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UP: All districts on high alert ahead of Friday prayers
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): All districts in Uttar Pradesh have been put on high alert ahead of the Friday prayers on December 27 in the backdrop of ongoing protests against the amended citizenship Act.
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UP DGP orders SIT inquiry into violence during anti-CAA protests
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): Director General of Police (DGP), OP Singh on Thursday ordered a Special Investigation Team (SIT) inquiry in the incidences of violence that broke out during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests in the state.
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Congress will not share platform with TRS, BJP on issue of CAA: TPCC Presi
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president, Uttam Kumar Reddy on Thursday said that party will not share platform with Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) or Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the issue of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA
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BJP showing disregard for people's voice, uses brute force against them: C
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): Congress party's national spokesperson Shaktisinh Gohil on Thursday said the BJP led government at the Centre has shown a callous disregard for the people's voices and used brute force to suppress them.
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CPI-M condemns Army Chief's statement on protests against CAA
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Dec 26 (ANI): The Communist Party of India--Marxist (CPI-M) has condemned the statement of Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
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1,113 people arrested in connection with anti-CAA protests: UP Police
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): A total of 1,113 have been arrested in different parts of the state in connection with the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests which turned violent in Uttar Pradesh, according to the police on Thursday.
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Govt's stance on CAA misplaced, people feeling insecure: Anand Sharma
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): Congress leader Anand Sharma on Thursday said that the government's argument that Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has been brought to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities is misplaced as independent India's governments from 1947 already ha
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There should not be any law which plays divisive role: Navjot Kaur Sidhu
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 26 (ANI): Former MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Thursday criticised the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and said that the government should make laws which make people united and not those which play a divisive role.
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Punjab: Captain Amarinder accuses Akali Dal of double standards on NRC, C
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday accused the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) of having double standards over the issue of NRC and CAA, and even asked the party leaders if they stood with their ally BJP over the contentious citizen
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BJP to deploy senior leaders across country to remove misgivings regarding
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 26 (ANI): Senior cabinet ministers and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders would be deployed across the country in an effort to dispel misgivings about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, and National Register of Citizens (NRC) being allegedly spread by the opposit
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MP: BJP to hold awareness programme over CAA in all districts starting Jan
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): As part of an awareness programme, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hold rallies and marches in all districts of Madhya Pradesh from January 1 till January 15 over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.
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No high handedness on part of police during anti-CAA protests: Ram Madhav
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav on Thursday said that there was no 'high-handedness' on the part of police in the violence that occurred in Uttar Pradesh during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
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