Allahabad High Court dismisses plea seeking FIR against Rahul Gandhi over ‘fighting Indian state’ remark
The plea was filed by Simran Gupta of the Hindu Shakti Dal. It was rejected by the single-judge bench of Justice Vikram D. Chauhan.
The plea was filed by Simran Gupta of the Hindu Shakti Dal. It was rejected by the single-judge bench of Justice Vikram D. Chauhan.
“Describing the country’s tallest political leader and leader of the world’s largest party and candidate for electoral purposes as a “terrorist” is a form of extreme personal vilification wholly inconsistent with the standards of General Conduct, and is a gross violation of the MCC,” the BJP wrote in a letter to the ECI.
A political clash in Assam intensifies as Congress questions alleged foreign links of the Chief Minister, while the government dismisses the claims and points to an ongoing verification process.
The three-time former Chief Minister said the BJP government had brought the law to divert people’s attention from its all-round failures in governance, and warned that it could push a peaceful state like Rajasthan into an atmosphere of hatred.
Speaking to the media in the Assembly complex, Gehlot said no government at the Centre or in the states had ever made such a “murkhtapurn (foolish)” proposal. “This is not only illogical but also contrary to established democratic traditions,” he said.
Buoyed by the Court ruling in the National Herald case, terming the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) action illegal and malicious, the Madhya Pradesh Congress staged a protest braving water cannons in front of the state BJP Headquarters in Bhopal on Wednesday
Sources, in fact, say that the Enforcement Directorate may soon get a stay on the court order and may not have to release the multi-crore National Herald property it had seized.
Haryana Congress President Rao Narendra Singh has launched a sharp attack on the BJP, holding its “petty and narrow mindset” responsible and raising a pointed question: “Do you now have a problem even with Bapu?”
Union Minister and Leader of the House JP Nadda emerged as the government’s staunch defender, passionately championing the patriotic significance of Vande Mataram and its alleged sidelining after Independence.
The Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, who has drawn criticism from party colleagues on several occasions for statements favouring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, called it “irresponsible” of the organisers to announce his name without his consent.
