Will ensure repair of roads says Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra
Mishra has been given charge of the department of Law and Justice, Labour, Employment, Art and Culture, Tourism and Language.
Mishra has been given charge of the department of Law and Justice, Labour, Employment, Art and Culture, Tourism and Language.
First-time MLA Rekha Gupta (50), who became Delhi's fourth woman chief minister, will lead the cabinet comprising prominent Jat and Sikh faces apart from members belonging to the Punjabi, Purvanchali and Scheduled Caste communities.
BJP leader Kapil Mishra has accused the Aam Aadmi Party of aiding Rohingyas by adding them to the voters list of Delhi and attempting to change the demography of the city.
Former AAP leader Kapil Mishra has been fielded from Karawal Nagar constituency while Harish Khurana, son of former Delhi chief minister Madan Lal Khurana, will contest from Moti Nagar.
A former minister in Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP Government in Delhi, Kapil Mishra joined the BJP after being disqualified as an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA in 2019.
As of now, at least 42 people have lost their lives and more than 350 are injured as armed mobs rampaged in areas like Jaffrabad, Maujpur and Gokulpuri since Sunday and continued till Tuesday, looting and burning buildings and attacking the residents.
A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Talwant Singh took on record the assurance by special commissioner Praveer Ranjan that he will sit with the police commissioner today itself and view all video clips and take a conscious decision on lodging of FIRs.
The trouble started on Sunday afternoon when local BJP leader Kapil Mishra decided to hold a rally in favour of the law. At the rally, the BJP leader gave an “ultimatum” to the Delhi police to clear the roads at Chand Bagh and Jaffrabad or else, he said, they would have to hit the streets.
The court also expressed concern over the discovery of the body of an Intelligence Bureau officer in the violence-hit northeast Delhi and termed it as 'unfortunate'.
Reacting on Kejriwal's remark, BJP leader and candidate from Delhi's Model Town constituency, Kapil Mishra said, "AAP is insulting the people of Delhi by questioning EVMs."
