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Food Security Bill: Govt reaches out to Mulayam
Seeking to form a consensus on the ambitious Food Security Bill, the government has reached out to Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, whose party is opposed to the measure. #Manmohan Singh #UPA #Congress #Samajwadi Party #Lok Sabha #Kamal Nath #Mulayam Singh Yadav #Food Security Bill #Sushilkumar Shinde #Sharad Yadav
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Dear MPs, please heed Lancet and debate the Food Security Bill
Even as the UPA government is trying to enact the National Food Security Bill one last time through the Parliament, two significant global initiatives on nutrition took place last week that must be noted by India. #India #Sonia Gandhi #UPA #Congress #ConnectTheDots #Women #Food Security Bill #parliament #children
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Congress core committee meet to discuss Food Bill, cabinet reshuffle
The Congress has already said that it will be in talks with the Opposition in order to get support to pass the Food Security Bill. #Politics #India #Sonia Gandhi #Congress #PoliticalPlay #Rahul Gandhi #Food Security Bill #Congress Core Committee
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Food security: For poors sake, jholawalas must speak up
The subsidy to the rich accounts for more than 7 percent of the GDP while that for the poor, with the food security act, would account for 1.1 percent. #Economy #CAG #ConnectTheDots #PolicyWatch #Food Security Bill #poor
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Food Security Bill: Better never than late?
Opposition parties are most probably opposing the Food Security Bill because they do not want to look anti-poor in an election year, said Opinion Editor of The Financial Express, Sunil Jain. #WhyNow #Congress #Samajwadi Party #Food Security Bill
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BJP for passing food security bill with amendments
The BJP on Thursday said it favoured passing the food security bill in the monsoon session of parliament with "some amendments". #BJP #NewsTracker #Food Security Bill
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UPA wants to rub salt on common man's wounds with Food Bill: Modi
Amid the Centre's efforts to push implementation of the ambitious National Food Security Bill, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said that Congress-led UPA government was rubbing salt on the wounds of people already grappling with price hike. #Inflation #UPA #Narendra Modi #TheySaidIt #Food Security Bill #price hike
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Need to discuss food bill properly: NCP
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Thursday welcomed the UPA government's decision to take up the controversial National Food Security Bill in a special session of parliament, saying that it needs to be discussed throughly #UPA #parliament #NCP #National Food Security Bill #Ordinance
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Food ordinance postponed, Govt to try for Parliament special session instead
The union cabinet has decided against pushing through the food security ordinance, and have decided to reach out to the opposition one more time and attempt to pass it through a special session in Parliament. #Politics #Sonia Gandhi #UPA #Congress #BJP #sushma swaraj #Sharad Pawar #NewsTracker #Lok Sabha #Food Security Bill #Special session of Parliament #Food Ordinance
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Cabinet likely to pass ordinance on Food Security Bill today
With Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's pet National Food Security Bill stuck in parliament, the government is set to introduce it via an ordinance. Food Minister K V Thomas said the ordinance would be considered by the union cabinet on Thursday. #India #Sonia Gandhi #Manmohan Singh #UPA #Congress #BJP #Sharad Pawar #NewsTracker #Union Cabinet #Food Security Bill #parliament #Ordinance