Earlier in the day, the Indian Prime Minister tweeted, "Captain Smit Machchhar is a HERO. In the face of the gravest danger and despite being seriously injured, he showed immense courage and an unwavering resolve to protect the lives of others."
"Subhash Garg raised questions about the 590 million accounts, 150 million inactive accounts, and zero balances of the Jan Dhan Yojana, but do these numbers truly tell the whole story?"
The proposal has already received support from some NDA Chief Ministers. Chief Ministers of Goa, Uttarakhand, Haryana and Delhi have expressed support for synchronising elections during their interactions with the parliamentary committee.
The initiative made use of abundant glacier and snowmelt resources of Ladakh to resolve the historic irrigation shortage for its vast swathe of cultivable land.
The NPR, which was initially proposed to be conducted alongside the first phase of the Census, was put on the back burner following stiff opposition from left-liberal groups and Muslim organisations across the country.
While 'The Indian Express' has been able to prove nothing, it did win the narrative war temporarily. Their clickbait headline convinced amateur political enthusiasts that a scandal exists where it doesn't.