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  • Won’t once more down from reality no matter what variety of deserts him: Priyanka on Rahul 

    By PTI

    New Delhi: In an affectionate social media submit for Rahul Gandhi on Siblings Day, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday talked about she is comfortable along with her brother who faces injustice with dignity and won’t once more down from the truth no matter what variety of “turn their knives in his back”.

    Siblings Day is well-known in various elements of the world on April 10.

    In a submit on Instagram, the Congress chief posted {{a photograph}} of her working with Rahul Gandhi in snowed-in Srinagar on the end of the Bharat Jodo Yatra earlier this yr.

    “So there’s a Sibling’s Day too! Well, to my only sibling, who has the courage to stand for goodness and compassion despite all sorts of filth being thrown at him, who faces injustice with dignity, who won’t back down from speaking the truth no matter how many desert him or turn their knives in his back or how much power is used to silence him,” she talked about in her submit.

    “I am proud of you and always will be,” she added.

    The closeness between the Gandhi siblings is evident with every incessantly seen hugging each other, cracking jokes, or sharing a second.

    Earlier this yr on the end of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the brother and sister purchased proper right into a snowball fight at a campsite in Srinagar.

    Videos and pictures of the pleasing fight shared by the Congress went viral immediately.

    There have been various totally different conditions.

    A video from the advertising marketing campaign path for the Lok Sabha polls in 2019 displaying them meeting each other on the Kanpur airport in Uttar Pradesh and sharing various light-hearted moments was moreover distributed broadly.

    New Delhi: In an affectionate social media submit for Rahul Gandhi on Siblings Day, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday talked about she is comfortable along with her brother who faces injustice with dignity and won’t once more down from the truth no matter what variety of “turn their knives in his back”.

    Siblings Day is well-known in various elements of the world on April 10.

    In a submit on Instagram, the Congress chief posted {{a photograph}} of her working with Rahul Gandhi in snowed-in Srinagar on the end of the Bharat Jodo Yatra earlier this yr.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “So there’s a Sibling’s Day too! Well, to my only sibling, who has the courage to stand for goodness and compassion despite all sorts of filth being thrown at him, who faces injustice with dignity, who won’t back down from speaking the truth no matter how many desert him or turn their knives in his back or how much power is used to silence him,” she talked about in her submit.

    “I am proud of you and always will be,” she added.

    The closeness between the Gandhi siblings is evident with every incessantly seen hugging each other, cracking jokes, or sharing a second.

    Earlier this yr on the end of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the brother and sister purchased proper right into a snowball fight at a campsite in Srinagar.

    Videos and pictures of the pleasing fight shared by the Congress went viral immediately.

    There have been various totally different conditions.

    A video from the advertising marketing campaign path for the Lok Sabha polls in 2019 displaying them meeting each other on the Kanpur airport in Uttar Pradesh and sharing various light-hearted moments was moreover distributed broadly.

  • ‘People watching exploits of ‘corrupt’ BJP govt’: Priyanka on Delhi Police discover to Rahul

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday attacked the Centre over the Delhi Police’s discover to Rahul Gandhi and mentioned the individuals of the nation are watching all of the exploits of “the corrupt BJP government” and can reply when the time comes.

    Her assault got here after Rahul Gandhi on Sunday confronted a Delhi police staff that reached his residence to inquire about his “women are still being sexually assaulted” assertion made in the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

    In a tweet in Hindi, Priyanka Gandhi mentioned, “Notice is being given to Mr Rahul Gandhi as to why did you raise the voice of women, Dalits, tribals, poor, farmers and youth who were suffering from atrocities?” The individuals of the nation are watching all of the exploits of “the corrupt BJP government” and can give a reply when the time comes, she mentioned.

    “PM’s friend Gautam Adani accused of having business relations with 38 shell companies abroad, no notice. Infiltration of fake company in defense sector through Adani, no notice. The government itself is accused of changing the rules to benefit Adani, not even discussed in the Parliament,” the Congress normal secretary mentioned.

    प्रधानमंत्री जी के मित्र गौतम अडानी पर विदेश की 38 फर्जी (शेल) कंपनियों से व्यापारिक संबंध होने का आरोप, कोई नोटिस नहीं

    अडानी के जरिये रक्षा क्षेत्र में फर्जी कंपनी की घुसपैठ, कोई नोटिस नहीं

    खुद सरकार पर नियम बदलकर अडानी को फायदा पहुंचाने का आरोप, संसद में चर्चा तक नहीं

    — Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) March 20, 2023

    In one other tweet, Priyanka Gandhi slammed the BJP authorities in Uttar Pradesh over the reported suicide of a woman scholar over alleged eve teasing.

    “In the media, advertisements say that ‘criminals are trembling’ in UP. But, in reality, everyday criminals commit crimes against women without fear and the women are not given a hearing in the government system,” she mentioned.

    The Congress has condemned the Delhi Police motion after police knocked on Gandhi’s doorways on Sunday for the third time in 5 days asking him to offer data on the ladies “victims” in order that the police can take up their case.

    The opposition celebration attacked the central authorities, accusing it of harassment, intimidation and political vendetta, however the BJP rejected the cost and mentioned the police was “only discharging its lawful duty”.

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday attacked the Centre over the Delhi Police’s discover to Rahul Gandhi and mentioned the individuals of the nation are watching all of the exploits of “the corrupt BJP government” and can reply when the time comes.

    Her assault got here after Rahul Gandhi on Sunday confronted a Delhi police staff that reached his residence to inquire about his “women are still being sexually assaulted” assertion made in the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

    In a tweet in Hindi, Priyanka Gandhi mentioned, “Notice is being given to Mr Rahul Gandhi as to why did you raise the voice of women, Dalits, tribals, poor, farmers and youth who were suffering from atrocities?” The individuals of the nation are watching all of the exploits of “the corrupt BJP government” and can give a reply when the time comes, she mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “PM’s friend Gautam Adani accused of having business relations with 38 shell companies abroad, no notice. Infiltration of fake company in defense sector through Adani, no notice. The government itself is accused of changing the rules to benefit Adani, not even discussed in the Parliament,” the Congress normal secretary mentioned.

    प्रधानमंत्री जी के मित्र गौतम अडानी पर विदेश की 38 फर्जी (शेल) कंपनियों से व्यापारिक संबंध होने का आरोप, कोई नोटिस नहीं
    अडानी के जरिये रक्षा क्षेत्र में फर्जी कंपनी की घुसपैठ, कोई नोटिस नहीं
    खुद सरकार पर नियम बदलकर अडानी को फायदा पहुंचाने का आरोप, संसद में चर्चा तक नहीं
    — Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) March 20, 2023
    In one other tweet, Priyanka Gandhi slammed the BJP authorities in Uttar Pradesh over the reported suicide of a woman scholar over alleged eve teasing.

    “In the media, advertisements say that ‘criminals are trembling’ in UP. But, in reality, everyday criminals commit crimes against women without fear and the women are not given a hearing in the government system,” she mentioned.

    The Congress has condemned the Delhi Police motion after police knocked on Gandhi’s doorways on Sunday for the third time in 5 days asking him to offer data on the ladies “victims” in order that the police can take up their case.

    The opposition celebration attacked the central authorities, accusing it of harassment, intimidation and political vendetta, however the BJP rejected the cost and mentioned the police was “only discharging its lawful duty”.

  • BJP desires to suppress Opposition voice: Congress on CBI crew at Rabri Devi’s residence

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Monday lashed out on the BJP over a CBI crew inspecting former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi at her residence in Patna, alleging the ruling occasion on the Centre desires to “suppress” the voice of the opposition.

    The Congress normal secretary additionally alleged that the opposition leaders who aren’t able to bow earlier than the BJP are being “harassed” via the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation.

    “Today Rabri Devi ji is being harassed. Lalu Prasad ji and his family have been harassed for years because they did not bow down,” Priyanka Gandhi stated in a tweet in Hindi.

    BJP desires to “suppress” the voice of the opposition, she alleged.

    ALSO READ | Lalu reaping what he sowed: BJP leaders on CBI crew at Rabri Devi’s residence

    A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) crew on Monday examined Rabri Devi at her residence in Patna in reference to its “further probe” within the land-for-jobs rip-off case, officers stated.

    There is not any search or raid going down, they stated.

    The CBI had already filed its cost sheet within the case and the particular court docket has summoned the accused, together with former railways minister Lalu Prasad and his members of the family, on March 15, the officers stated.

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Monday lashed out on the BJP over a CBI crew inspecting former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi at her residence in Patna, alleging the ruling occasion on the Centre desires to “suppress” the voice of the opposition.

    The Congress normal secretary additionally alleged that the opposition leaders who aren’t able to bow earlier than the BJP are being “harassed” via the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation.

    “Today Rabri Devi ji is being harassed. Lalu Prasad ji and his family have been harassed for years because they did not bow down,” Priyanka Gandhi stated in a tweet in Hindi.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    BJP desires to “suppress” the voice of the opposition, she alleged.

    ALSO READ | Lalu reaping what he sowed: BJP leaders on CBI crew at Rabri Devi’s residence

    A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) crew on Monday examined Rabri Devi at her residence in Patna in reference to its “further probe” within the land-for-jobs rip-off case, officers stated.

    There is not any search or raid going down, they stated.

    The CBI had already filed its cost sheet within the case and the particular court docket has summoned the accused, together with former railways minister Lalu Prasad and his members of the family, on March 15, the officers stated.

  • Uttar Pradesh: Congress looking out for a brahmin face to steer the occasion

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: Congress is looking out for a Brahmin face to steer the Uttar Pradesh Congress following a rout in latest meeting elections preserving in thoughts the anti-Brahmin picture of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

    During a number of conferences held beneath the management of common secretary in cost Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to debate revamping of the state unit, senior occasion leaders have expressed that getting a Brahmin (who represent 14 p.c of the inhabitants in UP) face, would assist the occasion.

    “Congress had a grip over Brahmins in Uttar Pradesh some three decades back. It used to be the first choice of Brahmins but over the years several of the party’s Brahmin faces switched to BJP and the entire community now stands with the BJP. Adityanath, a Thakur, has been seen as anti-Brahmin, and having a Brahmin face as state chief would send a positive signal among brahmin samaj,” mentioned a senior UP Congress chief, who has been a part of the latest conferences.   

    Another UP Congress chief mentioned that the discussions are round having a Brahmin face as state chief and 4 working presidents from different outstanding castes to steadiness the caste equation within the state. Sources mentioned {that a} resolution on UP Congress is anticipated after the occasion’s Chintan Shivir in mid-May.

    Some of the occasion’s younger Brahmin faces – Jitin Prasada and Lalitesh Pati Tripathi, had give up the occasion within the final yr and too despatched a unsuitable message simply earlier than the UP meeting elections. Former UP Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi had additionally joined the BJP  in 2016. 

    The outstanding Brahmin faces now left within the occasion are former Rajya Sabha MP Pramod Tiwari, his daughter and sitting MLA Aradhana Misra, and former Varanasi MP, Rajesh Mishra amongst few others.  

    Of the 5 states the place elections had been held lately, Congress has already introduced organizational revamp in 4 states – Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur however UP.

    ALSO READ | Priyanka attracts up three choices for Congress revival in UP, seeks approval from Sonia

    After the occasion’s debacle, former union minister Bhanwar Jitendra Singh was assigned the duty to evaluation the explanations for the defeat of Congress within the UP. “He is still holding meetings with state leaders and party workers and is yet to finalise his review. Any decision is expected only after that,” the sources added.

    Names of former bureaucrat PL Punia, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste neighborhood and headed the occasion’s UP ballot marketing campaign committee, former MP Pramod Tiwari, former Ayodhya MP, and former state chief Nirmal Khatri and, former Varanasi MP Rajesh Mishra are doing rounds for the highest job. It has been vacant after Ajay Kumar Lallu resigned from the put up following the occasion’s debacle within the UP elections.

    “This time we are looking to have a president who is only focused on organizational work. Lallu, worked for the party, but during elections, he was grounded to his constituency (Tamkuhi Raj) and there was none to look after the entire state,” mentioned a UP Congress functionary.   

  • ‘Priyanka Gandhi ought to keep put in UP regardless of worst ever ballot efficiency’ 

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: With simply two seats and a 2 per cent vote share, the Congress fell to its lowest ever tally in Uttar Pradesh underneath Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as common secretary answerable for the state. Her excessive voltage marketing campaign and resolution to present 40 per cent tickets to ladies candidates, did not make a mark however social gathering leaders say she ought to proceed specializing in the state and keep put so as to revive the social gathering.        

    Priyanka addressed over 160 rallies and over 40 roadshows in UP however she began specializing in the state in direction of the fag finish of elections. A senior social gathering chief mentioned that if she would have began touring and specializing in UP a 12 months and a half again, issues would have been just a little totally different.

    She ought to maintain specializing in UP and proceed her reference to folks and that can assist the social gathering in 2024,  famous a Congress Rajya Sabha member.

    ALSO READ | Congress marketing campaign focussed on ladies, youth could not arrest its slide in UP

    “It may be very disheartening that now we have come to 2 per cent vote share in a state we dominated for a number of years however Priyanka ought to proceed her work on the bottom and concentrate on the state. She ought to make Lucknow as her base and keep right here moderately than making episodic visits forward of elections,” mentioned a senior UP Congress chief.

    There was no denial that the social gathering and Priyanka herself knew the social gathering’s destiny in meeting elections and saved talking that no matter outcomes, she’s going to keep put within the state. “We have just started the fight and we have to keep going with energy and strength,” she informed social gathering employees, a day earlier than the outcomes.

    Like brother Rahul Gandhi, many leaders questioned her selection of her core staff which made many senior UP leaders really feel insulted and uncomfortable. Besides a number of senior leaders, Priyanka’s shut aide Lalithesh Tripathi, RPN Singh, Jitender Prasada, and Anu Tandon left the social gathering within the run-up to the meeting elections.

    Her private secretary Sandeep Singh and UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lalu have been blamed for giving her floor suggestions that was removed from true.

    “She needs to get a good team who have knowledge about the UP and understand the state. It is a tough task to revive the Congress as the party base has completely eroded and the election trends show that our loyal voters have also shifted this time,” mentioned a former union minister. 

  • Phase-7 of UP Polls 2022: Battle strains drawn between Modi’s Kashi, Akhilesh’s Azamgarh

    Express News Service

    VARANASI: As the ballot juggernaut enters the seventh gate of UP proverbial ‘Chakrvyuh’ comprising 9 districts of Purvanchal to witness the ultimate assault on Monday, March 7, the stage is ready with the Modi-Yogi mixture prepared to save lots of the fort for the BJP on one facet and Akhilesh Yadav, main the Samajwadi Party from the entrance, on the opposite. Also, Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s Congress are out to show they’re no pushovers.

    In the final leg, the battle is more likely to get fiercest with the pleasure of Varanasi, the Modi bastion and Azamgarh, the stronghold of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav, at stake.

    Moreover, the struggle is believed to be straight between the BJP and SP on most seats barring a number of the place the BSP is posing a problem to the primary gamers.

    Around 613 candidates are within the fray unfold throughout 9 districts comprising Varanasi, Chandauli, Jaunpur, Azamgarh, Ghazipur, Mau, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Sonbhadra, within the last section of the 7-phased UP polls.

    In the final section, if ruling BJP has the robust process of sustaining its dominance in addition to making forays into up to now unexplored territories, the primary opposition, SP chief  Akhilesh Yadav faces the problem of not solely defending his stronghold in Azamgarh but additionally increasing its affect throughout the area. In a approach, each BJP and SP will rely on their respective allies’ efficiency to sail by way of on this area.

    Of the 54 constituencies that go to polls on Monday, 11 seats are reserved for Scheduled Castes and two for Scheduled Tribes which fall in Sonbhadra.

    In the 2017 meeting elections, 29 of those 54 seats have been received by the BJP and 7 by its allies– Apna Dal (S) and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP). The SP was victorious on 11 seats and 6 had gone to BSP. NISHAD had received one seat of Gyanpur in Bhadohi. Congress had did not open an account on this section in 2017.

    However, this time the SBSP is contesting as SP ally with its affect over Rajbhar voters throughout a dozen and a half seats in Ghazipur, Mau, Varanasi, Chanduali and pockets in Mirzapur.

    Of the 11 reserved seats, BJP had received seven, SP three, Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had received one seat. However, each the ST seats had gone to the BJP and its ally Apna al (S) in 2017.

    In the final section of the battle, BJP is relying on the charisma of PM Narendra Modi as the only influencer within the area. Taking the command of the BJP marketing campaign in his palms, PM Modi camped in Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency, for 29 hours to make the equations beneficial for the BJP as its sitting MLAs had been going through sturdy anti-incumbency not solely in Varanasi however in adjoining districts as nicely.

    It is believed that Modi’s presence in Varanasi on ballot eve might need turned the state of affairs in BJP’s favour owing to PM’s recognition and his mass join.

    Besides, the BJP has additionally been pinning its hopes on the beneficiaries of the welfare schemes and the ladies voters amongst whom the legislation and order situation is seen to have a transparent resonance.

    2017 excellent efficiency of the BJP within the area was nicely supported by allies — Apna Dal (S) and Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP). They had performed a giant function in guaranteeing BJP’s growth on this belt by way of the help of Kurmi and the Rajbhars.

    The Nishad celebration, which had contested independently in 2017 had received one seat. This outfit representing the boatmen group current in appreciable chunks throughout the jap UP is now with the BJP and has three candidates within the seventh section.

    On the opposite, SBSP, in alliance with the SP, is ready to learn the primary opposition celebration in its last assault. SBSP, led by OP Rajbhar, is contesting on 17 seats throughout the state of which eight are at stake within the last section. The SP management is relying upon the Rajbhar vote to mix with the sturdy presence of Yadav-OBC on this area to get an edge over the BJP.

    SP may poach upon BJP’s Kurmi vote financial institution which had shifted to it in 2017 after its alliance with Apna Dal (S) led by Anupriya Patel, youthful daughter of a tall Kurmi chief of the area Sonelal Patel. This time, Akhilesh Yadav has made the opposite faction — Apna Dal (Ok) — led by Anupriya’s mom Krishna Patel, a part of his rainbow alliance.

    While Apna Dal (S) is contesting 4 seats, the opposite faction is contesting 5 seats in alliance with the SP within the last section.

    Moreover, with renovated and revamped Kashi Vishwanath Dham and the upcoming Ram temple in Ayodhya, BJP may even hope to capitalise on the Hindutva issue past the caste fault strains within the final section. PM Modi, throughout his keep in Varanasi on March 4 and 5, gave a push to the narrative of Hindutva by way of his gestures with out even talking a single phrase over it in his discourse.

    In Jaunpur, Ghazipur and Chanduli, which additionally fall within the Varanasi division, the BJP had received partial success regardless of the sweeping saffron wave in 2017. It had received 4 of the 9 Jaunpur seats, three of the seven Ghazipur seats and 4 of the 5 Chanduli seats. SP had received three seats in Jaunpur, two in Ghazipur and one in Chandauli.

    In Azamgarh, which has the dominant Muslim-Yadav issue, BJP might bag simply certainly one of 10 meeting segments in 2017 election. Azamgarh has been one of many strongest fortress of the SP which had received 5 of the ten constituencies in 2017. Four had gone to the BSP. In 2012, the BJP was nowhere within the scene. The SP had then received 9 and BSP one in Azamgarh.

    In neighbouring Mau, the bastion of mafia don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari who’s the sitting MLA and at the moment in jail, eyes will set on his son Abbas Ansari who’s contesting on SBSP ticket from Mau Sadar.

    The SP hopes that together with Rajbhar issue and Ansaris’ clout, Mau might be regained. In 2017, the BJP had received three of the 4 seats within the district.

    Phase -7

    Total Seats – 54; Total districts- 09; Total candidates- 613; Total electorate- 2.05 crore; Total Districts-10: Varanasi, Chandauli, Jaunpur, Azamgarh, Ghazipur, Mau, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Sonbhadra

    2017 Results:

    Varanasi: 09: BJP: 07; Apna Dal (S): 01; SBSP: 01
    Chandauli: 04: BJP: 03; SP: 01
    Jaunpur: 09: BJP: 04; Apna Dal (S): 01; SP: 03: BSP: 01
    Azamgarh: 10: BJP: 01; SP: 05; BSP: 04
    Ghazipur: 07: BJP: 03; SBSP: 02; SP: 02
    Mau: 04: BJP: 03; BSP: 01
    Mirzapur: 05: BJP: 04; AD(S): 01
    Bhadohi: 03: BJP: 02; NISAHD: 01
    Sonbhadra: 04: BJP: 03; Apna Dal(S): 01

  • Non-Congress govts stored UP backward, compelled individuals emigrate: Rahul in Amethi

    By PTI

    AMETHI: Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday blamed successive governments of rival events in Uttar Pradesh for its financial backwardness, forcing individuals emigrate to different states as labourers.

    Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi mentioned he has been working just for the billionaires, who don’t give employment.

    Coming collectively for a joint rally at Kali Maidan in Amethi, which has lengthy been the pocket borough of the social gathering until Rahul Gandhi misplaced it to Smriti Irani within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the leaders requested individuals to vote for their very own good and youngsters, and never on emotional problems with caste and faith.

    “Uttar Pradesh doesn’t lack anything and it can leave all other states behind. You go to Punjab, Maharashtra and other states to work as labourers in search of livelihood. Why can’t you get it here,” Rahul Gandhi requested.

    “It’s because for years you elected the Samajwadi Party, BJP and the BSP. All these made wrong promises one after the other and stole money from you,” he added, apparently responding to allegation by the rivals, who’ve been blaming the Congress for individuals’s migration.

    Accusing PM Modi of serving to solely large industrialists, he mentioned the billionaires don’t give employment.

    “It is small and medium traders and farmers who generate employment and this section, which is the backbone of job givers, has been broken,” he mentioned, including that in these circumstances there won’t be any job for the youth, even for these with correct training.

    Saying that the PM Modi had promised two crore jobs to the youth, he requested, “Why is he not speaking about it in electioneering this time?” People are effectively conscious of his “lies” now, mentioned the previous Congress president.

    Priyanka Gandhi Vadra mentioned the voters should make up their thoughts whether or not they need politics of improvement or the one which entangles them in a “fake web of religion and caste”.

    Referring to her go to to a locality in Lucknow just lately, the Congress chief mentioned she there met some youngsters, who had been certified however unemployed.

    “Have you brought up your children so that they do not have any future and that they continue to get a sack of foodgrain and remain dependent on it. This is a conspiracy of these political parties to keep you poor, keep your stomachs empty so that your emotions could be exploited by them,” the Congress chief alleged.

    This is the federal government of the wealthy and there’s no listening to of the poor, she alleged. “When there may be harassment, neither Akhilesh Yadav nor Mayawati come out of their houses, depart alone Yogi and Modi.

    They make the daddy of an accused stand with them on the dais,” she said referring to the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. “Their minister’s son killed farmers. Change these circumstances,” she mentioned, stressing that folks ought to inform events both to work for improvement or depart.

    Eight individuals, together with 4 farmers, had been killed within the violence final October. The farmers had been mowed down by automobiles allegedly carrying by BJP staff. Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish was arrested within the case.

    The Congress leaders additionally spoke in regards to the improvement and infrastructure constructing that passed off in Amethi through the Congress-led UPA authorities up to now.

    Addressing one other election assembly, Rahul Gandhi mentioned his Rahul Gandhi mentioned his relationship with Amethi shouldn’t be political however a private one. “Whatever the people of Amethi would want me to do, I am ready for it,” he mentioned.

    The Congress chief mentioned Prime Minister Modi says that nothing has been completed within the nation up to now 70 years.

    “But who had setup up the IIT, BHEL, HAL and the network of national highways,” he requested, alleging that like Air India, BHEL and HAL shall be “sold”.

    “I wanted to bring a food park, Hindustan paper mill here. Now, you tell me what Amethi has got in the past five years,” he requested. “The Congress is the party of people. People should remember that UP has to be changed without which the country cannot be changed,” he added.

    The Amethi Lok Sabha constituency had been represented by Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi up to now.

    Rahul Gandhi gained from right here in 2009 and was elected to the Lok Sabha from right here in 2014. However, he misplaced to Union minister Smriti Irani within the 2019 normal election. The joint rally by the brother-sister duo got here a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a rally right here.

    Rahul Gandhi addressed the second election assembly alone as Priyanka Gandhi had gone to a different election assembly in Rampur Khas. Five Assembly seats within the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency will go to vote within the fifth part of the UP Assembly polls on February 27. The Congress was worn out within the 2017 state polls in Amethi.

  • 2 extra leaders of UP Congress left the get together, State Vice President Pankaj Malik and former MP Harendra Malik gave a setback

    In a significant setback to the Congress in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh state vice-president Pankaj Malik and his father Harendra Malik, a former MP and member of the advisory committee of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, have additionally resigned from the get together. Pankaj Malik is the second vice-president to stop the get together after Lalitesh Pati Tripathi. Former MLA of Meerut district Vinod Harit left the BSP on Wednesday and took membership of the Rashtriya Lok Dal in entrance of Chaudhary Jayant. Vinod Kumar Harit, former BSP MLA of Siwalkhas Vidhan Sabha of Meerut, took the membership of Rashtriya Lok Dal within the presence of National Lok Dal National President Chaudhary Jayant Singh at Vasant Kunj in New Delhi. Vinod Kumar Harit was an MLA from Siwalkhas Vidhan Sabha from 2007 to 2012. He was additionally the Divisional Coordinator of Agra, Aligarh, Moradabad, Meerut and Saharanpur within the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in addition to the District President of Baghpat and Meerut. National General Secretary and former State President of BSP Babu Munkad Ali’s Samadhi, former Muzaffarnagar MP Qadir Rana, went on a cycle saying goodbye to the BSP three days in the past. .

  • Procure most wheat from farmers: Priyanka Gandhi to Adityanath

    Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday wrote to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to flag the issues being confronted by wheat farmers in promoting their produce and demanded that the federal government ought to assure wheat procurement.
    In her letter to Adityanath, the Congress common secretary stated there ought to be a assure on procurement of wheat from farmers at procurement centres until July 15.
    Gandhi stated she is continually getting info from all of the districts of the state that farmers are dealing with plenty of issues in promoting their wheat produce.
    “Wheat procurement started from April 1, but due to the Corona pandemic, the purchase centres remained locked.As soon as the farmers’ wheat started reaching the procurement centres, the procurement was reduced to half,” she stated.

    She stated that in states like Punjab and Haryana, the federal government procurement of wheat accounts for 80-85 per cent of the overall manufacturing, whereas in Uttar Pradesh, solely 14 per cent of the 378 lakh metric tonnes of wheat produced has been procured by authorities centres.
    Many farmers haven’t been in a position to promote their wheat and now as a result of varied authorities decrees, the officers are reluctant in buying wheat from farmers at procurement centres, Gandhi stated.
    She stated that the chief minister had stated that each one farmers will probably be prolonged the power of wheat procurement, however in lots of villages the buying centres have been closed and farmers are being pressured to go to distant ‘mandis’.

    She additionally identified that it’s raining incessantly in lots of elements of the state and there’s a hazard of wheat rotting as a result of moisture.
    In such a scenario the farmers will probably be pressured to promote their hard-earned produce at throwaway costs, Gandhi stated.
    She stated that because of the coronavirus pandemic and inflation, the situation of the farmers is already dangerous and if their crop isn’t procured or they’re pressured to promote wheat at throwaway costs, it’ll “break their backs”.

    In her letter, she demanded that there ought to be a assure on procurement of wheat from farmers at buy centres until July 15 and preparations be made at every procurement centre in order that farmers do not need to wander to promote their meals grains.
    There are media reviews from many districts {that a} most of 30 or 50 quintals of wheat is being bought from a farmer at a time which is a reason for fear for them, Gandhi stated and demanded that most buy ought to be comprised of farmers.

  • Sonia Gandhi taken Covid jabs, govt ought to inoculate all as an alternative of making non-issues: Congress

    Sonia Gandhi has taken each doses of the Covishield vaccine, the Congress stated on Thursday following questions from the BJP and requested the federal government to observe the ‘raj dharma’ of vaccinating all Indians as an alternative of making non-issues.
    The Congress president’s daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has taken her first dose of the vaccine and her son and Rahul Gandhi will take his shot submit Covid restoration as suggested by docs, get together chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala stated whereas hitting out on the BJP for elevating doubts on whether or not the Gandhis had bought their jabs.
    Several BJP leaders have raised questions over the Gandhis’ vaccinations and accused them and the get together of making “vaccine hesitancy” within the nation.
    “Instead of beating around the bush and creating non-issues, the Modi government should concentrate on vaccinating 80 lakh to one crore people daily in order to meet the target of 100 crore Indians by December 31, 2021. This is the only ‘raj dharma’ they need to follow after failing the people of India during the second wave of Covid,” Surjewala informed PTI after the BJP sought vaccination particulars of the Congress’ first household.
    Harsh Vardhan is India’s well being minister and “he should know that Congress president has taken both the vaccination doses of Covishield”, the Congress chief stated.

    “Shri Rahul Gandhi was scheduled to take the vaccination on April 16, 2021. As he had minor flu symptoms, he was tested first and the RT-PCR test came positive on April 18, 2021. Post recovery from Covid and as advised about the vaccine gap by doctors, he would be vaccinated,” he stated.
    Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi has additionally taken the primary vaccination dose, he stated. “Thereafter, her husband tested positive on March 28 and since she was exposed, she and her husband will take the necessary vaccination shot after the mandatory vaccination period has elapsed,” Surjewala stated.
    He alleged that the Modi authorities and the well being minister are “guilty of Himalayan mismanagement of vaccination” in India.
    “The obduracy and incompetence of the prime minister and health minister have endangered the lives of millions of Indians leaving us unprepared and unprotected of a possible third wave of coronavirus,” he stated.
    In the six months between January 16 to June 16, he stated, solely 3.51 p.c of India’s complete inhabitants of 140 crore have been vaccinated with each doses.
    This is the bottom vaccination protection on the planet, based on the Congress chief.

    Surjewala famous that the typical vaccination as much as June 16 is 17.23 lakh per day for the interval of six months. At this tempo, it can take 944 days to vaccinate all 94.4 crore Indians with each doses, after deducting the already administered 26 crore doses, he claimed.
    This would imply that vaccination protection can be potential solely after 2.5 years as 944 days would finish on January 16, 2024, he stated.
    “The simple question is can India afford to wait this long,” he famous.

    “Instead of addressing the vaccination issue, a belligerent Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan and the BJP are attempting to derail the issue by focussing on vaccination of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra,” the Congress chief alleged.
    The Congress has been criticising the federal government’s vaccination technique and requested them to make public its coverage on methods to vaccinate all Indians and defend them from COVID-19 in future.