Maulshree Seth

In a tweet in Hindi, Mayawati wrote, “Considering Dalit Mahamandaleshwar Swami Kanhaiya Prabhunandan Giri’s complaint, it would have been better if he was also invited for the ceremony along with other 200 saints/sadhus.”

To prepare the city for August 5, walls and pillars are being painted with pictures of Ram and scenes from the Ramayana and decorated with “rangoli”.

As per the format devised by the district administration, the undertaking says heads of electronic media houses would be held accountable in case of any law and order situation arising because of a channel.

According to a member of the trust, the idea behind this move is to ensure that future generations are not caught up in legal disputes over Lord Ram’s birthplace.

As a BJP candidate, Dinesh Singh had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election against then UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi from Rae Bareli. Earlier in the Congress, he was elected to the Upper House in 2016. He was suspended by the Congress in 2017.

Swami Govind Dev Giri, treasurer of the Trust, told media persons that the Trust had invited the Prime Minister for the “bhoomi pujan” and he had accepted it and would be reaching Ayodhya on August 5.

Tandon was not just an active functionary of the RSS, but was also known as the “key associate” of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Till now, every person testing positive for Covid-19 in UP had to shift to institutional isolation facilities or hospitals depending on their health condition.

Incidentally, August 5 will mark one year of the abrogation of Article 370 and the bifurcation of the State of Jammu & Kashmir into two Union Territories.

The session next month would see the personal presence of the members and the details of how social distancing would be maintained were being worked out, sources said.

Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh Department of Higher Education issued guidelines for pending final semester or final-year university examinations in the 2020-’21 academic year, and directed the institutions to complete them by September 30 either online or through a mix of both online and offline processes.

On Monday, the Assembly Speaker had rejected the Congress’ petitions seeking to disqualify Aditi Singh and Rakesh Singh from the Assembly under the anti-defection law.

The Speaker rejected the petitions against Rae Bareli City legislator Aditi Singh and Harchandpur MLA Rakesh Singh, saying that they were not found to have any strength to be considered under the “10th Schedule of the Constitution” and thus cannot be considered under the anti-defection law.

Mayawati said, “The government should not do anything that will make the ‘Brahmin Samaj’ here feel scared, terrorised and insecure.”

Uttar Pradesh lockdown news update: The case load in UP has been rising steadily. The government wants to utilise these two days to sanitise hotspot premises such as mandis and offices, as well as push ahead with its statewide screening programme.

Dubey was caught outside a temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, on early Thursday morning.

UP Congress unit chief Ajay Kumar Lallu asked the government to make call-detail records of Dubey’s phone public, “so that his links and who all were giving him patronage could be exposed”.

The order, issued by State Chief Secretary R K Tiwari to the district and police administration, says the restrictions are being imposed to control the spread of “Covid-19 and communicable diseases like malaria, encephalitis, dengue and kala-azar”.

Alleging that the SP had fielded Dubey's wife in the Zila panchayat elections five years ago, BJP leaders shared photographs of Vikas Dubey and his associates with leaders of Samajwadi Party, alleging that the Samajwadi Party had links with the accused.

While the Congress said that there is a “goonda raj” and “jungle raj” in the state, the Samajwadi Party said the incident has exposed the “connivance between criminals and those in power”. The BSP, on the other hand, called for the need to improve the law and order situation.

Shahnawaj Alam was arrested from Hazratganj area on Monday night in connection with the violent protest during an anti-CAA agitation on December 19 last year.

As Congress leaders condemned Alam’s arrest, the government said that besides his role in the December 19 anti-CAA protests in Hazratganj area that had turned violent, the Congress leader was booked in two other cases related to anti-CAA protests.

“Leaders and workers of Congress are committed to raising the issue of people. While the BJP government can suppress other political parties by making police an instrument of suppression but it would not be able to stop us,” Priyanka tweeted.

The situation, PM Modi said, would have been different under previous governments, as they would have only made excuses. But the Adityanath government foresaw the situation and made quarantine and isolation centres to curb the virus’ spread, he said.