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The West Bengal Police on Thursday said that the situation is peaceful in the state, and the BJP national President JP Nadda reached safely at the venue in Diamond Harbour. It also stated that the matter is being investigated.

"Shri JP Nadda, National President, BJP reached safely at the venue, Diamond Harbour, South 24 Pgs. Nothing happened to his convoy. Few bystanders at Debipur, Falta PS, Diamond Harbour PD, sporadically and suddenly threw stones towards vehicles trailing long behind his convoy," WB Police tweeted.

"Everyone is safe and the situation is peaceful. Matter is being investigated to find out actual happenings," it added.

Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik, on Thursday, joined Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) money laundering probe linked to security service giant TOPSGRUP, owned by Rahul Nanda. The central agency suspects that the Sena legislator was involved in alleged financial irregularities and received kickbacks from the security company that was providing services to Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). However, Sarnaik has been refuting all the accusations alleging a political vendetta.

Sarnaik, who has secured interim relief from the Supreme Court in the case, reached the ED office around 11.30am on Thursday for enquiry.

ED officials aware of the developments in the probe said that the anti-money laundering agency wishes to grill Sarnaik in connection with the suspicious funds transfers linking MMRDA security service contracts and Nanda.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday launched a scathing attack against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after Aam Admi Party claimed that the house of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was "attacked by BJP goons".

Kejriwal took to Twitter and wrote, "I strongly condemn the systematic, organised and violent attack on Dy CM Sh Manish Sisodia's home. The goons entered his house in police presence when he was away. Why is BJP getting so desperate by the day in Delhi?."
The AAP on Thursday claimed that the house of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was "attacked by BJP goons". The Delhi BJP, however, refuted the allegations, saying their protest was peaceful.

A first-of-its-kind survey on hunger has found that the period of Covid-19 and the restrictions placed because of it has hit Dalits and Muslims much harder than the rest of the population.

The report also noted that the three farm acts, against which farmers have been protesting for the past fortnight, endanger the entire procurement mechanism, and hence, the PDS itself, which has been one of the few safety mechanisms for the marginalised during this tough period. In other words, the three farm laws are likely to exacerbate the worsening hunger situation in the country.

One in four Dalits and one in four Muslims reported facing discrimination in accessing food since the lockdown, a report compiled by the Hunger Watch, a collective of the ‘Right to Food’ campaign and allied organisations, found in its post-Covid hunger survey. One in ten people from the ‘general’ category reported facing discrimination in accessing food.