An FIR has been registered against Uttar Pradesh Congress President Ajay Rai at Chetganj police station for allegedly mocking the Rafale fighter aircraft by tying lemon and chillies to a toy plane
Mr Rai had scorned the government, showcasing a toy Rafale jet laced with lemon and chillies.
The Uttar Pradesh Congress has accused the Yogi Adityanath government of orchestrating another scam in the distribution of cash compensation to the families of those who died in the Kumbh stampede on Mauni Amavasya (January 29) this year.
Senior Congress leader Ajay Rai on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and BJP, saying both the parties treated Purvanchalis only as their “vote banks” without giving them anything in return.
Ajay Rai charged the government with corruption in the allocation of budget for the Mahakumbh.
Even as politics is heating up over the death of a party worker at the Congress office in Lucknow during its agitation on Wednesday, Prabhat Pandey’s last rites were performed in Gorakhpur on Thursday.
A Congress delegation led by the party's Uttar Pradesh President Ajay Rai is scheduled to visit Sambhal on Monday, where a stone-pelting incident took place on November 24.
Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai on Monday said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is giving slogans of "Bantoge to Katoge" because the BJP was not getting votes.
Uttar Pradesh Congress president and former state minister Ajay Rai has said that removing the name of Babu Sampurnanand ji associated with the stadium in Varanasi which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday is objectionable and shameful.
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Ajay Rai claimed that this will be considered not just the statement of Kangana Ranaut but the statement of the entire government as an MP.
