Party sources said it was a strategy to not get the Gandhis to speak as Congress leader Ahmed Patel’s earlier speech had not gone well.
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi, party vice-president Rahul Gandhi and the former Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, were arrested for a brief time on Friday morning as they led a “Save Democracy” march, as part of its campaign against the BJP-led government.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday launched a protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi over VVIP chopper scam. “What investigation did they do in AgustaWestland case in two years?”
Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi also spoke in the same vein as they hit out at the Modi government and declared that it would not succeed in its attempts to deliver a “Congress-mukt Bharat“. “Today, the forests in Uttarakhand are burning but there is no government to douse the blaze”, the Congress president said. Regardless of what Congress says, this government is going to prosecute (accused) in a fair manner.
Urging people to vote for the BJP in the southern state, Modi said: “I am working for development and I want to do development work in Tamil Nadu as well”.
“There have been many attacks on Congress in the past since 1885 (when it was established)”.
“Everything was done to facilitate the contract to AgustaWestland, the contract was handed out at almost twice the genuine, estimated cost, norms were relaxed for them, and when all this came to attention, no action was taken against the company”, Parrikar said amid noisy protests from Congress lawmakers.
He was replying to a query on whether the government could take on the Gandhi family, which is often referred to as the first family of Indian politics.
He also said, “At present universities are not safe, courts are not safe. When he intervened, he was charged under SC/ST Act but Sonia Gandhi won’t be arrested”, he said.
An appeals court in the Italian city of Milan recently sentenced the former bosses of Finmeccanica and its AgustaWestland unit to jail terms for false accounting and corruption in the US$640 million (S$870 million) order that was scrapped just before the 2014 general election, according to Reuters.
“Today in India, the voice of only two people are heard, Narendra Modiji and Mohan Bhagwatji”, Rahul said at Loktantra Bachao march at the Janatar Mantar.
Questioning the silence of the Congress on the issue of Mr Modi’s alleged fake degree, Mr Kejriwal also said that the two parties had an arrangement that the BJP government will not arrest Mrs Gandhi in the copter scam and the Congress will not raise the matter of Mr Modi’s educational qualification.
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Kejriwal said at the rally.
