Politics

The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said that all Indians should come forward to save the country from those violating the Constitution.

The leaders said the state unit of the Congress party cannot expel All India Coordination Committee (AICC) members and it is 'against the party's Constitution'.

The former national president of the Congress party, who is also critical of the amendments in Citizenship Act, said during demonetisation, poor had to line up at the banks and were made to pay money.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the setting up of the committee whose members are party leaders Virender Singh Rathore and Challa Vamshi Chand Reddy, the party said in an official communication.

The JMM-led three-party alliance stormed to power in Jharkhand on Monday, ousting the BJP in yet another state in the Hindi heartland after the saffron party's stupendous performance in the Lok Sabha elections.

The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) minister said she got worried when many people from her community started asking her questions on the newly amended Citizenship Act and NRC.

BJP's face in the state and incumbent chief minister Raghubar Das lost to party rebel Saryu Roy, who left the party after being denied ticket from Jamshedpur (West) seat.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that discussions about the NRC are going on and suggestions have been sought but confusion is being created. The NRC will also be implemented but after detailed discussions, he added.

The BJP in its Jharkhand assembly election manifesto has claimed it will implement the NRC and Union Minister Amit Shah has said it will be implemented across the country, but the PM is now claiming just the opposite.

Kejriwal claimed other political parties have only played politics on the issue of the development of unauthorised colonies till date and no government has worked for its development.

The poll strategist's remarks came in the backdrop of Congress president Sonia Gandhi issuing a statement saying the “brute force” used by the NDA government to suppress dissent was "unacceptable" in a democracy.

Jharkhand Exit Polls Results LIVE: Counting of votes is scheduled on 23 December.

The former minister also stated that he had only said that our state should not burn due to protests.

Allaying fears of the state's indigenous population, who are wary that the law would threaten their identity, Sonowal said "not a single person of Bangladesh will get to enter Assam through CAA".

The opposition said that adopting a resolution for declaring assets was 'feeble', and that a law should instead be put in place for the same.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act has come as a litmus test for the Assam chief minister, whose entire life and politics have been a battle against illegal migrants.