- Monday, March 10, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Here are news in brief related to Indian politics for Saturday, September 10, 2022:
Indian home minister Amit Shah, who is also the second most powerful leader in the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, on Saturday took a dig at Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over the opposition party’s ongoing ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ (Unite India movement), saying the former Congress president was leading a campaign to unite the nation wearing a foreign t-shirt. He was referring to the BJP’s swipe at Gandhi for wearing a Burberry T-shirt reportedly costing over Rs 41,000 (£444). Shah, a former president of the BJP, sought to remind the Congress leader of his speech in parliament—where the latter had allegedly said India is not a nation—and asked him to “study India’s history”.
The BJP and Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena on Saturday shared a picture and video of each other’s leaders with a ‘relative’ of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon, Press Trust of India reported. Maharashtra BJP lawmaker Atul Bhatkhalkar circulated a video claiming that it showed one Rauf Memon, Yakub’s relative, attending a meeting with Sena leader and former Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar. Thackeray’s aide Harshal Pradhan hit back by sharing a photograph purportedly showing the same Rauf Memon with BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis and Chandrakant Patil. Earlier this week, the BJP had claimed that Memon’s grave was beautified when the coalition ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ government led by Thackeray was in power in Maharashtra, a charge rejected by the Shiv Sena.
A Delhi Court hearing North East Delhi riots of 2020 recently directed to provide security to a prosecution witness in a case against Shahrukh Pathan. Witness Rohit Shukla had suffered a gunshot injury during the riots, Asian News International reported. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat of Karkardooma Court directed Delhi police to provide security to Prosecution witness Rohit Shukla. The court has directed to send a copy of the order to the Commissioner of Police, Delhi. Shukla suffered a gunshot injury and is a prosecution witness against Shahrukh Pathan. The court noted that Rohit Shukla submitted that he was threatened and he should be provided security.
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Saturday lambasted the Samajwadi Party (SP) over its alleged nexus with criminals and stated that the “SP is losing its base” in the northern state. “The SP is losing its support base in UP, for which its own action is the main reason. When there is news in the media about their mutual quarrels and tussles within the family, party and their alliance, and about their open nexus with criminal elements and jail meetings, then why should there be no disappointment among the people” Mayawati tweeted in Hindi. According to her, SP has internal connivance (milibhagat) with the BJP.
Amid the political pandemonium in Jharkhand, the Election Commission (EC) has sent its opinion to Jharkhand Governor Ramesh Bais regarding the disqualification of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) member of the legislative assembly and chief minister Hemant Soren’s brother Basant Soren from the state Assembly under 9A of Representation of People Act, 1951, said sources, ANI reported. Bais will have to take a call on the opinion of the EC over the JMM MLA’s disqualification. Notably, EC had concluded its hearing over the matter on August 29 on the reference received from Jharkhand Governor.
Sources told ANI that Governor Bais received the EC’s opinion on the matter on Friday (9) evening.
