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  • Calcutta HC order on West Bengal violence has given message that anarchy has no place: BJP

    The Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI probe into grievous cases such as murder and rape in the post-poll violence in West Bengal.

  • Rajasthan CM Gehlot flays BJP spokesperson for remarks against ex-Union minister, seeks apology

    By PTI

    JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday criticised BJP’s national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia for his alleged indecent remarks against the late former Union minister Sis Ram Ola and demanded an apology from the party.

    Sis Ram Ola, a prominent Jat leader from Rajasthan, had died in 2013.

    Referring to the Congress leader in a TV debate over the cabinet reshuffle at the Centre and a similar exercise by the UPA government under PM Manmohan Singh, the BJP spokesperson had said, “Jinka hill raha tha purja, unmein Manmohanji dhoond rahe the urja.”

    Commenting on it, Gehlot tweeted, “I condemn the remarks made by BJP’s national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia on Ola. This has created a lot of resentment among the people of the state. BJP National President @JPNadda should immediately apologise to the people of Rajasthan.”

    Gehlot said Ola protected interests of farmers in the social and political field for more than 60 years.

    “He was a cabinet minister several times in both the central and state governments. In 1968, he received the Padma Shri for social service,” he said.

  • Congress weakening India’s fight against Covid, providing tools to Pakistan: BJP

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The BJP on Saturday accused the Congress of working to “weaken” India’s fight against COVID-19, and alleged that the opposition party “provided” tools to countries like Pakistan to defame India.

    Citing the alleged remarks of former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath that India is not great but infamous following the spread of the infectious disease, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia sought to know the Congress’ stand on his comments and claimed that defaming India has become a priority for its leaders.

    Noting that the senior Congress leader had earlier controversially described a Covid variant that originated in India as the “Indian variant”, Bhatia alleged at a virtual press conference that whatever he says is done at the behest of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

    “What Kamal Nath says is the Congress’ ideology and does so on behalf of Sonia Gandhi. Defaming India has become your priority. Why is the Congress silent at his abhorrent statement? Why is Sonia Gandhi silent? Does she agree with him?” Bhatia asked.

    He also cited comments of other senior Congress leaders like Rahul Gandhi and Shashi Tharoor to claim that the opposition party has been making “irresponsible” statements to weaken India’s fight against Covid.

    Referring to a media report in Pakistan, the BJP spokesperson alleged that the term Indian variant used by it had “originated” at the Congress headquarters.

    The opposition party has provided tools that are used by countries like Pakistan to target India, he alleged.

    He also took strong exception to Rahul Gandhi’s use of “nautanki” barb at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

    Bhatia noted that Modi had turned emotional while speaking to healthcare workers recently and asked if this was “nautanki” (drama).

    The Congress had shed tears for terrorists killed in the Batla House encounter in 2008, he alleged and said people know whose tears are sincere.

  • BJP leader Gaurav Bhatia moves SC against violence in West Bengal; seeks CBI probe

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: BJP leader Gaurav Bhatia Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking CBI investigation into “rampant violence” including murder and rapes allegedly by Trinamool Congress party workers across West Bengal “before, during and after the assembly elections”.

    Bhatia, a senior advocate, in his intervention application filed in his pending 2018 PIL has sought a direction to the state government to file a detailed status report about the FIRs registered, arrests made and steps taken against perpetrators of violence.

    “The instant application is being preferred. to bring to the notice of this court, the brutal murders and commission of serious crimes like rape and molestation, blatant violence and the complete breakdown of law and order machinery in West Bengal before, during and after the recently concluded assembly elections in the state,” Bhatia said in his plea.

    Trinamool Congress Party has swept West Bengal assembly polls by winning over 200 seats in a 294 seats house.