Politics

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia launched the slogan, 'Acche beete paanch saal-Lage raho Kejriwal' (the last five years went well, keep going Kejriwal) in presence of AAP MLAs and other party leaders.

CM Jagan Mohan Reddy is said to have asked ministers and legislators belonging to the minority community to create awareness among Muslims and assure them the government would not do anything that goes against their interests.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to examine the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act but refused to stay its operation.

The BJP and Shiv Sena had fought the 2015 Aurangabad civic polls together.

Condemning the violence at Jamia Millia University in Delhi, the West Bengal CM said the 'torture meted out to the students at the varsity was unprecedented'.

Irani also called Congress leaders for a debate on a public platform over comparison in performance of the Narendra Modi-led government and 55 years of Congress rule.

Last week, Prashant Kishor had expressed disappointment over JD(U) supporting the citizenship amendment bill in the Lok Sabha and urged Nitish Kumar to revisit the decision.

Narendra Modi, in a series of tweets in both English and Assamese, said the identity of the people of Assam will be preserved and will continue to grow, even as the northeastern state continued to simmer against the contentious legislation.

The contentious bill, aimed at amending the Citizenship Act, 1955 to make non-Muslim migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan eligible for Indian citizenship, was passed by the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Congress workers along with UPCC chief staged protest against CAB at Gandhi Park in Hazratganj area of Lucknnow and had burnt the copies of the Bill.

While on paper, the BJP-led NDA appears to have a slim majority in the upper House, there still seem to be some uncertainties regarding a few parties’ stand on the issue — mainly the (JD-U) and Shiv Sena.

Khadse has met NCP president Sharad Pawar and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in the last two days, but maintained there were no political motives behind these meetings.

The bill seeks to provide Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan after facing religious persecution.

Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said there have been many incidents in the past -- from Kathua to Unnao -- where women or girls have been gangraped and killed.

Congress leader P Chidambaram claimed that the elected lawmakers were abdicating their responsibilities in favour of lawyers and judges.

Though government-run power firms are facing huge deficit as inherited from the previous BJP regime, power tariff is not going to increase as is being speculated, said Energy Minister Priyavrat Singh.