Protests over the alleged irregularities in competitive examinations and the police crackdown on demonstrators in Delhi continued across the country. Opposition MPs disrupted proceedings in Parliament, demanding a discussion on the police actions and the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

In addition to the sit-in at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, demonstrations were also reported from Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna, Raipur and Varanasi. In Patna, police used water cannon, tear gas and a lathi-charge to disperse the protesters. In Mumbai, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader Anish Gawande claimed that the police had detained students from their homes without warrants.

Meanwhile, Union Health Minister JP Nadda said that the government is “always open” to talk to the protesters. Read on.

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi expressed his support for the youth protests over alleged examination irregularities, saying the Opposition must be “on the streets” if students are protesting. He demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the force used by the police during the Cockroach Janta Party’s march to Parliament on Monday.

Gandhi said students were asking for “what this country owes them” and backed demands for Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation, accountability for the use of force. “What wrong have our students done to have security forces aiming weapons at them, beating them up?” Gandhi asked.

During Monday’s protest, security personnel fired tear gas shells and carried out a lathi-charge to disperse protesters in Central Delhi. Read on.

The Supreme Court refused to urgently hear a petition alleging that the police used excessive force against students during Monday’s protest march to Parliament. “Don’t waste our time," Chief Justice Surya Kant told the petitioner’s lawyer.

The advocate had offered to present video evidence of the alleged police excesses at the protest called by the Cockroach Janta Party. However, the bench said that it was “not interested in videos”. The Cockroach Janta Party was launched on May 16 in response to reports of remarks by Kant on the previous day comparing some unemployed youngsters to “cockroaches”.

Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court sought the Union government and the police’s response on a clutch of public interest litigations alleging excessive use of force during the youth protest. Read on.

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The Madhya Pradesh Assembly has passed the Uniform Civil Code Bill to ban polygamy and introduce strict conditions for live-in relationships. Adivasi communities have been exempted from the bill to safeguard their customs and traditions.

With this, Madhya Pradesh became the fourth Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state to pass a Uniform Civil Code bill. Congress MLAs opposed the legislation and demanded that it be sent to a select committee for review.

During the discussion on the bill, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said that the Opposition party was trying to appease the Muslim community and accused its legislators of being “anti-tribal”. Read on.

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