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Friday, February 8, 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates, lays foundation of projects worth ₹4000 crore in Arunachal Pradesh


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday Feb 09,2019 inaugurated several projects and laid foundation stone of many vital schemes worth over 4,000 crore for Arunachal Pradesh

  • laid the foundation stone for construction of greenfield Airport at Hollongi 
  • inaugurated a retrofitted airport at Tezu in Lohit district through a remote
  •  inaugurated the new Doordarshan channel DD Arun Prabha.
  • dedicated to the nation the 110 MW Pare Hydroelectric Plant
  •  laid the foundation stone for a permanent campus of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) at Jote
  •  inaugurated 50 health and wellness centers in the state also through remote at the function at IG Park 



PM Modi's Northeast tour amid citizenship row Feb 08 -09

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Northeast tour comes at a time when the region is protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.

The Bill, passed by Lok Sabha and pending in the Rajya Sabha, amends the Citizenship Act, 1955, by relaxing eligibility rules for getting Indian citizenship for immigrants belonging to six minority (non-Muslim) religions – Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians – from neighbouring Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan.

Groups in Assam see the Bill as a “threat” to the indigenous communities of the region as it goes against Assam Accord provision saying that any person who came into Assam after midnight of March 24, 1971, would be identified as a foreigner.

Key BJP allies including -
  • the National People’s Party, which leads the coalition in Meghalaya;
  •  the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, which leads the coalition in Nagaland; 
  • the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), which is an ally of the BJP in Tripura; and
  •  the Mizo National Front (MNF), which is the ruling party in Mizoram; 

have pledged to oppose the Bill.

On his two-day Northeast tour Prime Minister Narendra  Modi arrived in Assam Friday Feb 08,2019 where he was shown black flags in protest against the citizenship bill.

The Prime Minister halted overnight in Guwahati, before travelling to Arunachal Pradesh on Saturday morning. He will travel back to Assam to address a rally at Changsari, around 30 km from Guwahati, and then travel to Tripura to address another rally in Agartala

 In Tripura, three MPs of opposition CPI (M) announced that they will boycott Modi’s programme.

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