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Govt making efforts to discuss CAG report on coal with opposition

Attacking BJP for disrupting Parliament proceedings, Government today said it was making all efforts to persuade the main opposition party to discuss the CAG report on coal block allocation.

"We are making all efforts to persuade opposition tocome for discussion," Law Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters afterParliament was paralysed for the second day running with the BJP pressing forresignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the issue.

The Minister also rejected the opposition's demand forSingh's resignation, saying, "Entire nation accepts that we are fortunateto have such a Prime Minister and that such a Prime Minister is leadingus."

Khurshid termed as "unfortunate" the continuousdisruption of Parliament where MPs come "every morning with hope,expectations and aspirations of the people of our country".

"We are frustrating (the people) because we are unableto speak to each other. We (Government) have offered a full debate and we arewilling to offer everything that we have and place that before the people, tothe House," he said.

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Harish Rawat andMinister of State for Power K C Venugopal also hit out at the BJP fordisrupting the House proceedings.

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Northeast exodus: Pak rejects India's assertion, seeks evidence

Pakistan has rejected as "unfounded" India's assertion that elements in this country were using social media networking sites to whip up communal sentiments and create a scare among people from northeast and asked New Delhi to provide evidence in this regard.

PTI
Published Aug 20, 2012, 8:35 AM IST
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The matter figured in a phone conversation betweenPakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik and his Indian counterpartSushilkumar Shinde.Malik said he has asked India to provide evidence thatelements in Pakistan had used social media networking sites to whip up communalsentiments."The Indian minister has said that rumours weregenerated from Pakistan through cellular services," Malik told reportersreferring to his phone conversation with Shinde yesterday."I had requested him…

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