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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Sunday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that he is now talking about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and Pakistan to divert people's attention from the issues of unemployment and rising farmer suicides.

Over an estimated 100,000 activists took part in a mega-procession taken out by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray, demanding the ouster of Pakistani-Bangladeshi infiltrators living in the country, in Mumbai on Sunday.

As the sit-in demonstration against CAA-NRC dubbed `Mumbai Bagh’, entered its fourteenth day on Saturday, the Mumbai police were handing out preventive notices under Section 149 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) to protesters entering Morland Road, Nagpada, warning that if any law and order situation were to erupt, they would be held responsible and arrested. Section 149 of the CrPC gives powers to the police to take measures to prevent cognisable offences.

On Saturday, even as Delhi stepped out to vote, BJP’s Karnataka handle mocked the female voters using the slogan that has become synonymous with the CAA-NRC protests.

BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijaywargiya and National Executive Committee member Mukul Roy were detained by Police on Friday during ‘Abhinandan Yatra’ or pro-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizenship (NPR) rally. The two leaders were detained along with others BJP supporters at Tollygunge circular road, close to where the rally began in the afternoon and was to end at Hazra, both in South Kolkata.

After a spate of speeches that have hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on various issues of law and order and the Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA), Governor Jagdeep Dhankar appears to have softened his stand.

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap shared a video of police attacking photojournalist Ashish Raje at Mumbai Bagh, where women protesters have gathered to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR). He tagged Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in the post and said "it’s a silent peaceful protest".

From biryani to poha, food items have suddenly become part of the political discourse. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath recently accused his Delhi counterpart (and the AAP) of supplying biryani to the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protesters in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh.

President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU), Aishe Ghosh addressed an impressive gathering at Iqbal Maidan here on Thursday.

Actor-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar on Thursday compared the Citizenship Amendment Act with the British era Rowlatt Act 1919, but got the year wrong when the World War II ended.