- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Here are some news in brief related to India politics for Tuesday, August 2, 2022:
There is a sense of fear inside and outside the Indian parliament and people are not allowed to either speak or write what they want, Opposition’s candidate for the August 6 vice president election Margaret Alva said on Tuesday. In an exclusive interview with India Today, she said, “I certainly feel there is a sense of fear inside and outside the Parliament. People are not allowed to speak. People are in jail because of what they have spoken or written.”
India’s financial intelligence agency Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday summoned some more people in connection with Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s money laundering case, Asian News International reported. Earlier in the day, the probe agency conducted raids at two different locations in Mumbai in connection with the Patra Chawl scam. Raut is currently in the custody of the ED in a money laundering case related to irregularities in a chawl re-development project in Mumbai’s Goregaon area. He has been sent to the ED’s custody till Thursday (4).
India’s opposition Indian National Congress on Tuesday condemned as “vendetta politics” the raids made by the ED on a dozen locations, including the head office of the party-owned National Herald newspaper, and said the action was part of the continued attack on the country’s principal opposition party. The grand-old party recently staged protests across the country over the interrogation of its interim president Sonia Gandhi in the National Herald case.
With the assembly elections in the western Indian state of Gujarat still some months away, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday released its first list of candidates for the same. Addressing a press conference, the president of Gujarat’s AAP unit, Gopal Italiya, along with the party’s national joint secretary, Isudan Gadhvi, announced the candidates’ names. The elections will take place in December.
The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday said it would set up a bench to hear a batch of pleas challenging the verdict of the high court of the southern state of Karnataka refusing to lift the ban on hijab in educational institutions of the state, and added one of the judges was unwell leading to a delay. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India N V Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli took note of the submissions of senior lawyer Meenakshi Arora, appearing for one of the appellants, that the appeals were filed way back in March against the high court order and they were yet to be listed for hearing, the Press Trust of India reported.
The opposition Indian National Congress on Tuesday constituted the political affairs committee of its unit in the northern state of Uttarakhand which includes former chief minister Harish Rawat and Devender Yadav, the AICC (All India Congress Committee) in-charge of the state . “Congress president has approved the constitution of political affairs committee of Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee with immediate effect,” said an official communication from the party.
