Parliament LIVE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today replied to motion of thanks on president’s speech in Lok Sabha. He is presently addressing the Lower House and laying out government’s roadmap for next five. Addressing the House, the prime minister slammed Indira Gandhi government and said that Emergency crushed India’s soul. He further pitched for unity and raised slogan of ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan and Jai Anusandhan’.
The DMK today raised the issue of Chennai water crisis in the Lok Sabha, accusing the AIADMK of complacency. DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran said, “The pre-monsoon rain is the lowest in the last 65 years. Water supply in the four reservoirs supplying water in Chennai has dropped below one per cent. We are going through a severe water crisis. A similar situation took place in 2004.”
He added, “Then Karunanidhi decided to set up a desalination unit and the UPA government sanctioned Rs 1,000 crore for a plant to be set up in Chennai. But Centre’s ally AIADMK is complacent.”
Meanwhile, TMC MPs Nusrat Jahan and Mimi Chakraborty took oath today. Actor-turned-politician Jahan and Chakraborty took the political plunge this year and won from Basirhat and Jadavpur constituencies respectively. The two were unable to take oath earlier as they were busy with the wedding festivities of Jahan, who tied the knot with Kolkata-based businessman Nikhil Jain in Turkey.
In the evening, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the Parliament in a speech that is likely to be a glimpse into the next five years of the new government. Modi’s note of thanks and reply is also likely to address several issues that were raised by President Ram Nath Kovind in his joint address to the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha last week.
Kovind, in his address on June 20, had touched on several issues, including the water crisis, the National Register of Citizens and the ‘One Nation, One Poll’ proposal. The President said his government has decided to implement the process of National Register Citizens on priority basis, even as he hailed the efforts of the government to tackle water scarcity and called the Jal Shakti Ministry a step towards water conservation.
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