Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said he considers Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar as his "idol", and asked Congress leaderRahulGandhito refrain from "insulting" him. He said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance of three parties - Sena (UBT), Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - was formed to protect democracy and it was necessary to work unitedly for it. Addressing a rally in the Muslim-dominated textile town of Malegaon in Nashik district of north Maharashtra, Thackeray also said that deliberate attempts were on to provokeRahulGandhi. (PTI)
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Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday claimedRahulGandhirightly called the "absconders" associated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi "thieves" but the BJP is projecting his remarks as anti-OBC.
He claimed not a single person from Other Backward Classes (OBC) turned "absconder" after taking the country's money.
"Absconders are those people who are associated with the BJP and (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi.RahulGandhihas rightly called them thieves. What crime has he committed by raising the issue of Rs 20,000 crore in Adani's (industrialist Gautam Adani) companies," Singh asked while talking to reporters.
AfterRahulGandhiwas disqualified as an MP after a court in Surat convicted him in a criminal defamation case over his "Modi surname" remark, BJP staged protests across the country claiming the Congress leader had insulted the OBCs. (PTI)
The Congress in Telangana held a day-long dharna on Sunday atGandhiBhavan here to protest against the disqualification of senior party leaderRahulGandhifrom the Lok Sabha.
MP and State Congress chief A Revanth Reddy was joined by MPs N Uttam Kumar Reddy and Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and AICC incharge of party affairs in Telangana Manikrao Thakre, among others at the protest and expressed their solidarity withRahulGandhi. Addressing the 'deeksha' programme, Revanth Reddy condemned the disqualification and alleged that the BJP had conspired againstRahulGandhifor having repeatedly questioned "Prime Minister Narendra Modi and (Gautam) Adani's association".RahulGandhiwas disqualified in a "haste, he added. (PTI)
Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday termed Congress leaderRahulGandhi's disqualification from the Lok Sabha a "wrong thing" and does not bode well for democracy.
Gandhiwas on Thursday sentenced to two years in jail by a Surat court in a 2019 criminal defamation case over his "why all thieves have Modi surname" remark. He was later disqualified from the Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction in the case.
"I am against this, whether he isRahulGandhior Lalu Prasad Yadav or any other MP or MLA. It is against natural justice that on one side a judge delivered a judgement and on the other the MP or MLA is disqualified," Azad told reporters on the sidelines of a function in Kathua district. It is a wrong thing, he said. (PTI)