Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 27 (ANI): Amid the political crisis in Maharashtra, a group of Shiv Sena workers, armed with lathis and sticks, allegedly vandalised the office of Independent MLA from Gondia Vinod Agrawal on Monday.

Guwahati Mar 30 PTI The Assam Assembly on Wednesday passed an amendment bill to increase its debt to Gross State Domestic Product GSDP ratio to 32 per cent and enhance the additional borrowing ceiling by 050 per cent of GSDP The Assam Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management AFRBM Amendment Bill 2022 was passed by voice vote after the Congress AIUDF and lone Independent MLA in the House staged a walkout protesting against the rise in government loans With the passage of the bill the Debt to GSDP ratio has been increased to 32 per cent from the existing 285 per cent for the next five financial years beginning from 2022-23 The additional borrowing ceiling has also been enhanced by 050 per cent of GSDP over and above the prescribed limit of 4 per cent for 2022-23 to 2024-25 which would be linked to power sector reforms through the amendment billFinance Minister Ajanta Neog moving the Bill maintained that the increase in the debt ratio and ceiling on borrowing was in the interest of the state Speaking against the amendment bill Opposition Congress MLA Bharat Narah maintained that the state has been able to achieve its target in only one out of the four parameters affixed for increasing borrowings Out of ease of doing business power reforms one nation one ration card and urban body reforms the state government has completed only the first clause he claimed Narah said the government should concentrate on decreasing expenditure rather than increasing loans AIUDF MLA Aminul Islam and Independent legislator Akhil Gogoi too voiced their opposition to the increased borrowings Neog in her response maintained that the state government was working within the permissible limits of the Central government She also assured the House that the additional funds will be used only for capital expenditure Not satisfied with the governments response the Opposition staged a walkout The Assembly also passed several other bills PTI SSG NN NN

Jaipur Mar 21 PTI Rajasthan assembly speaker CP Joshi on Monday said that PWD engineers should take heed of the sentiments of people so that unfortunate incidents like demolition of a welcome gate without removing idols of Ram Darbar atop it do not happen The Speaker said he had given some ruling when Churu MLA had raised the issue regarding Salasar and now he was correcting it now He made the remarks just before the house adjourned after passing of the Rajasthan Appropriation Bill number 2 2022 and Rajasthan Finance Bill 2022 Some points were brought to my notice I would like to tell the engineers of the Rajasthan governments PWD that public sentiments should be understood so that such unfortunate incidents do not happenthis is what I wanted to correct he said Earlier in the day during the zero hour the speaker had not allowed the Churu MLA and deputy leader of opposition Rajendra Rathore to raise the issue of demolition of Ram Darbar welcome gate on Salasar-Sujangarh saying that the matter pertained to the central government The gate was located on a road that leads to famous Salasar Balaji temple and was demolished for widening of the two-lane road into a four-lane one PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra told reporters outside the assembly that the welcome gate was constructed by an NGO on which there were idols of Ram Darbar made of plaster of Paris and were placed on the gate without Pran Pratishtha Pran Pratistha refers to a religious ritual performed while installing gods idol All the same he said it was unfortunate that the idols were not removed from the gate before demolishing it It is the responsibility of every government and every officer to ensure that no ones sentiments are hurt he said Dotasra alleged that BJP state president and other leaders have made phone calls to the priests of Salasar to start an agitation over the issue BJP leaders are calling the priests of the temple asking them to start an agitation BJP wants to give it an aggressive form he said They are left with just one work divide people in the name of religion he said Dotasra said that during the rule of previous BJP government led by Vasundhara Raje over 300 temples were demolished in Jaipur during the work of Jaipur metro rail He said that idols in those temples were installed after Pran Pratistha but they were demolished Independent MLA and CMs Advisor Sanyam Lodha claimed that widening of the road was a project of NHAI and the state government was not responsible for the demolition BJP MLA and chief spokesperson Ramlal Sharma maintained that the demolition hurt the sentiments of the people The gate was demolished last week PTI SDA VN VN

Panaji (Goa) [India], March 10 (ANI): Amid ongoing counting of votes, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party has won the Assembly elections by a majority.