- Monday, March 10, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Here are news in brief related to Indian politics for Thursday, September 8, 2022:
Terming the Congress’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ a life saver, senior party leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said the cross-country grassroots campaign will see the party emerge in a new aggressive avatar that cannot be taken for granted by either friends or political adversaries. As former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and scores of party workers began the 3,570-kilometre campaign from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, the party’s general secretary in-charge communications also asserted that this is not a Yatra for Opposition unity but to strengthen the Congress. The more the BJP talks about it, the more evident it is that the party is rattled, Ramesh told PTI after the morning session of the yatra.
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday mocked the opposition Indian National Congress’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ (United India movement) and the unity pitch of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar for the Opposition as attempts to build their own political profiles. These opposition parties and leaders, be it Mamata Banerjee, Nitish Kumar or K Chandrashekar Rao or the Congress have neither capability nor strength to form government, BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said, adding that their efforts are entirely aimed at building their own political profiles, Press Trust of India reported.
Jailed Shiv Sena parliamentarian Sanjay Raut has moved a court here for bail claiming that he had nothing to do with the Patra Chawl money-laundering case as alleged by the Enforcement Directorate, PTI reported. The case against him was a “perfect example” of political vendetta, he said. Raut was arrested by the ED in the alleged Patra Chawl redevelopment scam in Mumbai on August 1. He is now in judicial custody Special judge for Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) cases M G Deshpande on Thursday directed the central agency to file a reply to the bail plea by September 16.
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday took a dig at BJP leader Kuldeep Bishnoi while accompanying Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal during the latter’s Haryana visit ahead of the Adampur bypolls in the neighbouring state of Haryana. Eyeing the bypoll in Adampur, Panchayat and Zila Parishad elections, Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is trying to get a foothold in Haryana. Kuldeep Bishnoi recently resigned from the Congress and joined the BJP. Adampur’s seat fell vacant after Bishnoi resigned from his traditional seat. Taking a dig at Bishnoi, Mann said, “Seeing the love of Adampur, it can be guessed that Adampur can do something new. After getting votes, the leaders say that we are the representatives of so many lakh people, but my question is does those leaders ask when they change the party? Did Kuldeep Bishnoi ask the people before joining BJP? ”
In a security scare for Indian home minister Amit Shah in Mumbai in the western state of Maharashtra, a man pretending to be an official of the home ministry came close to the former and roamed freely with him in restricted areas before he was caught. While Shah concluded his two-day visit to the financial capital on Tuesday (6), the matter came to the fore on Thursday. The arrested man was identified as Hemant Pawar and he is believed to be the personal secretary of a parliamentarian from Andhra Pradesh, it was reported.
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unveiled a 28-ft-tall statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate. The statue is part of the Centre’s Rs 13,450-crore (£1.4 billion) Central Vista project, which will have a new Parliament building, new office and residences for the prime minister and vice-president and new ministry buildings. The North and South Blocks, the secretariat buildings flanking Rashtrapati Bhavan, will be converted into museums. The black granite statue has been carved from a monolithic block of granite weighing 280 metric tonnes. The block of granite picked for the statue was transported to Delhi from Telangana and the statue was carved out of it in over two months.
To achieve the goal of tuberculosis elimination by 2025, the India government will launch the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan on Friday (9), which is aimed at providing community support to those suffering from the disease Under the campaign, people and institutions can adopt blocks, districts or even an individual patient and provide nutritional and treatment support. In line with prime minister Narendra Modi’s clarion call given at the Delhi End TB Summit in March 2018 to eliminate the disease from the country five years ahead of the SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) target of 2030, President Droupadi Murmu will virtually launch the campaign on Friday.
