Corruption, incompetence traits of Cong: J P Nadda

session, Baghel described it as “politically motivated” and claimed the BJP was afraid of the Congress and misusing central agencies to crush the voices of political opponents. This is not ‘Amrit Kaal’ but an “undeclared emergency”, Ramesh, who is Congress general secretary, said.

“If anything, these raids have increased our determination. If anything, these raids have given us a booster dose to be even more aggressive against the prime minister and his third-rate politics of vengeance, vendetta and harassment.” ported in Chhattisgarh by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen”, the agency has alleged. Nine persons have been arrested by by the ED till now in the case.

Youth Congress and NSUI workers staged a demonstration in front of the office of the ED in Raipur to protest against the raids. Police personnel deployed outside the office had to use mild force to disperse the protestors with some videos showing a minor scuffle between protestors and security personnel.

While Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge claimed that the raids show the cowardice of the BJP before the Congress plenary

Ramesh alleged that the probe agencies are being misused by the present regime. He said where raids are supposed to happen, they do not take place, especially on the “scams” involving Gautam Adani and where the law has been allegedly violated.

“This is clearly the politics of vendetta, politics of vengeance, politics of harassment and this is supposed to be the curtain raiser for the 85th session of the Congress. We are not afraid and we have nothing to hide. We will not be intimidated. Mr Modi’s policy of FDI is fear, deceit and intimidation and we will not be afraid or intimidated by such actions.”

BYNDOOR, FEB 20

(PTI): BJP national president J P Nadda on Monday said division of the people and society, corruption, incompetence, non-governance, divide-and-rule, are the basic traits of the Congress party, and expressed confidence that people of Karnataka have decided to choose BJP in the upcoming Assembly polls.

Addressing a public meeting here, he said, the primary character of the Congress is division, corruption, commission, nonperformance and betraying people from their rights.

“Elections are coming and I want to tell you that it is the BJP, under which Karnataka has progressed, it will continue to progress further on the path of development. I can say this with guarantee,” Nadda said.

The BJP leader alleged that the Siddaramaiah-led previous Congress government in the State had withdrawn 175 cases and had released 1,600 people who were Popular Front of India (PFI) and Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD) activists, involved in anti national activities and had taken law and order into their hands.

“This was with an intention to create division in the society, there is vote bank politics, politics of convenience behind this,”

J P Nadda (PTI)

he said, as he charged Siddaramaiah of conspiring to disturb the peace in the State. “Siddaramaiah is squarely responsible for it,” he added.

Also questioning the rationale behind Siddaramaiah government’s move to close Lokayukta by making it weak, Nadda said, it was because they deeply indulged in corruption, and were “part and parcel of commission and corruption”.

“Division of the people, division of society, corruption, incompetence, nongovernance, divide-and-rule, all these are the basic traits of the Congress, I’m saying this with responsibility and am ready to substantiate,” he said, as he urged people to support the “double engine” government to take Karnataka forward.

BJP president Nalin Kumar Kateel, national general secretary C T Ravi, Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje were among others present at the event.

Nikki Yadav murder: Court sends Gehlot to 2-day custody

there were big scams when the Congress-led UPA was in power that tarnished the image of the country.

Even as he targeted the Adani group, Rahul Gandhi on Monday said he was not against businesses and claimed he was “probusiness”.

NEW DELHI, FEB 20 (IANS): A Delhi court on Monday sent Nikki Yadav murder accused Sahil Gehlot to two days police custody for interrogation and five co-accused to 14 days judicial custody.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samiksha Gupta of Dwarka court issued the order.

Rahul Gandhi

over airports, control over ports, roads and defence forces, control over the media, coal and energy and overall over the government of India...,” he said, claiming that the media did not speak on this and the prime minister did not reply to the questions posed by him.

“Speaking the truth and facing it is our country’s history,” he said.

Rahul Gandhi and his Congress party have been attacking the prime minister and the government over the growth of the Adani group during the BJP rule and have claimed that this is happening due to the businessman’s proximity to the party and its leadership.

The BJP had slammed the allegations as “reckless and baseless” and reminded the opposition party that

“But I am against the creation of monopolies and I am against ‘jadu’ (magic). What ‘jadu’? From 609 to 2 (richest individuals) and the ‘jadu’ of 4 to 14 (sectors) and the magic of zero to six (airports). It is said that everyone does not get everything one desires, but that is not applicable to the prime minister’s ‘friend’,” he said.

A person who has never run an airport and does not even understand the business, and the most profitable airports were handed over to him, Gandhi alleged.

“My question is why one person was handed over six airports as the rule was not to give more than two airports to one person.

“The last ‘jadu’ was the Mumbai airport, the golden sparrow of India’s airports. There was pressure from the agencies - the CBI and ED - on the Mumbai airport operator.”

Gehlot had strangled 23-year-old Yadav near Kashmiri Gate on February 10 and married another woman on the same day.

Yadav’s body was found in a fridge at dhaba, owned by Gehlot, in Mitraon village, outskirts of Delhi on Valentine’s Day (February 14).

While Gehlot’s father Virender Singh, cousins Naveen (a constable in Delhi Police) and Ashish and friends Lokesh and Amar were sent to two-day police custody on February 17 for hatching a conspiracy to get rid of Yadav and going ahead with his wedding with another girl, Gehlot was sent to five-day police custody.

In the latest development, the interrogation of Gehlot has revealed that he had planned to push Yadav out of a moving car and show her death as an accident, but as his plan could