Congress gets majority in Rajasthan with Ramgarh win

NCP&nbsp;chief Sharad&nbsp;Pawar&nbsp;on Tuesday questioned the role of Pune Police and senior officials in the&nbsp;Elgar Parishad case, hinting at a&nbsp;leak. Pawar&nbsp;questioned how&nbsp;the central government got information about an internal meeting on setting up an SIT team, held between Maharashtra&nbsp;deputy CM&nbsp;Ajit Pawar and state home minister Anil Deshmukh. Pawar&nbsp;also said that the Maharashtra government should take the incident seriously and find out how the details of the meeting&nbsp;reached the Centre. On January 25, the Centre issued notification on taking over the&nbsp;Elgar Parishad probe, hours after Pawar and Deshmukh held a meeting with police and home officers on forming the SIT.

After his public ousting from JD(U) over differences with party chief Nitish&nbsp;Kumar,&nbsp;political strategist Prashant Kishor&nbsp;has cleared the air- he holds no grudge against Nitish Kumar. Citing ideological differences as one of the reasons behind the rift that drove him out of the party, Kishor&nbsp;said that Gandhi loving JD(U)'s alliance with Godse loving BJP is an impossible union he does not support. "Nitish ji has always said- Gandhi, JP and Lohia- these three people and their teachings we cannot forgo. When you are going around Bihar preaching Gandhi, how can you stand with those who follow the ideology of Godse? Both cannot happen together," said Kishor.&nbsp;

Maharshtra&nbsp;CM and Shiv&nbsp;Sena&nbsp;supremo&nbsp;Uddhav&nbsp;Thackeray on Tuesday sang a different tune from his allies Congress and NCP&nbsp;on the issue of CAA, NRC and NPR. While Thackeray maintained that there was no issue with CAA, he insisted that Centre has not talked about implementing&nbsp;NRC&nbsp;yet. He further added that the&nbsp;NPR&nbsp;exercise is only Census that is conducted every 10 years and there should be no issue with that. Both Congress and NCP&nbsp;have spoken strongly against CAA, NRC&nbsp;and NPR.

Delhi BJP leader Kapil Mishra triggered fresh controversy after he equated the December 15 violence at Jamia University to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. In a tweet, Mishra said, "Had Kasab ran inside a library along with his gun on that day, today he would be called innocent". His comment comes an ongoing video war over the Jamia violence. On Sunday, the Jamia Coordination Committee released CCTV footage showing how police personnel armed with batons and dressed in riot gear entered the library and started thrashing students who were studying. Following which, another video released by Delhi Police surfaced, in which people carrying stones in their hands with faces covered, were seen entering the library from a back door.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated Arvind Kejriwal on taking oath as Delhi chief minister for the third successive term and extended him best wishes. Responding to Modi's tweet, Kejriwal said he wished the Prime Minister could have attended the ceremony. He added, that they must now work together towards making Delhi a city of pride for all Indians. During his address after the oath-taking, Kejriwal said he had invited Modi to the event. But the PM was on a daylong visit to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi and couldn't attend.

Congress leader Milind Deora's praise of Arvind Kejriwal for his third consecutive victory in the recently held Delhi assembly elections may not have gone down well with some of his party colleagues. Tweeting a video of Arvind Kejriwal, Milind Deora said AAP government in Delhi managed to double its revenues to ₹60,000 crore and maintained a revenue surplus over the last five years. Kejriwal, who took oath as Delhi Chief Minister on Sunday, was also quick to retweet the video. But senior party leader Ajay Maken blasted Deora by asking him 'leave Congress' and not propagate 'half-baked facts'.

The Congress top brass is likely to announce the party&rsquo;s key troubleshooter in Karnataka, DK Shivakumar as the next state unit president, with MB Patil as the working president, according to reports. In what could be a delicate balancing act between caste wars in the state, reports quoting Congress sources said, that with&nbsp;Shivakumar, a Vokkaliga, lobbying to ensure that his role as the Congress' go-to man during difficult times,&nbsp;should be rewarded. Former CM S Siddaramaiah is likely to continue as the Congress Legislature Party leader. With assets worth over Rs 840 crore, DK&nbsp;Shivakumar&nbsp;is&nbsp;one of the richest politicians in the state.

Hundreds of women protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Shaheen Bagh&nbsp;stopped their march to Union home minister Amit Shah's house,&nbsp;after being assured of a proper appointment with him. The women started the march in the afternoon, hoping for a dialogue with the Home Minister on the contentious citizenship law.&nbsp;They did not have an appointment or the permission for a protest march from the police. The police stopped the match midway and told the protesters&nbsp;that their application for a meeting has been sent to the home minister.&nbsp;Shaheen Bagh has been the epicentre of the protests against the citizenship law for the last two months.

The Delhi Police on Sunday denied permission to anti-citizenship law protesters at Shaheen Bagh to meet Home Minister&nbsp;Amit Shah. Delhi Police had asked for details of the delegation to facilitate their meeting with the Home Minister, but demonstrators said they all wanted to go. News agency ANI&nbsp;reported quoting Delhi police that Amit&nbsp;Shah's home has been barricaded.&nbsp;A section of Shaheen Bagh protesters said they were ready to meet Amit Shah to raise their concerns but added that the onus was on the government to call them for talks. However, Home Ministry officials said no request has come for an appointment.

Speaking at the Ramlila Maidan after taking oath, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said, the victory was not his win, but the victory of every Delhiite, of every family. He said in the last 5 years, his govt's only effort has been to bring happiness and relief to every Delhi citizen. Kejriwal said, elections are over, and it doesn't matter who Delhiites voted for, Congress or the BJP, he will work for everyone, be it from any party, any religion, caste or strata of society.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday shared a video purportedly showing Jamia students being beaten up by police and said if no action is taken, the government's intentions would stand exposed. She also accused the Home Minister and the Delhi Police of "lying" that Jamia students were not beaten up inside the library. The Delhi Police crime branch has said the video is being investigated as part of their ongoing probe.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi&nbsp;inaugurated and laid&nbsp;the foundation stone for developmental projects worth more than Rs 1,254&nbsp;crore at his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on Sunday.
The Prime Minister also flagged off the Kashi Mahakaal Express via a video link, the train will link Varanasi with Ujjain and Omkareshwar.
PM also unveiled a 63-feet statue of Pandit&nbsp;Deen Dayal Upadhyay in Varanasi&nbsp;along with a 430-bed super speciality hospital and a 74-bed psychiatric hospital at the Benaras Hindu University.

A new CCTV video of the December 15 crackdown on the campus, released by the Jamia Coordination Committee, shows Delhi Police personnel, in riot gear, entering the hall and beating up students who were studying with lathis. In the video, students can be seen sitting in the reading hall as the Delhi Police storms in and starts hitting them with batons and damaging property. The Jamia Coordination Committee, a group comprising students and alumni of the university has issued a statement, saying it shows how state-sponsored terrorists are playing the game of brutality on the students of Jamia who were preparing for their examinations. Reacting to the new footage, Delhi Police said the case has already been transferred to the Crime Branch and the video is being probed.

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal took oath as Delhi's chief minister, for a third consecutive term. All six AAP ministers -- Manish Sisodia, Satendra Jain, Gopal Rai, Kailash Gehlot, Imran Hussain, Rajendra Pal Gautam -- in the previous Delhi Cabinet also took oath. Hundreds gathered for Kejriwal's&nbsp;swearing in event.&nbsp;The event is 'open to public' but didn't have any&nbsp;state CMs&nbsp;or political heavyweights. Around 50 people from different walks of life who are 'Delhi ke Nirmata' and contributed to the development of the city during the last five years also shared the stage with Kejriwal.&nbsp;The AAP swept the Delhi assembly elections, winning 62 of 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly.

Protesters at Shaheen Bagh will march to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's residence today with a charter of demands, the biggest one being, the revoking the Citizenship Amendment Act. The protesters say they will not be sending any delegation to meet the home minister, but rather "every person will be part of the delegation". Reports quoting sources say, the Home Ministry hasn't received any request for a meeting. Shaheen bagh has been the epicentre of the anti-CAA protests in the capital since the 15th of December.

Following the latest visit by a group of diplomats of the&nbsp;European Union and other nations to Jammu and Kashmir, the conglomerate's envoy said that India has taken positive steps to restore normalcy in the region but added that it is important to lift the remaining restrictions swiftly.&nbsp;Diplomats from 25 nations visited Srinagar and Jammu,&nbsp;to survey the situation six months after the centre ended the state's special status.&nbsp;

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday took a swipe at union minister Smriti Irani by tweeting an old picture of Irani protesting LPG price hike. The cooking gas prices have been hiked by ₹144.5 per cylinder, steepest since January 4, 2014. Gandhi posted the tweet with hashtag 'RollBackHike' to take potshots at the BJP leader who defeated him in stronghold Amethi in last year's national election. In the picture, Irani is seen protesting price rise with a gas cylinder during the UPA govt.

With protests across the country over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act and proposed NRC, BJP ally and Shiromani Akali Dal veteran Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday said that a government must not take sides based on religion. Badal called for unity and equality among all religious communities. Addressing a rally in Amritsar, the SAD patriarch termed the present situation in the country a "matter of grave concern". He added that deviation from the sacred principles of secularism on the part of govt will only weaken our country.

After a stupendous victory in the Delhi assembly elections, the Aam Aadmi Party said more than 10 lakh people have joined AAP in a single day. In a tweet on Thursday, AAP said, more than 1 million people have joined AAP within 24 hours of our massive victory." The Arvind Kejriwal-led party won a staggering 62 seats and came back to power for a third time. It launched a nation-building campaign, Aam Aadmi Party's Rashtra Nirman, inviting Indians to join the party to develop the nation.

Delhi CM-designate Arvind Kejriwal is planning to go with a tried and tested formula for the state. Young new faces of the Aam Aadmii party like Atishi and Raghav Chadha are unlikely to get ministerial berths in the Delhi government, suggest multiple reports. Arvind Kejriwal is reportedly not in the favour of making any changes to his Cabinet and is likely to repeat his earlier Cabinet. All seven sitting ministers from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won their seats in the assembly elections. Kejriwal will be sworn in as chief minister on Sunday for the third consecutive time.

Congress gets majority in Rajasthan with Ramgarh win

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