A seasoned bureaucrat, and key player in Article 370 abrogation, Kumar’s name was finalized by a high-powered committee comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi.
BJP MP Baijayant Jay Panda has been appointed chairman of the committee, which consists of 31 MPs, including 17 from the ruling NDA. The committee is required to submit its report by the monsoon session's first day.
The devotees from Chhattisgarh’s Korba district were en route to take a holy dip at the Sangam, the sacred confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers, officials said.
President Droupadi Murmu made the announcement after receiving Governor’s report highlighting the deteriorating situation in the state amid the ongoing ethnic conflict and the subsequent resignation of N Biren Singh as the Chief Minister.
Rana, a Pakistani-origin businessman, is currently being held in a high-security prison in the US, and India has long sought his extradition to face trial for his alleged role in the deadly assault that left 166 people dead.
Alleging that their dissenting notes were deliberately deleted from the report, opposition members led by Leader of the Opposition in Upper House and Congress MP Mallikarjun Kharge staged a walkout even as Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju stressed the report contained all annexures and that no part had been removed.
The report by Washington-based research documented 1,165 such instances last year, adding that politicians like Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah were among the most frequent disseminators of hate speech.
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