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

    By way of PTI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Congress leaders from Madhya Pradesh meet Kharge over ballot preparedness

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI Most sensible Congress leaders from Madhya Pradesh on Monday met celebration leader Mallikarjun Kharge on the AICC headquarters right here over the preparedness for the approaching meeting elections within the state.

    Resources stated the assembly used to be attended through Rahul Gandhi, former leader minister Kamal Nath, amongst others.

    Kharge may also hang deliberations with celebration leaders from Rajasthan the place Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot shall be in attendance.

    Gehlot has already reached the nationwide capital for the meet. Those interactions shall be attended through state unit chiefs in addition to celebration in-charges of each the poll-bound states.

    #WATCH | When requested about more than a few “formulae” being speculated round Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot, CM Gehlot says, “By no means in my lifestyles have I noticed a convention in Congress {that a} chief calls for one thing or top command asks him what submit he needs…Top Command &… percent.twitter.com/f47AtCYVx7

    — ANI (@ANI) Would possibly 29, 2023

    Those also are a part of the Congress’ efforts to turn on celebration cadres and get ready the bottom for the meeting polls slated later this 12 months.

    NEW DELHI Most sensible Congress leaders from Madhya Pradesh on Monday met celebration leader Mallikarjun Kharge on the AICC headquarters right here over the preparedness for the approaching meeting elections within the state.

    Resources stated the assembly used to be attended through Rahul Gandhi, former leader minister Kamal Nath, amongst others.

    Kharge may also hang deliberations with celebration leaders from Rajasthan the place Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot shall be in attendance.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

    Gehlot has already reached the nationwide capital for the meet. Those interactions shall be attended through state unit chiefs in addition to celebration in-charges of each the poll-bound states.

    #WATCH | When requested about more than a few “formulae” being speculated round Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot, CM Gehlot says, “By no means in my lifestyles have I noticed a convention in Congress {that a} chief calls for one thing or top command asks him what submit he needs…Top Command &… percent.twitter.com/f47AtCYVx7
    — ANI (@ANI) Would possibly 29, 2023
    Those also are a part of the Congress’ efforts to turn on celebration cadres and get ready the bottom for the meeting polls slated later this 12 months.

  • Parliament constructed thru constitutional values now not through ‘bricks of ego’: Rahul 

    His remarks got here after 19 opposition events, together with the Congress, Left introduced their determination to boycott the inauguration of the brand new parliament through PM Modi.

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday mentioned neither getting President Droupadi Murmu to inaugurate the brand new Parliament construction nor inviting her to the rite is an “insult” to the rustic’s easiest constitutional publish.

    The previous Congress president additionally mentioned Parliament isn’t constructed through “bricks of ego” however thru constitutional values.

    His remarks got here after 19 opposition events, together with the Congress, Left, AAP and TMC, introduced their determination to boycott the inauguration of the brand new Parliament complicated through High Minister Narendra Modi, pronouncing they to find no price in a brand new construction when the soul of democracy has been sucked out of Parliament.

    In a tweet in Hindi, Gandhi mentioned, “Neither getting the President to inaugurate the Parliament nor inviting her to the rite is an insult to the rustic’s easiest constitutional publish.

     “Parliament isn’t built through bricks of ego, however thru constitutional values,” Gandhi mentioned.

    राष्ट्रपति से संसद का उद्घाटन न करवाना और न ही उन्हें समारोह में बुलाना – यह देश के सर्वोच्च संवैधानिक पद का अपमान है।

    संसद अहंकार की ईंटों से नहीं, संवैधानिक मूल्यों से बनती है।

    — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) Might 24, 2023

    Modi will inaugurate the brand new Parliament construction on Might 28 following a call for participation through Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.

    The opposition events have mentioned the President is not just the Head of State in India, but additionally an integral a part of Parliament as she summons, prorogues, and addresses it.

    Due to this fact, they have got argued that the President will have to inaugurate the construction and now not the PM.

    READ MORE: 19 opposition events to boycott new Parliament construction inauguration

    ALSO READ: Ancient ‘Sengol’ from Tamil Nadu to be put in in new Parliament: Amit Shah

  • If Rahul Gandhi stays in Wayanad, it’s going to undergo identical destiny as Amethi did underneath him: Smriti Irani

    Through PTI

    TRIVANDRUM: Union Minister Smriti Irani on Monday took a dig at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi pointing out that if he stays in Wayanad, it might undergo the similar destiny as Amethi in Uttar Pradesh when he was once the MP from there.

    Gandhi was once the MP from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency sooner than his conviction and sentencing for 2 years via a Gujarat court docket in a legal defamation case.

    After inaugurating the state-level Girls Labour Conference organised via Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) Kerala right here, the Union minister stated she had the “just right fortune” of being the one that “despatched away” Gandhi from Amethi.

    “The cause of that was once that whilst he was once an MP from Amethi, 80 in keeping with cent of the folk there didn’t have electrical energy connections, there was once no District Collector’s place of work, no fireplace station, no clinical faculty, no Kendriya Vidyalaya or Sainik Faculty and the district medical institution had no dialysis centre or X-ray system. As soon as he left, these kind of amenities and infrastructure was once made conceivable there. Due to this fact, if he stays in Wayanad, it too shall undergo the similar destiny as Amethi. So, you (folks) have to make sure he does no longer stay right here,” the Union Minister for Girls and Kid Building stated.

    She additional stated that anyplace she is, be it in Delhi or Amethi, she worries so much about Wayanad and subsequently, determined to transform 250 anganwadis there into ‘saksham’ (succesful) anganwadis.

    A saksham anganwadi is a centrally subsidized scheme underneath which anganwadis in states and Union Territories supply a bundle of six products and services — supplementary diet, pre-school non-formal schooling, diet and well being schooling, immunisation, well being check-up and referral products and services — to all eligible beneficiaries.

    Irani additionally spoke concerning the quite a lot of central govt schemes, tasks or insurance policies carried out in Kerala for girls protection, monetary safety of the folk and social welfare of the electorate of the state.

    At the factor of the alleged loss of ladies’s protection within the state, the minister referred to the hot killing of a tender physician — Vandana Das — in a taluk medical institution within the state and stated it was once sudden such an incident passed off regardless of the presence of cops there.

    She puzzled why regardless of quite a lot of central govt tasks, like coaching body of workers to lend a hand sufferers of cybercrime, distributing forensic kits and facilitating putting in place of extra fast-track courts, and the monetary make stronger being supplied to improve the regulation and order device in Kerala, there was once a “loss of purpose” at the a part of the management to make sure ladies protection.

    “So when one hears of crimes in opposition to ladies within the state, one is pressured to invite why regardless of all this central lend a hand, together with monetary make stronger, to improve the techniques, there’s a loss of purpose at the a part of the state governments to make sure ladies protection,” the minister stated.

    Union Minister of State for Exterior Affairs V Muraleedharan, who additionally spoke on the match, expressed a identical view at the factor of girls protection, particularly of their offices.

    He stated that having ‘night time walks’ the place ladies in massive numbers take to the streets does no longer point out or make sure their protection as in fact they regularly have to go back house overdue from paintings all by myself.

    Irani, in her speech, additionally contended that whilst the ruling Left entrance within the state makes claims of running for the welfare of the deficient, it was once the Centre which was once making an attempt to make sure financial justice and monetary safety to the folk of Kerala.

    “The Left simplest makes claims,” she alleged.

    She additional alleged that the Left entrance was once simplest identified for moves and labored for their very own political building.

    TRIVANDRUM: Union Minister Smriti Irani on Monday took a dig at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi pointing out that if he stays in Wayanad, it might undergo the similar destiny as Amethi in Uttar Pradesh when he was once the MP from there.

    Gandhi was once the MP from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency sooner than his conviction and sentencing for 2 years via a Gujarat court docket in a legal defamation case.

    After inaugurating the state-level Girls Labour Conference organised via Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) Kerala right here, the Union minister stated she had the “just right fortune” of being the one that “despatched away” Gandhi from Amethi.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “The cause of that was once that whilst he was once an MP from Amethi, 80 in keeping with cent of the folk there didn’t have electrical energy connections, there was once no District Collector’s place of work, no fireplace station, no clinical faculty, no Kendriya Vidyalaya or Sainik Faculty and the district medical institution had no dialysis centre or X-ray system. As soon as he left, these kind of amenities and infrastructure was once made conceivable there. Due to this fact, if he stays in Wayanad, it too shall undergo the similar destiny as Amethi. So, you (folks) have to make sure he does no longer stay right here,” the Union Minister for Girls and Kid Building stated.

    She additional stated that anyplace she is, be it in Delhi or Amethi, she worries so much about Wayanad and subsequently, determined to transform 250 anganwadis there into ‘saksham’ (succesful) anganwadis.

    A saksham anganwadi is a centrally subsidized scheme underneath which anganwadis in states and Union Territories supply a bundle of six products and services — supplementary diet, pre-school non-formal schooling, diet and well being schooling, immunisation, well being check-up and referral products and services — to all eligible beneficiaries.

    Irani additionally spoke concerning the quite a lot of central govt schemes, tasks or insurance policies carried out in Kerala for girls protection, monetary safety of the folk and social welfare of the electorate of the state.

    At the factor of the alleged loss of ladies’s protection within the state, the minister referred to the hot killing of a tender physician — Vandana Das — in a taluk medical institution within the state and stated it was once sudden such an incident passed off regardless of the presence of cops there.

    She puzzled why regardless of quite a lot of central govt tasks, like coaching body of workers to lend a hand sufferers of cybercrime, distributing forensic kits and facilitating putting in place of extra fast-track courts, and the monetary make stronger being supplied to improve the regulation and order device in Kerala, there was once a “loss of purpose” at the a part of the management to make sure ladies protection.

    “So when one hears of crimes in opposition to ladies within the state, one is pressured to invite why regardless of all this central lend a hand, together with monetary make stronger, to improve the techniques, there’s a loss of purpose at the a part of the state governments to make sure ladies protection,” the minister stated.

    Union Minister of State for Exterior Affairs V Muraleedharan, who additionally spoke on the match, expressed a identical view at the factor of girls protection, particularly of their offices.

    He stated that having ‘night time walks’ the place ladies in massive numbers take to the streets does no longer point out or make sure their protection as in fact they regularly have to go back house overdue from paintings all by myself.

    Irani, in her speech, additionally contended that whilst the ruling Left entrance within the state makes claims of running for the welfare of the deficient, it was once the Centre which was once making an attempt to make sure financial justice and monetary safety to the folk of Kerala.

    “The Left simplest makes claims,” she alleged.

    She additional alleged that the Left entrance was once simplest identified for moves and labored for their very own political building.

  • Rahul Gandhi meets Cong leader Kharge, discusses executive formation in Karnataka 

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Amid a race for the Karnataka leader minister’s submit, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met birthday party president Mallikarjun Kharge and is reported to have held discussions over govt formation within the southern state.

    Gandhi drove to Kharge’s place of dwelling and held a closed-door assembly with the Congress leader.

    Congress Normal Secretary Randeep Surjewala, who’s accountable for the birthday party’s affairs in Karnataka, used to be additionally provide on the assembly.

    Kharge has held discussions with birthday party leaders from Karnataka and the 3 observers appointed through him to supervise the Congress Legislature Celebration assembly in Bengaluru on Sunday.

    Each Siddaramaiah and state Congress president D Okay Shivakumar are entrance runners for the manager minister’s submit and each are lobbying for it.

    Whilst former leader minister Siddaramaiah is in Delhi, Shivakumar cancelled his seek advice from to the nationwide capital on Monday night bringing up well being problems, fuelling speculations that each one isn’t smartly within the birthday party.

    Shivakumar arrived within the nationwide capital Tuesday afternoon.

    After arriving at Delhi airport, he didn’t discuss to the media and walked away with folded fingers parrying a barrage of questions from newshounds.

    Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar will hang discussions over govt formation in Karnataka.

    In exactly-concluded Meeting elections, the Congress scored an emphatic victory with 135 seats whilst the ruling BJP and the previous Top Minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) secured 66 and 19 seats, respectively.

    NEW DELHI: Amid a race for the Karnataka leader minister’s submit, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met birthday party president Mallikarjun Kharge and is reported to have held discussions over govt formation within the southern state.

    Gandhi drove to Kharge’s place of dwelling and held a closed-door assembly with the Congress leader.

    Congress Normal Secretary Randeep Surjewala, who’s accountable for the birthday party’s affairs in Karnataka, used to be additionally provide on the assembly.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Kharge has held discussions with birthday party leaders from Karnataka and the 3 observers appointed through him to supervise the Congress Legislature Celebration assembly in Bengaluru on Sunday.

    Each Siddaramaiah and state Congress president D Okay Shivakumar are entrance runners for the manager minister’s submit and each are lobbying for it.

    Whilst former leader minister Siddaramaiah is in Delhi, Shivakumar cancelled his seek advice from to the nationwide capital on Monday night bringing up well being problems, fuelling speculations that each one isn’t smartly within the birthday party.

    Shivakumar arrived within the nationwide capital Tuesday afternoon.

    After arriving at Delhi airport, he didn’t discuss to the media and walked away with folded fingers parrying a barrage of questions from newshounds.

    Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar will hang discussions over govt formation in Karnataka.

    In exactly-concluded Meeting elections, the Congress scored an emphatic victory with 135 seats whilst the ruling BJP and the previous Top Minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) secured 66 and 19 seats, respectively.

  • Recent setback for Rahul in Modi surname case, no exemption from non-public look  

    By means of On-line Table

    A different courtroom in Jharkhand on Wednesday rejected Rahul Gandhi’s plea to exempt him from showing in a listening to at the Modi surname case. Rahul was once convicted through a Gujarat courtroom in March. He was once due to this fact disqualified from the Lok Sabha.

    An MP/MLA courtroom in Ranchi has rejected Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s plea in the hunt for exemption from non-public look within the Modi surname case. The defamation case – considered one of a number of felony problems these days confronted through the previous lawmaker – have been filed through a person named Pradeep Modi in Ranchi, in step with the Mint.

    On Tuesday, the Gujarat Prime Court docket refused Rahul meantime coverage over his conviction within the defamation case. The ex-Congress leader had sought a brief keep on his conviction until the Prime Court docket dominated on his petition. The previous Congress president had sought an meantime keep of the conviction until the Prime Court docket pronounced the order on his petition.

    Abhishek Manu Singhvi, the legal professional for Rahul Gandhi, cited “excessive urgency” to request from the courtroom for an meantime or a last order after arguments from either side within the topic concluded on Tuesday. Alternatively, the courtroom of Justice Hemant Prachchhak stated no meantime coverage can also be granted at this level, NDTV reported.

    A different courtroom in Jharkhand on Wednesday rejected Rahul Gandhi’s plea to exempt him from showing in a listening to at the Modi surname case. Rahul was once convicted through a Gujarat courtroom in March. He was once due to this fact disqualified from the Lok Sabha.

    An MP/MLA courtroom in Ranchi has rejected Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s plea in the hunt for exemption from non-public look within the Modi surname case. The defamation case – considered one of a number of felony problems these days confronted through the previous lawmaker – have been filed through a person named Pradeep Modi in Ranchi, in step with the Mint.

    On Tuesday, the Gujarat Prime Court docket refused Rahul meantime coverage over his conviction within the defamation case. The ex-Congress leader had sought a brief keep on his conviction until the Prime Court docket dominated on his petition. The previous Congress president had sought an meantime keep of the conviction until the Prime Court docket pronounced the order on his petition.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Abhishek Manu Singhvi, the legal professional for Rahul Gandhi, cited “excessive urgency” to request from the courtroom for an meantime or a last order after arguments from either side within the topic concluded on Tuesday. Alternatively, the courtroom of Justice Hemant Prachchhak stated no meantime coverage can also be granted at this level, NDTV reported.

  • Rahul Gandhi vacates legitimate bungalow, says paying the fee for talking reality

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday mentioned he used to be paying the fee for talking the reality and vowed to proceed to boost folks’s problems as he vacated his legitimate bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi and shifted to his mom Sonia Gandhi’s place of abode.

    Gandhi, who used to be disqualified from Lok Sabha final month following his conviction in a defamation case, used to be requested to vacate the 12, Tughlaq Lane bungalow by way of April 22.

    “I’ve paid the fee for talking the reality, I’m able to pay any value,” he mentioned, including he would proceed to boost problems with value upward thrust and corruption with double the power.

    Saturday morning, Gandhi moved out all his property from the bungalow the place he were staying for just about 20 years. Gandhi, his mom Sonia Gandhi and sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visited the bungalow within the morning. He passed over the keys to the vacated dwelling to officers of the Central Public Works Division (CPWD).

    Speaking to journalists whilst leaving the bungalow, he mentioned, “I don’t have any downside despite the fact that it’s been snatched clear of me. This dwelling used to be given to me by way of the folks of India. I will be able to stick with the previous Congress president (Sonia Gandhi) at 10, Janpath for a while after which in finding every other method.”

    Requested if he will have asked extra time to vacate the bungalow, Gandhi mentioned, “I don’t need to keep on this dwelling. ” 

    The Congress mentioned the federal government would possibly “evict” Gandhi from a dwelling however he occupies a spot within the hearts and houses of crores of Indians. The celebration additionally introduced a “MeraGharAapkaGhar” marketing campaign on social media with celebration leaders providing their properties to Gandhi. The Congress mentioned on its legitimate Twitter care for in Hindi that “this nation is the house of Rahul Gandhi. Rahul who is living within the hearts of folks.” 

    “Rahul’s relation with the general public is unbreakable. Some see in him their son, some brother, some their chief…Rahul belongs to everybody and everybody belongs to Rahul. Because of this why lately the rustic is saying- Rahul ji, my house-your dwelling,” the Congress mentioned, the use of the hashtag “#MeraGharAapkaGhar”.

    AICC basic secretary Ok C Venugopal mentioned, “They will evict you from a dwelling, however you’ll at all times have a spot in all our houses and hearts, Rahul ji. We all know that such episodes would possibly not deter you from elevating the voice of the folks and talking reality to energy.” 

    Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera mentioned Rahul Gandhi is neither fearful in regards to the put up nor in regards to the govt dwelling. “He didn’t compromise on his ideas even after risking the entirety,” he mentioned. 

    He additionally took a swipe at former Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad, who remains to be at his legitimate place of abode allocated to him because the Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, asserting Rahul Gandhi isn’t a “Ghulam”.

    Any other Congress spokesperson, Supriya Shrinate, mentioned, “A dwelling isn’t made of 4 partitions and a cement roof. House is a sense – of peace, of affection. And when crores of folks open the doorways in their hearts and houses for you, then it’s even higher.” 

    “Rahul ji vacated his legitimate place of abode lately – his purpose and vacation spot is way upper than a dwelling, a lot upper. No person can scare or silence this satyagrahi of reality as a result of he is able to pay any price. #MeraGharAapkaGhar A small evidence of this nation’s love for you Rahul ji,” Shrinate mentioned on Twitter.

    “These days Rahul Gandhi vacates his house at Tughlaq Lane according to the LokSabha Secretariat’s order. The Court docket gave him 30 days to enchantment and the HC or SC may just nonetheless reinstate him, however his exemplary gesture to transport out displays his recognize for the principles,” mentioned celebration MP Shashi Tharoor in a tweet.

    Gandhi, the previous Congress leader, used to be disqualified from Parliament after a Surat courtroom convicted and awarded a two-year sentence to him in a defamation case over his Modi surname remarks made in Kolar in Karnataka in 2019.

    He moved a classes courtroom towards the Justice of the Peace’s order however his plea used to be rejected.

    A aid on his conviction and disqualification will have lead the way for him to retain his legitimate bungalow, allocated to him as a Wayanad MP.

    Gandhi will now transfer the top courtroom towards the classes courtroom order.

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday mentioned he used to be paying the fee for talking the reality and vowed to proceed to boost folks’s problems as he vacated his legitimate bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi and shifted to his mom Sonia Gandhi’s place of abode.

    Gandhi, who used to be disqualified from Lok Sabha final month following his conviction in a defamation case, used to be requested to vacate the 12, Tughlaq Lane bungalow by way of April 22.

    “I’ve paid the fee for talking the reality, I’m able to pay any value,” he mentioned, including he would proceed to boost problems with value upward thrust and corruption with double the power.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Saturday morning, Gandhi moved out all his property from the bungalow the place he were staying for just about 20 years. Gandhi, his mom Sonia Gandhi and sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visited the bungalow within the morning. He passed over the keys to the vacated dwelling to officers of the Central Public Works Division (CPWD).

    Speaking to journalists whilst leaving the bungalow, he mentioned, “I don’t have any downside despite the fact that it’s been snatched clear of me. This dwelling used to be given to me by way of the folks of India. I will be able to stick with the previous Congress president (Sonia Gandhi) at 10, Janpath for a while after which in finding every other method.”

    Requested if he will have asked extra time to vacate the bungalow, Gandhi mentioned, “I don’t need to keep on this dwelling. ” 

    The Congress mentioned the federal government would possibly “evict” Gandhi from a dwelling however he occupies a spot within the hearts and houses of crores of Indians. The celebration additionally introduced a “MeraGharAapkaGhar” marketing campaign on social media with celebration leaders providing their properties to Gandhi. The Congress mentioned on its legitimate Twitter care for in Hindi that “this nation is the house of Rahul Gandhi. Rahul who is living within the hearts of folks.” 

    “Rahul’s relation with the general public is unbreakable. Some see in him their son, some brother, some their chief…Rahul belongs to everybody and everybody belongs to Rahul. Because of this why lately the rustic is saying- Rahul ji, my house-your dwelling,” the Congress mentioned, the use of the hashtag “#MeraGharAapkaGhar”.

    AICC basic secretary Ok C Venugopal mentioned, “They will evict you from a dwelling, however you’ll at all times have a spot in all our houses and hearts, Rahul ji. We all know that such episodes would possibly not deter you from elevating the voice of the folks and talking reality to energy.” 

    Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera mentioned Rahul Gandhi is neither fearful in regards to the put up nor in regards to the govt dwelling. “He didn’t compromise on his ideas even after risking the entirety,” he mentioned. 

    He additionally took a swipe at former Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad, who remains to be at his legitimate place of abode allocated to him because the Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, asserting Rahul Gandhi isn’t a “Ghulam”.

    Any other Congress spokesperson, Supriya Shrinate, mentioned, “A dwelling isn’t made of 4 partitions and a cement roof. House is a sense – of peace, of affection. And when crores of folks open the doorways in their hearts and houses for you, then it’s even higher.” 

    “Rahul ji vacated his legitimate place of abode lately – his purpose and vacation spot is way upper than a dwelling, a lot upper. No person can scare or silence this satyagrahi of reality as a result of he is able to pay any price. #MeraGharAapkaGhar A small evidence of this nation’s love for you Rahul ji,” Shrinate mentioned on Twitter.

    “These days Rahul Gandhi vacates his house at Tughlaq Lane according to the LokSabha Secretariat’s order. The Court docket gave him 30 days to enchantment and the HC or SC may just nonetheless reinstate him, however his exemplary gesture to transport out displays his recognize for the principles,” mentioned celebration MP Shashi Tharoor in a tweet.

    Gandhi, the previous Congress leader, used to be disqualified from Parliament after a Surat courtroom convicted and awarded a two-year sentence to him in a defamation case over his Modi surname remarks made in Kolar in Karnataka in 2019.

    He moved a classes courtroom towards the Justice of the Peace’s order however his plea used to be rejected.

    A aid on his conviction and disqualification will have lead the way for him to retain his legitimate bungalow, allocated to him as a Wayanad MP.

    Gandhi will now transfer the top courtroom towards the classes courtroom order.

  • Corralling troops for an election | Nitish performs unifier

    The Bihar leader minister has set himself the duty of aligning opposition events towards the BJP for the 2024 basic election. Now not simplest does it imply bringing numerous regional forces in combination, but additionally getting the Congress to scale down its ambitions anyplace wanted

    ISSUE DATE: Would possibly 1, 2023 | UPDATED: Apr 21, 2023 18:21 IST

    Nitish Kumar addresses mediapersons in New Delhi on April 12 as Tejashwi Yadav, Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi glance on. (Photograph: ANI)

    Ask Nitish Kumar, the executive minister of Bihar and Janata Dal (United) supremo, how a lot sugar he needs in his cup of tea, and he’ll most probably let you know, only a quarter spoon, no longer a pinch extra. Any longer, he thinks, will wreck his cuppa. That very same consideration to element and the willingness to succeed in a really perfect stability may just in all probability come in useful as, a yr forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, he units out to mend a special, a lot larger, boiling pot: of an implosive, eternally scorching nationwide opposition.

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  • Rahul to report attraction towards defamation case verdict

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    AHMEDABAD: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will report an attraction within the Surat periods courtroom on Monday towards his conviction in a legal defamation case. The plea is prone to arise for listening to on Monday, when the previous Congress president may also be provide within the courtroom. 

    On March 23, the courtroom of Leader Judicial Justice of the Peace H H Varma convicted Gandhi and sentenced him to 2 years in prison in a 2019 legal defamation case filed towards him over his remarks on Modi surname. It had held 52-year-old in charge underneath Indian Penal Code sections 499 and 500.  The courtroom had additionally granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to allow him to attraction in the next courtroom. On March 24, Rahul was once disqualified from the Lok Sabha.

    Consistent with resources, the 168-page Surat courtroom judgment has been translated through professionals, and the petition is in a position for submitting. Rahul Gandhi will arrive on the periods courtroom to put up the attraction at 3 pm, his legal professional Kirit Panwala stated. He’s going to be accompanied through a staff of skilled legal professionals and Congress leaders. 

    The defamation swimsuit towards Rahul Gandhi was once filed through Purnesh Modi, a BJP MLA and previous minister in Gujarat, for his remark: “How come all thieves have the typical Modi surname?” which he had made whilst campaigning for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka. 

    Consistent with the Congress, he was once focused on Top Minister Narendra Modi for having the similar surname as fugitive businessman Nirav Modi and previous IPL leader Lalit Modi. Reacting to the scoop, BJP nationwide spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla stated: “This can be a welcome step. Even though not on time, the Congress has proven religion within the judicial device.” 

    AHMEDABAD: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will report an attraction within the Surat periods courtroom on Monday towards his conviction in a legal defamation case. The plea is prone to arise for listening to on Monday, when the previous Congress president may also be provide within the courtroom. 

    On March 23, the courtroom of Leader Judicial Justice of the Peace H H Varma convicted Gandhi and sentenced him to 2 years in prison in a 2019 legal defamation case filed towards him over his remarks on Modi surname. It had held 52-year-old in charge underneath Indian Penal Code sections 499 and 500.  The courtroom had additionally granted him bail and suspended the sentence for 30 days to allow him to attraction in the next courtroom. On March 24, Rahul was once disqualified from the Lok Sabha.

    Consistent with resources, the 168-page Surat courtroom judgment has been translated through professionals, and the petition is in a position for submitting. Rahul Gandhi will arrive on the periods courtroom to put up the attraction at 3 pm, his legal professional Kirit Panwala stated. He’s going to be accompanied through a staff of skilled legal professionals and Congress leaders. googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The defamation swimsuit towards Rahul Gandhi was once filed through Purnesh Modi, a BJP MLA and previous minister in Gujarat, for his remark: “How come all thieves have the typical Modi surname?” which he had made whilst campaigning for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka. 

    Consistent with the Congress, he was once focused on Top Minister Narendra Modi for having the similar surname as fugitive businessman Nirav Modi and previous IPL leader Lalit Modi. Reacting to the scoop, BJP nationwide spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla stated: “This can be a welcome step. Even though not on time, the Congress has proven religion within the judicial device.” 

  • West has dangerous addiction of commenting on others: EAM Jaishankar

    The Minister used to be responding to a query on Germany and United States' remarks at the disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi as a Member of Parliament.

    BENGALURU: Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday mentioned that the West has had a “dangerous addiction” for a very long time, of commenting on others, and it thinks it has a “God-given proper” to talk about the interior issues of different nations.

    He mentioned this throughout a ‘Meet and Greet’ interplay organised by means of Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya and Bengaluru Central MP P C Mohan with over 500 younger electorate, joggers and guests at Cubbon Park right here.

    The Minister used to be responding to a query on Germany and United States’ remarks at the disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi as a Member of Parliament.

    “There are two causes. It’s because the West has had a nasty addiction for a very long time of commenting on others. They someway suppose it’s some more or less God-given proper. They’re going to have to be told handiest by means of enjoy that if they preserve doing this, other folks may even get started commenting and they’ll now not love it when it occurs. I see that taking place,” Jaishankar mentioned.

    He mentioned, “The second one a part of the reality — in our arguments, you might be inviting the folks to touch upon you. Then increasingly individuals are tempted to remark. We additionally want to forestall giving beneficiant invites to the arena pronouncing there are issues in India; The us and Europe, why are you status by means of and doing not anything?”

    “So if anyone from right here is going and says ‘why are you status by means of and pronouncing not anything’, then clearly they’re going to remark. A part of the issue is them, a part of the issue is us. And I feel each want solving,” he added.

    Bengaluru South and Central MPs Surya and Mohan have been provide throughout the interplay.

    Responding to a query on freebie tradition, Jaishankar mentioned some other people in Delhi have been masters of it.

    “They’re doing it as a result of they don’t have the duty of elevating sources,” he commented.

    “You’ll be able to’t run a rustic according to freebies. Someplace, anyone has to pay for it. Anyone who’s giving a freebie this is disposing of one thing in other places,” he mentioned.

    Freebie tradition used to be some way of having fast reputation in an overly irresponsible method, he mentioned, including that it used to be now not sustainable.