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ANI quoted Congress leader Ashok Chavan as saying on 26 August. Chavan said, “Around 26 to 27 parties will participate in the meeting. An informal gathering will be held on the evening of August 31 in Mumbai and a formal meeting on September 1.

Tripta Tyagi urges students to beat up the child citing his Muslim identity. A day after the video became viral the child has said, “I was beaten up because I had made a mistake. I didn't learn multiplication tables, that's why I was slapped by my classmates.

jitne bhi Mohammedan (Muslim) bachhe hai…" “Aey kya tum maar rahe ho iske.. jor se maaro naa…chalo aur kiska number hai,(What are you doing? Why are you not beating him harder)" Tripta Tyagi was heard urging the students to hit the visibly affected child. The principal has been booked by Muzzaffarnagar police on Saturday.

PTI reported citing a senior party leader that Rahul Gandhi has chosen to reside in a houseboat situated on Nigeen Lake, while the family is anticipated to shift to a hotel in the Rainawari locality on Saturday. Notably, this hotel holds sentimental value for the Gandhi family due to past associations. Following a stay spanning two nights, there are plans for them to explore Gulmarg.

Kapil Sibal on Saturday asked if Prime Minister Narendra Modi will condemn this publicly and the teacher be prosecuted or the culture of «hate» be allowed to flourish. The video showed a school teacher asking her students to slap a boy from what she is heard referring to as «Mohammaden» community and also passing objectionable remarks against the community has gone viral on social media, with Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra condemning the incident. The teacher can be seen asking the students of class 2 of a private school in Khubbapur village under Mansurpur police station area to hit the child. In a post on X (formerly twitter), Sibal slammed it as «culture of hate» and said that a teacher of a private school in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar asked Hindu students to beat up a Muslim student in the classroom. «If true, will Yogi ji (Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath) speak up? Will Modi ji condemn this publicly? Will the teacher be prosecuted? Or will the culture of 'hate' be allowed to flourish?» he said. Sibal, who was a Union minister during UPA I and II, quit the Congress in May last year and was elected to the Rajya Sabha as an Independent member with the Samajwadi Party's support. He has floated a non-electoral platform 'Insaaf' aimed at fighting injustice. BSP MP Danish Ali also condemned the incident. Sharing the video, he said on X, «Last week, a teacher lost his job in India for asking his students to vote for educated leaders.

Maha Vikas Aghadi comprising the Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP and Congress has formed several committees to plan various aspects of the meeting of the opposition bloc INDIA on August 31 and September 1 in Mumbai. Sources on Friday said the committees, which include two leaders from each of the three parties, will take care of media, social media, accommodation, transport among other things. The Congress will handle media and publicity, while the Nationalist Congress Party will take care of transport. The Shiv Sena (UBT) will look after accommodation, they said, adding that more than 200 rooms have been booked in Grand Hyatt hotel, which will be the venue for the two day meet. The management is being supervised by Congress leaders Milind Deora, Naseem Khan and Varsha Gaikwad, while former Maharashtra chief minister and senior leader Ashok Chavan will be overall in charge of the organising committee, they said. Sources said MVA leaders will hold a press conference on August 30 to announce details of the INDIA meeting. Leaders from 28 opposition outfits, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and MPs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, and chief ministers of six non-BJP-ruled states will participate in the third meeting of the bloc on August 31 and September 1. The INDIA bloc's first meeting was held in Patna in June, while the second one took place in Bengaluru in mid-July.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi held an interaction with a group of youths after he reached Kargil town on Thursday evening on the last leg of his over week-long tour of the Union Territory of Ladakh. The former Congress president is scheduled to address a public meeting on Friday in poll-bound Kargil before returning to Delhi, senior Congress leader and former legislator Asgar Ali Karbalai said. The election to 26 seats of the 30-member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Kargil, is slated for September 10 and the counting of votes will be held four days later. After an overnight stay at Padam in Zanskar Tehsil of Kargil, the 53-year-old Gandhi reached Kargil town late this afternoon, riding on his motorcycle.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said that the party will conduct a caste census in the state if voted to power in the next assembly elections. Addressing a public rally in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Kharge's first poll outing in MP, he accused the central government of trying to change the constitution. «Some people are trying to change the Constitution.

Rahul Gandhi has moved the Bombay High Court challenging the Thane court order in the RSS defamation case. The court had earlier taken the transcript of the alleged defamatory speech as evidence in the pending criminal defamation case filed by an RSS worker Rajesh Kunte. Rahul Gandhi claimed that the Magistrate's order was in violation of an order of a single judge of the High Court in another petition filed by Kunte which was related to the same defamation complaint, according to a report published by Bar and Bench. Bhiwandi-based RSS activist Rajesh Kunte had filed a defamation suit against the Gandhi scion for holding the organization responsible for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.

Ladakh, Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi reached Leh's main market on Monday. The Congress leader was seen interacting with people in the market. Rahul Gandhi embarked on a bike ride to Pangong Tso in Ladakh on Saturday. He also paid tribute to his father and former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, on his 79th birth anniversary from the banks of Pangong Lake in Ladakh on Sunday morning. Rahul Gandhi arrived in Leh to begin his two-day visit to the Union Territory on Thursday and later decided to extend his tour till August 25. This is his first visit to Ladakh since Jammu and Kashmir were bifurcated into two Union Territories, Ladakh and J-K, following the removal of Articles 370 and 35 (A) on August 5, 2019. On Friday he interacted with youth in Leh. According to the party sources, Rahul Gandhi will also watch a football match in Leh. Rahul has been a footballer player during his college days. He will also participate in the meeting of the 30-member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC)-Kargil elections on August 25, they said. Congress and National Conference have forged a pre-poll alliance against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the Kargil council polls scheduled to be held on September 10. Although the Congress MP visited Srinagar and Jammu twice earlier this year, he, however, did not travel to Ladakh. In January, the Congress leader visited Jammu and Srinagar during his Bharat Jodo Yatra.

Also read: Sadbhavana Diwas 2023: 8 interesting facts about former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary Rajiv Gandhi, born on August 20, 1944, was tragically assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber during an election rally in Tamil Nadu on May 21, 1991. At the event, former Vice President M Hamid Ansari presented the 25th Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award for 2020-21 to Banasthali Vidyapith, a women's residential institution in Rajasthan, in the presence of Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.

Alliance, a coalition of 26 parties that was formed after the second meeting of the Opposition leaders in Bengaluru to take on the BJP in the 2024 general election, ANI reported. “BJP is anxious due to the formation of the INDIA.

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has taken a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his Chinese troops' remark, saying that nobody takes the latter's statement seriously. Talking to the reporters here, the union minister further said that Rahul Gandhi should read the history of the intrusion of lands by the neighbouring countries during the Congress rule. «I think Rahul Gandhi should delve into the history of land losses during his grandfather's, grandmother's, and father's tenures.

INDIA alliance is likely to be unveiled during the front's meeting in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1, sources said on Sunday. Approximately 80 leaders from more than 26 political parties are expected to attend the third meeting of the INDIA alliance in the country's financial capital, they said. At present, 26 parties are part of the grouping and a few more are set to join the alliance during the two-day meeting, the sources added.

leadership to nominate me to the Working Committee," Shashi Tharoor said in a post on X. In a video message, Shashi Tharoor said, “As one who is aware of the historic role played by the CWC in guiding the party over the last 138 years, I am humbled and grateful to be part of this institution, and look forward to the opportunity to serve the party alongside my dedicated colleagues." The Congress MP said, "None of us can accomplish anything without the lakhs of committed workers who are the lifeblood of the party.

who has travelled to Ladakh to pay tributes to his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary, said PM Narendra Modi’s assertion that China has not claimed a single inch of the Indian territory was not true. The people of Ladakh are concerned about their grazing land "taken over by the Chinese Army", Rahul Gandhi said.

Congress Working Committee (CWC). The Congress leader who has been part and witness of several frictional episodes with Congress senior leader and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, was drafted into the party's central leadership. After the list was publicised, Sachin Pilot pledged to “strengthen the customs and ideology" of the party.

The BJP on Sunday condemned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s claim that China has grabbed grazing land in Ladakh, alleging he was defaming India by making statements like Beijing’s “propaganda machinery”.

Kharge are expected to visit Telangana this month. Shah is likely to address a public meeting at Khammam on August 27, BJP sources said on Sunday.

G20 summit called on Rahul Gandhi's flying kiss blowing incident a ‘despicable behaviour.’ Smriti Irani's comments came while speaking at the Aaj Tak G20 Summit on 19 August. In a fierce attack at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, she said, “A person from the Gandhi dynasty may not have an interest in Parliament, but can you imagine that a female Cabinet minister who happens to be there now has to gleefully talk about why did the man do what he did? Why should I? It was shame on him...not me, or any other woman who was there that day severing our country in Parliament," India Today has quoted.

Pralhad Joshi praised Rahul Gandhi for highlighting developments in Ladakh under the Modi government as the Congress leader posted pictures from his motorcycle ride on social media. Rijiju on Saturday complimented him for promoting the excellent roads built in the Himalayan region under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership.