Politics

You talk about your issues and to handle those issues and solve those is the responsibility of the govt and would be the responsibility in future too, Gautam Gambhir said.

Home Minister Amit Shah also said that regardless of opposition to the law, refugees would get Indian citizenship and live like Indians with honour.

While the Shiv Sena had voted in favour of the bill in Lok Sabha, it abstained from voting in the Rajya Sabha, mostly under pressure from ally Congress.

In a statement, Sonia Gandhi alleged that the BJP government's intention was clear about wanting to spread instability and creating an atmosphere of religious tension for political interests.

She had contested from Lucknow Cant seat on Samajwadi Party ticket in the 2017 assembly elections, but had lost to BJP’s Rita Bahuguna Joshi.

Mamata Banerjee requested people against creating any confusion. She also reiterated that the amended citizenship Act and the proposed country-wide NRC will not take effect in the state.

Amit Shah said that he assure (the people of) Assam and (other) northeastern states that their culture, social identity, language and political rights will be untouched and the Modi government will protect them.

Moitra's counsel mentioned the matter on Friday for urgent listing before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, who asked him to approach the mentioning officer.

Addressing a rally in Beed district on the occasion of the birth anniversary of her father Gopinath Munde, Pankaja Munde said BJP was free to decide on her continuance in the party.

The Shiv Sena has kept the home ministry, that was a key sticking point with Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party. However, no deputy chief minister has been announced, contrary to the expectations.

RSS general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi said the stand of the RSS has always been that a Hindu who comes to India because of persecution in another country cannot be termed as an intruder, but a refugee.

Raising the issue during the pre-noon session of the House, GVL Narasimha Rao said the trial of Saeed in terror funding cases was being done 'in-camera' in Pakistan and the public and media were not aware of the proceedings.

The Bill, which which seeks to provide Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan after facing religious persecution there, was passed by Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had stated earlier that the decision to deny tickets to some of his former ministerial colleagues was taken by the party's central committee.

The removal of Prakash has come as a 'surprise' for many in the party as he is considered close to Rajya Sabha member Vijay Goel, who has been quite active in Delhi.

Early in March, a 12-year-old girl was raped and bludgeoned to death at Manuabhan Tekri, a famous tourist spot in Bhopal.