RS adjourns twice as PM sits through noisy proceedings

NEW DELHI : Opposition uproar over the demonetisation issue continued in Rajya Sabha today leading to two adjournments in the post-noon session even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi remained present in the House.
As Chairman Hamid Ansari called for the first question of the day at noon, Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad said while the Prime Minister has been addressing his party MPs in Parliament House and even speaking outside, the Opposition parties have been demanding his presence during the debate on demonetisation issue.
“We had been demanding for last 15 days (presence of PM). …We are against blackmoney. We want to speak on this issue but with whom? Our anguish is that the Prime Minister is holding weekly meetings with his MPs in Parliament House. He is also speaking outside. Our demand is that the Prime Minister should be here and listen to us,” Azad said.
When the senior Congress leader also alleged that the PM has remarked that the Opposition parties support blackmoney holders and said it was a “big allegation”, BJP members protested the remark.
Law and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu insisted that the House should continue with the debate on demonetisation, which started on November 16, the first day of the Winter session.
Ansari also said that the debate has not been concluded and called the listed speaker A U Singh Deo (BJD) to start.
Sharad Yadav (JDU) said he too agreed that the debate should continue, but it “cannot be one-way traffic” and demanded that the Prime Minister should remain seated in the House all through the discussion.
“Why are you assuming that he (PM) will not participate,” Ansari asked the Opposition member.
As Singh Deo rose to put forth his points on demonetisation, Congress members started raising slogans like “Pradhan Mantri Mafi Maango (PM should apologise)” from the aisles.
Naidu said the Prime Minister is here and the unfinished debate should be resumed. However amid din, the House was adjourned for 15 minutes.
When it reassembled at 1229 hours, Congress members were again on their feet raising slogans as BJD member started the debate.
Amid noisy scenes, Deo said, “We support any move taken by the Government of India for corruption and black money.”
But as the sloganeering continued, Ansari adjourned the House till 1400 hours. (AGENCIES)

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It’s our duty to stand up National Anthem, says Randeep Hooda

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Old Rs 500 notes valid till Dec 2 for fuel,air ticket purchase

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Nagrota terror attack: Police probing JeM links

            Jammu: Police is probing if Jasih-e-Mohammed (JeM) was responsible for yesterday’s terror attack on an army camp in Nagrota, that left 7 officers and jawans dead, after a note written in Urdu bearing the name of JeM’s Afzal Guru Squad (AGS) recovered from three slain terrorists, a senior official said today.

“We are working on these links. We are going into all details, and investigation has started (into the links of JeM with Nagrota terror attack after recovery of notes in Urdu)”, Director General Of Police (DGP) K Rajendra Kumar told PTI tonight.

“Let us first complete the probe then we will able to say anything on it,” he added.

According to reports, a note, along with three AK-47 rifles, magazines and UBGL grenades, was recovered from the site of attack, points to the involvement of JeM’s Afzal Guru Squad.

The note, written in Urdu with name bearing at the end of AGS of JeM, says that they have avenged the death of Guru.

The recovered explosives were being disposed off by controlled explosions.

JeM have named a squad after Afzal Guru to target security forces in India last year.

It was first exposed in November last year, when Indian Army repulsed a major fidayeen (suicidal) attack on its Gorkha Rifles (GR) camp near the Line of Control (LoC) in Tangdhar and recovered bags with Afzal Guru Squad markings.

Guru’s name also cropped up in Pathankot when Rajesh Verma, who was abducted along with Gurdaspur Superintendent of Police told reporters that the militants had told him that they wanted to avenge the death of 2001 Parliament attack convict.

The DGP further said that security agencies were probing if the group came from International Border (IB) and was part of a group of three militants killed at the border in Ramgarh sector in Samba yesterday.

“We have visited Ramgarh in this direction,” Kumar said.

Jammu was rocked by two terror attacks yesterday in which seven army personnel, including two Major-rank officers, were killed and eight other security-men, including a BSF DIG, were injured before six heavily-armed terrorists were killed in separate encounters. (Agencies)

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23 attack bids foiled along LoC in Kashmir this year: BSF

            Srinagar:  BSF today said it has foiled 23 attacks, including two BAT actions by Pakistan, along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir Valley this year and is alert to deal with any untoward incident.

“BSF has foiled and faced 23 attacks of militants and Pakistan regulars on its posts and personnel along LoC in Kashmir during this year. The guys (BSF jawans) have done well, they have been doing their jobs with utmost dedication.

“They (BSF jawans) have foiled many infiltration bids on the LoC and also foiled two BAT (Border Action Team of Pakistan) attempts and in one of the actions, three of our guys have been killed, but they foiled the action and killed one militant and recovered weapons,” Vikas Chandra, Inspector General, BSF Kashmir Frontier, told reporters here.

The frontier chief of the border guarding force said security at various installations of BSF has beefed up in the wake of yesterday’s terror attack in Nagrota.

“Security arrangements have been made. We are alert 24×7 to deal with any incident during these difficult times,” he said.

Chandra said the paramilitary force, along with the Army, was responding to the ceasefire violations “appropriately”.

“Ceasefire violations have been taking place and we have responded appropriately to them. There were 32 ceasefire violations in 2016 along the LoC on this side. We have lost some men and some others have been injured as well, but that is part of the life, part of duty,” he said.

Responding to a question on whether the ceasefire violations were just that or a cover for infiltration, the BSF officer said, “We can say it is combined.”

“They are infiltration bids as well and we have foiled many such incidents,” he said.

Asked whether the attack on the LoC by Pakistan and mutilation of bodies of soldiers was a BAT action, Chandra said, “Generally BAT actions take place. It would have happened, that is why there has been such action.”

He said 14 battalions of BSF were deployed in Kashmir Valley.

“Over 14,000 personnel are deployed in the Valley both on the LoC and in the hinterland. We are working with army, guarding the LoC. In the last one year, nine BSF officers have sacrificed their lives and 18 others have been injured while guarding the LoC and also while working in the hinterland,” he said.

On a question whether there was an increase in the militant attacks after India conducted surgical strikes, the BSF officer said, “I will not say it is an increase. It is a tactic they have been using earlier as well. On the LoC, we have to be careful and we are being careful. It is not that they have not been trying, they have been, but we have averted those on this side of the LoC.” (Agencies)

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