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CAA aims to legalize RSS’s ideology of hatred: Kerala CM

Kollam (Kerala) [India], March 28 (ANI): Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led Centre over the implementation of the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) and said that the amendment of the act aims to legalize the ideology of hatred of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh). Addressing a public meeting in Kollam, the Chief Minister said, “We all know that the ideology of the RSS is hatred. Citizenship based on religion is anti-constitutional and against the idea of democracy.” “We should see it as a violation of basic principles. No government has the right to pass a

Mahua Moitra to campaign in Bengal’s Krishnanagar on Thursday, skip ED summons

Mahua Moitra

Kolkata, Mar 28 (PTI) TMC leader Mahua Moitra has said she will campaign in her Krishnanagar constituency on Thursday, giving a miss to the Enforcement Directorate summons that asked her to appear for questioning at the ED office in New Delhi.. “I will be out for campaigning in the Krishnangar constituency in the afternoon,” she told reporters. The Enforcement Directorate had issued fresh summons to Moitra and Dubai-based businessman Darshan Hiranandani for questioning in a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) contravention case. The 49-year-old Trinamool Congress leader was called for questioning twice earlier by the central agency, but she did

India summons US diplomat over state dept remarks on Kejriwal’s arrest

New Delhi, Mar 27 (PTI) India on Wednesday summoned a senior US diplomat and lodged a strong protest against a US state department official’s remarks on the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Ministry of External Affairs officials summoned the Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Gloria Berbena at its office in South Block here. The meeting lasted for more than 30 minutes. Reports had it that a US state department official had said that Washington “encouraged a fair, transparent and timely legal process for chief minister Kejriwal”. The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Kejriwal in a money laundering case linked

ED summons TMC MP Mahua Moitra, bizman Darshan Hiranandani on Mar 28 in FEMA case

New Delhi, Mar 27 (PTI) The ED has issued fresh summons to TMC leader Mahua Moitra and businessman Darshan Hiranandani for questioning in a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) contravention case on March 28, official sources said Wednesday. The 49-year-old Trinamool Congress leader was called for questioning earlier also by the central agency. Moitra, who was expelled from the Lok Sabha in December for “unethical conduct”, has been renominated by her party from West Bengal’s Krishnanagar seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had raided her premises in connection with the cash-for-query case on

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