Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tables budget for J&K

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget for J&K todayPhoto : PTINew Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on Monday, presented the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in the Lok Sabha. She also presented the supplementary demands for grants, demands for grants, and demands for excess grants for Jammu and Kashmir, in the Lower House of the Parliament.”Finance Minister to present a statement of estimated receipts and expenditure of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the year 2022-23,” an official statement read earlier today.The second half of the Budget session, which began on Monday will conclude on April 8. The first half of the Budget session took place between January 31 and February 11. Sitharaman tabled the budget for Jammu and Kashmir at a time when a massive political debate has been raging on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley.BJP-Congress exchange barbs over The Kashmir FilesCoinciding with the release of the film- The Kashmir Files, the BJP and Congress are engaged in a blame game slamming each other for the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley. Over the weekend, Kerala Congress blamed the BJP for supporting the VP Singh government despite the migration of Kashmiri Pandits during his tenure.The BJP was quick to hit back with a photograph of former PM Manmohan Singh and now-jailed separatist leader Yasin Malik. Kerala BJP leader KJ Alphons said that Congress’ version of history is ‘distorted’. “They were murdered, there was a genuine fear for their lives, so they left…things have improved dramatically after the revocation of Article 370,” he added.

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