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Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri has dismissed rumours of an impending lockdown in India as completely false, stating there is no such proposal under consideration by the Government of India.

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00:00So this is very important, remember, India's Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas,
00:04Haradeep Singh Puri, has put out that elaborate statement
00:06and that will now be followed by Prime Minister meeting also with the Chief Ministers.
00:09But I just want to reiterate what Haradeep Singh Puri has said
00:12because this has been a main concern.
00:13I have had a lot of questions from viewers asking
00:16if there is going to be a lockdown anytime soon and if they should brace for it.
00:20Rumours of a lockdown in India are completely false.
00:23Let me state this clearly, Haradeep Singh Puri says,
00:26there is no such proposal under consideration by the government of India
00:29in these times, important that we remain calm, responsible, united.
00:33Attempts to spread rumours and create panic are irresponsible and harmful.
00:38But he is also adding to reassure that in the face of global uncertainties,
00:42we are acting in a timely and a coordinated manner.
00:46The supplies of fuel, energy, critical supplies are all stable.
00:50Now this is what the government is saying right now, of course,
00:52remains to be seen what happens in the next one to two months.
00:56But the panic buying, the hoarding, the lockdown rumour-mongering
00:59is definitely dangerous for now.
01:03So this is what the government strategy is going to be.
01:06And also remember, amid all of this, the fact is,
01:08even though India is not directly involved in the West Asia war,
01:11in fact has asked for hostilities to end,
01:14but we have seen clearly the impact of it.
01:16There has been the LPG cylinder concerns.
01:19There is, of course, a certain order that has gone around that where there is an option,
01:23an alternative available for the pipe natural gas.
01:26The infrastructure needs to be immediately put in place.
01:29At 6.30pm, that is what Prime Minister Modi will be discussing
01:33with the state governments, barring the ones heading for elections.
01:37On your screen are the five specific agendas
01:40that the Prime Minister will be discussing.
01:42In this time, we have to ask ╤А╨░╨┤╨╕ the side of Canada and the region it isicular as the
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