Left, Right & Centre

After Delhi elections, Bihar and West Bengal are likely to be the next big electoral tests for the BJP and the opposition parties. Has BJP's poor show in Delhi elections given more bargaining power to its allies like the JDU? And will Nitish Kumar accept in Bihar the kind of divisive campaign Delhi witnessed?

Omar Abdullah's sister Sara Abdullah Pilot has challenged his detention and charges under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) before the Supreme Court, asking for the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister to be produced in court and freed immediately.

After six months of being detained under Section 107 of the CRPC, now former Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah have been detained under the stringent Public Safety Act. NDTV has now accessed the bizarre charges listed against Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti.

The turnout in the Delhi assembly election was 62.59%, the Election Commission announced more than 24 hours after voting amid much concern about tampering of EVMs from the Aam Aadmi Party. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had questioned the delay in a tweet this afternoon. Asked about the matter, the Election Commission said the final figures came out in "good time".

In a blistering attack in parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took on the opposition, particularly the Congress on everything - Nehru, Kashmir, the economy, CAA, the National Register of Citizens and on who he believed was genuinely secular. Tonight, we are going to go through the points made by PM Modi, fact-check them, and get responses.

A burqa-clad woman was whisked away this morning by police at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh - the heart of protests against Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA - after her presence at the site of round-the-clock sit-in raised suspicion. Last week, a four-month-old infant died allegedly because of cold. Earlier there was an open firing at Shaheen Bagh and yesterday the shooter was alleged to have relations with AAP by Delhi Police. Tonight on LRC, we ask is the Shaheen Bagh protest just a political conspiracy for the politicians? Has it now been reduced to political experiments?

Policemen in plain clothes visited Shaheen School in Karnataka's Bidar again and interrogated the students, for the fifth time, as part of the investigation into the sedition case against the school authorities for staging a play in which some characters allegedly "insulted" Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As young as nine year olds have been questioned for taking part in a play that was critical of the CAA and NRC. Their school has been charged with sedition and one mother has also been arrested. Tonight on LRC, we ask was this a misuse of sedition law? Can the interrogation of nine year olds be justified? And is the Karnataka sedition case absurd?

West Delhi MP Parvesh Verma spoke to NDTV about inflammatory comments made by him in his rally that led to the Election Commission banning him from campaigning for 96 hours. Day after his controversial comments on Shaheen Bagh protesters, BJP MP Parvesh Verma called the Delhi Chief Minister a terrorist. Tonight on NDTV, we ask him if regrets the comments that he made? Why is he not talking about developmental issues in his campaign?

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and ORF president Samir Saran, who talked about a book on current affairs, describe the chaos or disorder the world is currently in, where the international liberal order is facing a moment of crisis and other leaders are exploiting the grievances - real or imagined - of their citizens to champion local interests. The authors argue that in this new world order, India has a major role to play, and importantly, that India's sustained commitment to constitutional democracy is a key factor to scripting a new international order. These are interesting times, they say, as India has captured global headlines recently for exactly the opposite reasons over scrapping special status to Jammu and Kashmir and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

After Union Minister Anurag Thakur and BJP parliamentarian Parvesh Verma, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath became the third key leader to give out the "goli se" advice and talked about using bullets to deal with those who oppose the Kanwar yatra. The Aam Aadmi Party has demanded a campaign ban against Mr Adityanath for making the comment. Here's a discussion on VIP hate speech spiking just a week ahead of the Delhi assembly election.

UK envoy to India speaks to NDTV on trade ties, Kashmir and the citizenship law, says he hopes Indian government will be reassuring those who have expressed concerns on the CAA.

The consequences of hate speech are very real. Today, a man opened fire at people protesting against the citizenship law near the Jamia University in Delhi, unleashing chaos and panic. A student of the university has been injured. The entire incident unfolded despite a huge contingent of armed policemen, in riot gear, standing just metres away from the man.

Najeeb Jung, the former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, suggested that the centre needs to talk to the opposition regarding the CAA and the NRC in view of the economic costs of the widespread protests. He also said that the Act, accused of making religion a test of citizenship, be revamped to make it "inclusive". Tonight on Left, Right and Centre, Najeeb Jung talks about how he is happy that the protests are non-communal and it should continue like that.

The BJP and the JDU may have firmed up their relationship of late, but allegedly the regional party, headed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, had been in touch with then Congress president Rahul Gandhi ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Pavan Varma today on NDTV says that he can confirm that Nitish Kumar had expressed reservation about the alliance with the BJP and had conversations with the opposition.

First union minister Anurag Thakur, now another BJP MP's hate speech - the Election Commission steps in for both cases.