Consumers covered under the Public Distribution System (PDS) will soon be free to buy their goods from any ration centre under the 'one nation, one ration card' scheme, officials said.
Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday asked employees in his ministry to promote Hindi language and use simple words for better understanding.
Brother of Ram Vilas Paswan, Ramchandra Paswan passed away at Delhi's Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in Delhi today. Ramchandra Paswan was a member of Parliament from Lok Janshakti Party. He was admitted to the hospital on July 12 after suffering a heart attack.
According to Dr VK Tiwari, Director of RML Hospital Ram Chandra Paswan is in ICU and Dr. Randeep Nath, HOD- Cardiology is observing him.
Paswan was declared elected after the deadline for the withdrawal of nomination papers ended at 3 p.m. on Friday in the absence of any other candidate. There will be no formal election, Bihar Assembly Secretary Bateshwarnath Pandey said.
The biggest beneficiary of the 'one nation one ration card' will be migrant labourers who move to other states to seek better job opportunities and will ensure their food security, Ram Vilas Paswan said at a conference with state food secretaries on food security issues.
The minister was speaking at a conference with state food secretaries on food security issues. Officials of Food Corporation of India (FCI), Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) and State Warehousing Corporations (SWCs) were also present.
Reporters covering Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Chief Ram Vilas Paswan's filing of nomination for Rajya Sabha were forced out of the Returning Officer's room at the Bihar assembly on Friday.
BJP ally Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan took a jibe at the opposition on Tuesday after BSP supremo Mayawati announced that her party will not contest the Uttar Pradesh Assembly bypolls in a tie-up with the SP, saying its alliances in every state will crumble in the days ahead and "parties like the SP, the BSP and the RJD will have to shut their shops by 2020".
The BJP is likely to field External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar as its nominee for Rajya Sabha from Gujarat and Ram Vilas Paswan as NDA's candidate from Bihar, sources said on Tuesday.
Giriraj Singh posted the comment along with a picture of Nitish Kumar, Paswan, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi holding each other's hands at the iftar here on Monday.
"After a new government is formed after the elections, leaders of all political parties should seriously consider holding the polls either in February or November. It will facilitate campaigning. People will cast votes in comfort, boosting the turnout. It will strengthen democracy," the Lok Janshakti Party leader said. In his comments, Kumar also disfavoured gap between voting days.
Nitish Kumar and Ram Vilas Paswan addreses the Sankalp rally in Patna
Lok Janshakti Party president and BJP ally Ram Vilas Paswan on Friday accused RJD MPs Misa Bharti and Manoj Jha of using "indecent and unparliamentary" language against him during a debate in Parliament on the bill for reservation for the general category poor.
LJP chief and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan's daughter Asha Paswan on Sunday staged a protest against her own father for calling former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi an 'angootha chhap' (illiterate).
Paswan also said he favoured putting reservation in the ninth schedule (of Constitution) so that the issues concerning the same are not dragged to the court.
Hajipur is considered Paswan's stronghold for the past three decades. He won from Hajipur in 1977 with a margin of 4.24 lakh votes
As per the deal, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan may get a Rajya Sabha berth. The party may also get a seat in Jharkhand.
After meeting Amit Shah, Ram Vilas Paswan met Arun Jaitley today to discuss seat sharing for 2019 Lok Sabha poll.
An hour-long meeting between top BJP leaders, including its president Amit Shah and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan and his son Chirag remained inconclusive, sources indicated.
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