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Breaking News Today, Live Updates Mar 21: AAP-BJP slugfest over Delhi Budget intensifies, Kejriwal calls it ‘hooliganism’ by Centre

New Delhi, March 21 dmanewsdesk: Stay tuned to this live blog for a comprehensive coverage of news events from all spheres, ranging from politics to entertainment, business to sports and more. The business during the second leg of the Parliament’s Budget Session, which started on March 13, continues to remain paralysed amid the furore over two big issues – government’s demand of an apology from Rahul Gandhi over his ‘democracy under threat’ remarks at the Cambridge University and opposition’s demand for a JPC into the Adani issue. In the meanwhile, the Punjab Police’s manhunt to nab Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh continues even as his driver and uncle turned themselves in on Monday. 

Breaking News Today, Live Updates Mar 21:

10:55 AM: Delhi chief secretary sat on Centre’s letter stalling budget for three days; this is bigger than any anti-national activity: AAP

10:54 AM: Utterly shameful; for first time in country’s 75-year history, Centre has stopped Delhi’s budget: AAP

09:47 AM: Please don’t stop Delhi budget: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a letter today.

08:54 AM: The Supreme Court will hear today pleas challenging the amended law allowing extension of up to five years for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) director. 

08:13 AM: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the Punjab government to respond today to a habeas corpus petition which claims that the Khalistani leader and ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief Amritpal Singh is already in illegal police custody and should be released.  

Source: PTI