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BJP and AAP have rolled out very competitive promises to the voters of Delhi ahead of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi polls scheduled for December 4, the result of which would be declared on December 7. Congress has alleged conspiracy in the delimitation process that would ultimately reduce the significance of minorities and Dalits, and had even approached Delhi High Court with a request to stop the election process, which was refused, and elections are being held as per the announcement made by State election commission on November 4.

Why would those who converted from Hinduism to Islam and Christianity want to be classified as ‘Dalit’, when it was the Scheduled Caste status in the Hindu religious and social order what made them to convert in the first place? In fact, the strongest argument to convert from Hinduism to any religion under the sun was that Hinduism was riddled with castes and the “lowest of the low”, the Scheduled Castes, had been literally kept at arm’s length from the born Hindu upper castes, including from all the benefits that accrue to the Hindu upper caste newborn.

It is not a secret what made the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju to question the functioning of the collegium of the Supreme Court and malign the face of the judiciary in public. For a fortnight he has been targeting the judges and judiciary and accusing them of transgressing into the domain of the executive. Never before in the history of Independent India, any law minister had launched a tirade against the judiciary in the manner Rijiju has been doing.

Panchkula: Jaipur based Afshan Fatima survived the middle of the round hiccups and stayed put in the lead at the end of the second round of the 14th Leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour here on Thursday.

Three coal mining workers died on September 18, 2022, due to suspected inhalation of poisonous gas while working in a rat hole coal mining at Tikok Malu hills in Ledo area under Margherita subdivision of Tinsukia district. Saidul Islam, Hussain Ali and Asmat Ali, all under thirty, died since it was suspected that there were no preventive steps taken against the deadly impact of environmental hazards, and here it was the poisonous gas emitting in the mine. According to reports in the national dailies, illegal mining is continuing under the knowledge of district authorities, but they are compelled to keep quiet because of the involvement of several ruling party leaders.

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court has, by a split verdict of 3 to 2 upheld the validity of the 103rd constitutional amendment which provided reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS) from within the general category. The CPI(M) had supported this constitutional amendment in parliament in January 2019.

Do we get the sneaking feeling that the G-20 has been roped in to be part of the BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’; an opportunity to electorally cash in on the universal appeal of the lotus, which also happens to be India’s national flower? The Opposition is bristling, and does not like it one bit that the all-powerful G-20 has been put to use to popularize and sensationalize the Bharatiya Janata Party on a global platform.

It did not come as surprise when Delhi government led by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has now accused Lieutenant Governor Office in an affidavit in the Supreme Court of “Derailing” Governance in the National Capital Territory of India, as has been seen in several states during the last 8 years of PM Modi’s rule in India since 2014. Governors have been increasingly blamed of derailing governance by opposition ruled states. The latest being, apart from Delhi, the three southern states – Telangana, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.

KCR, as the Chief Minister of Telangana is popularly known, has made a sensational revelation on the basis of confessions of four ‘agents of Delhi’ that the BJP which rules the country led by PM Narendra Modi has hatched a conspiracy to topple four opposition ruled state governments – Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Delhi. Only a few months ago in August, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had claimed that the BJP has spent Rs6,300 crore on toppling elected governments of political parties in opposition.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The confrontation between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front(LDF) Government plumbed a new depth with the Government deciding to bring in an ordinance stripping the Governor off the Chancellorship of Universities and the Governor firm on referring the ordinance to the President of India.