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Modi government has given a massive economic package and it will help industries to get back on its foot in the days to come. I do not say industries will start working to the fullest, but around 60% of the workflow will get back to normal by next month. All read several big industries like TVS and several SMEs have started workflow: Nitin Gadkari
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Even Coronavirus pandemic is blessing in disguise as it will boost India as a manufacturing hub. Countries like US, Japan and others no do not want to do business with China and this will give India a chance to emerge as a export giant.
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I am hopeful that Coronavirus vaccine will be made in within a month's time as many researchers and scientists in India and world are rigorously, said Nitin Gadkari while speaking to Rubika Liyaquat.
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I am hopeful that Coronavirus vaccine will be made in within a month's time as many researchers and scientists in India and world are rigorously, said Nitin Gadkari while speaking to Rubika Liyaquat.
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In the final leg of ABP News flagship e-Shikhar Sammelan, Union Minister for Highways and Transport Nitin Gadkari participated in a interactive session where he started of the conversation on plight of migrant workers amid the nationwide lockdown due to Coronavirus outbreak in the country.
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While speaking to Shobhana Yadav, BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy said that Modi government has taken many decision for the welfare of the nation. He said even in times of Covid-19, government is running Shramik Special trains for stranded migrant workers. However, rejecting his claims, Congress leader Manish Tiwari said that decisions claimed by BJP as good were actually painful for countrymen and last one year has been disastrous.
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Participating in another interactive session of ABP flagship e-Shikhar Sammelan, BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Congress leader Manish Tewari spoke about various initiatives taken by one year of Modi government 2.0 and its pros and cons.
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BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi and Congress leader Gourav Vallabh in a conversation with Romana Khan at ABP News' flagship event Shikhar Sammelan. Professor Vallabh attacked Trivedi and said that the Modi government failed to properly implement the COVID-19 lockdown in the nation, due to which a lot of pain and suffering was caused to migrant workers.
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Some people are trying to defaming the country, but our government's first priority is jobs and employment. Even drop out rate of students have come down ever since Modi government took over the Centre: BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
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Some people are trying to defaming the country, but our government's first priority is jobs and employment. Even drop out rate of students have come down ever since Modi government took over the Centre: BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
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Out next guest in ABP News E-Shikhar Sammelan is Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. While speaking to Rubika Liyaquat, the BJP leader started of the conversation saying that one year of Modi government 2.0 has been the year of justice.
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Senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi attacked the government over faltering economy. "GDP is falling continuously," he said adding that the 20 lakh crore economic package is a mere show-off by the government.
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BJP MP Rakesh Sinha asserted that India will win, if a war with China takes place over border dispute.
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Gaurav Gogoi: To defeat China, government should come up with strategies to boost economy and try to emerge as an economic power.
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In his debate with Congress' Gaurav Gogoi, BJP MP Rakesh Sinha said that no constructive suggestion has come from Rahul Gandhi yet. Congress party has just one task- to come up with comments that would lead to anarchy.
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Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi during his debate with BJP leader Rakesh Sinha ,took on the government and said that it took the decision without fact and logic. In February, when Coronavirus was spreading all over the world, Prime Minister Modi was busy organising "Namaste Trump."
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Kiren Rijiju reacts over Trump's tweet about PM Modi
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Sports Minister Kiran Rijiju said that a border row with China is not new. Such skirmishes take place because there is no clearly demarcated boundary.
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"There are 70 thousand buses in Uttar Pradesh. If the government wanted, no worker would have to go on foot," says Akhilesh.
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"Why did government not take into consideration the issue of labourers beforehand. Why did they not make arrangements for their stay? Or if the arrangement for housing them could not be done, why didn't the government provided facility for their transportation earlier?," says Akhilesh Yadav
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to join e-Shikhar Sammelan at 1 PM.
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Did Gaurav Bhatia not know Union Labour Minister's name? | e-Shikhar Sammelan
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Congress spokesperson Rohan Gupta said that Rahul Gandhi was the first to alert the government about Coronavirus. "He tweeted in February but the government did not take it seriously and because of that the entire country is suffering the consequences.The government left the workers to die on the streets in lockdown," said Gupta.
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Modi government made the impossible, possible, says Jitendra Singh | e-Shikhar Sammelan Full Interview
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Jitendra Singh said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as a world leader. For the first time, a leader of this stature has emerged from India and has left an impact across the world. The world after Coronavirus, will be an opportunity for India to come up as a leading nation.
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Union Minister Jitendra Singh said that many big decisions were taken last year. Section 370 was removed from Jammu and Kashmir. The dispute of Ram Janmabhoomi is over. Decision on CAA was taken. We have made the impossible possible and have run the country with new thinking.
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On the question about Lockdown-5, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that a pandemic like Coronavirus comes in hundreds of years. Right now there is no medicine for it, just lockdown and prayers, are the only solution.
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Despite repeated reminders by the opposition, the government did not wake up on time. We never opposed lockdown, but the fact that lockdown was a knee-jerk reaction, a decision taken without any proper planning, says Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary.
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Had the government acted on time, and imposed lockdown in February, the Coronavirus situation in India would not have deteriorated to this extent: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary
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The 20 lakh crore economic package is nothing but a joke, says Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary
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Speaking on spat with China, Prakash Javadekar said that India knows how to protect its interests. There was also a dispute about Doklam earlier, but that issue ended in two months.
On the statement of US President Donald Trump that PM Modi has a bad mood because of the standoff, Javadekar said that he would prefer not commenting on this."Our foreign ministry will respond to this," he said.
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Coronavirus is not only a problem for India, but for all the countries of the world. Crisis of labourer has emerged as a matter of concern, they are going back to their places out of fear. In last 15 days, 60 lakh labourers went back to their homes: Union Minister Prakash Javadekar
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List Of Speakers Today:
Prakash Javadekar (10 AM)
Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary (10:30 AM)
Ravishankar Prasad (11 am)
Jitendra Singh (11:30 am)
Gaurav Bhatia and Rohan Gupta (12pm)
Akhilesh Yadav (1 PM)
Kiran Rijiju (1:30 PM)
Rakesh Sinha and Gaurav Gogoi (2 pm)
Abhishek Manu Singhvi (3 PM)
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (3:30 pm)
Sudhanshu Trivedi and Gaurav Vallabh (4 pm)
Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Manish Tiwari (5 pm)
Nitin Gadkari (6 PM)