She said that it is in India that she will breathe her last and it is here her ashes will mingle with those of her loved ones.
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Modi had made a cutting remark about Sonia Gandhi’s Italian origins and a Milan court verdict which found bribes were paid in India for a helicopter deal when the Congress was in power.
The thrust of what Sonia left unsaid to Modi was equally loud and emphatic: She is not running away in the face of the Agusta chopper scam.
“Modi talked about good days to come but today the country is reeling under drought and farmers are committing suicide”, said the 45-year-old heir apparent, whose father, grandmother and great-grandfather all served as prime minister.
The upper house was adjourned briefly in the pre-lunch session after Congress members trooped into the well of the house raising anti-government slogans protesting the “assault on democracy”.
“We have never mentioned any name even once”. It gave the government and India’s Central Bureau of Investigation four weeks to respond.
He had also dared the prime minister to arrest the Congress president.
Chennai/Hosur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday promised that all those invovled in the AgustaWestland chopper scam will be punished. The BJP says the documents furnish new evidence that the Congress executed a corrupt deal, then tried to prevent an effective inquiry.
Slamming the CPI-M led LDF, she said they were “anti-development” and follow the “politics of violence”.
Prices of dal have doubled in two years, the BJP’s government’s biggest revenue generation is from taxing poor, price of petrol and diesel has come down drastically, but not the excise duty along with it. Kejriwal said, addressing a rally at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. Democratically elected governments in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarkhand have been toppled by unconstitutional and devious means.
Though the protest march had been named “Loktantra Bachao”, the long list of grievances of Sonia, Rahul and the former prime minister did not pertain to stifling of democracy.
Referring to the floods in Chennai in December, Modi said it was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cadres who helped the people at the time of the crisis.
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NEW DELHI A Delhi court on Saturday issued summons to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for his alleged “thulla” remark against the Delhi police, with the magistrate saying that prima facie he committed the offence.
