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Taking strong exception to the Congress MP's attack on the integrity and fairness of the Punjab DGP, Amarinder Singh asked Pratap Singh Bajwa to write to him, or to the party high command if he had any grudge or complaint.

A day after announcing that he was quitting politics, the 37-year-old defended his decision saying 'we evolve with time' and abrogation of the special status on August 5 last year brought forth a new political reality in Kashmir.

Earlier, main opposition ZPM hit out at the Zoramthanga government over the anouncement of the elections amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Monday, a meeting between Sachin Pilot and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had signalled an 'amicable resolution' of nearly a month-long Rajasthan political crisis ahead of the crucial assembly session beginning August 14.

Maharashtra Legislative Council member from Osmanabad, Sujitsingh Thakur, said he and some of his kin had tested positive.

The party also urged the new Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to take a holistic view of the situation and change the pattern of "bias and vendetta" in the matter of security.

BJP legislative party leader Gulab Chand Kataria claimed even a unity in the Congress ranks can only be temporary and the government is "bound to disintegrate sooner than later".

Senior party leaders Ahmed Patel, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and KC Venugopal held a meeting with Pilot and other aggrieved legislators at 15 GRG Road in the national capital