Criminal is dead, but what about those who aided Dubey: Priyanka Gandhi

Soon after gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked “what about those who aided the criminal”

Soon after gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked “what about those who aided the criminal”. “The criminal is dead, but what about those who aided the criminal?” the Congress leader tweeted (translated from Hindi).

Kanpur encounter main accused Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter with the police on Friday. Dubey, the main accused in the Kanpur encounter case was arrested by the police in Ujjain on Thursday morning. He was on the run for the last several days and had come to Ujjain to offer prayers at Temple, where he was identified by a security guard at the shrine.

The gangster is the main accused in the encounter that took place in Bikru village in Chaubeypur area of Kanpur last week, in which a group of assailants allegedly opened fire on a police team, which had gone to arrest Dubey. Eight police personnel were killed in the encounter. Dubey managed to escape and the Uttar Pradesh police launched a hunt and raised the bounty on him to Rs 5 lakh.

Opposition strength in RS to weaken further this year, Cong to lose seats

The Congress is confident of retaining nine seats on its own and winning one or two more with the help of its allies

The Opposition strength in Rajya Sabha is set to reduce further as the Congress is expected to lose some of its seats in elections slated for later this year to fill up 68 vacancies. According to sources, the Congress could lose around nine of its 19 seats that are falling vacant due to its reduced strength in some states, amid speculation that the party is contemplating bringing in some bigwigs, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Randeep Surjewala, to the Upper House.

The Congress is confident of retaining nine seats on its own and winning one or two more with the help of its allies. The party is set to gain seats in states where it is in power — Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. The Opposition strength will fall after elections are held to fill up 68 vacancies in April, June and November, that may lead to the ruling NDA slowly inching towards the majority mark of in the Upper House, sources say. While 51 seats in Rajya Sabha are falling vacant in April, five more in June, one in July and 11 in November this year.

Top Congress leaders Motilal Vora, Madhusudan Mistry, Kumari Selja, Digvijaya Singh, B K Hariprasad and MV Rajeev Gowda are among the top Congress leaders whose tenures are ending in April and June. Of them, Vora, Selja and Digvijaya Singh are likely to be renominated by the party. Besides, its leaders Raj Babbar and P L Punia are unlikely to get renominated from Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, where the ruling BJP is set to make major gains. One RS seat in Uttarakhand and 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh are falling vacant in November this year.

Uttar Pradesh govt in a dock after Unnao rape survivor’s car accident

In spite of the fact that UP Police rushed to name it ‘prime facie’ a street mishap, the Opposition smelt a rodent and requested a CBI test in the issue,

Current Affairs: Around a similar time, when Union Home Minister Amit Shah was waxing articulate on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow for improving peace and controling politicization of government, the assault survivor — for a situation including a decision BJP administrator — was egregiously injured in a street mishap in Rae Bareli region, while her kinfolk were killed.

Despite the fact that UP Police rushed to name it ‘prime facie’ a street mishap, the Opposition smelt a rodent and requested a CBI test in the issue, or that the Supreme Court request an autonomous examination.

The assault survivor, joined by her two aunties, sister and a legal counselor, was heading out via vehicle to meet her uncle Mahesh Singh, held up in Rae Bareli area correctional facility for supposedly attacking Atul Singh, the sibling of administrator Kuldeep Singh Sengar.

While her aunties were executed, the assault survivor, her sister and their legal counselor supported heinous wounds when their vehicle was hit head-on by a truck. The harmed were moved to King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, where their condition is expressed to be basic.

134-yr-old Congress, party of India’s independence, is now on life support

While historically Congress secured more than 25% of the vote share, it now hovers at less than 20%. That could signal the party is headed for a death spiral

Narendra Modi not just astonished the world with an avalanche triumph a week ago, he additionally put the 134-year-old Indian National Congress in a coma.

A few competitors from the storied party, home to a significant number of India’s establishing fathers when it won autonomy from Britain in 1947, essentially surrendered in front of the May 23 race. One registered himself with an emergency clinic to abstain from crusading after the gathering wouldn’t give him enough cash to run a surveying corner, agreeing two individuals from his battle who asked not to be recognized as they’re weren’t approved to address media.

He wound up losing, alongside many others as the gathering figured out how to win just 52 of 543 seats – almost as awful as its most noticeably terrible ever execution in 2014. It neglected to win a solitary seat in about portion of India’s 29 states.

“The Congress I accept is near eradication, and given its ongoing record it presumably has the right amazing,” Ramachandra Guha, history specialist and journalist. “Yet, we should not overlook that while it lived and flourished, the Congress supported the components of a plural majority rules system that hosts outlasted the gathering.”

The central issue presently is how to manage Rahul Gandhi, the hesitant beneficiary in a line that incorporates India’s first head administrator Jawaharlal Nehru and its second longest-serving pioneer after him, Indira Gandhi. Congress Party pioneers rejected Rahul Gandhi’s acquiescence after the destruction, and requested that him modify the gathering. However, there are questions among the general population about whether the Gandhi family should keep on driving the gathering…

ED asks Robert Vadra to appear before it on Thursday in illegal assets case

ED said Vadra has been asked to depose before the investigating officer of the case at around 10:30 AM at the agency’s office in New Delhi

The ED has issued a fresh summons to Robert Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, to appear before it Thursday in connection with a money laundering case linked to purchase of alleged illegal assets abroad, officials said. They said Vadra has been asked to depose before the investigating officer of the case at around 10:30 AM at the agency’s office in New Delhi.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) only last week moved a court here seeking cancellation of the anticipatory bail given to Robert Vadra in this case and the Delhi High Court had then issued notice to him seeking his response. The ED, which had grilled Vadra over a dozen times in this case, had told the Delhi HC that itrequired Vadra’s custody as he was not cooperating in the investigation and and the trial court had not discussed the gravity of the offence in its order that gave relief to Vadra, husband of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi.

The ED case against Vadra relates to allegations of money laundering in the purchase of a London-based property located at 12, Bryanston Square worth 1.9 million GBP (British pounds), which is allegedly owned by him. The agency had told a Delhi court that it has received information about various new properties in London which belong to Vadra. These include two houses, one worth 5 million GBP and the other valued at 4 million GBP, six other flats and more properties. Vadra has denied the allegations of possessing illegal foreign assets and termed them a political witch hunt against him. He said he was being “hounded and harassed” to subserve political ends.

PM Modi insulted a martyr, says Rahul on ‘Rajiv Corrupt No 1’ remark

Rahul Gandhi will campaign in Bihar, Amit Shah in West Bengal and Priyanka Gandhi in Haryana for the 6th phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi is set to campaign in Bihar today for the 6th phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019. He will address a public rally in Chaibasa and later hold a roadshow in Dhanbad. Meanwhile, AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will visit Ambala, Hisar and Rohtak. Priyanka will seek votes for party candidates Kumari Selja and Bhavya Bishnoi. Later in the evening, she will hold a roadshow in Rohtak in support of party candidate, three-time MP Deepender Singh Hooda.

This would be Priyanka Gandhi’s first visit to the state after her entry into active politics. BJP President Amit Shah will address four public meetings in West Bengal and Bihar today. His first rally will be in Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency, follwed by a public meeting in Medinipur and Bishnupur in West Bengal. In the evening, Shah will campaign in Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency.

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for showing disrespect to his mentor LK Advani. Addressing a public rally in Sadar under the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat during campaigning for party candidate JP Agarwal, Gandhi said being a Congressmen, he has only “love for Modi” despite the Prime Minister having insulted his father Rajiv Gandhi.

Gandi said that Modi insulted everyone — from youths to farmers. “Respect is part of our culture and Modi does not respect anyone but Modi himself.” The Congress President said Modi spoke about and insulted his father in a political rally. “He is a PM, but insulted a martyr. I am a congressman, a Congress leader. The more you hate me, the more would I love you,” he said. At a rally in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, Modi had targeted the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi by calling him “bhrashtachari No.1” (Corrupt No.1).

Fielding a terror accused: BJP leaves the moral question to the people

The controversial candidate has fueled opposition accusations of hypocrisy and political opportunism against the BJP

Indian law does not prevent the country’s ruling party from fielding a candidate accused of terrorism in the general election, a senior member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party told Bloomberg News.

Pragya Singh Thakur, a self-styled Hindu holy woman who has been charged by Indian law enforcement with a bomb blast in a Muslim neighborhood that killed six people and injured 100 in 2008, should be allowed to run for office, the BJP’s national general secretary Ram Madhav said.

There is no technical or legal hurdle preventing her from contesting and there is a belief she has been “falsely implicated,” Madhav said in a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait in New Delhi on Saturday.

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“I can understand there are opinions about her candidature, and there are opinions within the party also, I don’t deny that,” he said. “But what we are saying is: by law, technically there’s nothing that goes against her candidature.” “The moral issue should be left to the people,” he added.

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The controversial candidate has fueled opposition accusations of hypocrisy and political opportunism against the Hindu nationalist BJP, which regularly condemns Pakistan-based groups for launching terrorist attacks on India. While Indian political parties of all stripes have run candidates accused of serious crimes, including murder and kidnapping, no party has yet decided to field a person accused of terrorism. Madhav said the idea to run Thakur as a candidate in the state of Madhya Pradesh came from local party officials who thought she would mount a strong challenge against senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh…

Lok Sabha polls: Over 65% vote in Phase III; 1 killed outside Bengal booth

AAP, Congress, BJP file nominations as Delhi prepares for a three-way fight

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Barring a last-minute miracle, any hope of a Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seat adjustment for the seven seats in Delhi was all but over on Tuesday with AAP and Congress candidates filing their respective nominations.

If suspense ended on the Congress-AAP tie up in Delhi, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra kept alive the suspense on whether she might contest from Varanasi against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Campaigning in Bareli, Priyanka said she would abide by her party’s decision on contesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi. “I have said this repeatedly that I will do what the party asks me to do,” the 47-year-old said, adding that people were feeling harassed and wanted a change.

In the rest of the country, polling took place on 116-seats across 13 states and 2 Union Territories. These included all of Kerala’s 20, Gujarat’s 26 and Goa’s 2 seats. The Election Commission (EC) said, subject to revision, estimated voter turnout nationally was 65.61 per cent. It was also the largest phase of the elections, and its completion marked polling ending on 301 of 543 seats.

Key candidates in the fray were Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Amit Shah from Gandhinagar, Congress President Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram, Congress’s Mallikarjun Kharge in Gulbarga, Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Sharad Yadav in Madhepura and BJP’s Sambit Patra versus Biju Janata Dal’s Pinaki Mishra in Puri.

Several incidents of violence were reported in West Bengal. A 52-year-old man, who the Congress claimed to be its worker, was hacked to death outside a booth during polling in the Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency, a senior state police officer said. In another incident, two women voters were injured in an alleged bombing in Murshidabad’s Domkal area..

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Priyanka Gandhi meets Rahul for ‘mission UP’

Priyanka attended the meeting at Rahul’s residence with other Congress leaders and discussed the strategy for Uttar Pradesh-East as she has been made the general secretary for the region

Lok sabha Elections 2019: The newly inducted Congress General Secretary for Uttar Pradesh East, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra returned to India on Monday. Soon after arriving in New Delhi, Priyanka met Congress president Rahul Gandhi at his Tughlaq Road residence.

Priyanka attended the meeting at Rahul’s residence with other Congress leaders and discussed the strategy for Uttar Pradesh-East as she has been made the general secretary for the region. Congress General Secretary for UP-West Jyotiraditya Scindia was also present during the meeting with Congress leaders. President of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee Raj Babbar and party’s general secretary for Karnataka K C Venugopal were also present in the meeting. The meeting lasted for over two hours.

Priyanka Gandhi has been made in-charge of 43 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. When Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s name was announced as the Congress General Secretary for Uttar Pradesh-East, she was on a private visit abroad. She returned to India on Sunday. A Congress leader from Uttar Pradesh told ANI that many prominent party leaders of the state were telephoned during the meeting and were asked about the welfare measures and development works being carried out ahead of the Lok Sabha elections….