02 February 2026
Delhi Cabinet minister Atishi has been allocated Vigilance and Services departments following the competent authority's approval, according to an official notification issued on Monday.
With this, the number of portfolios held by Atishi has risen to 14.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had on August 8 made the recommendation to allocate the two departments, which were earlier handled by Cabinet minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, to Atishi.
Lashing out at the Congress on the subject of the Partition of India, Union minister and BJP leader Hardeep Singh Puri Monday asked why the party leadership had “so easily” fallen in line with the proposal to divide the country.
“The British ruled India following broadly a policy of divide-and-rule, and I understand their motivation. But the question arises as to why the Congress leadership at the time fell in line so easily,” Puri said at an exhibition organised in New Delhi by the Ministry of Culture to highlight the struggles of those displaced by the Partition.
The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has since 2021 been commemorating 14 August as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ through events that include exhibitions and a silent march.
Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lead an all-party delegation to Manipur and hold a "peace rally" there to bring an end to the ethnic violence in the northeastern state.
Prime Minister Modi must tell the people of Manipur that they need not fear and the entire nation stands with them for the restoration of peace in the state, Chowdhury said.
Modi should lead an all-party delegation to hold a peace rally in the state torn by ethnic violence and "we will join", he said in the 'Aap Ki Adalat' show on India TV.
Likening the alliance of opposition parties to “old wine in old bottle”, Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday targeted NDA’s political rivals, stating that the opposition bloc comprises a group of politicians involved in corruption worth Rs 12 lakh crore.
He was speaking at Mansa in Gandhinagar district of Gujarat after laying the foundation stone for a regional centre of the National Security Guard (NSG). Shah also attacked Congress, saying during its rule, India’s economy did not go beyond the 11th rank in the world, while PM Modi took it to the fifth position.
He chastised minister Pratap Singh Khachariawas, former minister Raghu Sharma, AICC member Raghuveer Meena, and Rajya Sabha MP Neeraj Dangi.
With elections barely four months away, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is becoming increasingly assertive and has started lashing out at his own party leaders. During a party meeting attended by senior party leader and AICC general secretary K C Venugopal and senior party observer for Rajasthan Madhusudan Mistry, Gehlot took a tough stand against certain senior leaders.
