Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP leader Jairam Thakur welcomed Himachal Pradesh PWD Minister Vikramaditya Singh's support to the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) saying that he listened to his conscience and expressed it.
The Congress is all set to corner the Central Government on various pressing issues faced in the country including the Manipur violence, rising inflation, unemployment, and the assault on the federal structure of the country the way Governors of different states conducted themselves.
Calling the highest electoral court's decision a "stab in the back", former President Jair Bolsonaro vowed to appeal at the Supreme Court against the ruling which bars him from public office till 2030.
"We have said that whenever Uniform Civil Code comes, we will support it. Congress party has always contributed towards taking unity and integrity forward," said Himachal Pradesh Minister Vikramaditya Singh.
The former president was found guilty by five out of seven judges, effectively ending any hope of a political comeback in the forthcoming 2026 election. Two of the judges voted against the decision, which prevents Bolsonaro from running for public office for eight years.
Citing former PM Jawaharlal Nehru's bust being displayed at Britain's renovated national portrait gallery, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday took a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party over the 'high-profile' state visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the United States.
Launching a scathing attack on Bharatiya Janata Party for discontinuing Open Market Sale Scheme (Domestic)) for states, Congress on Sunday said that it is the 'Durbhagya' (bad luck) of people of Karnataka that the Modi government is sabotaging Anna Bhagya 2.0.
At the all-party meeting convened by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the violence in Manipur on Saturday, he gave an assurance of restoring peace in the state while the opposition parties questioned PM Narendra Modi's 'silence' on the matter.
Hours after the all-party meeting, convened by Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss the prevailing situation in Manipur, ended, the Congress, which was represented by former chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh, said he was "not allowed" to put forward his points".
He said that after the Congress-led government announced the implementation of the Scheme in the state on June 2, the Centre asked the FCI to ban the sale of rice to the states.