Parliament LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Rajya Sabha today as the House bid farewell to retiring members.

Parliament LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Rajya Sabha today as the House bid farewell to retiring members.

Ghulam Nabi Azad in rajya Sabha

• Ajay K. Bhagat
  
• UPDATED ON:FEBRUARY 9, 2021, 1:40 PM IST

 

 

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• Parliament LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi became emotional in Rajya Sabha today as the House bid farewell to Congress veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad. “Posts come, high office comes, power comes and how to handle these, one must learn from Ghulam Nabi Azad Ji. I would consider him a true friend,” PM Modi said. He also remembered former President Pranab Mukherjee, another Congress veteran with whom he shared a strong rapport. “I will never forget Shri Azad's efforts and Shri Pranab Mukherjee's efforts when people from Gujarat were stuck in Kashmir due to a terror attack. Ghulam Nabi Ji was constantly following up, he sounded as concerned as if those stuck were his own family members,” said the PM.
   
   

A joint team of the ITBP, Indian Army, SDRF and NDRF has mounted a massive rescue mission to breach another tunnel in Tapovan where 39 people, including plant workers and senior officials, are said to be stuck. The team had earlier managed to enter the tunnel but could only reach about 100 metres before they were forced to retreat as sludge and water blocked their way. Uttarakhand Chief Minister has announced Rs 4 lakh compensation for the family of those killed. Rawat also said teams from the police, the Army and the ITBP, as well as from the national and state disaster response forces, were "doing their best to save the lives of the workers at sites affected by the disaster".

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Home Minister Amit Shah will make a statement in Rajya Sabha today on the Uttarakhand tragedy in which 26 bodies have been recovered so far and rescue teams have launched multiple operations to search for those missing. 

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The Nandadevi Glacier burst early on Sunday caused a flash flood in the region, leading to damage to hydro projects and several people missing. According to the Uttarakhand Disaster Management Centre, the whereabouts of 197 people are still being traced. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda and Shah had interacted with Uttarakhand MPs, discussed relief efforts and future course of action over the disaster. PM modi gets emotional during speech.

The massive flood came as a grim reminder of the Kedarnath deluge of 2013 which led to widespread devastation in the ecologically fragile Himalayan region. A devastating natural disaster in the form of torrential rains of unseen magnitude had struck Kedarnath on 16-17 June in 2013. The banks of the Chorabari lake in Kedarnath had collapsed due to a cloudburst that had resulted in a major flash flood causing widespread destruction in Uttarakhand and led to heavy losses to infrastructure, agriculture lands, human and animal lives.

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However, unlike the Kedarnath tragedy which struck after a downpour, the flash flood on Sunday occurred on a bright and sunny morning which helped in relief and rescue operations by police, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and ITBP personnel in the affected areas.