Anurag Thakur

In her plea, Karat alleged that in speeches made by the two politicians, they threatened to use force to remove protestors, who were holding protests at Shaheen Bagh against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Congress party, whose senior leader Rahul Gandhi has a track record of invoking caste in public, seems to have gotten extremely riled with BJP MP Anurag Thakur asking for the Gandhi scion's caste

With Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi giving a breach of privilege notice against PM Modi for sharing the speech of Anurag Thakur made in the Lok Sabha, sources said that that the BJP MP's remarks are part of parliamentary record and the notice does not hold ground

From asserting that asking the caste of a person is like abusing him, Congress leader Gurjeet Singh Aujla went on to say that his party is in favour of the caste census.

In response to Akhilesh Yadav's comments on Agniveer scheme, BJP leader Anurag Thakur said, “I come from Himachal Pradesh, which gave the first Param Vir Chakra awardee Somnath Sharma, and had the highest number of martyrs in the Kargil War."

"After the Mahadev app scam, Chhattisgarh CM is hiding his face. If the people involved in Delhi's liquor policy scam were not able to escape, here too, no one would be able to escape. 'Paisa Kamao...Bhupay karo' this continued for 5 years.

In the ongoing 4th Asian Para Games, India ended the day with a total of 82 medals besting their previous record of 72 set in Indonesia

Anurag Thakur said that the government has no plans to delay the upcoming assembly elections so as to hold them later along with the general elections. He dismissed all the reports which claimed that the government could advance or delay the polls and termed such reports as "media conjecture".

Thakur announced that the government has decided to offer another 75 lakh women free gas connections under the Ujjwala program on the occasion of Rakhi and Onam.