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Ajay Maken demands Kejriwal’s apology over proposal to withdraw Bharat Ratna of Rajiv Gandhi

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Ajay Maken hit back at Arvind Kejriwal saying that the party chief should apologize for a proposal to withdraw Bharat Ratna from Rajiv Gandhi.

 

New Delhi| Senior Congress leader and party’s Delhi unit chief Ajay Maken slammed the Aam Admi Party government and even demanded party chief Arvind Kejriwal’s resignation for the row over former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna.

On Friday, Delhi assembly passed the resolution citing Rajiv Gandhi’s failure to curb violence during 1984 Anti-Sikh riots. Reportedly, the resolution was moved by AAP MLA Jarnail Singh was passed by a voice vote in the House. However, Jarnail Singh later clarified that proposal of withdrawal of Bharat Ratna of Rajiv Gandhi wasn’t a part of the original resolution. He said, “It was my feeling and I said it. Technically it wasn’t in the notice.”

However, Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken hit back at Arvind Kejriwal saying that the party chief should apologize for such a proposal. He further demanded the portion to be expunged from the assembly’s proceedings. He said, “Rajiv Gandhi sacrificed his life for the country. Not even BJP has ever demanded to take back Bharat Ratna from him. Kejriwal should apologise and this portion of the resolution should be expunged from the assembly’s proceedings.”

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Defence estates critical assets, need to be more cautiously protected from encroachment: Nirmala Sitharaman

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New Delhi | Asserting that urbanisation is spreading at a “very fast” rate in cities, Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday said defence estates are critical assets which need to be “more cautiously protected” against any kind of encroachment.

In her address at the Raksha Mantri Awards for Excellence 2018 hosted by the Directorate General of Defence Estate (DGDE) here, she also pitched for “greater coordination” between cantonment and municipal authorities to ensure no part of defence lands are lost to encroachments.

The categories in which these awards have been given are very critical to transform India to a civic-conscious, welfare-conscious, and public-conscious country, the defence minister said. “Defence estates role is very important, and as important as the guarding of the borders of this sovereign country. And, I say with so much of seriousness, several lakhs of acreage fall under your (DGDE) control. In particular areas of cantonments, over 20 lakh citizens depend on it,” she said.

The minister said the area managed by the DGDE may be located in far, interior areas of the country, but it is very important to spread defence assets, which are “critical for emergency (situation), and critical for protection of the country, and critical to house our soldiers”.

Sitharaman said earlier this year elected representatives from various cantonment boards had met her and discussed the issue of roads and access to certain areas. “In towns and cities, where urbanisation is creeping in at a very fast (rate), pressure is coming from places closer to where defence estates are located…We probably lose a lot more space for want of greater coordination between local authorities and the DGDA,” she said.

The Union minister said after any kind of encroachment, it becomes everybody’s tiring business as to how to remove it. “So, I strongly appeal to all, to have greater coordination with municipal and cantonment authorities, to ensure we do not lose, inch by inch, what is otherwise defence estate,” Sitharaman said.

Among the various categories of awards which were handed out by the Union minister at a ceremony, Delhi Cantonment won it in the Swachh cantonment segment.

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