Gujarat's former home minister Amit Shah wants the special CBI court to grant him bail for the role he played in turning the state into the "best police state in the country". This is one of the main arguments on which the close aide of Chief Minister Narendra Modi has based his bail application in the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and the subsequent murder of his wife, Kauser bi, case.

NDA, Left parties, RJD and SP along with some regional parties are all set to confront the government in Parliament on the price rise issue on Tuesday through separate adjournment motions that entails voting. Bracing to embarrass the government in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, the Opposition
is insisting on voting on the issue, a move strongly opposed by the government and the Congress.

The opposition made it clear that it will not relent notwithstanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurance that government was willing to discuss any issue in Parliament.

Parliament’s monsoon session beginning on Monday promises to be stormy. The BJP is trying hard to bring together the entire Opposition for a combined assault on the UPA government on a range of issues including the price rise, the fuel price hike and the spat of train accidents. But any such unity is unlikely to last long, as BJP also intends to disrupt the House over Sunday’s arrest of former Gujarat minister of state for home, Amit Shah — an issue few other opposition parties will endorse. The Congress is banking on the Amit Shah issue to divide the opposition. It will also try to put the BJP on the defensive by raking up the illegal mining scam in Karnataka.

Facing charges of murder, Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, a close associate of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday resigned from the state ministry. "As I landed here in Delhi, I have information that Amit Shah's resignation has reached my residence in Gandhinagar. On return, I
will accept it and complete the formalities," Modi, who is here to attend the National Development Council meeting, said.

The Bihar Assembly witnessed one of its ugliest moments when MLAs of the ruling NDA and the Opposition’s RJD and Left parties clashed inside the House on Tuesday. More than dozen legislators were injured in the melee. The clash took place soon after an aggressive Opposition demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the wake of the CBI probe into the Rs 11,412-crore irregularities in execution of welfare schemes.

Telugu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu along with his supporters was today forcibly shifted to Aurangabad from Dharmabad amid tight security. Police cane-charged some TDP activists, who tried to prevent the move. He was taken in a private bus accompanied by four police vans with State Reserve Police (SRP) personnel in it around 1000 hrs.