Rahul Gandhi at Bharat Jodo Nyay YatraRahul Gandhi at Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra
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  • Nitish Kumar keeps both the INDIA bloc and the NDA guessing which side he would tilt. However, a source closer to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, Mamata thinks that Bihar CM Nitish Kumar leaving the INDIA bloc would be ‘good riddance.’ 
  • Arvind Kejriwal has claimed that the BJP has approached 7 AAP MLAs with an offer of ₹ 25 crores each plus a BJP election ticket to destabilize his government. He said the BJP told the AAP legislators that the Delhi CM would be arrested soon in connection with the Delhi liquor policy. 
  • The Union home ministry is granting a Z+ security cover of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to Kerala governor Arif Mohammed Khan, considering his tussle with Students Federation of India (SFI) activists. Reacting to the news, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan has called the move ‘Strange.’
  • The Congress Party is now looking for crowdfunding through its Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. On Saturday it launched the ‘Donate for Nyay’ campaign offering a T-shirt signed by Rahul Gandhi for ₹670 and a ‘Nyay Kit’ comprising a T-shirt, bag, band, badge, and sticker for those who donate ₹67,000. 
  • After the ASI report on Gyanvapi Mosque claimed to have found evidence of a Hindu temple structure on the site, Kashi Seer and Akhil Bharatiya Sant Samiti Gen Sec Swami Jitendranand Saraswati pledged to give up foodgrain and subsist only on milk and fruit till a temple comes on Gyanvapi in Varanasi. 
  • Indian Navy’s Guided Missile Destroyer INS Visakhapatnam, stationed in the Gulf of Aden, has responded to the distress call made by British oil tanker Merlin Luanda. It deployed the ship’s NBCD team and also firefighting equipment to douse the fire caused by a missile strike by Yemen’s Houthi militants.