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  • ‘Deceptive’ Rahul Gandhi video: Raipur police accuse UP law enforcement officials of obstructing arrest of scribe Rohit Ranjan

    By way of PTI

    RAIPUR: A workforce of Raipur police from Chhattisgarh reached Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday to arrest TV information anchor Rohit Ranjan in reference to the displaying of an alleged “deceptive” information over a observation of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, police officers right here stated.

    Then again, the Raipur police have been obstructed by way of their Uttar Pradesh opposite numbers who took Ranjan in conjunction with them, they claimed.

    A case was once registered towards Ranjan and others of the Zee Information on Sunday for allegedly selling enmity between other teams and outraging non secular emotions of folks in response to the criticism of Congress MLA Devendra Yadav, Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal instructed PTI.

    A workforce was once constituted to analyze the case and it was once despatched to Ghaziabad to arrest the accused, he stated.

    “Complying with the due means of regulation, the Raipur police workforce reached the place of abode of the accused in Ghaziabad this morning for the execution of the warrant issued by way of the competent courtroom within the case.

    After taking the accused into custody, the workforce was once finishing the process of arrest.

    In the meantime, the native police (Uttar Pradesh police) forcefully took the accused in conjunction with them and obstructed the process regardless of the Raipur police appearing the warrant,” Agrawal stated.

    MLA Yadav in his criticism alleged that on July 1, a video, wherein Rahul Gandhi described the ones attacking his Wayanad place of business as youngsters and stated he had no ill-will towards them, was once “mischievously” utilized by a TV channel to indicate he was once forgiving the killers of Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal.

    The complainant accused the director and chairman of Zee Information, its Leader Govt Officer, and anchor Rohit Ranjan of conspiring to unfold fabricated and pretend information towards Gandhi in a bid to incite communal riots and disturb social cohesion, the police reliable stated.

    On Tuesday morning, Ranjan posted on his Twitter care for that “with out informing the native police, “Chhattisgarh Police was once status outdoor my space to arrest me. Is that this legally proper?””

    The Raipur police of their answer tweeted, “There’s no such rule to tell. Nonetheless, now they’re knowledgeable. Police workforce has proven you the courtroom’s warrant of arrest. You must in truth cooperate, sign up for within the investigation and put your defence in courtroom.”

    Previous on July 2, Ranjan had apologized right through his TV display for “mistakenly” taking part in Gandhi’s observation out of context by way of linking it with the Udaipur homicide case.

    ““It was once a human error for which our workforce apologetic. We apologise for it,”” he had tweeted in Hindi.

    The out-of-context video was once utilized by a number of folks together with BJP leaders to assault Gandhi and the Congress celebration within the wake of the grotesque beheading of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

  • Village highway norms underneath PM Gram Sadak Yojana wish to be versatile: Rahul Gandhi

    Through Categorical Information Provider

    MALAPPURAM: Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi on Sunday mentioned that the ideas underneath the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) want extra flexibility in response to person wishes and cases of each and every state and has asked the Centre to imagine revising them accordingly.

    Talking on the inauguration of the development of the Ambalappadi-Valamppuram-Kootanpara highway at Karulai right here underneath the PMGSY, Rahul mentioned that he has written a letter to the Union Minister of Street Delivery to imagine revising the ideas. “The scheme excludes roads under 5 kilometres. The duration of a few roads in Kerala is lesser in comparison to different states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar,” he mentioned. 

    Rahul added that he has given a listing of eleven roads and 1 bridge earlier than Kerala State Rural Building Company for being incorporated underneath PMGSY for repairs and upgradation. “I’m hoping roads and bridges will quickly be built underneath the PMGSY scheme,” he mentioned. 

    The Wayanad MP, thereafter, flagged off a number of trauma care ambulances from Wandoor. Chokkad Palliative Care, Hima Care Centre, Adakkakundu, and Trauma Care Centres functioning in Wandoor will use the cars bought the usage of the MLA fund of AP Anil Kumar.

  • ‘Workforce India is one the place individuals are united, no longer divided’: Rahul Gandhi amid rows over Udaipur, Amravati killings

    Via PTI

    MALAPPURAM: Workforce India is one the place everybody comes in combination without reference to their faith, language or neighborhood to triumph over demanding situations sooner than the rustic and no longer one that is split because the ruling dispensation on the Centre allegedly believes, Congress chief and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi mentioned on Sunday.

    Talking at an tournament for honouring Santosh Trophy winners and distributing soccer jerseys to quite a lot of groups in Malappuram district of Kerala, Gandhi mentioned identical to a soccer or cricket group, which calls for all its avid gamers to play as a unit to win, India too is a group whose luck is “according to all its folks, the entire religions, the entire languages, the States and the entire communities” right here coming in combination.

    “That’s what group India is. Alternatively, we’ve got a ruling dispensation which doesn’t perceive this. They believe via dividing India alongside spiritual traces, language traces, neighborhood traces, Workforce India will also be a hit. You’ll see the results of hatred and department. You’ll see the commercial cave in that has taken position. You’ll see the joblessness this is obvious to each and every unmarried particular person,” he mentioned.

    “Due to this fact, my recommendation to you is that the similar means you deal with your fellow avid gamers within the group, deal with all Indians as a group. Elevate everyone in combination. Without reference to the place they arrive from, without reference to their faith, language or neighborhood, deal with them the entire similar. Then Workforce India will conquer the entire demanding situations sooner than it,” the Congress MP mentioned.

    Gandhi, in his speech, additional mentioned that the one India conceivable was once a “secular India”.

    “There’s no different India this is conceivable. An India this is divided alongside spiritual traces, this is divided alongside linguistic traces, is now not India. An India the place folks really feel humiliated as a result of the State they arrive from, the faith they practice or the language they discuss, this isn’t the real India. India is a union of all States, religions, languages and communities and India exists provided that each and every one who belongs right here feels relaxed right here,” the Congress MP mentioned.

    Gandhi was once on a three-day seek advice from to Kerala and can go back to Delhi this night.

  • Congress rejects record claiming Rahul sought AIADMK’s beef up for Sinha

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday brushed aside as “bogus” a information record claiming that Rahul Gandhi known as up AIADMK chief E Palaniswamy in the hunt for beef up for the blended Opposition Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha.

    In a remark, AICC common secretary Communications Jairam Ramesh stated the inside track record is “bogus and false” and is a “mischievous effort to sow confusion”.

    “That is wholly bogus and utterly false. No such telephone name used to be made. The DMK-Congress alliance is company and steadfast sufficient to resist such crude and mischievous efforts to sow confusion and weaken it,” Ramesh stated in a remark. The Congress and DMK are supporting their joint candidate Sinha for the July 18 presidential election.

  • PM can not exchange my habits through making me take a seat in ED place of job for 5 days, says Rahul

    Through PTI

    WAYANAD: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who not too long ago confronted an ED probe within the Nationwide Usher in case, on Friday took a dig on the Top Minister, alleging Narendra Modi followed this sort of measure because of ‘confusion’ however didn’t know there could be no exchange within the Wayanad MP’s habits through making him take a seat within the central company’s place of job for 5 days.

    Gandhi used to be quizzed through the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Delhi for 5 days final month in reference to the Nationwide Usher in cash laundering case.

    “The Executive of India. The Top Minister thinks that through making me take a seat within the ED (place of job) for 5 days, I will be able to exchange my behaviour. It is a confusion within the thoughts of the Top Minister,” the Gandhi instructed a UDF Bahujana Sangamam organised in Sulthan Bathery right here towards the Eco-Delicate Zone coverage of the BJP-ruled Centre and the CPI(M)-led state govt.

    Alleging that each the BJP and the CPI(M) imagine in violence and that it used to be deep-rooted of their ideology, he stated each assume that through the manner of violence and through threatening they may be able to form other folks’s behaviour.

    “They each assume, through appearing violently they may be able to threaten folks. It is a very deep confusion of their thoughts. As a result of they lack braveness. They suspect violence can form other folks’s behaviour. That isn’t the case. As a result of there are lots of folks whose behaviour can’t be formed through the violence and through threats,” the Congress chief stated.

    Relating to the SFI activists’ assault on his place of job in Kalpetta final week, Gandhi stated the CPI(M) additionally believed that through destructive his place of job he would exchange his behaviour.

    “My behaviour is formed through my affection for the folk of my nation. It’s formed through the love for the toiling lots of this nation. It may by no means be formed through my warring parties or my enemies,” Gandhi added.

  • Rahul Gandhi asks PM Modi to handle issues of the ones suffering from SC order on ESZs in Wayanad

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has written to High Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to assist cope with the troubles of the ones suffering from the Ultimate Courtroom order on repairs of Eco-Delicate Zones (ESZ) round nationwide parks and natural world sanctuaries.

    The Wayanad MP, sharing his letter to the top minister in a Fb submit, stated he has drawn his consideration to the plight of the native communities of Kerala’s Wayanad whose livelihoods will likely be adversely suffering from the new Ultimate Courtroom order.

    “The state and the union governments can assist by way of soliciting for dilution of a minimal width of an ESZ to the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) and the Ministry of Setting, Woodland and Local weather Exchange (MoEF&CC). The Ultimate Courtroom judgment considers suggestions made by way of the CEC and the MoEF&CC,” he stated in his Fb submit.

    In his letter to the top minister, Gandhi stated he has additionally despatched a missive to the Kerala leader minister at the factor.

    “I request the Union govt to handle those issues within the higher public pastime and reiterate our shared dedication to balancing conservation objectives with our other people’s authentic developmental wishes,” Gandhi stated within the letter to Modi.

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    Recalling the new judgement of the Ultimate Courtroom within the T N Godavarman Thirumulpad as opposed to Union of India and others case, Gandhi stated it mandates repairs of an Eco-Delicate Zone ( ESZ ) of 1 km round nationwide parks and natural world sanctuaries which has ended in in style protests round Wayanad parliamentary constituency.

    “Native communities, nonetheless reeling underneath the affect of the Covid pandemic, have expressed grave issues in regards to the implications of this judgment on their lives and livelihoods. The Tips for Declaration of Eco-Delicate Zones round Nationwide Parks and Flora and fauna Sanctuaries dated February 9, 2011, in addition to the above-mentioned judgement limit sure actions within the ESZ. The ESZ Tips additionally control a number of actions, together with, the alternate of agriculture techniques, coverage of hill slopes, and erection {of electrical} cables,” he stated.

    The judgement, he famous, states that no everlasting construction will be authorised to come back up for in any way function throughout the ESZ.

    “As one of the vital densely populated areas within the Western Ghats, such restrictions abate the facility of native communities to reinforce their way of life.

    “The judgement supplies for the dilution of the minimal width of the ESZ in ‘overwhelming’ public pastime and lets in the State govt to manner the Central Empowered Committee and the Ministry of Setting, Woodland and Local weather Exchange in regards to the identical, and states that the suggestions of the CEC and MoEF & CC could be thought to be by way of the Ultimate Courtroom,” Gandhi stated in his letter looking for PM’s intervention.

  • Nationwide Bring in case: ED grills Rahul Gandhi for over 11 hours for 5th day; no contemporary summons

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi used to be puzzled through the Enforcement Directorate for over 11 hours on Tuesday, the 5th day of his deposition within the Nationwide Bring in cash laundering case.

    The Congress MP from Wayanad (Kerala) spent a complete of about 54 hours on the ED place of job over 5 sittings with the investigators wondering him over more than one classes and recording his observation underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).

    He has no longer been issued contemporary summons and it’s understood that his wondering has ended, no less than for now. Gandhi (52) took a 30 minutes destroy round 8 pm and re-joined the consultation that began within the morning at 11:30 am.

    He in the end left the company place of job at 11:30 pm. He used to be puzzled for 3 consecutive days ultimate week, starting June 13, and after Monday’s wondering, he used to be requested to rejoin the consultation and whole the recording of his observation.

    Gandhi left the company place of job after nighttime on Monday. The probe pertains to alleged monetary irregularities within the Congress-promoted Younger Indian Non-public Restricted, which owns the Nationwide Bring in newspaper.

    The ED is known to have requested Gandhi in regards to the incorporation of Younger Indian Non-public Restricted, operations of the Nationwide Bring in, the mortgage given through the birthday party to the newspaper’s writer Related Journals Restricted (AJL), and the switch of finances inside the information media established order.

    It’s understood that Gandhi caught to his place that there used to be no private acquisition of belongings through himself or his circle of relatives as Younger Indian used to be a “not-for-profit” corporate and that in spite of he being a majority shareholder, quite a lot of monetary choices taken to restore the Nationwide Bring in newspaper used to be taken jointly through senior Congress birthday party leaders.

    The ED, assets indicated, sought after to know the way the mortgage used to be prolonged to AJL through the Congress birthday party and if the provisions of the Corporations Act and the anti-money laundering legislation have been contravened on this AJL-Congress-Younger Indian deal.

    Gandhi is known to have confronted a collection of no less than 20 questions all the way through the 5 days of wondering.

    The transfer to query Gandhi used to be initiated after the ED not too long ago registered a contemporary case underneath the prison provisions of the PMLA after an ordeal courtroom right here took cognisance of an Source of revenue Tax division probe in opposition to Younger Indian at the foundation of a non-public prison criticism filed through BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in 2013.

    Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are a number of the promoters and majority shareholders of Younger Indian. Like her son, the Congress president too has 38 in keeping with cent shareholding. Swamy had accused the Gandhis and others of conspiring to cheat and misappropriate finances, with YI paying most effective Rs 50 lakh to procure the appropriate to get better Rs 90.25 crore that AJL owed to the Congress.

    In February ultimate 12 months, the Delhi Top Court docket issued a realize to the Gandhis for his or her reaction on Swamy’s plea, in search of to steer proof within the topic sooner than the trial courtroom. Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Pawan Bansal have been puzzled through the ED on this case in April.

    Congress president Sonia Gandhi has additionally been summoned through the company for wondering within the case on June 23. She used to be discharged on Monday from a non-public clinic in Delhi the place she used to be admitted for coronavirus-related headaches.

    She has been prompt relaxation at house. The Congress has accused the Centre of concentrated on opposition leaders through misusing investigative businesses and has termed all of the motion a “political vendetta”.

  • Nationwide Bring in case: Enforcement Directorate summons Rahul Gandhi for 5th day on Tuesday

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has requested Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to sign up for investigation for the 5th day on June 21 and report his observation within the Nationwide Bring in cash laundering case, officers mentioned on Monday.

    Gandhi seemed for the fourth day of wondering on Monday, an afternoon after he became 52, and the consultation would proceed. Officers mentioned that he has been requested to sign up for the probe once more on Tuesday and proceed recording his observation beneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).

    The Congress MP has spent as many as 38 hours on the ED headquarters on APJ Abdul Kalam Highway within the nationwide capital over 4 sittings since his first look on June 13. The ED probe relates to alleged monetary irregularities within the Congress-promoted Younger Indian Non-public Restricted, which owns the Nationwide Bring in newspaper.

    The newspaper is revealed via Related Journals Restricted (AJL) and owned via Younger Indian Non-public Restricted. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has additionally been summoned via the company for wondering within the case on June 23.

  • Congress holds protest in Delhi towards Agnipath scheme, wondering of Rahul Gandhi through ED 

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Rankings of senior Congress leaders and staff held a protest at Jantar Mantar right here towards the Centre’s Agnipath defence recruitment scheme and the wondering of birthday party chief Rahul Gandhi through the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case.

    Rajasthan Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot, birthday party’s chief within the Lok Sabha Adir Ranjan Chowdhury, senior leaders Sachin Pilot, Salman Khurshid, Mallikarjun Kharge and KC Venugopal took section within the protest, who noticed the participation of over 500 other people.

    Every other protest used to be held through staff of the Indian Adolescence Congress at Connaught Position right here over the dual problems which threw site visitors out of drugs in spaces surrounding the marketplace.

    Gandhi on Monday gave the impression earlier than the ED for the fourth day of wondering within the Nationwide Bring in cash laundering case.

    Protests have erupted in more than a few portions of the rustic after the Centre unveiled the Agnipath scheme ultimate Tuesday to recruit kids elderly between 17-and-a-half and 21 years within the military, army and air pressure, in large part on a four-year contractual foundation.

    It later comfy the higher age restrict for this yr’s recruitment to 23.

  • Delhi Police input Congress HQ, beat up cadre? Police officers deny

    Via Specific Information Provider

    NEW DELHI: The Congress headquarters right here witnessed prime drama on Wednesday because the celebration endured its protest over the wondering of its chief Rahul Gandhi via the Enforcement Directorate within the Nationwide Bring in case for the 3rd consecutive day.

    Celebration leaders alleged that Delhi Police body of workers forcibly entered its headquarters at Akbar Street and thrashed them, posting a video of the incident on Twitter to confirm their claims. On the other hand, the police denied their allegations.

    “In an act of absolute goondaism perpetuated via the Delhi Police on the example of the Modi executive, the police lately forcibly entered the nationwide headquarters of the Congress right here and beat up celebration staff and leaders. That is patently felony trespass,” Congress leader spokesperson Randeep Surjewala mentioned.

    Different senior leaders alleged that safety body of workers misbehaved with girls parliamentarians and handled them like ‘criminals’. Jothimani Sennimalai, Tamil Nadu MP, launched a video during which she appealed to the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to begin motion towards the protection body of workers who mistreated girls MPs. “We had been brutally overwhelmed up and assaulted on Tuesday and lately as neatly.

    Our garments had been torn and footwear had been got rid of. They’re taking us to an unknown location. We would have liked water however the police didn’t permit us to buy water. The protection body of workers bundled 7-8 girls within the bus and handled them like criminals,” she alleged. Detained celebration leaders and functionaries equivalent to Sachin Pilot, Amrita Dhawan, Ajay Yadav, Vivek Bansal, Lalji Desai and Srinivas B V had been taken to other police stations in Alipur, Narela, Vasant Kunj, Najafgarh, and Burari.

    The Congress demanded that an FIR for felony trespass be filed, erring police body of workers suspended and disciplinary motion initiated towards them. On the other hand, the police rejected the fees. “The allegations are utterly false and we strongly denied them,” a senior police officer mentioned.