Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of remaining silent over the deaths of three Indian nationals in recent US strikes on commercial vessels in international waters, alleging that the government had failed to stand up for Indian citizens killed abroad.
Senior Congress leader and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has strongly endorsed Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut's call for Congress breakaway parties to reunite with the grand old party, urging them to wholeheartedly accept Rahul Gandhi as their leader.
Opposition parties demand action against police officials and local administrators.
Apparently, the Samajwadi Party is also getting jittery, worried about something similar happening to it, especially with UP Assembly elections around the corner.
Taking a serious view of reports of internal discord in its Jammu and Kashmir unit, the Congress high command on Friday constituted a three-member committee to investigate complaints of indiscipline and anti-party activities by certain senior party leaders.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh Wednesday brought to light a little-known but deeply significant episode from India’s Independence night, revealing a forgotten speech by Jawaharlal Nehru, delivered in Hindustani on August 14, 1947, just before his legendary English address, “Tryst with Destiny.”
All India Congress Committee General Secretary, former Union Minister, and Sirsa MP Kumari Selja has expressed deep anguish over what she described as the continued denial of justice to the family of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Y Puran Kumar, who died by suicide earlier this month.
On the occasion of the RSS’s 100th anniversary, he drew attention to an episode from January 4, 1949, when the Constituent Assembly convened to debate the draft Constitution in the Constitution Hall, New Delhi.
The state government has been asserting that the MoU for projects worth Rs 35 lakh crore was signed in the global investors meet here in December last year.
The 2001-batch IPS officer was found dead on October 7, reportedly after facing caste-based humiliation and professional victimisation by senior officers.
