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Bengal assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee is planning to move the Supreme Court against a recent Calcutta HC order on the Mukul Roy disqualification plea case. The HC had last Tuesday asked Banerjee to decide on the petition to disqualify Roy, under the anti-defection law, by October 7.

Leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari had filed the petition against Roy, who had switched over from BJP to Trinamool. While the hearing was pending, the speaker appointed Roy the PAC chairman. Banerjee consulted legal opinion following the HC directive and said he was mulling moving the Supreme Court this week.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath condemned the "unfortunate" trampling incident in Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday, saying that the state government would investigate the matter and expose the persons involved in causing the disturbance.

Allegedly, Ashish Misra, son of BJP leader and Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home Ajay Misra, ran his car over protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri's Tikunia. The incident, which killed eight persons, happened when Ashish Misra was going to receive UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, who was visiting Tikunia to attend an event.

Reacting to the incident, UP CM Yogi Adityanath said, "The government will go into the depth and expose elements involved in the incident and will take strict action against them."

The feud in RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s family appears to be growing, with his elder son Tej Pratap Yadav on Saturday alleging that his father is being held “hostage” in Delhi.

Tej Pratap, who was addressing an event of the Chhatra Janshakti Parishad in here, said, “Despite getting bail months ago, my father is still being held hostage in Delhi.” Tej also alleged that some people in the party are “dreaming of becoming national president of the party.”

Political observers here consider the comment as a reference to his younger brother Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and sister Misa Bharti. Lalu is recuperating at the Delhi residence of Misa, a Rajya Sabha member.

The “mountains of garbage” in Indian cities will be wiped out, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised Friday as he launched the second phases of the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation.

The Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 intends to make India’s cities garbage-free. AMRUT 2.0 aims at ramping up sewage treatment as well as providing 100 per cent water supply coverage to all households.

Speaking on urban water security, Prime Minister Modi said the target is to expand sewage and septic management, and ensure that no untreated sewage is released into the rivers. “When sewage water treatment increases, urban water bodies will get clean and then our rivers will also be clean,” he said.