New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi to hold third press conference on ‘vote chori’
expected to drop ‘hydrogen bomb’
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi and AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge will address the media in a press conference to be held at the Indira Bhavan at 1 pm on Wednesday. The Congress leaders are also expected to release documents in connection with the alleged ‘vote chori’.
The Congress leader, who has held two press conferences earlier to speak on the matter, had also claimed that a ‘hydrogen bomb’ would be dropped in the press conference to be held on Wednesday.
The Congress has claimed to have valid documents and evidence of voters across India being deprived of their right to ballot by various means, including addition of false information in their details and deletion of names in the voters lists.
The Congress and other parties in the INDIA bloc have accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of not only neglecting the flaws in the voters lists, but also adding mistakes of its own accord.
The Opposition parties have also called the ECI a puppet in the hands of the Central government, stating that the ‘mishandling’ of the lists was done at the behest of the Centre.
Rahul Gandhi is expected to continue his attack on the ECI and the Central government for the problems in the voters lists. He is expected to release several bundles of documents to present as evidence of the problems in the voters lists.
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'Someone must be held accountable': HC converts civil suit on Goa nightclub tragedy into PIL
Panaji (PTI): The Bombay High Court on Monday converted a civil suit against Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub into a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) saying "someone has to be held accountable" for the tragedy in which 25 people were killed.In a stern observation, Goa bench of the High Court of Justices Sarang Kotwal and Ashish Chavan said the local panchayat had "failed to take suo motu cognisance" of the club and had taken "no action despite complaints."
The division bench directed the Goa government to file a detailed reply on the permissions granted to the nightclub.
The High Court, while fixing January 8 as the next date of hearing, pointed out that commercial operations were continuing in the structure despite it having been served a demolition order.
The original petition was filed after the December 6 tragedy by Pradeep Ghadi Amonkar and Sunil Divkar, the owners of the land on which the nightclub was operating.
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Advocate Rohit Bras de Sa, the lawyer representing the petitioner, was made amicus curiae in the matter and has been asked to file a detailed affidavit in the matter.
In their petition, Amonkar and Divkar highlighted "the alarming pattern of statutory violations that have remained inadequately addressed despite multiple complaints, inspections, show-cause notices, and even a demolition order".
They contended that these violations posed "immediate threats to public safety, ecological integrity, and the rule of law in the state of Goa."
Investigations by multiple agencies into the nightclub fire have revealed various irregularities, including lack of permissions to operate the nightclub.
The Goa police arrested five managers and staff members of the club, while co-owners Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra have been detained in Thailand after they fled the country.
