Politics

The West Bengal BJP has demanded Hakim's resignation from the mayor post and a statement from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the incident.

Delhi chief minister Arvnd Kejriwal's reply came after Amit Shah alleged that the AAP did not build new schools after coming to power and also that the condition of existing schools deteriorated.

The BJP's minority cell leaders who put in their papers on the contentious issues relating to the amended Citizenship Act were mostly from Indore, Mhow, Khargone and Dewas.

Anil Deshmukh said the cyber cell of the state police department has been directed to look into the complaints of phone-tapping and snooping of leaders who were then in the opposition.

Bagga is facing Surinder Kumar Setia of the Congress and Raj Kumari Dhillon of the AAP in the February 8 elections for the 70-member Delhi Assembly.

The party is pitching its leaders to campaign in each constituency but it is not clear whether party chief Mayawati will be hitting the campaign trail in Delhi.

Raj Thackeray began his mega rally in Mumbai's Goregaon by garlanding the picture of Savarkar along with B R Ambedkar, Probodhankar Thackeray and Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

Replying to a question on the ongoing agitations on the university campuses, UGC vice-chairman Bhushan Patwardhan said the premises should be protected and used only for academic purposes.

Speaking at the Kolkata Literary Meet, Shashi Tharoor also claimed the real 'tukde tukde gang' is the ruling party which is dividing the country into bits and pieces.

Addressing a rally after leading a mega 4-km-long protest march through Darjeeling, Mamata Banerjee said the Centre is trying to push CAA only in non-BJP ruled states.

The Samajwadi Party president and former chief minister said that he is willing to speak on these issues at any place and time decided by thhe BJP, which is dividing the country on religious and communal lines.

Tuseed joins the ranks of former DUSU presidents from the National Students' Union of India, like Ajay Maken and Alka Lamba, to make a shift to party politics.

The Akali Dal had announced on Monday that it would not contest the Delhi polls next month after it was asked by the BJP to change its stand on the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

The announcement came after the Delhi High Court set aside the election of Jitender Tomar for giving false declaration regarding his educational qualification in his nomination papers for the 2015 Delhi assembly polls.

Farmers from 29 villages in Amaravati, who gave their lands in pooling to the previous government for a capital in Amaravati, have been protesting against the YSRCP government over the proposal.

JP Nadda was one of the youth leaders mentored by former RSS ideologue Bal Apte in the ’80s and ’90s who made the cut and graduated from the ABVP to the BJP.