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New Delhi: A Kerala minister slammed BJP president Amit Shah for threatening to oust the LDF government despite it allowing him to arrive there as part of the state’s ‘tradition of hospitality’. Meanwhile, A controversy has erupted over BJP president Amit Shah landing in the yet-to-be-opened Kannur airport.

State finance minister TM Thomas Isaac tweeted that though the state had shown the ‘tradition of hospitality’ by permitting Shah to land in the airport, which had not been formally inaugurated, the BJP leader had threatened to oust the Left-ruled Kerala government. The official inauguration of the Kannur airport, the fourth in the state, is scheduled to be held on December 9.

New Delhi: Additional sessions judge K D Vadane has rejected the bail applications filed by the three activists. These activists included Sudha Bharadwaj, Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves, three of the five activists put under house arrest in connection with their alleged links to the Maoists.

“We will appeal against the Sessions Court’s judgement in Bombay high court,” Dhairyasheel Patil, senior counsel representing Gonsalves, said.

The prosecution had argued against the bail of all three left-leaning activists saying they have “corroborative evidence” against the activists which establishes their links with banned outfit CPI (Maoist).

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sought a response from Congress president Rahul Gandhi and also an apology to Hindus, if he does not support the statements made by his party MP Shashi Tharoor. The BJP hit out at Congress leader Shashi Tharoor over his remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shiv Linga. The party asked Congress chief Rahul Gandhi whether he supports his party leader’s comments.

The BJP’s reaction came a day after Tharoor reportedly claimed an unnamed RSS source had told a journalist that Prime Minister Modi was like a scorpion sitting on a Shiv Linga who cannot be removed by hand or hit with a chappal (slipper).

“The Congress claims to represent the heritage of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. Today, under the presidentship of Rahul Gandhi it has been reduced to hurling abuses and the worst form of civil discourse,” BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in New Delhi.

New Delhi: Prateek Hajela, National Register of Citizens’ (NRC) Assam coordinator, has claimed in the Supreme Court of India that the outcry against the exclusion of five identity documents as a basis for filing claims and objections is an attempt to get illegal immigrants included in the NRC.

The top court had on Tuesday asked Hajela to explain to the state government, Centre and other stakeholders why five documents — extract of the 1951 NRC, copy of electoral rolls up to March 24, 1971, citizenship and refugee registration certificates up to March 24, 1971 and ration cards— were not allowed to be used for filing inclusion claims. Around four million people were excluded from the final NRC draft released on July 30.