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JD-U comes up with posters featuring Red Fort to hit back at BJP
Now, JD-U MLC Khalid Anwar invited Nitish Kumar as a chief guest in the Iftar party in his official residence in Phulwarisharif in Patna and in the background of the stage was the Red Fort, while the caption read: "People of Bihar are along with you. The country is waiting for you, Ramzan Mubarak."
Rajasthan BJP lures Brahmins, Rajputs, Jaats with eye on Assembly, LS polls
After appointing Chittorgarh MP C.P. Joshi as the Rajasthan BJP President, the party on Sunday named Rajendra Rathore as the Leader of Opposition, while Satish Poonia has been appointed as Rathore's deputy in the Assembly. While Joshi is a Brahmin, Rathore is a Rajput leader while Poonia hails from a Jaat background.
BJP slams Rahul Gandhi for in-person appeal in Surat court
Senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi said, "Had he (Rahul Gandhi) gone there to display his arrogance or to put pressure on the judiciary or to threaten the investigating agencies? "The way Rahul Gandhi turned the entire episode into a show is condemnable. He should have apologised to the OBC community first, but not doing so shows Congress' arrogance. He could have gone there as a common leader in a simple manner, but he had all the other corrupt Congress leaders with him."
Only BJP national leadership can decide on political alliance in TN: Palaniswami
Interacting with media persons at Salem, the AIADMK leader's comment came following state BJP leader K. Annamalai's "interpretation" of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement as it had "some nuances". Even as Union Minister of state for Information and Broadcasting and BJP's former state chief, L. Murugan has said that the alliance with the AIADMK would continue, Annamalai said that as of now the alliance was intact but elections for 2024 Lok Sabha are far off.
Mamata Banerjee sounds caution ahead of Hanuman Jayanti on April 6
"I am asking my administration as well as the common people to remain alert on April 6. We all respect Bajrangbali, and we do not want any tension or violence in his name. The youth should come forward in preventing any kind of tension," the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said while addressing an administrative review meeting at Khejuri in East Midnapore district.
Truth is my weapon in this struggle to save democracy: Rahul Gandh
In series of tweets in Hindi, Gandhi proclaimed that it was "a fight to save democracy" and against "mitra kaal", and "in this struggle, truth is my weapon and truth is my shelter". Earlier, Rahul Gandhi reached Surat, accompanied by sister and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi while various Congress Chief Ministers received him at the airport.
Stay on conviction must to restore Rahul Gandhi's Lok Sabha membership, say legal experts
Speaking to IANS, senior advocate Sanjay Hedge said according to the Supreme Court judgment in the Lily Thomas case, a stay on the conviction is sufficient and if the sessions court stays Rahul's conviction, then the Lok Sabha secretariat could restore Gandhi's membership.
Rahul Gandhi gets bail in defamation case, next hearing on April 13
Earlier, the former president of Congress, arrived in Surat to file the appeal in sessions court against a lower court's order that found him guilty of criminal defamation. The charges stemmed from a remark he made in April 2019 while campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka's Kolar.
At 3,641, India sees slight dip in Covid cases
The active caseload in the country currently stands at 20,219, while the active cases are pegged at 0.05 per cent. The national recovery rate was recorded at 98.76 per cent, as per the ministry's data. As many as 1,800 recoveries in the last 24 hours took the total recoveries to 4,41,75,135.
While the daily positivity rate stood at 6.12 per cent, the Weekly Positivity Rate was 2.45 per cent. A total of 59,512 tests have been conducted in the last 24 hours.
Excise policy scam: Sisodia's judicial custody extended till April 17
CBI Judge M.K. Nagpal of the Rouse Avenue Courts ordered the AAP leader to be produced before the court on April 17.The central probe agency had sought the extension of Sisodia's custody as the investigation is at a crucial stage. On March 31, the court had dismissed former Deputy Chief Minister's bail plea. While denying him bail, Judge Nagpal had said that Sisodia can, prima facie, be held to be the "architect of the criminal conspiracy".
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