Top 6 events of the day: SC's order on electoral bonds, EC action on top officials, ‘Shakti’ row and more
Supreme Court on Monday, March 18, directed the SBI to release all the details related to electoral bonds along with details like date of purchase, redemption and name of the purchaser and recipient, denomination, and serial bonds. “SBI should not be selective in disclosing the details. We want all information related to the electoral bonds to be disclosed which is in SBI possession," the court said in its judgment.
(Read full story) Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission on Monday, March 18, ordered the removal of several top officials in Maharashtra, Gujarat, UP and West Bengal. The order was issued for several officials including Mumbai civic chief Iqbal Singh Chahal and Bengal police chief Rajeev Kumar. The EC also ordered the removal of Home Secretaries in Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
The Secretary of the General Administrative Department in Mizoram and Himachal Pradesh have also been removed. (Read full story) The political storm erupted by Rahul Gandhi's ‘Shakti’ remark made at Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra's concluding ceremony is nowhere to end. Wayanad MP met with severe backlash from PM Modi and other BJP leaders for his statement.
The political row began when Rahul Gandhi said that the INDIA alliance is fighting against a “Shakti". “There is a word 'Shakti' in Hinduism. We are fighting against a Shakti.
The question is, what is that Shakti? The soul of the King is in the EVM. This true. The soul of the King in the EVM and every institution of the country, in ED, CBI and Income Tax department," he said on Sunday.
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