All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday questioned Union Home Minister Amit Shah after the latter said that rioters in Gujarat were taught a lesson by the BJP in 2002.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge is all set for a jampacked poll campaigning in two districts in South Gujarat to find its footfall in the state on Saturday ahead of Assembly elections.
On Tuesday, official sources at Tihar jail claimed that Rinku, the prisoner who was administering massage on Jain, was 'not a physiotherapist' but has been charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 for allegedly raping a minor.
With Congress also in the fray with a sitting MLA, it is also a triangular contest. Senior Congress leader Vikram Madam, AAP Chief Minister's face Isudan Gadhvi and BJP candidate Mulu Ayar Bera are fighting it out amongst themselves in the assembly elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a public meeting in Dehgam on Thursday that these elections will decide the fate of Gujarat for the next 25 years.
"BJP politics over this is completely wrong. It's not an issue of love jihad but of exploitation and abuse against a woman and that is how it should be viewed and condemned," Owaisi said.
Pabubha Manek, a BJP MLA whom the party has entrusted to retain the Dwarka seat for the third straight time, has never lost an election since 1990. Manek won the first three elections as an independent, then joined the Congress and won the seat. Later, he won the Assembly elections of 2012 a
All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over unemployment in the country by cracking a joke. He said he met a young man at a hotel who used a joke to explain his situation in life.
The SP chief was addressing Ex-Servicemen Conference in poll-bound Mainpuri where he was seeking their support for the candidate for the seat. The party has fielded the wife of Akhilesh Yadav, Dimple Yadav on the seat for the by-poll scheduled to be held on December 5.
Nadda's remarks came in light of activist Medha Patkar, who spearheaded the Narmada Bachao Aandolan to prevent the displacement of locals due to the water of the Dam, joining Rahul Gandhi during the Maharashtra leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra on Saturday.