India politics news in brief for Oct 10: Maharashtra CM condoles Mulayam Singh Yadav's death

Here are news in brief related to Indian politics for Monday, October 10, 2022:

Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde on Monday expressed grief over the death of Samajwadi Party supremo and three-time chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh Yadav and lauded his role in the development of UP, Press Trust of India reported. Yadav, 82, died on Monday at a hospital in Gurugram after prolonged illness. The former defence minister was admitted to hospital in August and was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Gurugram-based Medanta Hospital on October 2. Shinde in his condolence message on Twitter said, "My thoughts and prayers are with the bereaved family of late Mulayam Singh Yadav. He played a vital role in the development of Uttar Pradesh.”

The Election Commission (EC) on Monday allotted the name 'Balasahebanchi ShivSena' to the Shinde faction and ''Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)' to the faction led by Uddhav Thackeray ahead of next month's bypoll in Andheri East constituency in Mumbai. The poll panel has declined to allot 'Trishul' (trident), 'Rising Sun' and 'Gada' (mace) as symbols as they are "not in the list of free symbols". It asked the Shinde faction of Shiv Sena to furnish a list of three fresh symbols by Tuesday (11) and declared the 'flaming torch' as the symbol of candidates of the Thackeray faction in the current by-election and till the final order is passed in the current dispute. The poll panel had earlier barred the group led by former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and current chief minister Eknath Shinde from using the symbol "Bow and Arrow, reserved for "Shiv Sena, in the upcoming Andheri East by-election on November 3.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday dedicate to the nation the first phase of 'Shri Mahakal Lok' (corridor) in Ujjain city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, the state's home minister Narottam Mishra said on Monday. The more than 900-metre-long 'Mahakal Lok' corridor, built as one of the largest such corridors in the country, spreads around the old Rudrasagar Lake which has also been revived as part of the redevelopment project around the famous Mahakaleshwar Temple, one of the 12 'jyotirlings' in the country which attracts a large number of devotees, an official said.

Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar on Monday condoled the death of former defence minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and said the latter gave the Samajwadi Party a strong ideology to stand against communal forces and worked for creating a socialist society. Yadav, 82, died on Monday at a hospital in Gurugram after prolonged illness. "Saddened to hear about the demise of Former CM of UP, former Defence Minister of India and Patriarch of Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav ji. He gave a strong ideology to Samajwadi Party to stand strong against communal forces & worked towards creating a socialist society,” Pawar tweeted.

A first-information report has been filed against the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the other organisers of an event in Delhi, where certain speakers allegedly delivered hate speeches, police said on Monday, PTI reported. The VHP dismissed the claim that permission for the event was not taken from the city police as "laughable" and said police personnel were deployed at the venue of the event in Dilshad Garden. Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentarian Parvesh Verma courted controversy on Sunday after he allegedly called for a total boycott of a community at the event held to protest against the killing of a 19-year-old Hindu man in northeast Delhi. Verma, however, said he did not refer to any particular community in his address.

The judicial custody of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut in connection with the Patra Chawl land scam case has been extended till October 17 on Monday. Sanjay Rauut's custody was previously extended on October 4 for 14 days (till October 10, today) by a Special Court in Mumbai. Raut was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on August 1 in connection with alleged financial irregularities in the redevelopment of the Patra Chawl in suburban Goregaon in Mumbai. After being in the ED's custody initially, the Shiv Sena leader was sent to judicial custody for 14 days on August 8. On August 22, a special PMLA court extended Raut's custody till September 5 which was further extended till September 19 and then till October 3 and 10.

Delhi's minister of social welfare Rajendra Pal Gautam resigned from his post on Sunday amid a controversy over his presence at a religious conversion event where Hindu deities were allegedly denounced, PTI reported. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had used the issue to attack Aam Aadmi Party convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal during the election campaigning in Gujarat and accused him of being "anti-Hindu". In a letter shared on Twitter, Gautam said he attended the event in his personal capacity and it had nothing to do with his party or the ministry. He lashed out at the BJP for targeting Kejriwal and AAP, alleging the saffron party was doing ''dirty politics'' on the issue.