According to Jagdish Shettigar, chairman of BJP's economic cell and former member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, infrastructure, especially road building, will be a priority. It is now also certain that work on the controversial 111-km Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise connecting Bnagalore and Mysore will be accelerated. "We have always supported NICE," said a BJP leader.
"The BJP is totally opposed to the extension of President's Rule in Karnataka, based on specious procedural grounds of the commission not being in a position to complete the procedural work. We earnestly hope the commission will rise to the occasion and find administrative solutions for resolving this problem," BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said.
But the finance ministry has justified the action saying laws can be amended retrospectively through 'validating legislation,' which is legally permissible.
Various political parties and consumer organisations on Friday criticised cellular operators for misleading the consumers by hiding information about fixed charges to be paid for availing the facility of free incoming calls on mobile-to-mobile
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