Topic: BJP government
Mamata writes letter to 15 Opposition leaders, calls on them to unite against BJP
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee wrote to fifteen key opposition leaders including Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Wednesday, suggesting a big get-together for a strategy to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party after the current round of assembly polls.
Centre’s Delhi Bill hit out at the root of federalism, say Opposition leaders
On Wednesday, Rajya Sabha approved the Bill giving primacy to Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor (L-G) over the elected government after uproar by the Opposition and a walkout by MPs of parties like the Congress, SP, BJD and the YSR-Congress in the House.
Manipur: Rahul Gandhi seeks disqualification of 12 BJP MLAs in 2018 ‘office of profit’ case
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday demanded the disqualification of 12 BJP legislators from Manipur in the 2018 'office of profit' case.
Dissecting the new rules for social media and OTT
Last week IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar released the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 at a press conference in New Delhi. Although the government had raised the issue in 2018, work on issuing the new rules for social media and OTT platforms gained acceleration after the spat between IT ministry and Twitter over removal of certain accounts affiliated with farm protests to which Twitter disagreed.
India systematically discriminates against Muslims, vilifies Sikh protesters: Rights watchdog
Authorities in India have adopted laws and policies that systematically discriminate against Muslims and stigmatize critics of the government, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
BJP does vote-bank politics in budget, note-bank politics off-budget: Kapil Sibal
"The government engages in vote bank politics in budget. Outside the budget, it engages in note bank politics," Sibal said.
