Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday said it was not proper for former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram to criticize the three new criminal justice laws outside Parliament without participating in the debate in the House.
The Vice President was addressing the 12th Convocation of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram
He dubbed the case as "most bogus." The legislator, summoned by the ED to appear in New Delhi, cited his engagement with the ongoing Parliament session for not deposing
"Domestic criticism did not impel the BJP to act against the two spokespersons. It was only the international backlash that pushed the BJP to take action."
According to sources, the probe agency is conducting raids in Odisha, Karnataka, Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai.
"This is a demolition of India's constitutional values. This is state-sponsored targeting of poor & minorities," he had said in a tweet.
"Does he realise that people in India have not slept from the day they have learnt, P. Chidambaram used his intellect... for furthering his son's ends, his own ends. He has done business in multiple countries. He has done business in this country where his wealth has multiplied manifold," Godinho told reporters while reacting to Chidambaram's tweet.
"I do not dispute that Banerjee fought and won a tough fight in Bengal but who is fighting Narendra Modi in Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Assam? It is the Congress. She is looking at it from the Bengal lens,"
"The sections of law under which Priyanka Vadra has been reportedly charged are laughable. S.151 CrPC contains no offence at all. It is a provision for arrest for a period not exceeding 24 hours. No person can be 'charged' under S. 151, S. 107 & 116 of IPC related to abetment. You must say who she abetted. You must say what crime she abetted. Abetment cannot be in the vacuum,"
It is unfortunate that the government has unleashed a misleading campaign to malign the combined opposition and blame it for the continued disruption in Parliament, the joint statement by the opposition read
