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 Funds 2024-25 that will likely be introduced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on July 23.
This would be the first Funds of the Modi-led authorities in its third time period.
In response to a senior authorities official, economists, trade specialists and Niti Aayog vice-chairman Suman Bery will focus on fiscal methods and current their views and proposals to the PM on the assembly.
The Funds Session of Parliament will begin on July 22 and conclude on August 12.
BIMSTEC overseas ministers’ retreat
Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will host his counterparts from member nations 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 chance for the overseas ministers of seven South Asian and Southeast Asian nations which are members of the BIMSTEC to debate avenues to deepen cooperation throughout varied sectors, together with safety, connectivity and commerce, stated the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA).
In addition to India, the BIMSTEC contains 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 in opposition to the backdrop of Myanmar witnessing intense combating between the navy 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 underneath 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 fallacious within the Lok Sabha elections within the state, the place the social gathering gained 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 social gathering’s beneath 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’ll additionally examine how the state authorities’s assure schemes labored electorally.
The same AICC fact-finding panel, comprising P J Kurien, Rakibul Hussain and Pargat Singh arrived in Hyderabad on Wednesday evening. It’ll start its evaluation of the Lok Sabha ends in Telangana from Thursday, by assembly elected MPs and defeated candidates on the social gathering 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 social gathering MLAs in a Mumbai lodge on Thursday. It’s understood as a part of a slew of such dinner conferences and lodge 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 school, are being held to fill the vacancies. The specter of cross-voting looms massive 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 deal with their members in a joint session.
– With PTI inputs
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