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Congress releases second list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal says “Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi to contest from Jorhat, Assam. Nakul Nath to contest from Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara. Rahul Kaswa to contest from Rajasthan’s Churu. Vaibhav Gehlot to contest from Jalore.

JJP state president Nishan Singh said on reports of some party MLAs skipping the meeting and being in touch with the BJP. “The meeting was chaired under the leadership of party’s national president Dr Ajay Singh Chautala. All the issues were discussed and it has been decided that Dr Sahab’s birthday tomorrow will be celebrated as Nav Sankalp rally in Hisar. Whatever the party has decided will be announced there tomorrow.”

Six Pakistanis were caught with a large quantity of narcotics in a joint operation of Gujarat ATS, Indian Coast Guard and NCB. Drugs worth Rs 480 crores were seized. They will be brought to Porbandar. The Coast Guard, ATS and NCB together have stopped the smuggling of drugs worth Rs 3,135 crores so far.

Saini, 54, a low profile OBC leader, rose through the ranks in the party and was elected as the leader of the state BJP’s legislature group at a meeting held on Tuesday.

 At a BJP social media volunteers meeting in Hyderbad, Home Minister Amit Shah said that in order to save their faith and honour lakhs and crores of people from Pakistan and Bangladesh came to India, but were not granted citizenship.”They felt insulted in their own country when they were not granted citizenship,” he said, adding that PM Modi honoured Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh refugees by granting them citizenship through the CAA.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated on Tuesday.that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has honoured Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Jain refugees by giving them citizenship through CAA. Shah claimed that the Congress opposed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) due to appeasement and vote-bank politics.

“We had said we will bring CAA. The Congress party opposed CAA. Since Independence it was a promise of the Congress and makers of our Constitution that citizenship will be granted to those persecuted on religious grounds in Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, who come (to India). But, due to appeasement and vote-bank politics, Congress party opposed the CAA,” Shah said. He was addressing a BJP social media volunteers meeting here.

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was following the Hindu Mahasabha’s concept of two nation theory by implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The ex-chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir  stated that after implementing the CAA, even when the matter is pending before the Supreme Court, was an attempt to divert attention from the government’s failures. In a post on X, she said, “77 years after partition, BJP is still wedded to the concept of two nation theory of Hindu Mahasabha. To further their agenda they have thus implemented CAA to create another partition among our people”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that previous governments did not have the “political will” to save the country’s heritage and a country which does not cherish its heritage loses its future also. PM Modi unveiled the Rs 1,200 crore Gandhi Ashram Memorial masterplan at Sabarmati in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city and also inaugurated the redeveloped Kochrab ashram at a function on the anniversary of the famous Dandi Yatra taken out by Mahatma Gandhi on March 12, 1930.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh today stated that the chaos in Haryana is a result of pressure from farmers, youth and wrestlers and that it was time for a change across the country.

Nayab Singh Saini, the top contender for the Haryana CM post, is the president of BJP’s Haryana unit and is an MP from Kurukshetra.

Speculation was rife that the BJP leadership is likely to go for some major changes in the Haryana government amid the possibility of a break in its ties with the Jannayak Janata Party.  Union minister Arjun Munda and former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, are in the state to monitor the overhaul.