Congress MP Kiran Kumar Chamala said, "Amit Shah always tries to deviate people. Indira Gandhi Ji had replied on this issue (the Emergency). You (Union HM Amit Shah) don't talk about the Manipur issues and keep talking about the Emergency, but the fact is, you people have already implemented the Emergency in the country."
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said it is his duty to raise the issues of people of the country with full devotion and added he will not stop until people get their rights and justice.
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The CPI(M) on Saturday expelled its Kozhikode Town Area Committee member, K V Pramod, whose name was reported in connection with allegations over bribes for appointments to the Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC).
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The Congress on Sunday accused the Modi government of showing "insensitivity and hostility" towards Maharashtra, alleging that the past ten years have seen the state "consistently squeezed out of multiple key projects and investments".
The Opposition party's attack came after PM Narendra Modi asserted at an event in Mumbai on Saturday that his aim is to make Maharashtra the world's big financial powerhouse and to make Mumbai a global fintech capital.
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Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu and Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde will be meeting today at Varsha Bungalow in Mumbai. The TDP and Shiv Sena are two crucial allies of BJP and part of NDA govt
On June 25 to be observed as Samvidhan Hatya Divas in remembrance of the 1975 Emergency, Congress leader P Chidambaram said, "Why is the BJP not going back to the 18th or the 17th century? 75 per cent of the Indians living today were born after 1975. Emergency was a mistake and it was accepted by Indira Gandhi. We have amended the Constitution so that an Emergency cannot be imposed so easily. What is the point of debating the rights and wrongs of Emergency 50 years later?... The BJP must forget the past. We have learnt the lessons from the past?"
"People have started to understand the lies of BJP. Out of the 13 by-polls, BJP was only able to win 2. This indicates that the BJP is going to lose state elections in Haryana, Maharashtra and other states. There is no religious place where they have not lost. They lost Ayodhya, Chitrakoot and Sitapur in UP. They also lost Rameshwaram. BJP cannot win any state if unfair means are not adopted. 16,000 houses have been demolished without any notice, thousands have become homeless. Somewhere that had to end," he said.
"I don't have a faith on PM Modi's words. There is a reason. A Citibank report states that India will not have enough jobs even with 7% growth, in reality it is 6%. The PM says many things, but the ground reality is different. The youths are on roads," says Congress leader Pramod Tiwari on PM Modi's statement of creation of 8 crore jobs in 3-4 years.
"Right after the look Sabha elections, we have won 12-13 seats in 4-5 states, clearly indicates that the BJP's graph has been falling. Had the Lok Sabha elections been organised after 6-8 months, BJP would not have won more than 120 seats. For the first time, NDA parties are performing better than BJP in their respective states and BJP is absolutely relying on them. BJP has a multiple organ failure and is failing in multiple states. It is soon headed to an ICU," he said.
BJP National President J P Nadda reached Lucknow to attend the BJP Working Committee Meeting being organised at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Law University. UP CM Yogi Adityanath and other senior members of the state government welcomed him at the airport.
CPI General Secretary D Raja on Sunday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the poll promise of providing two crore jobs every year. He said that unemployment and underemployment are the most burning issues for the country.
State BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva said that the Delhi government is looting people in the name of PPAC surcharge and pension surcharge.
"The common man is struggling due to hike in electricity bills. Every person who is paying the electricity bill with honesty is being looted. Tomorrow, we will protest at 14 electricity offices until the PPAC and pension surcharge are withdrawn. We have written to the chairman of DRC and demanded an inquiry into how the Delhi government and power companies are doing a scam," he told ANI.
Union Minister and BJP Jharkhand in-charge Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that if Lok Sabha results are converted into Assembly results, BJP has won 52 seats out of 81.
The official X (formerly Twitter) handle of Congress condoled the death of a CRPF jawan in an attack in Manipur in a post on Sunday. "More than a year has passed and Manipur is still burning in the fire of violence. But Narendra Modi is not bothered by this. He is happy in his own world," the post read.
Addressing the media on Sunday, Delhi Education Minister Atishi accused the BJP of conspiring to jail CM Arvind Kejriwal as it is unable to match the work done by Aam Admi Party. She went on to say that BJP's conspiracy is not limited to jailing the Chief Minister but targets his health and also attempts to kill him.
"The atmosphere has changed in the country. People have grown tired of the BJP government in the last 10 years. People want to remove them from being in power. BJP has only got two seats out of 13 in (Assembly bypolls) results, this shows that they are tired of this government," said Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar on Assembly bypolls results.
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"Today, we held an all-party meeting. At a very earlier stage, the regulatory authority had conducted a meeting. Normally, it would've been conducted by the end of this month or in August but they have conducted it. We have a shortage of 30 per cent of water, and we discussed about it with the leaders (of all parties)," said Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar after an all-party meeting at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru over Cauvery water dispute.
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