Congress should clear their stand on NRC: BJP
New Delhi, Aug 1 : Accusing the opposition of evading a debate on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) issue in Assam, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) on Wednesday asked the Congress to clarify its stand on the issue.
"What are Congress and TMC afraid of and why are they escaping discussion? Why they don't want to hear the response? They are deliberately disrupting the Rajya Sabha to avoid a debate on NRC," Union HRD minister Prakash Javdekar said in a media briefing.
Earlier in the day, BJP President Amit Shah who was scheduled to continue with his speech in Rajya Sabha was unable to complete it due to a ruckus created by the opposition members over NRC.
Javdekar also hit out at former Congress President Sonia Gandhi saying that she should clear her stand on NRC as it was started by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
"NRC is the medium of identifying illegal migrants and this was started off by Rajiv Gandhi in 1984 and now Congress wants to save them. Even Indira Gandhi had earlier said that the illegal migrants should go back to Bangladesh," he added.
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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
