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On the day when Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh announced that he would not resign from post, Biren appears to have engaged in spats with Twitter users who criticised him, calling them “Kukis” and “belonging to Myanmar” and then deleted the tweets.

These exchanges took place on the evening of June 30, Friday, and were deleted soon after. Indian Express has reported that a member of Biren’s social media team denied that the tweets had been written either by him or his team.

Manipur’s beleaguered Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren Singh, in an open show of defiance against the BJP central leadership and the Union Government, refused to step down from his post Friday (30 June). 

The Union Government, specifically Home Minister Amit Shah, had laid out two options before the Chief Minister: resign on his own or face intervention by the Centre (read: imposition of President’s Rule in the state). 

BJP president JP Nadda on Friday dubbed Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel as the "king" of corruption and sought votes for his party in the year-end Assembly polls to end graft in the Congress-ruled state.

Listing achievements of the Narendra Modi government, he said it has empowered the poor, underprivileged sections, youths, Dalit and farmers in its nine years of rule.

With raging debate across the country over Uniform Civil Code following PM Modi's recent mention of the matter in MP, a draft of Uttarakhand's own UCC with strong recommendations on "live-ins and raising marriageable age of women" has been completed by a five-member panel constituted by the state government last year.

"Our emphasis is to ensure gender equality, keeping women, children and disabled persons in focus," said retired SC judge, Justice Ranjana Desai, the committee head who announced the draft's completion in New Delhi.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has slammed Governor RN Ravi's decision to remove Senthil Balaji from the state Council of Ministers. Reacting to the Governor's decision, Stalin said, "Governor has no power to remove minister. Let's meet legally." The Governor had dismissed Balaji on the grounds that as a minister, the latter was 'abusing his position' and 'influencing the investigation' and 'obstructing the due process of law and justice'.

The Governor further observed that there were reasonable apprehensions that the continuation of the former electricity and prohibition minister in the council of ministers will 'adversely impact the due process of the law' and may eventually lead to the 'breakdown of the Constitutional machinery' in the state.