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14Apr By source belowNo Comments

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BJP and TMC allege ‘outsiders’ instigated violence at Murshidabad

West Bengal Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari claimed that at least 100 crore Hindu-owned properties had been damaged during religious clashes that turned violent in Murshidabad. He suggested that Bangladeshi outfit ‘Ansarulla Bangla Jamat’ was behind the violence, while TMC leader Kunal Ghosh said, “Those who instigated the violence, local people did not recognise them. They came from outside. Who are they? Where did they come from? Who helped them? We think there is a bigger conspiracy. We are demanding a detailed investigation.” “We have already made a list of six hundred persons who instigated the violence and submitted it to the administration,” Adhikari said in front of the legislative Assembly on Monday. Story continues below this ad He also alleg...

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13Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Maharashtra: Shinde meets Shah, calls it ‘routine visit to discuss development of state’

Amid speculations of unease within the ruling Mahayuti, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde on Sunday morning held a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, which he termed as a “routine visit to discuss development of the state”. Speaking to reporters after Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders Sanjay and Sanjana Ghadi joined the Sena led by him, Shinde said, “Amit Shah is a leader of the NDA and Mahayuti. My meeting with him was about informing him of various developmental projects going on in the state and in Mumbai. You (media) give rise to various theories and speculations which have no value.” According to sources, the Shinde Sena is said to be unhappy over a number of things, including not getting guardian ministership of Raigad district. The issue remains unr...

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13Apr By source belowNo Comments

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BJP MP urges Centre to declare 4 Bengal districts as ‘Disturbed Areas’ under AFSPA

BJP’s Purulia MP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging the Centre to declare select bordering districts of West Bengal as “disturbed areas” under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), alleging repeated attacks on the Hindu community. In his letter dated April 13, Mahato alleged that districts such as Murshidabad, Malda, Nadia and South 24 Parganas have witnessed violence against Hindus, with the state administration turning a “blind eye” due to what he called the ruling Trinamool Congress’ “appeasement” politics. He claimed that over 86 Hindu homes and shops were looted or destroyed in Murshidabad district recently and that civilians, including a man named Hargobindo Das and his son, were murdered. In Jhaubona village, he said, betel leaf plant...

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11Apr By source belowNo Comments

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BJP tutors its leaders to take ‘facts’ about new Waqf law to people’s doorstep via townhalls, meetings

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to run a nationwide awareness campaign on the new Waqf law. A workshop was organised by the party at its headquarters in New Delhi Thursday. Addressing the workshop, party president J.P. Nadda said that the BJP will run a ‘Waqf Sudhar Janjagran Abhiyan’ across the country at state, block and mandal levels from 20 April to 5 May. The workshop was organised in view of the Opposition’s protest against the new Waqf Act, so that party leaders can spread “correct and factual information” regarding the law via various forums and door-to-door programmes. Show Full Article The party has also constituted a four-member central panel to oversee the programmes aimed at making the Muslim community aware of the benefits of t...

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10Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Yamuna cleaning: CM inspects drains, river stretch at Wazirabad barrage

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday inspected several large drains and the Yamuna river stretch at Wazirabad barrage, directing officers to work on the riverfront project. LG VK Saxena, Water minister Parvesh Verma and several officials from the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and irrigation and flood control department accompanied the chief minister. During her visit, the chief minister inspected the ongoing works of cleaning the river and directed officials to work on the Yamuna riverfront project. Story continues below this ad This project would involve creation of walking tracks and recreational areas along the river length. Cleaning the Yamuna river is a major poll promise of the BJP. Gupta also visited the supplementary drain at Wazirabad, Barapullah drain, Sunheri Pu...

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9Apr By source belowNo Comments

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‘They say they’re Hindus, but…’: Rahul rips into BJP at AICC meet, taunts Modi & his ’56-inch chest’

Ahmedabad: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi signalled Wednesday, from the platform of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in Ahmedabad, that the party is aligning its social justice agenda with the idea of pluralism—an apparent outreach to regain Hindu votes that it has lost over the past decade to a rising BJP. “We also call ourselves Hindus, but this is not our religion. Our religion is one that respects all and loves every person irrespective of caste, creed, religion and gender,” he said, referring to the act of a Rajasthan BJP leader sprinkling Ganga water to purify a temple visited by the state’s Leader of Opposition Tika Ram Jully, a Dalit. “Our Rajasthan legislative party leader, Tika Ram Jully, visited a temple. And the BJP leaders washed the temple following his visit. And they call ...

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6Apr By source belowNo Comments

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‘Rs 30 crore spent in 8 years to maintain Kejriwal’s bungalow’: AAP, BJP spar over RTI reply

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sparred over AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal’s official residence when he was chief minister — 6, Flag Staff Road in Civil Lines — yet again on Saturday following information on its maintenance that emerged in an RTI query. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva, in a press conference, claimed that an RTI query, filed by a citizen from Maharashtra seeking details on the maintenance expenses for the general wear and tear, sewage, electricity, and structural work at 6, Flag Staff Road, revealed it was done at a cost of almost Rs 30 crore between 2015 and 2022. Hitting back, the AAP reiterated that it was “a government house, not his private property” and if the BJP wanted to “politicise homes, let PM Narendra Modi open up his Rajmaha”. ...

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5Apr By source belowNo Comments

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After Waqf land, govt aims to grab Hindu temple land: Aaditya Thackeray

Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said after Waqf land, the BJP-led government now aims to grab land of Hindu temples for its “builder friends”. “Why talk about Waqf alone, see what is happening in Ayodhya. Lodha and Adani are taking lands there. Same is happening in Prayagraj. It might happen in Pandharpur. They (BJP) are already eyeing Church land. They will target land of Buddhists as well,” he said, addressing a press conference in Mumbai. Aaditya said even Hindus should join the protest against the Waqf Bill. “Tell me one thing that is benefiting Hindus out of it (the Act). Instead our lands will now come in danger. I think even Hindus should join the protests,” he said. Aaditya also slammed the government saying it has failed to deliver on the promises it made in the...

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5Apr By source belowNo Comments

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SC order on teachers: BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay proposes panel to ‘segregate’ candidates, TMC against it

A war of words has erupted between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP in West Bengal after former Calcutta High Court judge and BJP MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Friday proposed that a committee be set up to look into the fallout of the Supreme Court upholding the cancellation of more than 25,000 teaching and non-teaching jobs in the state. “Didi (Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee) should constitute a committee…I believe that, even today, eligible and ineligible candidates can be segregated. I am not blaming anyone today,” Gangopadhyay said, adding that the committee should include the education minister, the advocate general, and Gangopadhyay himself. The original petitioners in the case, the School Service Commissioner chairman and their legal advisor can also be members of the panel, Ga...

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4Apr By source belowNo Comments

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BJP-RSS | The new strategic synergy

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3Apr By source belowNo Comments

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Eknath Shinde slams Uddhav Thackeray over opposition to Waqf Bill, calls him a ‘use and throw’ leader

Shiv Sena chief and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday launched a blistering attack on Uddhav Thackeray for opposing the Waqf Amendment Bill in Parliament, accusing him of abandoning Hindutva and Balasaheb Thackeray’s legacy forever. “By opposing the Waqf Amendment Bill, Uddhav Thackeray has completely turned his back on Hindutva and the ideals of Balasaheb Thackeray. His stance has not only exposed his ideological confusion but also cast a shadow over his political future,” Shinde said. Speaking to reporters in Mumbai, Shinde said that Thackeray’s opposition to the Bill had disappointed even his colleagues, many of whom still hold Balasaheb’s principles dear. “Yesterday was an unfortunate day for him,” he remarked, alluding to Thackeray’s political missteps. ...

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3Apr By source belowNo Comments

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‘Centre wants to hand over Waqf land to its industrialist friends’: Uddhav Thackeray

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday slammed the Centre over the Waqf (Amendment) Bill saying the BJP-led government is eying the Waqf land to meet the interests of industrialists. Thackeray said his party opposed the Waqf Bill in Parliament as it was against the seizure of Waqf land. “If the government wants to take over land then first take over the land which has been grabbed by Pakistan and China. We have opposed the Bill since the government’s intention is to grab the Waqf land and give it to its industrialist friends,” Thackeray said at a press conference in Mumbai after the Bill was passed in Lok Sabha. Thackeray said the controversial Bill was introduced in Parliament to divert attention from the issue of US’ reciprocal tax tariff that posed a challenge to India. ...

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22Mar By source belowNo Comments

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From graft charges to infighting, Goa BJP battles a host of troubles as CM Sawant toasts 6 yrs at helm

In a representation addressed to the CM, the protesters alleged that Rane changed rules for sale of land to private builder Lodha and is involved in its project in Bicholim, creating a conflict of interest.The Goa government had brought an amendment to the Town and Country Planning Act, 1974, in the year 2023, introducing Section 17(2), which allows property owners to apply for corrections of inadvertent errors in the regional plan of 2021.Since then, a number of protests have taken place against misuse of land rules to convert protected land for sale to hoteliers and builders. The protesters allege that land use of 25 lakh square km has been changed, and Delhi-based Butani Infrastructure given private forest land by altering the land use. According to Goa Foundation director Claude Alvare...

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21Mar By source belowNo Comments

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Minister Parvesh Verma pulls up ‘thick-skinned’ Delhi officers, says system was ‘destroyed’ over 10 yrs

New Delhi: Government officers in Delhi have become thick-skinned over the last 10 years and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government will now make them run and burn their fat, Delhi’s Public Works Department Minister Parvesh Verma said Friday. This came a day after Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta wrote to Chief Secretary Dharmendra, complaining that the officers were not even acknowledging MLAs’ calls and letters. On Friday, Verma directed the suspension of a PWD executive engineer over poor desilting of a drain in the Akshardham area in the national capital. The minister was inspecting the condition of roads and drains in certain parts of Delhi. “Sabko dauda rahe hain, mai bhi daud raha hun. Humko bhi paseena ayega aur unko bhi (We are making them run, I am running, too. We will sweat a...

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13Mar By source belowNo Comments

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‘Tarpaulin hijab’ to urging Muslims to stay indoors, what’s behind BJP’s Holi narrative

“Holi is a special festival and comes only once in year while Friday comes 52 times a year,” Chaudhary, a wrestler-turned-police officer also known as a ‘super cop’, told the media after a peace committee meeting.He added: “If the people of the Muslim community feel that the colours of Holi will corrupt their religion, then they should not leave their homes on that day. If any miscreant is found doing anything wrong on Holi, then he will not be spared. We will not let peace and order deteriorate in Sambhal.”His remarks, widely circulated on social media, sparked a wider push by BJP leaders across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Bengal and Delhi, urging Muslims to remain inside for Friday prayers. Chaudhary’s comments received an endorsement from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at the In...

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11Mar By source belowNo Comments

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Oppn-BJP squabble on missing PM & President’s Rule overshadows Manipur budget discussion in Lok Sabha

New Delhi: The issue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi not visiting Manipur since the eruption of ethnic violence in the state in May 2023 was triggered a political row in the Lok Sabha Tuesday, with the Opposition questioning his absence from the session, and the Treasury Bench accusing opposition leaders of attacking the prime minister. Initiating the discussion on the Manipur budget for 2025-26, which was taken up along with the second batch of supplementary demands for grants for 2024-25, and excess demand for grants 2021-22, of the Union government, Congress’s Gaurav Gogoi questioned why the prime minister was missing from the House with an important discussion underway. This led Speaker Om Birla to intervene and say that Modi had informed him of his absence on account of his Mauritius ...

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11Mar By source belowNo Comments

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A more conciliatory approach

AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami addresses the party cadre at a meeting in Attur in Salem district. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The AIADMK general secretary and Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, Edappadi K. Palaniswami, who burnt his fingers during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections by not stitching up an alliance with several anti-DMK parties, seems to be changing tack regarding the BJP.This was evident last week in Attur in Salem district. A journalist asked whether the AIADMK was holding talks with the BJP for an alliance for the 2026 Assembly elections. Mr. Palaniswami said that the AIADMK’s goal was to defeat its “only enemy”, the DMK, and that the party was looking “to harvest a...

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7Mar By source belowNo Comments

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Stalin writes to CMs & ex-CMs of 7 states, urges unity against delimitation. What his letter says

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has written to current and former chief ministers of seven states, calling on them to join a Joint Action Committee (JAC) against the proposed delimitation exercise. The letter is addressed to the leaders of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka in the South; West Bengal and Odisha in the East; and Punjab in the North. He has also urged them to nominate a senior representative from their parties to serve on the JAC, assist in coordinating a unified strategy, and attend the inaugural meeting in Chennai on 22 March. “The Union Government’s plan for Delimitation is a blatant assault on federalism, punishing States that ensured population control and good governance by stripping away our rightful voice in parliament. We will not allow t...

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5Mar By source belowNo Comments

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With all-party meeting, DMK sees chance to isolate BJP, rally TN parties ahead of polls

Chennai: Ahead of the 2026 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader M.K. Stalin is intensifying his campaign against the proposed delimitation exercise, rallying all 40 registered political parties in the state to forge a united stand under his leadership. Stalin has extended invitations to all parties for a crucial meeting on 5 March, transcending political and ideological divides, including the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies, and the newly formed Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) led by actor-turned-politician Vijay.  Several parties, including the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and TVK, have confirmed participation in the all-party meet at the Secretariat Wednesday, with the exception of BJP, Naam Tamilar Katchi (...

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1Mar By source belowNo Comments

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In Modi’s appearance at Jahan-e-Khusrau, a telling message of unity ahead of Bihar polls

New Delhi: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi stepped onto the stage at the Jahan-e-Khusrau Sufi music festival in New Delhi Friday, it was not just about melodies and poetry. His first ever presence at such an event was meant to send a clear political message to all. This festival, founded by filmmaker Muzaffar Ali and organised by the Rumi Foundation, has been a major platform for Sufi music, poetry and dance since 2001. Coming as it does just a few months after a Hindu lawyer sparked controversy by claiming that the revered Khwaja Gharib Nawaz Dargah Sharif in Ajmer was once a Hindu temple, the Prime Minister’s attendance felt like a deliberate counter-narrative—a gesture of unity aimed at India’s Muslim community, a group the BJP sees as key to cracking the Opposition’s hold on Muslim v...

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27Feb By source belowNo Comments

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What’s holding BJP back from electing new president as Nadda’s extended term continues

Regional factionalism, leadership disputes and competing political priorities, including the Kumbh Mela and state elections, have further affected the timeline. “Our effort is to wrap up the organisational polls by 20 March as many states are moving at a very slow pace. Our team is going from state to state to expedite the process so that the national election can take place,” a party senior leader in charge of organisational polls told ThePrint.Naresh Bansal, co-in-charge of the organisational polls, also said the party was expecting to wrap up the polls by 20 March and many state presidents would be in place before Holi. Also Read: Why BJP in Jharkhand, like Congress in Haryana, can’t pick its leader in Assembly despite SC rap Infighting, Delhi polls & Kumbh In major Hindi heartland...

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25Feb By source belowNo Comments

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Rocky Mittal backs BJP again, says Congress leaders didn’t help him with ‘false’ gang rape case

Gurugram: Days after Himachal Pradesh Police filed a closure report in a case of gang rape against him and Haryana BJP president Mohan Lal Badoli, Haryanvi singer and former publicity adviser to the previous Manohar Lal Khattar government Rocky Mittal has once again made a U-turn and started campaigning for the BJP. Ahead of assembly elections in Haryana last year, Rocky Mittal, whose real name is Jai Bhagwan Mittal, joined the Congress and was singing paeans to senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, including ‘Mujhe Maaf Karna, Rahul Mere Bhai (Please forgive me, Rahul, my brother)’. But, now, just months later, as campaigning is on for municipal elections, Rocky Mittal has switched sides again and was seen campaigning in Tohana for BJP’s chairman candidate Surender Mittal. S...

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21Feb By source belowNo Comments

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Where is Kangana Ranaut? How BJP’s favourite poster child went missing from its script

BJP’s Mandi district chief Nihal Chand Sharma expressed his frustration over her absence. “She has an office in her parliamentary constituency, but people keep calling me to ask about her availability,” Sharma told ThePrint. “She rarely visits the constituency. She should devote more time in her constituency to know people’s problems.”Kangana also didn’t attend a 5 February court hearing in Mumbai in a defamation case against her by lyricist and writer Javed Akhtar. Her advocate informed the court she was unable to attend due to her “parliamentary commitments”. But a complaint by Jay Bhardwaj, Akhtar’s advocate, noted that she’d already skipped 40 court dates.So, the question many are asking is: Where is Kangana Ranaut? Her office said she’s been shuttling between Mumbai and Manali these p...

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19Feb By source belowNo Comments

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Rekha Gupta, 1st-time MLA from Shalimar Bagh, is BJP’s pick for Delhi chief minister

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has picked first-time MLA and three-term former councillor Rekha Gupta as its chief minister in Delhi, ending days of speculation after the party’s victory in the recently concluded Assembly polls.  Upon assuming office Thursday, Gupta (50) will become Delhi’s fourth woman chief minister after Sushma Swaraj, Sheila Dikshit and Atishi.  Two central observers from the BJP, Ravi Shankar Prasad and O.P. Dhankar, were present during the Delhi BJP legislative party meeting where Gupta’s name was proposed and seconded by MLAs. Senior BJP leaders along with Gupta later met Delhi L-G V.K. Saxena to stake claim to form the government. Much before Gupta’s name was formally announced, her family members had started distributing sweets in anticipation of good...

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17Feb By source belowNo Comments

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Congress’s Sam Pitroda says China threat ‘blown out of proportion’, stirs fresh political row

New Delhi: Sam Pitroda, chairperson of the overseas unit of the Congress known for his tendency to make controversial statements, has stirred a fresh political row with his latest remarks that the “threat from China” is always “blown out of proportion”, prompting the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to demand a clarification from the opposition party. In an interview with the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), Pitroda, who was reinstated as the Congress’s overseas chief after the last year’s Lok Sabha elections, suggested that China is often labelled a threat due to the tendency of the US to “define an enemy”. “I don’t know what is the threat from China. I think this issue is always blown out of proportion because the US has the habit of defining an enemy,” Pitroda said. Sho...

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13Feb By source belowNo Comments

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Here’s what JPC report on Waqf Bill redacted from Opposition’s dissent notes

New Delhi: Amid political furore over portions of dissent notes blackened and whitened out in the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report on the Waqf Amendment Bill tabled in Rajya Sabha Thursday, the Centre restored some of the redacted parts through a corrigendum. BJP MP Medha Vishram Kulkarni tabled the corrigendum to Appendix 5 of the report containing “Notes/minutes of dissent received from the Members of the Joint Committee”. It included some of the redactions that led to an uproar in Parliament. A look at the report tabled in the Upper House Thursday morning, and the corrigendum in the afternoon, show that the portions that were redacted from the dissent notes either raise questions on the conduct of JPC chairperson Jagdambika Pal or criticise the “political agenda” of the BJP be...

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