Tag: Congress

  • NCW seeks clarification from Rajasthan Police on lengthen in submitting FIR towards Congress MLA

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Nationwide Fee for Girls (NCW) on Wednesday sought a proof from the Rajasthan Police at the “lengthen” in registering an FIR towards Congress MLA Ved Prakash Solanki for posting footage of the mummy and youngsters of a rape sufferer on social media with out the circle of relatives’s consent.

    The fee additionally directed the police to put up a development file within the topic inside of seven days.

    The NCW, which took up the topic towards Solanki suo motu, performed a listening to on Wednesday.

    The listening to used to be chaired through NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma and Superintendent of Police Anil Kumar Beniwal gave the impression in it on behalf of the Director Common of Police (DGP).

    “The fee sought a proof at the lengthen and additional directed police that the development file will have to be apprised in seven days. The fee has additionally directed that the additional case updates be apprised weekly,” the NCW mentioned in a remark.

    The NCW had taken cognizance of the topic on Would possibly 3 and directed the Rajasthan DGP to right away record an FIR towards the MLA and to take truthful motion towards him with none affect.

    The fee mentioned it additionally issued a understand to the DGP on Would possibly 13 for a listening to within the topic.

    The police registered the FIR most effective on Would possibly 17, after the fee’s understand for listening to.

    Solanki had posted on social media footage of the members of the family of the girl who used to be gang-raped and killed in Dausa in Rajasthan.

  • Now, Maharashtra Congress to carry 2-day Chintan Shivir

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    MUMBAI: After Congress bigwigs’ Chintan Shivir in Udaipur, Maharashtra Congress has now deliberate a two-day state-level brain-storming camp at Shirdi. 

    Scheduled to be hung on June 1 and a couple of, the development will likely be attended by way of Congress ministers, district presidents and key administrative center bearers. 

    All of the problems mentioned on the camp in Udaipur will likely be conveyed to the celebration staff at Shirdi, state celebration in-charge H Okay Patil mentioned.

    At the side of strengthening the celebration, emphasis may also be laid on reviving the Congress celebration within the state. 

  • Congress set to win Rajya Sabha polls in Rajasthan, claims Pilot 

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    JAIPUR: Former Rajasthan deputy leader minister Sachin Pilot on Tuesday claimed that the Congress will very easily win 3 of 4 Rajya Sabha within the state, the elections for which will probably be held subsequent month.

    “The Congress birthday celebration has greater than sufficient majority to very easily win 3 out of 4 Rajya Sabha seats,” Pilot advised journalists in Tonk.

    When requested in regards to the applicants, he mentioned it’s for the birthday celebration prime command to come to a decision who will contest the elections.

    Focused on the opposition BJP within the state, Pilot mentioned there’s chaos and confusion inside the birthday celebration and regardless of no matter their leaders say, the ruling Congress will win 3 seats.

    Elections to 4 seats of the Rajya Sabha will probably be hung on June 10 as BJP’s Omprakash Mathur, Ok J Alphons, Ramkumar Verma and Harshardhan Singh Dungarpur are going to finish their time period on July 4.

    Speaking in regards to the result of the lately held Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir of the Congress in Udaipur, Pilot mentioned that the birthday celebration will get started a “Bharat Jodo Abhiyan” and take out yatras to hook up with other folks.

    He mentioned the birthday celebration’s choice to inspire leaders under 50 years of age in politics used to be a excellent signal.

    “I’m advised via the PCC leader {that a} state-level workshop is being organised in Jaipur on June 1 and a couple of to carry discussions for the arrangements of the Bharat Jodo Abhiyan and different choices taken within the Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir,” he mentioned.

    “I’m glad that the birthday celebration has mentioned giving significance and area to those that are under 50 years of age at each point in politics. This can be a excellent signal for society, nation and the birthday celebration,” he mentioned.

    When requested in regards to the legislation and order scenario within the state, he mentioned the federal government has acted on each incident.

    On a rape case registered in opposition to state minister Mahesh Joshi’s son in Delhi, Pilot mentioned the CM in addition to the minister has mentioned that legislation will take its path.

  • MP highway rage: Former Congress minister’s son held for ramming automobile into businessman’s car

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    SEHORE: An afternoon after a highway rage case was once filed towards an unidentified motive force, police in Sehore in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday arrested the son of former Congress minister Hukum Singh Karada for allegedly ramming his automobile a number of occasions into the four-wheeler of an Indore-based businessman.

    Rohitap Singh Karada (32) has been arrested and the automobile he was once riding has been seized, Ashta police station in fee Anil Yadav mentioned.

    “After a probe, we arrested Rohitap, who’s the son of the previous Congress minister, underneath related sections of IPC and Motor Cars Act. If the complainant supplies extra main points and proof concerning the incident, we can upload new provisions,” Yadav mentioned.

    A case was once registered at the criticism of businessman Dinesh Ahuja (40), who instructed police a person who was once allegedly under the influence of alcohol was once regularly rear-ending his automobile close to Bharakhedi Jod within the Sehore stretch of Indore-Bhopal freeway on Saturday evening.

    In an instant after a video of the incident went viral on social media on Monday, MP BJP leader Vishnu Dutt Sharma had instructed newshounds the accused was once the son of former Congress state minister Hukum Singh Karada.

    Ahuja had instructed police that the accused hit his automobile a number of occasions, forcing him and his affiliate to cover in a farm to flee the previous’s fury.

  • ‘There may be systematic assault on establishments that let India to talk’: Rahul Gandhi

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    CAMBRIDGE: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has alleged that there’s a “systematic assault” at the establishments that let India to talk and because the dialog is being stamped out, the “deep state” is getting into the ones areas and redefining the way in which that dialog is occurring within the nation.

    Throughout an match entitled ‘India at 75’ at Corpus Christi Faculty on the prestigious Cambridge College on Monday night, Gandhi spoke on a wide vary of topics from Hindu nationalism, the Gandhi circle of relatives’s function inside the Congress birthday party and efforts to mobilise the folk of the rustic as he fielded questions from a in large part Indian scholar base.

    In dialog with Indian-origin educational from the college Dr Shruti Kapila, Gandhi reiterated one of the vital issues he made all over ultimate week’s convention, together with the affect of the “deep state” on Indian politics.

    “For us, India comes alive when India speaks and India dies when India is going silent. What I see as happening is a scientific assault at the establishments that let India to talk. Parliament, election device, the elemental construction of democracy is being captured through one organisation. And, because the dialog is being stamped out, the deep state is getting into the ones areas and redefining the way in which that dialog is occurring,” he mentioned.

    Outdoor the lecture theatre, a small team of scholars had amassed with placards which learn: “Rahul Gandhi stay your promise on mining” on the subject of the adivasis in Chhattisgarh, a subject he mentioned he used to be operating on inside the birthday party.

    He went head-to-head with scholars on a number of different subjects, together with his view of India as a “union of states” versus a country, which he insisted used to be a “gorgeous concept” that provides the folk of each state their rightful position.

    “I believe this is going to the center of Indians,” the previous Congress birthday party leader mentioned.

    Throughout the interactive consultation, Gandhi additionally mentioned that High Minister Narendra Modi is making a imaginative and prescient of India that isn’t inclusive of all portions of the rustic’s inhabitants, which is bigoted and is going in opposition to the speculation of India.

    “I’ve an issue if anyone has a imaginative and prescient for India that excludes folks, I do not care who is being excluded. I’ve an issue with it as a result of it’s utterly unfair, it ignores that there’s super power within the folks being excluded and I’ve an issue with it as a result of that isn’t what India is,” mentioned Gandhi, in accordance with a query about secularism in India.

    “I believe it is going past secularism. It’s a must to come with each unmarried individual with compassion. Mr Modi is establishing a imaginative and prescient of India the place he is leaving out large chunks of our inhabitants. And, that isn’t a imaginative and prescient of India, that is a imaginative and prescient of part of India,” he mentioned.

    The Congress chief asserted that his birthday party’s combat used to be in opposition to an enormous focus of wealth and a seize of establishments inside the nation, together with its media.

    “You’ll no longer see this communicate for greater than 30 seconds anyplace within the Indian media. The reason being the Indian media is captured. It’s managed through a few huge industrialists who strengthen the federal government. So, we aren’t preventing a political birthday party. We are preventing a seize of the Indian state and it is not simple, it’ll take time, it will have a lifestyles, it will be tough however we are doing it,” mentioned Gandhi.

    Requested about how the Congress plans to combat in opposition to the forces of “Hindu nationalism”, Gandhi declared that he didn’t trust the time period itself.

    “There may be not anything Hindu about it and in truth there is not anything nationalist about it. I believe you will have to recall to mind a brand new title for them however they are not at all Hindu. And, I’ve studied Hinduism in sufficient element to inform you that there is completely not anything Hindu about short of to homicide folks and beat folks up,” he mentioned.

    “My drawback with the RSS and the High Minister is that they’re fidgeting with the foundational construction of India. While you play the politics of polarisation, while you isolate and demonise 200 million folks, you might be doing one thing extraordinarily bad and you might be doing one thing this is basically in opposition to the speculation of India,””he mentioned.

    “I am certain there are excellent issues the High Minister has executed, however for me attacking the speculation of India is unacceptable,” he added.

    The BJP on Saturday had accused Gandhi of harming India in his feedback in opposition to High Minister Modi and alleged his common crucial remarks in regards to the nation from international soils amounted to betraying it.

    In New Delhi, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia reacted sharply to Gandhi for his remarks at a convention in London organised through non-profit think-tank Bridge India on Friday.

    Gandhi mentioned his birthday party is operating on plans to visit the bottom with padyatras, meet folks and stroll with folks so that you can actively mobilise folks from October-November after the Congress presidential elections in August.

    “That is for the Congress birthday party to come to a decision. There is a presidential election, the birthday party has to come to a decision,” he mentioned, when requested if the birthday party wishes a management out of doors of the Gandhi circle of relatives.

    The development, organised through the Faculty of the Humanities and Social Science at Corpus Christi Faculty, Cambridge College, as a part of a chain of occasions celebrating the seventy fifth yr of Indian independence, marks the belief of Gandhi’s UK excursion which started ultimate week.

  • Congress president Sonia Gandhi bureaucracy 3 teams to chart street forward for birthday party

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    NEW DELHI: To chart the Congress’ long run path, its leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday shaped 3 teams — on political views for steering on key problems, Activity Pressure-2024 to put into effect the Udaipur ‘Nav Sankalp’ declaration and every other to coordinate the October 2 ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

    Whilst Rahul Gandhi and two outstanding individuals of the G23 — Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma — are a part of the political views team, senior leaders P Chidambaram and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are individuals of the Activity Pressure-2024.

    G-23 is a gaggle of dissenting Congress leaders who’ve demanded an organisational overhaul.

    Sonia Gandhi has additionally arrange every other team to coordinate the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ deliberate from Kanyakumari to Kashmir from Gandhi Jayanti.

    “Following the Udaipur Nav Sankalp Shivir, the Congress president has constituted a Political Affairs Staff that will probably be presided over by means of her, a Activity-Pressure-2024 and a Central Making plans Staff for the coordination of the “Bharat Jodo Yatra”, an legit verbal exchange from the birthday party stated.

    The Political Affairs Staff, headed by means of Sonia Gandhi, accommodates Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ambika Soni, Digvijaya Singh, Anand Sharma, Okay C Venugopal and Jitendra Singh.

    The individuals of the Activity Pressure-2024 are P Chidambaram, Mukul Wasnik, Jairam Ramesh, Okay C Venugopal, Ajay Maken, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Randeep Singh Surjewala and Sunil Kanugolu.

    “Each and every member of the Activity Pressure will be assigned explicit duties associated with group, communications and media, outreach, finance and election Control.

    “They shall have designated groups which will probably be notified therefore,” the remark stated, including the Activity Pressure may also apply up at the Udaipur Nav Sankalp declaration.

    The Central Making plans Staff for the Coordination of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ comprises Digvijaya Singh, Sachin Pilot, Shashi Tharoor, Ravneet Singh Bittu, Okay J George, Jothi Mani, Pradyut Bordoloi, Jitu Patwari and Saleem Ahmed.

    All individuals of the duty power and all heads of the Congress’ frontal organisations will probably be ex officio individuals of the central team, the remark stated.

  • Congress gears up for municipal elections in Uttar Pradesh

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    LUCKNOW: The Congress, which confronted a debacle within the 2022 meeting elections in Uttar Pradesh, has began arrangements for contesting the impending municipal polls more likely to be held later this 12 months within the state.

    The birthday party will release a virtual club power with an goal to achieve 1.5 crore other people via it, its state spokesman Krishnakant Pandey stated on Monday. “The birthday party has recognized seven zones in UP for arrangements for the elections,” Pandey stated.

    The state has 17 municipal companies, over 200 municipal councils and 450 town councils. The birthday party has requested possible applicants to record an software shape during which they are going to have to present main points of 300 supporters, amongst others.

    “For beneficial leads to municipal elections, the birthday party has determined to enlarge its outreach programme with a unique center of attention on social media. We’re making plans to release virtual club power and goal to achieve 1.5 crore other people via it,” stated Pandey.

    The birthday party will even appoint ward in-charges and a complaint redressal committee at district stage, the spokesman stated.

    Alternatively, he didn’t disclose whether or not the birthday party will struggle by myself within the municipal elections or will shape an alliance with any birthday party.

    The Congress contested on all 403 seats within the contemporary UP meeting elections, however controlled to protected victory on best two seats. The birthday party had gained seven seats in 2017 meeting elections.

  • Congress appoints Sarat Pattanayak as new Odisha unit president

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    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday appointed Sarat Pattanayak as the brand new president of its Odisha unit, changing Niranjan Patnaik with instant impact.

    Meeting elections in Odisha are due earlier than June 2024 because the time period of the present meeting ends on June 24, 2024.

    An respectable verbal exchange from the birthday celebration mentioned, “Congress president has appointed Sarat Pattanayak because the president of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee with instant impact.”

    “The Congress president has authorized the resignation of Niranjan Patnaik from the publish of president, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee with instant impact. The birthday celebration appreciates the contributions of the outgoing PCC president Niranjan Patnaik,” it additional mentioned.

  • Navjot Singh Sidhu delivered to Rajindra clinic in Patiala for clinical exam

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    CHANDIGARH: Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, lodged in Patiala central jail to serve a one-year prison time period in a 1988 highway rage demise case, used to be taken to Rajindra Health facility in Patiala below heavy safety on Monday morning for clinical exam, authentic assets mentioned.

    The cricketer-turned-politician’s recommend HPS Verma mentioned Sidhu has sought a unique nutrition in prison. He mentioned a board of docs will perform an in depth clinical exam of Sidhu on the clinic.

    “The board of docs will see what particular nutrition is needed after which it is going to put up its file in an area courtroom (in Patiala),” Verma mentioned over the telephone.

    In line with the recommend, Sidhu can’t devour wheat, sugar, ‘maida’ and a few different meals pieces. “He could have berries, papaya, guava, double-toned milk and meals pieces which don’t have fibre and carbohydrates,” Verma mentioned.

    After the board of docs perform a clinical exam, a file might be submitted within the courtroom of leader judicial Justice of the Peace, he mentioned.

    The 58-year-old Congress chief suffers from clinical stipulations like embolism and has a liver ailment. In 2015, Sidhu additionally underwent remedy for acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at a clinic in Delhi.

    DVT is led to via a blood clot in a deep vein which hinders the standard blood glide. A number of Congress supporters reached Rajindra Health facility after Sidhu used to be introduced there.

    The previous Punjab Congress leader on Would possibly 20 used to be despatched to Patiala central prison after he surrendered earlier than an area courtroom.

    He has been sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment via the Ideal Courtroom in a 1988 highway rage demise case. The apex courtroom had sentenced Sidhu within the 34-year-old case, announcing any undue sympathy in implementing an insufficient sentence would do extra hurt to the justice gadget and undermine the general public self belief within the efficacy of regulation. A 65-year-old guy, named Gurnam Singh, had died within the incident.

  • Bihar Congress to have new leader quickly as AICC in-charge sents contemporary checklist to celebration top command

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    PATNA: Bihar Congress could have a brand new leader quickly because the AICC in-charge of Bihar, Bhakta Charan Das has despatched a contemporary checklist of probables to the celebration top command Sonia Gandhi to take a last name at the subject. Now, it’s as much as the Congress top command how early it takes a last determination at the factor.

    It’s, on the other hand, anticipated that it must now not take a lot time as Bihar Congress has deliberate to release a sequence of programmes to energize state celebration leaders and staff forward of ‘padyatra’ from Kashmir to Kanyakumari on October 2.

    In this sort of scenario, the celebration top command might to find it suitable to transparent the air through appointing a brand new state president of the celebration. Resources stated that Das has despatched a listing of 45 probables to the celebration top command to quite a lot of posts, together with the state president.

    Congress legislature celebration chief Ajit Sharma showed that the checklist of possible were supplied to Sonia Gandhi through the Bihar -in-charge of the celebration. “We are hoping the state unit gets a brand new president on the earliest,” he informed the media after paying floral tributes to Rajiv Gandhi on the state celebration headquarters
    on Saturday.

    Resources stated Das has additionally really helpful the names of possible applicants for the submit of celebration co-in-charge and deputy in-charge to the celebration top command for easy functioning of the celebration in Bihar.

    The AICC in-charge’s checklist has reportedly now not long past down neatly with a bit of state senior celebration leaders who had even taken up the subject with basic secretary KC Venugopal. Das’s checklist contains the identify of senior celebration chief Rajesh Ram for the submit of state president.

    There are a number of different contenders for the highest celebration submit because the names of Rajya Sabha member Akhilesh Prasad Singh, Kadwa MLA Shakeel Ahmad Khan, state Congress operating president and MLC Sameer Kumar Singh, MLC Prem Chandra Mishra, former MLA and  Bihar Mahila Congress president Amita Bhushan amongst others are doing the rounds.

    State Congress operating president Sameer Kumar Singh used to be remarkably candid when he claimed that a number of arguable names at quite a lot of ranges were proposed to the celebration top command. “The celebration’s pastime will also be harmed if those persons are appointed to the submit,” he added.

    It’s been greater than a month since state president Madan Mohan Jha resigned from his submit all through his discuss with to New Delhi.

    Relating to a proposed programme to be undertaken through the celebration, Congress spokesperson Asit Nath Tiwari stated that the Early life Congress and the NSUI participants would take out ‘Ek Rozgar Do Yatra’ quickly in enhance of its call for for a central authority task for one member of a circle of relatives.

    As well as, the Bihar Congress can even cling a two-day conclave from June 1. The conclave could be attended through celebration representatives from quite a lot of districts and blocks and discussions could be held for formulating a solution to give a boost to the celebration’s enhance base within the state.

    In a similar way, the celebration can even organise a district-level camp on June 11, the place every district will probably be assigned to a state celebration chief who will probably be accountable for supervising the preparations for the camp.