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BJP's Giriraj Singh demands survey of mosques, madrasas in Bihar
Firebrand Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union Minister, Giriraj Singh has demanded a survey of madrasas and mosques in Bihar similar to that in Uttar Pradesh. "We demanded from the Nitish Kumar government to conduct survey on the madrasas and mosques of Bihar, especially in Muslim-dominated Seemanchal region. We must have data about who are running madrasas and mosques in these regions and who are staying in them," Singh said.
Azad rally in Jammu vs Congress rally in Delhi
While the Congress has tweeted a video of a protest by party workers in Azad's home block against him, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh tweeted, "This is ground reality, not reality manufactured by people sitting in New Delhi in Modi Sarkar sanctioned bungalows with huge lawns and planting fake news."
On 43rd wedding anniversary, CM Pinarayi Vijayan caught up with PM Modi
Chief Minister Vijayan has been accompanying the Prime Minister who has been attending a few programmes at Kochi since Thursday. Vijayan himself shared it on social media, which has started getting a lot of traction. It was on September 2, 1979, that Vijayan and Kamala, then a teacher at St. Joseph School, Tellicherry got married.
Mangaluru turns saffron ahead of PM Modi's visit
PM Modi is scheduled to reach Mangaluru at 2 p.m. and inaugurate, lay foundation stones for projects worth Rs 3,800 crore. The PM will then address a public rally for which the party leaders are making all-out efforts to gather a massive crowd.
Situation normal in J&K on Geelani's first death anniversary
Geelani passed away on September 1, 2021 after prolonged illness at the age of 92. To keep the situation under control, the J&K administration had tightened the security immediately after Geelani's death, including snapping mobile internet services. Daily life in the Valley was normal on his first anniversary on Thursday. All the educational and government institutions remained open, while the markets also saw the usual rush. Public transport also ran normally and no untoward incident was reported from anywhere. Heavy deployment of police personnel was seen in Srinagar as a precautionary measure.
KCR 'insulted' Nitish Kumar, says Sushil Modi
"Nitish Kumar had invited KCR (as the Telangana Chief Minister is popularly known) to come to Patna to announce his name as a Prime Ministerial candidate but KCR refused to take his name forward. When Rao did not announce his name, Nitish Kumar stood from the chair but KCR then asked him to sit for a while... no bigger insult than this," PM Modi said. Sushil Modi further said that both Nitish Kumar and KCR have been dreaming to become prime minister in daylight.
Delhi CM resorting to diversionary tactics, levelling false accusations: L-G
In a full-scale of war of words, the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, V.K. Saxena, on Thursday hit back at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, stating that the latter has resorted to diversionary tactics and levelling false accusations, but these will not deter him for discharging his duties as the L-G. "I called for good governance, zero tolerance to corruption and better services for the people of Delhi.
Delhi Assembly passes confidence motion tabled by Kejriwal
No one voted against the motion as all BJP MLAs were absent from the house. Three of BJP MLAs were marshalled out of the Assembly for the entire session after an argument with Deputy Speaker Rakhi Birla who did not consider their demand to take up their calling attention notices before a discussion on the no-confidence motion.
BJP targets Nitish Kumar as Bihar law minister resigns
Taking a dig at the chief minister BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi said that the Nitish Kumar government lost its first wicket and is set to lose more soon. "The first wicket of Nitish Kumar government fell and more will tumble in future. Nitish Kumar was clean bowled in the first over," Modi said.
Controversy over electoral rolls as Congress gears up for presidential poll
Two Congress leaders, Manish Tewari and Karti Chidambaram, on Wednesday urged the Central Election Authority, headed by Madhusudan Mistry, to make the electoral rolls public and available on the Congress website. However, the CEA said that these rolls will be made available to candidates contesting elections. Tewari and Karti Chidambaram had raised concerns over the manner in which the presidential poll in the party is being held. Underlining the need of a well-defined electoral college, Karti Chidambaram said any ad hoc electoral college is meaningless.
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