The Biggest Stories Of December 09, 2019
Citizenship Amendment Bill cleared by the Lok Sabha with 311 voting in support and 80 against; Amit Shah questions the Congress' right to dub the citizenship bill as discriminatory saying the party divided India on the grounds of religion during partition while Congress says foundation for the two-nation theory was laid by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and not their party; Asaduddin Owaisi tears a copy of the legislation in the Lok Sabha, calls it an attempt to divide the nation; The BJP sweeps Karnataka assembly bypolls, winning 12 of 15 seats while two Congress leaders quit after debacle; Describing the Anaj Mandi Delhi fire incident as a "catastrophe" that was waiting to happen, the human rights commission has sought a detailed report in six weeks; Movie theatres in Jaipur say they will stop screening the film Panipat until further orders, after protests from royal families and Jat groups; all this and much more in today's news wrap.
