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22 Oct

‘Barbaric attack’: TMC MP Sushmita Dev attacked in Tripura, party blames BJP

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Trinamool Congress MP Sushmita Dev's car was vandalised by some people in Tripura today. Some employees of a private firm that is helping Ms Dev's party in political campaigns were injured in the attack. Ms Dev, who is overseeing the Trinamool Congress's activities in Tripura, alleged the BJP was behind the attack. Ms Dev was with employees of Indian Political Action Committee or I-PAC, a political public relations and consultancy firm, when the attack happened. Political strategist Prashant Kishor and I-PAC had worked with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party for the West Bengal assembly election earlier this year. TMC MP…

22 Oct

Amit Shah to begin his three-day Jammu and Kashmir visit on Saturday

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Amit Shah, Union Home Minister, will address a mega public rally, flag off the first Srinagar-Sharjah direct flight, lay foundation stones of two medical colleges and chair a high level security review meeting during his three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir which will begin on Saturday. This will be his first visit to Jammu and Kashmir after the agreement of Article 370 and bifurcation of the state into two Union Territories. Amit Shah will arrive first in Srinagar on Saturday accompanied by the Home Secretary AK Bhalla, other senior officials of the Home Ministry, heads of most of the Central…

21 Oct

Smartphone for Class 12 pass girls, electronic scooty for graduate girls – Priyanka Gandhi’s poll promise in UP

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After promising 40 per cent tickets to women in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra announced on Thursday that all class 12 pass girls will be given a smartphone while all graduate girls will get an electronic scooty if her party forms a government in the state. "Yesterday I met some girl students. They said that they need smartphones for their studies and their security. I am happy that today the UP Congress has decided , with the consent of the manifesto committee, that it will provide smartphones to inter pass girls and electronic…

08 Oct

Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Dissatisfied with UP Police probe, SC hints at giving it to an agency other than CBI

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The Supreme Court is hearing a suo motu case arising from the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, in which eight persons, including farmers, were killed. Of these, four were farmers, who were allegedly knocked down by vehicle of Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni. Yesterday, the court had asked the UP government to file a status report by today specifying action taken and the eight who were killed on Sunday during a protest. The matter is being heard by a Bench of Chief Justice of India NV Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli. The Uttar Pradesh Police…

07 Oct

Order probe into Lakhimpur Kheri violence by sitting judge: Priyanka Gandhi

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Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday demanded a probe by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court or a high court into the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. She also said that Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni, whose son is among those booked, should resign to ensure an impartial probe. "In my view and that of the victims' families as well, the case should be probed by a sitting Supreme Court or high court judge, and not the retired judge," she said. The state government, on Thursday, had appointed retired high court judge Pradeep Srivastava to probe the Lakhimpur violence. Retired…

06 Oct

Priyanka Gandhi has same fire as her grandmother Indira Gandhi: Shiv Sena

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A day after Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Lakhimpur Kheri, the Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece Saamana said in its editorial that she has the same fire as her late grandmother Indira Gandhi. Shiv Sena, a former ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has questioned the silence of PM Modi over the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri and slammed the Uttar Pradesh government for detaining Priyanka Gandhi Vadra while she was on her way to meet the family members of the victims. Ms. Vadra was on her way to meet the family members of farmers…

06 Oct

Lakhimpur Kheri: Chhattisgarh, Punjab Govts Announce Rs 50 Lakh Relief To Victim Families

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The Chhattisgarh and Punjab governments on Wednesday announced a financial assistance of Rs 50 lakh each to families of four farmers and a journalist killed in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kehri violence Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said the Lakhimpur violence reminded him of the Jallianwallah Bagh massacre in 1919. He said the UP government has made a "mockery" of democracy. "Our government will provide Rs 50 lakh each to families of farmers and the journalist killed in Lakhimpur violence," he said in Lucknow. As many as eight people died in the Lakhimpur Kheri clash that happened after a vehicle…

05 Oct

Navjot Sidhu warns of march to Lakhimpur Kheri if Priyanka not released

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Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu warned on Tuesday that his party would march towards Lakhimpur Kheri unless Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is released and Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son Ashish is arrested over the killings of farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri. “If, by tomorrow, the Union Minister’s son behind the brutal murder of Farmers is not arrested, and our leader @PriyankaGandhi being unlawfully arrested, fighting for farmers is not released, the Punjab Congress will march towards Lakhimpur Kheri,” he said in a tweet. Priyanka Gandhi was detained by Uttar Pradesh Police for alleged violation of section 144 on…

05 Oct

Stopped at Lucknow airport, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel sits on the floor

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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel began a sit-in protest outside the Lucknow airport this afternoon as he was stopped by the state police amid widespread demonstrations against eight deaths on Sunday in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur district, about 130 km away. Mr Baghel said he wanted to meet Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has been in police custody since yesterday in Sitapur. She said she was "illegally" arrested when she was on her way to Lakhimpur to meet those affected by Sunday's violence while daring the UP government to keep her in custody "indefinitely". "I came to Lucknow to meet Priyanka Gandhi…

05 Oct

Sonia Gandhi may accept Navjot Singh Sidhu’s resignation

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Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi may accept Navjot Singh Sidhu’s resignation as Punjab Congress Chief and the announcement of new party state unit president is likely to be announced, sources said. Further, reports say present Working President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Kuljit Nagra and Congress MP from Ludhiana Ravneet Singh Bittu are frontrunners for the post of new Punjab Congress President. Both Nagra and Bittu are reaching Delhi along with Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi today. On Monday, Sidhu, along with several party MLAs, held a protest outside the Raj Bhavan against the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in Uttar Pradesh.…