Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah on Saturday approved the expansion of Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa's Cabinet. The approval comes almost a month after Yediyurappa was sworn in as the chief minister of a state engulfed in one political crisis after another since May last-year. Yediyurappa met Shah in Delhi on Saturday. The expansion will take place in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

Congress general secretary in-charge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday hit out at the BJP after Unnao rape accused Kuldeep Singh Sengar's photo featured alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the local edition of a Hindi daily. "CBI submitted the report. Supreme Court has also reprimanded but BJP people still have rape accused...Sengar in their hearts," she said.

A section of the Muslim community "does not understand the importance of curbing population", BJP ally Shiv Sena alleged on Friday, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Independence Day speech that "family planning is true patriotism". In an editorial in the party's mouthpiece, "Saamana", Shiv Sena supported PM Modi's push for population control.