Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday took a swipe at the government over reports that it overruled the RBI to introduce electoral bonds, saying in 'New' India, bribes and illegal commissions are called electoral bonds. The Congress on Monday alleged that the Modi government had overruled the RBI to introduce electoral bonds to enable "black money to enter the BJP coffers" and demanded that the scheme be scrapped immediately. "In 'New' India, bribes & illegal commissions are called Electoral Bonds," Gandhi said in a tweet. Earlier, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also attacked the government on the issue, alleging that electoral bonds were "cleared by bypassing RBI" and "dismissing" national security concerns in order to enable black money to enter the BJP coffers.
Her attack comes days after Sitharaman reportedly said the government was looking to wrap up the sale of state-run Air India and oil refiner and marketer BPCL by March 2020
The states and UTs have been informed about the 'yellow book' procedure in this context and all the 28 VVIP security bases of the CRPF in the country will be used to execute this job, the officials sa
Party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took a swipe at the government, saying the Modi dispensation is making history by 'driving people into poverty'
The 81-member Jharkhand assembly will go to polls in five phases between November 30 and December 20
"Instead of solving the problems of the farmers, the BJP government considered it more appropriate to tamper with and suppress the report on farmer suicides," the Congress general secretary said.
Gehlot said that in 2014-15 he had written to then home minister Rajnath Singh and had complained that that a change in the SPG's working was visible.
With this decision, the nearly 3,000 strong force will now only be guarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
As Gandhi's seem to have lost the SPG cover, government sources suggest there's a long list of violation that may have also played a part in this decision of the Modi government
The government had recently withdrawn the SPG cover of former prime minister Manmohan Singh
Going abroad and saying 'everything is fine' will not make things fine: Priyanka's dig at PM
A note is being prepared by the Opposition, calling upon the President "to make a Presidential Reference to the Supreme Court of India under Article 143 of the Constitution
Accused the government of being involved in a "surveillance racket"
The party, however, did not say exactly when Gandhi received the message
Priyanka Gandhi was attacking Union minister Piyush Goyal after Goyal said Nobel Laureate Banerjee is left leaning and the idea of NYAY proposed by Congress was rejected by the people of India
On Monday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi had also hailed Banerjee for winning the Nobel
He lamented that the new UPCC gave no representation to the Shia community while the Bharatiya Janata Party governments at the Centre and in UP had nominated Shias in key positions
"The economy is in real bad shape and the government is shying away from finding a solution to improve it," she added
A post graduate student from Shahjahanpurhas accused Chinmayanand of rape
The day-long exercise, held at the UP Congress Committee headquarters in Lucknow, saw the participation of nearly 600 aspirants from 40 eastern and central districts of UP