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This Tuesday, a massive news flow is expected today.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Jammu and Kashmir to address a rally and launch Kashmir’s first electric train. Home Minister Amit Shah will be attending an election management committee meeting in Rajasthan.
The special session of the Maharashtra legislature on Maratha reservation will also commence today.
On the international front, the UN Security Council is expected to vote on an Arab-backed resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and the United Kingdom High Court will hear Julian Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to the US.
Here’s a quick roundup of the important stories expected to take place during the day.
PM Modi in J&K
The Indian leader is set to address a public rally at Maulana Azad Stadium in Jammu and Kashmir today, 20 February.
He will also inaugurate and lay foundation stones of projects worth over Rs 30,500 crore in the state during his visit. This will also include the inauguration of three IIMs, with one in Jammu.
PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone of the new terminal building of Jammu Airport and the Common User Facility Petroleum Depot in Jammu, among others.
Special session on Maratha reservation
A special session of the Maharashtra legislature on the Maratha community reservation is slated to be held today.
Maratha reservation campaigner Manoj Jarange-Patel, who is undertaking a fast-unto-death, said on Monday, his 10th day of hunger strike, that the community wants actual reservation and not mere assurances.
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Amit Shah in Rajasthan
Union Minister Amit Shah will visit Bikaner to attend the BJP’s election management committee meetings today. He is set to visit three Lok Sabha seats of Bikaner cluster.
Bikaner cluster in-charge and former state president Satish Poonia said that BJP is determined to accomplish Mission 25 in the desert state with the slogan of “Phir Ek Baar Modi Sarkar.”
Punjab governor to visit border districts
Punjab governor Banwarilal Purohit will be visiting the five districts along the International Border in Punjab starting today. The visit comes due to concern over drugs and weapons being pushed from Pakistan across the border into Indian territory using drones and other means.
Notably, this will be the Governor’s sixth visit to the border areas in the past two-and-a-half years.
He will be visiting Pathankot, Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Taran Taran, Ferozepur, and Fazilka districts. He will hold meeting with central agencies and state government officials to review the progress made since his previous visit, and to address any new issues.
Akhilesh Yadav likely to join Rahul Gandhi’s yatra
Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav will likely join the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Amethi and Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh.
Earlier on Monday, he had said that he will join the yatra only after the finalisation of seat-sharing between the SP and the Congress for the UP seats for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
The Amethi and Raebareli parliamentary constituencies are among the Congress’ few remaining strongholds in the state.
Banihal-Sangaldan section of Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link to open
The Indian Railways today will inaugurate the train services on the 49.1 kilometre-long Banihal-Khari-Sumber-Sangaldan section.
It is a significant part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link Project and will be operational starting today.
Earlier, sharing a glimpse of the MEMU train trial on the Khari-Sangaldan section, the Ministry of Railways wrote on its official X handle, “Step towards eco-friendly rail connectivity in J&K!”
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