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Former Mumbai Police commissioner Satya Pal Singh, who quit the post to join politics in 2014, is now part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new cabinet. The 61-year-old Lok Sabha MP from Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, he was a 1980-batch Maharashtra cadre IPS officer.

A BJP lawmaker has described as a "small incident" the mob killing of a Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri over rumours that he had beef in his house.

Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh, a six-term MP from the Jat-dominated Baghpat who joined the UPA in 2012 to become the civil aviation minister, faces a formidable rival in the form of former Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh, who has been fielded by the BJP.

Former Mumbai Police commissioner Satya Pal Singh, who quit the post to join politics in 2014, is now part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new cabinet. The 61-year-old Lok Sabha MP from Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, he was a 1980-batch Maharashtra cadre IPS officer.

A BJP lawmaker has described as a "small incident" the mob killing of a Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri over rumours that he had beef in his house.

Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh, a six-term MP from the Jat-dominated Baghpat who joined the UPA in 2012 to become the civil aviation minister, faces a formidable rival in the form of former Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh, who has been fielded by the BJP.