'According to multiple media reports, the Delhi government has said that it will not be granting the police sanction to prosecute former Jawaharlal Nehru Students students who were charged with sedition after an event on campus in February 2016. The state’s Home Department thinks that the students – including Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and nine others – should not be prosecuted because their activities “do not amount to sedition against the State”, Indian Express reported.
'AAP’s stand on article 370 has confused and disheartened many. For its workers the party has opened itself to attacks by its adversaries because of its support to stripping of statehood for Jammu and Kashmir and thus weakening its own plank for full statehood for Delhi which was its key slogan during the 2019 Lok Sabha campaign. A section of its fellow-travelers who had high hopes of the experiment, activists/scholars – who were rather enthused with its ‘participatory’ approach – also feel betrayed or disheartened now.
'No apology, no resignation, said Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani today, as he fielded multiple attacks for having alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party funded Anurag Kashyap's film Udta Punjab. Mr Nihalani said he cannot substantiate his allegation but, "I won't apologise, I said what I heard." Top filmmakers today said they stand with Mr Kashyap, who says that the Censor Board has ordered the removal of all references to Punjab and elections, imposing 89 cuts in his film, which deals with drug abuse in Punjab.
'“Modi is a coward and a psychopath” tweeted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal just after his office was raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation without permission, or even forewarning. The tweet made it clear that relations between the two governments and leaders have now deteriorated to perhaps a point of no return. The CBI that reportedly stormed into the Chief Ministers office, sealed off the floor and refused to allow officials to enter.
'On Tuesday, AAP party workers protested outside the MLA's house with regard to his sexist remarks against Alka Lamba. Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker, O P Sharma was suspended from the Delhi assembly for making derogatory and sexist remarks about Aam Aadmi Party MLA, Alka Lamba on Tuesday. The Hindustan Times quotes the MLA's remarks as "Ye toh Raat Bhar ghumne wali”.
'Accusing the late prime minister and Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi of ‘justifying’ the killing of innocent Sikhs in the 1984 carnage following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Aam Aadmi Party leader and lawyer H S Phoolka along with BJP secretary R P Singh came together to demand that Bharat Ratna given to the former Prime Minister be taken back.
'The Delhi High Court on Friday issued a notice to the central government asking the grounds on which a passport issued to senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan was not being renewed. Bhushan had moved the Delhi High Court after the Ministry of External Affairs denied a renewal of his passport for an alleged traffic rule violation.
'In a near-sweep, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday decimated BJP and Congress by recorded a landslide victory and is set to secure 66 of the 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly elections, halting the the Modi juggernaut in its tracks...'
'Narendra Modi, as the saying goes, should have been careful about what he wished for. “Jo desh ka mood hai,” he declared during the election campaign for the Delhi assembly, “wahi Dilli ka mood hai.” Now that Delhi has given the Aam Aadmi Party 67 out of 70 seats and 54 per cent of the popular vote, the Prime Minister must be wondering what this means for the emerging mood elsewhere in the country.
'An anti-corruption party has won a stunning victory in the Delhi state elections in a huge setback for India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP admitted defeat after Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won 67 of the 70 assembly seats. Mr Modi congratulated the AAP leader, whose career seemed doomed a year ago when he quit as Delhi's chief minister over a crucial anti-corruption bill. It is the BJP's first setback since it triumphed in the 2014 general election. Correspondents say the win marks a remarkable comeback for Arvind Kejriwal, a former tax inspector...'
