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‘Will present those voters declared dead’: Mamata Banerjee begins sit-in protest against EC-BJP ‘conspiracy’ over SIR in Bengal | India News

NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday began sit-in protest against alleged voter roll deletions via Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state, accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party and Election Commission of hatching a “conspiracy to disenfranchise Bengali voters”. She vowed to present all those voters that have been declared dead by…

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‘Leaving with heavy heart’: Swami Avimuktshwaranad ends sit-in protest at Magh Mela; Akhilesh says BJP ‘blinded by power’ | India News

Prayagraj: Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati leaves from the ongoing ‘Magh Mela’ festival, in Prayagraj. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati on Wednesday ended his sit-in protest and departed the Magh Mela in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj, 10 days after he was “stopped” from taking a holy dip at the Sangam.Before leaving, he said he was…

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Chhattisgarh tribals on sit-in against mining project | India News

RAIPUR: Thousands of tribal people from over a dozen villages in Dharamjaigarh region of Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district spent more than 24 hours on the road outside the collector’s office, demanding cancellation of an upcoming public hearing for a proposed private coal mining project, reports Rashmi Drolia. Defying the evening chill, men, women, elderly people and…

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