian Affiliation for Regional Cooperation) weren’t shifting ahead for quite a lot of causes.
AICC evaluate panels on LS polls
A 3-member Congress fact-finding committee will begin a three-day go to of Karnataka Thursday to analyse what went unsuitable within the Lok Sabha elections within the state, the place the occasion received solely 9 out of 28 seats, regardless of successful the Meeting polls in Could 2023 with a thumping majority.
The panel comprising Madhusudan Mistry, Gaurav Gogoi and Hibi Eden, constituted by All India Congress Committee (AICC) chief Mallikarjun Kharge, will meet state leaders to elicit their views on the occasion’s under par ballot efficiency.
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Sources stated one of many issues the committee will look intimately is whether or not candidate choice — 16 candidates had been from political households — impacted the outcomes. It is going to additionally examine how the state authorities’s assure schemes labored electorally.
An identical AICC fact-finding panel, comprising P J Kurien, Rakibul Hussain and Pargat Singh arrived in Hyderabad on Wednesday night time. It is going to start its evaluation of the Lok Sabha leads to Telangana from Thursday, by assembly elected MPs and defeated candidates on the occasion workplace.
The Congress may win solely eight of the 17 seats within the Lok Sabha elections in Telangana months after successful the state Meeting polls convincingly in December 2023.
Maharashtra MLC polls
Congress chief and Chief of Opposition within the Maharashtra Meeting, Vijay Wadettiwar, has organised a dinner for his occasion MLAs in a Mumbai resort on Thursday. It’s understood as a part of a slew of such dinner conferences and resort stays being organized by political events within the state of their bids to maintain their MLAs collectively forward of the July 12 biennial polls to the Legislative Council, the place 12 candidates are within the fray for 11 seats.
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Eleven MLCs within the state are retiring on July 27 and these high-stakes polls, the place MLAs kind the electoral faculty, are being held to fill the vacancies. The specter of cross-voting looms giant over these polls.
V-P handle to Maharashtra Legislature
In the meantime, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar will handle the Maharashtra Legislature Thursday on “enhancement of democratic values and ethics within the nation”.
Dhankhar, who can be the Rajya Sabha Chairperson, was invited by the presiding officers of each Homes of the Legislature to handle their members in a joint session.
– With PTI inputs
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