He recalled that from the year 2014 till December 2024, the Modi Govt has collected Rs 38.89 lakh crore by taxing Petrol, Diesel and Petroleum products.
Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that the Modi government is working with an unwavering resolve towards building a developed Jammu and Kashmir, and a new era of prosperity is ushering for every citizen here.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the four projects.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday slammed the BJP-led government at the Centre over the ‘Make in India’ initiative, terming the programme as a classic case of giving importance to “publicity rather than delivery.”
Asserting that the Narendra Modi government has a zero-tolerance policy towards terrorism, Union Home Minister Amit Shah told the Rajya Sabha on Friday that Naxalism in the country would be eradicated by March 31 next year.
Referring to the Manipur situation, the Congress chief in a post on X wrote, “Narendra Modi ji it has been 16 months since Manipur has been engulfed in violence, but your 'double engine' government has done nothing to mitigate it.”
In a post on X, the Congress president accused the Modi government of using dubious employment data which is grossly inflated by counting ‘unpaid labour’ and ‘one-hour work per week’.
Implementation of these 8 projects will generate an estimated 4.42 crore mandays of direct and indirect employment.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed that the short term gains on certain financial assets shall attract a tax rate of 20%, while that on all other financial assets and all non-financial assets shall continue to attract the applicable tax rate.
Referring to the Labour Bureau’s Wage Rate Index, he said, “Real wages for labourers stagnated between 2014-2023, and in fact declined between 2019-2024.”
