Politics

The leaders refused to say what had transpired during the meeting, following which Sharad Yadav left for Ranchi where he is expected to spend the night and meet Lalu Prasad, who is serving sentences in fodder scam cases.

Banerjee also criticised state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) for substantially raising the price of non-subsidised domestic cooking gas across the country.

Sitaram Yechury also slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks at a summit on Wednesday that only 2,200 people in the country had declared earnings of Rs one crore per annum.

CPI(M) MLA Amjad Hossain said the murderous attacks on ruling party MLAs spoke volumes about the law and order in the state, as the general public were much more vulnerable.

Earlier in the day, Delhi's Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh along with EC's senior principal secretary K F Wilfred met Lt Governor Anil Baijal to hand over the list of the newly-elected MLAs.

Sources said Kejriwal will repeat the Cabinet as all seven sitting ministers from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won their seats in the Delhi Assembly elections, results of which were declared on Tuesday.

Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Telangana, Karnataka and UT of Jammu and Kashmir have already announced that they would be replicating the initiative.

Among the changes made is that of Vijaynagara MLA Anand Singh, who was initially made minister of the food and civil supplies department. He is now in charge of the Forest Ministry.

Asked why the BJP was not blessed despite chanting 'Jai Shri Ram', he said the party won the parliamentary elections with a thumping majority because lakhs of party workers chanted the name of Lord Ram repetitively.

Vijay is seen as someone with political ambitions. The actor was mired in controversy after his films depicted anti-BJP dialogues, with the party’s Tamil Nadu unit targeting him in the past.

Punjab cabinet minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot said the Delhi polls are a defeat for the BJP and not for the Congress.

Welcoming the mandate of the people, Kumaraswamy said the mature Delhi voter did not change his stand despite BJP's might, with PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and the entire Cente on its side.

The reply came in response to questions by Congress members Vincent H Pala and Jasbir Singh Gill.

The BJP leader said people are sporting burqas in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh protest against the new citizenship law, and added, The burqa helps terrorists, thieves and anti-socials elements to hide behind it.

Former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have been in preventive detention since August 5 last year. They were booked under the stringent PSA barely a few hours before their detention was to end on February 6.

Rejecting the exit poll results, Delhi Congress chief Subhash Chopra said there are at least 20 candidates of the party who were involved in keen triangular contests.