Rajya Sabha proceedings on Wednesday were adjourned till noon after opposition Samajwadi Party and TMC created ruckus in the House over different issues. While the Samajwadi Party MPs protested police lathicharge on party leaders and workers in Allahabad on Tuesday, TMC displayed posters against the BJP government over the Rafale fighter jet deal.
Trouble broke out soon after listed papers were presented to the House with members of both parties rushing towards the well of the House. SP members alleged that the Uttar Pradesh Police lathicharged party MPs and workers protesting against party chief Akhilesh Yadav being stopped at Lucknow airport in a bid to prevent him from attending an event in Allahabad.
As the ruckus continued, Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu adjourned the proceedings till noon. Proceedings of the House were washed out on Tuesday as well because of the issue as SP members vociferously protested. Earlier when the House met for the day, it mourned the death of Chaitanya Prasad Majhi, a former member of Rajya Sabha.
The process of appointing the next Mumbai Police Commissioner is underway after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) denied the Maharashtra government’s proposal for a two-year extension to the current Director General of Police D Padsalgikar who is going to retire this month. However, incumbent Commissioner of Police Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, the 1985 batch IPS officer, will become the most senior officer in the state after Padsalgikar retires. Bhaskar Jadhav, a Kandivali resident said, “Be it any circumstances, the Mumbai Police play an important role. People from different parts of the country stay in Mumbai and the new Commissioner must be connected with the Mumbaikars. He should be a team player with an ability to get along with others in the department.”
Sources stated that the top contenders for the Mumbai Police Commissioner’s post are Parambir Singh, the Additional Director General of Police (law and order), Sanjay Barve, the Director General of Police (Anti Corruption Bureau), Pune Police Commissioner Dr. K Venkatesham, and Thane Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar. With reports going around the selection process, the prevailing political partiality plays a significant role as believed by many. A three months extension was given to Padsalgikar last year which is going to end this month. Until now, only two DGPs – SS Virk and Ajit Parasnis – were given an extension on their services for three months. Padasalgikar is the only DIG who got an extension for six months.
While talking with AV, human rights activist Feroze Mithiborwala said, “Every ruling government prioritises their preferred appointees. However, we want the most promising, senior, and deserving person to hold the post of the Mumbai Police Commissioner. The Mumbai police have done a remarkable job in controlling crimes.”
Sanjay Barve is known as the soft-spoken yet very strict police officer with a good record. However, before his present posting, he has held the post of Additional Director General of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, at a time when the department was drafting important cases like that of former minister Chhagan Bhujpal. Barve has also worked as the Mumbai’s joint CP traffic, ADG Railways, Gadchiroli Superintendent of Police, and Solapur Police Commissioner. He has a good record of working in Mumbai as the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Economic Offences Wing.
However, as per the other reports, Parambir Singh is being considered as another contender for the post. His record as the Thane Police Commissioner has been notable. With the approaching elections, it is believed by many that he could be favoured the most for his good crime busting and force management skills. Singh has worked in the high profile west region of the city (Bandra to Andheri) and as the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the crime branch and various other zones. He had raided Dagdi Chawl when Arun Gowli was at the helm of his power. He also has served as the Superintendent of Police in Chandrapur, Bhandara, and Thane. He was also the Deputy Inspector General of Police in the Anti-Terrorism Squad. Dolphy Dsouza, Convener of Police Reforms Watch expressed, “Mumbai needs a Police Commissioner who is a person of integrity and accessibility, who is willing to work with the citizens along with his team towards ensuring better law and order, and has a focus on redressing genuine grievances of the people. These needs must be kept in mind while selecting the Police Commissioner.”
The third name that is doing the rounds is Dr. K Venkatesham, who was first posted in the Maoist hot region of Gondia in 1988. After that, he has been a part of several major actions taken by the police. He has served various posts which include the Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Gondia, the Deputy Inspector General of Law and Order for Maharashtra, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in Mumbai, and the Additional Commissioner of Police, Mumbai. Venkatesham received the President’s medal in 2013 for his distinguished service when he was serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana, a state government-run organisation. Apart from all these postings, he has also been a part of the special investigation team (SIT) which was appointed by the Supreme Court in 2008 to investigate the 2002 Godhra riots.
However, observing the scene running around the appointment of the Mumbai Police Commissioner, Retired Deputy Superintendent of Police MI Shaikh asserted, “Whether it’s the Congress or the BJP government, every political party has its own choice in the selection of the Commissioner of Police and the Director General of Police that have tenure of two years each. The Mumbai Police play an independent role and don’t succumb to political pressure; we have great expectations from the new Police Commissioner and the selection for the post is done as per the seniority and experience of the officers.”
Regardless of the contribution of various freedom fighters, today, they are cluttered by the political rivals for their hateful paybacks. The political parties are vouched to taper history to their own convenience. Nehru, Gandhi, and Savarkar are most attacked leaders in the recent past.
Irrespective of Jawaharlal Nehru’s unique contribution to the making of modern India, he is a much-remembered and hated man today because of a purposefully twisted history touted over the decades by right-wingers. However, but the same right-wingers, including the top RSS leaders, have always taken a Hindu apologist view while defending Savarkar, praising him for his revolutionary activities but remaining silent on his views on religious minorities as well as nonviolence on which he held a completely different view from that of Gandhiji. While Gandhiji was for complete nonviolence, Savarkar was for violence and not complete nonviolence. Savarkar advocated that an antagonist should be paid back in the same coin. So, in a nutshell, Savarkar’s supporters take an utterly defensive stance while defending him against assaults from his ideological rivals, thus leaving him virtually defenseless on issues that concern the future of the nation and to which Savarkar’s thoughts provide a solution.
These days, tampering history and making own propaganda narrations about freedom fighters have become a new trend in modern politics. The Right wing supporters hate Nehru and Gandhi and the Secular and Congress supporters disown Savarkar as a freedom fighter. They have their own explanations by calling him a coward although Savarkar led the most powerful movement against untouchability in the Indians just like Gandhiji. However, there are a few uncomfortable facts about Savarkar, which his conservative followers try to brush under the carpet. For example, when Sardar Patel was trying to merge the princely states into the Indian Union, a virulently anti-Congress Savarkar, who had been wrongly implicated by the then Congress government in the murder of Gandhiji (before being acquitted) and as a result was in bad mental shape, supported the movement of Travancore, another princely state, against merging with India. This move went against his own advocacy of a strong and united India.
On the other hand, Nehru was also a freedom fighter, a knowledgeable leader, and a respected statesman in his own right. He didn’t anoint Indira Gandhi as his successor. So, why to use dynasty to trash him? Hating the Gandhi dynasty is in vogue and perhaps, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi did provide reasons for justifiable anger. It is even understandable that Sonia Gandhi could be disliked simply for her foreign origins and Rahul Gandhi could be mocked for being incompetent. However, why should that be a reason to hate Nehru? Isn’t it a case of the sins of the descendants being visited upon an ancestor?
On the 53rd death anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister and the founder of modern India, the rare Indian statesman who stood for the values of a liberal and secular democracy throughout and is now being vilified for the same values he espoused, was tarnished by the BJP supporters with all senseless logics; his pictures are morphed, he is projected as a womaniser, and also his death is declared due to AIDS. BJP has tried spreading lots of hate for Congress in the name of Nehru and Gandhi for India-Pakistan separation.
The youth wielding lathis, guns, swords, and other arms in RSS-affiliated camps and organisations simply love to hate the architect of modern India. The reference is important as Nehru was the second man after Mahatma Gandhi who identified Muslim as well as Hindu communalism as the biggest threats to the nation. After Independence, Nehru declared that the Muslim communalism has become a state in Pakistan, so for India, the real threat is the Hindu communalism. He was strongly against such demonstrations by the RSS and other Hindu groups. Throughout his life, he crushed these elements and showed no tolerance for the idea of Hindu Rashtra. Seven weeks before the killing of Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru wrote, “We have a great deal of evidence to show that the RSS is an organisation which is in the nature of a private army and which is definitely proceeding on the strictest Nazi lines, even following the technique of organisation. It is not our desire to interfere with civil liberties.”
Meanwhile, the Congress hatred for Veer Savarkar is also on the same line; history often becomes incarcerated in the hands of ideological fanatics and hero worshippers. The ideological campaigners distort history as much as those resorting to hero worship. Both of them don’t want to tolerate an opposing view, howsoever truthful it might be. In the process, the distortions that creep into history lead to tensions and imbalances, thus disturbing social harmony. In fact, that has been the story of the Indian history so far.
Veer Savarkar spent as many as 27 years in jail under prison restrictions — from 1910 to 1937 — for his legendary revolutionary activities against the British rulers. In 1923, while undergoing his jail term in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, or Kalapani, he coined and defined the term “Hindutva” and after his release in 1937, he led an unsuccessful political movement to prevent the Partition of India as the president of Hindu Mahasabha. Savarkar baiters have often accused him of contributing to India’s Partition because of what they see as his “divisive ideology”, which sought to create a wedge between Hindus and Muslims. In the process, they have gone to the extent of almost absolving the main architect of India’s Partition along religious lines – Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Savarkar’s legitimate grievances against a section of Muslims have been sought to be twisted to depict him as a non-practical, insensitive and anti-Muslim fanatic.
There are other interesting facts about him, largely unknown. Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev had met Savarkar in Ratnagiri in the late 1920s and drew inspiration from him before embarking on their revolutionary activity. Even Subhas Chandra Bose’s decision to leave India and join Japan-Germany axis in World War II was based on Savarkar’s advice that in international politics, one’s enemy’s enemy should be seen as a friend and befriended. The only leader who has lived up to an extent to Savarkar’s vision on foreign policy and national security so far is Indira Gandhi and the only leader who can live up to it in the future is, perhaps, Narendra Modi, based on his foreign vision so far.
It’s high time that the people should stop spitting venom against freedom fighters in the name of new political revolution and tamper the history. Let it be Nehru, Gandhi or Savarkar, no one can deny his or her contribution towards the independence movement of our country. Today, we are breathing in a free and independent country because of many such patriots and freedom fighters. There is no point in poking in history by changing the facts.
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Targeting the Gandhi family, BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday said that India had embraced democracy and discarded monarchy but “some people” continue to practice it. Addressing BJP workers at Godhra town of Panchmahal district, Shah also claimed that the prime minister’s seat is reserved “by birth” in the Congress, wondering if a worker from that party could ever think of occupying the top post.
Shah said, without naming the Gandhi family that in a monarchy, the son or daughter of a king gets the throne. Even his son-in-law could become a king. Though our country has adopted democracy and discarded monarchy, some people continued to practice it. They have made a mockery of democracy. In the BJP, party workers do not need to take birth in a particular family to occupy higher posts.
“Can a Congress worker ever think of becoming a prime minister? No. Because that seat is reserved by birth in that party,” Shah said. In the BJP, a worker can become a chief minister or even a Prime Minister. In the BJP, a common booth worker like him could rise to the rank of the party President and a ‘chaiwala’ (Narendra Modi) could became the Prime Minister, he added.
“I was a booth worker of the BJP. I rose to become the party president. The chaiwala has become the prime minister of the country, rising through the ranks,” he said.
Priyanka Gandhi was last month appointed AICC general secretary and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh East by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, ahead of the ensuing Lok Sabha polls. Speaking at the BJP workers’ ‘Cluster Sammelan’, Shah also said that the Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra must clear their stand on the Ram temple issue.
“I want to make it clear that the BJP is committed to construct a grand Ram temple at the earliest and at the same place. However, Congress sends its men, like Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi, to delay the hearing in the Supreme Court. Our government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also approached the court to remove the status quo and get back 42 acres of land in Ayodhya. We have already said that the temple must be built in Ayodhya. Now, Rahul baba and Priyanka should clear their stand and tell us if they agree to it or not,” the BJP chief said.
On the National Register of Citizens (NRC) row, Shah said that the BJP was committed to make India free of illegal immigrants, as they are a “threat” to the national security.
“There are over 40 lakh illegal migrants in Assam alone. The NRC is a system to identify them. But, Rahul Gandhi came in their support. Why? Are they your relatives? These illegal settlers are like termites. They pose a threat to the national security,” Shah said.
“You should not worry about Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee or Akhilesh Yadav. Just ensure BJP’s victory in all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat. Our government will send back each and every illegal migrant. It is BJP’s dream to make India an illegal migrant-free country,” Shah said.
The NCP on February 12 alleged that industrialist Anil Ambani negotiated the Rafale contract on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and cited an e-mail to drive home its point.
NCP national spokesperson Nawab Malik called the controversial fighter jet deal as “pre-planned loot of the country’s money”.
Malik also charged Modi with being the “main person who got everything done” as he referred to media reports of the Centre dropping the anti-corruption clause from the deal.
He cited the e-mail written by an Airbus executive to a French official to allege that Ambani had met the French defence minister days before the signing of the deal during Modi’s visit to France in 2015, and that the industrialist was aware of the MoU that India and the European country signed.
“Now, the Modi government has been completely exposed. The entire deal was negotiated by Anil Ambani on behalf of Modi and the e-mail has exposed everything,” Malik said.
“It is a pre-planned loot of the country’s money. Modi was the main person who has done everything. And Anil Ambani was working on behalf of Modi,” the NCP leader added.
The government, as well as Ambani, have strongly denied any wrongdoing in the fighter jet agreement with France.
A MIG-27 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed on Tuesday in Eta village in Pokaran tehsil of Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district, a defence official said.
The pilot ejected safely, Defence spokesperson Col Sombit Ghosh said.
“A MIG 27 aircraft airborne from Jaisalmer crashed during a routine mission today evening. Pilot ejected safely. A Court of Inquiry will investigate the cause of the accident,” Ghosh said.
Jaisalmer SP Kiran Kang said that no casualty has been reported so far, and a police team is in touch with Air Force officials.
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday held BJP government responsible for UP hooch tragedy and slammed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for politicising the death of poor people.
Shiv Sena, which shares power with BJP at the Centre and in Maharashtra, said that “one should not make such issue a political one.”
The observation of Shiv Sena comes close on the heels of Chief Minister Adityanath’s allegation that the Samajwadi Party was responsible for “such mischievous acts.”
It is worth mentioning that the hooch tragedy claimed over 60 lives in Saharanpur and Kushinagar districts of Uttar Pradesh recently.
“One should not make such issue a political one. However, the Chief Minister of UP recently made a derogatory remark in which it held the SP responsible for the incident,” said an editorial in ‘Saamna,’ which is Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece.
“Instead, the whole responsibility of the tragedy lies with the BJP government because when people were consuming illicit liquor, the state Chief Minister Adityanath was on a trip to West Bengal to make political statements,” further says the editorial.
Referring to Gorakhpur’s tragedy last year in which several children were killed due to the unavailability of oxygen cylinders in the hospital, the Shiv Sena said: “Even after such failures, the BJP claims of good governance.”
Around 100 poor people lost their lives in the hooch tragedy in UP’s Saharanpur and Kushinagar districts, and Haridwar district in Uttarakhand.
Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday constituted a five-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the hooch tragedy. The state government has also announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of the victims of hooch tragedy.
The war of words between the Congress and the BJP over the Rafale issue turned uglier on Tuesday as Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “treason” and acting as Anil Ambani’s middleman, prompting the ruling party to claim that he worked as a lobbyist for foreign firms. However, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a counter-attack that the Gandhi family has a history of looting the country and it was height of shamelessness and irresponsibility that the Congress president abused the honest Prime Minister Modi.
Firing a fresh salvo at Modi, Gandhi released an email to the media dated March 28, 2015 purportedly written by Airbus executive Nicolas Chamussy to three recipients with the subject line “Ambani”. Quoting from the email, Gandhi claimed that Ambani was aware in advance of the Rafale deal before India and France announced it in 2015 during Modi’s visit to the country and it was in violation of the Official Secrets Act.
Modi’s action “puts him in jail”, he said. However, dubbing Gandhi a “lying machine”, Prasad asserted that the email referred to a chopper deal and not the Rafale purchase and also put Airbus in a dock by saying that it is under a needle of suspicion in several deals signed during the UPA era.
Reacting to Gandhi’s claim, Ambani’s Reliance Defence said that the “proposed MoU” mentioned in the email cited by him was a reference to its cooperation with Airbus Helicopter and had “no connection” with the fighter jet contract. In its response to Prasad’s remarks against Airbus, its spokesperson said, “We do not comment on any ongoing investigation. We have cooperated with the Indian authorities in the past and will continue to do so.”
At his press conference, Gandhi claimed that the email showed Ambani visited then French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian’s office and mentioned an “MoU in preparation and the intention to sign during the PM visit (to France)”. The Congress president asked how Ambani knew about the deal and mentioned it in the French defence minister’s office when even then foreign secretary S Jaishankar and then defence minister Manohar Parrikar had no information on it.
“This is a breach of the Official Secrets Act. This is treason and this is what spies do. The prime minister is the only other person who knows about the deal and has informed Anil Ambani about the deal. The Prime Minister is acting as Anil Ambani’s middleman,” Gandhi alleged and called for a criminal investigation into the matter. However, hitting back, Prasad said, “Let Rahul Gandhi explain where did he get internal email of Airbus. Who is supplying him? There cannot be a bigger thing than this that he is working as a lobbyist for foreign firms. The firm is also linked to a corporate lobbyist, who was recently deported from the UAE and is being probed on money laundering charges.
He also took strong exception to the Congress leader charging Modi with “treason”, saying that his party had serious differences with former prime ministers coming from the Gandhi family over several “murky” defence deals signed during their term but it never accused them of treason. He (Rahul Gandhi) has thrown muck at his own face by abusing our honest prime minister. We will expose his lies before the public.
Ambani had met the French defence minister days before the signing of the deal during Modi’s visit to France in 2015, Gandhi said, quoting from the email written by an Airbus executive to a French official. The Congress president also rejected the Comptroller and Auditor General report on the Rafale deal, and dubbed it “Chowkidar Auditor General” report.
NCP national spokesperson Nawab Malik called the controversial fighter jet deal as “pre-planned loot of the country’s money”. However, Reliance Defence spokesperson said that the discussion on proposed the MoU was clearly with reference to cooperation between Airbus Helicopter and Reliance. However, it had no connection whatsoever with Government to Government Agreement between France and India for 36 Rafale aircraft. It is in public domain that Airbus Helicopter has partnered with Mahindra for the Military Helicopter Programme.
BJP leader Mukul Roy on Tuesday filed an anticipatory bail application before the Calcutta High Court after being named in an FIR in the killing of a Trinamool Congress MLA in Nadia district.
Roy claimed that he was booked out of “political vendetta” and was in no way linked to the murder of Krishnaganj MLA Satyajit Biswas on Saturday.
Biswas (41), who represented Krishnaganj constituency in the West Bengal Assembly, was shot dead from point-blank range by unidentified assailants on Saturday evening inside a Saraswati puja marquee at Phoolbari area in the district, bordering Bangladesh.
Roy’s lawyer Subhasish Dasgupta said the anticipatory bail plea is likely to come up for hearing on Wednesday before a division bench presided over by Justice Joymalyo Bagchi.
Roy has been charged with “criminal conspiracy relating to the murder”, his lawyer said.
“Roy has been implicated in about 25 criminal cases since he changed his affiliation from Trinamool Congress to BJP,” Dasgupta said.
The BJP leader is one of the four persons named in the FIR relating to the killing of Biswas.
Two accused — Kartik Mondal and Sujit Mondal — were arrested on Sunday and have been remanded to 14 days’ police custody.
Roy, a former number two in the Trinamool Congress, joined the BJP in November 2017 following differences with party supremo Mamata Banerjee.
Roy has denied the allegation of his involvement, saying the decision to name him in the FIR was “politically motivated”.
She made a successful comeback after an injury lay-off, but India’s top weightlifter Mirabai Chanu realises that she needs to improve her performance by a few notches if she wants to claim gold at the Tokyo Olympics.
Mirabai, a 2017 World Championships gold medallist (in 48kg) was laid low due to a lower back injury that kept her out for eight months, claimed gold at the EGAT Cup in Thailand last week in her new 49 kg category. She finished on top with an effort of 192 kg.
But Mirabai knows only too well that she will have to go way beyond the 200kg mark sooner than later so that she can compete with the best in the world in her new weight category.
“With the increase of 1kg from 48 to 49, all the weightlifters will now try to increase their total lift. Moreover, some lifters, who were competing in 53 kg earlier will now come down to 49 kg. So, the competition will be tougher now,” Mirabai said in an interview.
“I am doing 199-200kg during training and I am confident of going past 200 kg in the actual competitions in the next few months. My aim is to touch 210 kg before the Tokyo Olympics, which will be the world record. It will not be easy but my target is to do that and I will have to work harder than before,” she added.
It will not be easy for the 24-year-old Manipuri to improve 10 kg in one and a half years. Her personal best in 48kg is 196kg, which she lifted while winning gold at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games last year. She had won the 2017 World Championships gold (in 48kg) with a total lift of 194 kg.
Last year, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) rejigged the weight categories for both men and women in the Olympics and other global events. The least Olympic weight in the women’s category has been changed to 49 kg from earlier 48 kg.
Mirabai said she has no problem with the new qualification system as it will keep a weightlifter consistent in his or her performance.
The new qualification system may also make it difficult for weightlifters to resort to doping as an Olympic berth does no longer depend on a single performance.
Mirabai is one of the four Indian weightlifters, who are in the International Registered Testing Pool of the IWF. The other three are Jeremy Lalrinnunga, Satish Kumar Sivalingam and Monalisha Sonowal.
Rajya Sabha proceedings on Wednesday were adjourned till noon after opposition Samajwadi Party and TMC created ruckus in the House over different issues. While the Samajwadi Party MPs protested police lathicharge on party leaders and workers in Allahabad on Tuesday, TMC displayed posters against the BJP government over the Rafale fighter jet deal.
The process of appointing the next Mumbai Police Commissioner is underway after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) denied the Maharashtra government’s proposal for a two-year extension to the current Director General of Police D Padsalgikar who is going to retire this month. However, incumbent Commissioner of Police Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, the 1985 batch IPS officer, will become the most senior officer in the state after Padsalgikar retires. Bhaskar Jadhav, a Kandivali resident said, “Be it any circumstances, the Mumbai Police play an important role. People from different parts of the country stay in Mumbai and the new Commissioner must be connected with the Mumbaikars. He should be a team player with an ability to get along with others in the department.”
Targeting the Gandhi family, BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday said that India had embraced democracy and discarded monarchy but “some people” continue to practice it. Addressing BJP workers at Godhra town of Panchmahal district, Shah also claimed that the prime minister’s seat is reserved “by birth” in the Congress, wondering if a worker from that party could ever think of occupying the top post.
A MIG-27 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed on Tuesday in Eta village in Pokaran tehsil of Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district, a defence official said.
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday held BJP government responsible for UP hooch tragedy and slammed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for politicising the death of poor people.
The war of words between the Congress and the BJP over the Rafale issue turned uglier on Tuesday as Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “treason” and acting as Anil Ambani’s middleman, prompting the ruling party to claim that he worked as a lobbyist for foreign firms. However, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a counter-attack that the Gandhi family has a history of looting the country and it was height of shamelessness and irresponsibility that the Congress president abused the honest Prime Minister Modi.
BJP leader Mukul Roy on Tuesday filed an anticipatory bail application before the Calcutta High Court after being named in an FIR in the killing of a Trinamool Congress MLA in Nadia district.
She made a successful comeback after an injury lay-off, but India’s top weightlifter Mirabai Chanu realises that she needs to improve her performance by a few notches if she wants to claim gold at the Tokyo Olympics.