Politics

Condemning the use of PSA against Farooq Abdullah, Asaduddin Owaisi questioned how the former J&K chief minister could be a threat as he had met PM Narendra Modi a day before the abrogation of Article 370.

The statements come at a time when the economy is facing a slowdown, which has threatened the employment scenario in the country.

Sunil Jakhar lost the Gurdaspur parliamentary seat to actor-politician Sunny Deol by a margin of 82,459 votes.

BJP MPs Jayant Sinha and P P Choudhary will head the panels on finance and external affairs respectively. In the previous Lok Sabha, Congress' Veerappa Moily and Shashi Tharoor used to head the two committees.

Sharing a graphic on Twitter, Bhonsle said Union ministers Amit Shah and Nitin Gadkari, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil will also attend the Delhi event.

Shivpal, the younger brother of SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, had floated his own political outfit — Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (PSP) — last year after alleging that he was not getting ‘due respect’ in the party.

Calling for the Centre to come out of its habit of 'headline management', Singh, an eminent economist himself, said the 'first step in a crisis is to acknowledge that we are facing one'.

A large contingent of police, including several DSPs, tied the main entrance gate of Naidu's riverfront residence with ropes and also shut other gates to prevent him from coming out.

Pradipta Nayak, Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, later asserted that the BJP continues to be the Opposition party and would continue to raise its voice against the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government’s “bad governance and illegal activities”.

Earlier, senior BJP leader Sanjay Paswan said that Nitish Kumar has held the post of Chief Minister for far too long and should now move to the Centre. CP Thakur had also said that BJP now deserves top post in Bihar.

Those disqualified included Dabwali MLA Naina Singh Chautala, wife of Ajay Singh Chautala and mother of JJP leader Dushyant Chautala. The other legislators are Anoop Dhanak (Uklana), Rajdeep Phogat (Dadri) and Prithi Singh (Narwana).

The chief minister's move came amid resentment among some Congress legislators over several issues, including denied ministerial berths.

The Dakshina Kannada MP Anant Kumar Hegde, known for his controversial remarks, took to Twitter on Monday to slam the officer and urged the Karnakata government to sack the ‘traitor'.

'The Kamal Nath-led government is facing various problems as the Chouhan-led BJP government looted the state as Turkish conqueror Mahmood Ghazni when he invaded India,' Singh said.

Abhishek Singhvi said that bail applications will be made in Chidambaram's case and they will be argued but the crux of the issue is whether there is a need for custodial interrogation after all this time.

The interim government of India, also known as the provisional government, was formed on this day in 1946 and lasted till the country got independence on August 15, 1947.