MCD polls ticket bribery case: AAP MLA questioned by ACB for 11 hours, denies allegations
AAP MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi was on Thursday questioned for nearly 11 hours by the Delhi government's Anti-Corruption Branch in connection with the MCD polls ticket bribery case, officials said.
During the questioning, a senior official said, Tripathi refuted the allegations against him and his associates, including his relative, who were arrested by the ACB on Wednesday.
The ACB had arrested Tripathi's brother-in-law and his two associates for allegedly demanding Rs 90 lakh as bribe for arranging a ticket for the wife of an AAP worker, Gopal Khari, to contest the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections.
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Jharkhand CM Soren to appear before ED today in money laundering case
Jharkhand Chief Minister Heman Soren is slated to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today for questioning in a money laundering case related to illegal mining, NDTV reported.
On Wednesday, ahead of Soren's session with the ED, UPA partners showed solidarity with the chief minister: at a high-level meeting to discussstrategy over ED summons to the CM, the UPA partners said they all are united and ready to fight the "conspiracy being hatched to topple the government."
Will caste census open a Pandora’s box for Nitish in Bihar?
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, while lauding the Supreme Court ruling, was arguably the first leader from the Hindi heartland to demand that the 50 per cent reservation ceiling be raised. He also pitched for a fresh caste census. For, only a fresh caste census will estimate the population of the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), Other Backward Castes (OBCs), and Extremely Backward Castes (EBCs), which together constitute a large chunk of the population (nearly 85 per cent) compared to the upper castes (around 15 per cent).
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Gujarat Assembly Elections: Where does Congress stand?
Ahead of the polls, India Today has colourfully described Gujarat as a "state of war", and considering the high stakes the assessment is not too far off. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home turf - and the western state that has often been called the "laboratory of Hindutva" - has been a BJP stronghold for the last 27 years but it used to be a Congress bastion at one time due to the likes of Mahatma Gandhi hailing from Gujarat.
However, currently, the grand old party seems to be conspicuously missing from the picture, with Arvind Kejriwal's AAP leading a far more aggressive campaign against the saffron party in their own backyard and even telling the public not to vote for Congress in the upcoming election. The Delhi chief minister urged people "not to waste their votes" and claimed that Congress was collapsing completely.
But, does absence equal inaction? Those within the Congress would disagree.
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