Cong protest after chaos in Parliament over Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in London

Amid ruckus over Cong leader’s remarks in UK, both Houses of Parliament have been adjourned till Monday New Delhi (Agencies):

Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun

Kharge joined a party protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue in parliament today. The protest began soon after both Houses were adjourned for the day in a standoff over Rahul Gandhi’s “democracyunder-attack” remarks in London.

Sonia Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge sat on chairs as the MPs protested holding placards and chanting slogans pressing for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) inquiry into the AdaniHindenburg row.

Parliament has been repeatedly stalled with the ruling BJP demanding an apology from Rahul Gandhi for his remarks in London, and the opposition aggressively pushing for a Joint Parliamentary Committee inquiry into the allegations of US short-seller Hindenburg against the Adani Group and the fallout of the subsequent fall in Adani stocks.

BJP sources have said they won’t let Rahul Gandhi speak in the House unless he apologises. The audio of the proceedings in parliament were muted this morning.

After about 20 min- utes of chaos, Speaker Om Birla adjourned Lok Sabha for the day. Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and several other Union ministers were present in the House.

The Congress, re peating Rahul Gandhi’s charge that the mics of opposition leaders were muted, took a swipe at PM Narendra Modi.

“Earlier, the mic used to be turned off, today even the proceedings of the House were muted. The house is mute for PM Modi’s friend,” the Congress tweeted.

In The Courtyard

TOP COURT TO HEAR MUSLIM WOMAN’S REQUEST FOR EQUAL PROPERTY SHARE

New Delhi: The Supreme Court agreed to hear a plea filed by a Muslim woman who claimed the provision of Shariat law to the extent of not giving equal share to a female compared to a male is “discriminatory” and violative of the rights guaranteed under the Constitution. A bench of justices was hearing the appeal against the Kerala High Court’s January 6 order filed by Bushara Ali.

Shakti Bhog Foods Md Gets Bail In Money Laundering Case

New Delhi: The Delhi HC on Friday granted bail to Shakti Bhog Foods chairman and managing director Kewal Krishan Kumar in connection with a money laundering probe arising from an alleged multi-crore bank loan fraud. Justice Jasmeet Singh granted relief to the 70-year-old on account of his health condition while observing that he had been in custody for over 18 months and although the charge sheet was yet to be filed, the investigation against him was complete.

COURT AWARDS COMPENSATION OF `1 CR TO GIRL WHO LOST LEG IN ACCIDENT

New Delhi (ANI): A Delhi Court on Friday awarded a compensation of more than `1 crore to a resident of Haryana’s Gurugram, who met with an accident in December 2016 and had multiple injuries all over the body. She lost her right leg in the accident caused by the negligent driving of the DTC bus driver. She has suffered 80 per cent permanently disabled in her right limb after the accident.

MAN SEEKS GIRLFRIEND’S ‘CUSTODY’ FROM HER HUSBAND, HC FINES HIM

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat HC fined a man Rs 5,000 for seeking custody of his girlfriend from her husband on the strength of their live-in agreement. The man stated that he was in a relationship with the woman whose custody he was seeking. She was forced to marry someone else against her will, and the couple did not get along. The woman abandoned her husband to live with him after which they stayed together & signed a live-in relationship agreement.

RAHUL GANDHI NEVER DEMANDED FOREIGN FORCES TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY, IT’S NONSENSE: SHASHI THAROOR

New Delhi (ANI): With the continuous demand of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) for an apology from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remarks in London on democracy in India, party MP Shashi Tharoor has said that the Wayanad MP never demanded foreign forces to save our democracy. “Rahul Gandhi never demanded foreign forces come to our country to save our democracy. He hasn’t said anything he should apologise for. It’s nonsense,” Tharoor told ANI on Friday. “Democracy, in our country, is in danger and everyone should know about it. I didn’t hear anything wrong in it”, added Congress MP Tharoor.

BJP IS BRILLIANT AT POLITICS: THAROOR ON RAHUL GANDHI’S LONDON REMARKS

New Delhi: Asked about the ruling BJP demand for an apology from Rahul Gandhi over his comments, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram said he does not think the former Congress chief has got anything to apologise for. “I think that is the amazing thing about them. The BJP is brilliant, I must say, at politics, and one of the things they have done is that they have blamed him (Rahul Gandhi) for something he has not said and then managed to stick that charge on his neck and demand that he apologise for something he has not said,” Shashi Tharoor said.

AP CM meets PM, seeks resolution of pending issues

New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi to discuss various issues regarding his state, including special state status, pending funds from the Centre, and his intervention in clearing dues with neighbouring Telangana. He requested the PM to expedite work on several issues that are pending even nine years after the bifurcation of the state. He also met Union Home Minister Amit Shah later to discuss the same.

Congress, AAP slam BJP's Kirron Kher over ‘Laanat Hai’ remark

Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress and the AAP slammed BJP MP from Chandigarh Kirron Kher, accusing her of using “inappropriate” words while referring to her constituents at an event here, and demanded that she apologise.

They claimed that Kher, a second-time MP from Chandigarh, used words such as “laanat hai” and “chittar ferne chahiye” while referring to voters. Kher was addressing an event in Kishangarh and she talked about the development works done for the residents of the Deep Complex locality.

In a video, the MP is purportedly heard saying that “agar Deep Complex mein ek bhi banda mere ko vote na

CONG MUST SMELL POLITICAL COFFEE AFTER BJP'S POLL RESULTS IN NE: IRANI

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RaGa is a part of ‘Anti-Nationalist Toolkit’: Nadda

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s comments in the UK did not come due to his concern over India but for his political legacy, Union minister Smriti Irani said on Friday, stressing that the opposition party should take a hint from the recent poll results in the northeast and “smell the political coffee”. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained power on its own in Tripura and with its senior ally, Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), in Nagaland. “Let us keep the 2014 and 2019 (Lok Sabha) elections aside. The Congress should take a hint from the recent poll results in the northeastern states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya, where the BJP did fairly well, and smell the political coffee,” the Union minister for women and child development and minority affairs said at the India Today Conclave here.

New Delhi (PTI): BJP president JP Nadda alleged on Friday that Rahul Gandhi has become a “permanent part of the toolkit” working against India and said the Congress leader will have to apologise for seeking “interference” from foreign powers in India’s internal affairs.

Nadda said anti-India forces have always had problems with a strong India, its robust democracy and decisive government. By criticising the state of democracy in India and seeking the intervention of the United States and Europe on foreign soil, Gandhi has attacked the country’s sovereignty, he added.

“Rejected repeatedly by people, Rahul Gandhi has become a permanent part of the ‘toolkit’ working against India,” Nadda said. He accused the former Congress chief of insulting India, its

BJP THEMSELVES ARE ANTI-NAT’LS: CONGRESS CHIEF

New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday responding to BJP national president J P Nadda attack on Rahul Gandhi terming him as a “permanent part” of the “anti-nationalist toolkit” stated that the BJP, which had never taken part in the country’s freedom movement were anti nationals themselves.

Parliament, its democratically-elected government and people in Britain, a country that ruled over India for long, the BJP president said.

Mamata, Akhilesh Yadav agree on 2024 fight without Congress

Kolkata (Agencies):

Kirron Kher

dale toh phir bade laanat ki baat hai…jaakar chittar ferne chahiye unko, kyon ki itne paise deke maine unki sadke banvayi (If not even one from Deep Complex votes for me, then it is a highly shameful thing… they need to be beaten up with slippers)”.

The Chandigarh Mahila Congress demands that “she apologise to people because of whom she is the MP”, Cong leader said.

The Congress’s plan to put up a united fight along with other Opposition parties against the BJP in 2024 seems to be dwindling as both Mamata Banerjee and Akhilesh Yadav have said that they would keep away from the Grand Old Party in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. This came after SP chief Akhilesh Yadav met the West Bengal CM in Kolkata on Friday.

“The Trinamool Congress will go its own way, maintaining distance from both the Congress and BJP,” senior Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay said adding that Mamata Banerjee will meet powerful regional parties to fight the BJP.

Increase in dowry, rape complaints: Govt

New Delhi (PTI):

There is an increase in the number of dowry, rape, and attempt to rape complaints received in the National Commission for Women in the last three years, the Union Women and Child Development Ministry said.

Responding to a question in Lok Sabha, WCD Minister Smriti Irani gave data as per which 357 complaints of dowry were received in 2022, 341 in 2021, and 330 in 2020. “There is an increase in the number of complaints received/registered in

GOVT FOR ABUSE OF POWER

New Delhi (Agencies): the Commission under categories ‘Dowry and Rape/attempt to Rape’ during the last three years and current year,” Irani said in a written response.

Akhilesh Yadav slammed the BJP-led government at the Centre for misusing central agencies to “harass leaders and public representatives of opposition parties”, who pose a threat to the saffron camp.

“The ED, CBI, & Income Tax are political weapons of BJP.

In UP, several of our leaders & MLAs, are in jail in false and fabricated cases,” he said.

The NCW received 1,710 complaints of rape and attempt to rape in 2022, 1,681 in 2021, and 1,236 in 2020, according to the data. More than 1,98,000 cases are still pending in these courts, she added.

MAIN TARGET IS TO

OUST BJP IN 2024: SP

New Delhi (Agencies):

The one and only target of Samajwadi Party is to oust BJP from power in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections at any cost, the party chief and the Leader of Opposition in Uttar Pradesh Assembly Akhilesh Yadav said on Friday. The Union government is not ready to discuss burning issues like inflation, unemployment and farmers’ plight.

Allow elected govt to function, says Kejriwal

New Delhi (ANI): As the budget session of the Delhi legislative assembly commenced on Friday, Delhi CM

Arvind Kejriwal said that the Aam Aadmi Party-led government has performed despite several “roadblocks”.

“I believe that democracy should be respected, and if 2 crore people have elected a government, it should be allowed to function. Cre-

Arvind Kejriwal ating roadblocks in its working is not right,” Kejriwal said adding that Delhi is progressing rapidly because of AAP.