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Five members of a school management near Bantwal in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka have also been booked for the act by the students at its annual sports day.

Apart from Assam, massive protests against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act have also taken place in different states in the region and the BJP which is in power in Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura.

The ruling AIADMK's support to the Act in Parliament was a betrayal of the Tamils and the nation, the actor-turned-politician said.

The official circular said no activity regarding NPR shall be taken up without prior clearance from the state government. The order has been issued in the interest of public order, it added.

Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari lodged the complaint in a meeting with Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik. He demanded a thorough and time-bound probe into the violence and arson in the Jamia Nagar area.

Earlier, Prashant Kishor had tweeted that the Citizenship Amendment Act could prove to be a lethal combo if implemented with the NRC to prosecute people on the basis of religion.

Looking to make a comeback in Delhi after over two decades, the BJP is counting on voters living in unauthorised colonies to challenge the ruling AAP in the assembly polls early next year.

For the BJP, PM Narendra Modi, HM Amit Shah, JP Nadda, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani and Yogi Adityanath campaigned. Rahul Gandhi, Sachin Pilot and Raj Babbar also sought votes for the Congress-JMM-RJD alliance.

Dilip Ghosh reacting to Banerjee's remarks saying that West Bengal will be the first state where the Citizenship Act will be implemented. Banerjee had said that she will not allow the new law to be implemented in her state.

Sarbananada Sonowal also said the violence was part of a political conspiracy against the BJP-led government in Assam and asserted that he was committed to protecting the rights of the indigenous people of the state.

The five-phase assembly elections to the 81-member House began on November 30 and will end on December 20. Jharkhand Chief Electoral Officer Vinay Kumar Choubey said about 40,000 polling personnel conducted the election.

Ganesh Singh, a BJP member of Parliament, also said that according to NASA, if computer programming was done in Sanskrit, it would be flawless and that 97 percent of the world's languages were derived from Sanskrit.

Addressing a poll rally in Jharkhand, PM Modi said CAB will not impact the culture, tradition and language of the region.

Expressing strong reservations on the issue in the upper house of the Parliament, Chidambaram said the Citizenship Amendment Bill was destined to land in the court of law.

The Congress leader called the bill 'a criminal attack on the North East, their way of life and the idea of India'.

The Congress veteran described the Gandhi family as the "cementing force" for the 134-year-old party and rejected the charge that it practised dynastic politics.