India Political Highlights| British wanted to punish Indians so they named the law Bhartiya Dand Sanhita: Arjun Ram Meghwal

MP BJP working committee member arrested for 'misbehaving' with CM Yadav's OSD; gets bail

A Madhya Pradesh BJP working committee member was granted bail on Monday a day after he was arrested for allegedly creating ruckus and misbehaving with the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Chief Minister Mohan Yadav at a party function here, a police officer said. Hirendra Bahadur Singh, according to a police complaint filed by Naib Tehsildar Nimesh Pandey, hurled abuses, created rumpus and misbehaved with his boss, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis, Lokesh Sharma, at the BJP function organised at the institute on Saturday, he said. 

AAP to launch Delhi poll campaign with Manish Sisodia's foot march on August 14

The AAP will kick-start its campaign for the Delhi Assembly polls with senior leader Manish Sisodia undertaking a foot march to reach out to voters in all 70 constituencies, senior party leader Sandeep Pathak said on Monday.

The Delhi Assembly elections are likely to be held early next year.

Former Delhi deputy chief minister Sisodia, who was released from Tihar jail on Friday, held a meeting with AAP MLAs on Monday. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita also participated in the meeting.

Sisodia held a meeting with senior party leaders on Sunday. He will meet AAP councillors on Tuesday.

Will fight assembly elections in JK: Farooq Abdullah

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Monday said he will fight the upcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and hoped that the Election Commission will announce the poll dates by the end of this month.

The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, however, refused to divulge which constituency he would contest the elections from.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a party function in Doda district, Abdullah said, "He (his son Omar Abdullah) does not want to fight the elections under the present setup. He has made up his mind that he will not fight the elections till the restoration of statehood (of Jammu and Kashmir). However, I am going to fight the elections as I am not dead."

UP assembly bypolls: SP announces in-charges for 6 constituencies, Congress for 10 seats

Samajwadi Party and Congress on Monday announced its in-charges for the Uttar Pradesh assembly by-elections that are to be held on 10 seats.

The SP announced in-charges for six seats, while the Congress declared in-charges for all 10 assembly constituencies.

While SP national general secretary Shivpal Singh Yadav will be in-charge of Katehari seat, Faizabad MP Awadhesh Prasad and Leader of Opposition in UP Legislative Council Lal Bihari Yadav will be in-charge of Milkipur seat, a senior SP leader said.

K'taka HC reserves order on CBI petition against withdrawal of consent in D K Shivakumar case

The Karnataka High Court on Monday reserved its order on petitions filed by the CBI and BJP MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal, challenging the state government's move to withdraw consent for a probe by the investigation agency in the disproportionate assets case against Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar.

A division bench, consisting of Justice K Somashekhar and Justice Umesh M Adiga, reserved the order after extensive hearings.

Rajasthan CM Bhajanlal Sharma joins 'Har Ghar Tiranga' rally ahead of the 78th Independence Day celebration in Jaipur today.

Union Ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Kiren Rijiju participate in 'Har Ghar Tiranga Bike Rally'

Allegations and counter-allegations related to the Hindenburg report are continuing to such an extent that it is being said to affect the national interest: Mayawati

Delhi Minister Atishi and former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia interact with students at RSKV, West Vinod Nagar.

Congress MP & LoP Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi along with party leader K C Venugopal arrives at AICC for the meeting with the party's State Congress Presidents

Congress general secretary, PCC chiefs, state incharge's meeting underway at party headquarters in Delhi.

When conman Sukesh writes letter, L-G takes action but Delhi CM writes a letter, L-G stops Tihar officials from sending it to him: Sisodia

" This is very unfortunate that in such a sacred occasion, during Independence, petty politics is being played...I keep reading in newspapers that when conman Sukesh writes a letter, Tihar officials submit it to L-G and L-G takes action on that but when elected CM of Delhi writes a letter, L-G stops the Tihar officials from sending the letter to him...if CM has written a letter in connection with Independence Day, L-G office just has to give a call to DG office and ask to send it to him but he has nothing to do with Independence Day..."

Mallikarjun Kharge holds a meeting with all general secretaries, PCC president and State Incharges of the party, at AICC Headquarters.

I am sad that SEBI is not reacting as much as the govt is reacting: RJD leader Manoj Jha

"I had earlier said that when the system gets rigged, it will affect everyone. What will happen to the investors? There has been an attempt to dilute the issue. I am sad that SEBI is not reacting as much as the govt is reacting. They should accept it that the system has been rigged. People will reduce them to 40 seats from 240 seats,

IN PICS | Glimpses from the Congress meet at Delhi HQ to discuss political situation and finalise strategy for the party

'Bold and beautiful' Mahua Moitra's demand of SEBI chief's resignation finds echo in Shatrughan Sinha's post

"...This is a conspiracy to take the nation towards an economic chaos. Anti-Modi George Soros has invested in Hindenburg...I would like to say that Rahul Gandhi ji, do not take India on a track of economic chaos," says BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Hindenburg report

The BJP office bearers' meeting is scheduled to take place on August 17 in Delhi, with all state presidents and state organisation general secretaries expected to be present.

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) flag.

On the meeting of the Congress President with PCC chiefs at AICC today, Himachal Pradesh Congress chief Pratibha Singh says, "In the meeting, it was discussed how to prepare for upcoming Assembly elections and guidelines for it was given."

"We will have to discuss this in depth. I will hold a Press conference shortly," Rahul Gandhi on his demand to conduct JPC investigation into the Hindenburg report

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi

Congress to gherao ED offices across India demanding SEBI chairman's removal : KC Venugopal

"We will hold a massive national-level agitation on 22nd August throughout the country. We will gherao the Enforcement Directorate Office in each state capital demanding the SEBI Chairman to be removed from that position," says AICC General Secretary and MP, KC Venugopal

He further said, "Today, we convened a meeting of AICC General Secretaries, Incharges and PCC presidents under the leadership of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.

"We had a discussion about one of the biggest scams happening in the country right now- the Hindenburg revelations, the scam related to Adani and SEBI.

"We unanimously decided to have nationwide agitation on this issue demanding two things, one is a JPC inquiry on Adani mega scam in which the Prime Minister is fully involved and in which the financial market regulation has now been found to have been severely compromised."

Caste Census should happen immediately and Wayanad landslide should be declared a national disaster, says Venugopal

"We reiterated our demand of a nationwide caste census from the Government of India without any delay," says Venugopal.

"We had already demanded for Wayanad disaster to be announced as a national disaster. We also discussed the natural calamities which happened in other parts of India like Uttarakhand, Himachal and Northeastern states.

"Regarding the Bangladesh issue, a meeting was called by the Government of India to take all possible steps to ensure that targeted attacks on religious minorities and their places of worship are stopped ."

AAP is starting the 'Satyamev Jayate' DP campaign: Atishi Marlena

AAP Minister Atishi Marlena addressed a press conference blaming the BJP for leaving no stone turned in their quest to bring down the AAP government. She further said despite conducting immeense raids, they weren't able to find a single rupee of corruption. Despite that many senior leaders of Aam Adami Party were put in jail.

She referred to India's fight for independence and said such 'arbitrary' arrests remind her of our fight for independence.

"During that time those who were fighting against the British were put in jail in for false cases.

"Every dictator puts his opponents in jail to silence them. BJP thought that they would break AAP by doing such dictatorial acts. But they were not successful in doing so. Finally, truth won and Manish Sisodia came out of jail.

"To celebrate the victory of truth, AAP is starting the 'Satyamev Jayate' DP campaign. From today, the 'Satyamev Jayate' DP campaign has started on all social media handles of AAP."

BJP MP Jagdambika Pal appointed as Chairperson of Joint Parliamentary Committee that will review Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024

List of 31 members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), established to review the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024.

BJP MP Jagdambika Pal has been appointed as the Chairperson of the JPC.

Who is stopping the government from inquiring into conspiracies? Venugopal refers to Hindenburg allegations

"If there is some conspiracy behind the Hindenburg allegations, let the government inquire it, K C Venugopal said.

"Who is stopping the government from inquiring into the conspiracies?", he said.

Kiren Rijiju launches schemes for Parsi and Muslim community

On Tuesday, Kiren Rijiju told the media that they had launched two important programmes for the Parsi and Muslim community.

Rijiju said, "Since we have seen a decline in the population of Parsi community, we will launch a Jiyo Parsi scheme to address the issue,"

He further said, "We have also launched the Haj Committee portal for 2025. This is the first time preparations for Haj has started in India.

"The applications and arrangements for the 2025 Haj have commenced already. We want the process for 2025 Haj to be completed without any issues.

"There is a large Muslim population in India and a lot of people participate in Haj so our arrangements need to be very good."

Youth needs to come forward and strive to make India a developed nation by 2047, says Shah before flagging off Tiranga Yatra

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel flagged off the 'Har Ghar Tiranga' rally on Tuesday.

Shah said that Har Ghar Tiranga campaign a symbol of our pledge to make India developed by 2047. He further stated that the youth needs to come forward and help India become a developed nation.

Election Commission schedules meeting with Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Wednesday to review the security situation in J&K: Sources

Recently an ECI delegation led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar reviewed the poll preparations in J&K.

During a press conference in Jammu CEC Kumar emphasised that the EC is committed to holding the elections in J&K at the earliest. No outside or internal forces can derail the electoral process.

Tiranga Yatra is a tribute to freedom fighters, especially those who remain anonymous in history: V K Saxena

"We have taken out a Tiranga Yatra today and thousands of children and people have participated in it," Delhi L G V K Saxena said.

"Lakhs of people have sacrificed their lives for the freedom of our country. There are many whose names we know, but there are quite a few freedom fighters who remain anonymous.

"This Tiranga Yatra is a way to pay tribute to all of them. Today such Tiranga Yatras are being taken out all over the country."

British wanted to punish Indians so they named the law Bhartiya Dand Sanhita: Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal

Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said Prime Minister Narendra Modi named the new criminal law as 'Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita' as he wanted to provide justice to people.

"The British wanted to punish Indians so they named it Bhartiya Dand Sanhita, he said.

YSRCP to file formal complaint regarding vandalism with National SC in Delhi

A delegation from the YSR Congress Party will meet the National SC Commission on August 14, at 11:00 am in Delhi to will file a formal complaint concerning the recent acts of vandalism on Dr BR Ambedkar's statue at the Ambedkar Smriti Vanam located in Vijayawada.

The YSRCP delegation includes leaders MP Gurumurthy, former ministers Adimulapu Suresh and Merugu Nagarjuna, former MP Nandigam Suresh, MLC Monditoka Arun Kumar, and former MLA Kaile Anil Kumar, among others.