Bengaluru, July 14 (IANS) Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister, G. Parameshwara, on Tuesday warned that strict legal action would be taken if the violence during the Bidadi Township Project protests was found to have been politically motivated or in violation of the law. He said citizens have every right to express their views, submit representations and stage peaceful protests, but unlawful acts like attacking officers would not be tolerated.Responding to questions on the FIRs registered against far…
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New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) S.Y. Quraishi on Tuesday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was once the “strongest critic” of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and had repeatedly questioned their reliability. He also recalled that it was Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N. Chandrababu Naidu who proposed the introduction of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), a measure that, according to him, helped restore public confidence in the EVM system….
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Facing flak over the conviction of former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in the 2020 Delhi riots case, the party’s national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday sought to distance himself, stating that the convict had been expelled from the party long ago.Kejriwal, taking to his X account, posted, “We expelled him from AAP long long back. Didn’t he join one of chanda chor party’s sister organization?”His reply comes on the back of scathing criticism from the BJP,…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal on Tuesday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) should apologise to the people of the national capital after a court convicted former AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain in the 2020 Delhi riots case involving the murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma.Reacting to the verdict, Khandelwal alleged that the violence had been pre-planned and accused the AAP of supporting those involved.“This clearly shows that the riots were pre-planned and we…
Bhopal, July 14 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Mohan Yadav, on Tuesday targeted the Congress over the proposed Uniform Civil Code (UCC), asking the Opposition party to clarify its stand a day after the state government’s high-level committee submitted its final report on the issue.Speaking to reporters at the Assembly premises, Yadav alleged that the Congress viewed issues such as the UCC and the Bhojshala dispute through the prism of “Hindu-Muslim politics” and vote-bank considerations.”…
Hyderabad, July 14 (IANS) Union Minister for Coal and Mines, G. Kishan Reddy, on Tuesday alleged that the policies of successive BRS and Congress governments have steadily eroded the confidence and sense of security of the employees of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL).He claimed that Singareni has repeatedly been used as a political tool by previous governments instead of being strengthened as one of the country’s most important public sector enterprises.As part of ‘Singareni Bharos…
Thrissur, July 14 (IANS) In an unprecedented development in the history of Kerala’s local self-government, jailed BJP leader R. Sugathan, elected as a councillor to the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, was sworn into office inside the Viyyur Central Prison on Tuesday after the Kerala High Court permitted the oath-taking ceremony to be conducted in jail.The brief but historic ceremony was held at around 11 a.m. in the prison’s library hall and lasted less than three minutes.The oath was read out b…
Bengaluru, July 14 (IANS) Veteran BJP leader and former Karnataka Minister S.V. Ramachandra Gowda passed away at a private hospital in Bengaluru on Tuesday after battling age-related ailments. He was 88.Senior BJP leaders, including former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, paid rich tributes to the veteran leader, describing his death as a major loss to the party and Karnataka politics.Ramachandra Gowda, a former Karnataka Medical Education Minister and former Mem…
Chennai, July 14 (IANS) Tamil Nadu BJP President Nainar Nagenthran has launched a sharp attack on the Vijay government over reports that multiple patients are being accommodated on a single bed in the emergency ward of the Government Stanley Medical College Hospital in Chennai, calling the situation “deeply condemnable” and accusing the administration of failing to ensure basic healthcare facilities.In a post on X, Nagenthran referred to media reports claiming that three patients were being …
Melbourne, July 14 (IANS) The organisers of the ‘Melbourne Meets Modi’ event have written an open letter to the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, and Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge, strongly rejecting the claims that the thousands of Indian-Australian attendees at the July 9 Marvel Stadium reception were a “paid crowd” funded by the BJP or the Indian government. More than 30,000 people gathered in Melbourne ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the…