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  • BJP’s reaction to Kharge’s letter to Modi instance of intolerance: Chidambaram 

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief P Chidambaram on Saturday slammed 4 BJP MPs from Karnataka for his or her undermining AICC leader Mallikarjun Kharge’s letter to High Minister Narendra Modi over the Odisha railway tragedy, announcing it used to be any other instance of the “absolute intolerance” of the saffron birthday party to any grievance.

    Chidambaram additionally mentioned the BJP MPs’ letter in accordance with Kharge used to be “shallow on details and hole on arguments.

    “4 BJP MPs from Karnataka, together with former leader minister Sadananda Gowda, had taken exception to Kharge’s writing to Modi, announcing the letter used to be “prime on rhetoric and occasional on details.”  It does now not go well with a pacesetter of your stature to jot down letters to the PM in response to details gotten from ‘WhatsApp College’. However possibly because the vice chancellor of WhatsApp College, you might be compelled to regurgitate pretend information as details,” the letter written via Tejaswi Surya, PC Mohan, S Muniswamy, and Gowda mentioned.

    Reacting to the stance taken via the BJP MPs, Chidambaram mentioned their reaction used to be any other instance of the “absolute intolerance of the BJP to any grievance.

    Chidambaram mentioned, ” Kharge being the Chief of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha is entitled to jot down to the High Minister. In a functioning democracy, the folks be expecting the Hon’ble High Minister to answer the letter. However our democracy is such that the Hon’ble High Minister won’t deem it price answer,” the previous Union finance minister mentioned.

    ” As a substitute, 4 BJP MPs take it upon themselves to ship a answer this is shallow on details and hole on arguments, he mentioned. Two CAG studies submitted in December 2022 totally vindicate Shri Kharge’s reasoned grievance,” he mentioned.

    “The letter dated 09-02-2023 of the Most important Leader Operations Supervisor of the S W Railway used to be a forewarning {that a} tragedy reminiscent of Balasore used to be prone to occur. I don’t have any doubt that the letter lay unattended in some report of the S W Railway and used to be amassing mud. Will the Hon’ble BJP MPs let us know what motion used to be taken at the letter?” Chidambaram mentioned.

    In one of the vital worst railway screw ups in India, a minimum of 280 folks had been killed and greater than 900 injured when 3 trains collided one after any other in a horrific series in #Odisha’s Balasore district.#BalasoreTrainAccident #OdishaTrainTragedy #TrainAccident %.twitter.com/HLa6zIzsdB

    — The New Indian Specific (@NewIndianXpress) June 3, 2023

    Congress president Kharge had written to High Minister Modi previous this week, announcing the CBI is supposed to analyze crimes, now not railway injuries, and can’t repair duty for technical, institutional, and political disasters.

    Kharge had additionally mentioned “the entire empty protection claims” of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw have now been “uncovered” and the federal government will have to carry to mild the actual causes that brought about this grave twist of fate, which he described as one of the vital worst in Indian historical past.

    In his four-page letter to Modi, the Congress leader had alleged that as a substitute of that specialize in strengthening the railways on the fundamental stage, simplest “superficial contact up is being performed to stick in information.

    READ MORE: Odisha teach twist of fate: Congress says protection will have to all the time be precedence in rail community functioning

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief P Chidambaram on Saturday slammed 4 BJP MPs from Karnataka for his or her undermining AICC leader Mallikarjun Kharge’s letter to High Minister Narendra Modi over the Odisha railway tragedy, announcing it used to be any other instance of the “absolute intolerance” of the saffron birthday party to any grievance.

    Chidambaram additionally mentioned the BJP MPs’ letter in accordance with Kharge used to be “shallow on details and hole on arguments.

    “4 BJP MPs from Karnataka, together with former leader minister Sadananda Gowda, had taken exception to Kharge’s writing to Modi, announcing the letter used to be “prime on rhetoric and occasional on details.”  It does now not go well with a pacesetter of your stature to jot down letters to the PM in response to details gotten from ‘WhatsApp College’. However possibly because the vice chancellor of WhatsApp College, you might be compelled to regurgitate pretend information as details,” the letter written via Tejaswi Surya, PC Mohan, S Muniswamy, and Gowda mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Reacting to the stance taken via the BJP MPs, Chidambaram mentioned their reaction used to be any other instance of the “absolute intolerance of the BJP to any grievance.

    Chidambaram mentioned, ” Kharge being the Chief of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha is entitled to jot down to the High Minister. In a functioning democracy, the folks be expecting the Hon’ble High Minister to answer the letter. However our democracy is such that the Hon’ble High Minister won’t deem it price answer,” the previous Union finance minister mentioned.

    ” As a substitute, 4 BJP MPs take it upon themselves to ship a answer this is shallow on details and hole on arguments, he mentioned. Two CAG studies submitted in December 2022 totally vindicate Shri Kharge’s reasoned grievance,” he mentioned.

    “The letter dated 09-02-2023 of the Most important Leader Operations Supervisor of the S W Railway used to be a forewarning {that a} tragedy reminiscent of Balasore used to be prone to occur. I don’t have any doubt that the letter lay unattended in some report of the S W Railway and used to be amassing mud. Will the Hon’ble BJP MPs let us know what motion used to be taken at the letter?” Chidambaram mentioned.

    In one of the vital worst railway screw ups in India, a minimum of 280 folks had been killed and greater than 900 injured when 3 trains collided one after any other in a horrific series in #Odisha’s Balasore district.#BalasoreTrainAccident #OdishaTrainTragedy #TrainAccident %.twitter.com/HLa6zIzsdB
    — The New Indian Specific (@NewIndianXpress) June 3, 2023
    Congress president Kharge had written to High Minister Modi previous this week, announcing the CBI is supposed to analyze crimes, now not railway injuries, and can’t repair duty for technical, institutional, and political disasters.

    Kharge had additionally mentioned “the entire empty protection claims” of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw have now been “uncovered” and the federal government will have to carry to mild the actual causes that brought about this grave twist of fate, which he described as one of the vital worst in Indian historical past.

    In his four-page letter to Modi, the Congress leader had alleged that as a substitute of that specialize in strengthening the railways on the fundamental stage, simplest “superficial contact up is being performed to stick in information.

    READ MORE: Odisha teach twist of fate: Congress says protection will have to all the time be precedence in rail community functioning

  • Alliance with BJP  no longer solid because of any compulsion: Haryana Dy CM Dushyant Chautala

    Through PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Amid indicators of variations between the BJP and its best friend JJP, Haryana Deputy Leader Minister Dushyant Chautala on Friday stated the alliance between the 2 events after the 2019 meeting polls was once solid to shape a strong executive within the state and no longer because of any compulsion.

    The Jannayak Janta Birthday party (JJP) chief asserted that the alliance was once finalised after the October 2019 polls within the presence of senior BJP chief and now Union House Minister Amit Shah.

    After the Haryana Meeting polls, BJP had gained 40 seats within the 90-member Space, regardless that ultimate yr it added another MLA into its kitty after successful the Adampur bypolls, through which JJP gained 10 seats.

    Each outfits, who had fought towards every different, solid a tie-up and shaped the federal government.

    Within the provide Space, BJP has 41 seats, Congress 30 and JJP 10.

    Whilst six out of 7 Independents improve BJP, one every member belongs to Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD) and Haryana Lokhit Birthday party (HLP), which, too, is supporting the M L Khattar-led executive.

    On Thursday, 4 unbiased MLAs from Haryana, all of whom are supporting the Khattar executive, met BJP in-charge for the state Biplab Kumar Deb in Delhi.

    On Friday, HLP leader and legislator Gopal Kanda, whose birthday celebration may be supporting the federal government, met Deb within the nationwide capital.

    On asking whether or not variations have cropped up between the 2 allies after some statements had been made via the leaders of the 2 aspects, Chautala stated, “Each the events had mentioned techniques to take care of a strong executive within the state and handiest after that the alliance was once solid with a mutual consent. It was once neither my nor BJP’s compulsion.”

    “State wanted a strong executive and we delivered on that. These days, Haryana is making development…I dont assume any person did any favour on any person,” he added.

    He stated proper from the start of this alliance he has been listening to that it may not ultimate 3 months with others pronouncing that it’ll wreck inside of a yr. “The day there can be any “talkhi” (bitterness in members of the family), I feel you (media) folks may not even get an opportunity to invite,” the deputy CM stated.

    “I’m very transparent that state will have to have a strong executive and it will have to development and with this concept, I’m doing my paintings and I feel others, who’re part of this executive, also are doing the similar,” he stated.

    When requested if BJP and JJP will battle the following yr’s polls in combination, he answered, “that can be determined via the management of the 2 events and I feel each events need to stroll in combination.”

    When requested whether or not he see any fissures within the alliance, Sombir Sangwan, one of the most 4 Unbiased MLAs who met Deb, stated, “So far as I’m involved, BJP is at loss with the continuation of this alliance.”

    He claimed that individuals are unsatisfied with the JJP and if this alliance continues, the BJP should endure the loss.

    “Twenty-five in line with cent extra folks will connect to BJP if this alliance breaks,” Sangwan additional stated, claiming that BJP didn’t want JJP for a strong executive because it loved the improve of maximum Independents.

    Deb had just lately stated the JJP did no favour to the BJP via supporting it because the regional birthday celebration additionally joined the federal government. Some JJP leaders had later made counter statements.

    Each events had been non-committal on whether or not they would contest the 2024 meeting polls in combination.

    Gopal Kanda stated proper from the beginning his birthday celebration is supporting the BJP. He stated all over his assembly with Deb they mentioned the state’s political state of affairs and tips on how to take ahead the insurance policies and programmes of BJP-led governments on the Centre and within the state.

    Like Sangwan, Kanda additionally felt that BJP didn’t want JJP’s improve. “Even though JJP isn’t with BJP, there’s no threat to the federal government and it’ll nonetheless run,” Kanda stated.

    In the meantime, Haryana Congress president Udai Bhan took a potshot at each events, pronouncing, “Now we have been pronouncing this proper from the start that the BJP-JJP alliance isn’t a ‘gathbandhan’, however a ‘thug bandhan’, one in keeping with passion and no longer in keeping with any ideology”.

    “BJP has all the time betrayed their allies, be it INLD, now’s the flip of JJP, Akali Dal, Shiv Sena, Nitish Kumar, whoever labored with them, their birthday celebration has been completed,” he stated.

    “BJP is adopting the use and throw coverage for JJP,” Bhan claimed.

    CHANDIGARH: Amid indicators of variations between the BJP and its best friend JJP, Haryana Deputy Leader Minister Dushyant Chautala on Friday stated the alliance between the 2 events after the 2019 meeting polls was once solid to shape a strong executive within the state and no longer because of any compulsion.

    The Jannayak Janta Birthday party (JJP) chief asserted that the alliance was once finalised after the October 2019 polls within the presence of senior BJP chief and now Union House Minister Amit Shah.

    After the Haryana Meeting polls, BJP had gained 40 seats within the 90-member Space, regardless that ultimate yr it added another MLA into its kitty after successful the Adampur bypolls, through which JJP gained 10 seats.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Each outfits, who had fought towards every different, solid a tie-up and shaped the federal government.

    Within the provide Space, BJP has 41 seats, Congress 30 and JJP 10.

    Whilst six out of 7 Independents improve BJP, one every member belongs to Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD) and Haryana Lokhit Birthday party (HLP), which, too, is supporting the M L Khattar-led executive.

    On Thursday, 4 unbiased MLAs from Haryana, all of whom are supporting the Khattar executive, met BJP in-charge for the state Biplab Kumar Deb in Delhi.

    On Friday, HLP leader and legislator Gopal Kanda, whose birthday celebration may be supporting the federal government, met Deb within the nationwide capital.

    On asking whether or not variations have cropped up between the 2 allies after some statements had been made via the leaders of the 2 aspects, Chautala stated, “Each the events had mentioned techniques to take care of a strong executive within the state and handiest after that the alliance was once solid with a mutual consent. It was once neither my nor BJP’s compulsion.”

    “State wanted a strong executive and we delivered on that. These days, Haryana is making development…I dont assume any person did any favour on any person,” he added.

    He stated proper from the start of this alliance he has been listening to that it may not ultimate 3 months with others pronouncing that it’ll wreck inside of a yr. “The day there can be any “talkhi” (bitterness in members of the family), I feel you (media) folks may not even get an opportunity to invite,” the deputy CM stated.

    “I’m very transparent that state will have to have a strong executive and it will have to development and with this concept, I’m doing my paintings and I feel others, who’re part of this executive, also are doing the similar,” he stated.

    When requested if BJP and JJP will battle the following yr’s polls in combination, he answered, “that can be determined via the management of the 2 events and I feel each events need to stroll in combination.”

    When requested whether or not he see any fissures within the alliance, Sombir Sangwan, one of the most 4 Unbiased MLAs who met Deb, stated, “So far as I’m involved, BJP is at loss with the continuation of this alliance.”

    He claimed that individuals are unsatisfied with the JJP and if this alliance continues, the BJP should endure the loss.

    “Twenty-five in line with cent extra folks will connect to BJP if this alliance breaks,” Sangwan additional stated, claiming that BJP didn’t want JJP for a strong executive because it loved the improve of maximum Independents.

    Deb had just lately stated the JJP did no favour to the BJP via supporting it because the regional birthday celebration additionally joined the federal government. Some JJP leaders had later made counter statements.

    Each events had been non-committal on whether or not they would contest the 2024 meeting polls in combination.

    Gopal Kanda stated proper from the beginning his birthday celebration is supporting the BJP. He stated all over his assembly with Deb they mentioned the state’s political state of affairs and tips on how to take ahead the insurance policies and programmes of BJP-led governments on the Centre and within the state.

    Like Sangwan, Kanda additionally felt that BJP didn’t want JJP’s improve. “Even though JJP isn’t with BJP, there’s no threat to the federal government and it’ll nonetheless run,” Kanda stated.

    In the meantime, Haryana Congress president Udai Bhan took a potshot at each events, pronouncing, “Now we have been pronouncing this proper from the start that the BJP-JJP alliance isn’t a ‘gathbandhan’, however a ‘thug bandhan’, one in keeping with passion and no longer in keeping with any ideology”.

    “BJP has all the time betrayed their allies, be it INLD, now’s the flip of JJP, Akali Dal, Shiv Sena, Nitish Kumar, whoever labored with them, their birthday celebration has been completed,” he stated.

    “BJP is adopting the use and throw coverage for JJP,” Bhan claimed.

  • Sengol factor: BJP’s ‘faux manufacturing facility’ stands uncovered, says Jairam Ramesh

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The BJP’s declare that the ‘Sengol’ was once a logo of switch of energy from the British to former top minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been uncovered, Congress chief Jairam Ramesh stated on Friday mentioning an interview quoting a Tamil Nadu-based spiritual frame’s leader.

    Bringing up the interview in a day by day that quoted the top Swamigal of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam, he stated neither Lord Mountbatten nor C Rajagopalachari have been provide on the turning in of the ‘Sengol’ to Nehru. The ceremonial sceptre was once introduced to Nehru at 10 pm on August 14, 1947, at his place of dwelling.

    Forward of the inauguration of the brand new Parliament construction and the set up of the ‘Sengol’ in Lok Sabha on Would possibly 28, the BJP had alleged that the Congress displayed omit for Hindu traditions via calling the sacred ‘Sengol’ a “golden stick talented” to India’s first top minister Nehru and tucking it away in a museum.

    The vesting of the “sacred ‘Sengol” with Nehru, at the eve of India’s Independence, was once the precise second of switch of energy from the British to India, BJP chief Amit Malviya had stated on Would possibly 26. Even then, Ramesh had stated there’s no documented proof of Mountbatten, Rajagopalachari, and Nehru describing the ‘Sengol’ as a logo of switch of energy via the British to India.

    Rajagopalachari was once the primary Indian-born Governor-Basic who succeeded Mountbatten.

    In a tweet on Friday, the Congress chief stated, “So the BJP’s ‘FakeFactory’ stands uncovered lately via none as opposed to the respected head Swamigal of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam himself in The Hindu. No Mountbatten, no Rajaji, no section within the respectable switch of energy on August 14, 1947. However sure, the majestic ‘Sengol’ was once certainly introduced to Nehru as I’ve been pronouncing all alongside.”

    “Listed below are some extra information to nail the lies of lately’s Raja and his drumbeaters,” he stated mentioning an commercial dated August 29, 1947, at the presentation of the ceremonial sceptre to Nehru at 10 pm on August 14, 1947, at his place of dwelling.

    “It was once obviously an initiative of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam itself,” he stated.

    Within the photograph, he stated, the famed Nagaswaram virtuoso TN Rajaratnam Pillai is marked.

    “Here’s what is alleged about him in a piece of writing on a site of the Union Ministry of Tradition: When India attained independence, Rajaratnam was once despatched to Delhi via the Pandarasannadhi of the Tiruvaduturai Matam to provide on his behalf a mace of cast gold senkol (image of righteous management). Rajaratnam was once overjoyed via this proud privilege.

    It was once Dr P Subbaroyan who presented him to top minister Jawaharlal Nehru to whom Rajaratnam performed the Nagaswaram sooner than turning in the mace,” Ramesh tweeted.

    “There’s no point out of Mountbatten and even Rajaji.

    Rajaratnam Pillai is himself the topic of an enchanting new biography via an eminent Jap ethnomusicologist by which the August 14, 1947, episode is discussed,” the Congress chief stated on Twitter.

    The Congress normal secretary has been claiming that the Sengol was once by no means introduced sooner than Mountbatten or Rajagopalachari.

    NEW DELHI: The BJP’s declare that the ‘Sengol’ was once a logo of switch of energy from the British to former top minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been uncovered, Congress chief Jairam Ramesh stated on Friday mentioning an interview quoting a Tamil Nadu-based spiritual frame’s leader.

    Bringing up the interview in a day by day that quoted the top Swamigal of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam, he stated neither Lord Mountbatten nor C Rajagopalachari have been provide on the turning in of the ‘Sengol’ to Nehru. The ceremonial sceptre was once introduced to Nehru at 10 pm on August 14, 1947, at his place of dwelling.

    Forward of the inauguration of the brand new Parliament construction and the set up of the ‘Sengol’ in Lok Sabha on Would possibly 28, the BJP had alleged that the Congress displayed omit for Hindu traditions via calling the sacred ‘Sengol’ a “golden stick talented” to India’s first top minister Nehru and tucking it away in a museum.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The vesting of the “sacred ‘Sengol” with Nehru, at the eve of India’s Independence, was once the precise second of switch of energy from the British to India, BJP chief Amit Malviya had stated on Would possibly 26. Even then, Ramesh had stated there’s no documented proof of Mountbatten, Rajagopalachari, and Nehru describing the ‘Sengol’ as a logo of switch of energy via the British to India.

    Rajagopalachari was once the primary Indian-born Governor-Basic who succeeded Mountbatten.

    In a tweet on Friday, the Congress chief stated, “So the BJP’s ‘FakeFactory’ stands uncovered lately via none as opposed to the respected head Swamigal of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam himself in The Hindu. No Mountbatten, no Rajaji, no section within the respectable switch of energy on August 14, 1947. However sure, the majestic ‘Sengol’ was once certainly introduced to Nehru as I’ve been pronouncing all alongside.”

    “Listed below are some extra information to nail the lies of lately’s Raja and his drumbeaters,” he stated mentioning an commercial dated August 29, 1947, at the presentation of the ceremonial sceptre to Nehru at 10 pm on August 14, 1947, at his place of dwelling.

    “It was once obviously an initiative of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam itself,” he stated.

    Within the photograph, he stated, the famed Nagaswaram virtuoso TN Rajaratnam Pillai is marked.

    “Here’s what is alleged about him in a piece of writing on a site of the Union Ministry of Tradition: When India attained independence, Rajaratnam was once despatched to Delhi via the Pandarasannadhi of the Tiruvaduturai Matam to provide on his behalf a mace of cast gold senkol (image of righteous management). Rajaratnam was once overjoyed via this proud privilege.

    It was once Dr P Subbaroyan who presented him to top minister Jawaharlal Nehru to whom Rajaratnam performed the Nagaswaram sooner than turning in the mace,” Ramesh tweeted.

    “There’s no point out of Mountbatten and even Rajaji.

    Rajaratnam Pillai is himself the topic of an enchanting new biography via an eminent Jap ethnomusicologist by which the August 14, 1947, episode is discussed,” the Congress chief stated on Twitter.

    The Congress normal secretary has been claiming that the Sengol was once by no means introduced sooner than Mountbatten or Rajagopalachari.

  • ‘He’s using Indian automotive having a look whilst into rear-view reflect, it is crashing’: Rahul Gandhi assaults PM Modi

    Via PTI

    NEW YORK: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed Top Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP birthday party pronouncing they by no means communicate concerning the long term, and at all times blame anyone else up to now for his or her disasters.

    Gandhi, who’s on a seek advice from to the USA, was once addressing the individuals of the Indian diaspora within the Javits Centre right here. They noticed a 60-second silence in admire of those that died within the Odisha teach twist of fate.

    The twist of fate involving 3 trains has left no less than 280 useless and taken into center of attention the problem of railway protection. There was a requirement for the resignation of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw from some quarters.

    “I take into account a teach twist of fate when the Congress was once in energy. The Congress didn’t stand up and say ‘Now it’s the fault of the British that the teach has crashed’. The Congress minister stated ‘It is my duty and I am resigning’. So that is the issue we’ve again house, we make excuses and we don’t seem to be accepting the truth we’re confronted with,” Gandhi stated, with out naming the Congress minister.

    He stated the BJP and the RSS are incapable of having a look into the long run.

    “He (Top Minister Narendra Modi) is making an attempt to pressure the automobile. the Indian automotive and he appears to be like within the rear-view reflect. Then he does no longer perceive why this automotive is crashing, no longer transferring ahead. And it is the similar thought with the BJP, with the RSS. They all. You pay attention to the ministers, you pay attention to the high minister. You’re going to by no means in finding them speaking concerning the long term. They simply communicate concerning the previous,” he stated.

    “The BJP and the RSS are incapable of having a look into the long run. They by no means communicate concerning the long term; they simply communicate concerning the previous. And they are going to at all times blame anyone else for the previous,” he stated.

    He stated there’s a battle occurring again in India between two ideologies, one represented by way of the Congress and the opposite by way of the BJP and the RSS.

    “The most straightforward strategy to describe this battle is that on one aspect you may have Mahatma Gandhi and at the different aspect, Nathuram Godse,” he stated.

    He additionally praised the Indian-American group for the best way they have got lived in the USA.

    “All of the giants that experience emerged from India, you’ll be able to see that there have been sure qualities that each one of them possessed. At the beginning, they looked for, represented and fought for the reality. Secondly, a majority of these other folks have been humble, and there was once no vanity in them. This is how Indians have labored in the USA, and that’s the reason why Indians are a success right here. I admire and honour you for that.”

    NEW YORK: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed Top Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP birthday party pronouncing they by no means communicate concerning the long term, and at all times blame anyone else up to now for his or her disasters.

    Gandhi, who’s on a seek advice from to the USA, was once addressing the individuals of the Indian diaspora within the Javits Centre right here. They noticed a 60-second silence in admire of those that died within the Odisha teach twist of fate.

    The twist of fate involving 3 trains has left no less than 280 useless and taken into center of attention the problem of railway protection. There was a requirement for the resignation of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw from some quarters.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “I take into account a teach twist of fate when the Congress was once in energy. The Congress didn’t stand up and say ‘Now it’s the fault of the British that the teach has crashed’. The Congress minister stated ‘It is my duty and I am resigning’. So that is the issue we’ve again house, we make excuses and we don’t seem to be accepting the truth we’re confronted with,” Gandhi stated, with out naming the Congress minister.

    He stated the BJP and the RSS are incapable of having a look into the long run.

    “He (Top Minister Narendra Modi) is making an attempt to pressure the automobile. the Indian automotive and he appears to be like within the rear-view reflect. Then he does no longer perceive why this automotive is crashing, no longer transferring ahead. And it is the similar thought with the BJP, with the RSS. They all. You pay attention to the ministers, you pay attention to the high minister. You’re going to by no means in finding them speaking concerning the long term. They simply communicate concerning the previous,” he stated.

    “The BJP and the RSS are incapable of having a look into the long run. They by no means communicate concerning the long term; they simply communicate concerning the previous. And they are going to at all times blame anyone else for the previous,” he stated.

    He stated there’s a battle occurring again in India between two ideologies, one represented by way of the Congress and the opposite by way of the BJP and the RSS.

    “The most straightforward strategy to describe this battle is that on one aspect you may have Mahatma Gandhi and at the different aspect, Nathuram Godse,” he stated.

    He additionally praised the Indian-American group for the best way they have got lived in the USA.

    “All of the giants that experience emerged from India, you’ll be able to see that there have been sure qualities that each one of them possessed. At the beginning, they looked for, represented and fought for the reality. Secondly, a majority of these other folks have been humble, and there was once no vanity in them. This is how Indians have labored in the USA, and that’s the reason why Indians are a success right here. I admire and honour you for that.”

  • ‘He’s riding Indian automobile whilst having a look into rear-view reflect, it is crashing’: Rahul assaults PM Modi

    Via PTI

    NEW YORK: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has stated that the BJP and RSS are “incapable” of having a look on the long term and Top Minister Narendra Modi is making an attempt to power the Indian automobile by means of handiest having a look within the rearview reflect which is able to result in “one twist of fate after any other.”

    Gandhi addressed a large neighborhood match on the Javits Centre organised by means of the Indian In a foreign country Congress – USA on Sunday as he wrapped up his US seek advice from that incorporated journeys to San Francisco and Washington DC.

    “Again house we’ve got an issue, and I can let you know the issue. BJP and the RSS are incapable of having a look on the long term. They are incapable. Unse aap kuch bhi poocho, woh peeche ki aur dekhte hain (You ask the rest they give the impression of being into the previous),” he stated.

    He stated that in the event you ask the BJP why a teach twist of fate took place, they are going to say the Congress Birthday party did such and such factor 50 years in the past, taking a swipe on the govt following the Odisha teach twist of fate, probably the most worst railway tragedies within the nation.

    The twist of fate involving 3 trains has left round 275 useless and taken into center of attention the problem of railway protection. There was a requirement for the resignation of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw from some quarters.

    Gandhi stated that in the event you ask the BJP why they got rid of the periodic desk from the textbooks, they are going to confer with what the Congress birthday party did 60 years in the past.

    “Their rapid reaction” is to appear again,” he stated, including that one can not power a automobile by means of having a look handiest within the rearview reflect as that may handiest result in “one twist of fate after any other.”

     “That’s the phenomenon of Narendra Modi ji. He is making an attempt to power the Indian automobile and he handiest appears to be like within the rearview reflect. After which he does now not perceive why this automobile is crashing, now not shifting ahead. And it is the similar concept with the BJP, with the RSS, they all.

    “You pay attention to them. You pay attention to their ministers. You pay attention to the Top Minister, you are going to by no means in finding them speaking concerning the long term. They are going to handiest communicate concerning the previous and they are going to all the time blame anyone else for the previous,” he stated amidst applause from the Congress birthday party individuals.

    He stated that once a teach twist of fate took place when the Congress birthday party used to be in energy, it didn’t say “It’s the fault of the British that the teach has crashed. No. The Congress minister consider stated it’s my duty the teach has crashed. I am resigning,” Gandhi stated.

    He stated the struggle occurring in India is a struggle between two ideologies wherein on one facet you have got Mahatma Gandhi and at the different facet there may be Nathuram Godse.

    “There’s a struggle occurring again house – a struggle between two ideologies. One who we constitute and the opposite after all that the BJP and the RSS constitute. I feel the most simple strategy to describe this struggle is on one facet you have got Mahatma Gandhi and at the different facet, you have got Nathuram Godse,” the 52-year-old former Congress president stated on the neighborhood match.

    Regarding Mahatma Gandhi, the Congress chief stated that on one facet there’s a “courageous guy”, “NRI such as you. If truth be told, one of the crucial impactful NRI that India has had in lots of, a few years. Humble guy, a easy guy, however a person who believed someday, who believed in India, propagated non-violence and seek for the reality. That is the ideology that we practice. That is the ideology that every one of you practice on this room.

    “After which at the different facet, Nathuram Godse, violent, indignant, not able to stand the truth of his personal lifestyles. The explanation he shot Gandhi used to be that he may now not face his personal lifestyles. And so, he needed to take his anger out on anyone, and he selected to take his anger out at the guy who represented the essence of India,” Gandhi, the previous MP, stated.

    He stated whilst Gandhi used to be open-minded and fashionable, Godse handiest spoke of the previous. “He used to be indignant, hateful, and albeit he used to be scared. On the center, he used to be a coward.”
    He added that the problem in India is that “there may be an assault at the democratic construction of our nation. 

    “Complete-scale assault on our establishments, on our judiciary, on our media, and it’s your duty and our duty to protect the theory of India,” Gandhi stated.
    “The central piece of the theory of India is our Charter and our democracy. Fashionable India can not exist with out our Charter and with out our democracy,” he stated.

    Gandhi stated when he attends such public conferences, he sees individuals who consider within the concept of India, within the democratic ideas of the rustic, within the Charter, who consider that “we will have to be affectionate to one another, that we will have to love every different.”

    Gandhi stated the issue again house is that “we make excuses. And we aren’t accepting the truth we are confronted with. The truth we are confronted with is our unemployment numbers and the truth that we want to make certain that all our children are productive and get a role.”

    “And I consider and probably the most causes I’ve come this is as a result of I consider that if we need to construct an India the place the majority of our children are hired, probably the most issues we need to consider is the bridge between India and the US. What does it seem like, what does our partnership center of attention on and the way will we compete with the problem the Chinese language have positioned at the desk,” he stated.

    He stated one has to take a look at what’s our view at the revolution in mobility, “what’s our view at the revolution on information and connectivity and what’s our view at the transformation this is happening within the power device of the arena. Those are the issues that we will have to be discussing.”

    Gandhi stated Indians assist every different it doesn’t matter what and now not ask questions on faith, or neighborhood.

    “You’re going to say if you wish to have my assist, I do not care which faith you are from. I am Indian. And I am going that can assist you. To be nasty to other people, to be boastful, to be violent, those aren’t Indian values. They are merely now not Indian values. In the event that they had been Indian values, why would we be celebrating Mahatma Gandhi, Guru Nanak and Ambedkar,” he stated.

    He stated there’s a new type which is that “to precise Indianness, it’s a must to be hateful. To specific Indianness it’s a must to be abusive, to precise Indianness, it’s a must to beat other people. No, that is not Indianness. That is one thing else and we refuse to simply accept that as Indian.”

    Gandhi stated he needs to seek advice from different towns throughout the United States and he needs to construct a dating with the diaspora throughout the United States.

    “My aim is to construct a dating with you, an affectionate, loving dating with you the place you’ll be able to say to me that Rahul, that is what we predict, that is the way you will have to consider the connection with the US.

    “I am not such a lot in telling you what I consider. I do not need to do ‘Mann ki Baat’ over right here,” Gandhi stated, relating to Top Minister Modi’s per month radio cope with to the country, as the collection clapped.

    “I’m now not in having a look on the rearview reflect however having a look in entrance and pronouncing brothers and sisters, how will we transfer ahead successfully and the way as a rustic will we unfold love and affection, how are we type to the folk? That is what I’m concerned with.”

     As Gandhi used to be addressing the collection, a person sporting a Khalistani flag stood up. Gandhi stated, “Namaskar, have a pleasing day.”

    The folk within the target audience gestured for the person to head out of the conference centre corridor however Gandhi stated: “That is Congress birthday party’s energy. We are not being violent. We are not being competitive. We are not being nasty. This is our energy. Did we shout at him? No, we did not. We will be able to now not exchange our behaviour. As a result of you can’t minimize hatred with hatred. It is unattainable.”

    He referred to his slogan made all through the Bharat Jodo Yatra ‘Nafrat ke bazaar imply mohabbat ki dukan.”

    NEW YORK: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has stated that the BJP and RSS are “incapable” of having a look on the long term and Top Minister Narendra Modi is making an attempt to power the Indian automobile by means of handiest having a look within the rearview reflect which is able to result in “one twist of fate after any other.”

    Gandhi addressed a large neighborhood match on the Javits Centre organised by means of the Indian In a foreign country Congress – USA on Sunday as he wrapped up his US seek advice from that incorporated journeys to San Francisco and Washington DC.

    “Again house we’ve got an issue, and I can let you know the issue. BJP and the RSS are incapable of having a look on the long term. They are incapable. Unse aap kuch bhi poocho, woh peeche ki aur dekhte hain (You ask the rest they give the impression of being into the previous),” he stated.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    He stated that in the event you ask the BJP why a teach twist of fate took place, they are going to say the Congress Birthday party did such and such factor 50 years in the past, taking a swipe on the govt following the Odisha teach twist of fate, probably the most worst railway tragedies within the nation.

    The twist of fate involving 3 trains has left round 275 useless and taken into center of attention the problem of railway protection. There was a requirement for the resignation of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw from some quarters.

    Gandhi stated that in the event you ask the BJP why they got rid of the periodic desk from the textbooks, they are going to confer with what the Congress birthday party did 60 years in the past.

    “Their rapid reaction” is to appear again,” he stated, including that one can not power a automobile by means of having a look handiest within the rearview reflect as that may handiest result in “one twist of fate after any other.”

     “That’s the phenomenon of Narendra Modi ji. He is making an attempt to power the Indian automobile and he handiest appears to be like within the rearview reflect. After which he does now not perceive why this automobile is crashing, now not shifting ahead. And it is the similar concept with the BJP, with the RSS, they all.

    “You pay attention to them. You pay attention to their ministers. You pay attention to the Top Minister, you are going to by no means in finding them speaking concerning the long term. They are going to handiest communicate concerning the previous and they are going to all the time blame anyone else for the previous,” he stated amidst applause from the Congress birthday party individuals.

    He stated that once a teach twist of fate took place when the Congress birthday party used to be in energy, it didn’t say “It’s the fault of the British that the teach has crashed. No. The Congress minister consider stated it’s my duty the teach has crashed. I am resigning,” Gandhi stated.

    He stated the struggle occurring in India is a struggle between two ideologies wherein on one facet you have got Mahatma Gandhi and at the different facet there may be Nathuram Godse.

    “There’s a struggle occurring again house – a struggle between two ideologies. One who we constitute and the opposite after all that the BJP and the RSS constitute. I feel the most simple strategy to describe this struggle is on one facet you have got Mahatma Gandhi and at the different facet, you have got Nathuram Godse,” the 52-year-old former Congress president stated on the neighborhood match.

    Regarding Mahatma Gandhi, the Congress chief stated that on one facet there’s a “courageous guy”, “NRI such as you. If truth be told, one of the crucial impactful NRI that India has had in lots of, a few years. Humble guy, a easy guy, however a person who believed someday, who believed in India, propagated non-violence and seek for the reality. That is the ideology that we practice. That is the ideology that every one of you practice on this room.

    “After which at the different facet, Nathuram Godse, violent, indignant, not able to stand the truth of his personal lifestyles. The explanation he shot Gandhi used to be that he may now not face his personal lifestyles. And so, he needed to take his anger out on anyone, and he selected to take his anger out at the guy who represented the essence of India,” Gandhi, the previous MP, stated.

    He stated whilst Gandhi used to be open-minded and fashionable, Godse handiest spoke of the previous. “He used to be indignant, hateful, and albeit he used to be scared. On the center, he used to be a coward.”
    He added that the problem in India is that “there may be an assault at the democratic construction of our nation. 

    “Complete-scale assault on our establishments, on our judiciary, on our media, and it’s your duty and our duty to protect the theory of India,” Gandhi stated.
    “The central piece of the theory of India is our Charter and our democracy. Fashionable India can not exist with out our Charter and with out our democracy,” he stated.

    Gandhi stated when he attends such public conferences, he sees individuals who consider within the concept of India, within the democratic ideas of the rustic, within the Charter, who consider that “we will have to be affectionate to one another, that we will have to love every different.”

    Gandhi stated the issue again house is that “we make excuses. And we aren’t accepting the truth we are confronted with. The truth we are confronted with is our unemployment numbers and the truth that we want to make certain that all our children are productive and get a role.”

    “And I consider and probably the most causes I’ve come this is as a result of I consider that if we need to construct an India the place the majority of our children are hired, probably the most issues we need to consider is the bridge between India and the US. What does it seem like, what does our partnership center of attention on and the way will we compete with the problem the Chinese language have positioned at the desk,” he stated.

    He stated one has to take a look at what’s our view at the revolution in mobility, “what’s our view at the revolution on information and connectivity and what’s our view at the transformation this is happening within the power device of the arena. Those are the issues that we will have to be discussing.”

    Gandhi stated Indians assist every different it doesn’t matter what and now not ask questions on faith, or neighborhood.

    “You’re going to say if you wish to have my assist, I do not care which faith you are from. I am Indian. And I am going that can assist you. To be nasty to other people, to be boastful, to be violent, those aren’t Indian values. They are merely now not Indian values. In the event that they had been Indian values, why would we be celebrating Mahatma Gandhi, Guru Nanak and Ambedkar,” he stated.

    He stated there’s a new type which is that “to precise Indianness, it’s a must to be hateful. To specific Indianness it’s a must to be abusive, to precise Indianness, it’s a must to beat other people. No, that is not Indianness. That is one thing else and we refuse to simply accept that as Indian.”

    Gandhi stated he needs to seek advice from different towns throughout the United States and he needs to construct a dating with the diaspora throughout the United States.

    “My aim is to construct a dating with you, an affectionate, loving dating with you the place you’ll be able to say to me that Rahul, that is what we predict, that is the way you will have to consider the connection with the US.

    “I am not such a lot in telling you what I consider. I do not need to do ‘Mann ki Baat’ over right here,” Gandhi stated, relating to Top Minister Modi’s per month radio cope with to the country, as the collection clapped.

    “I’m now not in having a look on the rearview reflect however having a look in entrance and pronouncing brothers and sisters, how will we transfer ahead successfully and the way as a rustic will we unfold love and affection, how are we type to the folk? That is what I’m concerned with.”

     As Gandhi used to be addressing the collection, a person sporting a Khalistani flag stood up. Gandhi stated, “Namaskar, have a pleasing day.”

    The folk within the target audience gestured for the person to head out of the conference centre corridor however Gandhi stated: “That is Congress birthday party’s energy. We are not being violent. We are not being competitive. We are not being nasty. This is our energy. Did we shout at him? No, we did not. We will be able to now not exchange our behaviour. As a result of you can’t minimize hatred with hatred. It is unattainable.”

    He referred to his slogan made all through the Bharat Jodo Yatra ‘Nafrat ke bazaar imply mohabbat ki dukan.”

  • Congress, BJP business barbs over Rahul Gandhi’s ‘IUML utterly secular’ statement

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi’s statement that IUML is a “utterly secular celebration” caused a political slugfest on Friday with the BJP alleging that the Kerala-based celebration is guided through the similar mindset which used to be in the back of the Muslim League and the Congress reminding the saffron celebration about its veteran chief LK Advani’s reward for Mohammad Ali Jinnah all the way through his 2005 Pakistan seek advice from.

    Gandhi, all the way through a media interplay on the Nationwide Press Membership in Washington, US, used to be requested about his celebration being in alliance with the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in Kerala whilst speaking about secularism, to which he replied “Muslim League is an absolutely secular celebration. There’s not anything non-secular in regards to the Muslim League.”

    Gandhi’s statement drew a pointy reaction from the BJP as its leaders alleged that the IUML is guided through the similar mindset which used to be in the back of Jinnah’s All India Muslim League.

    Launching a scathing assault towards Gandhi, Union minister Anurag Thakur stated, “those are the similar individuals who had stayed again after partition. They shaped the Muslim League hereafter partition and turned into MPs. They advocated for Sharia regulation and sought after separate seats reserved for Muslims. They’re the similar people who find themselves a part of the similar Muslim League. It’s Rahul Gandhi and the Congress that see Hindu terrorism however really feel Muslim League is secular. “

    In a counter-attack, the Congress stated the celebration Gandhi referred to used to be other from the Muslim League, for which the BJP has “extra love” and whose chief Jinnah used to be hailed through Advani.

    In a tweet, Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh stated, “Syama Prasad Mookerjee used to be in league with the Muslim League within the executive in Bengal when (Mahatma) Gandhiji introduced Surrender India motion. SPM used to be singularly chargeable for the partition of Bengal.”

    He additionally tagged a tweet through Congress chief Amitabh Dubey who had slammed BJP IT division head Amit Malviya for his grievance of Gandhi, pronouncing “You might be complicated the Kerala-based IUML he’s speaking about with Jinnah’s Muslim League that took Savarkar’s two-nation idea to its logical conclusion.”

    “The similar Muslim League with whom BJP founder SP Mookerjee and Hindu Mahasabha shaped coalition governments in Bengal, Sind, NWFP (North-West Frontier Province),” Dubey stated.

    Congress’ media division head Pawan Khera hit out on the BJP over its grievance and stated the BJP-RSS have extra wisdom of Pakistan’s politics and Jinnah’s Muslim League as they proportion a ancient ‘jugalbandi’. He stated the NDA executive led through Atal Bihari Vajpayee had despatched IUML chief E Ahamed to Geneva to constitute India.

    “IUML established the most important Sanskrit College in Kerala. The BJP additionally made an alliance with IUML for Nagpur Municipal Company. The omniscient Vishwaguru of WhatsApp nursery, please enrich your wisdom,” Khera claimed in a tweet in Hindi.

    In the meantime, the IUML welcomed Gandhi’s commentary that the Kerala-based celebration is totally secular, pronouncing the Congress chief’s statement got here from his celebration’s enjoy.

    “Rahul Gandhi’s commentary that the Muslim League is a mundane celebration is in response to his celebration’s enjoy. We have a look at it with nice duty. The Muslim League’s shut courting with Congress dates again to the times of Indira Gandhi,” IUML basic secretary P Ok Kunhalikutty stated in a Fb submit.

    BJP nationwide spokesperson and MP Sudhanshu Trivedi claimed a hyperlink between the regional celebration and Jinnah’s outfit, which spearheaded the partition stir amongst Muslims.

    “For the Congress, events reminiscent of AIMIM, Muslim League and Indian Secular Entrance, a West Bengal celebration shaped through a Muslim cleric, are secular and the PFI, a banned radical Islamic organisation, is a cultural frame,” he stated.

    Mocking Gandhi, the BJP chief stated his declare raises a query mark on his knowledge.

    Reacting to the BJP’s grievance, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh stated the celebration Gandhi referred to is IUML which is a registered political celebration in India.

    “Is a registered celebration in India now not a mundane celebration? Does the Election Fee get ineligible events registered? I wish to remind the BJP that this isn’t the celebration with which Syama Prasad Mookerjee aligned to shape the federal government in Bengal,” Vallabh stated at a press convention on the AICC headquarters right here.

    “That Muslim League of Jinnah is other, with which you shaped the federal government. Rahul Gandhi has now not mentioned that Muslim League however the factor is that you’ve got extra love for that celebration, subsequently, you assume that the celebration being mentioned is the only whose chief used to be Jinnah,” he stated, slamming the BJP.

    Vallabh stated he wish to inform the BJP folks that the previous Congress leader used to be now not speaking in regards to the Muslim League of Jinnah on whose mausoleum in Pakistan, BJP co-founder Advani had hailed him and known as him “secular”.

    In 2005, Advani visited Pakistan and praised the neighbouring nation’s founder Jinnah, triggering grievance from inside of his personal celebration.

    Hitting out on the BJP leaders for his or her grievance, Vallabh stated, “so all those that nowadays are speaking about IUML must cross and ask Advani ji,” he stated.

    NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi’s statement that IUML is a “utterly secular celebration” caused a political slugfest on Friday with the BJP alleging that the Kerala-based celebration is guided through the similar mindset which used to be in the back of the Muslim League and the Congress reminding the saffron celebration about its veteran chief LK Advani’s reward for Mohammad Ali Jinnah all the way through his 2005 Pakistan seek advice from.

    Gandhi, all the way through a media interplay on the Nationwide Press Membership in Washington, US, used to be requested about his celebration being in alliance with the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in Kerala whilst speaking about secularism, to which he replied “Muslim League is an absolutely secular celebration. There’s not anything non-secular in regards to the Muslim League.”

    Gandhi’s statement drew a pointy reaction from the BJP as its leaders alleged that the IUML is guided through the similar mindset which used to be in the back of Jinnah’s All India Muslim League.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

    Launching a scathing assault towards Gandhi, Union minister Anurag Thakur stated, “those are the similar individuals who had stayed again after partition. They shaped the Muslim League hereafter partition and turned into MPs. They advocated for Sharia regulation and sought after separate seats reserved for Muslims. They’re the similar people who find themselves a part of the similar Muslim League. It’s Rahul Gandhi and the Congress that see Hindu terrorism however really feel Muslim League is secular. ”

    In a counter-attack, the Congress stated the celebration Gandhi referred to used to be other from the Muslim League, for which the BJP has “extra love” and whose chief Jinnah used to be hailed through Advani.

    In a tweet, Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh stated, “Syama Prasad Mookerjee used to be in league with the Muslim League within the executive in Bengal when (Mahatma) Gandhiji introduced Surrender India motion. SPM used to be singularly chargeable for the partition of Bengal.”

    He additionally tagged a tweet through Congress chief Amitabh Dubey who had slammed BJP IT division head Amit Malviya for his grievance of Gandhi, pronouncing “You might be complicated the Kerala-based IUML he’s speaking about with Jinnah’s Muslim League that took Savarkar’s two-nation idea to its logical conclusion.”

    “The similar Muslim League with whom BJP founder SP Mookerjee and Hindu Mahasabha shaped coalition governments in Bengal, Sind, NWFP (North-West Frontier Province),” Dubey stated.

    Congress’ media division head Pawan Khera hit out on the BJP over its grievance and stated the BJP-RSS have extra wisdom of Pakistan’s politics and Jinnah’s Muslim League as they proportion a ancient ‘jugalbandi’. He stated the NDA executive led through Atal Bihari Vajpayee had despatched IUML chief E Ahamed to Geneva to constitute India.

    “IUML established the most important Sanskrit College in Kerala. The BJP additionally made an alliance with IUML for Nagpur Municipal Company. The omniscient Vishwaguru of WhatsApp nursery, please enrich your wisdom,” Khera claimed in a tweet in Hindi.

    In the meantime, the IUML welcomed Gandhi’s commentary that the Kerala-based celebration is totally secular, pronouncing the Congress chief’s statement got here from his celebration’s enjoy.

    “Rahul Gandhi’s commentary that the Muslim League is a mundane celebration is in response to his celebration’s enjoy. We have a look at it with nice duty. The Muslim League’s shut courting with Congress dates again to the times of Indira Gandhi,” IUML basic secretary P Ok Kunhalikutty stated in a Fb submit.

    BJP nationwide spokesperson and MP Sudhanshu Trivedi claimed a hyperlink between the regional celebration and Jinnah’s outfit, which spearheaded the partition stir amongst Muslims.

    “For the Congress, events reminiscent of AIMIM, Muslim League and Indian Secular Entrance, a West Bengal celebration shaped through a Muslim cleric, are secular and the PFI, a banned radical Islamic organisation, is a cultural frame,” he stated.

    Mocking Gandhi, the BJP chief stated his declare raises a query mark on his knowledge.

    Reacting to the BJP’s grievance, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh stated the celebration Gandhi referred to is IUML which is a registered political celebration in India.

    “Is a registered celebration in India now not a mundane celebration? Does the Election Fee get ineligible events registered? I wish to remind the BJP that this isn’t the celebration with which Syama Prasad Mookerjee aligned to shape the federal government in Bengal,” Vallabh stated at a press convention on the AICC headquarters right here.

    “That Muslim League of Jinnah is other, with which you shaped the federal government. Rahul Gandhi has now not mentioned that Muslim League however the factor is that you’ve got extra love for that celebration, subsequently, you assume that the celebration being mentioned is the only whose chief used to be Jinnah,” he stated, slamming the BJP.

    Vallabh stated he wish to inform the BJP folks that the previous Congress leader used to be now not speaking in regards to the Muslim League of Jinnah on whose mausoleum in Pakistan, BJP co-founder Advani had hailed him and known as him “secular”.

    In 2005, Advani visited Pakistan and praised the neighbouring nation’s founder Jinnah, triggering grievance from inside of his personal celebration.

    Hitting out on the BJP leaders for his or her grievance, Vallabh stated, “so all those that nowadays are speaking about IUML must cross and ask Advani ji,” he stated.

  • Permission denied for Brij Bhushan’s ‘maha rally’ in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya on June 5 

    Via PTI

    AYODHYA: The Ayodhya district management has denied permission to BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to carry a rally right here on June 5, an legitimate mentioned on Friday.

    Singh, the BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) leader, has been accused of sexually abusing feminine grapplers.

    Circle Officer (Ayodhya) SP Gautam mentioned in view of different programmes scheduled on International Setting Day on June 5, the permission sought via BJP councillor Chamela Devi on behalf of Singh has been denied.

    Singh, in a Fb put up, mentioned he has postponed the ‘Jan Chetna Maharally’Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on the Ram Katha Park for “a couple of days” because of the continued police probe into the wrestlers’ allegation in opposition to him.

    Distinguished wrestlers, together with Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, had been retaining protests since April 23 accusing Singh of sexual exploitation.

    Singh is the BJP MP from Kaiserganj in Uttar Pradesh.

    AYODHYA: The Ayodhya district management has denied permission to BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to carry a rally right here on June 5, an legitimate mentioned on Friday.

    Singh, the BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) leader, has been accused of sexually abusing feminine grapplers.

    Circle Officer (Ayodhya) SP Gautam mentioned in view of different programmes scheduled on International Setting Day on June 5, the permission sought via BJP councillor Chamela Devi on behalf of Singh has been denied.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Singh, in a Fb put up, mentioned he has postponed the ‘Jan Chetna Maharally’Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on the Ram Katha Park for “a couple of days” because of the continued police probe into the wrestlers’ allegation in opposition to him.

    Distinguished wrestlers, together with Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, had been retaining protests since April 23 accusing Singh of sexual exploitation.

    Singh is the BJP MP from Kaiserganj in Uttar Pradesh.

  • BJP may also be defeated if Opposition is ‘aligned correctly’: Rahul Gandhi 

    By way of PTI

    SANTA CLARA: The ruling BJP may also be defeated if the Opposition is “aligned correctly” and the Congress birthday celebration is operating against it and it’s “coming alongside very properly”, Rahul Gandhi has informed Indian American citizens right here, bringing up his birthday celebration’s emphatic victory within the fresh meeting elections in Karnataka.

    Responding to questions from the moderator and the audiences at an match on the Silicon Valley Campus of the College of California in Santa Cruz on Tuesday, Gandhi mentioned he can obviously see “vulnerabilities” within the BJP.

    As a political entrepreneur, I will obviously see vulnerabilities within the BJP. The BJP may also be defeated if the Opposition is aligned correctly, he mentioned.

    In the event you take a look at the Karnataka elections, the overall sense is that the Congress Birthday celebration fought the BJP and defeated the BJP. However what isn’t smartly understood is the mechanics that we used,” he mentioned.

    The Congress birthday celebration used a fully other option to combating an election and construction a story, Gandhi mentioned, including that components of what took place in Karnataka got here out of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

    Within the Would possibly 10 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Meeting, the Congress received 135 seats, whilst incumbent BJP and the previous high minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) were given 66 and 19, respectively.

    Gandhi mentioned within the Karnataka elections, the BJP spent 10 occasions more cash than the Congress birthday celebration.

    He mentioned the rustic wanted an alternate imaginative and prescient to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP), along with having a united Opposition within the 2024 common elections.

    At the subject of opposition team spirit, we’re operating against it and it’s coming alongside very properly. However I believe as a way to defeat the BJP, you wish to have extra than simply opposition team spirit. Simply opposition team spirit, personally, isn’t going to be sufficient to do the task. I believe you wish to have an alternate imaginative and prescient to the BJP, he mentioned.

    A part of Bharat Jodo Yatra was once step one in proposing one of these imaginative and prescient. It is the imaginative and prescient that every one opposition events are aligned with. No opposition birthday celebration would disagree with the speculation of the Bharat Jodo Yatra,” he mentioned.

    Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) was once a Gandhi-led mass motion geared toward uniting India. The yatra started on September 7 from Kanyakumari, handed thru 12 states and culminated in Jammu and Kashmir on January 31.

    All the way through the process the yatra, Gandhi, 52, addressed 12 public conferences, over 100 nook conferences and 13 press meetings.

    He had over 275 deliberate strolling interactions and greater than 100 sitting interactions.

    “So, I believe bringing the opposition in combination is essential, but additionally aligning the opposition and making the folks of India remember that there isn’t just a bunch of opposition events that experience mixed however a proposed future of the rustic. And we are operating on the ones issues, Gandhi mentioned.

    The ex-Wayanad MP mentioned it’s the president of the Congress birthday celebration who will make a decision the high ministerial candidate.

    We imagine that everyone in India, irrespective of who they’re, whichever a part of the society they arrive from, will have to have a voice that voice will have to be revered, to be listened to be favored. And I believe that voice is an asset, he mentioned.

    In his deal with, Gandhi additionally took a dig on the ruling BJP executive, pronouncing it’s “threatening” the folks and “misusing” the rustic’s businesses.

    “The BJP is threatening other folks and misusing executive businesses. The Bharat Jodo Yatra began as a result of all of the tools that we would have liked to connect to the folks had been managed by way of the BJP-RSS,” he mentioned.

    “We had been additionally discovering that one way or the other, it had grow to be relatively tricky to behave politically. And that is the reason why we made up our minds to stroll from the southernmost tip of India to Srinagar,” he mentioned. Gandhi mentioned the yatra carried the spirit of love, admire and humility.

    “If one research historical past, it may be observed that every one religious leaders together with Guru Nanak Dev ji, Guru Basavanna ji, Narayana Guru ji united the country similarly,” he mentioned.

    Gandhi mentioned India isn’t what’s being proven within the media which likes to advertise a political narrative this is some distance from truth, saying that there’s a “massive distortion”.

    “It was once very transparent to me within the Yatra that it is within the media’s hobby to undertaking this stuff, it is helping the BJP. So, do not assume that the whole thing you spot within the media is the reality,” he mentioned. “India isn’t what the media displays. The media likes to turn a selected narrative. It likes to advertise a political narrative this is if truth be told no longer what’s going on in India,” he mentioned.

    The Congress chief arrived right here on Tuesday on a three-city US excursion all through which he’s going to engage with the Indian diaspora and meet American lawmakers.

    He had a first-hand revel in of the American immigration gadget as he needed to look ahead to about two hours along side his different co-passengers at the Air India flight as a result of the typical scarcity of body of workers at the United States airports.

    Folks had been observed taking selfies with him and asking him questions.

    He was once observed interacting and mingling with different travellers on the San Francisco airport.

    Remaining week, Indian In another country Congress chairperson Sam Pitroda mentioned Gandhi’s seek advice from is geared toward selling shared values and a imaginative and prescient of actual democracy.

    “The aim of his (Gandhi’s) commute is to glue, engage and start a brand new dialog with quite a lot of people, establishments and media, together with the Indian diaspora this is rising in numbers in the US and in a foreign country to advertise the shared values and imaginative and prescient of the true democracy with a focal point on freedom, inclusion, sustainability, justice, peace and alternatives international over,” Pitroda mentioned in a observation.

    SANTA CLARA: The ruling BJP may also be defeated if the Opposition is “aligned correctly” and the Congress birthday celebration is operating against it and it’s “coming alongside very properly”, Rahul Gandhi has informed Indian American citizens right here, bringing up his birthday celebration’s emphatic victory within the fresh meeting elections in Karnataka.

    Responding to questions from the moderator and the audiences at an match on the Silicon Valley Campus of the College of California in Santa Cruz on Tuesday, Gandhi mentioned he can obviously see “vulnerabilities” within the BJP.

    As a political entrepreneur, I will obviously see vulnerabilities within the BJP. The BJP may also be defeated if the Opposition is aligned correctly, he mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    In the event you take a look at the Karnataka elections, the overall sense is that the Congress Birthday celebration fought the BJP and defeated the BJP. However what isn’t smartly understood is the mechanics that we used,” he mentioned.

    The Congress birthday celebration used a fully other option to combating an election and construction a story, Gandhi mentioned, including that components of what took place in Karnataka got here out of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

    Within the Would possibly 10 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Meeting, the Congress received 135 seats, whilst incumbent BJP and the previous high minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) were given 66 and 19, respectively.

    Gandhi mentioned within the Karnataka elections, the BJP spent 10 occasions more cash than the Congress birthday celebration.

    He mentioned the rustic wanted an alternate imaginative and prescient to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP), along with having a united Opposition within the 2024 common elections.

    At the subject of opposition team spirit, we’re operating against it and it’s coming alongside very properly. However I believe as a way to defeat the BJP, you wish to have extra than simply opposition team spirit. Simply opposition team spirit, personally, isn’t going to be sufficient to do the task. I believe you wish to have an alternate imaginative and prescient to the BJP, he mentioned.

    A part of Bharat Jodo Yatra was once step one in proposing one of these imaginative and prescient. It is the imaginative and prescient that every one opposition events are aligned with. No opposition birthday celebration would disagree with the speculation of the Bharat Jodo Yatra,” he mentioned.

    Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) was once a Gandhi-led mass motion geared toward uniting India. The yatra started on September 7 from Kanyakumari, handed thru 12 states and culminated in Jammu and Kashmir on January 31.

    All the way through the process the yatra, Gandhi, 52, addressed 12 public conferences, over 100 nook conferences and 13 press meetings.

    He had over 275 deliberate strolling interactions and greater than 100 sitting interactions.

    “So, I believe bringing the opposition in combination is essential, but additionally aligning the opposition and making the folks of India remember that there isn’t just a bunch of opposition events that experience mixed however a proposed future of the rustic. And we are operating on the ones issues, Gandhi mentioned.

    The ex-Wayanad MP mentioned it’s the president of the Congress birthday celebration who will make a decision the high ministerial candidate.

    We imagine that everyone in India, irrespective of who they’re, whichever a part of the society they arrive from, will have to have a voice that voice will have to be revered, to be listened to be favored. And I believe that voice is an asset, he mentioned.

    In his deal with, Gandhi additionally took a dig on the ruling BJP executive, pronouncing it’s “threatening” the folks and “misusing” the rustic’s businesses.

    “The BJP is threatening other folks and misusing executive businesses. The Bharat Jodo Yatra began as a result of all of the tools that we would have liked to connect to the folks had been managed by way of the BJP-RSS,” he mentioned.

    “We had been additionally discovering that one way or the other, it had grow to be relatively tricky to behave politically. And that is the reason why we made up our minds to stroll from the southernmost tip of India to Srinagar,” he mentioned. Gandhi mentioned the yatra carried the spirit of love, admire and humility.

    “If one research historical past, it may be observed that every one religious leaders together with Guru Nanak Dev ji, Guru Basavanna ji, Narayana Guru ji united the country similarly,” he mentioned.

    Gandhi mentioned India isn’t what’s being proven within the media which likes to advertise a political narrative this is some distance from truth, saying that there’s a “massive distortion”.

    “It was once very transparent to me within the Yatra that it is within the media’s hobby to undertaking this stuff, it is helping the BJP. So, do not assume that the whole thing you spot within the media is the reality,” he mentioned. “India isn’t what the media displays. The media likes to turn a selected narrative. It likes to advertise a political narrative this is if truth be told no longer what’s going on in India,” he mentioned.

    The Congress chief arrived right here on Tuesday on a three-city US excursion all through which he’s going to engage with the Indian diaspora and meet American lawmakers.

    He had a first-hand revel in of the American immigration gadget as he needed to look ahead to about two hours along side his different co-passengers at the Air India flight as a result of the typical scarcity of body of workers at the United States airports.

    Folks had been observed taking selfies with him and asking him questions.

    He was once observed interacting and mingling with different travellers on the San Francisco airport.

    Remaining week, Indian In another country Congress chairperson Sam Pitroda mentioned Gandhi’s seek advice from is geared toward selling shared values and a imaginative and prescient of actual democracy.

    “The aim of his (Gandhi’s) commute is to glue, engage and start a brand new dialog with quite a lot of people, establishments and media, together with the Indian diaspora this is rising in numbers in the US and in a foreign country to advertise the shared values and imaginative and prescient of the true democracy with a focal point on freedom, inclusion, sustainability, justice, peace and alternatives international over,” Pitroda mentioned in a observation.

  • Congress projected cohesion however ‘core problems’ between Gehlot, Pilot keep unresolved: Resources 

    Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot were engaged in an influence tussle for the reason that Congress shaped executive within the state in 2018.

    NEW DELHI: The Congress has projected cohesion to take at the BJP within the meeting polls in Rajasthan however “core problems” between Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot and his bete noire Sachin Pilot stay unresolved, in line with assets with reference to Pilot.

    The Congress on Monday stated the 2 leaders have agreed to the birthday party’s “proposal” and can struggle the impending meeting elections unitedly, having left all problems to be resolved by means of the top command.

    Alternatively, the assets stated Monday’s assembly of Gehlot and Pilot with birthday party leader Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi didn’t lead to any solution of the “core problems” between the 2 Rajasthan bigwigs.

    In addition they stated Kharge and Rahul Gandhi first met Gehlot for 2 hours after which met Pilot one after the other and then all of the leaders posed in combination for pictures at Kharge’s place of abode.

    Apparently, regardless of the assembly being held in the similar space, the management held discussions with Gehlot and Pilot one after the other.

    Additionally, for the media chew out of doors Kharge’s 10 Rajaji Marg place of abode final night time, whilst each Gehlot and Pilot walked out with basic secretary group Okay C Venugopal, they remained silent and didn’t discuss to the media.

    Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with birthday party leaders Rahul Gandhi, Ashok Gehlot, Okay.C. Venugopal, Sachin Pilot and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa all through a gathering at his place of abode, in New Delhi on Would possibly 29, 2023 (Photograph | PTI)

    Their frame language additionally didn’t exude any bonhomie.

    The assembly got here shut at the heels of Pilot’s “ultimatum” that he would release a state-wide agitation if his 3 calls for of the state executive weren’t met by means of the tip of this month.

    The assets with reference to Pilot stated the calls for that he has raised, particularly with recognize to the motion in opposition to alleged corruption all through the former Vasundhara Raje executive, stay unresolved.

    They stated Pilot used to be company on his calls for, and post-meeting if the Gehlot executive does now not act on them, he would proceed to press for the reasons he has taken up.

    Pilot’s two different calls for had been reconstituting the Rajasthan Public Carrier Fee (RPSC) and making contemporary appointments in it, and repayment for the ones suffering from the cancellation of presidency recruitment tests following paper leaks.

    Gehlot’s remarks that the birthday party’s top command is powerful and it’s going to by no means be offering any place to any chief or employee to pacify him, additionally created issues forward of the assembly.

    On Gehlot’s swipe, leaders with reference to Pilot stated it’s not about in the hunt for private positions however the problem of corruption and paper leaks is way more vital and must be resolved on precedence.

    The birthday party on Monday sought to mission that every one used to be superb in its Rajasthan unit.

    Addressing newshounds after the assembly, Venugopal stated, “Each the leaders Ashok ji and Sachin ji agreed to the proposal on these items.”

    Requested what proposal he used to be speaking out, Venugopal had stated, “Each have left it to the (birthday party) top command.”

    Gehlot and Pilot were engaged in an influence tussle for the reason that Congress shaped executive within the state in 2018. In 2020, Pilot led a rebellion in opposition to the Gehlot executive and then he used to be got rid of from the posts of the birthday party’s state unit president and deputy leader minister.

    Remaining 12 months, an try by means of the top command to impact a management alternate in Rajasthan had failed after Gehlot loyalists dug their heels in and didn’t permit a legislature birthday party assembly to happen.

    Pilot had final month defied a caution from the birthday party and went forward with a day-long speedy concentrated on Gehlot over his “inactivity” on alleged corruption all through the former Raje executive.

  • Riot grows inside of BJP in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh

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    BHOPAL:  As the following meeting polls draw nearer in Madhya Pradesh, the voices of discontent appear to be getting louder within the ruling BJP. But any other senior chief of the birthday celebration, former MLA from Vijayraghavgarh seat of Katni district, Dhruv Pratap Singh, now has vented his discontent, alleging that he’s being sidelined within the birthday celebration for the remaining 8 years. 

    Whilst maximum disgruntled BJP leaders, together with ex-minister Deepak Joshi (who just lately joined the Congress) have blamed the rising clout of Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia-loyalists at the back of their unease, Singh (who received the Vijayraghavgarh seat in 2003) has alleged that the birthday celebration in Katni district turns out to have develop into the hegemony of provide MLA and previous minister Sanjay Pathak, who had give up Congress and joined BJP in 2014. 

    “For the reason that remaining 8 years, the birthday celebration hasn’t discovered me worthy of any paintings, even all through remaining 12 months’s native frame polls additionally. It kind of feels the BJP has left and forgotten me. 8 years again (ahead of Sanjay Pathak joined BJP) I used to be a part of each BJP match in Katni district. However issues are completely other now, the existing state birthday celebration president VD Sharma (additionally the native MP from Katni district) in all probability doesn’t even acknowledge me,” Singh stated on Thursday. 

    At the moment in Bhopal to satisfy state birthday celebration’s best management, together with the MP CM, Singh hails from a sworn non-Congress circle of relatives and has been with the BJP since 1980. He defeated two-times sitting Congress MLA after which cupboard minister Satyendra Pathak from Vijayraghavgarh seat in 2003. Singh, on the other hand, misplaced the 2008 polls from the similar seat to Pathak’s son Sanjay Pathak (one of the vital richest politicians recently in MP). Sanjay, who additionally received the seat in 2013, give up the Congress and joined the BJP in 2014 and used to be a minister within the earlier Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led executive.

    ‘Hegemonised Katni’
    MLA Dhruv Pratap Singh alleged that the birthday celebration in Katni district turns out to have develop into the hegemony from the previous 8 years of the current MLA and previous minister Sanjay Pathak, who had give up Congress and joined BJP in 2014. 

    BHOPAL:  As the following meeting polls draw nearer in Madhya Pradesh, the voices of discontent appear to be getting louder within the ruling BJP. But any other senior chief of the birthday celebration, former MLA from Vijayraghavgarh seat of Katni district, Dhruv Pratap Singh, now has vented his discontent, alleging that he’s being sidelined within the birthday celebration for the remaining 8 years. 

    Whilst maximum disgruntled BJP leaders, together with ex-minister Deepak Joshi (who just lately joined the Congress) have blamed the rising clout of Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia-loyalists at the back of their unease, Singh (who received the Vijayraghavgarh seat in 2003) has alleged that the birthday celebration in Katni district turns out to have develop into the hegemony of provide MLA and previous minister Sanjay Pathak, who had give up Congress and joined BJP in 2014. 

    “For the reason that remaining 8 years, the birthday celebration hasn’t discovered me worthy of any paintings, even all through remaining 12 months’s native frame polls additionally. It kind of feels the BJP has left and forgotten me. 8 years again (ahead of Sanjay Pathak joined BJP) I used to be a part of each BJP match in Katni district. However issues are completely other now, the existing state birthday celebration president VD Sharma (additionally the native MP from Katni district) in all probability doesn’t even acknowledge me,” Singh stated on Thursday. googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    At the moment in Bhopal to satisfy state birthday celebration’s best management, together with the MP CM, Singh hails from a sworn non-Congress circle of relatives and has been with the BJP since 1980. He defeated two-times sitting Congress MLA after which cupboard minister Satyendra Pathak from Vijayraghavgarh seat in 2003. Singh, on the other hand, misplaced the 2008 polls from the similar seat to Pathak’s son Sanjay Pathak (one of the vital richest politicians recently in MP). Sanjay, who additionally received the seat in 2013, give up the Congress and joined the BJP in 2014 and used to be a minister within the earlier Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led executive.

    ‘Hegemonised Katni’
    MLA Dhruv Pratap Singh alleged that the birthday celebration in Katni district turns out to have develop into the hegemony from the previous 8 years of the current MLA and previous minister Sanjay Pathak, who had give up Congress and joined BJP in 2014.