Finance Minister Arun Jaitley defends land acquisition bill, says UPA’s law was a threat to national security, Calling the Land Acquisition Act, 2013 a “defective piece of legislation”, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that the amendments introduced in it through the ordinance in December had corrected those anomalies, some of which had affected national security projects.
Participating in the Rajya Sabha debate on the President’s address to the joint session, Jaitley asked the opposition parties not to make infrastructure and industry “bad words” in the garb of taking pro-poor and pro-farmer positions.
An argument is being made that the (amendment) Bill is anti-farmer and anti-poor…You (Congress) have been in government for far more years than us…You know…Please don’t create an environment where infrastructure and industry become bad words….....Read More
Participating in the Rajya Sabha debate on the President’s address to the joint session, Jaitley asked the opposition parties not to make infrastructure and industry “bad words” in the garb of taking pro-poor and pro-farmer positions.
An argument is being made that the (amendment) Bill is anti-farmer and anti-poor…You (Congress) have been in government for far more years than us…You know…Please don’t create an environment where infrastructure and industry become bad words….....Read More
