Rahul Gandhi warned the CEC and other officials against assuming that constitutional immunity would shield them from accountability. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah may be at the top of the political chain of command, but Rahul Gandhi has made it clear that the opposition’s first target is Chief…
Mamata Banerjee invited Dipke and other activists to West Bengal. NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke met former chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee in the national capital and thanked her for supporting the outfit’s youth-led protests on Saturday.The CJP leader also said that his party would maintain its independent identity…
PM Modi alleged that “certain forces inside the country were busy trying to create instability by spreading lies and rumours”. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday staunchly criticised the opposition for “choosing to be an obstructionists” after a decade of despair and frustration emanating from the intermittent electoral routs.PM Modi said the opposition has…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar should not only be impeached but also prosecuted for treason over the alleged irregularities in Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.In his closing remarks during the mock parliament of INDIA bloc, Rahul said that the opposition…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court judge Justice Anish Dayal described judges as “great authors” and courtrooms as a “remarkable theatre”, drawing parallels between the judicial process and storytelling.“Judges are great authors. In our case files, we have real stories, real characters, plots, sometimes real, sometimes fictitious. We have problems and, in our judgments, we have…
Kharge accused the CEC of centralising control over electoral rolls and acting at the behest of PM Modi. NEW DELHI: Leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday accused Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar of facilitating “vote theft” and listed six charges against him at a symbolic “public impeachment” organised by…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday said that the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls was initiated to remove anti-BJP votes as he kickstarted the INDIA bloc’s public impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of voter irregularities.Moving the impeachment motion in the mock Parliament, Kharge said Gyanesh Kumar was…
Uttarakhand Helicopter Crash Six people were killed on Friday when a Trans Bharat Aviation helicopter flying from Badrinath to Dehradun crashed near Chai village in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district. The operator’s fleet has been grounded and the cause is under investigation.The crash takes this year’s toll in smaller civilian aircraft accidents to 22 deaths in six…
Pilot questions CEC’s neutrality NEW DELHI: Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Saturday questioned the neutrality of chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that his conduct and the process governing his appointment and post-retirement immunity had raised concerns about the independence of the Election Commission.In an interview with news agency ANI, Pilot alleged that the…
Court issues fresh bailable warrants against Dhruv Rathee after failed notice delivery NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Saturday issued fresh bailable warrants against YouTuber Dhruv Rathee in a 2018 defamation case filed by Vikas Sanskrityayan, also known as Vikas Pandey.Judicial Magistrate Rahul Jain issued the warrants after the complainant accused Rathee of defaming him…
