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1. Charanjit Singh Channi, a Dalit Sikh and the outgoing Technical Education Minister, will be Punjab's new Chief Minister, the Congress said, a day after Amarinder Singh's resignation triggered drama in the poll-bound state. Channi, a three-time MLA from Rupnagar's Chamkaur Sahib, will be sworn in as Punjab's first Dalit Chief Minister 11 am. The Congress hopes his deputies will be from the Jat Sikh and Hindu communities, the party's state-in-charge, Harish Rawat, said. 2. The Yuvajan Sramika Rythu Congress, led by Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy, has swept the Andhra Pradesh local body polls, the results for which were announced on Sunday. As last reports came in, the party had won close to 90 per cent of the Mandal Parishads Territorial Constituencies and a staggering 99 per cent of the Zilla Parishads Territorial Constituencies. 3. A leader of Hindu Mahasabha has been arrested in Mangaluru with his two associates, a day after he threatened Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai over the demolition of a temple, saying, 'We didn't spare Gandhiji, who are you.' Dharmendra, state general secretary of the outfit, made the remarks during a press conference on the issue of temple demolition that has put the BJP government in a spot. 4. In Madhya Pradesh all government and non-government schools from class I to class V reopen today. In Odisha, the government has decided to reopen the colleges and universities due to 'improvement in COVID-19 situation in the state,' according to the order.