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  • Kerala: Week after violence at Rahul Gandhi’s workplace, SFI disbands Wayanad committee

    By Express News Service

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The SFI on Sunday disbanded its Wayanad district committee for conducting the protest march that culminated within the assault on the workplace of MP Rahul Gandhi on June 24.

    The incident had evoked nationwide condemnation and embarrassed CPM in addition to the LDF authorities.
    At its assembly in Thrissur, the scholar outfit’s state committee appointed a seven-member advert hoc panel in Wayanad as substitute. 

    “The action has been taken against the district committee for carrying out the march without the state committee’s knowledge,” SFI mentioned in an announcement. It admitted that SFI’s picture had taken successful after the incident. 

    “The state committee examined the issue and found a serious lapse on the part of the district unit. The latter is bound to inform the state committee of the decision to hold such a protest and obtain permission. This was not done,” SFI state president Okay Anusree instructed reporters in Thrissur.

    Though the eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) concern was a severe matter that might have an effect on many individuals, the way during which the protest was carried out was improper, Anusree mentioned.  

    SFI staff had ransacked Rahul’s workplace and manhandled a staffer throughout the protest towards the MP’s alleged ‘inaction’ in reference to the Supreme Court order that mandated an ESZ zone of 1 km round protected forest tracts and wildlife sanctuaries. Wayanad is likely one of the worst-affected areas within the wake of the SC verdict. 

  • ‘Grateful to voters of Amethi’: Congress firefights after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘north-south’ politics comment

    Image Source : PTI/FILE PHOTO Senior Congress chief Anand Sharma has defended Rahul Gandhi over his ‘north south politics’ comment.
    Facing a extreme assault from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) following social gathering chief Rahul Gandhi’s assertion evaluating politics of south India with north, the Congress on Wednesday seemed to be in a injury management mode.

    Senior Congress chief Anand Sharma defended Rahul Gandhi describing the assertion as the previous social gathering president’s private expertise’. Sharma mentioned it was for Rahul Gandhi to make clear his comment.

    “Rahul Gandhi had made observation, perhaps sharing his personal experiences…In what context he made that observation, he can clarify so that there’s no conjecture or misunderstanding,”  Anand Sharma mentioned.

    ALSO READ: South politics is refreshing, says Rahul Gandhi; ‘divide and rule politics gained’t work’, JP Nadda slams him

    “After Independence there have been illustrious PMs – Pt Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Atal Bihari Vajpayee – they all represented UP. Recently it was Dr Manmohan Singh from north India, so Congress has never disrespected a region,” he added. 

    Referring to Union Minister Smriti Irani’s cost that Rahul Gandhi has been ungrateful to the folks of Amethi, the area which he represented thrice in Lok Sabha, Anand Sharma mentioned the Congress has at all times believed in a ‘united India’.

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    “When it comes to Amethi, we’re grateful to voters and respect them. Amethi elected Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Capt Satish Sharma, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. No question of being disrespectful. It’s not the philosophy of Congress. We’ve believed in a united India,” he mentioned.

    Another senior Congress chief Kapil Sibal rejected BJP’s cost that his social gathering was attempting to ‘divide and rule’.

    “Laughable for BJP to say that we’re trying to divide country. It’s a Govt that divided people since it came to power. As far as Rahul Gandhi’s comments are concerned, I’m nobody to comment on what he said. He said it and he can explain in what context he said,” Sibal mentioned.

    What Rahul Gandhi had mentioned

    Addressing a public gathering in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday, the Wayanad MP had mentioned, “For the first 15 years, I was an MP in the north. I had got used to a different type of politics. For me, coming to Kerala was very refreshing as suddenly I found that people are interested in issues and not just superficially but going into detail in issues.”

    ALSO READ: BJP launches no-holds-barred assault on Rahul Gandhi over ‘North vs South’ comment

    Labelling these feedback as anti-north Indians, a number of BJP leaders attacked Rahul Gandhi and alleged he was being an opportunist regardless of he and his relations having gained a number of elections from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.

    Smriti Irani referred to as him “ungrateful” and mentioned the favored saying about such an individual is “one without much knowledge blabbers more”.

    Irani defeated Gandhi in his household bastion Amethi throughout 2019 basic elections, however he gained from Wayanad in Kerala, the second Lok Sabha seat he had contested from.

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  • BJP launches no-holds-barred assault on Rahul Gandhi over ‘North vs South’ comment

    Image Source : PTI (FILE) BJP launches no-holds-barred assault on Rahul Gandhi over ‘North vs South’ comment
    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders have launched a no-holds-barred assault on Congress chief Rahul Gandhi over his controversial ‘North vs South’ comment made in his residence constituency Wayand in Kerala. The chief accused him of being an ‘opportunist’ and alleged that he belittled north Indians throughout a speech delivered in Kerala.
    “For the first 15 years, I was an MP in the north. I had got used to a different type of politics. For me, coming to Kerala was very refreshing as suddenly I found that people are interested in issues and not just superficially but going into detail in issues,” the previous Congress chief stated whereas addressing a public gathering in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.
    Labelling these feedback as anti-north Indians, BJP leaders attacked Rahul and alleged he was being an opportunist regardless of he and his members of the family having received a number of elections from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.
    BJP nationwide president JP Nadda tweeted, “A few days back he (Rahul Gandhi) was in the Northeast, spewing venom against the western part of India. Today in the South he is spewing venom against the North. Divide and rule politics won’t work, @RahulGandhi Ji! People have rejected this politics. See what happened in Gujarat today!”
    Amethi MP and Union minister Smriti Irani referred to as him “ungrateful” and stated the favored saying about such an individual is “one without much knowledge blabbers more”. 

    Irani defeated Rahul in his household bastion Amethi through the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Rahul, who was representing Amethi constituency of Uttar Pradesh within the Lok Sabha since 2004, contested from Wayanad constituency in Kerala concurrently. Although he misplaced Amethi to Smriti Irani of the BJP, he received from the Congress bastion in Kerala.
    External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar stated, “I hail from the South. I am an MP from a Western state. I was born, educated and worked in the North. I represented all of India before the World. India is one. Never run down a region; never divide us.”

    Another BJP chief Kiren Rijiju, in his tweet, requested Rahul to not “abuse Amethi and North Indians”. “Amethi people have given so much chance to your entire family! People from every part of India are good if you are good,” he tweeted.
    Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted, “Look at his gall. The man who ran to Kerala to save his Lok Sabha seat questions the intelligence of North Indians, including those who faithfully voted for his family for generations! Fact is that he was forced to run because of non-performance and lack of development.”
    Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath accused Gandhi of “practising cheap politics” and resorting to regionalism. “Rahulji, Atalji had once said that India is not just a piece of land, but a living ‘Rashtrapurush’. Please don’t try to divide it for your cheap politics by the sword of regionalism. India was one, is one, and will always be one,” he stated.

    Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan accused the Congress of attempting to create a “north-south” divide within the nation.  “Wherever Rahul Gandhi has landed, Congress has been grounded. Rahulji had earlier made north India free of Congress and now he has headed southwards. For us and the people, the entire country is one. Congress wants to divide the country into north and south. People will not allow these attempts to succeed,” he tweeted.
    Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat stated, “North, South, East (or) West, no matter wherever you go Rahul Gandhi, you will always find Indians superficial. Because, to understand us, you have to be Indian first!”

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  • South politics is refreshing, says Rahul Gandhi; ‘divide and rule politics gained’t work’, JP Nadda slams him

    Image Source : PTI I used to be an MP in north. I had acquired used to a distinct sort of politics, Rahul Gandhi stated.
    Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday triggered a north vs south politics debate as he described his stint as an MP from Kerala as ‘refreshing’ after 15 years of representing Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi in Lok Sabha. 

    “For the first 15 years, I was an MP in north. I had got used to a different type of politics. For me, coming to Kerala was very refreshing as suddenly I found that people are interested in issues and not just superficially but going into detail in issues,” Rahul Gandhi stated talking at an occasion in Trivandrum.

    ALSO READ: Smriti Irani buys land for brand new residence in Amethi

    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda was fast to slam Rahul Gandhi for his comment. Nadda stated the previous Congress president has a behavior of making an attempt to divide folks on regional strains, nevertheless, he will not achieve his try and set harmful narrative within the nation. 

    ALSO READ: Rahul Gandhi accuses Modi govt of insulting sacrifice of jawans 

    “A few days back he was in the Northeast, spewing venom against the western part of India. Today in the South he is spewing venom against the North.  Divide and rule politics won’t work, @RahulGandhi  Ji!” Nadda stated in his tweet.

    “People have rejected this politics. See what happened in Gujarat today!” he added referring to BJP’s spectacular present in Gujarat municipal company elections.

    Union minister Smriti Irani, who now’s an MP from Amethi, known as Rahul Gandhi ‘ungrateful’.

    Rahul, who now’s an MP from Wayanad in Kerala, had gained Lok Sabha election from Amethi thrice in 2004, 2009 and 2014. However, he misplaced the Congress citadel in 2019 when BJP’s Smriti Irani defeated him by over 55,000 votes. 

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