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India Politics LIVE | Congress and Gandhis not afraid of BJP government's 'vendetta politics': Hussain
Congress leader Syed Naseer Hussain on Thursday dubbed the Enforcement Directorate's chargesheet against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case and Robert Vadra's questioning in a 2008 Haryana land deal-linked money laundering case as "vendetta politics" and said neither the party nor the Gandhis are afraid of it.
Hussain, the AICC general secretary and in-charge of J&K Affairs, said the very questions the Congress raised in the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) are now being posed by the Supreme Court to the government.
India Politics LIVE | AAP 'chandakhor' party: BJP on CBI raid against Durgesh Pathak
The Delhi BJP on Thursday said the AAP was a "corrupt" party and claimed the money "extorted" through the liquor scam here was used in the Goa assembly polls when Durgesh Pathak was in-charge of the state.
The party was reacting to the CBI searches at the premises of Pathak, who is now party's co-incharge in Gujarat, where elections are due in 2027.
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva alleged that Pathak was in-charge of Goa, where the money extorted through the liquor scam was used in the 2022 state assembly elections as donation money.
India Politics LIVE | Shinde slams Sena (UBT) for recreating Bal Thackeray's voice through AI, calls it demeaning
Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday said the Shiv Sena (UBT) demeaned Sena patriarch late Bal Thackeray by using AI technology to recreate his voice. Nobody will stay with the Shiv Sena (UBT) because Uddhav Thackeray has "betrayed" his father's ideals, Shinde told reporters. "We freed the Shiv Sena from the clutches of the Congress. They (Uddhav Thackeray and his party) were not only dislodged from power, but also from the minds of people. If they have any shame left, they should not resort to such childish acts and demean Balasaheb. Do not behave in a way that will hurt Balasaheb," he added.
India Politics LIVE | Out of 327 visa revocation cases of international students in US, 50% are Indians, flags Jairam Ramesh
India Politics LIVE | National Herald case is turning out to be a crowning jewel on the dynastic Congress party's long list of shady scams: BJP
India Politics LIVE | If you look at history of Congress, several scams have come to light since Independence: BJP MP Anurag Thakur
"Whenever we talk about National Herald... it gives sensation to entire ecosystem of Congress party. It is obvious that they would get sensation as they have been caught stealing red-handed yet again. If you look at history of Congress, several scams have come to light since Independence."
India Politics LIVE | PM has reduced the President to a mere rubber stamp: Congress leader Udit Raj
"The Prime Minister and the BJP have reduced the President to a mere rubber stamp. The Constitution has failed to empower the office of the President. The treatment meted out to President Ram Nath Kovind and President Droupadi Murmu is a clear example of this, as they cannot even meet anyone without the approval of the PMO. They have turned the position of President into that of a mere postman, devoid of any respect... respect even less than a peon. During both the groundbreaking and inauguration ceremonies of the new Parliament building, the President was not invited. Is there any greater insult than this?"
India Politics LIVE | Pushkar Singh Dhami attends state-level workshop on Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025 at BJP office.
India Politics LIVE | On Murshidabad violence, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia says, "A state government which can not ensure peace in the state does not have the right to stay in power."
Jyotiraditya Scindia.
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India Politics LIVE | Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) members hold protest against Congress over National Herald case in Jammu
India Politics LIVE | West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on the way to meet victims of Murshidabad violence
"I am going there to meet the victims and verify the reports that we have received from the field. I will go to the hospitals, residences of the victims and the relief camps. The central forces and the state police are there together and the situation will soon normalise. I am going there to meet the victims following which I will send my recommendations," says West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose.
India Politics LIVE | Violence, corruption 'cancerous growths' on Bengal's body politic, says Guv Bose
India Politics LIVE | The government needs to take urgent steps and recruit at least 100 people so women can get an opportunity to work as CPOs: Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala
India Politics LIVE | Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are out on bail and by giving Rs 50 lakh: BJP MP Arun Singh
India Politics LIVE | BJP protests near Congress office over 'misappropriation of public money' in National Herald case
The BJP on Friday held a demonstration near the Congress' Akbar Road headquarters, alleging misappropriation of public money in the National Herald case. Led by the BJP's Delhi chief Virendra Sachdeva, activists of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha's city unit gathered at Man Singh Road where they were stopped by police. Sachdeva said, 'This case involves the undervaluation of property worth Rs 2,000 crore that was devalued to Rs 50 lakh and handed over by the mother to her son.'
India Politics LIVE | Rahul Gandhi urges Karnataka CM to enact Rohith Vemula Act for ending caste-based discrimination
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has written to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, urging the state government to enact a law named Rohith Vemula Act for ensuring that no one faces caste-based discrimination in the education system.