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  • ‘Court docket procedures are used for political agendas’: Sibal slams conviction after SC aid to Rahul

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: With the Splendid Court docket staying Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a defamation case, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Saturday mentioned he had said previous that the conviction was once unwarranted and rued that “courtroom procedures are used for political agendas.”

    Gandhi on Friday were given an enormous aid from the Splendid Court docket after it stayed his conviction in a 2019 felony defamation case over his Modi surname observation and cleared the path for his reinstatement as a Lok Sabha MP.

    The keep which can even permit Gandhi, 53, to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections was once given at the grounds that the trial courtroom in Surat in Gujarat failed to provide an explanation for why he deserved the utmost two-year punishment upon his conviction that resulted in his disqualification from the Decrease Space of Parliament.

    In a tweet, Sibal mentioned, “Splendid Court docket remains Rahul’s conviction. At the day Rahul was once convicted I publicly mentioned the conviction is unwarranted and won’t stand. The explanation I gave is what the Splendid Court docket mentioned the day past.”

    “Unlucky that courtroom procedures are used for political agendas!” he mentioned.

    Splendid Court docket
    Remains Rahul’s conviction

    At the day Rahul was once convicted I publicly mentioned the conviction is unwarranted and won’t stand

    The explanation I gave is what the Splendid Court docket mentioned the day past

    Unlucky that courtroom procedures are used for political agendas !

    — Kapil Sibal (@KapilSibal) August 5, 2023

    On Friday, the highest courtroom, whilst granting Gandhi the relaxation, mentioned no reason why was once given through the trial courtroom pass judgement on whilst convicting him excluding that he was once admonished through the apex courtroom in a contempt case. The SC bench additionally famous that the sentence shouldn’t have attracted disqualification had it been an afternoon lesser.

    “Had the sentence been an afternoon lesser, provisions shouldn’t have been attracted, in particular when an offence is non-cognisable, bailable and compoundable,” the SC bench had mentioned.

    It mentioned the least the trial courtroom pass judgement on was once anticipated to do was once give some causes for enforcing the utmost sentence supplied underneath the defamation act that resulted in Gandhi being awarded a time period of 2 years in prison, having attracted the provisions of the electoral regulation that envisages computerized disqualification of an MLA or MP sentenced to 2 years in prison.

    The apex courtroom additionally famous that the appellate courtroom and prime courtroom didn’t believe those facets whilst passing orders denying Gandhi aid.

    Sibal, who was once a Union minister all through UPA I and II, give up the Congress in Would possibly remaining yr and was once elected to the Rajya Sabha as an Impartial member with the Samajwadi Celebration’s beef up. He has floated a non-electoral platform ‘Insaaf’ geared toward preventing injustice.

    (With further inputs from On-line Table)

    NEW DELHI: With the Splendid Court docket staying Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a defamation case, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Saturday mentioned he had said previous that the conviction was once unwarranted and rued that “courtroom procedures are used for political agendas.”

    Gandhi on Friday were given an enormous aid from the Splendid Court docket after it stayed his conviction in a 2019 felony defamation case over his Modi surname observation and cleared the path for his reinstatement as a Lok Sabha MP.

    The keep which can even permit Gandhi, 53, to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections was once given at the grounds that the trial courtroom in Surat in Gujarat failed to provide an explanation for why he deserved the utmost two-year punishment upon his conviction that resulted in his disqualification from the Decrease Space of Parliament.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    In a tweet, Sibal mentioned, “Splendid Court docket remains Rahul’s conviction. At the day Rahul was once convicted I publicly mentioned the conviction is unwarranted and won’t stand. The explanation I gave is what the Splendid Court docket mentioned the day past.”

    “Unlucky that courtroom procedures are used for political agendas!” he mentioned.

    Splendid Court docket
    Remains Rahul’s conviction
    At the day Rahul was once convicted I publicly mentioned the conviction is unwarranted and won’t stand
    The explanation I gave is what the Splendid Court docket mentioned the day past
    Unlucky that courtroom procedures are used for political agendas !
    — Kapil Sibal (@KapilSibal) August 5, 2023
    On Friday, the highest courtroom, whilst granting Gandhi the relaxation, mentioned no reason why was once given through the trial courtroom pass judgement on whilst convicting him excluding that he was once admonished through the apex courtroom in a contempt case. The SC bench additionally famous that the sentence shouldn’t have attracted disqualification had it been an afternoon lesser.

    “Had the sentence been an afternoon lesser, provisions shouldn’t have been attracted, in particular when an offence is non-cognisable, bailable and compoundable,” the SC bench had mentioned.

    It mentioned the least the trial courtroom pass judgement on was once anticipated to do was once give some causes for enforcing the utmost sentence supplied underneath the defamation act that resulted in Gandhi being awarded a time period of 2 years in prison, having attracted the provisions of the electoral regulation that envisages computerized disqualification of an MLA or MP sentenced to 2 years in prison.

    The apex courtroom additionally famous that the appellate courtroom and prime courtroom didn’t believe those facets whilst passing orders denying Gandhi aid.

    Sibal, who was once a Union minister all through UPA I and II, give up the Congress in Would possibly remaining yr and was once elected to the Rajya Sabha as an Impartial member with the Samajwadi Celebration’s beef up. He has floated a non-electoral platform ‘Insaaf’ geared toward preventing injustice.

    (With further inputs from On-line Table)

  • Cannot forget about Savarkar’s sacrifice, however extra urgent problems in nation lately: Sharad Pawar

    By way of PTI

    NAGPUR:  No person can forget about past due Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar’s sacrifice for the rustic’s independence battle however disagreements over him can’t be made a countrywide factor lately as there are lots of urgent issues to concentrate on, mentioned Nationalist Congress Celebration leader Sharad Pawar on Saturday.

    Protecting Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who’s being focused by means of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration for talking about problems in India on overseas soil, he mentioned this isn’t the primary time an Indian has spoken about problems within the nation whilst in a foreign country.

    Pawar used to be talking on the Press Membership in Nagpur, the place he additionally visited Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s house.

    To a question on whether or not he spoke to Rahul Gandhi about Savarkar and if the Congress chief would decelerate in his grievance of the past due Hindutva ideologue, Pawar mentioned leaders of 18-20 political events just lately sat and mentioned main problems earlier than the rustic.

    The BJP has accused Gandhi of time and again “insulting” Savarkar.

    It is usually establishing Savarkar Gaurav Yatra in his honour.

    “I advised that there’s a want for us to planned at the means the rustic is being run by means of the ones in energy,” he mentioned.

    Pawar mentioned, “Nowadays, Savarkar isn’t a countrywide factor, it’s an previous factor. We had mentioned a couple of issues about Savarkar but it surely used to be now not private. It used to be towards Hindu Maha Sabha. However there may be every other facet to it as smartly. We can not forget about the sacrifice made by means of Savarkar ji for the independence of the rustic.”

    About 32 years in the past, Pawar mentioned, he had spoken in Parliament about Savarkar’s revolutionary perspectives. He mentioned Savarkar constructed a space in Ratnagiri and likewise built a small temple in entrance of it.

    “He deputed an individual from the Valmiki group to accomplish puja within the temple. I believe this used to be an excessively revolutionary factor,” mentioned Pawar.

    The NCP chief mentioned there is not any wish to thrust Savarkar into the nationwide narrative particularly as a result of there many different main problems regarding the not unusual public.

    At the BJP’s grievance of Gandhi, Pawar mentioned the Congress chief additionally has the liberty to position his opinion like everybody else.

    Requested whether it is correct for a pace-setter to talk about problems regarding India on overseas soil, Pawar mentioned one will have to now not give a lot significance to it as this has now not been completed for the primary time.

    The NCP chief leaders criticised the federal government prior to now as smartly.

    “Best now such problems are being introduced up time and again. If other people really feel agitated over one thing within the nation and if an Indian talks about it, then I believe the ones problems will have to be addressed.”

    To a question if he thinks Lok Sabha and state elections might be held in combination in 2024, Pawar mentioned they would possibly not occur on the similar time.

    All over his Nagpur seek advice from, Pawar additionally visited Union minister Nitin Gadkari on the latter’s house and referred to as it a courtesy seek advice from.

    At the request of Gadkari to Pawar, a sub-centre of Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune, is arising in Nagpur. Pawar is the president of this institute.

    NAGPUR:  No person can forget about past due Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar’s sacrifice for the rustic’s independence battle however disagreements over him can’t be made a countrywide factor lately as there are lots of urgent issues to concentrate on, mentioned Nationalist Congress Celebration leader Sharad Pawar on Saturday.

    Protecting Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who’s being focused by means of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration for talking about problems in India on overseas soil, he mentioned this isn’t the primary time an Indian has spoken about problems within the nation whilst in a foreign country.

    Pawar used to be talking on the Press Membership in Nagpur, the place he additionally visited Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s house.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    To a question on whether or not he spoke to Rahul Gandhi about Savarkar and if the Congress chief would decelerate in his grievance of the past due Hindutva ideologue, Pawar mentioned leaders of 18-20 political events just lately sat and mentioned main problems earlier than the rustic.

    The BJP has accused Gandhi of time and again “insulting” Savarkar.

    It is usually establishing Savarkar Gaurav Yatra in his honour.

    “I advised that there’s a want for us to planned at the means the rustic is being run by means of the ones in energy,” he mentioned.

    Pawar mentioned, “Nowadays, Savarkar isn’t a countrywide factor, it’s an previous factor. We had mentioned a couple of issues about Savarkar but it surely used to be now not private. It used to be towards Hindu Maha Sabha. However there may be every other facet to it as smartly. We can not forget about the sacrifice made by means of Savarkar ji for the independence of the rustic.”

    About 32 years in the past, Pawar mentioned, he had spoken in Parliament about Savarkar’s revolutionary perspectives. He mentioned Savarkar constructed a space in Ratnagiri and likewise built a small temple in entrance of it.

    “He deputed an individual from the Valmiki group to accomplish puja within the temple. I believe this used to be an excessively revolutionary factor,” mentioned Pawar.

    The NCP chief mentioned there is not any wish to thrust Savarkar into the nationwide narrative particularly as a result of there many different main problems regarding the not unusual public.

    At the BJP’s grievance of Gandhi, Pawar mentioned the Congress chief additionally has the liberty to position his opinion like everybody else.

    Requested whether it is correct for a pace-setter to talk about problems regarding India on overseas soil, Pawar mentioned one will have to now not give a lot significance to it as this has now not been completed for the primary time.

    The NCP chief leaders criticised the federal government prior to now as smartly.

    “Best now such problems are being introduced up time and again. If other people really feel agitated over one thing within the nation and if an Indian talks about it, then I believe the ones problems will have to be addressed.”

    To a question if he thinks Lok Sabha and state elections might be held in combination in 2024, Pawar mentioned they would possibly not occur on the similar time.

    All over his Nagpur seek advice from, Pawar additionally visited Union minister Nitin Gadkari on the latter’s house and referred to as it a courtesy seek advice from.

    At the request of Gadkari to Pawar, a sub-centre of Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune, is arising in Nagpur. Pawar is the president of this institute.

  • Modi observation row: Former IPL boss Lalit Modi threatens to take Rahul Gandhi to courtroom in UK

    Through PTI

    LONDON: Former IPL leader Lalit Modi, accused of economic irregularities in India, introduced a scathing assault on Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and threatened to take the senior Congress chief to courtroom in the United Kingdom over his ‘Modi surname’ observation.

    Lalit Modi, 59, additionally hit out on the Congress birthday party for relating to him as a “fugitive of justice” even supposing he had by no means been convicted of any fees.

    In a chain of tweets, which lacks punctuation and grammar, Lalit Modi additionally hailed himself as the person at the back of the “biggest wearing tournament on this international,” claiming that it has generated as regards to USD 100 billion.

    He additionally posted photographs of his grandparents to mention that his circle of relatives has completed extra for India than the Gandhi circle of relatives. “I see almost about each and every Tom, Dick and Gandhi mates over and over again announcing I’m a fugitive of justice. why? How? and when used to be I up to now ever convicted of identical,” reads the tweet.

    “Not like #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an strange citizen announcing it and it kind of feels all and sundry opposition leaders don’t have anything else to take action they too are both ill- knowledgeable or simply vendetta vulnerable. I’ve made up our minds to take the @RahulGandhi a minimum of him to courtroom in UK immediately. I’m positive he should get a hold of some cast proof. I sit up for seeing him make a whole #idiot of himself,” it provides.

    i see almost about each and every Tom dick and gandhi mates over and over again announcing i ama fugitive of justice. why ?How?and when used to be i up to now ever convicted of identical. in contrast to #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an strange citizen announcing it and it kind of feels all and sundry oposition leaders don’t have anything…

    — Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) March 30, 2023

    Lalit Modi’s assault on Rahul Gandhi got here just about every week after the previous Congress leader used to be convicted in legal defamation case and used to be sentenced to a two-year prison time period by means of a Surat courtroom for his ‘Modi surname’ remark.

    The conviction has since ended in Gandhi’s disqualification as a Member of Parliament.

    In his Twitter thread, Lalit Modi accused a number of Congress leaders, alleging them to be as “bag males” of the Gandhi circle of relatives and of getting “out of the country belongings.”

    He additionally claimed that he can give you the main points.

    “No longer even a penny up to now has been confirmed I took in ultimate 15 years. However what is obviously confirmed I created the best wearing tournament on this international that has generated as regards to 100 billion bucks,” he tweeted.

    “Let now not 1 Congress chief overlook that from early 1950’s the Modi circle of relatives has completed extra for them and our nation then they may be able to ever believe.

    “I too have completed greater than they may be able to ever dream of doing. So stay barking scam- tainted looters of India just like the very personal Gandhi circle of relatives,” he added.

    The businessman, who has been primarily based in the United Kingdom since 2010, stated he’s going to go back to India once stringent libel rules are handed within the nation.

    READ HERE | BJP to make use of Rahul’s ‘Modi surname’ jibe as key technique for OBC outreach all the way through ballot campaigns

    LONDON: Former IPL leader Lalit Modi, accused of economic irregularities in India, introduced a scathing assault on Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and threatened to take the senior Congress chief to courtroom in the United Kingdom over his ‘Modi surname’ observation.

    Lalit Modi, 59, additionally hit out on the Congress birthday party for relating to him as a “fugitive of justice” even supposing he had by no means been convicted of any fees.

    In a chain of tweets, which lacks punctuation and grammar, Lalit Modi additionally hailed himself as the person at the back of the “biggest wearing tournament on this international,” claiming that it has generated as regards to USD 100 billion.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    He additionally posted photographs of his grandparents to mention that his circle of relatives has completed extra for India than the Gandhi circle of relatives. “I see almost about each and every Tom, Dick and Gandhi mates over and over again announcing I’m a fugitive of justice. why? How? and when used to be I up to now ever convicted of identical,” reads the tweet.

    “Not like #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an strange citizen announcing it and it kind of feels all and sundry opposition leaders don’t have anything else to take action they too are both ill- knowledgeable or simply vendetta vulnerable. I’ve made up our minds to take the @RahulGandhi a minimum of him to courtroom in UK immediately. I’m positive he should get a hold of some cast proof. I sit up for seeing him make a whole #idiot of himself,” it provides.

    i see almost about each and every Tom dick and gandhi mates over and over again announcing i ama fugitive of justice. why ?How?and when used to be i up to now ever convicted of identical. in contrast to #Papu aka @RahulGandhi now an strange citizen announcing it and it kind of feels all and sundry oposition leaders don’t have anything…
    — Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) March 30, 2023
    Lalit Modi’s assault on Rahul Gandhi got here just about every week after the previous Congress leader used to be convicted in legal defamation case and used to be sentenced to a two-year prison time period by means of a Surat courtroom for his ‘Modi surname’ remark.

    The conviction has since ended in Gandhi’s disqualification as a Member of Parliament.

    In his Twitter thread, Lalit Modi accused a number of Congress leaders, alleging them to be as “bag males” of the Gandhi circle of relatives and of getting “out of the country belongings.”

    He additionally claimed that he can give you the main points.

    “No longer even a penny up to now has been confirmed I took in ultimate 15 years. However what is obviously confirmed I created the best wearing tournament on this international that has generated as regards to 100 billion bucks,” he tweeted.

    “Let now not 1 Congress chief overlook that from early 1950’s the Modi circle of relatives has completed extra for them and our nation then they may be able to ever believe.

    “I too have completed greater than they may be able to ever dream of doing. So stay barking scam- tainted looters of India just like the very personal Gandhi circle of relatives,” he added.

    The businessman, who has been primarily based in the United Kingdom since 2010, stated he’s going to go back to India once stringent libel rules are handed within the nation.

    READ HERE | BJP to make use of Rahul’s ‘Modi surname’ jibe as key technique for OBC outreach all the way through ballot campaigns

  • BJP & Congress business barbs as Germany takes be aware of Rahul’s disqualification from Lok Sabha

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: As Germany took be aware of Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Lok Sabha, the BJP on Thursday accused the Congress of “inviting international powers” for interference in India’s interior issues and the Opposition celebration hit again, alleging that its rival was once making an attempt to divert consideration from the Adani factor.

    In a tweet Thursday, senior Congress chief Digvijaya Singh thanked German international ministry and Richard Walker, Leader Global Editor of Deutsche Welle, for “being attentive to how the Democracy is being compromised in India during the persecution of Rahul Gandhi”. He tagged a tweet via Walker through which the senior journalist had posted a video of a German international ministry spokesperson reacting to Gandhi’s disqualification.

    At a press briefing, Germany’s international ministry spokesperson mentioned, “We’ve taken be aware of the decision of first example towards Indian opposition flesh presser Rahul Gandhi in addition to the suspension of his parliamentary mandate. To our wisdom, Mr Gandhi is able to attraction the decision. It’s going to then transform transparent whether or not this verdict will stand and whether or not the suspension of his mandate has any foundation,” the spokesperson was once quoted as pronouncing.

    Germany expects that “requirements of judicial independence and elementary democratic ideas” will similarly follow to the complaints towards Rahul Gandhi, the spokesperson added.

    A bunch of BJP leaders attacked the Congress and Singh, accusing the celebration of inviting international interference in interior affairs.

    Sharing a screenshot of Digivijaya Singh’s tweet, Union Regulation Minister Kiren Rijiju mentioned, “Thanks Rahul Gandhi for inviting international powers for interference into India’s interior issues. Bear in mind, Indian Judiciary cannot be influenced via international interference. India would possibly not tolerate ‘international affect’ anymore as a result of our High Minister is:- Shri @narendramodi Ji,” Rijiju mentioned.

    Hitting again at Rijiju, Congress’ media division head Pawan Khera mentioned, “Mr. Rijiju, why divert from the principle factor? The problem is that the High Minister can not solution Rahul Gandhi’s questions on Adani.” As a substitute of “deceptive” folks, please solution the questions, Khera mentioned.

    BJP’s IT division head Amit Malviya additionally tagged Singh’s tweet and mentioned, “Shameful that Congress continues to lean on international companies and search their intervention in India’s interior affairs. Rahul Gandhi had just lately sought Europe and US intervention and now it’s Digvijay Singh. However Regulation is the Regulation- Until any person thinks Regulation isn’t the Regulation for them,” he mentioned.

    BJP spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill additionally hit out on the Congress, alleging that the celebration “celebrating Germany/U.S. remarks on Rahul Gandhi’s case presentations their political desperation”.

    “Rejected via Indian electorate now searching for acceptance via international powers is unhappy fact of Congress! Judiciary will have to be mindful of day-to-day maligning of courts via Congress brigade!” he mentioned.

    Tagging Singh’s tweet, BJP chief Vijay Chauthaiwale mentioned on Twitter, “Glance how glad @digvijaya_28 ji with feedback from Germany. It most effective presentations how they’re determined to contain exterior companies within the home issues.”

    Gandhi was once disqualified from Lok Sabha on March 23 after a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case.

    Previous this week, a US state division legit had mentioned the US is looking at the court docket case of Rahul Gandhi.

    The legit had seen that the USA continues to have interaction with India at the shared dedication against democratic ideas and the safety of human rights, together with freedom of expression.

    NEW DELHI: As Germany took be aware of Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Lok Sabha, the BJP on Thursday accused the Congress of “inviting international powers” for interference in India’s interior issues and the Opposition celebration hit again, alleging that its rival was once making an attempt to divert consideration from the Adani factor.

    In a tweet Thursday, senior Congress chief Digvijaya Singh thanked German international ministry and Richard Walker, Leader Global Editor of Deutsche Welle, for “being attentive to how the Democracy is being compromised in India during the persecution of Rahul Gandhi”. He tagged a tweet via Walker through which the senior journalist had posted a video of a German international ministry spokesperson reacting to Gandhi’s disqualification.

    At a press briefing, Germany’s international ministry spokesperson mentioned, “We’ve taken be aware of the decision of first example towards Indian opposition flesh presser Rahul Gandhi in addition to the suspension of his parliamentary mandate. To our wisdom, Mr Gandhi is able to attraction the decision. It’s going to then transform transparent whether or not this verdict will stand and whether or not the suspension of his mandate has any foundation,” the spokesperson was once quoted as pronouncing.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Germany expects that “requirements of judicial independence and elementary democratic ideas” will similarly follow to the complaints towards Rahul Gandhi, the spokesperson added.

    A bunch of BJP leaders attacked the Congress and Singh, accusing the celebration of inviting international interference in interior affairs.

    Sharing a screenshot of Digivijaya Singh’s tweet, Union Regulation Minister Kiren Rijiju mentioned, “Thanks Rahul Gandhi for inviting international powers for interference into India’s interior issues. Bear in mind, Indian Judiciary cannot be influenced via international interference. India would possibly not tolerate ‘international affect’ anymore as a result of our High Minister is:- Shri @narendramodi Ji,” Rijiju mentioned.

    Hitting again at Rijiju, Congress’ media division head Pawan Khera mentioned, “Mr. Rijiju, why divert from the principle factor? The problem is that the High Minister can not solution Rahul Gandhi’s questions on Adani.” As a substitute of “deceptive” folks, please solution the questions, Khera mentioned.

    BJP’s IT division head Amit Malviya additionally tagged Singh’s tweet and mentioned, “Shameful that Congress continues to lean on international companies and search their intervention in India’s interior affairs. Rahul Gandhi had just lately sought Europe and US intervention and now it’s Digvijay Singh. However Regulation is the Regulation- Until any person thinks Regulation isn’t the Regulation for them,” he mentioned.

    BJP spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill additionally hit out on the Congress, alleging that the celebration “celebrating Germany/U.S. remarks on Rahul Gandhi’s case presentations their political desperation”.

    “Rejected via Indian electorate now searching for acceptance via international powers is unhappy fact of Congress! Judiciary will have to be mindful of day-to-day maligning of courts via Congress brigade!” he mentioned.

    Tagging Singh’s tweet, BJP chief Vijay Chauthaiwale mentioned on Twitter, “Glance how glad @digvijaya_28 ji with feedback from Germany. It most effective presentations how they’re determined to contain exterior companies within the home issues.”

    Gandhi was once disqualified from Lok Sabha on March 23 after a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case.

    Previous this week, a US state division legit had mentioned the US is looking at the court docket case of Rahul Gandhi.

    The legit had seen that the USA continues to have interaction with India at the shared dedication against democratic ideas and the safety of human rights, together with freedom of expression.

  • Congress resorting to low-level politics to justify Rahul’s remarks towards OBCs: BJP 

    Addressing a press convention right here, Union Minister Piyush Goyal additionally puzzled the Congress MPs' behaviour as they grew to become up in Parliament dressed in black garments and created a ruckus.

    NEW DELHI: The BJP condemned the ruckus created by means of the Opposition in Parliament on Monday and accused the Congress of resorting to “low-level politics” in its bid to justify birthday party chief Rahul Gandhi’s remarks towards the OBC group.

    Addressing a press convention right here, Union Minister Piyush Goyal additionally puzzled the Congress MPs’ behaviour as they grew to become up in Parliament dressed in black garments and created a ruckus in each the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.

    “Have a look at the behaviour. For the primary time in numerous years, they (Congress MPs) tore papers and threw the ones on the chair. The speaker many times says he desires to run the Space and that he would give everyone a possibility (to talk),” Goyal stated.

    He stated the Congress and different opposition events are indulging in indecent behaviour in Parliament, “leaving no different possibility for the chair however to adjourn the court cases”.

    “The BJP vehemently condemns the efforts being made by means of their (Congress’s) leaders to insult the speaker and the chairman of the 2 properties time and again,” Goyal stated, asking, “For a way lengthy will the Congress do that low-level politics?” After the Lok Sabha met for the day, Opposition participants trooped to the Smartly dressed in black garments and two Congress MPs — TN Pratapan and Hibi Eden — hurled papers against the chair, resulting in an adjournment of the court cases until 4 pm because the ruckus continued over Gandhi’s disqualification from the Space and an issue surrounding industrialist Gautam Adani’s industry staff.

    The Rajya Sabha court cases have been additionally adjourned within the pre-lunch consultation because the Opposition MPs created a ruckus over the Adani factor.

    Wearing black, the MPs of the Congress and different events began shouting slogans even ahead of Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar took his seat. Sensing the temper, Dhankhar adjourned the court cases until 2 pm.

    Goyal requested the Congress MPs whether or not they got here to wait the Parliament consultation wearing black and staged protests to insult the “temple of democracy” and the rustic’s regulation and order to justify Gandhi’s remarks towards the Different Backward Categories (OBCs).

    “Was once it a protest towards the courtroom that convicted Rahul Gandhi or towards the Ideally suited Courtroom which dominated that anybody sentenced to 2 years (in prison) turns into disqualified (from Parliament or a state Meeting) mechanically? “Or, used to be it a protest towards their very own chief, Rahul Gandhi, who had in 2013, by means of tearing the ordinance in entrance of the media, laid the root for his disqualification these days?” the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) chief requested.

    He alleged that the Congress has resorted to such politics as it’s “annoyed” with its electoral performances.

    Goyal additionally took a swipe on the opposition birthday party over its participants turning up in Parliament dressed in black garments, announcing, “They’re so annoyed and demoralised these days that they wish to hotel to black magic as a result of all different efforts have failed.”

    “At this juncture, best black magic is left ahead of them. However they don’t needless to say they have got totally misplaced the religion of folks and won’t regain it it doesn’t matter what they do.”

    Gandhi (52) used to be disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, an afternoon after he used to be convicted by means of a courtroom in Gujarat’s Surat in a 2019 defamation case.

    The disqualification will bar Gandhi, a four-time MP, from contesting elections for 8 years except the next courtroom remains his conviction.

  • Congress Satyagraha in strengthen of Rahul: Leaders, employees name for ‘democratic forces to get in combination’

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress employees around the nation on Sunday organised “Sankalp Satyagraha” to protest in opposition to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, with birthday party president Mallikarjun Kharge lashing out on the ruling BJP and asking why it’s pained if fugitives reminiscent of Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

    Whilst in Delhi, the police denied permission to the Congress to carry its protest programme at Rajghat, the police in Gujarat detained a number of birthday party functionaries for containing the stir.

    Within the nationwide capital, the Congress post a degree out of doors Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial for its day-long protest programme after the permission used to be denied.

    In her deal with on the protest programme, Congress basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi mentioned a martyred top minister’s son, who walked 1000’s of kilometres for nationwide team spirit, can by no means insult the rustic. She used to be regarding her father and overdue top minister Rajiv Gandhi who used to be assassinated in 1991.

    Priyanka Gandhi mentioned the time had come to boost voice in opposition to an “smug executive” as barring Rahul Gandhi from contesting elections does no longer bode neatly for the rustic and its democracy.

    “My circle of relatives’s blood has nurtured democracy on this nation. We’re able to do the rest for this nation’s democracy. Nice leaders of the Congress laid the root of democracy on this nation. If they believe they may be able to scare us, they’re fallacious. We will be able to no longer be scared,” she mentioned.

     Police detain a Congress supporter all through a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Ahmedabad. (Photograph | PTI)

    Slamming the BJP over its fee that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs together with his statement for which he has been convicted in a legal defamation case, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned why is the ruling birthday party pained if fugitives reminiscent of Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

    Kharge additionally thanked all Opposition events for status with Rahul Gandhi and the Congress to avoid wasting democracy.

    “They communicate of OBC now, is Lalit Modi OBC, is Nirav Modi OBC, is Mehul Choksi OBC, they ran away with other folks’s cash. If they’re fugitives why are you pained if they’re criticised. You (BJP) punish the one that works to avoid wasting the rustic and ship the ones in a foreign country who loot the rustic,” Kharge mentioned.

    “Rahul Gandhi ji is preventing for the folks of this nation, for the ladies, for the adolescence, preventing in opposition to unemployment and inflation,” he mentioned.

    Gandhi used to be disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, an afternoon after a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case.

    The disqualification will save you Gandhi (52), a four-time MP, from contesting elections for 8 years until the next court docket remains the conviction.

    ALSO READ | Will combat ‘legally and politically’: Congress on Rahul’s LS disqualification

    .@INCIndia’s Samvidhan Bachao, Loktantra Bachao Sankalp Satyagraha has simply begun at Rajghat with loads of leaders and employees collaborating. The Satyagraha will proceed until 5pm. %.twitter.com/dF6a4pAYAS

    — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) March 26, 2023

    Congress protests throughout nation

    Congress employees in lots of states and union territories like Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat took section within the protest programme.

    In Gujarat, the police detained state Congress leader Jagdish Tahor, Chief of Opposition within the Meeting Amit Chavda and senior chief Bharatsinh Solanki at the side of birthday party employees once they arrived at Lal Darwaza in Ahmedabad to protest.

    The protesters had been taken to the police stadium the place they persisted to shout slogans in opposition to High Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Celebration.

    “We’ve got the facility of Reality and backbone of Satyagraha. To reveal the loot of BJP, with a company resolution to offer protection to democracy, every employee of Gujarat Pradesh Congress is with Rahul Gandhi,” Thakor tweeted.

    TPCC  president and MP Revanth Reddy at the side of Senior congress leaders protest on Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Sunday. (Photograph | Vinay Madapu, EPS)

    The Punjab and Haryana gadgets of Congress additionally seen the satyagraha.

    Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring alleged that the motion in opposition to Rahul Gandhi used to be taken since the BJP-led Centre used to be “scared” of his subsequent speech in Parliament at the Adani factor. Warring mentioned a “tearing hurry” used to be proven by means of the Lok Sabha Secretariat in disqualifying Rahul Gandhi allegedly on the behest of the BJP-led executive.

    Haryana Congress leader Udai Bhan mentioned Rahul Gandhi has been elevating his voice in opposition to the BJP-led Centre on quite a lot of problems. “They wish to silence his voice, however they’re fallacious,” he mentioned.

    Charging that establishments are being attacked within the nation, Punjab’s Chief of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa mentioned it’s time for “all democratic forces to get in combination”.

    In Congress-ruled Rajasthan, the birthday party’s state unit leader Govind Singh Dotasra, Meals and Civil Provides Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and a number of other different leaders took section within the protest.

    Dubbing Gandhi’s disqualification as a “homicide of democracy”, Dotasra charged that the BJP labels someone who raises their voice in opposition to it as “anti-nationals” and distorts their public symbol thru social media. “Rahul Gandhi is somebody whose grandmother and father sacrificed their lives for the sake of the country,” he added.

    MP Shashi Tharoor talking within the Satyagraha organised by means of Congress at Gandhi Park in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday. (Photograph | BP Deepu, EPS)

    The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee on Sunday held a statewide protest. TNCC president Ok S Alagiri, who led the protest in Cuddalore termed Gandhi’s disqualification an act of injustice and political vendetta.

    In the meantime, the Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee mentioned it’s going to grasp a dawn-to-dusk rapid right here on Monday to sentence the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as member of Parliament.

    In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, senior birthday party leaders like native MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Pradesh Congress Committee president Ranglal Halder and Marketing campaign Committee chairman of Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress, TSG Bhasker assembled in entrance of the statue close to Aberdeen Bazaar right here since morning and raised their voices in opposition to the ruling birthday party on the Centre for “conspiring in opposition to Rahul Gandhi.”

    “कांग्रेस” देश के लिए क़ुर्बानी का दूसरा नाम है। #SankalpSatyagraha %.twitter.com/ylDK3K9S8u

    — Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) March 26, 2023

    In Port Blair, birthday party leaders had been noticed wearing placards criticising the NDA executive.

    In Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla, Congress leaders and employees accrued on the Ridge and protested in opposition to the transfer. The birthday party would release a statewide protest in opposition to the alleged try of the BJP executive to “kill democracy” and “muzzle” the voice of the folks from Monday, mentioned Congress leaders.

    Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Sunday held a day-long ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ with birthday party chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir accusing the BJP executive on the Centre of being undemocratic. 

    Talking to newshounds, Mir mentioned no longer handiest Congress birthday party, however all non-BJP secular events have come in combination, and are “wailing over the loss of life of democracy” within the nation. “The BJP executive has no longer left any signal of the Charter within the nation, all of the steps it takes are unlawful and undemocratic,” he charged.

    Jammu and Kashmir Congress President Vikar Rasool Wani with birthday party leaders phases a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Jammu. (Photograph | PTI)

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    NEW DELHI: Congress employees around the nation on Sunday organised “Sankalp Satyagraha” to protest in opposition to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, with birthday party president Mallikarjun Kharge lashing out on the ruling BJP and asking why it’s pained if fugitives reminiscent of Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

    Whilst in Delhi, the police denied permission to the Congress to carry its protest programme at Rajghat, the police in Gujarat detained a number of birthday party functionaries for containing the stir.

    Within the nationwide capital, the Congress post a degree out of doors Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial for its day-long protest programme after the permission used to be denied.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    In her deal with on the protest programme, Congress basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi mentioned a martyred top minister’s son, who walked 1000’s of kilometres for nationwide team spirit, can by no means insult the rustic. She used to be regarding her father and overdue top minister Rajiv Gandhi who used to be assassinated in 1991.

    Priyanka Gandhi mentioned the time had come to boost voice in opposition to an “smug executive” as barring Rahul Gandhi from contesting elections does no longer bode neatly for the rustic and its democracy.

    “My circle of relatives’s blood has nurtured democracy on this nation. We’re able to do the rest for this nation’s democracy. Nice leaders of the Congress laid the root of democracy on this nation. If they believe they may be able to scare us, they’re fallacious. We will be able to no longer be scared,” she mentioned.

     Police detain a Congress supporter all through a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Ahmedabad. (Photograph | PTI)

    Slamming the BJP over its fee that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs together with his statement for which he has been convicted in a legal defamation case, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned why is the ruling birthday party pained if fugitives reminiscent of Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

    Kharge additionally thanked all Opposition events for status with Rahul Gandhi and the Congress to avoid wasting democracy.

    “They communicate of OBC now, is Lalit Modi OBC, is Nirav Modi OBC, is Mehul Choksi OBC, they ran away with other folks’s cash. If they’re fugitives why are you pained if they’re criticised. You (BJP) punish the one that works to avoid wasting the rustic and ship the ones in a foreign country who loot the rustic,” Kharge mentioned.

    “Rahul Gandhi ji is preventing for the folks of this nation, for the ladies, for the adolescence, preventing in opposition to unemployment and inflation,” he mentioned.

    Gandhi used to be disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, an afternoon after a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case.

    The disqualification will save you Gandhi (52), a four-time MP, from contesting elections for 8 years until the next court docket remains the conviction.

    ALSO READ | Will combat ‘legally and politically’: Congress on Rahul’s LS disqualification

    .@INCIndia’s Samvidhan Bachao, Loktantra Bachao Sankalp Satyagraha has simply begun at Rajghat with loads of leaders and employees collaborating. The Satyagraha will proceed until 5pm. %.twitter.com/dF6a4pAYAS
    — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) March 26, 2023
    Congress protests throughout nation

    Congress employees in lots of states and union territories like Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat took section within the protest programme.

    In Gujarat, the police detained state Congress leader Jagdish Tahor, Chief of Opposition within the Meeting Amit Chavda and senior chief Bharatsinh Solanki at the side of birthday party employees once they arrived at Lal Darwaza in Ahmedabad to protest.

    The protesters had been taken to the police stadium the place they persisted to shout slogans in opposition to High Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Celebration.

    “We’ve got the facility of Reality and backbone of Satyagraha. To reveal the loot of BJP, with a company resolution to offer protection to democracy, every employee of Gujarat Pradesh Congress is with Rahul Gandhi,” Thakor tweeted.

    TPCC  president and MP Revanth Reddy at the side of Senior congress leaders protest on Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Sunday. (Photograph | Vinay Madapu, EPS)

    The Punjab and Haryana gadgets of Congress additionally seen the satyagraha.

    Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring alleged that the motion in opposition to Rahul Gandhi used to be taken since the BJP-led Centre used to be “scared” of his subsequent speech in Parliament at the Adani factor. Warring mentioned a “tearing hurry” used to be proven by means of the Lok Sabha Secretariat in disqualifying Rahul Gandhi allegedly on the behest of the BJP-led executive.

    Haryana Congress leader Udai Bhan mentioned Rahul Gandhi has been elevating his voice in opposition to the BJP-led Centre on quite a lot of problems. “They wish to silence his voice, however they’re fallacious,” he mentioned.

    Charging that establishments are being attacked within the nation, Punjab’s Chief of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa mentioned it’s time for “all democratic forces to get in combination”.

    In Congress-ruled Rajasthan, the birthday party’s state unit leader Govind Singh Dotasra, Meals and Civil Provides Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and a number of other different leaders took section within the protest.

    Dubbing Gandhi’s disqualification as a “homicide of democracy”, Dotasra charged that the BJP labels someone who raises their voice in opposition to it as “anti-nationals” and distorts their public symbol thru social media. “Rahul Gandhi is somebody whose grandmother and father sacrificed their lives for the sake of the country,” he added.

    MP Shashi Tharoor talking within the Satyagraha organised by means of Congress at Gandhi Park in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday. (Photograph | BP Deepu, EPS)

    The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee on Sunday held a statewide protest. TNCC president Ok S Alagiri, who led the protest in Cuddalore termed Gandhi’s disqualification an act of injustice and political vendetta.

    In the meantime, the Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee mentioned it’s going to grasp a dawn-to-dusk rapid right here on Monday to sentence the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as member of Parliament.

    In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, senior birthday party leaders like native MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Pradesh Congress Committee president Ranglal Halder and Marketing campaign Committee chairman of Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress, TSG Bhasker assembled in entrance of the statue close to Aberdeen Bazaar right here since morning and raised their voices in opposition to the ruling birthday party on the Centre for “conspiring in opposition to Rahul Gandhi.”

    “कांग्रेस” देश के लिए क़ुर्बानी का दूसरा नाम है। #SankalpSatyagraha %.twitter.com/ylDK3K9S8u
    — Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) March 26, 2023
    In Port Blair, birthday party leaders had been noticed wearing placards criticising the NDA executive.

    In Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla, Congress leaders and employees accrued on the Ridge and protested in opposition to the transfer. The birthday party would release a statewide protest in opposition to the alleged try of the BJP executive to “kill democracy” and “muzzle” the voice of the folks from Monday, mentioned Congress leaders.

    Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Sunday held a day-long ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ with birthday party chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir accusing the BJP executive on the Centre of being undemocratic. 

    Talking to newshounds, Mir mentioned no longer handiest Congress birthday party, however all non-BJP secular events have come in combination, and are “wailing over the loss of life of democracy” within the nation. “The BJP executive has no longer left any signal of the Charter within the nation, all of the steps it takes are unlawful and undemocratic,” he charged.

    Jammu and Kashmir Congress President Vikar Rasool Wani with birthday party leaders phases a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Jammu. (Photograph | PTI)

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  • Martyred PM’s son who walked for nationwide solidarity can by no means insult nation: Priyanka Gandhi

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday stated a martyred high minister’s son who walked hundreds of kilometres for nationwide solidarity can by no means insult the rustic because the Congress held a national protest towards the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha.

    Priyanka Gandhi was once addressing the ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ at Rajghat — the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi — right here to protest towards Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 defamation case and his next disqualification from the Lok Sabha.

    She stated the time had come to lift a voice towards an “conceited executive” as barring Rahul Gandhi from contesting elections does no longer bode smartly for the rustic and its democracy.

    The Congress has introduced a day-long satyagraha in any respect states and district headquarters to protest towards Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 defamation case and his next disqualification from the Lok Sabha.

    Gandhi was once disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, an afternoon after a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him within the defamation case.

    ALSO READ | Will struggle ‘legally and politically’: Congress on Rahul’s LS disqualification

    The disqualification will save you Gandhi (52), a four-time MP, from contesting elections for 8 years until the next court docket remains the conviction.

    The Congress chief alleged that Rahul Gandhi was once disqualified for wondering the high minister on industrialist Gautam Adani and other people will give a befitting answer to these at the back of the motion.

    “My circle of relatives’s blood has ploughed democracy on this nation. We’re able to do anything else for this nation’s democracy. Nice leaders of Congress laid the basis of democracy on this nation. Time has come and we aren’t those who will stay silent anymore,” she advised the outdoor Rajghat.

    Asking if a martyred high minister’s son can insult the rustic, Priyanka Gandhi stated, “That is an insult to that high minister who gave his lifestyles.”

    “You’ve gotten known as a martyr’s son anti-national, Mir Jafar, insulted his mom in Parliament. The high minister in Parliament asks why this circle of relatives does no longer use the ‘Nehru’ surname. You insult all the circle of relatives and the custom of Kashmiri Pandits.

    ALSO READ | ‘Combating for voice of India, able to pay any value’: Rahul Gandhi

    “However there’s no case towards you. You do not get a case or a two-year time period and nobody disqualifies you. Why?” she requested.

    Priyanka Gandhi stated until these days, they have got been insulting “our circle of relatives and we remained silent however no longer any further”.

    “How a lot will you insult one particular person?” she stated and requested if Lord Ram, who was once despatched into exile, was once a “parivaarwadi”.

    The Congress chief, who alleged that the rustic’s wealth was once being looted and given to at least one particular person, stated this wealth belongs to the folk and nobody can take it away.

    “When conceited dictators are not able to reply to the questions raised, they are trying to suppress those that ask the questions.

    “This whole Cupboard, executive and MPs are seeking to save one particular person and aren’t protecting an inquiry. Who is that this Adani in whose make stronger everybody comes the instant his title plants up?” she requested.

    Wondering if this was once the “mom of democracy”, she requested why persons are nonetheless unemployed if the financial system is doing so smartly.

    Noting that lakhs of other people joined Rahul Gandhi on his Bharat Jodo Yatra when he walked from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, Priyanka Gandhi stated, “When an individual who walks from Kanyakumari to Kashmir to unite the rustic, can this particular person insult the rustic?” Popping out in make stronger of her brother, she asserted that Rahul Gandhi needs the deficient, adolescence and the ladies to get their rights and what belongs to them must cross into their fingers and to not anyone who is a large guy and the high minister’s “good friend”.

    She stated Rahul Gandhi studied at Harvard and Cambridge — the most productive universities on the planet — however nonetheless they name him a “Pappu”.

    “After they got here to grasp that he’s no longer Pappu and lakhs of persons are strolling with him, they were given disturbed over the questions he raised in Parliament to which they do not have solutions.

    They’ve to do all this to forestall only one particular person.

    “This nation’s high minister is a coward. Take me to prison however in reality this nation’s high minister is a coward. He’s hiding at the back of his energy and (he) is conceited. However this nation’s custom is that individuals respond to an conceited king. This nation recognises an conceited king. This nation is aware of the reality,” she stated.

    Priyanka Gandhi additionally recommended the media to know their accountability as “democracy is in peril”.

    “If the person who questions is barred from contesting elections for 8 years, it’s not proper for the rustic or its democracy.

    Time has come — ‘daro mat (do not be afraid)’.

    “Time has come to stand them and unite and make sure the solidarity of the rustic and take it ahead,” she asserted amid cheers from the Congress rank and report.

    NEW DELHI: Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday stated a martyred high minister’s son who walked hundreds of kilometres for nationwide solidarity can by no means insult the rustic because the Congress held a national protest towards the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha.

    Priyanka Gandhi was once addressing the ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ at Rajghat — the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi — right here to protest towards Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 defamation case and his next disqualification from the Lok Sabha.

    She stated the time had come to lift a voice towards an “conceited executive” as barring Rahul Gandhi from contesting elections does no longer bode smartly for the rustic and its democracy.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The Congress has introduced a day-long satyagraha in any respect states and district headquarters to protest towards Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 defamation case and his next disqualification from the Lok Sabha.

    Gandhi was once disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, an afternoon after a court docket in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him within the defamation case.

    ALSO READ | Will struggle ‘legally and politically’: Congress on Rahul’s LS disqualification

    The disqualification will save you Gandhi (52), a four-time MP, from contesting elections for 8 years until the next court docket remains the conviction.

    The Congress chief alleged that Rahul Gandhi was once disqualified for wondering the high minister on industrialist Gautam Adani and other people will give a befitting answer to these at the back of the motion.

    “My circle of relatives’s blood has ploughed democracy on this nation. We’re able to do anything else for this nation’s democracy. Nice leaders of Congress laid the basis of democracy on this nation. Time has come and we aren’t those who will stay silent anymore,” she advised the outdoor Rajghat.

    Asking if a martyred high minister’s son can insult the rustic, Priyanka Gandhi stated, “That is an insult to that high minister who gave his lifestyles.”

    “You’ve gotten known as a martyr’s son anti-national, Mir Jafar, insulted his mom in Parliament. The high minister in Parliament asks why this circle of relatives does no longer use the ‘Nehru’ surname. You insult all the circle of relatives and the custom of Kashmiri Pandits.

    ALSO READ | ‘Combating for voice of India, able to pay any value’: Rahul Gandhi

    “However there’s no case towards you. You do not get a case or a two-year time period and nobody disqualifies you. Why?” she requested.

    Priyanka Gandhi stated until these days, they have got been insulting “our circle of relatives and we remained silent however no longer any further”.

    “How a lot will you insult one particular person?” she stated and requested if Lord Ram, who was once despatched into exile, was once a “parivaarwadi”.

    The Congress chief, who alleged that the rustic’s wealth was once being looted and given to at least one particular person, stated this wealth belongs to the folk and nobody can take it away.

    “When conceited dictators are not able to reply to the questions raised, they are trying to suppress those that ask the questions.

    “This whole Cupboard, executive and MPs are seeking to save one particular person and aren’t protecting an inquiry. Who is that this Adani in whose make stronger everybody comes the instant his title plants up?” she requested.

    Wondering if this was once the “mom of democracy”, she requested why persons are nonetheless unemployed if the financial system is doing so smartly.

    Noting that lakhs of other people joined Rahul Gandhi on his Bharat Jodo Yatra when he walked from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, Priyanka Gandhi stated, “When an individual who walks from Kanyakumari to Kashmir to unite the rustic, can this particular person insult the rustic?” Popping out in make stronger of her brother, she asserted that Rahul Gandhi needs the deficient, adolescence and the ladies to get their rights and what belongs to them must cross into their fingers and to not anyone who is a large guy and the high minister’s “good friend”.

    She stated Rahul Gandhi studied at Harvard and Cambridge — the most productive universities on the planet — however nonetheless they name him a “Pappu”.

    “After they got here to grasp that he’s no longer Pappu and lakhs of persons are strolling with him, they were given disturbed over the questions he raised in Parliament to which they do not have solutions.

    They’ve to do all this to forestall only one particular person.

    “This nation’s high minister is a coward. Take me to prison however in reality this nation’s high minister is a coward. He’s hiding at the back of his energy and (he) is conceited. However this nation’s custom is that individuals respond to an conceited king. This nation recognises an conceited king. This nation is aware of the reality,” she stated.

    Priyanka Gandhi additionally recommended the media to know their accountability as “democracy is in peril”.

    “If the person who questions is barred from contesting elections for 8 years, it’s not proper for the rustic or its democracy.

    Time has come — ‘daro mat (do not be afraid)’.

    “Time has come to stand them and unite and make sure the solidarity of the rustic and take it ahead,” she asserted amid cheers from the Congress rank and report.

  • Who’re the folks inside Congress in need of to do away with Rahul, wonders Anurag Thakur

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: The BJP on Friday panned Rahul Gandhi as a “ordinary culprit” who believed the legislation didn’t observe to him and asserted that neither the birthday party nor the federal government had any function in his disqualification from Lok Sabha because the Splendid Courtroom has made it transparent {that a} lawmaker loses his club from the time of his conviction in a legal case.

    Addressing a press convention, Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Anurag Thakur additionally advised {that a} conspiracy throughout the Congress would possibly have performed a task in its leaders no longer coming near a better court docket for aid for Gandhi after his conviction on Thursday because it had executed so in terms of Pawan Khera inside hours of the Assam Police arresting him.

    Who’re the folks throughout the Congress in need of to do away with Rahul Gandhi, Union Minister for Adolescence Affairs and Sports activities Thakur requested, noting that the birthday party has a battery of attorneys and questioning if the previous birthday party president used to be intentionally put at the “fallacious trail”.

    The Congress has to this point no longer appealed in opposition to the Surat court docket order convicting Gandhi in a 2019 defamation case to 2 years of imprisonment.

    With the Congress slamming the federal government over his disqualification, alleging that it indicates “strangulation of democracy” with the ruling dispensation discovering new ways of “gagging” him, BJP leaders hit again.

    ALSO READ | Defamation case: Rahul Gandhi disqualified as MP; could also be barred from contesting polls for 8 years

    “Congress birthday party, particularly the Nehru-Gandhi circle of relatives, desires a separate Indian Penal Code underneath which they can’t be convicted. They would like a separate judiciary. They be afflicted by a way of entitlement and feudal mindset. They fail to needless to say in a democracy the legislation is equivalent for all,” Pradhan stated.

    “Rahul Gandhi is a ordinary culprit and free cannon. He concept he may say the rest with out going through any penalties,” Thakur stated, noting that the Congress chief is on bail in seven other instances.

    Gandhi has at all times thought to be himself above Parliament, govt and the rustic, the BJP chief stated whilst relating to his alleged fresh insulting remarks in regards to the Indian democracy in the United Kingdom.

    He needed to apologise to the Splendid Courtroom for his defamatory remarks within the Rafale case however didn’t mend his techniques, the ideas and broadcasting minister stated.

    Each leaders additionally made gentle of opposition events rallying round Gandhi at the factor and criticising the federal government for its “dictatorial” manners.

    Pradhan stated one 0 becoming a member of some other 0 does no longer alternate the result.

    All of them can stand in combination however the nation stands with High Minister Narendra Modi, Thakur stated, claiming that BJP’s opponents are indignant with Modi as coming from a humble background he has introduced glory and status to India globally.

    Many international leaders have additionally said his management, he added.

    The observation through opposition events is in opposition to India’s democracy and the mandate of the deficient and backwards for Modi, Thakur stated.

    The Lok Sabha Secretariat disqualified Gandhi as MP from Wayanad in Kerala an afternoon after he used to be convicted in a 2019 legal defamation case for his commentary “How come all thieves have Modi as the typical surname?” Following his disqualification, he would no longer have the ability to contest elections for 8 years except a better court docket remains his conviction and sentence.

    The Lok Sabha Speaker has handiest showed the criminal place through along with his talking order, Thakur stated.

    ALSO READ | Your sycophants known as the son of a martyred high Minister a traitor, Mir Jafar: Priyanka slams BJP

    Pradhan, an OBC chief from Odisha, accused Gandhi of “abusing” a complete backward group. “Legislation is equivalent for everybody,” he added.

    The BJP leaders famous that a number of lawmakers, in Lok Sabha and state assemblies, were disqualified on an identical grounds up to now.

    Thakur stated Gandhi epitomised “unparliamentary” behavior and likewise identified his deficient legislative monitor file in Lok Sabha to assert that folks of Wayanad shall be relieved to do away with him.

    Hitting again at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for his declare that Gandhi has been punished for talking the reality at the Adani-Hindenburg factor, he requested if abusing disadvantaged and backward communities manner talking the reality.

    Thakur additionally condemned Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his “maximum corrupt” jibe at Modi.

    The BJP does desire a certificates from any person whose access in politics used to be in response to “lies”, with a lot of his ministers charged in instances of corruption.

    Modi has devoted each and every second of his existence for growing nation, he added.

    राहुल गांधी जी को लगता था कि वो दुर्भाग्य से सांसद हैं।

    भगवान ने उनकी सुन ली और कोर्ट के माध्यम से उन्हें उनके दुर्भाग्य से मुक्ति दे दी।

    सदस्यता पर निर्णय कोर्ट का, कांग्रेस का हंगामा रोड पर…

    आख़िर क्यों? %.twitter.com/uEZExiwm7a

    — Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) March 24, 2023

    NEW DELHI: The BJP on Friday panned Rahul Gandhi as a “ordinary culprit” who believed the legislation didn’t observe to him and asserted that neither the birthday party nor the federal government had any function in his disqualification from Lok Sabha because the Splendid Courtroom has made it transparent {that a} lawmaker loses his club from the time of his conviction in a legal case.

    Addressing a press convention, Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Anurag Thakur additionally advised {that a} conspiracy throughout the Congress would possibly have performed a task in its leaders no longer coming near a better court docket for aid for Gandhi after his conviction on Thursday because it had executed so in terms of Pawan Khera inside hours of the Assam Police arresting him.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Who’re the folks throughout the Congress in need of to do away with Rahul Gandhi, Union Minister for Adolescence Affairs and Sports activities Thakur requested, noting that the birthday party has a battery of attorneys and questioning if the previous birthday party president used to be intentionally put at the “fallacious trail”.

    The Congress has to this point no longer appealed in opposition to the Surat court docket order convicting Gandhi in a 2019 defamation case to 2 years of imprisonment.

    With the Congress slamming the federal government over his disqualification, alleging that it indicates “strangulation of democracy” with the ruling dispensation discovering new ways of “gagging” him, BJP leaders hit again.

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    “Congress birthday party, particularly the Nehru-Gandhi circle of relatives, desires a separate Indian Penal Code underneath which they can’t be convicted. They would like a separate judiciary. They be afflicted by a way of entitlement and feudal mindset. They fail to needless to say in a democracy the legislation is equivalent for all,” Pradhan stated.

    “Rahul Gandhi is a ordinary culprit and free cannon. He concept he may say the rest with out going through any penalties,” Thakur stated, noting that the Congress chief is on bail in seven other instances.

    Gandhi has at all times thought to be himself above Parliament, govt and the rustic, the BJP chief stated whilst relating to his alleged fresh insulting remarks in regards to the Indian democracy in the United Kingdom.

    He needed to apologise to the Splendid Courtroom for his defamatory remarks within the Rafale case however didn’t mend his techniques, the ideas and broadcasting minister stated.

    Each leaders additionally made gentle of opposition events rallying round Gandhi at the factor and criticising the federal government for its “dictatorial” manners.

    Pradhan stated one 0 becoming a member of some other 0 does no longer alternate the result.

    All of them can stand in combination however the nation stands with High Minister Narendra Modi, Thakur stated, claiming that BJP’s opponents are indignant with Modi as coming from a humble background he has introduced glory and status to India globally.

    Many international leaders have additionally said his management, he added.

    The observation through opposition events is in opposition to India’s democracy and the mandate of the deficient and backwards for Modi, Thakur stated.

    The Lok Sabha Secretariat disqualified Gandhi as MP from Wayanad in Kerala an afternoon after he used to be convicted in a 2019 legal defamation case for his commentary “How come all thieves have Modi as the typical surname?” Following his disqualification, he would no longer have the ability to contest elections for 8 years except a better court docket remains his conviction and sentence.

    The Lok Sabha Speaker has handiest showed the criminal place through along with his talking order, Thakur stated.

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    Pradhan, an OBC chief from Odisha, accused Gandhi of “abusing” a complete backward group. “Legislation is equivalent for everybody,” he added.

    The BJP leaders famous that a number of lawmakers, in Lok Sabha and state assemblies, were disqualified on an identical grounds up to now.

    Thakur stated Gandhi epitomised “unparliamentary” behavior and likewise identified his deficient legislative monitor file in Lok Sabha to assert that folks of Wayanad shall be relieved to do away with him.

    Hitting again at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for his declare that Gandhi has been punished for talking the reality at the Adani-Hindenburg factor, he requested if abusing disadvantaged and backward communities manner talking the reality.

    Thakur additionally condemned Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his “maximum corrupt” jibe at Modi.

    The BJP does desire a certificates from any person whose access in politics used to be in response to “lies”, with a lot of his ministers charged in instances of corruption.

    Modi has devoted each and every second of his existence for growing nation, he added.

    राहुल गांधी जी को लगता था कि वो दुर्भाग्य से सांसद हैं।
    भगवान ने उनकी सुन ली और कोर्ट के माध्यम से उन्हें उनके दुर्भाग्य से मुक्ति दे दी।
    सदस्यता पर निर्णय कोर्ट का, कांग्रेस का हंगामा रोड पर…
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    — Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) March 24, 2023