After Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy threatened to step down over adverse comments by Congress lawmakers, the MLA is said to have apologised to the CM. Congress state chief Dinesh Gundu Rao said that statements which cross the lakshmanrekha of coalition politics will not be tolerated. He further said Congress legislator ST Somashekar has apologised to the Chief Minister for his comment. Somashekar's remark that there would have been "real development" if former CM Siddaramaiah had got another term didn't go down well with Kumaraswamy.

The Congress on Saturday attacked Modi govt 2.0 on its first anniversary saying the govt is the memorial of its own failures. The party stated that the govt has caused alarming political, social and economic disturbance in the country. Maintaining that the govt has no real achievements show, the Congress said that propaganda and distractions are the mainstay of the central govt.
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Even as Delhi has seen a spike in coronavirus cases, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal assured people that the govt is "4 steps ahead of coronavirus". Insisting that the&nbsp;Delhi govt is prepared to deal with the rising cases, the chief minister pitched for lifting of the lockdown. "A permanent lockdown is no solution. Life has to carry on with coronavirus with all the precautions," Kejriwal said.&nbsp;

In his letter to the nation on the first anniversary of his govt's second tenure, PM Modi has said that India will set an example in the revival of its economy that has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Continuing with his call of Atmnirbhar Bharat, the PM has expressed confidence that "Indian workers will create products that will reduce India's dependence on imports and will move towards self-reliance". He has hoped that India will be an inspiration for the world in terms of economic revival in times of coronavirus.

On the first anniversary of his second tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written a letter to the nation in which he has highlighted his government's achievements, his economic vision for the country and the challenges ahead. Referring to the humanitarian crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, PM Modi has assured that his government is working "in a united and determined way" to mitigate the suffering especially of daily-wage workers and migrant labourers most of whom have lost their livelihood because of the nationwide lockdown.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday morning thanked "crores of BJP workers", who he said have been the party's "door-to-door messengers" over the last six years. In his tweet to mark the first anniversary of the second term of the Modi government, Shah said that the BJP's messengers have been spreading information about government's achievements and public welfare schemes.

The Bihar police on Friday stopped RJD&nbsp;MLAs outside Rabri Devi&rsquo;s residence as they were marching towards Gopalganj district and pleaded them to disperse and follow social distancing norms. The MLAs were summoned by party leader&nbsp;Tejashwi Yadav, who had earlier given an ultimatum that he would march, if JD(U) MLA Amrendra Pandey was not arrested. Tehashwi demanded a &lsquo;special session&rsquo; of the Assembly to discuss the Gopalganj triple murder. The RJD backlash is in response to open firing at RJD leader JP Yadav and his family that killed the leader&rsquo;s parents and younger brother. In the FIR registered, JD(U) MLA Amrendra Kumar Pandey&nbsp;and his family have been named. An SIT has been set up to investigate the murders but the police have not nabbed the JD(U) MLA yet.

Ajit Jogi, the first chief minister of Chhattisgarh, breathed his last on Friday. The announcement of his demise was made by his son Amit Jogi who took to Twitter to make the announcement. Earlier on Friday, 74-year-old Ajit Jogi suffered two cardiac arrests after which doctors termed his health as "extremely critical". Jogi had been undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Raipur since suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Raipur on May 9.

As lockdown 4.0 draws to an end on May 31, home minister Amit Shah met with prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday to discuss the road. The meet comes a day after Shah spoke to various Chief Ministers and asked for feedback on the post-lockdown strategy. Reports quotin govt sources said PM Modi and Amit Shah held discussions on a strategy on the shutdown and weighed how to restart economic activity amid a steady spurt in virus cases.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday questioned govt's "silence" on the border standoff with China. The Government&rsquo;s silence about the border situation with China is fueling massive speculation and uncertainty at a time of crisis, Gandhi tweeted. He urged the Modi govt to come clean and tell India exactly what&rsquo;s happening.

With lockdown 4.0 drawing to an end on May 31, state governments are considering, if central guidelines allow, the imposition of restrictions only in the containment zones and allowing a range of activities elsewhere, the Hindustan Times has reported. These include opening more markets, enabling more inter-state transport facilities, allowing more commercial activity, and possibly even religious places with social distancing norms. They are also planning the eventual opening of schools in a month.

Karnataka has requested the civil aviation ministry to reduce the number of incoming flights from five states - Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan - to contain the coronavirus infection in the state. The Karnataka government issued a clarification on Thursday evening, after earlier reports said that the state has asked for a complete ban on flights from these five states. Most of the fresh coronavirus cases in the state have been of people travelling in from other states or countries.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to all chief ministers on Thursday, and sought their views on extension of the ongoing nationwide lockdown beyond May 31.&nbsp;The telephonic conversations of the home minister came just three days before the end of the fourth phase of the lockdown. The nationwide curbs, which were first imposed on March 25 to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, and has been extended thrice.

Around 97&nbsp;lakh migrants have been transported to their states since the special train service was started on May 1, the centre told the Supreme Court on Thursday. The top court had on Tuesday taken suo motu cognisance of the plight of the migrants and had said that there have been inadequacies and lapses on part of both central and the state governments. The central government said it would not stop its efforts or the train service "till even a single migrant remains".

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday lashed out at the central govt on the issue of migrants. In a video message, Gandhi said that the entire country has heard the pain of the migrants, but the govt is deaf to it. The video is part of the party&rsquo;s &lsquo;SpeakUp&rsquo; campaign to help raise the voice of the poor, migrants, small businesses and the middle class people before the central government. ((Byte))

Firing a fresh salvo at the Centre over the Covid crisis, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday revealed she had told Union Home Minister Amit Shah that if he thought the state government was failing to handle the crisis properly, why didn't he try and deal with it himself. She added that Shah told her that the centre can't dislodge an elected government. The CM added that she thanked the home minister for his response. She also accused the railway minister of politics over migrant trains.

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has contended that there there will be a new world after the pandemic ends. Rahul&nbsp;during a video interaction with American health expert and Harvard Global Health Institute director Ashish Jha&nbsp;also said&nbsp;that the balance of power between China and the US will change after the pandemic.
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The Congress and JD(S) in&nbsp;Karnataka have opposed the move to name a flyover in the city after freedom fighter and Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar.&nbsp;The 400&nbsp;metre&nbsp;long flyover, is&nbsp;scheduled to be inaugurated by Chief Minister B S&nbsp;Yediyurappa&nbsp;on Thursday, which happens to be Savarkar's birthday.&nbsp;Leader of Opposition and Former Chief Minister&nbsp;Siddaramaiah&nbsp;termed the move to name the flyover after&nbsp;Savarkar as an insult to freedom fighters from&nbsp;Karnataka's&nbsp;soil and urged&nbsp;Yediyurappa&nbsp;to drop it and instead name it&nbsp;after a freedom fighter from the state.&nbsp;

After Rahul Gandhi sparked a political storm by saying that the Congress was only playing a supporting role in Maharashtra coalition government, the former Congress president talked to Maharashtra Chief Minister&nbsp;Uddhav&nbsp;Thackeray on phone on Wednesday and assured his party's full support.&nbsp;Rahul's statement&nbsp;had&nbsp;led to speculations that all is not well in Maharashtra coalition government and it is likely that the Thackeray-led government would soon fall. The Congress leader, however, praised CM Thackeray and asserted that his government was doing a good job to combat the coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;

Against the backdrop of the recent political activities in Maharashtra and with just a few days remaining for the fourth phase of the lockdown to end,&nbsp; Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday held a meeting of key leaders of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi. The political scene in the state hot up after a BJP&nbsp;delegation led by former chief minster Devendra Fadnavis&nbsp;recently met state Governor B S Koshyari and complained to him about the "failure" of the government in tackling the Covid-19 crisis. The ruling coalition on Tuesday accused the opposition party of trying to destablise the state government and maintained that the numbers are in its favour. It also said that the government was "strong and stable".

The Madras High Court Wednesday&nbsp;recognised&nbsp;former Chief Minister J&nbsp;Jayalalithaa&rsquo;s niece J Deepa and nephew J Deepak as &ldquo;class II legal heirs&rdquo; of her estate and other assets worth more than ₹900 crore.&nbsp;An application filed before a division bench by&nbsp;Deepak,&nbsp;granted him and his sister the right to administrate all the properties left behind by late Jayalalithaa.&nbsp;The court suggested that the late chief minister's&nbsp;Poes&nbsp;Garden residence &ndash; &lsquo;Veda Nilayam&rsquo; &ndash; could be turned into an official residence-cum-office, instead of converting it entirely into a memorial, as desired by the government.&nbsp;

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