A late-night call jolted several senior officers out of sleep as Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan convened an online meeting of his ministry around 10.45 pm, Wednesday, it is learnt. The meeting link was shared around 10.30 pm and officers were notified only minutes earlier. During virtual discussion, the minister is understood to have reviewed preparations for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s programme — to launch Pulses Mission and PM Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana — on Friday in the Capital and expressed dissatisfaction with certain arrangements made for an event he attended at Pusa earlier in the day.

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