New Delhi: Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday urged Congress president Sonia Gandhi to consider the land acquisition bill in the national interest and not on political grounds.
In a letter written in Hindi, Gadkari said: “The UPA government deliberately made such arrangements that largescale land acquisitions were out of the ambit of social impact assessment. On the other hand, land acquisition by states got entangled in these procedures. Did you make this arrangement to help private companies?”
The letter comes days after Gandhi wrote to Gadkari making it clear that her party won’t support the bill pending in the Rajya Sabha to replace the ordinance already in place amending the 2013 land acquisition act.
“There would be decrease in precipitation from today (Monday). Another western disturbance is likely to hit the state on April 2, but the intensity of that western disturbance is going to be much less than the one that had been active here during the last four days,” Sonam Lotus, director of the local Met Office, told IANS.
The central government was in constant touch with the government of Jammu and Kashmir, and monitoring the flood situation.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
No breach of embankment has been reported, an official statement said.
Two teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deputed and four other teams kept on stand-by.