Anti-CAA protest: Cong members protest against Anurag Thakur in Lok Sabha

Thakur, who is the Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs, had made some controversial remarks during a recent poll rally in the national capital

The Congress on Monday raised slogans against Union minister Anurag Thakur in Lok Sabha over his controversial remarks during a recent election rally in the national capital. While Opposition members, mainly from the Congress, were protesting against the amended citizenship law, they raised their pitch whenever Thakur started replying to questions.

Thakur, who is the Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs, had made some controversial remarks during a recent poll rally in the national capital. Belligerent Congress members, who were in the Well, shouted slogans against the minister and asked ‘Aapka goli kaha hai? (where is your bullet?)’, an apparent reference to the minister’s controversial remarks. Some members also shouted ‘Goli maarna band karo (Stop shooting)’.

Whenever Thakur was responding to supplementaries during the Question Hour, the members began sloganeering against him. During the election rally, Thakur had egged on the crowd to raise an incendiary slogan, “shoot the traitors”, after he lashed out at anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) protestors. The Election Commission had also banned him for three days from campaigning for the Delhi elections in the wake of his controversial remarks…Keep reading

NRC an internal affair of Indian govt, says Bangladesh Border Guards chief

The BGB will keep on attempting to counteract illicit intersections into India, its Director General Maj Gen Shafeenul Islam said at a question and answer session here.

The procedure of production of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is totally an “inside issue” of the Indian government and the collaboration between the outskirt guarding powers of the two nations is awesome, the head of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) said on Sunday.

The BGB will keep on attempting to forestall unlawful intersections into India, its Director General Maj Gen Shafeenul Islam said at a question and answer session here. A BGB appointment, drove by Islam, is on a reciprocal visit to India to hold DG-level fringe chats with their partners, the BSF said.

“This is totally an interior undertaking of the Indian government,” he said when requested to remark on the NRC issue. When gotten some information about the arrangements of the CAA that tries to allow Indian citizenship to mistreated non-Muslims from three nations, the DG said he might not want to offer any remarks….