Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi filed his nomination papers from Amethi parliamentary constituency at Sultanpur district headquarters on Saturday, Apr 4. Rahul was accompanied by Congress President Sonia Gandhi and sister Priyanka Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi will will file her nomination papers from Rae Bareilly constituency on Apr 6. The elections in Uttar Pradesh will be [...]
Acting on Varun Gandhi’s plea seeking quashing of the National Security Act slapped against him, the Supreme Court on Thursday issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh government and the District Magistrate of Pilibhit, seeking their response on the issue. Varun in his plea had contended that the Mayawati led UP government had filed a case [...]
NEW DELHI: In an interim relief to Varun Gandhi, BJP candidate from Pilibhit, the Delhi High Court on Friday restrained the U.P. police from arresting him in the case of his alleged communal speech at a recent election meeting. The Barkhedha police station in Pilibhit registered the case on March 17 on a direction from [...]
New Delhi: Varun Gandhi, BJP candidate for the Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court seeking anticipatory bail in the criminal case filed against him for his alleged inflammatory communal speech in the constituency. The case was filed on the direction of the Election Commission. Counsel for Mr. [...]
BJP candidate from Pilibhit Varun Gandhi’s remarks could go on to help the Third Front. This is what CPI national secretary D. Raja feels. Mr Raja also went on to indicate that the JD(U) might support the Third Front government in a post-poll scenario. Speaking to this newspaper, Mr Raja felt that Mr Varun Gandhi’s [...]
BJP candidate for the Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency Varun Gandhi on Wednesday reiterated that the tapes of his speech aired by some channels were doctored and there was a political conspiracy to defame him. He said he made a speech in early March and it was telecast on March 16. Why the delay? he asked. [...]
