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  • Congress appoints Mohan Prakash as its senior observer for Uttarakhand polls

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    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday appointed senior birthday celebration chief Mohan Prakash as observer for overseeing its election marketing campaign control in Uttarakhand.

    Prakash, a former basic secretary of the AICC, will discharge his tasks in shut coordination with the AICC in-charge for Uttarakhand Devendra Yadav.

    “Congress president has appointed Mohan Prakash as AICC senior observer to Uttarakhand for overseeing Election marketing campaign control and coordination with instant impact,” an authentic birthday celebration order stated.

    Uttarakhand is going to polls in one segment on February 14 and the consequences will probably be out on March 10.

  • PM Modi’s safety breach: Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan goals Congress prime command

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    BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Leader Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan introduced a scathing assault at the opposition Congress celebration over the January 5 safety breach of Top Minister Narendra Modi’s convoy.

    Mentioning a sting operation aired by means of a information channel within the topic on Wednesday, Chouhan alleged that the protection breach wasn’t spontaneous or coincidental, however was once subsidized and part of gory conspiracy.

    He additionally alleged that the disgusting act was once performed by means of the Punjab executive on the behest of the Congress prime command.

    The extremely delicate factor of the PM’s convoy’s safety breach is being trivialized by means of the Congress and its leaders, together with Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu and Chhattisgarh leader minister Bhupesh Baghel via ridiculous remarks.

    “Such gentle feedback obviously recommend a Congress hand at the back of all of the safety breach,” the MP CM alleged additional.

    Focused on the Congress prime command within the topic, Chouhan sought solutions from AICC president Sonia Gandhi on a chain of questions.

    “Madam (Sonia Gandhi) must answer, why Punjab Police remained a mute spectator, even because the PM’s safety was once being tousled. Why was once the Punjab leader secretary and DGP no longer provide within the PM’s fleet?  Regardless of police presence, how did the protestors acquire on the street in one of these couple of minutes and why wasn’t motion taken towards them? How did the protestors come to grasp concerning the PM’s path plan? Why wasn’t the Punjab CM responding to a couple of telephone calls after the incident? All this obviously means that the incident is connected to the Congress prime command,” Chouhan mentioned.

    Reacting to the MP CM’s assault at the Congress prime command over the PM’s convoy safety breach, the MP Congress president and chief of opposition within the State Meeting Kamal Nath mentioned, “When a committee headed by means of a former pass judgement on has already been constituted at the instructions of the Splendid Court docket to probe the Ferozpur incident, then indulging within the political blame recreation isn’t proper.”

  • Other people of Punjab will selected their CM, no longer the Congress prime command: Navjot Singh Sidhu

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    CHANDIGARH: Other people elect MLAs and in Punjab, they’ll make a choice their leader minister as neatly, no longer the Congress “prime command”, the birthday celebration’s state unit leader Navjot Singh Sidhu asserted on Tuesday.

    Sidhu’s sharp retort got here based on journalists’ question on who will be the birthday celebration’s leader ministerial face in Punjab after the February 14 tablet.

    “Who instructed you (reporter) that the (Congress) prime command will make the CM? Who instructed you? Pay attention to me. The folk of Punjab had elected MLAs 5 years again. It used to be the folks of Punjab to make a decision whether or not they transform MLAs or no longer and the folks of Punjab will make a decision when there may be an time table.”

    “Subsequently, don’t have a misconception on your thoughts. Other people of Punjab will elect MLAs and other people of Punjab too will make the CM,” he asserted.

  • Congress broadcasts 2d record of applicants for Goa polls

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    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday launched its 2d record of applicants for the Goa meeting elections.

    On this record, seven applicants had been named for the February 14 single-phase polls for the 40-member state meeting.

    The names of applicants had been finalised after a gathering of the central election committee of the Congress, and it used to be chaired by way of celebration president Sonia Gandhi, in step with a commentary.

    The applicants on this record are Jitendra Gaonkar, Rodolf Louis Fernandes, Rajesh Faldessai, Manisha Shenvi Usgaonkar, Viriato Fernandes, Olencio Simoes and Avertano Furtado.

    The Congress had closing month declared the names of 8 applicants for the elections.

    The consequences might be declared on March 10 together with 4 different poll-bound states — Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Manipur.

    AICC Goa table in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao mentioned that the constituencies of Fatorda (South Goa) and Mayem (North Goa) could be contested by way of its alliance spouse, the Goa Ahead Birthday celebration.

    Furtado will contest from the Navelim constituency in South Goa, Gaonkar from Pernem and Rodolf Fernandes from St Cruz phase.

    Usgaonkar might be within the fray from the Valpoi constituency, whilst Viriato Fernandes, a retired defence officer, is the Congress candidate from Dabolim.

    Olencio Simoes, who had raised the problems relating to native fishermen, is the nominee from the Cortalim seat.

  • Grand alliance rising in Goa in opposition to BJP forward of V-J Day polls

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    BELAGAVI: A grand alliance of the “well matched” political events in opposition to the ruling BJP is taking form in Goa forward of the meeting elections scheduled to be hung on Valentine Day within the coastal state. Given the most recent political trends in Goa, TMC, MGP, Goa Ahead and Congress are within the remaining degree of understanding a Mahagathbandhan geared toward defeating the ruling BJP.

    A tweet by means of TMC Goa in-charge Mahua Moitra, tagged to Congress, GFP and MGP, pointing out that ‘Leisure confident, we the AITC will do the whole thing imaginable to defeat BJP in Goa and TMC Leader Mamata Bannejee has performed it up to now and won’t shy clear of strolling an additional mile in Goa too,’ has woken up the Congress management.

    Already, the Congress best friend, Goa Ahead has tweeted underlining the desire for a joint opposition of like-minded events like Congress, MGP, TMC and Goa Ahead to defeat the BJP. Resources mentioned, a number of leaders of the Congress together with Goa Congress in-charge P Chidambaram, Mohua Moitra of TMC and leaders of MGP and Goa Ahead are prepared to forge a grand alliance on the earliest.

    Reacting to Moitra’s tweet at the imaginable grand alliance, P Chidambaram mentioned lately in Goa,“I believe the Congress is in a position to defeating the BJP. But when any birthday party needs to make stronger the Congress, why will have to I say no. Let’s examine what the reliable be offering (from TMC) is.”

    Chidambaram mentioned he had examine TMC’s be offering for an alliance with the Congress and different events within the newspapers. He mentioned, “Allow us to look forward to the reliable model.”

    Extremely positioned assets in Goa mentioned, the Congress would waste no time in forging an alliance with TMC and MGP as soon as it were given an be offering from the TMC formally.

    What might be the phrases and prerequisites of a grand alliance if the entire 4 events sign up for arms used to be one thing no longer transparent as but, mentioned assets, including that leaders from the entire events must planned on  sharing of seats within the tournament of a pre-poll alliance.

    Then again, the Congress birthday party has introduced tickets for 9 key seats in Goa and unsure about the rest 31 seats.

    The AAP marketing campaign is in complete swing because the birthday party management is assured to dance again regardless of a white wash it suffered within the remaining meeting elections in Goa. It’s not likely that AAP would possibly sign up for the grand alliance as its leaders are non-committal at the factor with different events.

    A political analyst Kishore Naik Gaonkar feels the grand alliance may successfully steer clear of the break up of the standard Congress votes in most of the 40 constituencies and would possibly undoubtedly land the ruling BJP in hassle. The political equations would trade completely forward of the polls with alliance positioned very easily, he added.

    In the meantime, a number of leaders expressed discontent over the ballot dates which might be prone to coincide with the height of 3rd Covid19 wave in mid-February. President of Goa Ahead, Vijai Sardesai says, “Goan voter is taken without any consideration because the polling day, almost certainly, will likely be all over the height of third wave. Our well being is no person’s fear, handiest purpose is to retain energy. How credible will the elections be with glaring low voter turnout and inequal marketing campaign stipulations,? he tweeted.

    An upbeat staff of TMC adolescence volunteers used to be busy putting in camps throughout Goa to hurry up the method of registration underneath its ‘Yuva Shakti Playing cards,’ a ballot promise which TMC made to the Goan youths underneath which a collateral-free credit score facility upto Rs 20 lakh will likely be given to the youths in Goa if TMC involves energy.

    Resources mentioned, sooner than the Congress and TMC announce their ultimate checklist of applicants in the following couple of days, a last resolution on whether or not to have a grand alliance will likely be taken.

     

  • BJP’s Sarabjit Kaur turns into Chandigarh mayor, defeats AAP rival by means of simply 1 vote

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    CHANDIGARH: BJP municipal councillor Sarabjit Kaur Saturday turned into the brand new Chandigarh Municipal Company mayor, defeating Aam Aadmi Birthday party’s Anju Katyal by means of only one vote in an immediate contest.

    Out of the overall 36 votes, 28 have been polled whilst seven Congress councillors and the lone Shiromani Akali Dal councillor abstained. Kaur bagged 14 votes whilst Katyal were given 13, and one was once declared invalid, officers stated.

    After the end result was once declared, AAP councillors created a ruckus within the Space. Police have been referred to as in to take away them.

    The result of the Chandigarh Municipal Company polls which have been declared on December 27, threw up a hung Space, with the AAP successful 14 of the 35 wards and the BJP 12. The Congress had bagged 8 seats whilst the Shiromani Akali Dal were given one.

    On the other hand, municipal councillor from the Congress Harpreet Kaur Babla had joined the BJP, days after the polls effects have been declared.

    But even so 35 councillors, the Chandigarh MP, who’s an ex-officio member within the municipal company, additionally has a balloting proper.

  • Kanhaiya Kumar questions Trinamool, AAP’s resolution to contest Goa polls

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    PANAJI: Congress chief Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday took swipes on the Trinamool Congress Birthday party and Aam Aadmi Birthday party for getting into the fray for the approaching Meeting elections in Goa.

    Congress joined fingers with those two events on the nationwide stage as a result of they have been anti-BJP, however in Goa, the place Congress has the aptitude to defeat the BJP, they rushed to contest polls, he mentioned.

    Kumar was once addressing Congress employees at Mapusa the city.

    He additionally centered the BJP and High Minister Narendra Modi over the protection breach all the way through Modi’s Punjab consult with.

    The BJP says high minister does no longer belong to anybody celebration, so why was once he campaigning for the celebration, Kumar requested.

    The previous JNU scholar chief additionally mentioned the BJP accuses him of being anti-Hindu, however the reality stays that his identify is `Kanhaiya’.

    “They name me anti-defence forces, I wish to inform them that 16 other folks from my circle of relatives are in defence forces, I belong to a circle of relatives which will get pension of freedom fighter,” he mentioned.

  • 12 months after the Jan. 6 Capitol rise up, this is the place Justice Division and Space investigations stand

    President Donald Trump is observed on a display talking to supporters throughout a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election effects by way of the U.S. Congress, in Washington, January 6, 2021.

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    12 months has handed because the fatal rise up on the U.S. Capitol, when a violent mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters compelled Congress into hiding and briefly halted the switch of energy to President Joe Biden.

    The invasion, from the preliminary breach of the outer safety perimeter to the instant the development used to be after all deemed safe, lasted about seven hours. However its affect remains to be reverberating, particularly in Washington, the place political battles stemming from the rise up have deepened the already-stark partisan divisions on Capitol Hill.

    A yr on, little has been resolved — and a few fights are simply getting began.

    The Division of Justice has charged loads of rioters, and it’s nonetheless in search of loads of others suspected of assaulting cops throughout the rise up. Lawyer Normal Merrick Garland has vowed to take “so long as it takes and no matter it takes for justice to be completed.”

    A Space make a choice committee investigation into the invasion seems to be frequently ramping up, with extra subpoenas perhaps at the horizon because it prepares to carry weeks of public hearings on its findings. Trump’s attorneys have requested the Superb Courtroom to dam the panel from receiving a trove of White Space information as a part of the probe.

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    Speeches at the anniversary

    In the meantime, Trump, whose position within the Capitol rise up is a central focal point of the make a choice committee, stays the de facto chief of the Republican Birthday celebration and has brazenly teased the potential of operating for president once more in 2024.

    His lies concerning the 2020 election being “rigged” towards him via standard fraud have long past most commonly unchallenged by way of Republican officers, who’ve additionally most commonly have shyed away from speaking concerning the Capitol invasion itself. Even some Republicans who to begin with blamed Trump for the rise up, or resigned from his management in protest, have since both saved silent or renewed their strengthen for him. Trump used to be set to carry a press tournament at the anniversary, however he canceled it.

    The few within the GOP who proceed to vocally criticize Trump, similar to Space make a choice committee individuals Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, have confronted a backlash from their very own birthday celebration.

    Democratic leaders, against this, plan to polish as a lot mild as they are able to at the rise up, and Trump’s position in it, throughout a program of occasions Thursday on the Capitol.

    Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and others spoke on the Capitol on Thursday morning. Biden’s remarks involved in what he sees because the risk to democracy posed by way of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

    “The lies that drove the anger and insanity we noticed on this position, they have got now not abated,” the president stated. “So we need to be company, resolute and unyielding in our protection of the precise to vote and feature that vote counted.”

    Space Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and different individuals of Congress will percentage testimonials about their firsthand stories on Jan. 6.

    At 5:30 p.m., lawmakers will dangle a prayer vigil at the middle steps of the Capitol.

    The DOJ probe, by way of the numbers

    U.S. Lawyer Normal Merrick Garland speaks on the Division of Justice, upfront of the only yr anniversary of the assault at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022.

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    On Jan. 6, 2021, loads of rioters fought via traces of legislation enforcement officials and broke into the Capitol. They smashed home windows, vandalized places of work, made threats and, after lawmakers had fled, briefly took over the Senate chamber. Some carried pepper spray, stun weapons, blunt items or different guns.

    Kind of 140 cops who replied to the assault have been assaulted, consistent with the Justice Division. 5 of the ones officials have since died, together with 4 from suicide.

    The DOJ’s investigation of the invasion has now grown into the biggest prison probe in U.S. historical past — and its paintings is a ways from over.

    The numbers are staggering: In three hundred and sixty five days, the federal government has arrested and charged greater than 725 folks in reference to the rise up. Greater than 325 of them have been charged with felonies, together with many for assaulting officials or corruptly looking to impede Congress’ legitimate continuing. Ten have been charged with assaulting individuals of the media or destroying their apparatus.

    However the FBI remains to be looking to determine greater than 350 different those who it believes dedicated violence on the Capitol, greater than 250 of whom will have assaulted officials.

    The scope of the DOJ investigation is exceptional, involving staff from just about each FBI box administrative center and U.S. Lawyers’ administrative center around the nation. The company has issued greater than 5,000 subpoenas and seek warrants, seized about 2,000 gadgets and sifted via about 15 terabytes of knowledge and greater than 300,000 pointers from the general public.

    “The movements now we have taken to this point is probably not our final,” Garland stated in a speech Wednesday.

    “The Justice Division stays dedicated to maintaining all Jan. 6 perpetrators, at any degree, responsible beneath legislation — whether or not they have been provide that day or have been differently criminally accountable for the attack on our democracy,” Garland stated.

    “We can practice the information anywhere they lead,” he stated.

    The place the Space probe is headed

    January sixth committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Omit., and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., throughout the Space Regulations Committee assembly at the Answer Recommending That The Space Of Representatives In finding Jeffrey Bossert Clark In Contempt Of Congress For Refusal To Comply With A Subpoena Duly Issued By means of The Make a choice Committee To Examine The January sixth Assault On The US Capitol, on Thursday, December 2, 2021.

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    The nine-member Space make a choice committee is gearing as much as dangle public hearings quickly — perhaps inside of weeks, committee member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., stated on Sunday.

    The hearings goal to show in granular element what took place final Jan. 6, each on the Capitol and within the White Space, the place Trump used to be looking at the occasions spread reside. Trump waited hours after the assault started earlier than posting a short lived video on-line through which he advised his supporters to “cross house,” including, “We adore you. You are very particular.”

    The committee is tasked with investigating the information and reasons of the Capitol rise up, as a way to craft a definitive document at the tournament and make legislative suggestions to stop anything else adore it from ordinary.

    The committee has issued 52 subpoenas, retrieved greater than 35,000 pages of information, performed greater than 350 witness interviews and spent greater than $400,000 since its formation in July.

    It now seems to be increasing its investigation, as individuals say they wish to pay attention without delay from former Vice President Mike Pence. Trump had stressed Pence to reject key Electoral Faculty votes for Biden when presiding over Congress on Jan. 6, however Pence refused.

    The committee holds no prosecutorial energy, however it might probably craft prison referrals that Congress can ship to the Justice Division for attention. It has to this point led the Space to refer two folks — former Trump consultant Steve Bannon and previous Trump leader of group of workers Mark Meadows — to the DOJ for prosecution over their noncompliance with congressional subpoenas.

    The DOJ has charged Bannon with two counts of contempt of Congress, to which Bannon has pleaded now not to blame.

    The committee is reportedly investigating a spread of conceivable prison habits, doubtlessly together with conceivable prison habits by way of Trump.

    Cheney final month printed a “key query” earlier than the committee: “Did Donald Trump, via motion or state of no activity, corruptly search to impede or obstruct Congress’ legitimate continuing to rely electoral votes?”

    Cheney’s remarks prompt to a few felony watchers that the committee is having a look into whether or not Trump will have dedicated against the law.

    On Tuesday, the committee additionally printed it has requested Sean Hannity, the Fox Information opinion host and a detailed best friend and confidant of Trump’s, to voluntarily cooperate with the probe. In a letter, the committee publicly disclosed texts that Hannity had despatched Trump’s aides earlier than and after Jan. 6, expressing considerations and providing recommendation.

    “Im very fearful concerning the subsequent 48 hours,” Hannity wrote in a Jan. 5 textual content, the letter confirmed.

  • Safety lapse at PM’s convoy: Punjab bureaucracy probe panel; recommend knocks SC door

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    CHANDIGARH: The Punjab executive on Thursday constituted a two-member high-level committee to behavior a radical probe into the “lapses” that came about right through Top Minister Narendra Modi’s consult with to Ferozepur, an legitimate spokesperson mentioned.

    The committee accommodates Justice (Retd.) Mehtab Singh Gill and Essential Secretary, House Affairs and Justice, Anurag Verma.

    “So as to perform a radical probe into the lapses that came about right through the Top Minister’s consult with to Ferozepur the day past, the Punjab executive has constituted a high-level committee,” the spokesperson mentioned.

    The committee shall put up its file inside 3 days, the spokesperson added.

    The high minister’s convoy was once stranded on a flyover for 15-20 mins because of a blockade via protesters in Ferozepur on Wednesday, an incident the Union house ministry described as a “primary lapse” in his safety.

    After this, Modi returned from the poll-bound state with out attending any match, together with a rally.

    Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, on the other hand, denied there was once any safety lapse or political reason in the back of it and mentioned his executive was once in a position for an inquiry.

    The Very best Courtroom agreed to listen to on Friday a plea to verify there is not any breach within the safety of the high minister in long term.

    A bench headed via Leader Justice N V Ramana took notice of senior recommend Maninder Singh’s submission {that a} critical breach in Top Minister Narendra Modi’s safety came about in Ferozepur, Punjab, on Wednesday.

    After that, the high minister returned from poll-bound Punjab with out attending any match, together with a rally.

    “We can checklist it the next day as the primary merchandise,” the bench, additionally comprising Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli, mentioned on Thursday.

  • No crowds to hear Modi ji at Ferozepur rally: Congress

    Surjewala defended the Congress executive within the state announcing all preparations had been made in tandem with SPG and different companies.