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Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Opposition would not give a ‘final set of numbers’ until a further fiscal statement from the Government.

The panchayat poll in West Bengal will be held in a single phase on July 8, State Election Commissioner Rajiva Sinha said on Thursday. The election will be held for three-tier panchayats across 20 districts and two-tier panchayats in hill districts of Darjeeling and Kalimpong.

The government and the ruling Left Democratic Front appeared to scramble to defend the Students Federation of India (SFI) leadership, which had recently come under a scathing attack from the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for alleged felonious conduct.

Tejashwi Yadav alleged that attempts were being made by the Centre to change the history of the country. Read more on The Hindu

The Opposition meeting was initially scheduled for June 12 but had to be postponed after Mr. Kharge and Mr. Gandhi expressed their inability to attend because of prior commitments.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami night compared efforts by Opposition parties to forge unity against the BJP with that of the rainy season when “creatures like snake, mongoose, scorpion and crab, come together because of the fear of monsoon”.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis said the report by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), which apparently showed that Maharashtra had surged ahead of Gujarat and Karnataka in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), had silenced the Opposition.