Politics

The Delhi High Court on Friday set aside the election of Jitender Singh Tomar for giving false declaration regarding his educational qualification in his nomination papers for the 2015 Assembly polls.

Pratibhatai Bhojane was elected president while Savitribai Rathod became vice president, the first time both posts in the Akola ZP are being held by women.

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.

Democracy also needs many institutions in place to succeed, Madhav said, adding that in India 'democratic institutions for millennia at the societal level have nurtured democratic spirit'.

The event aimed at garnering support for the amended Citizenship Bill was allegedly disrupted by protesters, who raised anti-CAA slogans. They were immediately detained and questioned by the police.

Sanjay Raut also said it was Sharad Pawar who first decided that the NCP, the Congress and the Sena will join hands to form a coalition government.

Slamming his critics, Dilip Ghosh said those who are castigating him had themselves opened fire on protesters on various occasions.

Vijay Goel claimed that many candidates in the list announced by the Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday had cases against them under charges of corruption, violence, rape, rioting and other criminal offences.

Telangana Home Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali's comments have however added to some confusion at a time when the ruling party MPs have opposed the Citizenship Amendment Act, calling it discriminatory against Muslims.

While Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal is set to contest from New Delhi Vidhan Sabha constituency for the third time, Manish Sisodia will also stick to Patparganj constituency.

The Congress leader's comments come a day after data showed that retail inflation rose to about five-and-half year high of 7.35 per cent in December 2019.

BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, however, rejected the allegation terming it an "absolute lie" being spread by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

Speaking at the 150th Kolkata Port Trust programme at the Netaji Indoor Stadium, PM Modi said, 'Already, 75 lakhs people got benefitted from Ayushman Bharat and eight crore farmers benefitted from PM Kisan Samman Nidhi.'

Opposition leader Debabrata Saikia has dared CM Sarbananda Sonowal to rebel against BJP’s central leadership for not implementing the Assam Accord and pushing through the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Claims like all villages having been electrified in the country and toilets built for 99 per cent of families in India were being believed, former Union Minister P Chidambaram said.

The BJP won just 15 of the 58 seats in Nagpur ZP. The Shiv Sena's Saaman paper said in Nandurbar and elsewhere, if the Congress had fought the polls in alliance with them, the BJP would have been 'finished'.