Politics

The incident occurred when Priyanka Gandhi was heading to the residence of retired IPS officer SR Darapuri, who was arrested in connection with the recent anti-CAA protests.

Shahid Khawaja becomes the first JD(U) leader to quit over the contentious law but Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is yet to accept his resignation.

The Maharashtra BJP leadership has been attacking the Shiv Sena and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray since he parted ways with the Amit Shah-led party last month.

Opposition leaders, including TDP president and former CM Chandrababu Naidu and BJP leader Lanka Dinakar, have spoken out against Reddy over the issue and extended their support to the farmers’ protest.

Days before the Ghaziabad Police lodged an FIR against him, AAP MLA's name surfaced during the investigation in the violent protest in South-East Delhi's Jamia Nagar.

The Congress noted that the BJP in its Jharkhand assembly election manifesto claimed it will implement the NRC and Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said it will be implemented across the country, but the prime minister is now claiming just the opposite.

The Assam government had earlier submitted an affidavit in the apex court praying for re-verification of 20 per cent names in the draft NRC in border districts, but the plea was denied.

Hitting out at PM Modi's comment from earlier this week in which he had said that the NRC was a lie being spread by the Opposition, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said that

Out of the 44 urban or semi-urban seats in Jharkhand, BJP was ahead in only 13 constituencies, whereas the opposition took the commanding position with leads/wins in 29 seats.

Despite the JMM-led pre-poll alliance leading on more seats, the BJP is still the single largest party in the state.

Gandhi said they can only be defeated by responding with love towards every Indian. His attack came as Modi, at a rally in Delhi, hit out at rival parties, accusing them of trying to spread falsehood over the Citizenship Act.

Prashant Kishor has batted for continuing peaceful protests on all platforms and pressuring non-BJP CMs against implementing NRC in their states.

Eight states, including Bihar, ruled by an NDA ally, have refused to implement the law and Maharashtra should also take a similar stand, the NCP chief said.

The exit poll conducted by IANS-C-Voter predicted that JMM and the Congress will together garner 31-39 seats in the 81-seat assembly, while the India Today-Axis My India exit poll gave 38-50 seats to the Congress-JMM alliance.

The Anantapur district police officers’ union has demanded an unconditional apology from former parliamentarian JC Diwakar Reddy.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said opposition parties are trying to mislead the people on the issue of Citizenship Amendment Act.