A day before Congress' crucial announcement on CM face, the divide in the Punjab unit of Congress came out in open with Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari mincing no words in voicing his anguish at the party dropping him from the list of star campaigners for the polls on February 20. It was a tweet by former President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee, who switched over to TMC
The Narendra Modi government, in a muscular move, scrapped special status of Jammu and Kashmir by removing several clauses of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. The government also said that it will support a Bill to divide the state into two Union Territories (UTs).