Women's cell records Mohammad Shami's wife statement

Written by Sweety Mishra | Kolkata | Updated: March 11 2018 8:02 am Mohammed Shami with his wife Hasin Jahan. Related News Mohammed Shami demands thorough investigation into wife s allegationsDelhi Daredevils keep close eye on Mohammed Shami caseMohammed Shami four others booked after wife lodges complaint in KolkataThe Kolkata police on Saturday retrieved a clip of an audio conversation which is supposedly between India fast bowler Mohammed Shami and his wife Hasin Jahan a day after he was booked for attempt to murder and rape. On Saturday members of the women s grievance cell met Jahan at her residence at Prince Anwar Shah Road and recorded her statement. According to police sources a notice is likely to be issued to Shami to appear before them. The audio clip includes Jahan asking Shami whether he was the one interacting with a girl (Alishba) from Pakistan on a messaging service. Jahan in the clip is also http://d4int.pen.io/ heard asking Shami whether he had given the Pakistani girl his room number in Dubai. According to Jahan Shami had travelled to Dubai after India s tour of South Africa. Shami is heard telling Jahan that he had to collect money from Alishba and hence he met her in Dubai. Jahan has claimed that she had recorded the conversations between her and Shami and played it to reporters on Friday. Jahan has claimed that she stumbled on chats when she found a second phone in the car used by the cricketer. Shami has denied the allegations levelled against him and said that a conspiracy was being hatched to malign him. A senior police officer said that the case was being handled by the detective department because of the gravity of the allegations including assault and torture. Generally marital dispute cases are handled or probed by the local police but it is a high profile case and the complainant has brought serious allegations against her husband Md Shami. Hence the case was taken over by detective department the senior officer said. The investigating officers may also appeal to the court for a date for recording Jahan s statement before magistrate. Police sources also said that Jahan has taken print outs of conversations which allegedly took place between Shami and other women too and submitted the same to the detective department. Kolkata Police had booked Shami and his family members under non bailable sections of the penal code on Friday. Shami s mother Anjuman-Ara-Begum brother Hasib Ahamed Hasib s wife Shama and Shabina Ahjum Shami s sister are those whose names are part of the FIR. The FIR has been lodged under section 498 A (Husband or relative of Husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) 307 (attempt to murder) 376(rape) 506 (criminal intimidation) 328 (causing hurt by means of poison) 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of IPC. As per police sources Shami s brother has been booked under section 376 of IPC on the basis of the complaint of Jahan who alleged that he had touched her improperly. My client is going through a lot of mental and physical pressure. We would like to give time to the investigating agency to probe the case. The content of the FIR is a matter of probe said advocate Zakir Hussain who is representing Hasin Jahan. In an interview to a news channel Md Shami on Saturday said Whatever the misunderstandings it was between a husband and wife and it should have been shorted between us. I still want that things should be solved. Following the controversy the BCCI excluded Shami s name from the central player contracts. Shami has played 30 Tests including the three-match series against South Africa in January. He has also represented India in 50 ODIs and 7 T20 games. He is part of the Delhi Daredevils squad in the Indian Premier League. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News Adultery domestic abuse claims against me a conspiracy says Mohammed Shami Mohammed Shami s wife lodges police complaint against him family Tags: Mohammed Shami RrnMar 11 2018 at 8:12 amyet another false case - accusing husband and every single member of his family (you realized only now that his brother touched you improperly ? what were you doing all these days) and the money minded police does nothing. when will the indian laws be modified to punish the criminals than just victimize wifes. If found false such women should be punished for bringing shame to decent families. All these cases should be closed fast (so police and lawyers don t become cheats) and criminals (no matter female or male) should be punished. 498a has become a business for all crooked women(4)(16) Reply RrnMar 11 2018 at 8:04 amyet another false case - accusing husband and every single member of his family (you realized only now that his brother touched you improperly ? what were you doing all these days) and the money minded police does nothing. when will the indian laws be modified to punish the criminals than just victimize wifes in all such cases. If found false such women should be punished for bringing shame to decent families.(5)(6) Reply
KOLKATA: Police have charged India pacer Mohammad Shami under several sections of the IPC including the non-bailable ones of attempt to murder rape assault and criminal intimidation on the basis of a complaint filed by his wife alleging domestic violence and infidelity. A senior officer said the police would soon send a notice under Section 41A of CrPC asking Shami to present himself before investigators. Shami s mother Anjuman Ara Begum sister Sabina Anjum brother Mohd Hasib Ahmed and his wife Shama Parveen were also booked. Police filed the FIR on the basis of Hasin Jahan s complaint made late on Thursday. Kolkata police s detective department has already started an investigation. We will look into all the allegations and carry out a thorough probe joint commissioner (crime) Praveen Tripathi said. The sections merit Shami s arrest but the cops do not need him in their custody as it is a marital dispute. Moreover he is so famous that he cannot flee without being noticed. But he may be arrested if he refuses to cooperate a criminal lawyer said. A police picket was posted outside Jahan s apartment in Jadavpur on Friday afternoon. Jahan on Friday disclosed that several of Shami s relatives had been trying to call her ever since she made the police complaint. I had informed each one of them about the torture Shami was inflicting on me. But none of them did anything and instead they urged me to adjust as I was a woman. Why should I listen to them now? she said. Jahan alleged that last December Shami had forced her into a room at the family s Amroha residence in Uttar Pradesh with his elder brother and locked the door. He said since I was a model these things should not bother me much and forced me into a room with his brother who started touching me inappropriately. He opened the door and let me go only when I screamed she alleged. Shami reacting to these allegations told reporters in Amroha that his wife might have lost her mental balance. I don t know what she is up to. She needs to explain what has changed so much in these few days. We even had a great Holi celebration earlier this month. Now she is suddenly levelling all these accusations on me. I think she has lost her mental balance or it might be her plan to sabotage my career he said. Responding to the BCCI s decision to withhold his annual contract Shami said he had full faith in the cricket body. Whatever the BCCI has done it must have done after giving a lot of thought. I have full faith in the BCCI. It will take the right decision regarding my career he added.
KOLKATA: A case was recorded against India pacer Mohammed Shami and four others after the cricketers wife Hasin Jahan lodged a complaint against him alleging domestic violence and extra-marital affairs police said on Friday. On the basis of written letter of complaint of Hasin Jahan wife of Md. Shami a case was recorded at Jadavpur police station on March 8 against Md Sami and four others a police official said. Jahan had posted screenshots of Shami s alleged WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger conversations with multiple women on her Facebook account. She also uploaded photos and phone numbers of the women. Hasin Jahan alleged that Shami 27 and members of his family had even tried to kill her. Everyone in their family used to torture me. His mother and brother used to abuse me. The tortures continued till 2-3 a.m. in the morning. They even wanted to kill me she alleged. Shami however denied the allegations saying it was an attempt to derail his cricket career. The cricketer hails from Uttar Pradesh and represents Bengal in domestic tournaments.
Mumbai: India cricketer Mohammed Shami was on Thursday booked under five charges including rape and attempt to murder by Kolkata police two days after his wife Hasin Jahan accused him of domestic abuse and adultery television reports claimed. Jahan registered an FIR against Shami and four of his family members on Friday. The 27-year-old has been charged under Sections 376 (rape) 307 (attempt to murder) 498A (subjecting wife to cruelty) 323 (for voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code. Mohammed Shami and his wife Hasin Jahan. Image courtesy: Facebook @CircleofCricket.MDShami His name was also withheld from the Board of Control for Cricket in India s (BCCI) latest list of contracted players pending investigations ESPNcricinfo had reported. The cricketer a regular in the Indian Test team had vehemently denied all charges levelled by his wife and alleged a conspiracy to defame him. Earlier reports had claimed that Jahan found Shami s phone gifted to him by his Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Delhi Daredevils in 2014 hidden in his car and then discovered the chats on the phone which led her to believe that he was having an affair with multiple women. Jahan said that Shami and his family members had been torturing her for over two years and had even threatened to kill her. Everyone in their family used to torture me. His mother and brother used to abuse me. The tortures continued till 2-3 am in the morning. They even wanted to kill me she alleged. He even abused me and started beating me. All this continued after he returned from South Africa. He has been doing this for quite some time now and now I have had enough she said. I gave him enough time (to rectify his ways) and tried to calm myself down but instead of accepting his own mistakes he used to vent his anger on me and even threaten me asking to keep mum for my own goodwill she added. The Facebook account from which the allegations were initially made has since been deactivated. Shami is was part of the India A team in the recently-concluded Deodhar Trophy and was retained (RTM) by Delhi Daredevils for Rs 3 crore. Published Date: March 09 2018 04:13 PM IST | Updated Date: March 09 2018 04:16 PM IST Tags : #Attempt To Murder #BCCI #Cricket #Criminal Intimidation #Hasin Jahan #Mohammed Shami #Rape #Shami #Shami Controversy #Shami News #SportsTracker #Voluntarily Causing Hurt
.story-content span .story-content p .story-content div color:#000!important;font-family: open sans Arial!important;font-size:15px!important ALSO READ Conspiracy to spoil my game: Shami squashes wife s domestic abuse charge MBS big gamble Who is Prince Mohammed bin Salman and why is he at the centre of Saudi purge? Weakening of theocracy in Saudi Arabia and Iran is in India s interest span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami has been charged with attempt to murder following a complaint filed by his wife Hasin Jahan in Kolkata. Seven charges have been levelled against the India pacer one of them being attempt to murder by food poisoning and physical attack . A rape charge has been levelled against Shami s elder brother. Shami has been charged under section 498 A 323 307 376 506 328 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). To make the matters worse for the Indian fast bowler he has found himself out of the Board of Control for Cricket in India s (BCCI s) 26-member annual contracts system. While Shami has rubbished his wife s allegations an FIR has been lodged against the cricketer. Here are top 10 developments 1. Delhi Daredevils reviewing situation ahead of IPL Indian Premier League franchise Delhi Daredevils are keeping a close tab on the Mohammed Shami controversy as the top officials are set to meet BCCI brass to take a stock of the situation. 2. Booked for domestic violence Shami case now handed to detective dpt The case lodged against Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami for domestic violence following a complaint filed by his wife has now been taken up by the Detective Department of Kolkata s Lal Bazar Police. According to sources the case will be investigated by the Women s Grievance Cell. 3. Hasin Jahan reveals sensational recording ofalleged phone call with Mohammed Shami Hours after an FIR against Mohammed Shami his wife Hasin Jahan revealed sensational recording of an alleged phone call with the cricketer. Hasin played out the recording of what she claimed was a telephonic conversation with Shami during a press conference on Friday. Hasin was responding to Shami s comments questioning her mental stability after she had lodged an official police complaint in Kolkata on Thursday. I have leveled many accusations against Shami. Now he will say anything to defend himself. But I have never changed my version when speaking to you guys (the media). I have not received any help from anyone. So I took to Facebook to speak of my ordeal. Why did Facebook block my account & deleted all the posts without my permission?: Hasin Jahan wife of cricketer Mohammed Shami pic.twitter.com/5Nfo5C5bvn ANI (@ANI) March 9 2018 Here are excerpts of the alleged phone conversation: Shami please don t lie. When will you tell the truth? You don t care about me our daughter our families you don t about anyone. You might care about that Pakistani girl so I urge you to tell the truth in Alishba s name. Are these chats yours? No (male voice) When you said you didn t have a Dubai visa and you can t leave the hotel room then how did you get one?. Why did you lie to me? It s clear you are lying to me asked Hasin I had a visa (male voice). You texted Alishba giving her the room details in the same hotel in Dubai. Was this also done by Mohammed bhai? When Alishba was waiting at belt no. 7 (at the airport) she knew your landing and take off time. Was this all being done by Mohammed bhai? asked Hasin. Mohammed bhai had sent me money through Alishba so I had to take the money from her (male voice) You have only indulged in dirty chatting with her Shami. You never mentioned receiving money... But when I asked you about Alishba last night you said where did Alishba come from? First you did all the drama with Alisha and then you said where did Alishba come from? You had sex with Alishba! Listen don t talk about sex (male voice) India s Mohammed Shami 4. FIR against cricketer Shami for domestic violence An FIR was lodged against cricketer Mohammed Shami on Friday after a written complaint was filed by the fast bowler s wife. The FIR has been registered against Shami and his four other family members in Kolkata s Jadavpur police station under several Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections including section 498A which amounts to cruelty to a woman by her husband or his relatives. The cricketer s wife Hasin Jahan had alleged that Shami abused her physically and mentally and was also involved in several extra-marital affairs. ALSO READ: FIR against cricketer Mohammed Shami family for attempt to murder rape Mohammed Shami has been charged under section 498 A 323 307 376 506 328 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). A rape charge has also been levelled against Shami s elder brother. The other charges recorded against Shami are under Section 307 - attempt to murder Section 323 - punishment for voluntarily causing hurt Section 376 - rape Section 506 - criminal intimidation Section 328 and Section 34. 5. Hasin Jahan on Thursday lodged a written complaint with the police against Mohammed Shami. We have received a complaint from the cricketer s wife where she has alleged physical and mental torture by him. We are yet to decide on which sections a case can be started Kolkata Police Joint CP (Crime) Praveen Tripathi told reporters. After meeting Tripathi Hasin said she has described her ordeal to him and the officer promised proper action in the case. I have met the officer and told him everything about how I have been tortured by Shami. I have also told him about his multiple sexual partners despite being married to me Hasin said. 6. Conspiracy to spoil my game: Shami Mohammad Shami denied all allegations levelled by his wife Hasin Jahan and termed it baseless . Shami said that someone is conspiring against him to ruin his career. Speaking to a news agency Shami said All allegations are baseless it does not have any meaning. Cannot say anything about the case till the time I get to know everything. There is some conspiracy behind this it may be a conspiracy to spoil my game. I tried to contact Hasin but she did not pick up my phone but will meet her soon. The way I am will stay with her like that forever the pacer said. I contacted my father in law he spoke to me very nicely and I think the things will sort out soon he added. Hi I m Mohammad Shami. Ye jitna bhi news hamara personal life ke bare may chal raha hai ye sab sarasar jhut hai ye koi bahut bada humare khilap sajish hai or ye mujhe Badnam karne or mera game kharab karne ka kosis ki ja rahi hai. Mohammad Shami (@MdShami11) March 7 2018 7. Shami s contract withheld after wife alleges domestic abuse Shami s central contract was on Wednesday withheld by the BCCI after his wife accused him of domestic violence and adultery charges that were denied by the cricketer. Shami s name was not there in the list of 26 contracted players released by the BCCI on Wednesday despite his starring role in India s only Test win in the recent tour of South Africa. The in-form Shami claimed a career-best 5/28 in the second innings of the match. 8. Shami left out of BCCI annual contracts Dhawan jumps to A Seamer Mohammed Shami found himself out of the Board of Control for Cricket in India s (BCCI) 26-member annual contracts system which saw the addition of a new category. Shami s removal may be a coincidence with the ongoing controversy involving his wife who accused the Bengal pacer who was in the B category in the last term of domestic violence and extra-marital affairs. Also out of the contracts are Yuvraj Singh Ambati Rayudu Amit Mishra Shardul Thakur Rishabh Pant and Mandeep Singh while Suresh Raina returned and features in the C category earning Rs 1 crore. 9. Mohammed Shami accused of having extra-marital affair Mohammed Shami s wife claimed that the sportsman had illicit affairs. In a bid to expose the pacer s extra-marital affair she posted several screenshots of Messenger and Whatsapp messages on her Facebook wall. Married to Shami since 2014 Hasin Jahan reportedly claimed that the bowler was having several extra-marital affairs simultaneously. 10. Mohammed Shami rubbishes reports of extra-marital affair Indian fast bowler Mohammed Shami rejected the reports of extra-marital affair saying that someone was conspiring against him to ruin his career. Shami took to Twitter to break his silence on the matter and said that the rumours were being spread about his personal life.
NEW DELHI: The wife of Indian pacer Mohammed Shami Hasin Jahan has reportedly claimed that the sportsman is having an illicit affair. In a bid to expose the pacer s extra-marital affair she posted several screenshots of Messenger and Whatsapp messages on her Facebook wall. Notably the post which was uploaded from an unverified account was titled as Shami s enjoyment and had several pictures of the pacer s text messages to multiple women. The posts were deleted soon after it started making news. However the fans were quick to take screenshots of the posts. Really disgusting Sami bhai report this post �� iske wajah se hi sab masala mila hai news walo ko pic.twitter.com/CMSe7MZKlv DABBANG BHAIJAN (@BEING_DABBANG) March 7 2018 @MdShami11 क पत्न ने कल Fb पर एक प स्ट करके बत य क उसके पत क बहुत लड़क य ं के स थ अफ़ेयर चल रह है ! और मेरे बहुत समझ ने पर भ नह म ने त आख़ र मे Fb पर कुछ स्क्र नश ट भ ड ले सबुत के त र पर... और ये भ बत य क स प क स्त न लड़क भ से अफ़ेयर चल रह है . ������ pic.twitter.com/ss961Of1FV कर र जव ब Doctor �������� (@karara_jawaab) March 7 2018 Mohammad Sami .... Affair ........���� Post - Hasin Jahan (Sami s Wife ) pic.twitter.com/OKIaPvyi4g ��Sandeep Pathak �� (@SandipAKHolic) March 7 2018 Married to Shami since 2014 his wife reportedly claimed that the bowler is having several extra-marital affairs simultaneously. The account owner also posted Shami s pictures with some of them. Later the pacer also posted a message on Twitter stating that these reports were untrue and a ploy to distract him from his game. Hi I m Mohammad Shami. Ye jitna bhi news hamara personal life ke bare may chal raha hai ye sab sarasar jhut hai ye koi bahut bada humare khilap sajish hai or ye mujhe Badnam karne or mera game kharab karne ka kosis ki ja rahi hai. Mohammad Shami (@MdShami11) March 7 2018 While some supported the cricketer most fans trolled him and some were extremely disappointed. Don t worry bhai jaan...New wale ka kam hi hota hai anap sanap new dena ...mujhe bhrosa hai aapke family se and aapse v Zia-ul Haque Ansari (@haque_jyaul) March 7 2018 Brother You carry on. Don t worry about this. We are proud of you. Koi kuch bhi bole hame fark nahi padta because Log hamesha bura hi bolte hai chahe aap accha karo ya bura #shami केशव जनेऊध र (@kkashyap1707) March 7 2018 Abe londe ka game kharab mat karo bc sahi to khel raha hai�� pic.twitter.com/qiA39IEEgt ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ (@PyarSeMario) March 7 2018 @DurexIndia Shami bhai needs help Amit Shah (@amitshaah_) March 7 2018 Respected you so much. Never thought I ll loose it . This is not done shami . Aish ���� (@made_in_charms) March 7 2018 His wife was unavailable for comment.
NEW DELHI: Hasin Jahan wife of Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami has accused her 27-year-old husband of assault and having extramarital affairs by posting screenshots of text messages of questionable nature that Shami allegedly exchanged with various women. Jahan posted the screenshots of the conversations along with photographs and phone numbers of women on facebook. READ THIS STORY IN TELUGU HERE According to a news channel Jahan revealed that she found Shami s phone gifted to him by his IPL franchise Delhi Daredevils in 2014 hidden in his car and she found the chats on the phone. Jahan went on to allege that Shami and his family members were torturing her for a period of more than two years with attempts of trying to kill her . As per the report she is planning to take legal actions against Shami and his family members and had even intimated a local police station in Uttar Pradesh in January. However hours after the story went viral Shami took to twitter with his side of the story clarifying that the allegations are baseless and there is conspiracy at work intended to tarnish his image. Hi I m Mohammad Shami. Ye jitna bhi news hamara personal life ke bare may chal raha hai ye sab sarasar jhut hai https://t.co/rgfi37pEAq Mohammad Shami (@MdShami11) 1520401412000
New Delhi: Indian pacer Mohammed Shami s central contract was withheld by the BCCI after his wife accused him of domestic violence and adultery charges that were denied by the cricketer. Shami s name was not there in the list of 26 contracted players released by the BCCI despite his starring role in India s only Test win in the recent tour of South Africa. The in-form Shami claimed a career-best 5/28 in the second innings of the match. This led to speculation about the reasons for his omission and a top BCCI official told PTI that the Board has held back his name owing to the charges levelled by his wife Hasin Jahan. Mohammed Shami and his wife Hasin Jahan. Image courtesy: Facebook @CircleofCricket.MDShami The BCCI has taken cognisance of all the reports emerging about Mohammed Shami s personal life. It is purely a personal matter and the BCCI has nothing to do with it. However keeping in mind that https://wallinside.com/post-63491717-d4int-services-in-bangalore.html the woman in question has met the police commissioner of Kolkata it is only prudent on BCCI s part to wait for any official inquiry to take place the official said. Hence Mohammed Shami s name for the time being has been withheld from the central contracts that were announced on Wednesday. We would like to reiterate this decision has nothing to do with Shami s merit as a player but it is a safeguard in the prevailing circumstances he added. It is learnt that the BCCI is wary of its image taking a beating if the allegations against Shami turn out to be true. Jahan has accused Shami of domestic violence and adultery in social media posts but the bowler has rebutted the claims calling them lies . Jahan has however still not sought a divorce from the 27-year-old. Shami has played 30 Tests for India claiming 110 wickets so far. The injury-prone bowler has also appeared in 50 ODIs and seven Twenty20 Internationals picking up 91 and eight wickets respectively. The cricketer from Uttar Pradesh who plays for Bengal was recently in spotlight when he was subjected to abuse on social media for posting pictures with Jahan. Trolls had called Jahan s outfits in the photos inappropriate. Shami got married to Jahan in 2014 and has a daughter named Aaira Shami. In and out of the team due to fitness and form issues the pacer from Amroha in Uttar Pradesh witnessed some tough times since he lost his father Tousif Ali on 26 January last year due to heart attack. Published Date: March 08 2018 09:35 AM IST | Updated Date: March 08 2018 09:35 AM IST Tags : #Adultery #BCCI #Bengal #Cricket #Dometic Violence #Hasin Jahan #Mohammed Shami #SportsTracker

My sister and I have 'completely forgiven' our father's killers: Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that he and his sister Priyanka had forgiven the killers of their father former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. We have forgiven our father s killers. Whatever the reason I do not condone any kind of violence said Rahul during an interaction with alumni of the Indian Institutes of Management in Singapore. We were very upset and hurt and for many years we were quite angry. But somehow completely... in fact completely (forgiven) PTI quoted him as saying. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a female suicide bomber of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on May 21 1991 at an election rally in Tamil Nadu. Rahul went on to say that his family knew that his father and grandmother former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi were going to die by virtue of being in politics and trying to bring about change. In politics when you mess with the wrong forces and if you stand for something you will die he said. Rahul also sought to dispel the notion that he had lived a privileged life. I was 14 when my grandmother was assassinated. My father was killed. So you live in a particular environment surrounded by 15 guys morning noon and night. I don t think that s a privilege the Congress chief remarked. (With inputs from PTI)
Kuala Lumpur: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that internal bickering and generational fight within the Congress party and issues relating to corruption led to its defeat in the 2014 general election. Internal fight in the Congress party generational fight in the Congress party an older vision a newer vision...and those http://www.gameinformer.com/members/d4int/default.aspx just collided. We were fighting an election (2014 general election) but we had this internal conflicts going on. We had issues with corruption. And that just came together said Mr Gandhi during an interactive session in Malaysia. We fired the guys in pretty much every single case. We believe in zero tolerance against corruption. 100 per cent he added.He said the Congress party is an ideology. When you move away from the ideology the party weakens. The Congress has to stand up to certain ideals. People get confused if we don t stand by these ideals. We have to place an alternative vision. Talking about women representation in his party Mr Gandhi said: I have already told my party colleagues that I want to see at least 50 per cent representation by women within the party. It is a huge ask in a political environment but this has to be done. Attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government he said it does not listen to the opposition parties on important issues like GST and land acquisition. When we approached the BJP on key issues like land acquisition and GST they didn t want to listen to us. Even BJP leaders have this issue with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They don t believe in taking along everyone said Mr Gandhi.He also said that the BJP is dividing people in India but it is going to cost the party in future. In my experience if you don t carry people together you will not be able to get things done. You need to build consensus he added.He also said that an anger is rising in India because of not enough jobs being created. To my mind jobs are going to come from SMEs from farm mechanisation from cold chains from financing small and medium enterprises. Small and medium enterprises are the biggest job creators. Today in India they are like orphans with no protection or government support. GST and demonetisation have just finished this sector. We believe that there is space for public educational institutions. Scaling them up and giving them much more autonomy is the next step. I would put in significantly more money. The BJP has reduced the allocations for education he added.He said: It is pretty much impossible to make money being a farmer in India today. So the central idea is that without government support and protection farmers cannot survive. Comments Farms are not profitable and the manufacturing sector is not firing up. Make In India is badly conceptualised. It is not connected to the existing skill base in India he added.Mr Gandhi also said that healthcare diagnostics health data genetics and the hospital system need to be connected. A strategy has to be put in place and we can dominate global healthcare.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi said today that demonetisation was not a good initiative and if he were the prime minister he would have thrown the proposal in the dustbin . Gandhi is on a five-day trip to the Southeast Asian countries. He began the Malaysia leg of his visit today and interacted with an enthusiastic gathering of Indian diaspora in Kuala Lumpur. Asked how he would have rolled out demonetisation differently Gandhi said if I was the Prime Minister and somebody would have given me a file with demonetisation written on it I would thrown it in the dustbin out of the door and into the junkyard. That is how I would have rolled it out because that is what I think should have been done with the demonetisation which was not good at all he said in a video shared by the Congress party on its Twitter handle. The demonetisation initiative was rolled out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8 2016 announcing the invalidation of high-value currency notes currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1 000. Congress party has strongly criticised demonetisation saying the move has led to economic slowdown. Earlier at the University of California Berkeley Gandhi had said that Modi had caused tremendous damage to India s economy with his reckless and dangerous decisions like demonetisation and hastily-applied GST. Responding to a question on women empowerment Gandhi also said equality was not good enough for women empowerment and asserted that women have to be given more support than men to end the bias against them. I don t treat women equal to men but better than men. I think there is a bias in all societies including in western society and that bias needs to be corrected. And to correct that bias equality is not good enough you have to be partial to women and give them more support than you give men he said. Gandhi also addressed a gathering of young professionals at IYCON in Kuala Lumpur. Met Mr Subramaniam Sathasivam President of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) in Kuala Lumpur. Originally a part of the AICC until 1946 the MIC has played a major role in the Malaysian Independence Movement he wrote on his facebook page. Gandhi s trip is part of the Congress party s efforts to connect with the diaspora. He called on Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday and discussed a wide range of topics related to India-Singapore ties. The trip is being organised by the AICC Overseas cell headed by technocrat Sam Pitroda who helped former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi lead the IT revolution in India. Pitroda had earlier successfully organised Rahul Gandhi s visits to the US and West Asia. Later in the year the Congress president is also expected to travel to Dubai and Canada.
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: March 11 2018 9:05 am Saying that the Congress party has become very inward looking Rahul Gandhi said there is a process of opening the door inviting new people in . Related News Out of my mind: PoribortonWould have thrown demonetisation file into junkyard if I were PM: Rahul GandhiIn Singapore Rahul Gandhi attacks Modi govt accuses BJP of playing divisive politicsAN INTERNAL and generational fight in the Congress a collision between the older vision and a newer vision in the party as well as issues with corruption contributed to the Congress defeat in the Lok Sabha elections party president Rahul Gandhi said during an interaction in Singapore. Rahul in fact picked up from where he left off at an interaction with students at the University of California Berkeley in September last year. He had then admitted that a certain amount of arrogance had crept into the Congress midway through UPA-II and it had stopped conversations with people . During an interaction with IIM alumni in Singapore on Friday Rahul was asked what happened from 2010-11 during UPA s second stint in office after a great ride from 2004 to 2009. We had a perfect storm. Oil price (at) 140. Internal fight in the Congress party. Generational fight in the Congress party. An older vision a newer vision and those just went and collided. So we are fighting an election we have had this internal conflict going on. We had issues with corruption. And that just came together Rahul replied. Asked how he planned to revive and rejuvenate the party he said: The party is basically an idea it is basically an ideology and when you move away from the ideology the party weakens. It is pretty straightforward. So the Congress party has to stand up to certain ideas. The Congress party has a tremendous history and when the Congress party doesn t stand up to that history people get confused. And people start to ask the question are you really that institution. Periodically like all organisations we sort of make mistakes and we have done our share of that The first thing is to set a few rules. And say listen these five or six things if you are in the Congress party they are non-negotiable. We just will not tolerate this stuff he said. ALSO READ | Would have thrown demonetisation file into junkyard if I were PM: Rahul Gandhi Saying that the Congress party has become very inward looking Rahul said there is a process of opening the door inviting new people in . He said the party is a heritage of India and is an institution which can still serve the country. Targeting the BJP Rahul said it was silent on allegations of corruption in the Rafale fighter jet deal and the charges against BJP president Amit Shah s son. He said the Congress on the other hand had fired people when corruption charges were levelled against them and argued that the Right to Information in fact had hit the party. Today you have the Rafale deal you have Amit Shah s son you have Gujarat petroleum but the strategy of the BJP is not to answer. It is happening but just not answer. We did the RTI and completely transformed the basic structure. We created transparency throughout the system and frankly that hit us. Because we dramatically increased the amount of transparency. Our position was that whenever we found out we fired the guy. Pretty much (in) every single case we fired the guy he said. Warning against divisive politics Rahul said: Unfortunately and this is something that is seen all over the world today dividing people gives you political benefits. But then it has costs. The costs are not visible today but the costs will become visible. And they are actually huge costs dangerous costs. You are weakening the country by doing that. So we will fight it. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News In 2014 I saw what bad political decision can do to years of policy-making in Kashmir: Rahul in Singapore Rahul Gandhi in Singapore: Congress has a clean slate now a new opportunity Tags: Rahul Gandhi SSachinMar 11 2018 at 9:34 amModi is a broker for Ambani Adani Tata Birla AATB Ramdev etc......He will tell France that China is a threat to India and allows French companies to sign contract with AATB...He will tell China that we are friends and should not fight each other......And he fools the entire country....Stratagically India lost Dokhlam stand-off.....Modi is just a Gujju Baniya broker....He shuffles Defence Ministers frequently......He plays this double game with Russia and US....Modi is a TRAITOR......(1)(1) Reply Gopal SriniwasanMar 11 2018 at 9:26 amRahul said: today dividing people give you political benefits. But then it has costs. The costs are not visible today but the costs will become visible. And they are actually huge costs dangerous costs. You are weakening the country by doing that. So we will fight it. Let us see if this CLOWN PRINCE of India can practice what he preaches?Let Karnataka become the Laboratory of his clean corruption-free healthy politics which will only talk about people s welfare instead of his temple caste and poverty tourism(3)(6) Reply RRajMar 11 2018 at 9:15 amThe biggest problem for Congress is that it is personified as epitome of corruption within with allies of the worst kind totally corrupt like DMK SP BSP TMC etc. It has to be tough on corrupt completely service minded! Only then it can cone back.(13)(4) Reply SSsMar 11 2018 at 9:01 amTalking of divisive politics after encouraging groups like Patidars dalits Muslims in Gujarat. Asking Churches and Clerics to issue fatwa to vote for Congress. Now starting Hindu terrorism in Karnataka.(15)(22) Reply Jjay desouzaMar 11 2018 at 9:00 amI watched his interview with IIM alumni. It was clear that he knew what the alumni was going to ask and Sam has fed him answers well before the interview. In spite of this he was so bad to answer any question and that his knowledge is so shallow on any subject bad in communication ....He said he was in Harvard Univ in Boston. Most probably the univ kicked him out for his poor performance. (He has no degree- Need to find out). Considering his knowledge and communication skills I am sure he cannot debate with any opposition leader cur ly active in politics. He is definitely going to decimate the Cong party.(8)(10) ReplyGopal SriniwasanMar 11 2018 at 9:28 amHe went on a Harvard Campus tourism for 14 days and dropped out despite being ed a paid seat?(2)(3) Reply Load More Comments
When a batter tries to hit every ball out of the park regardless of where it is pitched you know that either a rank tailender is at work or we are into the slog overs. Now even if the NDA decides to advance the date of general elections we ll have to wait till December. These are clearly not the slog overs yet and Sonia Gandhi isn t a rookie. So what was she trying to do on Friday in Mumbai at the India Today conclave? As we shall see she was trying to do several things at once. On the face of it through her speech Sonia was evidently gunning for Narendra Modi and blaming him for every real and perceived ill that currently plagues India. While that is obvious it is also unexceptionable. At a subtler level Sonia was trying to reclaim Congress s space and mantle of leadership among the Opposition. Naturally the easiest way to do so would be to make the Modi government the target of excoriating rhetoric. Brand Modi is so strong that political careers can be made or resurrected by ricocheting off it. Sonia a craftier politician than many give her credit for would have hoped to create enough noise in both mainstream and social media to place Congress at the forefront of the Opposition ranks ahead of the 2019 battle. This is crucial because Congress s leadership has come under question after a string of listless results and talks of a third front have started swirling again led by the likes of Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and even NCP supremo Sharad Pawar. The latter in fact is holding a meeting of anti-BJP parties on 27 and 28 March in New Delhi and recently sent Praful Patel to Bengal to secure Mamata s participation. File image of Sonia Gandhi. PTI What would have spiked Sonia s concern is that some Opposition leaders are pledging equidistance from Congress. In KCR s words according to a News18 report: There is a serious need to bring change in national politics. Seventy years have passed since Independence and out of those 70 years 64 years were ruled by either BJP or Congress. Even after 70 years people are suffering and they don t even have water to drink It can be a third front or anything It is unification of the people of India and not just some political parties. And this will surely be minus BJP and Congress no doubt about that. While Pawar is planning to hold meetings and KCR is calling for a third front sans the Congress and BJP Mamata is busy blaming Rahul Gandhi for the Congress s North East debacle. Soon after the results were out the TMC chief told the media that Rahul was wrong to turn down her invitation to join hands for the Tripura Assembly polls. Tripura is the outcome of CPM s surrender and Congress failure she declared. It is not a secret that Mamata has a very poor opinion of Rahul s political acumen and would rather do business with Sonia instead. Things however have become a tad complicated at the change of baton in Congress. Other constituents of this third front are equally wary of Rahul. RJD chief Lalu Yadav for instance last year had requested the presence of Sonia or Priyanka Gandhi for his BJP bhagao desh bachao rally last May. The Telegraph had reported that in a phone call Lalu apparently told Sonia You should come but if for some reason you cannot kindly send Priyanka Gandhi for the rally. This presents a problem of legitimacy for the Congress one which the wily Sonia sought to address by claiming that in 2019 Opposition parties must keep aside all their differences to unite against the oppressive Modi regime in the larger interest of the nation. Unspoken in the selfless call is the message that no formation can afford to keep the Congress out. She said We have worked together earlier. In Parliament there is co-ordination especially in the Rajya Sabha It is difficult for all the parties including ours. At the national level we can come together on some issues. But at the ground level we are opponents. There is a lot of pressure from all parties including ours like in West Bengal and many other states. It is a difficult task But if all of us think of the larger picture...if we feel and care for the country we have to sink the local differences. Sonia thundered that in 2019 we are going to come back. We are not going to let them come back to power . She even went on to claim that achhe din will sink BJP like India Shining did . Whether or not that happens is for the voters to decide. There was however a touch of arrogance and a sense of entitlement in her words which seemed a little misplaced. After all the Congress s performance in recently concluded Assembly polls in three north-eastern states has been dismal. In Meghalaya the only state where it managed a few seats Congress tally was down to 21 from 29 in 2013. In Nagaland Congress failed to open account whereas it had won eight in 2013. Its vote share in this Christian-majority state crashed from 24.89 percent to just 2.1 percent while BJP posted a handsome increase. Similarly in Tripura Congress s vote share nosedived from a healthy 36.53 percent in 2013 to a paltry 1.8 percent this year. Needless to say it didn t win any seat. If we scratch the surface the much-hyped recent bypoll results also look less than glamorous for Congress. In the two Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh that it retained Kolaras and Mungaoli Congress has been in power since 2013. What should worry Sonia is that in both these seats Congress vote share has suffered a drastic downward revision. In Mungaoli for instance Congress s margin came down from about 20 000 votes to just 2 000-odd votes. In Kolaras the margin was down to around 8 000 votes from nearly 25 000 in 2013. In both these seats the BJP has substantially increased its share even after a 15-year reign. For all its bravado before the media infighting has started over this erosion. As Economic Times notes in a report that these seats fell in the parliamentary constituency of party s CM face probable Jyotiraditya Scindia who relentlessly campaigned here is only expected to increase the tussle among state leaders on the point whether Scindia can lead the party to a win in the state eight months later. It is only in Rajasthan that Congress s prospects look good. The party won two bypoll seats and also performed well in local civic body elections. It is tough to argue however that a good show in Rajasthan is enough to convince Sonia that Congress is ready to unseat BJP in 2019 when the grand old party s performance everywhere else is taking a beating. We may therefore look at the other possibility that Sonia s belligerence against Modi which mainly was a mishmash of old and tired rhetoric before a sympathetic audience reflected more a desperation to shore up the party s morale ahead of upcoming crucial states especially as party president Rahul Gandhi was abroad busy making a meal of himself before the world. Sonia showed that Rahul has still a lot to learn.
BHUBANESWAR: Congress president Rahul Gandhi has rejected the resignation of OPCC president Prasad Harichandan and he will remain in the post till the next general election Congress sources said on Saturday. Harichandan had resigned from the post on February 28 owning moral responsibility for his party s miserable show in the Bijepur by-election. Congress which had won the seat the last time had lost its deposit in the by-poll. Harichandan had taken over as OPCC chief in December 2014. He has been facing opposition from within the party since last year s panchayat election where the Congress was pushed to the third position after BJP emerged as number two in the state politics. The AICC did not accept the resignation of Harichandan as Odisha Congress president. Rahul Gandhi wants him to continue as the OPCC president OPCC disciplinary committee chairperson Sandhya Mohapatra told a press conference here today. Gandhi felt that as the general election is most likely to be held in the next eight to nine months it will not be possible for a new PCC president to deal with the election situation within the short period. He therefore decided to retain Harichandan as the OPCC president till the next general election Mohapatra said. While BJD candidate Rita Sahu bagged 1 02 871 votes and BJP candidate Ashok Panigrahi bagged 60 938 votes. The Congress had finished a distant third with party candidate Pranaya Sahu bagging a paltry 10 274 votes in the byelection. The Congress candidate lost his deposit though the party had won the Bijepur seat in 2004 2009 and 2014 elections.
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi seeking time to meet them for resolving the issue of sealing of shops in the national capital. In his letter to the prime minister he stressed on bringing a Bill in Parliament to remove anomalies in the law which are the reasons behind sealing of commercial establishments and warned that unemployment caused by the drive could impact law and order situation in the city. The reason behind sealing is anomalies in the law. It is the responsibility of the Central government to remove these anomalies the chief minister said. Kejriwal had yesterday threatened that he would go on hunger strike if the sealing drive is not stopped by March 31. Traders earn their livelihood honestly and pay tax. But they are suffering due to sealing. There is only one solution now. A Bill has to be brought in Parliament to remove anomalies in the law and save traders from unemployment he said. In his letter to Modi the chief minister said The traders are on the verge of starvation and each shop is means of livelihood for many people. If all of them are rendered unemployed (due to sealing) then it may impact law and order situation. Seeking an appointment with the prime minister Kejriwal demanded that a Bill should be brought in Parliament immediately to stop the sealing drive. In his letter to Rahul Gandhi the chief minister sought an appointment with him and said sealing of commercial establishments is driving lakhs of people unemployed. A solution to this problem should be found by rising above politics. This issue needs to be strongly raised in Parliament and pressure should be exerted on the Centre to bring a Bill over it Kejriwal wrote to the Congress president. The sealing drive was undertaken by the municipal corporations of the national capital on the directions of a Supreme Court-appointed committee in December last year. Under the drive hundreds of commercial establishments have been sealed so far due to non-payment of conversion charges and violations of Delhi Master Plan.
Mumbai: Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Sunday said not meeting Congress president Rahul Gandhi ahead of the Gujarat polls was a mistake as it would have prevented the BJP from retaining power in the state.The 24-year-old Patidar quota agitation spearhead who had pledged support with the Congress for the Gujarat polls held in last December said the opposition party would have got an absolute majority had he met Rahul Gandhi.Speaking at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai Mr Patel said I have said this before as well and I am saying it now. I did not meet Rahul Gandhi. If I can openly meet Mamata Banerjee Nitish Kumar and (Shiv Sena president) Uddhav Thackeray there was no issue in meeting Rahul. It was a mistake. Had I met him the BJP would have won 79 and not 99 seats. The BJP retained Gujarat by winning 99 seats in the 182-member Assembly. The Congress improved its tally but could not oust the saffron outfit from its stronghold.After dilly-dallying for weeks Patel had in November-end declared that his Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) would back the Congress in the Gujarat polls after the latter accepted its demand for reservation to the Patidar community.Mr Patel reiterated his allegation that a high-ranking bureaucrat of Gujarat had offered him a bribe of Rs 1 200 crore to get the agitating Patels call off their https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/ahmed-khan-41 quota stir.Stating that innocent people were killed in Gujarat during the quota agitation Mr Patel said sedition charges were slapped on people who had to make regular court visits now. We also voted for (Narendra) Modi when he was the prime ministerial candidate. We had thought the youth of this country would get jobs...the farmers of the country would get a fair price for their produce but all these things did not happen he added.The Patidar leader also said that the BJP ran a communal election campaign but once it came to power it started speaking about inclusiveness.Top leaders of the saffron outfit were part of such campaigns he added.Referring to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath s recent remarks on Eid celebrations Mr Patel said the political discourse needed to be more positive so that people from different communities were encouraged to celebrate their respective festivals. CommentsSpeaking at the event student leader Kanhaiya Kumar said there was a trend in the country of Congress leaders leaving the party joining the BJP and turning virtuous individuals overnight. The BJP has become like a washing machine he added.

BJP managed to convince people we are a Muslim party: Sonia Gandhi

By: Express News Service | Mumbai | Updated: March 10 2018 7:30 am In my party the great majority is Hindu. Yes there are Muslims too. So I fail to understand this branding us as a Muslim party said Sonia Gandhi in Mumbai. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi Friday said the BJP had managed to convince people that the Congress was a Muslim party and indicated that Congress president Rahul Gandhi s visits to temples was an attempt to shed that perception. The BJP has managed to I don t say brainwash because that is a rude word but it has managed to convince people to persuade people that the Congress party is a Muslim party. In my party the great majority is Hindu. Yes there are Muslims too. So I fail to understand this branding us as a Muslim party she said at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai. She also said the Congress had been pushed into a corner and so felt the need to draw attention rather than keeping quiet to Rahul s frequent temple visits before the Gujarat assembly elections in December 2017. Then his visits had sparked a debate on whether the Congress party was resorting to soft Hindutva . Gandhi said that as a family they have always visited temples but never made it a spectacle https://984032.site123.me/. We have always been to temples. When I used to travel with Rajiv wherever we went we would visit at least one major important temple. We never made a show of it. It was quite a natural thing. Rahul has gone to temples before she said. Asked if Rahul s temple visits were aimed at not letting the BJP monopolise the Hindutva movement she said There is a bit of that because we have been pushed into a corner. Perhaps rather than going to a temple quietly may be a little more public focus on that. In her address Gandhi a Member of Parliament from Rae Bareli also took on the Narendra Modi-led NDA government. She said India s liberal and open democracy was giving way under the ruling establishment s dangerous design and the country s social DNA was being re-engineered. Political opponents are being targeted through the misuse of investigative agencies. The judiciary is in turmoil civil society is being silenced universities and students are being straight-jacketed. Much of the media is being coerced away from its proper watchdog role which is surely to expose misgovernance scams and frauds said Gandhi. The noise of politics is the music of democracy. Yet that very noise is now being muzzled. The pretext is to make India a 10 trillion economy. Yes we need to move fast. But fast F-A-S-T cannot stand for first act second think she said. Acronymitis can be very contagious . Gandhi also said the acche din slogan of the BJP would go the same way as the party s India shining campaign in 2004 which brought the Congress to power. She also asked opposition parties to think of the larger picture join hands and put aside local differences to fight against the BJP . She also said she would contest the Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh again if her party asked her and did not rule out daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra s entry into politics. It is up to her I don t see it now. But one never knows in the future. I don t know really she said. Responding to the Prime Minister s constant criticism of the Congress party s rule for decades she asked if India was really a giant black hole before May 2014 and marched to progress only after the BJP came to power at the Centre. Anil Baluni the national head of the BJP s media wing said the country was defamed internationally under the UPA. The country has seen Sonia Gandhi in different forms. As the most powerful figure when UPA was in government the country went through depression. As the party president she presided over the party s decline to 44 seats and its decimation across states. And as an opposition leader she is practising the politics of fear and deception. She has taken both the country and her own party down he said. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App Tags: Sonia Gandhi VVikramMar 10 2018 at 7:51 amIE gives space and importance to all biased and anti Modi anti Hindu people and ideas.(2)(0) Reply Narendra M. ApteMar 10 2018 at 7:46 am1. The Congress cannot be part of anti-BJP front in the present scenario. 2. Smt. Sonia Gandhi is not ready to find reasons why the Congress is perceived rightly or wrongly as a pro-Muslim party. 3. It is a fact that Congress succumbed to pressures of leaders of Muslim communities and instead of telling them to reform the Muslim Personal Law and move with the times it supported Muslim leaders in their efforts to deny basic rights to Muslim women in name of religion. Here let us not forget that enactment by Rajiv Gandhi led Congress govt of Muslim Women (Right to Protection on Divorce) Act 1986 which curtailed the right of a Muslim woman for maintenance under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was blow to poor Muslims. But the Congress is not ready to accept such b ers. 4. Rahul Gandhi s visits to temples do not mean anything for many citizens: they just underscore fact that the Congress is helpless and is somehow trying to woo voters. Would it succeed- no one knows.(2)(0) Reply SswaMar 10 2018 at 7:36 amSonia Madam Please read Khaled Ahmed article on Alauddin portrayal in today s The Indian Express.(4)(1) Reply Shashichandra DesaiMar 10 2018 at 7:31 amSoniaji your puppet PM Manmohansngh declared that the minorities have first right over India s resources!Is not this statement anti cons utional and favouring MUSLIMS and Christians.Why blame BJP?(11)(2) Reply Yogesh BhardwajMar 10 2018 at 7:31 amFor a party for whom Uniform Civil Code is communal. One which hiccups and coughs over Ram Madir at his birthplace and could not reconcile two communities over it. Shah Bano Maut ka Saudagar Kashmiri Pandit Riot Bill Aurangzeb and Babar roads RTE Act and so on. The list to your anti-Hindu sins is endless.(12)(2) Reply Load More Comments
Singapore: Congress president Rahul Gandhi today called on Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and discussed wide range of topics related to India-Singapore ties.Mr Gandhi is on a three-day trip to Singapore as part of the Congress party s efforts to connect with the Indian community abroad. I had a cordial meeting with the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong earlier today Mr Gandhi said in a tweet. Our discussions covered a wide range of topics concerning our countries the tweet said.Mr Gandhi met Prime Minister Lee along with Congress leader Milind Deora and telecom entrepreneur Sam Pitroda. Pleased to have met Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong this morning along with Sam Pitroda and Milind Deora Mr Gandhi posted on Facebook with some photographs. Always a pleasure to see @leehsienloong Singapore s Prime Minister. First met him in New Delhi in 2005 during the launch of the India-Singapore Parliamentary Forum which @VivianBala & I founded & co-chaired Mr Deora tweeted.Mr Gandhi also met Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam.Yesterday he began the Singapore leg of his visit with an address to Indian entrepreneurs. He also made a formal address at the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore.Mr Gandhi 47 also met MP Lim Wee Kiak senior Minister of State Janil Puthucheary Minister for Social and Family Development Desmond Lee MP Joan Pereira MP Vikram Nair and Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan.He also visited the iconic INA memorial in Singapore and paid homage to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose who unveiled in 1945 the monument that commemorates the Unknown Warrior of the Indian National Army. CommentsSingapore has some 500 000 people of Indian-origin in a multi-ethnic population of over 5.3 million.The Congress president will be travelling to Malaysia where he will meet Prime Minister Najib Razak and members of the Indian community.
NEW DELHI: Congress President Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to meet French President Emmanuel Macron during his four-day India visit. According to sources the meeting is slated for Sunday after Gandhi returns from his two-nation visit to Thailand and Singapore that is part of his overseas Indians outreach plan. The Congress which has launched a tirade against the government over the Rafale deal that Prime Minister Narendra Modi struck during his visit to France in April 2015 however said that the issue would not be raised during the meeting. The Congress party will not discuss India s defence deal with the head of state of a foreign country. This is our internal matter and this discussion the government has to do with France and not the Congress. We are demanding answers from our government and not from the French government Congress communications in-charge Randeep Surjewala said. Alluding to the Rafale deal he said that when one goes to buy something the buyer has to ensure whether the product is good or not as the seller will obviously say his product is good. The buyer has to decide looking at his pocket Surjewala said. The government has to ensure that its money is not wasted and gets the best deal in the least money. There should be no loss to the state exchequer. It is not the responsibility of Mr Macron but Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Defence minister on which they have failed he alleged. The Congress has been attacking the government on the Rafale deal and demanding answers from it over the price of the aircraft. The Congress on Friday alleged that the government has caused a loss of Rs 12 612 crore to the state exchequer by buying the aircraft from Dassault Aviation the French manufacturer of Rafale fighter jets. The party alleged that the company sold each jet to India at Rs 351 crore more than those sold to Qatar and Egypt 11 months ago. The government has refused to divulge details of the purchase price of Rafale jets due to the secrecy clause in the agreement signed with the French government. Surjewala said if a President or Prime Minister of any country come to India He is our guest and there are no differences between the government and the opposition . The heads of state formally meet the opposition leaders as they had been meeting Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley in the past he said. Gandhi who is the leader of the principal opposition party in the country has been meeting visiting heads of state and government after he took over as party chief. Gandhi recently met visiting Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen and Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau. He was in Italy during Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang s visit who met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to meet French president Emmanuel Macron during the four-day visit of the foreign dignitary that begins later on Friday. Though the meeting does not figure in the Ministry of External Affairs detailed itinerary for Macron s visit Rahul s office confirmed that a meeting is scheduled for Sunday. Political circles in the capital are speculating whether the controversial Rafale fighter aircraft deal will figure in their discussions and whether Macron will seek to clear the Congress president s misgivings about it. File image of Congress president Rahul Gandhi. PTI The Congress has been attacking the Narendra Modi government over its decision to scrap the UPA-negotiated deal for 126 Dassault-built Rafale fighter jets and instead buy just 36 of them in fly-away condition. The party which has raised the matter in Parliament as well as outside has alleged that the Modi government is buying the aircraft at a highly inflated price compared to the one negotiated by the UPA. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman refused to reveal the price of the 36-aircraft deal citing a secrecy clause in the agreement signed with the French government. Since his elevation as President of the largest opposition party in Parliament Rahul has been meeting visiting heads of state and government. Since December he has met Cambodian prime minister Samdech Hun Sen and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. He was away in Italy during the visit of Vietnam president Tran Dai Quang who met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh. He however did not meet Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Iranian president Hassan Rouhani and the King of Jordan Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein during their visits.
SINGAPORE: Congress President Rahul Gandhi who is on a three-day foreign trip that will also take him to Malaysia on Thursday said here that India was facing very serious dangers of polarising society and accused the ruling BJP of being less concerned about peace and tranquility . Gandhi met Indian-origin CEOs of companies in Singapore to discuss the situation of jobs investments and economy in India. He said Congress saw the society as a system that has to be kept in balance asserting that he would work for ushering in a new Congress after taking over the reigns of the party from his mother Sonia in December. We see society as a system that has to be kept in balance. The BJP on the other hand is less concerned about peace and tranquility. We see very serious dangers of polarising society and risks arising from them he said. Apparently referring to the alleged 2G spectrum scam in which the BJP had consistently targeted the previous UPA government Gandhi said the system was destabilised between 2012 and 2014. A Delhi court in December last year acquitted all those accused of corruption and money laundering charges in the 2G spectrum allocation cases. The allegations were partly blamed for the Congress losing the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Gandhi on a March 8-10 visit to Singapore and Malaysia as part of his outreach to the Indian diaspora said the Congress had a clean slate and a new opportunity now. We faced a storm in 2012. Between 2012 and 2014 the system was destabilised and we saw the consequences. We have a clean slate now and a new opportunity. We will present you with a new Congress party that envisions the values you were born with he said. The Congress leader said India was seeing the biggest migration of rural people. We have challenges. Broadly our view is we want a peaceful transition a transition that carries everybody together. Gandhi discussed a range of issues including jobs investments and the prevalent economic conditions with the Indian-origin CEOs of companies in Singapore. He also met the CEO of Teamsek Ho Ching and its board and discussed a plethora of issues including quantum computing robotics Chinese manufacturing and big data. Gandhi paid homage to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and interacted with the people at the Singapore Indian Association. Established in 1923 the foundation stone of the association s clubhouse was laid by India s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1950. Gandhi met members of the Kamala Club at the Singapore Indian Association. Created as an amalgamation of Lotus Club and Ladies Union on the suggestion of Nehru Kamala Club works on issues of women s rights and empowerment. Over the next three days I look forward to meeting the Indian community business leaders and members of the Indian Overseas Congress in Singapore and Malaysia. Also on my schedule are meetings with the Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong and the Malaysian PM Najib Razak Gandhi said in a tweet.
NEW DELHI: Asserting that talks are the only way to resolve the issue of Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Rahul Gandhi today held the BJP-led government at Centre responsible for the current turmoil in the state. Rahul Gandhi visits Netaji memorial in SingaporeThe 47-year-old Gandhi is on a three-day trip to Singapore and Malaysia during which he will meet Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak besides interacting with the Indian community and business leaders. You engage with people you bring people in you work with people and you trust people. It works. I have seen it for myself Rahul said while addressing the students of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in the National University of Singapore. You engage with people you bring people in you work with people you trust people. It works. I have seen it for m https://t.co/lAZuNfHUTG ANI (@ANI) 1520505873000 The Congress leader attacked the government for its lack of policy and bad political decision on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir have resulted in the current crisis in Jammu and Kashmir which has seen a dramatic increase in terror-related incidents and ceasefire violations by Pakistan in the last couple of years. Our Kashmir policy under Dr. Manmohan Singh was about building bridges with people. When UPA came to power in 2004 we were handed a J&K that was burning. We made a plan and worked on it for nine years. In 2014 when I went to J&K I felt like crying. I saw what a bad political decision can do to years and years of policy-making he said. The Congress president who is on a three-day visit to Singapore and Malaysia from March 8 to 10 also reflected on India-China ties and asserted on the need to have a peaceful and co-operative relations with its eastern neighbour. India has to have a peaceful and co-operative relationship with China Rahul said. The Congress president stated that he is working for ushering in a new Congress since he took over the reins of the party from his mother Sonia in December last year. We see society as a system that has to be kept in balance. The BJP on the other hand is less concerned about peace and tranquillity. We see very serious dangers of polarising society and risks arising from them he said. During his address Rahul targeted the BJP government of promoting an atmosphere of intimidation in India where there is politics of dividing people and using their anger to win elections. There is a particular type of politics that s not only happening in India but in a number of places - of dividing people of using (their) anger to win elections and that s what is happening in India he said. If you ask me what am I proud about my country...It is the idea of plurality. It s the idea that people in India can say anything they want do anything they want and they won t face any problem and that is being challenged... he said. Responding to a question from the audience Gandhi accused the BJP and the RSS of indulging in anti-minorities politics. Mahatma Gandhi died protecting minorities. We the Congress party have been protecting minority people for the last 70 years. We don t like India where people are persecuted where people are being beaten up for what they eat what they say and what they wear he said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi controls the law making he controls the UP police he controls the Haryana police and he controls these things. An extremely nasty form of politics is playing out in India Gandhi said. He asserted that we will fight him and we will beat him in the election. (With inputs from agencies)
Rahul Gandhi met with the Indian community in SingaporeSingapore: Congress president Rahul Gandhi will address students at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore today. Earlier in the day Rahul Gandhi met with Indian-origin CEOs of companies in Singapore and discussed jobs investments and the prevalent economic conditions.He is on a 3-day visit to Singapore and Malaysia where he will meet the Indian community business leaders and members of the Indian Overseas Congress.He is also slated to meet the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong and the Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak. Here are the highlights of Rahul Gandhi s address to students in Singapore: Mar 08 201817:17 (IST) In 2014 when I went to J&K I felt like crying. I saw what a bad political decision can to do years and years of policy-making: Rahul Gandhi in SingaporeMar 08 201817:17 (IST) We have been fighting the BJP & RSS since the beginning. An extremely nasty form of politics is currently taking root in India. We will fight this nasty form of politics and we will defeat the BJP in the next election: Rahul Gandhi in SingaporeMar 08 201817:16 (IST) We do not like an India where people are persecuted for what they eat drink wear or think: Rahul Gandhi in SingaporeMar 08 201817:16 (IST) India s success is hugely because of the Indian people but anyone who thinks that the Congress Party s policies are not part of that success needs to write a new book: Rahul Gandhi in SingaporeMar 08 201817:15 (IST) I am a person who has been taught to love even those who dislike me. I feel no animosity towards anyone who opposes me. This is what makes me different from PM Modi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi in SingaporeMar 08 201815:20 (IST) Not just in India but across the world there are some people trying to win elections by using people s anger: Rahul GandhiMar 08 201815:15 (IST) One mustn t underestimate the energy and power that is released when you take a billion people from a rural economy to an urban one: Rahul Gandhi in Singapore on the Indian economy. Mar 08 201815:14 (IST) The idea of India envisioned by Mahatma Gandhi was of an India where everyone felt at home regardless of their religion caste and language. That idea is now being challenged: Rahul Gandhi in Singapore.Mar 08 201815:09 (IST) Where we are running into trouble now is in the levels of violence that we are seeing in the country: Rahul Gandhi at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Singapore.Mar 08 201815:05 (IST) The idea of Swaraj according to Mahatma Gandhi implies decentralisation of power until the last person says Rahul Gandhi Mar 08 201815:04 (IST)Rahul Gandhi at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Singapore. When asked about the press conference conducted by 4 top judges of the Supreme Court he says People go to the judiciary for justice. For the first time four judges went to the people for justice. Mar 08 201814:14 (IST)Rahul Gandhi paying tributes to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at the Indian National Army memorial in Singapore.Mar 08 201814:13 (IST)Rahul Gandhi visited the Singapore Indian Association at Balestier Road. The foundation stone of the association s clubhouse was laid by former PM Jawaharlal Nehru. No more content Comments
NEW DELHI: Congress MPs led by party chief Rahul Gandhi today staged a protest near Mahatma Gandhi s statue in Parliament complex over the PNB fraud and demanded answers from the prime minister on the https://wallinside.com/post-63481045-freecharge-offers.html issue. The party also staged protests in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha disrupting proceedings in both the houses. Party leaders had also given adjournment motions to discuss the banking scams. The opposition party is demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi make a statement in both the houses on how the banking scams happened under his charge. They demanded that Modi break his silence and come clean on bank loot involving designer jeweller Nirav Modi . The Congress MPs raised the slogans Desh ka chowkidaar kahan gaya? So gaya so gaya (Where is the country s watchman? He is asleep) in a swipe at the prime minister who had claimed that he is the country s watchman and will not allow corruption. The MPs were seen carrying placards alleging that the government was attempting to save Nirav Modi . Members of some Left parties also joined them later. They alleged that despite complaints being given to authorities and the PMO the accused were aided in their escape . The ruling BJP has rejected the opposition s allegations claiming that the scam started when the Congress was in power.

BJP destabilising northeast in blind quest for power: Congress

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday launched a fierce attack on the BJP accusing it of destabilising the northeast in its blind quest for power . Still reeling from a dismal show in the recently-concluded assembly polls in Tripura Nagaland and Meghalaya senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala tweeted up a storm and charged that the saffron party was forsaking the stability of the region so it can assume power at any cost and by any means . Tell tale signs of BJP s blind quest for power superseding the stability of region propagation of democracy nipping the separatist tendencies and ignoring core issues of region are already visible Surjewala tweeted. The Congress communications in-charge pointed out that the BJP was allying itself with regional parties whose ideology and demands it did not necessarily prescribe to or support thereby undermining the mandate of the people of the state. The BJP-IPFT combine decimated the Left Front in Tripura by securing 43 seats in the 60-strong assembly. In Tripura BJP aligned with IPFT whose election plank is division of state and now demands a tribal CM. Time for Modi government and BJP to address both issues. Does it stand for demand for division https://notehub.org/60y0t of state of Tripura? Would it reject the demand for a tribal CM? enquired Surjewala. Turning to Nagaland where Congress and BJP had till last month been part of the NPF-led government Surjewala called out the saffron party for switching sides at the eleventh hour to join hands with the fledgling NDPP floated by former chief minister Neiphiu Rio. In Nagaland BJP is in government with NPF yet fought election in alliance with its opposition party NDPP. NPF won 26 seats and NDPP won 18 seats. With both NPF and NDPP staking claim to form the government is Nagaland headed for another round of instability like in last 5 years? And Naga Accord? said Surjewala. He was referring to Nagaland Peace Framework signed by the Modi government and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) in 2015 that brought an end to insurgency and made way for peace talks in the north-eastern state. Many regional parties had called for a boycott of the February 27 polls in the absence of clarity over the Naga peace accord. Congress President Rahul Gandhi has previously targeted PM Modi over the Naga accord and said it was nowhere to be found after nearly three years of being finalized. Surjewala then touched upon the sore spot of Meghalaya where the BJP with only two seats in hand once again outmaneuvered the ruling Congress by negotiating an alliance with other parties to form the government. Even after emerging as the single largest party with 21 seats the grand old party failed to retain power in the state it had ruled for the last 15 years. In Meghalaya as BJP assumes power with just 2 MLAs every discordant party that fought BJP and each other ideologically-politically-electorally is sewn up to form the government at any cost - NPP UDP PDF HSDP BJP Ind. Is this the answer to Meghalaya s aspirations and a stable government he railed. Meghalaya is the second state after Manipur and Goa where the Congress has not been able to forge a post-poll alliance with any of the regional parties despite emerging as the largest single party. BJP is following a dangerous game of destabilsation subversion and usurpation of power in North East unmindful of the stability security peace and progress. Hope Modiji had cared to learn from Rajivji who put Nation First and brought peace to the region by Assam and Mizo accords Surjewala said.
By: Express News Service | Mumbai | Updated: March 10 2018 7:30 am In my party the great majority is Hindu. Yes there are Muslims too. So I fail to understand this branding us as a Muslim party said Sonia Gandhi in Mumbai. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi Friday said the BJP had managed to convince people that the Congress was a Muslim party and indicated that Congress president Rahul Gandhi s visits to temples was an attempt to shed that perception. The BJP has managed to I don t say brainwash because that is a rude word but it has managed to convince people to persuade people that the Congress party is a Muslim party. In my party the great majority is Hindu. Yes there are Muslims too. So I fail to understand this branding us as a Muslim party she said at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai. She also said the Congress had been pushed into a corner and so felt the need to draw attention rather than keeping quiet to Rahul s frequent temple visits before the Gujarat assembly elections in December 2017. Then his visits had sparked a debate on whether the Congress party was resorting to soft Hindutva . Gandhi said that as a family they have always visited temples but never made it a spectacle. We have always been to temples. When I used to travel with Rajiv wherever we went we would visit at least one major important temple. We never made a show of it. It was quite a natural thing. Rahul has gone to temples before she said. Asked if Rahul s temple visits were aimed at not letting the BJP monopolise the Hindutva movement she said There is a bit of that because we have been pushed into a corner. Perhaps rather than going to a temple quietly may be a little more public focus on that. In her address Gandhi a Member of Parliament from Rae Bareli also took on the Narendra Modi-led NDA government. She said India s liberal and open democracy was giving way under the ruling establishment s dangerous design and the country s social DNA was being re-engineered. Political opponents are being targeted through the misuse of investigative agencies. The judiciary is in turmoil civil society is being silenced universities and students are being straight-jacketed. Much of the media is being coerced away from its proper watchdog role which is surely to expose misgovernance scams and frauds said Gandhi. The noise of politics is the music of democracy. Yet that very noise is now being muzzled. The pretext is to make India a 10 trillion economy. Yes we need to move fast. But fast F-A-S-T cannot stand for first act second think she said. Acronymitis can be very contagious . Gandhi also said the acche din slogan of the BJP would go the same way as the party s India shining campaign in 2004 which brought the Congress to power. She also asked opposition parties to think of the larger picture join hands and put aside local differences to fight against the BJP . She also said she would contest the Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh again if her party asked her and did not rule out daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra s entry into politics. It is up to her I don t see it now. But one never knows in the future. I don t know really she said. Responding to the Prime Minister s constant criticism of the Congress party s rule for decades she asked if India was really a giant black hole before May 2014 and marched to progress only after the BJP came to power at the Centre. Anil Baluni the national head of the BJP s media wing said the country was defamed internationally under the UPA. The country has seen Sonia Gandhi in different forms. As the most powerful figure when UPA was in government the country went through depression. As the party president she presided over the party s decline to 44 seats and its decimation across states. And as an opposition leader she is practising the politics of fear and deception. She has taken both the country and her own party down he said. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App Tags: Sonia Gandhi VVikramMar 10 2018 at 7:51 amIE gives space and importance to all biased and anti Modi anti Hindu people and ideas.(2)(0) Reply Narendra M. ApteMar 10 2018 at 7:46 am1. The Congress cannot be part of anti-BJP front in the present scenario. 2. Smt. Sonia Gandhi is not ready to find reasons why the Congress is perceived rightly or wrongly as a pro-Muslim party. 3. It is a fact that Congress succumbed to pressures of leaders of Muslim communities and instead of telling them to reform the Muslim Personal Law and move with the times it supported Muslim leaders in their efforts to deny basic rights to Muslim women in name of religion. Here let us not forget that enactment by Rajiv Gandhi led Congress govt of Muslim Women (Right to Protection on Divorce) Act 1986 which curtailed the right of a Muslim woman for maintenance under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was blow to poor Muslims. But the Congress is not ready to accept such b ers. 4. Rahul Gandhi s visits to temples do not mean anything for many citizens: they just underscore fact that the Congress is helpless and is somehow trying to woo voters. Would it succeed- no one knows.(2)(0) Reply SswaMar 10 2018 at 7:36 amSonia Madam Please read Khaled Ahmed article on Alauddin portrayal in today s The Indian Express.(4)(1) Reply Shashichandra DesaiMar 10 2018 at 7:31 amSoniaji your puppet PM Manmohansngh declared that the minorities have first right over India s resources!Is not this statement anti cons utional and favouring MUSLIMS and Christians.Why blame BJP?(11)(2) Reply Yogesh BhardwajMar 10 2018 at 7:31 amFor a party for whom Uniform Civil Code is communal. One which hiccups and coughs over Ram Madir at his birthplace and could not reconcile two communities over it. Shah Bano Maut ka Saudagar Kashmiri Pandit Riot Bill Aurangzeb and Babar roads RTE Act and so on. The list to your anti-Hindu sins is endless.(12)(2) Reply Load More Comments
Hours after inducting them to the Biju Janata Dal party chief and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik named editor and politician Soumya Ranjan Patnaik and educationist Dr Achyuta Samanta as his party s candidates for Rajya Sabha seats. His party will also be sending current Begunia MLA and party Vice President Prashanta Nanda to the upper house. Three RS seats would fall vacant with the terms of BJD MPs A U Singh Deo former hockey captain Dilip Tirkey and BJD-backed independent candidate AV Swamy coming to an end on April 2. Soumya Ranjan Patnaik son-in-law of late Indian National Congress Chief Minister JB Patnaik was with the BJP and then with Congress. Patnaik had been sacked soon after his brother Niranjan Patnaik had been removed from the post of PCC President in 2013. The influential businessman who owns the regional paper Sambad an Odia TV channel and radio station had then launched his own party Ama Odisha in 2013. He contested from the Khandapada constituency in Nayagrh district in 2014 but lost from a narro margin. Since then he has lent his support to issues like chit fund and farmers plight keeping up the pressure against Patnaik s government On Wednesday the editor who has served a term as Lok Sabha MP from the Congress said right now he it was important for people to consolidate around issues that mattered. Being a lone voice was of no use. Speaking to ET Patnaik said We have been giving far too much importance to parties and leaders and letting issues take a backseat. It is issues that I have prioritised and I think all political parties small and big must consolidate themselves around issues. Today am concerned about two important issues. Nationally I think the idea of India is in danger and any right thinking person must do whatever he can to consolidate in this fight to protect it. there has never been a more important time to fight for Odisha s interest whether it is for special category status or the Mahanadi river dispute. I think a regional party is the best platform to fight for the state s interest he added. Samanta whose organisation runs engineering and medical colleges and the county s single largest educational institute dedicated to tribal children Kalinga institute of Social Sciences also made his foray into active politics on Wednesday. Samanta enjoys considerable goodwill as a philanthropist and for the free education KISS provides to thousands of children. Naveen Patnaik s pro- people policy clean image and dedication to development of the weaker section inspired me to join BJD he told the media. Nominations for the three seats are to be filed before March 12 and polling is to be held on March 23. Naveen Patnaik s BJD occupies 117 of the state s 147 house assembly seats.
NEW DELHI: The Congress today launched a blistering attack on the government s over its continuing silence on the Rafale aircraft deal and accused PM Modi and his coterie of ministers of dishing out lies to deceive the people. Modi government is unforgivably guilty of compromising national interest and national security. Shoddy cover-up self-defeating assertions and deliberate lies are being dished out to divert dupe and deceive said a party communique giving it back to the ruling party which has previously accused the Congress of undermining national security with its demands for disclosure of the Rafale deal. Modi Govt is unforgivably guilty of compromising National interest & National Security . Shoddy cover-up sel https://t.co/7fNFKZugHy Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) 1520591073000 The salvo against the NDA-led Centre came hours ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron s arrival in India on a four-day bilateral visit. Macron recently came on record to say that the negotiation for Rafale jets was a win-win for both the countries but the fine print of the deal could not be revealed due to commercial reasons. Now Congress has seized upon the annual report of Dassault Aviation the manufacturer of Rafale fighter jets to claim that the deal inked by PM Modi caused a loss of Rs 12 632 crore to the national exchequer. According to the report Dassault sold 36 Rafale jets to India at 7.5 billion in 2016 while 48 jets were sold to Qatar and Egypt at 7.9 billion in 2015. This amounted to Rs 1 670.7 crore per aircraft for India and Rs 1 319.8 crore to Qatar and Egypt. Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Randeep Surjewala pointed out that each jet was sold to India at Rs 351 crore higher than those sold to Qatar and Egypt 11 months ago. Dassault Aviation s Annual Report discloses the price of 48 aircrafts (24 each) sold to Egypt & Qatar in 2015 as https://t.co/6aFs6uPMg3 Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) 1520591453000 Why did India pay Rs.350.90 crore per aircraft more i.e. a total of Rs.12 632 crore for 36 aircrafts? Dassault Av https://t.co/flx0ZEetIW Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) 1520591602000 Congress highlighted the fact that the purchase price negotiated by the Modi dispensation was significantly higher than the Rs 526 crore bid by the erstwhile UPA regime. Why are PM & Def Minister hiding the purchase price ? Is it correct that per aircraft pricing of Rafale as per bid https://t.co/pWAieo0jVW Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) 1520591219000 Furthermore the Inter-Governmental Agreement which ensured that India would get the lowest price of the Rafale aircraft in comparison to other buyers was mooted since the annual report shows that Qatar and Egypt obtained the jets more cheaply. What is the purpose object and sanctity of IGA with France once the assurance of India getting the lowest price of Rafale aircraft in comparison to every other buyer is violated? demanded Surjewala. The Congress also charged the PM with non-transparency violation of the provisions of the Defence Procurement Procedure foregoing prior clearance from the Cabinet Committee on Security and sacrificing national interest by failing to include Transfer of Technology in the Rafale deal. Pressure has been mounting on the Modi government to make public the details of the Rafale deal with opposition parties criticizing the Centre s refusal to disclose per aircraft price for the sake of confidentiality thereby hiding the information from the country and the Parliament .
New Delhi: HighlightsJets sold to India by company at higher price than Qatar Egypt: Congress Party accused PM Modi of compromising on national security interests BJP countered charges accusing Congress of misleading the nation The Congress on Friday accused the Modi government of compromising national security and causing a loss of over Rs 12 000 crore to the taxpayer with its deal to buy 36 French Rafale fighter jets.Quoting from the annual report of Dassault Aviation makers of the fighter aircraft the party alleged that the company sold each jet to India at Rs 351 crore higher than those sold to Qatar and Egypt 11 months ago.Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Randeep Surjewala said while 36 Rafale jets were sold to India at 7.5 billion Euros in 2016 48 jets were sold to Qatar and Egypt at 7.9 billion Euros in 2015.This amounted to Rs 1 670.70 crore per aircraft for India and Rs 1 319.80 crore to Egypt and Qatar. There was a difference of Rs 351 crore for each aircraft the party claimed.Addressing a joint press conference Mr Azad Mr Surjewala and former Minister of State for Defence Jitendra Singh asserted that the government had adopted complete opaqueness in the purchase of the Rafale fighter aircraft.Mr Azad asserted that had the Modi government not cancelled the deal struck by the UPA dispensation for 126 Rafale jets it could have saved Rs 41 212 crore. The Modi government s diversionary tactics on Rafale deal has left more questions than answers they said in a statement.Accusing the prime minister of compromising on national security and interests Mr Azad asked why were only 36 fighter jets purchased instead of 126 jets for which international bids were called for. Is this not compromising with national security? Why are prime minister and defence minister hiding the purchase price (of the jets)? Is it correct that per aircraft pricing of Rafale as per bid dated 12.12.2012 (during the UPA-Congress government) was Rs 526.1 crore as against the Modi government s per aircraft purchase price of Rs 1 670.70 crore? he asked.Mr Surjewala said the deal was also made in absence of prior clearance from Cabinet Committee on Security thus sacrificing the national interest and bypassing Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on the Rs 36 000 crore offset contract in favour of a private entity with no defence manufacturing experience. Grave apprehensions and claims of insurmountable loss being caused to public exchequer stand exposed as the government refuses to state the truth. A huge scam is brewing in procurement of fighter aircrafts for the Indian Air Force yet the Modi government remains opaque intransient obscure and obstinate the Congress leaders alleged.The BJP however countered the charges accusing the Congress of misleading the nation on the issue. It said the Congress-led government never inked any deal for the fighter aircraft before 2014 and sat on its file due to its greed .BJP spokesperson Anil Baluni called the Congress allegations a pack of lies and part of its strategy to spread untruth and confusion against the Modi government. Comments The Congress has again misled the country over a sensitive issue like defence. It is comparing a best deal struck by this government in the national interest with an alleged deal of the UPA government which had never happened the BJP s national media head said.The trust is that the UPA dispensation sat on the Rafale deal file for reasons of its greed and personal benefits and compromised the nation s security interests he claimed.
By: PTI | Kolkata | Published: March 9 2018 8:31 pm Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (Express photo by Subham Dutta/File) Related News TMC to back Abhishek Singhvi in RS polls: Mamata BanerjeeRajya Sabha elections 2018: TMC to support Abhishek Singhvi from West Bengal says MamataUP bypolls: Congress blames SP for ruining joint front against BJPAlleging that the country was facing a super emergency under the BJP-led central government Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday said she would try to unite all the anti-BJP forces to defeat the saffron party in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The West Bengal chief minister also met senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel today to discuss national politics. After the meeting with Banerjee Patel told reporters that the idea of having a federal front in the future was discussed between them. A beginning has to be made. She (Banerjee) was very happy. She said the leadership should not be discussed the idea is to have a formidable alternative to bring in a change in the government at the Centre. There will be a series of meetings he added. Addressing the TMC s extended core committee meeting here Banerjee said Someone has to bell the cat. We want everybody to come together to fight against the BJP. We will help them in all possible ways. Stating that she was not for power nor any chair the TMC chief said I will be helping everyone. I will coordinate with all the anti-BJP parties so that they can work together. This is a big fight. A super emergency is going on in the country under the (Narendra) Modi government. The TMC is not scared of anyone. We cannot be intimidated and will show the way to the country. It was from Bengal that renaissance had started. Stating that if the BJP had targeted Bengal her party was looking at the Lal Quila in 2019 Banerjee said I will ask them (BJP) to manage Delhi first and then think about Bengal. Pointing out that the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) had pulled out its ministers from the Modi government she said The Shiv Sena is saying it will go on its own. They (BJP) have somehow managed to retain Gujarat. Alleging that the saffron party might try to disturb peace in Bengal the chief minister exhorted the party workers to be alert. She even asked them to take along the CPM and Congress workers who could be intimidated to join the BJP during the upcoming panchayat polls in the state. Banerjee asked the TMC workers to strengthen the party in the run-up to the panchayat polls. Patel said not only NCP chief Sharad Pawar or Banerjee but other senior political leaders would also meet in New Delhi on March 27-28 to chalk out a future programme as regards how the shape of national politics would evolve in the coming days. He said Banerjee had spoken to Pawar over phone and added that the two leaders would decide on their next course of action after the March 27-28 meeting For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News Rafale deal: Cong asks govt to disclose purchase price of fighter jet claims other countries paying less Jammu & Kashmir: Two BJP ministers say restrictions on eviction of tribals hold no ground Tags: BJP Lok Sabha 2019 elections Mamata Banerjee No Comments.
WASHINGTON: A signed vintage photo of Mahatma Gandhi walking alongside Madan Mohan Malaviya was auctioned for USD 41 806 in the United States. Signed in fountain pen MK Gandhi the rare photo was taken after the second session of India s Round Table Conference in London in September 1931 according to Boston-based RR Auction. As the delegate acting on behalf of the Indian National Congress Gandhi attended the second session of the British-organised round table conference a three-part conference series held in London from 1930 to 1932 with the aim of discussing the ongoing constitutional reforms in India a media release said. Malaviya who had formerly been president of the Congress and played a significant role in the Gandhi-led non-cooperation movement joined him as a representative advocating for a free India. The photo dates to a period in which Gandhi suffering from pain in his right thumb opted to write with his left hand a temporary inconvenience that lasted from August 8-December 19 1931 according to RR Auction. The autographed photo of Gandhi presents him as he is doing his life s work said Bobby Livingston executive VP at RR Auction. We are not surprised that this giant of the 20th century still resonates today he added. At the auction Karl Marx s letter requesting copies of his Revelations from a noted radical editor sold for USD 53 509. Leo Tolstoy letter written in 1903 offering editorial advice sold for USD 21 450. Claud Monet letter describing the intensity of his artistic process fetched USD 21 128. Wolfgang Pauli letter written in 1949 to an eminent American physicist sold for USD 14 700 while Jean-Paul Sartre portion of a handwritten draft for his autobiographical work Les Motes sold for USD 12 105 according to PR Auction. The Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction began on February 17 and concluded on March 7.
Chandigarh: Dismissing Prime Minister Narendra Modi s remarks regarding him as frivolous Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday said that such remarks will not be able to create wedge between him and the Congress party.PM Modi had said on Saturday that the Congress did not even consider the Punjab Chief Minister as their own. PM Modi added that Mr Singh marched on like an independent soldier.In his retort Mr Singh dismissed the Prime Minister s remarks as part of the BJP s futile attempts to create a wedge between him and the Congress high command through frivolous and unsubstantiated statements ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections .Questioning the source of PM Modi s information Mr Singh quipped: I don t remember complaining to him (PM Modi) http://blurpalicious.com/p/shopozo-flipkart-offers/ against the Congress high command. Did the high command go and complain to him against me? One really fails to understand what prompted Modi s ill-conceived and unfounded remark Mr Singh said asserting that neither he nor the Congress high command needed the Prime Minister s advice on how to manage their internal relations. I know my business and I know how to run my state and manage my relationship with my party high command which is more than one can say about the BJP leaders said the Chief Minister adding that the Congress high command had full faith in his leadership and had given him a free hand to bring Punjab out of the mess into which the BJP in alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) had plunged the state.Mr Singh said that he was a loyal soldier of his party and that he was leading the party in Punjab in a truly democratic manner as becoming of a party of the stature of the Indian National Congress and as guided by the party high command . Comments Contrary to what Modi would like to believe the Congress was not a fly-by-night party which he could simply wish away Mr Singh said declaring his party s complete readiness under the leadership of its President Rahul Gandhi to take on the BJP in the parliamentary elections next year. And I am personally set to take this battle to the finish Modi the Chief Minister declared adding that the Prime Minister s jumlebaazi would not have any impact on either the Congress leadership and workers or the citizens of the country.