A month after Rajasthan Assembly election results were announced, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to pick the Leader of Opposition in the new House. BJP state president Madan Lal Saini said the party's national observer and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will hold a meeting with the newly elected legislators in Jaipur on Sunday. The Rajasthan poll results were announced on December 11.

Terming the passing of the Citizenship Bill, 2016 by Lok Sabha as a "Black Day" for Assam and the country, former CM Tarun Gogoi accused the BJP government of polarising the country on the basis of religion. "By passing the bill, the BJP government has polarised citizens as Hindus and Muslims and accepted Jinnah's politics of dividing the country," the senior Congress leader said.

Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot today asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah to apologise for saying that leaders of the Congress should be "held by collars" to seek their work accountability. "I fail to understand how Amit Shah could muster the courage to say it. He should apologise," he said addressing an election rally in Reodar of Sirohi district.