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After Germany and US, United Nations remarks on Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest, says ‘hopes everyone’s rights are protected’

United Nations, March 29, 2024: Amid diplomatic tensions over US and Germany’s remarks over Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest, a spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said we very much “hope” that in India and any country that is having elections, people’s “political and civil rights” are “protected”. According to PTI reports, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric made these remarks on Thursday while he was responding to a question on the “political unrest” in India ahead of the upcoming national elections in the wake of the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the freezing of

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

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