Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's latest tweet offered an opportunity to BJP leaders as he thanked a foreign ministry over Rahul Gandhi row. Rijiju cashed it and sarcastically thanked Rahul Gandhi to invite foreign forces to intervene in India's internal matters.

The same day, party general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, “the views expressed by Digvijaya Singh are his own and do not reflect the position of Congress. Surgical strikes were carried out before 2014 by the UPA government.

The Congress party had distanced itself from Singh's comments on Pulwama, including on the surgical strikes, terming his statement "personal".

In his comments Digvijaya Singh said, "40 of our CRPF jawans were martyred in Pulwama. CRPF officials had requested PM Modi that personnel should be airlifted, but PM Modi didn't agree. How did such a lapse take place? Till date, no report on Pulwama was placed before Parliament."

It is worth mentioning that New Delhi, on September 2016, announced that it conducted surgical strikes against militant launch pads across the Line of Control in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir, and inflicted "significant casualties.

Like some other BJP-ruled states, the Madhya Pradesh government has been bulldozing the alleged illegal portions of the houses of people accused of various offences.

The EC, on December 29, said it developed a model of a remote electronic voting machine for domestic migrant voters to increase voter participation in the polling process.

Congress President Election: Talking to media on the sidelines of Bharat Jodo Yatra, he said that the Congress' greatest contribution to Indian politics has been consensus, and "when that is not made possible, we have an election".

Congress President polls: G23 leaders Anand Sharma and Manish Tewari have also backed him. Kharge is one of the most experienced persons in the party and is a Dalit leader too, Tewari said. Friday is the last day for filing nominations for the top party post.

Bharat Jodo Yatra: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday concluded his Kerala leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which entered the state on September 10, and will resume the foot march from Tamil Nadu in the afternoon.

Congress president election: The former Madhya Pradesh chief minister is the latest entrant in the fray for the party chief's election, even as the fate of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot contesting the party chief's election is uncertain.

Congress president election: If reports are to be believed, the Madhya Pradesh leader is coming to Delhi tonight, leaving Bharat Jodo Yatra in the middle, to file his nomination for Congress president election.

Congress president election: The Congress on Thursday set the ball rolling for electing its chief by issuing a notification. Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot on Friday made it clear he will fight for the party's president post.

The other leaders who are already contesting are Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Shashi Tharoor.

Bharat Jodo Yatra: Party General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said, "Me and Digvijaya Singh will visit Assam, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar and Odisha from September 16 onwards. Our effort would be to mobilise the state units to join the Bharat Jodo Yatra."

FIR against Singh was registered at a Bhopal police station on the basis of a complaint lodged by BJP district (Bhopal) president Sumit Pachauri on Apr 12.

Kumar Vishwas had accused Kejriwal of supporting separatists during the high-voltage campaign for assembly elections in Punjab, but the AAP chief has dismissed all allegations.

Elections to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly are to be held in seven phases and notification for the first phase is to be issued on January 14 for polling on February 10. It was, however, not clear in the clip aired by the TV channel as to where and in which context Adityanath was speaking.

Digvijaya Singh was addressing a day-long Jan Jagran training workers at Narmada Mandir Bhawan in Tulsi Nagar, Bhopal, where many Congress leaders and workers were present.

Faruqui was last month denied nod to hold a show at Bengaluru in Karnataka amid the protest by the Hindu right wing outfits. A few days later, Kamra, a vocal critic of the government, said his stand-up shows scheduled to be held in Bengaluru were cancelled after the organisers received threats.