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Amit Shah roared in Rajya Sabha, said – we responded by entering Pakistan

The proceedings of Parliament resumed on Friday after being disrupted for a day due to repeated adjournments. The BJP-led NDA on Friday tried to pass various demands for grants for 2025-26. At the same time, Union Home Minister Amit Shah responded to the discussion on the functioning of the Home Ministry in the Rajya Sabha. Azad Samaj Party MP Chandrashekhar raised the question whether the central government is planning to increase the salary of Asha workers. During the discussion on the functioning of the Home Ministry, many MPs expressed concern over the absence of census. Trinamool Congress members walked out of the Upper House on Friday in protest against the decision to postpone Question Hour and non-official business in Rajya Sabha and discuss the functioning of the Home Ministry. The Lok Sabha passed the outstanding demands of the ministries in relation to the Union Budget for the financial year 2025-26 through guillotine, the House also approved the related Appropriation Bill. Congress leader KC Venugopal on Friday raised the issue of the ongoing Asha workers’ agitation in Kerala in the Lok Sabha, to which Union Health Minister J P Nadda said the matter could be discussed in his chamber. On Thursday, a section of Asha workers in Kerala intensified their protest and began an indefinite hunger strike over their demands. Union Health Minister J P Nadda on Friday appealed to all members in the Lok Sabha to get a complete health check-up at least once a year, saying “there are many members here who are overweight”. “We are concerned about the health of all of you. I request all the members to get a complete health checkup done at least once a year and the Health Ministry is ready for this. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla told the minister, “You should tell the members to get the health checkup of the people of their area done.” On this, the minister said that the examination of the public is necessary, but the members should also get their medical checkup done and “many members sitting here are overweight”. Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil, while referring to the work done for water conservation in the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said on Friday that every work in the Modi government starts on time and is completed on time. Patil, while responding to the discussion on the demands for grants under the control of the Ministry of Jal Shakti for the year 2025-26 in the Lok Sabha, also said that efforts are being made to make water conservation a mass movement. Accusing the Central Government of being the biggest opponent of farmers on Friday, the Congress demanded that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) be given a legal guarantee and MSP should be fixed according to the formula of the Swaminathan Commission. Party MP Jaiprakash, while participating in the discussion on the demands for grants under the control of the Ministry of Agriculture in the Lok Sabha, also said that the loans of farmers should be waived. BJP MP Dushyant Singh said that the government has linked agriculture with technology and now financial assistance is given directly in the accounts of farmers. Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Dharmendra Yadav on Friday accused the central government of misleading farmers and claimed that it wants to give the land of the farmers to a select few industrialists and is ‘sitting with hatred in the heart’ for them. Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan responded to the discussion on the demands for grants under the control of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare for 2025-26. He said that from 2004 to 2014, the Congress made a total provision of Rs 1.51 lakh crore for agriculture in 10 years. We have made a provision of Rs 10 lakh 756 crore in the last 10 years.

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