The Bill mandates the state to collect 10 per cent tax from temples generating revenue exceeding Rs 1 crore and 5 per cent from shrines with revenue of between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 1 crore.
The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seem to have finalised their seat-sharing alliance for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, sources said on Thursday.
In a post on X, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge stated that the mission, launched in 2015 with the ambitious target of training 40 crore (400 million) people by 2022, has only managed to train a meagre 3.5% as of December 2023.
Former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai opined that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who also holds the Finance portfolio, not only presented his 15th budget without focusing on development issues but also spending it on welfare schemes in the name of guarantees.
The BJP criticized the state government, accusing it of implementing 'Anti-Hindu' policies. State President Vijayendra Yediyurappa alleged that the government passed the bill to replenish its depleted coffers.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said that a country is secure only if the states are secure, adding that the Centre should not try to weaken the states.
CM Yadav made the remark while addressing a program in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district, a stronghold of Nath on Wednesday. A Congress leader close to Kamal Nath, Ajay Singh Thakur and various other congress leaders also took the membership of the saffron party on the occasion.
Going all guns blazing at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remark that he spotted youths passed out drunk on the streets of Varanasi and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh during his ongoing 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra', former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the former has
Union Minister Smriti Irani, who is on a four-day visit to her parliamentary constituency of Amethi on Monday, launched a scathing attack on the Congress and said that the empty streets that greet Rahul Gandhi are a reflection of the people of Amethi's anger towards the Gandhi family.
Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Sunday, slammed the Congress ahead claiming that there is no unity in the Congress party in Haryana and they can't fight with the ruling BJP.
In his first response to the state budget presented by Chief Minister Sukhwinder Sukhu on Saturday, the Leader of Opposition in the Himachal Assembly, Jairam Thakur, on Saturday said the former and his party are 'infamous' for making 'false guarantees'.
A post of a former Congress leader and BJP state spokesperson Narendra Saluja on X, ahead of Nath's arrival in Delhi, has given wings to the speculation.