Following the state-wide protest against the Union Budget, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Dayanidhi Maran on Saturday said that southern states, especially Tamil Nadu, are constantly being "neglected" by the central government.
Agniveers training to serve in the Indian Armed Forces under the Agnipath Scheme praised the resolution of the state government to provide reservations in the recruitment of police and armed forces and said that the decision would provide a great opportunity to the youth.
In her maiden speech in the Lok Sabha on Friday, the Samajwadi Party MP also asserted the rail connectivity between Shamli, Prayagraj and Vaishno Devi.
Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee met with Sunita Kejriwal, the wife of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, on Friday after arriving in New Delhi to attend the NITI Aayog meeting scheduled for July 27.
Voicing discontent with the Karnataka Government's decision to change the name of Ramanagara district to Bengaluru, BJP MP from Karnataka Iranna Kadadi labelled it as a "political game" of the Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister.
BJP MP and former Minister of State for Defence, Ajay Bhatt, on Friday accused the opposition leaders of issuing "incorrect statements" against the Agnipath scheme. He said that the NDA government introduced the scheme after studying various similar schemes in other countries.
BJP MP Balabhadra Majhi said on Friday that Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told him that a provision of Rs 70 crore has been made for the Rayagada Railway division in Odisha.