Kerala opposition leader V D Satheesan on Friday requested the Election Commission to direct the Doordarshan to withdraw from its decision to telecast the "extremely malicious" "Kerala Story" movie.
In a daily press briefing on Wednesday, US Department of State spokesperson Mathew Miller refused to categorise both cases into one and rambled around the question, adding that they want to see everyone in Pakistan be treated with consistent rule of law and human rights.
The call came after demonstrations by opponents of the Benjamin Netanyahu government demanding new elections now turned violent in which protestors assaulted police.
Trinamool Congress leader Shatrughan Sinha welcomed Supreme Court's decision to grant bail to Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh and said that he was arrested like other opposition leaders under vindictive politics by the ruling BJP government.
Coming down heavily on the Centre over the alleged misuse of central agencies such as the Directorate of Enforcement (ED), CBI and the Income Tax Department against the Opposition leaders and parties, former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said democracy was in 'danger'.
After the Supreme Court granted bail to Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi hit out at BJP and said that this showed that the BJP is misusing the central agencies to suppress opposition leaders and the ED is reduced to the Extortion Department of the BJP.
Former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said the Opposition leaders who stood in support of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the Ramlila Maidan on Sunday would suffer bruising losses in the Lok Sabha elections as the 'public knows everything'.
"This is the same Kejriwal and his party who have spoken against the corruption in the same Ramlila Maidan along with Anna Hazare. It's surprising and funny actually that the list he was carrying with names of corrupt leaders, 80 per cent of them today attended the rally to support Arvind Ke
Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu has alleged his predecessor and the opposition leader, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, of operating on orders from the foreign ambassador, Maldives-based Maldives News Network reported.
Former Maldivian minister of foreign affairs, Abdulla Shahid, condemned the intimidation of opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) Chairperson Fayyaz Ismail by summoning him to be questioned on "baseless allegations" on Thursday.