Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge says BJP should 'end this drama of distraction' and engage in debate on issues facing the public.
In plea filed after multi-party meet, DMK claims EC is acting as ‘de facto NRC’, seeking to quash its 27 October notification for 'violating' Constitution.
EC's reason for excluding Assam: Indian citizenship law has separate provision for Assam, also NRC process nearly complete in the state. Congress says EC's credibility on SIR under question.
The ADR earlier alleged that a significant number of voters, particularly Muslims, were illegally removed from the rolls and that the process lacked transparency.
A two-judge bench also asked petitioners against the Bihar Special Intensive Revision to file affidavits if any names had been wrongly removed or added in the final voters’ list.
Post-deletion of roughly 50 lakh names in controversial Special Intensive Revision, there are now 7.42 cr electors in Bihar, down by 6 percent from the pre-SIR numbers.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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