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Criticising the merger of the Rail Budget with General Budget, he said it was done to hide the failures of ailways.

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'divisive India' as there are about 26 twitter handles which are spreading hatred and two such handles have been suspended by Twitter."

"They were invited to the Prime Minister's residence for a social gathering," the Trinamool MP claimed.

Criticising the merger of the Rail Budget with General Budget, he said it was done to hide the failures of ailways.

Freight earning was declining and it was not mentioned by the Finance Minister.

Referring to the joint ventures with various state governments in rail projects, he asked what will happen to those states who do not have money.

He also asked media and the corporate world to stand up.

"If you do not stand up now, you will never able to stand up." AIDMK MP Navneetkrishnan referred to the MGR centenary celebration and demanded that the Centre should do the needful to celebrate the MGR centenary in a befitting manner.

He also sought permanent exemption of NEET in Tamilnadu.

D Raja of CPI said the situation in the country is "very scary" and it is passing through a critical period but President's address and the government's response do not address the challenges.

"Democracy in the country is in unprecedented distress.

That poses a great challenge to the progress of the nation.

Situation is the country is very scary. People feel insecure," he said, while cautioning the government not to take people for granted.

Raja charged that the government is not taking Parliament into confidence for both foreign as well as domestic policies.

Citing examples of strategic partnership between India and US, he said: "Foreign policy is under pressure. It is being influenced by US. India is becoming subservient to US and a junior strategic ally of US".

Raja said the government is compromising on the independent foreign policy of the nation.

"National consensus (on foreign policy) is being broken by this government. This is my charge," he said and felt that country should pursue independent sovereign foreign policy.

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