Centre’s new BSF notification draconian, unacceptable: Congress
The Hindu
Congress accuses the Narendra Modi government of trying to “usurp” the powers of elected governments.
The Congress on October 14 claimed that the Centre’s new violates the spirit of federalism and is a “concerted attack on Constitutionalism”.
According to of October 11, BSF officials can now search, seize and arrest, at par with their police counterparts, 50 km into Punjab, Bengal and Assam. In these States, the BSF had search and seizure powers up to 15 km.
Speaking to reporters, Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala accused the Narendra Modi government of trying to “usurp” the powers of elected governments.

Away from the memorial of saint-composer Thyagaraja in Thiruvaiyaru, where his 179th aradhana is marked by five days of uninterrupted concerts, unchavritti and rendering of the Pancharatna kritis, a parallel aradhana is under way in Thanjavur. In the narrow Varagappa Iyer Lane off the bustling South Main Street, devotees queue up at a house named after Thyagaraja. It is here that the idols of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughna and Anjaneya, worshipped by Thyagaraja himself, are preserved, along with a portrait of the saint-composer said to have been drawn by his disciples.












