Briefing newspersons after the meeting, Parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu quoted the Prime Minister as having said that BJP leaders like Sushma Swaraj, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Vasundhara Raje had similarly faced such “wrong” charges from Congress earlier.
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After Trump made his remarks, Clinton staffer Jen Palmieri tweeted that the Clinton camp would not be responding. Clinton’s campaign wouldn’t address the allegation that the moment had been set up, though defended young Tandy.
Hitting back, Jaitley had said in his blog that the AAP convener is trying to divert attention and protecting his corrupt Principal Secretary by linking it to the Delhi Cricket body.
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McGinty said it was a “tough conversation” with Tamir’s mother when she was told there would be no charges. “She was broken up”. Opponents to the grand jury’s decision, including presidential candidate Bernie Sanders , have asked for federal intervention.
Sources said it was also pointed out at strategy meetings how BJP members had relentlessly hounded the then Manmohan Singh government with allegations of scam after scam without any evidence, after some had wondered how far the DDCA case could be stretched if it didn’t involve public money.
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Police Chief Calvin Williams says officers won’t take an aggressive approach toward the protesters unless things turn violent. The demonstrators then blocked traffic by forming circles at major intersections while holding hands and chanting.
The Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister also made a fervent appeal to Rajya Sabha members to help in passage of the pending bills, Lok Sabha has passed many bills, since there is no possibility of extension of Parliament “as of now”.
Jaitley had filed the suit on Monday after a relentless campaign was launched by the AAP alleging financial irregularities in the DDCA, which governs cricket in the national capital.
On Tuesday, Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party convened a Special Session of the Delhi Legislative Assembly – a house where 67 out of 70 members come from AAP – to talk about the events of the past few weeks. Due to political reasons, Congress is ignoring its government’s inquiry. Our battle against corruption shall continue. He wondered why was Mr Jaitley was shying away from facing commission of enquiry into the DDCA Scam.
Speaking about allegations of his association with 21st Century Media Pvt Ltd, Jaitley told the court that neither he, nor anyone in his family ever had any commercial dealings.
BJP has rallied around Jaitley as Congress and AAP have tried to corner him over the issue and demanded his resignation.
“I have been raising the issue of corruption in DDCA since long”, the former India player told IANS, hours after Jaitley filed the case against Kejriwal. “Please do file”, Kirti Azad said in a tweet on Sunday. “By filing defamation case, he has hurt himself”, Kejriwal added.
He said Jaitley will “not take things lying down” and has thus filed defamation cases against those making “wild allegations”.
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First Congress disrupted Parliament over a case in which its leaders are accused of “grabbing” Rs 5,000 crore assets by investing only Rs 50 lakh and now they have resorted to levelling false charges against Jaitley to do it, Sharma said.
