The Latest Breaking News from Bharatiya Janata Party

JD(U) leader Kasim Ansari resigned protesting the Waqf Amendment Bill, exposing tensions in Nitish Kumar's party. The bill, passed by Lok Sabha, faces opposition for allegedly undermining Waqf autonomy. Read more at Dynamite News

BJP MP Radha Mohan Das Agrawal sparked controversy during the Waqf Bill debate by citing Quranic verses to claim Muslims should document property transactions, contrasting it with Waqf's "unrecorded" land claims. Read more at Dynamite News

Bill would add non-Muslims to boards that manage endowments and increase government say in validating properties.

After a 12-hour marathon debate in the Lok Sabha Waqf Bill was passed by 288 votes. Read further on Dynamite News:

Over a tense week in March, the arrest of journalist Dilwar Hussain Mazumdar appears to have transformed Assam’s press corps into a unified front against what many describe as a deliberate assault on independent journalism in the northeastern state.

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Lok Sabha is set to witness a marathon debate today after Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju introduces the Waqf Amendment Bill, which has sparked heated political exchanges over the past few weeks. Read further on Dynamite News:

He’s been Delhi’s law minister for only a handful of weeks and trouble is already brewing for BJP’s Kapil Mishra.

While the Rekha Gupta government’s “historic” Rs 1 lakh crore budget has seen a substantial rise in allocations aimed at gender equality and women development, a closer look reveals cuts in crucial welfare schemes for girl students, maternal healthcare, nutrition schemes and anganwadi programmes.