Politics

The Jagan Mohan Reddy government has not budged on the proposal to have three capitals for Andhra Pradesh despite protests by Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP and farmers who gave up land to develop Amaravati as the state capital in 2015.

Addressing a press conference in Kanker supporting Citizenship Amendment Act, the Union minister of state for steel also said states had no right to decide against implementing a law passed by Parliament.

He said 1 crore illegal Muslims in the state are 'thriving' on the government's Rs 2 per kg subsidised rice. 'We will send them back,' he announced.

For exercising the postal ballot, every candidate has to apply and fill form 12D. This application must reach returning officer within five days following the date of notification of election.

The Bahujan Samaj Party has decided to field its nominess in all 70 seats in Delhi. Another list is expected on Sunday.

In April 2018, the Delhi government had issued a circular prohibiting private unaided schools functioning on government land from hiking tuition fees without the approval of the Directorate of Education.

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

Apart from them, AAP's Raghav Chadha also filed nomination from the Rajinder Nagar seat. A number of other party candidates also filed their nominations on Saturday.

The rift was triggered when Alagiri had issued a statement accusing the DMK of not following coalition dharma and criticised Stalin over seat-sharing in the recently held local body polls.

Amit Shah also slammed the previous governments for their wrong interpretation of secularism, preventing them from honouring the best things of the country.

Protesters claiming to be members of Samvidhana Samrakshana Samithi (Constitution Protection Committee) tried to stage a protest by sloganeering against Shah, NRC and CAA at court circle here, despite police denying permission.

Sanjay Kishan and Jogen Mohan were administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Jagdish Mukhi at a simple ceremony in the Darbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan in Guwahati.

Senior AAP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, his fellow lawmaker Nitin Tyagi from Laxmi Nagar, and eleven other candidates had filed nominations on Thursday.

Guha said the reduction of the Congress from a 'great party' during the freedom movement to a 'pathetic family firm' now is one of the reasons for the ascendency of Hindutva and jingoism in India.

Janakpuri AAP MLA Rajesh Rishi said he was confident of re-election due to the work done by the Arvind Kejriwal government.

Aam Aadmi Party plans to release the card by Thursday but the party's manifesto for February 8 assembly polls will come out after January 26.