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Taking to Twitter, the former finance minister gave a "ground report" of the situation during the ongoing nationwide lockdown, saying banks are open but have stopped giving jewel loans to the middle class.

Chidambaram also welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remark, while interacting with chief ministers, that 'both lives and livelihoods are important'.

Many of the prominent names in the industry are planning forays into electoral politics and don't want to be seen as aligning with anyone by donating to the central or state government funds.

He also recently spoke to various leaders including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, TMC leader Mamata Banerjee, DMK leader MK Stalin and discussed covid-19.

Army is summoned to fight enemies and not citizens, the former defence minister said in a 'Facebook live' program.

The chief minister has asked the state chief secretary to pass along to the 18 states the details of such people for "humanitarian support".

The Congress MLAs boycotted the state Assembly proceedings which have now been adjourned till March 27. Senior BJP MLA Jagdish Devda acted as the protem speaker after N P Prajapati resigned from the chair of Speaker on "moral grounds".

Serious differences have emerged in the party's Assam unit over the possibility of forming an alliance with Badruddin Ajmal's AIUDF for next year's assembly polls.

Amid a political tussle between the Congress and the BJP, Speaker of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly defied directives of state Governor Lalji Tandon to hold a floor test on Monday, prompting the BJP to approach the supreme court.

Accusing the Narendra Modi government of not being committed to the people, the Kerala unit of the CPI(M) demanded a rollback of the Rs 3 excise duty hike on petrol and diesel.

The environment minister said if the National Population Register was implemented, it should be done according to the procedure followed in 2010.

In the CEC, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, and Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari were also in attendance apart from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party chief JP Nadda.

Tandon is currently in Lucknow to celebrate Holi with his family and made the remarks in a conversation with an English news channel over the phone.

Stressing that Scindia was a central pillar of the party, Bishnoi, who is younger son of the former Haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal, felt that the Congress leadership should have done more to convince him to stay.

Senior BJP leader Narottam Mishra, who was accompanying Chouhan, said the resignation of 20 ministers is an indication that something is wrong in the Congress.

Mamata Banerjee declared the nomination of former union minister Dinesh Trivedi, TMC’s state unit president Subrata Bakshi, artist-turned-politician Arpita Ghosh and former MP Mausam Benazir Noor on Twitter.