- Former Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Pinarayi Vijayan, opposition leader were detained by the Delhi Police during the ongoing CEC protest.
- India warned Pakistan against using nuclear weapons as a means of political coercion, asserting that New Delhi would not yield to nuclear blackmail.
- The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders failed to reach Jantar Mantar for their planned protest, as key members were detained by police before reaching the venue.
- The Bharatiya Janata Party called Rahul Gandhi a “nalayak neta” over his remarks following a meeting between an INDIA bloc delegation and President Droupadi Murmu.
- BJP MP Sambit Patra on Saturday dismissed the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) proposed protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar as a “flop show”.
Here are the top stories of the day:
SIR protest: Former CMs among opposition leaders detained from Delhi
Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Kerala leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Pinarayi Vijayan were detained by Delhi Police on Saturday during demonstrations against chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Mamata Banerjee was detained from South Avenue along with Trinamool Congress leaders Derek O’Brien, Dola Sen and other party members. Several CPM leaders were also taken into custody during the protest.Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was detained as well.Following the detentions, CPM leaders took to social media to condemn the police action. Party leaders in Kerala also criticised the move and called for protests in response.Read full story
India warns Pakistan at UN against nuclear threat
India on Friday issued a stern warning to Pakistan against using the threat of nuclear weapons to exert political pressure, asserting that New Delhi would not give in to nuclear blackmail. It also cautioned that any terrorist attack against the country would be met with an appropriate response.Exercising its Right of Reply at the United Nations general assembly’s first committee, which focuses on disarmament and international security, India stressed that nuclear weapons should not be viewed as “routine instruments of statecraft”.Anmol Sher Singh Bedi, senior adviser (disarmament) at India’s permanent mission to the conference on disarmament in Geneva, delivered the response after Pakistan raised the issue of Jammu and Kashmir.Rejecting Islamabad’s claims over the region, Bedi reiterated India’s position, stating, “Jammu and Kashmir is an integral and inalienable part of India.”Read full story
What’s happening at Jantar Mantar? CJP’s ‘cockroaches’ grounded before anti-SIR showdown
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders were unable to reach Delhi’s Jantar Mantar as planned after key members of the outfit were detained before arriving at the protest venue, throwing its ‘Jantar Mantar 2.0’ plans into disarray. The extensive security measures across the national capital, which reportedly resulted in more than 1,500 detentions, further affected the anticipated turnout at the demonstration against chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke and party leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were detained by Delhi Police upon their arrival at Indira Gandhi International Airport from Mumbai.Read full story
‘Nalayak neta’: BJP accuses Rahul of dragging President into ‘street fights’, creating ‘anarchy’
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday called Rahul Gandhi a “nalayak neta” over his remarks after a delegation of the INDIA bloc met President Droupadi Murmu. The party accused the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha of misrepresenting the interaction and dragging the country’s highest constitutional office into the political controversy surrounding allegations of “vote chori”.Addressing a press conference, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra challenged Rahul Gandhi’s assertion that the president had not rejected the opposition’s allegations of electoral irregularities. Patra argued that receiving a memorandum did not imply that the president agreed with the claims made in it.“Yesterday, you saw that some political leaders had gone to Rashtrapati Bhavan. Rahul Gandhi’s statement after coming out of the Rashtrapati Bhavan was equal to that of an incompetent leader, ‘Nalayak neta’,” Patra said.
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‘Anarchists have failed, planned to hold Delhi hostage’: BJP slams Jantar Mantar stir
BJP MP Sambit Patra on Saturday dismissed the Cockroach Janata Party’s (CJP) proposed protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar as a “flop show”, claiming that the “anarchists” who sought to hold the national capital “hostage” had failed in their attempt.“Jantar Mantar’s story is not India’s story. What is happening at Jantar Mantar, what you can see on TV and a few social media handles, is not India’s story. India is calm and going ahead under good governance,” Patra said. The BJP MP alleged that certain “anarchist forces” had been spreading unrest in a corner of Delhi over the past few days. He claimed that their efforts had failed, describing the proposed protest as a “flop show” that had “completely collapsed”. “There was an attempt to hold India, the national capital, captive; that there be arson here, that there be violence here. But today, ‘loktantra’ has triumphed over bheedtantra,” Patra said.Read full story
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