Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani said his state government’s move to allow some business to operate during the lockdown, after Centre’s nod for the same, wasn’t to facilitate Muslims during their holy month of Ramzan, as some “elements” are suggesting.
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The chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, wrote a letter to the prime minister, Narendra Modi, in which she asked to explain why the Centre wants to send teams to her state to examine alleged violations of the coronavirus lockdown.
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PM Narendra Modi called for unity and brotherhood in the country’s fight against coronavirus and said the virus doesn’t see religion and caste before infecting a victim.
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Former finance minister P Chidambaram took a jibe at PMNarendra Modi after the latter’s address to the nation, in which he announced the extension of the lockdown to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, and accused him of neglecting the poor.
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Sonia Gandhi, the interim Congress president, has reportedly told her party chiefs from states that the Rajasthan government’s success in tackling Covid-19 in Bhilwara was the result of a “timely” warning from her son, former party president Rahul Gandhi.
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Reacting to the Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute, Asaduddin Owaisi said the Supreme Court is supreme, but not infallible. He then attributed his quote to former Supreme Court judge Justice JS Verma.
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The foreign minister, S Jaishankar, asserted that the part of Jammu & Kashmir that is occupied by Pakistan is an integral part of India and said India expects to take physical control of the region.
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In a major setback to the Bahujan Samaj Party, six party MLAs in Rajasthan switched sides and joined the Congress. She said the Congress party in Rajasthan, by creating a split among the BSP MLAs, has once again proved that it is untrustworthy and a cheat.
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Taking a dig at successive governments led by the Congress, the Union home minister, Amit Shah, on Tuesday, said during the Congress’s tenure, there was “policy paralysis” and the government had “no direction”.
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Days after BJP president Amit Shah’s remark over Hindi language, BJP’s biggest leader in the south and Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa firmly said “no” to the party chief over the imposition of Hindi over non-Hindi-speaking states.
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