STAMPEDE DEATH: MOVIE STAR ALLU ARJUN ARRESTED, GETS INTERIM BAIL

HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court on Friday granted interim bail to actor Allu Arjun, who was arrested earlier in the day by the city police in connection with the death of a woman during the screening of his movie 'Pushpa 2' last week.

- Press Trust of India

NEW DELHI: The two-day debate to mark 75 years of the Constitution of India began in the Lok Sabha on Friday with defence minister Rajnath Singh opening the discussion from the government's side and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi leading the charge from the Opposition benches that marked his maiden speech after she was elected to the Lok Sabha.

Without naming the Congress, Singh alleged that the contribution of several leaders in the making of the Constitution was deliberately ignored. Gandhi mounted a sharp attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that the country has never remained in the "hands of cowards" for a long time.

Singh, defence minister and a BJP veteran, hit out at the Congress, asserting that a particular party always tried to "hijack and appropriate" the framing of the Constitution.

"Nowadays, I see several Opposition leaders carrying copies of the Constitution in their pockets. The reality is that they have learned this practice from their families, who have placed the Constitution in their pockets for generations," Singh stated, in a veiled attack on senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

He pointed out that the Constitution had talked about religious freedom and it had been specified that the state will not have a religion and will be secular.