...तो इसलिए इकॉनॉमी क्लास में सफर कर रहे थे राहुल गांधी!

नई दिल्ली।  कांग्रेस उपाध्यक्ष  राहुल गांधी इन दिनो में फॉर्म में है और  बेशक राजनीति के मैदान पर बड़े बड़े सिक्सर लगा रहे हों, लेकिन राहुल के दम पर कांग्रेस दोबारा सियासी जमीन तलाश रही हो लेकिन इस सियासत के पीछे कांग्रेस पार्टी की हकीकत कुछ और है।

आईबीएन7 को मिली एक्सक्लूसिव जानकारी के मुताबिक कांग्रेस पार्टी कांगाली के अब तक के सबसे बुरे दौर में है। खबर के मुताबिक कांग्रेस के बड़ा चंदा देने वाले गिने-चुने लोग ही बचे हैं। पार्टी का खजाना इस हद तक खाली होे चुका है, कि पार्टी के नेताओं को हवाई जहाज के बजाए ट्रेन से सफर करने का आदेश दिया गया है। इसके अलावा भी नेताओं की फिजूलखर्ची पर कई कड़े निर्देश दिए गए हैं।

गौरतलब है कि कुछ दिनों पहले राहुल गांधी ने नागपुर के दौरे पर प्लेन की इकॉनमी क्लास में सफर किया था। हवाई जहाज की इकॉनोमिक क्लास में राहुल गांधी की यात्रा और कांग्रेस की मौजूदा हालात में कोई ज्यादा फर्क नहीं है।

कांग्रेस उपाध्यक्ष राहुल गांधी का बिजनेस क्लास से इकॉनमी क्लास के सफर तक पहुंचना ही कांग्रेस के खाली खजाने की असलियत बता रहा है। नागपुर के लिए राहुल का ये सफ सियासी स्टंट कम और मजबूरी ज्यादा थी।

आईबीएन7 को मिली एक्सक्लूसिव जानकारी के मुताबिक देश की सबसे पुरानी पार्टी कांग्रेस, इस वक्त कंगाली के सबसे बुरे दौर से गुजर रही है। सूत्रों के मुताबिक कांग्रेस ने फिजूलखर्ची रोकने के लिए पार्टी ने कई बड़े फैसले लिए हैं जिसमें कहा गया है कि सचिव स्तर के नेता अब हवाई जहाज नहीं बल्कि ट्रेन में सफर करेंगे।

जब तक जरूरी न हो, सचिव स्तर तक के नेताओं को हवाई जहाज का किराया नहीं मिलेगा। पार्टी के वो महासचिव जो सांसद भी हैं, उन्हें एक से ज्यादा कर्मचारी रखने पर खुद तन्ख्वाह देनी होगी। पार्टी ने कार्यकर्ताओं ने 250 रुपये महीने की सहयोग राशि देने की अपील की है। पार्टी ने अपने हर नेता से दो ऐसे हमदर्द तलाशने को भी कहा है, जो हर महीने 2000 रुपए का सहयोग दें। पार्टी के सांसदों और विधायकों से हर साल एक महीने का वेतन भी पार्टी को दान देने की अपील की गई है।

पार्टी का खजाना 2014 के चुनाव से पहले ही खाली होने लगा था।  निर्वाचन आयोग के मुताबिक लोकसभा चुनाव में बीजेपी ने जहां 714 करोड़ रुपए खर्च किए तो वहीं कांग्रेस के पिटारे से सिर्फ 516 करोड़ रुपए ही निकले थे। आलम ये है कि पार्टी के पास बड़ा चंदा देने वाले गिने-चुने लोग ही बचे हैं। इसलिए कांग्रेस अब 1 से 10 रुपये की छोटी रकम से साथ जनता से चंदा मांगने की तैयारी कर रही है।

 सौजन्य: ibn7

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AAP government, Centre clash over logistics for SIT probing 1984 anti-Sikh riots

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi and the Centre are clashing over providing logistics to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the anti-Sikh riots.

The Home Ministry has written a letter to the state government saying more than two and half months

have passed since the SIT was constituted but it has not been able to move forward due to the absence of required manpower. The ministry has asked the Delhi government to immediately provide public prosecutors to the SIT.

The Delhi government has declined the charge and said it is not its duty to provide personnel for the investigation. The SIT had been set up on February 12 and the team was asked to submit its report in six months.

Senior AAP leader HS Phoolka said the government's stand is completely wrong and the Centre is responsible for the progress of the investigation. Reacting to this, Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Sambit Patra said, "AAP had said that they will begin SIT. Home Ministry has written a letter tellign AAP to stop playing politics over it."

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Political furore over Delhi law minister Tomar's 'fake' degree, BJP & Cong demand resignation

NEW DELHI: Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi found itself on the backfoot on Tuesday, with both BJP and Congress tearing into the government for the allegedly fake degree of Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar.

A Bihar-based university had on Monday informed the Delhi High Court that it has no record of Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar completing his law degree from there.
Defending Tomar, AAP leader Dilip Pandey said, "The matter is in court now, the court will decide. Have patience." "He has the right to put his views in front, we have no right to interfere in judicial process," Pandey said.

Ex-AAP leader Prashan Bhushan slammed the Delhi government saying, "If this is the case that law minister's degree is fabricated then he has no business to be on that position. Delhi government has to answer."

Ex-AAP leader Prashan Bhushan slammed the Delhi government saying, "If this is the case that law minister's degree is fabricated then he has no business to be on that position. Delhi government has to answer."


RP Singh, BJP leader said, "AAP is trying to hide from the problem by saying that the matter is subjudice." "How can someday whose degree is fake continue to be the Law Minister of Delhi?" Singh asked.

Congress demanded that Tomar should be sacked immediately. Congress leader Ajay Maken threatened to hold a massive demonstration outside Delhi secretariat on Thursday, if Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal did not remove Tomar from his ministry.

"Even after pointing it out to Arvind Kejriwal, we don't understand why is the minister still at his position," Maken said.

Tilak Manjhi Bhagalpur University filed an affidavit stating Tomar's provisional certificate is "fabricated and doesn't exist in their record." The university said the roll number cited by Tomar is also incorrect. "As per records, the provisional certificate with serial number 3687 was issued on July 29, 1999 to Sanjay Kumar Chaudhary for BA (honours) in political science. The certificate in Jitender Tomar's name is a fabricated document and does not exist in the university's records," the affidavit filed before Justice Rajiv Shakdher stated.

The affidavit came after HC issued notice to the university while hearing a petition alleging Tomar should be removed as minister as he enrolled as an advocate using a "false and bogus" graduation degree.

Meanwhile, the Bar Council of Delhi informed HC it had suspended Tomar's licence after Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University (UP) admitted Tomar's graduation degree was "totally fake." The law minister has maintained he did his BSc from here. The high court has asked BCD to file its inquiry report against Tomar by August 20.

Indicating it won't let the matter rest even if the main petitioner drops proceedings, Justice Shakdher appointed advocate Raj Shekhar Rao as amicus curiae in the matter. HC decided to step in since petitioner Santosh Kumar Sharma, who made the allegations, remained absent from the hearing. It also asked Sharma to appear at the next hearing.

Seeking to be heard as a party to the case, BJP leader Nand Kishore Garg, who fought the assembly polls against Tomar, also approached the court on Monday. Senior advocate Chetan Sharma and Neeraj, appearing for Garg, claimed they have more proof of irregularities against Tomar.

courtesy: ET

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Congress demands probe against BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur

Congress on Monday latched on to a report of BJP MP Anurag Thakur socialising with a suspected bookie to demand probe by an independent agency into the link between him, BCCI and the bookies.

Party spokesperson Sushmita Dev told reporters that the International Cricket Council (ICC) writing a letter to the Indian Cricket Board was a serious matter as Thakur is the BCCI Secretary. Noting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi often said that neither he will resort to corruption, nor allow others to do so, she said, therefore, it was imperative that he ordered an inquiry into the issue.
he also claimed that India's biggest betting-cum-hawala racket running into over Rs 4,000 crore has been unearthed last month in Gujarat. He alleged clear linkages to BJP leaders and police machinery in the state. Another party spokesperson Tom Vadakkan, however, steered clear of questions over the Special Investigation Team (SIT) monitoring the probe into Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board or Vyapam scam telling the high court that the documents used by AICC general secretary Digvijaya Singh to target Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan are forged.

Vadakkan said that the whole issue is a matter of probe and the party would not comment till a report comes.



Courtesy: DNA

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Sonia, Rahul call Modi govt’s policies anti-poor and anti-farmer

New Delhi: The Congress party, in one of its biggest public rallies in the national capital in the recent past, launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, criticizing the policies of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government as being anti-farmer and anti-poor.
Addressing the public, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi said that the policies and the intention of Prime Minister Modi were suspect.
“They will take your land, they will not give you jobs and you will fall nowhere. Wherever there is forcible land acquisition, you will find a Congress leader around you, a youth worker around you and you will find me,” Rahul Gandhi, who made his first public address in two months, said at New Delhi’s Ramlila Grounds on Sunday.
“The policies and the intent of the Modi government is anti-poor, anti-labourer and anti farmer,” Sonia Gandhi said. courtesy: LIVEMINT

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