He also said that the people of Tripura were disappointed with the performance of the BJP-led government and Congress will come to power in alliance with its allies
Acting on a tip-off, Railway Protection Force personnel recovered 150 turtles from a sleeper class bogie of the North East Express at Uttar Pradesh's Deen Dayal Upadhyay junction and detained nine people in this connection.
Reacting sharply to allegations of erasing history of Mughals and changing the names of the cities associated with them, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the BJP state governments have taken "well-thought decisions" which are within their statutory rights.
The Jammu and Kashmir Traffic Police on Saturday morning informed that traffic was playing smoothly on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway whereas the Mughal road and SSG road are closed.
Communist Party of India (CPI) Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam has written a letter to President Droupadi Murmu on Monday regarding the rename of "The Mughal garden" to "Amrit Udyan". In his letter, He said that trying to erase the word "Mughal" from history can only be seen as an attempt to rew
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday took a swipe at the move to rename 'Mughal Gardens' on the Rashtrapati Bhavan premises to 'Amrit Udyan' and said that the government should also rename 'Izzatghar' as "Amrit Sauchalaya".
Welcoming President Droupadi Murmu's move to rename all the gardens of Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi including Mughal Garden as 'Amrit Udyan', Muslim Rashtriya Manch, a Muslim wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Saturday said that the new name symbolises 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam'.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader's statement comes at a time when the gardens of Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi including Mughal Garden have been given a common name as 'Amrit Udyan'.
"Changing the name will not change the history. Mughals were aggressors but they were rulers as well. Mughals did start some new traditions which strengthened the social history of our country," Congress leader Harish Rawat told ANI.
Amid the political row that erupted over the naming of one of the venues at Jaipur Literature Festival as the Mughal Tent, Deputy Leader of the Opposition Rajendra Rathore has called it an act of "weakening Indian culture".
The BJP has objected to the organisers of the JLF naming one of its venues Mughal Tent, saying that the name had hurt the sentiments of a lot of people in the country.