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Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh lashed out at his colleague and former Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad after the latter resigned from the Congress. Singh reacted to all of the reasons that Ghulam listed as to why he left the party and termed them as 'lame excuses'. He also took a jibe at his long-time colleague and asked if he had cozied up with the BJP. 

"It appears you have established a cordial relationship with those who have abrogated Article 370," asked Digvijaya Singh to Ghulam Nabi Azad.

Digvijaya Singh also expressed that he was upset over Azad's resgination despite how well the party had treated him. 

Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has sought a report from the chief secretary over a delay of more than 2.5 years in acting on a CVC report on an inquiry into construction of additional classrooms in government schools, sources told PTI. The report, which found gross irregularities and procedural lapses in execution of the projects, was sent by the CVC to the vigilance secretary in February 2020, seeking comments for further investigation and action.

The development comes even as trouble has stirred up for Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, who is among 15 people and entities named in an FIR registered by CBI in connection with alleged irregularities in the implementation of the Delhi excise policy.

Asserting that the breach in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security during his January 5 visit to Punjab was ‘planned’ and not a ‘natural one,’ Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said those behind the conspiracy and their motives should be unmasked.

Thakur also raised a series of questions about the role of former Punjab Chief Minister and Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi and said that it needed to be answered why top functionaries were missing from the spot where the Prime Minister’s convoy was stranded.

Thakur’s comments came after a Supreme Court-appointed committee said that the then Ferozepur SSP had ‘failed to discharge his duty’ though sufficient forces were available during Modi’s Punjab visit.

Road transport minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Thursday posted a series of tweets alleging “nefarious and fabricated campaign” against him for “political mileage” by sections of the media and some persons, warning of legal action if the “mischief” did not stop.

“Although I’ve never been disturbed by such a malicious agenda of fringe elements, all concerned are hereby warned that if such mischief continues I will not hesitate to take them to the law in the larger interest of our government, party and millions of our hardworking karyakartas,” Gadkari sent a series of tweets, tagging them to the BJP, the party president, and the PMO.

Amid attack from the Uddhav Thackeray faction, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday slammed his former boss Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aaditya (without naming them directly) for terming him traitor and betraying the party. Shinde countered Thackerays’ allegation that he is the CM on contract saying that he is but he has taken the contract to boost the state’s development, transform Maharashtra and empower the common man and neglected people of the state.

Shinde added, “I have taken the contract for the development of Maharashtra. I have taken the contract to make the state more prosperous. I have taken the contract to give justice to the common people, to remove the suffering of people, to carry forward Balasaheb's ideology of Hindutva. I have also taken the contract for the overall development of the backward people. A chief minister on contract is always better than one who allied with the undesired (without naming Uddhav Thackeray).’’