AICC gen secy Venugopal calls ‘vote chori’ threat to India’s integrity
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Alappuzha (PTI): AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal on Sunday said 'vote chori' is a threat to India’s integrity, accusing the Centre of "manipulating electoral rolls".
“The alleged vote chori and manipulation of electoral rolls have shaken people’s faith in the very foundation of democracy,” he said in a post on 'X'.
Venugopal joined the nationwide 'vote chor, gaddi chhod' (vote thief, give up the seat) signature and door-to-door campaign launched by the party on the issue.
He took part in the campaign held in his ward, Kaithavana, in this coastal district on Sunday.
“Vote chori is not an isolated crime; it is part of a larger attack on our Constitution, weakening of our economy, systematic social injustice, and a threat to India’s integrity,” the Alappuzha MP alleged on his social media handle.
Across India, the Congress will collect five crore signatures against what it claimed was a “blatant assault on democracy,” Venugopal said.
Claiming the campaign is gaining momentum as a people’s movement, he called upon “every citizen who believes in democracy to join this struggle to defend the Constitution and save the soul of India.”
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Five railway staffers injured as van headed to Rajdhani Express fire site overturns in MP
Ratlam (MP) (PTI): Five railway staffers were injured, one of them critically, when their van carrying repair equipment to the site of a Rajdhani Express fire overturned in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam district on Sunday, officials said.
The blaze erupted in an AC coach of the Delhi-bound Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express between Vikramgarh Alot and Lunirichha stations under the Kota division of the railways in Ratlam at 5.15 am.
It disrupted the movement of several trains on the Mumbai-Delhi route, as per the officials.
A van carrying necessary equipment to Alot overturned on the way when a cow suddenly strayed into the middle of the road, they said.
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Five railwaymen were injured, one of them critically, the officials said.
The incident took place when the van carrying essential equipment for overhead electric line repair, among other things, was on its way to Alot from Shyamnagar in Ratlam, West Central Railway's chief public relations officer Harshit Shrivastava told PTI.
The injured persons were rushed to the hospital and were subsequently referred to Kota in Rajasthan, officials said.
No casualties were reported in the train fire.
