Ram Nath Kovind
President Ram Nath Kovind said that Mukherjee’s demise is “passing of an era”. Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah also shared messages of condolence.
After the Rajya Sabha nomination, even the judgments which former CJI Gogoi may have given on sound legal footing have now become controversial, says Faizan Mustafa.
The story, dated 17 March, 2020, was on former CJI Ranjan Gogoi's nomination to the Rajya Sabha.
The unprecedented nomination has been denounced by a number of people including, Gogoi's former colleague, Justice (retired) Madan B Lokur.
The rejection came soon after the Union Home Ministry forwarded the petition to the president.
Rabeeha Abdurehim claimed she was asked to leave the campus when President Ram Nath Kovind arrived.
According to an official notification, the Act comes into effect with its publication in the official gazette on Thursday.
BJP has claimed in a memorandum that 80 workers from the party have been killed in the state in the last four years.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling Arun Jaitley a “political giant”, conveyed condolences in a series of tweets.
When the draft Assam NRC was published in 2018, there was a huge controversy over the exclusion of 40.7 lakh people from it.