Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh will fly to Patna on Friday to meet Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and discuss the release of funds for laying 6,000 kilometres of roads in different districts of the state.
Soon after the meeting Jairam Ramesh is expected to discuss political issues with Nitish Kumar with a focus on JD (U) votes for Food Security and Land Reforms Bills in Monsoon session.
Congress hopes to secure the support of 18 JD (U) MPs as it is going to release funds to the state.
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Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet president Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday evening, to brief him about infrastructure and other pending issues in the state.
Modi's visit to Rashtrapathi Bhavan is significant as he would be driving straight from BJP office after attending his first meeting as chairman of BJP campaign committee for 2014 Lok Sabha Polls.
Modi is to invite Pranab Mukherjee to visit Gandhi Nagar on July 26, on the completion of the latter's first year in office as the president.
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A statue of Mahatma Gandhi statue is coming up on the Rashtrapathi Bhavan compound. President Mukherjee is to unveil it on July 26, when he completes his first year in office.
National Geographic Channel has been approached to make a documentary on the Rashtrapati Bhavan which will be  telecast in the last week of July. The documentary will be presented to visiting foreign dignitaries in a digital format.
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Congress has effectively tamed DMK by extending the votes of its five MLAs in the Tamil Nadu assembly to the party president Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi in her bid for a Rajya Sabha seat.
Insiders, however, deny that the party has shifted from its demand for the summoning of prime minister and finance minister for questioning by the joint parliamentary committee on the 2G scam.
Also, the word is that former telecom minister and DMK MP A Raja is planning to write a letter to the JPC chairperson divulging the contents of a personal letter from Russian president Valadimir Putin to prime minister Manmohan Singh and imploring the JPC to summon Singh to ask him why the prime minister's office opened the floodgates for 2G spectrum allocation.