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NEW DELHI: Congress MP Sonia Gandhi Saturday described as “politically motivated and frivolous” a criminal revision petition before a Delhi court against a 2025 magisterial order that declined to order an FIR over alleged inclusion of her name in electoral rolls in 1980, three years before she acquired Indian citizenship. The petition before special judge…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday hit out at chief minister Mamata Banerjee, strongly rejecting her allegations about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.In a letter addressed to the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, Adhikari highlighted that Mamata Banerjee’s letter to the EC “appears to be a desperate…
NEW DELHI: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah hit out at Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan over his “North Indian bulldozer justice” remark in context of the eviction drive at a Bengaluru colony. Sidda called Vijayan’s remark as “politically motivated”, adding that it lacked “understanding of the factual situation.““There is a fundamental difference between ‘bulldozer justice’ and the…
NEW DLEHI: Senior CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat has written to President Droupadi Murmu, seeking her intervention over the Uttar Pradesh government’s move to withdraw charges against the accused in the 2015 Dadri mob lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq, PTI reported.In her letter on Saturday, Karat called the withdrawal a “politically motivated” step and raised concerns over…
LUCKNOW: Indo-Islamic cultural foundation (IICF), looking after the construction of the mosque mandated by the Supreme Court in the Ram Janambhoomi – Babri Masjid case judgement, has strongly criticized the suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir’s decision of building a mosque to name it after Babur in Beldanga of Murshidabad district in West Bengal.Secretary of the…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has submitted its affidavit over the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls in several states, refuting allegations of mass deletion of genuine voters as “highly exaggerated, speculative and politically motivated.”In an 81-page counter-affidavit filed on November 26 in a petition by TMC MP Dola Sen and others, the poll…
Rahul and Kharge during a meeting with senior Congress leaders from 12 states and union territories where the SIR of electoral rolls is underway NEW DELHI: Congress leader on Tuesday Rahul Gandhi reportedly raised concerns about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process during a meeting with AICC office-bearers from 12 states and Union Territories where…
DHAKA: Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina was on Monday sentenced to death in absentia by a tribunal for “crimes against humanity” over her govt’s crackdown on a “nationwide mass uprising” last year that led to her ouster. She was accused of crimes such as murder, attempted murder and torture, and other inhumane acts as well…
