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In the exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967), the Central Government has the jurisdiction to designate any organization as an unlawful association.

Bihar news: Paswan had fielded LJP candidates, many of them BJP rebels, in all seats contested by the JD(U) which finished with a tally of 43, a steep decline since 2015 when it had won 71 seats.

J&K News: The number of Kashmiri Pandits killed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir during the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, are 1, 4 and 1 respectively, MoS Home Nityanand Rai said in Rajya Sabha.

Rai informed that govt has approved an allocation of Rs 8754.23 crore for the exercise of Census of India 2021.

Responding to an unstarred question of whether the government is considering a caste-based Census, Union Minister Nityanand Rai said, "Government of India has not enumerated caste wise population other than SCs and STs in Census since independence".

BJP leader Nityanand Rai has said that if opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) comes to power after Assembly elections, 'terrorists would escape Kashmir and take shelter in Bihar'.

Union Minister Nityanand Rai said on Friday that those protesting against the new legislation should be declared "anti-OBC" and "anti-Dalit". The minister of state for home claimed that most of the non-Muslims fleeing harassment in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan belong to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Dalits.

Rai, the Minister of State for Home and the Bihar BJP chief, made a statement to this effect on Saturday after paying a visit to the house here where Dutt stayed after Independence.

The comments come a day after BJP Bihar chief Nityanand Rai said, "all fingers and hands raised against the prime minister should be broken or chopped off."