Politics

While the AAP blamed the BJP for the delay, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor described the allegations as “drama”, claiming the delay had been “orchestrated” by the ruling party itself.

The election body has set up a total of 1438 polling stations in 9 municipal Corporations and 6325 in 120 municipalities. The results are to be declared on January 25.

While BR Ambedkar's grandson in Nagpur said that NPR was aimed at ferreting out information about the caste and ideology of people in the country,Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow pitched for conducting a caste census.

Ajit Pawar, who is Guardian Minister of Pune district, said a decision to implement such a proposal in Pune will be taken after experimenting in Mumbai.

Jyotiraditya Scindia also said that there was a need to attract foreign investment as Indian businessmen's capacity to invest has exhausted.

He asserted that development work has gathered pace in Jammu and Kashmir, especially after June 18, 2018 when the erstwhile state came under Governor's rule.

Dilip Ghosh's rebuttal comes after Bengali actors, directors and musicians came together in a video against the CAA and the NRC, asserting that they would not show any document if there is a bid by the Centre to submit fresh proof of citizenships.

Maharashtra claims Belagavi, part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, but currently a district of Karnataka, on linguistic grounds.

Siddaramaiah, who had till last month held both the posts, resigned as the CLP leader on December 9 after the party's poor performance in the assembly bypolls.

The Congress leader said that his party's purpose is to fight the sinister purpose of Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Population of Register NPR and mobilise public opinion against them.

The Congress' reaction after Sanjay Raut states that those opposing the Bharat Ratna award for Savarkar should be made to spend at least two days at the Cellular Jail in Andaman to understand the hardships faced by him during his incarceration.

The party, like the BJP, is yet to name its candidate from AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal's constituency of New Delhi. It has fielded Lakshman Rawat against Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia from Patparganj.

In Ramcharitmanas there is a chapter which says when Ravan wanted to abduct Sita, he wore saffron clothes. Now Ravana is reborn as Yogi Adityanath, Sunil Singh said.

If the polls take place, it will be the first elections in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of provisions of Article 370 and bifurcation of the state into union territories in August last year.

In the last 2015 Assembly elections in the national capital, the ruling AAP had fielded 11 Purvanchali candidates whereas the BJP fielded only three, with all three losing.

The Delhi High Court passed the order on a plea by a BJP leader seeking to set aside former Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar's election.