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The attack appears to have taken place due to complicity and anti-Hindu attitude of the ruling party, VHP national assistant secretary Achchutanand Kar said at a press confrenece at Malda.

Among other queries, the ministry was asked whether the Indian economy is in a difficult phase due to recession, and most of the international agencies have also confirmed this.

While hearing a PIL, the high court had recently ordered the state government officials not to shift the offices and warned them that if they did, the expenditure shall be borne by them.

Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said violence is being orchestrated by the government, which is being "both arrogant and insensitive".

The budget presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman was far removed from reality, said Uddhav Thackeray, a former ally of the BJP.

Shah said the budget will contribute significantly in fulfilling the Modi government's resolve to double the income of farmers by making provision for irrigation and grain storage.

During the assembly poll campaign, BJP leaders have been urging people to vote for the party to show their disapproval for the ongoing anti-CAA protest at Shaheen Bagh.

Parvesh Verma, the son of late Delhi chief minister Sahib Singh Verma, is among several BJP leaders who have sought to make the Shaheen Bagh protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) the central plank of February 8 assembly elections.

Akhilesh Yadav has been a vocal critic of CAA. Recently his 14-year-old daughter Tina Yadav was spotted at Lucknow's Husainabad Clock Tower, where hundreds of women have been sitting on a protest.

The MLA, who is seeking reelection from Okhla constituency, has been criticised for supporting Jamia students during a protest against the citizenship law last month.

Based on the locals’ complaints, the police lodged a case against Devangan for intimidation. However, Devangan, who had contested against his own brother Chandrahas, is now on the run.

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The EC has also ordered his removal from the BJP's list of star campaigners. The notice said the AAP had approached the Delhi chief electoral officer with a complaint.

The Shiromani Akali Dal earlier this month said that it will not contest the polls as it was asked by its ally BJP to change its stance on CAA. However, BJP J P Nadda on Wednesday had announced that the SAD would support his party in the elections.

She alleged that 'anti-national slogans are being raised at Shaheen Bagh', where protests are going on against the Citizenship Amendment Act since the law was passed in Parliament last month.

Home minister Amit Shah attacked the AAP and the Congress for opposing the CAA which was meant for providing citizenship to minorities like Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhishts 'persecuted' in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.