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Bengaluru, Jan 7 (IANS) The Karnataka BJP has demanded the immediate suspension of officials who allegedly stripped and assaulted a BJP woman worker in Hubballi. A video purportedly related to the incident has gone viral on social media, triggering widespread outrage and controversy on Wednesday morning.Speaking to media persons at the BJP state headquarters “Jagannath Bhavan” in Bengaluru, State BJP President and MLA B.Y. Vijayendra said a shocking incident had taken place in Hubballi, wher…

Chandigarh, Dec 30 (IANS) Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Cheema on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led Union government, accusing it of systematically dismantling the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme and stripping the poor of their right to a livelihood. Speaking in the Vidhan Sabha in support of a resolution against the changes and the renaming of the MGNREGA scheme to ‘Viksit Bharat — G GRAM G’, Cheema labelled the step as an “assault…