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 Leader of opposition in Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday led BJP MLAs to Raj Bhavan seeking the governor’s intervention against the speaker’s decision to appoint Mukul Roy as Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman even as party MLAs resigned in protest from the chairman post of eight assembly standing committees offered to them.

A BJP legislature team will leave for Delhi to submit the same memorandum to the President and the Lok Sabha speaker. Roy, who won the assembly election on a BJP ticket, was made PAC chairman a few weeks after he returned to TMC. By convention, the post goes to an opposition member.

The UT Administration has decided to open schools from July 19 (Monday) onwards. However, the schools will open physically only from classes 9 to 12, that too subject to parents’ consent.

“The schools will start functioning physically from 19th July, 2021 for 9th to 12th classes subject to parents’ consent for sending their wards to the schools. However, the online mode of teaching will continue,” the administration stated.

A government school teacher on condition of anonymity said that students won't be vaccinated and it is risky at least before the third wave.

PM to visit Varanasi tomorrow, inaugurate multi-crore projects

It also said that the Centre has an environment-friendly building and built keeping in mind for the convenience of differently-abled people.

In a statement, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said that Modi will inaugurate various public projects and works, including a 100-bed maternal and child health wing in BHU, multi-level parking at Godauliya, Ro-Ro Vessels for tourism development on river Ganga and three-lane flyover bridge on the Varanasi-Ghazipur Highway.

While projects worth around Rs 744 crore will be inaugurated, the PM will also lay the foundation stones of several projects and public works worth around Rs 839 crore. These include the Centre for Skill and Technical Support of Central Institute of Petrochemical Engineering and Technology (CIPET), 143 rural projects under Jal Jeevan Mission and mango and vegetable integrated packaging house at Karkhiyanv.

Congress general secretary and Punjab affairs in-charge Harish Rawat said on Monday that the party would soon replace Pradesh Congress chief Sunil Jakhar, and subsequently rejig the Cabinet.

The changes would be carried out “within 2-3 days”. Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh will, however, remain in the post, Rawat said.

“Punjab will get a new PCC chief and a few new faces in the Cabinet of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh,” Rawat told The Indian Express by phone after being discharged from hospital where he was admitted briefly.