EXCLUSIVE | Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar speaks to India TV
Politics | Sep 09, 2019, 06:07 PM ISTHaryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar speaking exclusively to India TV over a range of issues.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar speaking exclusively to India TV over a range of issues.
Khattar also said that in order to provide relief to owners of small plots in the state, standardised layout plans have been prepared and such people could get the same free of cost, an official release quoting the chief minister said here tonight.
As the Chief Minister's cavalcade was passing through, he poured something inflammable on him and setting himself afire.
An official spokesman said in the run-up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the eastern region of Russia to attend the Eastern Economic Forum in September 2019, Goyal was leading a chief ministers' delegation to Vladivostok.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday criticised her Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar's remark on Kashmiri girls and said people holding high office should refrain from making insensitive comments about people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Khattar was expressing concern over low sex ratio in Haryana at an event in Fatehabad on Friday when he made the remarks in an apparent reference to the scrapping of the special status for Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution.
National Commission for Women chairperson Rekha Sharma on Saturday said she would seek an explanation from Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar for his remarks.
Khattar's statement came after a BJP MLA from Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar pradesh said that the party workers were excited over the scrapping of Article 370 as it would now enable them to marry 'gori' (fair) Kashmiri girls.
Manohar Lal Khattar also said that a 20-km canal will be constructed by the Irrigation Department from Yamunanagar to Indri and will be merged with the Western Jamuna Canal, an official release stated.
A multi-state mega mock exercise on earthquake preparedness will be conducted in the national capital region on Friday, an official statement said here.
After its prodigious performance of winning in all the 10 Lok Sabha constituencies in Haryana, the BJP is drawing up a strategy to bag at least 75 seats in the Assembly elections which is just a few months away.
Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, said: "There is enough water available in the country but the real issue is effective water management."
During the Municipal Corporation elections in the state recently, news had appeared in media in which Khattar was quoted saying that his party should be voted to power as he belongs to Punjabi community.
Mr Khattar was addressing a public gathering in Haryana when he said women file rape complaints after they fight with men they had been roaming around with.
In his efforts to get more seats in the 2019 polls, Kejriwal has been holding rallies in Haryana.
The remarks by Khattar drew sharp criticism from Congress, which said the state government's "anti-women mindset" was exposed.
Haryana CM said that PM Modi has been invited for a cultural programme organised on the completion of 4 years of the BJP govt in Haryana on November 1.
“The FIR registered on Saturday (against Vadra and Hooda) will be thoroughly examined and investigated,” said Khattar.
The chief minister has instructed the concerned officers to conduct a revenue survey to assess the crop damage due to heavy rains.
The chief minister made the announcements at a public function organised under the 'Ek Aur Sudhar Programme' at Panchkula.
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