Politics

• Not scared of Modi, says Rahul Gandhi
  
  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is facing ED investigation in the National Herald case, on Thursday said that he was not scared of the Modi government.
• Sonia should apologise to President for Congress leader's remark : Nirmala Sitharaman
  
  Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday demanded an apology from Congress chief Sonia Gandhi for her party leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Choudhary's sexist comment against President Droupadi Murmu.
• Kejriwal promises free electricity up to 300 units in Gujarat
  
  Aam Aadmi Party's national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday promised that his party will provide free electricity up to 300 units per month if voted to power in Gujarat.
• UP Minister sends resignation to Amit Shah
  
  Uttar Pradesh Minister of State (MoS) for Jal Shakti department Dinesh Khatik, on Wednesday, reportedly resigned from the Yogi Adityanath-led government in the state.
• BJP on a spree to sabotage, subjugate and subvert judiciary: Congress
  
  The Congress on Tuesday alleged that the BJP is interfering in the functioning of the judiciary and is on a spree to sabotage it as was shown in some recent incidents.
• Andhra CM Jagan Mohan's mother Vijayamma quits YSR Congress
  
  Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy's mother and YSR Congress Party's honorary president Y. S. Vijayamma on Friday announced her resignation from the party saying she needs to stand with her daughter Y. S. Sharmila, who has floated a political party in neighbouring Telangana.
• Shinde Group seeks disqualification of 14 Sena MLAs except Aaditya Thackeray
  
  The Eknath Shinde group Chief Whip Bharat Gogawale has served disqualification notices to all the Shiv Sena MLAs who defied his whip for the floor test of the new government on Monday.
• Brutality in name of religion cannot be tolerated: Rahul on Udaipur Jihad
  
  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that brutality in the name of religion cannot be tolerated.
• SP to support Yashwant Sinha for President's post
  
  The Samajwadi Party (SP) has said that it will support former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha in the upcoming Presidential elections.
• Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi likely to be new J&K Lt Governor
  
  Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is likely to replace Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha as the Election Commission is preparing to hold Assembly elections in the Union Territory before the year end, top sources said.
• Amid Congress' Agnipath protests, Manish Tewari bats for defence reforms
  
  Going against his party line, Congress MP Manish Tewari has come in support of the Central government's Agnipath scheme. This comes amid a major nationwide protest launched by the party, which is demanding its rollback.
• RLP stages statewide protests against Agnipath in Rajasthan
  
  The Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) on Thursday staged protests against the newly-launched 'Agnipath' scheme of the Centre at all the district headquarters and many sub-divisional and tehsil headquarters of Rajasthan, including in Jaipur, Jodhpur and Ajmer, among other places.
• Withdraw Agnipath or else you will have to apologise to youth too: Rajasthan Congress chief
  
  Rajasthan Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that he should wake up before the worst happens and withdraw Agnipath scheme or else he will have to apologise to youth the same way he had to do to the farmers.
• Congress wants Sharad Pawar as joint oppn candidate for President
  
  The Congress is pushing for joint opposition candidate for the upcoming presidential elections. The party has conveyed its support to Sharad Pawar to its allies wherever the party is in the government.
• Not interested in post of President, says Nitish Kumar
  
  Days after Bihar Minister Shrawan Kumar claimed that the Chief Minister has all ability and experience to become President of India, Nitish Kumar on Monday said that he has no interest in contesting the election for the top post.
• Roddur Roy's arrest is brazen misuse of power: BJP
  
  Hitting out at Mamata Banerjee over the arrest of vlogger Roddur Roy, the BJP on Friday said that the order to arrest him was a brazen misuse of power.
• Kerala gold smuggling case: Congress, BJP demand Pinarayi Vijayan's resignation
  
  Slogans of "smuggler Vijayan quit" rent the air across the state as angry workers of Congress-led UDF and BJP clashed with police on Thursday after gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh revealed that the chief minister and his family were involved in gold and currency smuggling.
• Seeing defeat in bypoll, AAP resorting to hooliganism: Delhi BJP
  
  The BJP said that seeing an imminent defeat in Rajinder Nagar Assembly bypolls the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is indulging in "undemocratic practices".
• AAP files complaint in Assam police station against alleged anomalies in procuring PPE kits
  
  After the war of words between the Assam Chief Minister and Delhi Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister, the Aam Adami Party on Monday filed a complaint at Latasil police station against alleged irregularities in procuring of PPE kits in Assam in 2020.
• Only CBI can answer, says Nitish on Lalu raids
  
  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday avoided questions on CBI raids over his archrival and former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad.
• KCR, Kejriwal discuss national politics at luncheon meeting
  
  Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday had a luncheon meeting with his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal at the latter's residence in New Delhi.
• Azam, Shivpal stay away from SP legislative party meeting
  
  Senior SP MLA, Mohd Azam Khan, his son Abdullah Azam and Shivpal Singh Yadav stayed away from the Samajwadi legislative party meeting held here on Sunday, ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly's budget session which begins on Monday.
• Karnataka Congress leader seeks SC judge-led probe into 19 lakh 'missing' EVMs
  
  Senior Karnataka Congress leader and MLA H.K. Patil called on Legislative Assembly Speaker Vishveshwara Hegde Kageri on Sunday and sought a probe into the issue of 19 lakh "missing" Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
• BJP instigating people on loudspeaker, Hanuman Chalisa issues: Lalu Yadav
  
  RJD President Lalu Prasad on Wednesday hit out at the BJP and the RSS for trying to instigate people on the loudspeaker and Hanuman Chalisa row.
• Shivpal's tweet declares war against Akhilesh on Eid
  
  On Eid, when the world celebrates the festival of peace and brotherhood, the war in the Yadav clan intensified further with Shivpal Singh Yadav going all out to express his anger at his nephew and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav.

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