Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that the policies of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Centre have "broken the backbone" of small businesses while benefitting selected businessmen.
A complaint was filed by MRT music and FIR was lodged against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh and Supriya Shrinate at Yashwanthpur police station under the provisions of the Copyright Act, the Information Technology Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Monday resumed the Telangana leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kamareddy as the march is scheduled to conclude in the state and enter Maharashtra later in the evening.
The complaint alleged that the party had posted two videos during the Bharat Jodo Yatra with songs from the movie without permission in violation of the Copyright Act.
The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to Karnakata Congress state president DK Shivakumar in connection with the ongoing money laundering case, sources said.
BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya has targeted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and has said that nothing will happen from the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Congress party has lost its existence.
"If Rahul Gandhi wants to do political suicide, he can, I cannot do that by being in Congress. Congress has no political future. Rahul Gandhi is conducting the padyatra (Bharat Jodo Yatra) to save his own reputation," Kuldeep Bishnoi said.
Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) Parliamentary board member and National OBC Morcha President Dr K Lakshman Wednesday slammed Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who is in Telangana as a part of its Bharat Jodo Yatra, and demanded apologies from the latter over not visiting former PM Narsimha Rao's statue.
"I was in Bharat Joda Yatra and had already crossed Charminar. I was moving towards the stage when Rahul Gandhi's convoy came, seeing which the police panicked and started pushing people here and there. The ACP pushed me strongly by placing both hands over my chest. I fell near a barricad