The Catch Up: 24 January

3 Things

This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.
It’s the 24th of January and here are the headlines.
As the Congress party’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra resumed from Assam’s Barpeta today, party leader Rahul Gandhi asserted that he cannot be intimidated by the BJP-RSS. He openly challenged them to file as many cases against him as they wished. He also accused state CM Himanta Biswa Sarma of “spreading hate and usurping the land of the people of Assam.” The Assam police had registered a case against Gandhi and other Congress leaders yesterday following a scuffle between participants of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra and the Assam Police when the yatra attempted to enter Guwahati city.
In another jolt to the INDIA bloc ahead of Lok Sabha elections, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann today announced that the Aam Aadmi Party will not stitch up an alliance with Congress in the state. Mann’s declaration came even as Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said the TMC is not in any discussion with the Congress, and that her party would go it alone in the 20 Lok Sabha election in the state.
Bar Council of India chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has backed the idea of simultaneous elections. He told the ‘One Nation One Election’ committee in his response that the concept “warrants careful deliberation before becoming an integral part of the electoral framework”. The high-level committee had written to Mishra on 2nd of January as a part of its consultative process. In his reply on 16th of January, Mishra said quite, “One Nation, One Election presents a promising stride forward for India. Its a very welcome step”. Unquote.
Aviation watchdog DGCA has imposed a penalty of Rs 1.10 crore on Air India for safety violations with respect to operations of leased Boeing 777 planes to the US.This is the second time in a week that the regulator has penalised Air India. The regulator had received a complaint from a former Air India pilot alleging that the airline operated Boeing 777 planes to the US without having the required system of emergency oxygen supply.
The Supreme Court today questioned Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta’s submission that the government did not accept the 1981 amendment made by Parliament to the Aligarh Muslim University Act, and said it cannot take such a stand. The top court said that “irrespective of which government represents the cause of the Union of India, Parliament’s cause is eternal, indivisible and indestructible” and that the government would have to stand by the amendment.
This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.