Liz Mathew

“When (Deputy CM) Manish Sisodia declared his support (for Shaheen Bagh), he was trying to consolidate Muslim votes. When (CM) Arvind Kejriwal said we (BJP) are backing Pakistan by granting Hindus citizenship, he was terming half of Delhi as Pakistanis,” Anil Jain said.

Addressing a rally in Mangaluru, Singh said: “On NRC, I want to ask you: should every country not know how many citizens live and foreigners live on its soil? I want to ask, doesn’t a country have the right to know how many people are its citizens?”

In a letter to all the parish priests under his diocese, Paul Antony Mullassery, the Bishop of Kollam in Kerala, has asked all the parishes as well as Catholic organisations to read the Preamble and take a pledge to protect the Constitution on Sunday, Republic Day.

In a letter to all the parish priests under his diocese, Bishop of Kollam in Kerala, has asked all the parishes as well as Catholic organisations to read the preamble and take a pledge to protect the Constitution on Sunday.

When contacted by The Indian Express, Vijayvargiya said his comments had been “twisted” by rivals and that he was only trying to drive home the importance of the Act to “differentiate between refugees and infiltrators”.

The nurse, who hails from Ettumanoor in Kerala’s Kottayam district, is believed to have got the virus from a Philippines national who was under treatment in Al-Hayat Hospital where she worked in southwestern Saudi Arabia’s Khamis Mushait.

With J P Nadda succeeding BJP’s most successful president ever, Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was sure the party would scale newer heights during Nadda’s presidency.

Nadda, who was the only one in the fray, takes over from Amit Shah as the BJP’s 11th president.

Nadda, party leaders say, is unlikely to take any big decision on his own for some time. Sources in BJP said even changes made over the last two days were primarily Shah’s choices.

Azad, who was told by the court to not attack the PM while being granted bail, said the “Bharatiyata (Indianness)” in him is stronger than in many in the government.

CAA Protest Today News: A Delhi court had granted bail to the Bhim Army Chief on the condition that he leave the national capital for the next four weeks.

Continuing with his campaign in support of CAA, which is facing people’s protests in many parts of the country, BJP president and Home Minister Amit Shah will address a rally in Vaishali, Bihar, on Thursday.

When Health Minister Harsh Vardhan took up the Bill in Rajya Sabha in Parliament last year, MPs had sought amendments in certain provisions.

FM Nirmala Sitharaman held four rounds of meetings with BJP leaders here, taking feedback for the Budget.

Amit Shah also maintained that Prime Minister Narendra Modi never takes steps to please people but looks at what will be good for them.

The party’s ruling ally in Bihar, JD(U), demanded the immediate sacking of Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar, and an inquiry by a Supreme Court judge into Sunday’s violence on the campus.

In a meeting held at the BJP headquarters on Wednesday evening, the party leadership decided to specify the differences between the three processes and urge people to not get confused.

A day after the Kerala House passed a resolution demanding the scrapping of the CAA, Prasad cited Constitutional clauses and asked state governments to get “better legal advises”.

BJP president and Home Minister Amit Shah has already announced that Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar would be the NDA’s CM candidate in the state polls.