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  • Congress says  ‘undeclared emergency” in Delhi, ‘Satyagrah’ to continue 

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Ahead of Rahul Gandhi’s appearance before the Enforcement Directorate, the Congress on Monday said the Modi government has imposed an “undeclared emergency” in Delhi and alleged that thousands of its workers and leaders have been arrested or placed under house arrest.

    Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala asked why the Modi government was scared of Rahul Gandhi or the Congress as they only planned to march towards the ED’s office when their leader appears before the agency for questioning.

    He said Congress is fighting for the truth, which cannot be suppressed and they will continue with this fight against “injustice”.

    “The Modi government has imposed an undeclared emergency in Delhi and thousands of barricades have come up and thousands of our Congress workers have been arrested since last night,” he told reporters.

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    “We will answer every question that the ‘Election Department’, the ‘puppet ED’ will ask. For, the truth will win in the court of untruth and tyranny,” he said.

    Surjewala alleged that the “descendants of Godse” are once again challenging Gandhi and his descendants. “Neither Godse could kill Gandhi nor will his descendants be able to kill his ideology today,” he said.

    Asking why thousands of policemen have been deployed in central Delhi ahead of Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the ED office, he said, “Is there any threat to the Modi government? Why are you so scared?” Surjewala alleged that a “scared and cowardly” Modi government is trying to suppress the voice of the truth.

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    “We will continue our ‘Satyagrah’ fearlessly against the undeterred draconian subjugation of civil rights and democracy by the Modi government. We will fight undeterred, we will fight fearlessly and we will fight for the people of the country, the downtrodden and the middle class against all-around inflation and joblessness,” he said.

    The Congress leader accused the BJP of hiding behind the police. “Why does the BJP fear Rahul Gandhi so much. Why is the BJP so scared, we are only walking to the ED office,” he asked.

    “Cowards are those who are firing from behind the police. Whenever the BJP fears, they hide behind the police. The British also used to hide behind the police during the freedom struggle,” Surjewala said.

    Rahul Gandhi has been summoned by the ED in a money laundering case pertaining to the National Herald-AJL case. The ED has also summoned Sonia Gandhi in the case on June 23.

  • Court sends Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani to one-day judicial custody; will hear bail on Monday 

    By PTI

    KOKRAJHAR: A local court here on Sunday sent Gujarat Independent legislator Jignesh Mevani, arrested from the western state by Assam Police on Wednesday for a purported Tweet against the prime minister, to one-day judicial custody, a police official said.

    The hearing in his case, including his bail petition, will be taken up on Monday, he added.

    Additional superintendent of police of Kokrajhar Surjit Singh Panesar told reporters here that the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) decided to remand him to one day of judicial custody.

    Mevani’s three-day police custody had ended on Sunday, after which he was produced before the court late in the evening.

    Panesar also said Mevani will be produced again at the court on Monday morning and his hearing will continue, including on his bail petition.

    Mevani, seen with an Assamese gamocha (traditional towel) around his neck, was taken to the Kokrajhar jail from the residence of the CJM, where the hearing was held.

    Mevani, an Independent MLA supported by the Congress, was apprehended from Palanpur town in Gujarat on Wednesday night after a First Information Report (FIR) under various sections of the IPC and the IT Act was filed in Kokrajhar Police Station over his purported tweet against the prime minister.

    According to the FIR, he had purportedly posted a tweet, claiming Prime Minister Narendra Modi “considered Godse as God”.

    Mevani was flown to Guwahati from Gujarat on Thursday morning and then taken to Kokrajhar by road, where he was produced at the chief judicial magistrate’s court, which remanded him to three days’ police custody.

  • Godse Gyanshala closed just a day after opening in Gwalior

    By Express News Service
    BHOPAL: Just a day after being opened by right wing Hindu outfit All India Hindu Mahasabha to promote the ideology of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse, the Godse Gyanshala (library-cum study centre) was closed in Gwalior city of BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh. 

    The action was initiated by the Gwalior district administration and police under Section 144 of CrPc on Monday night, the Gwalior district police superintendent Amit Sanghi told The New Indian Express on Tuesday. 

    In pursuance with Section 144 of CrPc, prohibitory orders have been issued by the district administration to ban any act meant to glorify Nathuram Godse, the Gwalior SP said. 

    Earlier, on Sunday, the Hindu Mahasabha had unveiled the Godse Gyanshala at its state HQ in Daulatganj area of Gwalior, which had prompted the opposition to attack the Shivraj Singh Chouhan led BJP government in the central Indian state. 

    The Godse Gyanshala (sort of library) was started at the Hindu Mahasabha state headquarter at Daulatganj area of Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior on Sunday. 

    The Gyanshala was unveiled at the Hindu Mahasabha’s office by garlanding the picture of Nathuram Godse as well as pictures of stalwarts who inspired him. The pictures, included Guru Govind Singh, Maharana Pratap, RSS founder KB Hedgewar, Lala Lajpat Rai, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya among others. 

    “The Gyanshala will not only have pictures of Nathuram Godse, Narayan Apte( Gandhi’s assassins), but also all other Hindu nationalists, including Jan Sangh founder member Shyama Prasad Mukerjee. It will infuse spirit of nationalism among our Generation Y and Generation next, ” Hindu Mahasabha national vice president Jaiveer Bhardwaj had said. 

    ‘It’s not only pictures of Hindu nationalists, but also literature in form of books will be kept at the Gyanshala to educate youths about the revolutionary thoughts of both Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte, besides other nationalist leaders. The books will be unveiled at the Gyanshala on January 23, the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, ” Bhardwaj said. 

    “We want to enlighten youth about the ideology espoused by Godse and Apte as well as expose those who were actually responsible for country’s partition  in 1947,” he maintained.