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Congress, government spar in Lok Sabha over donations to PM Cares Fund
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Last Updated: Mar 15, 2021, 03:39 PM IST
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The Prime Minister s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund was established in March last year with the primary objective to deal with any kind of emergency situation like the one currently posed by the COVID-19 outbreak and provide relief to those affected.
The Congress and the government traded barbs in Lok Sabha on Monday over donations to the PM Cares Fund, with the opposition party alleging that LIC gave money to the corpus instead of providing benefits to people and union minister Anurag Thakur hitting back at it over the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation accepting funds from China. During the Question Hour, acting Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Ravneet Singh said migrant labourers and the poor suffered during the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 10
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