All NDA partners on board on land Bill, claims govt

The partners in the ruling NDA combine are all on board on the land acquisition Bill and will vote in its favour in Lok Sabha after the government today reached out to them in order to secure their support in this regard, sources said.
According to sources, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu at a meeting today talked to leaders of all the NDA allies, who expressed solidarity with the government on the land Bill.
Naidu, the sources said, also talked to Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and sought his cooperation in this regard. Thackeray told Naidu that his party would support the Bill and vote for it in Lok Sabha, the sources added.

Senior Akali Dal leader Prem Singh Chandumajra, meanwhile, told PTI, "Our party is on board and will support the Bill as the government has agreed to 90 per cent of our amendments. We will vote in favour of the Bill."
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley along with Naidu and Rural Development Minister Birender Singh briefed the NDA allies on the Bill and the amendments to be moved by the government to address the concerns raised over it.
The crucial Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015, which was moved for consideration and passage by Singh yesterday in Lok Sabha, will be put to voting later today in Lok Sabha.

The meeting of NDA leaders was attended by TDP's Ashok Gajapathi Raju and YS Chowdhary, Anant Geete and Anil Desai of Shiv Sena, Ram Vilas Paswan and Chirag Paswan of LJP, Anupriya Patel of Apna Dal, Neiphiu Rio of Nagaland People's Front, Raju Shetty of Swabhimani Paksha, Prem Das Rai of Sikkim Democratic Front and Harsimrat Kaur Badal of Akali Dal.