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  No state has powers to refuse implementation of Citizenship Act: Govt

  December 13, 2019 16:39 IST

  No state can refuse to implement the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 as the legislation was enacted under the Union List of the 7th Schedule of the Constitution, a top official of the home ministry said today.

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  BJP MLAs queue up before Yediyurappa's residence

  December 12, 2019 21:10 IST

  As the Chief Minister is likely to visit Delhi next week to discuss the cabinet expansion and allocation of portfolios,Vijayanagar MLA Anand Singh, Hukkeri MLA Umesh Katti and Yellapur MLA Shivaram Hebbar called on him at his residence.

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  Bhim Army leader Chandrashekhar Aazad vows to provide 'political alternative' to Dalits

  December 12, 2019 18:05 IST

  They have deceived B R Ambedkar, BSP founder Kanshi Ram and the Dalit community," he posted on Twitter. "By doing so, the BSP made Muslims feel unsafe and weakened the Dalit politics.

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  Mamata convenes meeting of MPs, MLAs to counter CAB

  December 12, 2019 15:58 IST

  According to party sources, poll strategist Prashant Kishor, will also be present at the December 20 meeting.

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  Won't be in BJP core committee, declares Pankaja Munde during rally on home-turf

  December 12, 2019 16:03 IST

  Pankaja Munde was addressing supporters in a rally in her home turf Beed.

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  AIADMK has "betrayed," minorities, Lankan Tamils: DMK

  December 11, 2019 23:06 IST

  Palaniswami's government was Tamil Nadu's "stone age," he said, apparently indicating that the support for the Bill was a retrograde measure. The AIADMK's mask of supporting the cause of Eelam Tamils has been exposed, Stalin alleged.

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  With coffers empty, CM Thackeray seeks GST dues from Centre

  December 11, 2019 17:34 IST

  This, coupled with the ongoing economic slowdown, has posed serious problems for the state's finances owing to which its development programmes are suffering, the CM informed Sitharaman.

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  US body's view on Shah attack on our sovereignty: BJP MP in Lok Sabha

  December 11, 2019 16:40 IST

  The home minister is working for the country's unity, security and integrity and the US committee's move is an attack on our sovereignty, he said. Dubey said opposition parties can come to power in future and the matter is not about about one party. India had dismissed the commission's view, saying the American body has no locus standi.

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  Manifesto of any party cannot override the Constitution of India: Anand Sharma

  December 11, 2019 16:29 IST

  While replying to Union Home Minister Amit Shah who tabled the bill in the House, Sharma said that though it was part of BJP's 2019 manifesto, it cannot override the principles of the Indian Constitution.

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  Government ramming through CAB to promote Hindutva agenda: Chidambaram in Rajya Sabha

  December 11, 2019 16:55 IST

  Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday said that the government was ramming through the Citizenship Amendment Bill to advance its Hindutva agenda.

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  Opposition not consulted on Article 370, Citizenship Bill: Ashok Gehlot

  December 11, 2019 11:34 IST

  Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has criticised the Narendra Modi government for not taking the opposition into confidence on key issues like the scrapping of Article 370 and the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.

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  Citizenship Bill: Fadnavis says Shiv Sena under pressure, Congress welcomes Sena's fresh stance

  December 10, 2019 19:54 IST

  Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday questioned Shiv Sena's apparent flip-flop on Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. Fadnavis advised Shiv Sena to not come under pressure from the Congress over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.

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  'Such a secular party...Muslim league in Kerala, Sena in Maharashtra': Shah pokes fun at Congress

  December 09, 2019 23:34 IST

  Congress is such a secular party that it partnered with the Muslim League in Kerala and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, Shah quipped in a late-night discussion on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the lower house.

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  Citizenship Amendment Bill: What Amit Shah said in Lok Sabha | Top Quotes

  December 09, 2019 23:23 IST

  Union Home Minister Amit Shah responded to the debate on Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha late Monday night. He said the bill is naither unconstitutional nor it violates Article 14.

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  Ajit Pawar meets Fadnavis during a wedding, later says they were discussing weather

  December 09, 2019 22:27 IST

  Partners in short-lived government, Ajit Pawar and Devendra Fadnavis, were seen engrossed in an animated conversation during their first public appearance since the government fell.

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  BJP opens maiden account in Vokkaliga bastion of Mandya

  December 09, 2019 18:52 IST

  The ruling BJP in Karnataka on Monday scripted history by recording its first-ever win in the Vokkaliga bastion of Mandya district.

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  Siddaramaiah resigns as CLP leader after Congress' poor show in Karnataka bypolls

  December 09, 2019 16:31 IST

  Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday resigned as the Congress Legislature Party leader, taking moral responsibility for the party's poor show in the assembly bypolls.

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  BJP consolidates Karnataka by bagging 12 seats in by-polls, Yediyurappa set to remain in-charge

  December 09, 2019 20:48 IST

  BJP's position in Karnataka was further consolidated as BS Yediyurappa-led government managed to sweep the by-polls by winning 12 out of 15 seats where the voting took place. The numbers game now places BJP safely at 117, 5 more than the halfway mark. The party earlier had a slim majority due to the 17 MLAs defecting after the Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018. 

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  'Amit Shah's name will be in league of Hitler': Owaisi in debate on Citizenship Amendment Bill

  December 09, 2019 13:27 IST

  During a heated debate on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi targeted Union Home Minister Amit Shah and said that his name would be in the same league as Hitler's. Lok Sabha on Monday witnessed uproar as the government tabled the bill in the house.

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  Ahead of Citizenship Bill, Sena accuses centre of invisible Hindu-Muslim partition

  December 09, 2019 10:45 IST

  The Shiv Sena, which has 18 MPs in the Lok Sabha, pointed out that most of the states from the North East region have opposed the CAB along with Bihar where the BJP is sharing power with the JD(U), and West Bengal.

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  Shah to introduce Citizenship Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha today

  December 09, 2019 10:33 IST

  The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan escaping religious persecution there.

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  Lapses allowed to continue with impunity: Hardeep Singh Puri over Delhi fire

  December 08, 2019 23:21 IST

  Terming as the statement by Puri "shocking and false", the AAP government claimed that the Union Housing and Urban Development minister's statement was aimed at hiding "corruption and inefficiency" of the BJP-led civic bodies in Delhi.

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  DMK endorses Stalin on approaching court against civic polls

  December 08, 2019 22:43 IST

  The DMK said it is for holding the polls after following the processes like delimitation, reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

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  On eve of Karnataka bypolls counting, H D Deve Gowda at Saibaba temple

  December 08, 2019 21:44 IST

  "For me, Ram and Raheem are the same. I prayed to Saibaba for the betterment and development of the country," Deve Gowda told reporters in Shirdi in Ahmednagar district.

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  BJP to go solo in BMC polls 2022 against Shiv Sena

  December 08, 2019 21:17 IST

  Days after the Shiv Sena snapped ties with the BJP, the latter on Sunday decided to contest the 2022 Mumbai civic body elections on its own. The Sena has been controlling the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the country's richest civic body, since the last 30 years.

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  SAD hails Citizenship Bill, but wants Muslims also covered

  December 08, 2019 20:03 IST

  The party appreciated the Bill and said, "The NDA government has fulfilled the demand of the SAD as well as all minorities, including Sikhs, Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians, who had fled religious persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and taken refuge in India."

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  Kerala BJP panel fails to identify new president

  December 08, 2019 17:57 IST

  The meeting was chaired by national organisation secretary B.L. Santhosh. While Surendran is being backed by the faction headed by Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan, Ramesh has the support of former state BJP chief P.K. Krishnadas. 

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  Rahul calls BPCL privatisation a theft

  December 07, 2019 23:56 IST

  Over 6,000 people took part in the rally addressed by Gandhi, who arrived here after winding up his three-day Wayanad constituency visit. "I will always be with you in fight against wrongdoings of this government," said Gandhi.