new Delhi: Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday that the Government of India has made all its preparations for the Haj pilgrimage this year (Haj Yatra 2022) and it is going to meet Saudi Arabia in this regard. Waiting for the government’s decision. Naqvi said this in response to the issue of non-compliance of Haj pilgrimage for two years by a member during Zero Hour in Rajya Sabha.
Naqvi said, “Indians have not been able to go on Haj pilgrimage for the last two years during the Corona epidemic. This time we are trying. We have preparations.” He said that Haj pilgrimage takes place in Saudi Arabia and it is for the government to decide on it. He said, “The Saudi government has to decide when the Haj pilgrimage will take place and how many people will leave India. As soon as the government of Saudi Arabia decides, we are with it. We have completed our preparations.”
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Naqvi said that after the formation of the government under the leadership of Narendra Modi at the Center, a record more than two lakh Haj pilgrims have gone to Haj from India. Earlier, Trinamool Congress member Mohd Nadimul Haque raised the issue saying that Haj pilgrimage has not been able to take place for the last two years due to COVID-19. He said that many people have filled and submitted the form for the yatra but the situation has not been clarified by the Ministry of Minorities.
He said that 11 members have been nominated in the Haj Committee and there were some flaws in it. He said that four joint secretaries do not have the right to vote and no members are brought from different states, they have not been elected yet. YS Choudhary, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Andhra Pradesh, raised the issue of Polavaram project during the Shukkal. He said that the project was originally conceived before independence and then its foundation stone was laid in 1980.
He said that successive governments have consistently ignored this project. He said that in the year 2008, the then Chief Minister Rajasekhara Reddy took the project forward without taking permission. He said that later after his death, the state government awarded the contract for the project to a company which was not eligible. Chowdhury said that after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the central government has agreed to accept this project as a national project and complete it.
He said that Andhra Pradesh is suffering a lot due to non-completion of this project, so the central government should complete this project by taking it in its hands. Congress’s Rajni Patil demanded that the Asiatic lions settled in the Gir forests in Gujarat should be made shelters in some selected places of the country. He said that Asiatic lions are very dear to the people of India. So they should not be kept in one place.
“By making separate shelters for them, the lions will also be protected,” he said. Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar of Telugu Desam Party said that Amaravati will become the capital of Andhra Pradesh, the situation has now become clear, so the central government and various central ministries should start the work of setting up their offices there so that people can get employment there. (agency)