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Super User 30 December 2020

Modi,Yogi's new Rastrawaad Shaheen Bagh shooter Kapil Gujjar inducted into BJP; removed hours later following public outrage

Gujjar had reached Shaheen Bagh area on February 1 and fired two rounds in the air. At the time, BJP had alleged he was an AAP member, and attacked the party as ‘a sympathiser of terrorists’.

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Super User 30 December 2020

Govt-farmers meet still remains deadlocked over MSP, repeal of farm laws; next round to be held on January 4

After nearly five hours of discussion between farmer leaders and three Central ministers, a common ground was reached upon two issues regarding power tariff and stubble burning.

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Super User 30 December 2020

Haryana’s ruling BJP-JJP faces defeat in civic bodies poll

In another humiliating defeat to Haryana’s ruling BJP-JJP combine, it lost mayoral polls in two municipal corporations but won in one civic body on Wednesday.

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Super User 29 December 2020

WATCH: Farmers’ protest in Patna lathi charged by police, several injured

As the demonstrators insisted on walking right up to the Raj Bhavan, some three km away, the police used force to prevent their march towards the restricted VIP area.

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Super User 29 December 2020

Kisan Congress threatens countrywide protest if farm laws not repealed

Hours after the government once again invited protesting farmers for talks on December 30, the Kisan Congress on Monday demanded it will hold a countrywide protest if these laws are not repealed.

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Super User 28 December 2020

Draconian Laws, Trumped-Up Charges: In India, 2020 Was a Year of Crushing Dissent

The year, which kicked off with countrywide protests and riots in the capital, saw personal liberties take a big hit with anti-terror and defamation laws being used routinely to silence dissenters and human rights defenders.

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Super User 28 December 2020

Credibility of constitutional institutions in India stands shaken, says retired SC judge Justice Kurian Joseph

Justice Joseph was speaking on the theme ‘Significance of Constitutional Values in the 21st Century’, in a virtual discussion held on Sunday.

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Super User 28 December 2020

UP Police prevents Congress leaders from paying floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on party’s foundation day

The Congress leaders had in the morning declared that they will peacefully move in a procession towards Hazratganj to pay their tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on the party’s foundation day.

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Super User 28 December 2020

The case of the ‘missing’ Parliament: 2020 when Democracy was put on the ‘pause’ button

We are playing cricket away from home, elections are being held and political roadshows have resurfaced. But Parliament is the only institution that appears to have lost its velocity and verve.

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Super User 27 December 2020

Lawyer ends life near Tikri protest site, leaves suicide note titled ‘Letter to Modi, the Dictator’

Advocate Amarjit Singh said he was sacrificing his life in support of the farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s new farm laws so that the government is compelled to listen to the voice of the people.

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