Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, on Monday, blamed the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh for the violence in the Sambhal area that has left four youths dead.
The BJP-Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Mahayuti alliance retained power in Maharashtra by sweeping the Assembly elections.
While Priyanka, who made her electoral debut, joins brother Rahul in the Lok Sabha, their mother Sonia is a member of the Rajya Sabha.
Gandhi, who has been demanding Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into alleged irregularities by the Adani Group, also demanded removal of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch accusing her of protecting Adani.
Revanth Reddy responded to the leader of the Opposition by promising to make Telangana gig workers’ policy comprehensive and inclusive.
A Surat court on March 23 held Rahul Gandhi guilty of criminal defamation over his remark using the surname 'Modi' and sentenced him to two years' imprisonment.
Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Kiren Rijiju and Anurag Thakur strongly reacted to Digvijaya Singh's remarks. Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said the Indian judiciary cannot be influenced by foreign interference.
Under section 10A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, an elected member can be disqualified by the EC for failure to lodge account of election expenses. A member of Rajya Sabha was disqualified by the EC in July 1991 and the Rajya Sabha Secretariat issued the notification of disqualification. The matter was not referred to the President.
Days after Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from the Lok Sabha following his conviction in a 2019 criminal defamation case, Lalit Modi, the former chief of the Indian Premier League (IPL), took a dig at him by saying that unlike the Congress leader, he has not been convicted in any case.
Former deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot on Thursday termed the disqualification of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi as a political vendetta.
