His mother on several occasions demanded Akhil's release and also went to hunger strike in last December.

Urging the TMC supremo 'to shun politics and confrontational approach', Jagdeep Dhankhar said her conduct is only compounding the miseries of the people of West Bengal.

Senior BJP leader and Union minister Prakash Javadekar said the entire country is together in fighting the coronavirus but the Congress is busy "fighting" Modi and the government.

The Hyderabad MP alleged that the lockdown was announced in an unplanned manner without providing relief to migrant labourers from states, including Bihar, UP, West Bengal and Jharkhand.

For Uddhav Thackeray to continue as the CM of Maharashtra, he will have to become a member of the legislature before May 28. That is when his six-month-old term ends.

The remarks of the Congress leaders came two days after the Central government decided to freeze payment of additional instalment of DA to all its employees and dearness relief (DR) to pensioners falling due from January 1, 2020.

Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said that while aimed to collect Rs 2,000 crores, the state government could raise only Rs 250 crores in April.

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal said the government should rethink on lockdown measures as the country cannot have the 'lockdown of people and lockout of the economy'.

His remarks came two days after Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund voluntarily decided to wind up its six debt schemes due to liquidity issues amid the coronavirus crisis.

The central teams have been visiting hospitals and quarantine centres and meeting officials in Kolkata and Siliguri.

BJP leaders Debasree Chaudhuri and another MP, Sukanta Majumdar, alleged that they were served with quarantine notices by the local administration so that they could not step outside to provide ration and other relief material to the masses.

Gehlot raised the issue during his telephonic talk with Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday and sought smooth movement of migrant workers, including those from Rajasthan, stranded in various parts of the country.

The Congress shared the thoughts of various leaders in a video to resolve the current crisis relating to the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown. The leaders are members of a consultative group headed by Singh and formulate the party's views on various matters.

The people of the state are paying a heavy price because of the poor response to the crisis by the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP alliance government in the state, the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly alleged.

In a letter to the prime minister, Yechury said the political executive in the country is proving its "incompetence by knee-jerk reactions" and suggested measures that need to be put in place to fight coronavirus.

BJP state president Dilip Ghosh, Bankura MP Subhas Sarkar, along with other leaders and workers, held placards in hand during the sit-in at their respective residences from 11 am to 1 pm.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi says Jamaat does not represent the community and one can neither 'punish' nor hold the entire Muslim community 'responsible' for the Nizamuddin incident.

The letter written by the Agra Mayor was also tweeted by Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

On Saturday, the state government had constituted the group of experts, headed by noted economist and former deputy chairman of Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia to revive the state's economy.

Fadnavis, leader of the opposition in the Assembly and former chief minister, was accompanied by Pravin Darekar, leader of opposition in the council, senior leaders Ashish Shelar and Vinod Tawde, as well as Mumbai party unit chief Mangal Prabhat Lodha.

The RJD supremo has been admitted in the private ward of Ranchi's Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences which has been designated as a 'coronavirus hospital'.

DMK President M K Stalin slammed the fiscal management of the ruling AIADMK while AMMK leader TTV Dhinakaran said it was not "acceptable" that the government has burdened its employees with such a measure.

A reply from RBI which stated that the government has waived Rs 68,607 crore of the top 50 bank loan defaulters.

Rahul Gandhi had attacked the ruling BJP after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a list of 50 wilful defaulters accused of cheating banks.

The senior Congress leader also called for special trains to take migrant workers stranded at different places in the country to their homes. Gehlot said he has discussed the issue with the Central government.

The former Chief Minister will hold discussions with them and seek their suggestions on measures to be taken to put pressure on the government on various issues and to resolve them, his office said in a statement.

That Tony Perkins and his ilk get to dictate, influence opinion about Bharat speaks volumes of the deterioration in standards of USCIRF.

As Congress gets restricted to fewer states and a non-player in important states like UP, Bihar and down South, Covid crisis is being used by the party to remain relevant.

Mukul Wasnik has been appointed as the general secretary, in-charge of MP, in addition to his current responsibility as the general secretary, in-charge of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the Congress said.

The top court had said to 'ensure a level playing field' among the contesting political parties in 2019 Lok Sabha polls and by-election in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, it has directed the poll panel to allot a common free symbol to the group.

The Congress party slammed the Khattar government's move to 'burden people' in the time of a crisis.

A shrewd politician and an experienced administrator, Yediyurappa seized the opportunity to demonstrate his capabilities in the face of a grave crisis.

Congress said while other governments were putting money in people's hand during the crisis caused by coronavirus, the BJP-JJP dispensation was 'taking anti-people decisions' in Haryana.

In a tweet, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut thanked the central government and the ECI for allowing the elections, which were earlier postponed to due to coronavirus outbreak

TMC leader and MP Saugato Roy said he was wondering whether the Centre was serious to revive the economy and provide financial package to states to combat adversity due to the pandemic.

BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain accused the Congress of raising "irrelevant questions" over the issue of the pandemic.

The rebuttal came after the governor shot off two letters to the chief minister last week amid the clash between the Raj Bhavan and Nabanna, the state secretariat, in the wake of West Bengal's response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

I expect the Prime Ministers Office to take a rational and judicious decision, keeping aside the state politics, said NCP chief Sharad Pawar.

Singhvi said India needed both the extreme left and right views on economic issues. However, it may create a controversy as the Congress is opposed to both the extreme ideologies.

The ruling party also accused the Congress of promoting indiscriminate movement of people which would lead to "faster spread" of coronavirus infection.

Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, slammed the Delhi government's decision to open liquor shops, claiming it can increase coronavirus positive cases by up to 10 per cent.

The state can provide free treatment to the underprivileged without burdening its exchequer if it signs up for the Centre's Ayushman Bharat Yojana, Ghosh noted.

As per figures released by the state excise department, on the very first day of the opening of shops, people bought liquor worth about 225 crore, setting a new record.

Venugopal said it was due to protests by a large number of expatriates and their relatives as well as the general public over the past few days that the central government took the decision to bring back Indian citizens from abroad.

Omar Abdullah was reacting to the Jammu and Kashmir authorities' decision to extend the detention of the former chief minister by another three months.

New or higher taxes are justified only when the economy is booming, the former finance minister said.

It is clear that Sonia now wants to make COVID-19 the launching plank of sorts of for the Congress. And, in many ways it is the return of Manmohan Singh as the trump card.

The Congress said the decision to go back or stay in the state should be with the labourers and not the government, with the former being free to choose health or work.

In a series of tweets, he also said that there is a steady rise in the number of calls regarding COVID-19 on the police helpline number 100.

The prime minister also chaired a meeting of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to assess the situation.