CEC row LIVE: Supreme Court likely to hear INDIA bloc SIR plea
The Supreme Court is likely to hear the plea of the INDIA bloc SIR plea today, making its way ahead of the continuing protests happening in Jantar Mantar.
Student groups like AISF, AISA, NSUI and several MPs staged protests yesterday as well, marching towards Jantar Mantar to continue with their peaceful protests, but eventually got detained.
The CJP members, who were arrested for entering Jantar Mantar after de-notification, were released yesterday except for the outfit spokespersons Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, who were sent to five-day judicial custody.
(This live is complied by Aaron)
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#WATCH | Hyderabad, Telangana: On the issue of SIR, AIMIM President and MP Asaduddin Owaisi says, "...We have been against SIR from the very beginning; we are taking action on both legal and political fronts, and we even approached the Supreme Court today... We are a political party; we are fine in Jubilee Hills but bad in Delhi. What kind of logic is that? That isn't right, is it? If you are creating an elite club, then congratulations to you; we will all do our respective work. We will protest against SIR and continue to oppose it. We are a political party; we consider this wrong, and we are speaking out and fighting against it..." (14.10)
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