1. With Popular Front of India (PFI) and eight frontal organisations, including Campus Front of India, banned for five years by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the response and impact in Karnataka, which has a sizable presence of its members, is to be watched for. PFI has called for a protest today. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said PFI was linked to several disruptive activities in Karnataka that the ban was sought by many political parties and civil society groups.
2. All India Lawyer's Association for Justice is organising a national day of protest demanding that all political prisoners be freed, UAPA, NSA and all state-security laws be scrapped, and immediate medical care given to all political prisoners. The protest will be held at Freedom Park from 4 p.m.
3. President Draupadi Murmu left for Delhi after a three-day visit to Karnataka. She participated in several programmes, including inauguration of Mysuru Dasara.