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Hours before former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh formally submitted his resignation on Saturday, he had written a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, expressing anguish at the political events of the last five months.

“Notwithstanding my personal anguish, I hope this will not cause any damage to the hard-earned peace and development in the state, and that the efforts I have been focusing during the last few years, would continue unabated, ensuring justice to one and all,” Captain Amarinder said in his letter.

In his letter, Captain Amarinder expressed his personal satisfaction at having done his best for the people as chief minister of Punjab, which, as a border state, “has many geo-political and other internal security concerns, which I tried to handle effectively without any compromise.”

A Patna court has ordering registration of FIR against six people, including RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and Misa Bharti, for allegedly accepting Rs 5 crore for a Lok Sabha ticket during the 2019 elections.

The FIR has been ordered on a complaint by Congress leader Sanjiv Kumar Singh, who alleged that he was asked to pay Rs 5 crore and was promised a Lok Sabha ticket from Bhagalpur for the same.

The complaint also mentions Bihar Congress state president Madan Mohan Jha, Congress spokesperson Rajesh Rathore, and late Congress leader Sadanand Singh's son Shubhanand Mukesh.

A day after leaving the BJP and joining the TMC, former Union minister Babul Supriyo had a war of words with BJP leader Swapan Dasgupta on Twitter. In response to Swapan Dasgupta's claim that Babul Supriyo's "defection may end up damaging his own image", Supriyo retorted that the same must then be true of the 'rivals' who joined the BJP and were given top posts earlier this year.

"Did I create history by shifting sides? Well, all the 'rivals' who joined the BJP, were embraced and made to sit on top posts - while ignoring all those 'real' BJP grassroots fighters - should be dumped because they may have all spoiled their images (like you said I did) and tarnished BJP's image. Right?" Babul Supriyo wrote on Twitter.

Among all states and Union territories, Delhi recorded the highest number of civilian injuries in 2020 due to police actions.

As many as 65 of the 67 people injured in police operations here last year - an eight-fold rise over 2019 - had faced lathi-charge by cops, according to the latest crime data published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). According to the data, as many as 76 police personnel in Delhi were injured on duty, including 45 while dealing with riotous mobs.

Though the NCRB data does not give details on the timing of the police actions that injured both civilians and men in khaki, it is possible that many of these coincided with the anti-CAA riots witnessed in parts of the national Capital in early 2020. Civilians injured in police operations across Delhi constituted over 29% of the all-India figure of 226. In J&K, a hub of civilian protests in the past, 43 people were injured in police operations last year, just about one-fifth of the 201 hurt in 2019.