LIVE: PM Modi inaugurates International Cooperation and Convention Centre 'Rudraksh' in Varanasi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi where he inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth Rs 1500 crore on Thursday (July 15, 2021).

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi where he inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth Rs 1500 crore on Thursday (July 15, 2021). As per Prime Minister's Office (PMO), these projects which the PM will inaugurate are worth around Rs 744 crores while public works cost nearly Rs 839 crores. He inaugurated the International Cooperation and Convention Centre - Rudraksh, which has been constructed with Japanese assistance. 

A TMC delegation will meet Election Commission officials in Delhi today to demand conduct of bypolls and pending elections to seven assembly seats of West Bengal, as the COVID-19 situation has improved. The byelections are of critical importance to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who lost the assembly poll to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram.

The Samajwadi Party (SP) will hold sit-in demonstration across Uttar Pradesh against violence in recertly concluded in Panchayat elections. 'Rigging' in Panchayat elections, rising inflation, unemployment, MSP of farmers, payment of outstanding sugarcane farmers, rising prices of petrol and diesel, deteriorating law and order and crimes against women will be among the main issues which will be raised by the SP during the protests. 

AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi will hold first rally in Moradabad, western UP today ahead of state Assembly elections in 2022. 

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