Fight against Kasturirangan report: Ramanath Rai
Mangaluru, August 16: Former minister Ramanath Rai said that when he was the forest minister in the previous Congress government, he had written to the government demanding rejection of Dr Kasturirangan report.
Speaking to reporters at the party office here on Thursday, Rai said that the allegation of Belthangady MLA Harish Poonja was far from truth. Now, the central government is planning to implement the Kasturirangan report. Knowing this, the BJP leaders have been making baseless allegations against the Congress. If the Centre implemented the report, the Congress would fight against it. If the BJP leaders do not want the report to be implemented, let them join hands with the Congress in fighting against it, he challenged.
District Minister UT Khader, mayor Bhaskar Moily, leaders Ibrahim Kodijal, Vittal Shetty, Shashidhar Hegde and others were present.
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BJP accuses AAP of circulating 'edited' videos to malign Swati Maliwal
New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi BJP Saturday accused AAP leaders of circulating "edited" videos to tarnish the image of their own party MP Swati Maliwal, who has accused an aide of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of assaulting her.
It is regrettable that "edited" videos are being circulated on social media groups since Friday in an attempt to "defame" Maliwal who is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva claimed.
Earlier in the day, the Delhi Police arrested Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar who has been accused by Maliwal of assaulting her at the CM's residence on Monday.
A couple of videos from the chief minister's residence from the day of the incident have surfaced on social media, one showed Maliwal having an argument with security personnel, while the other showed her walking out of the CM's residence in the Civil Lines.
"Now that the entire Aam Aadmi Party is tarnishing the image of Swati Maliwal, it's time Kejriwal comes forward and speaks on the matter," Sachdeva said.
The AAP has accused Maliwal of lying and becoming a part of the BJP conspiracy to frame Kejriwal in a fake case in the midst of elections.
Sachdeva said now that Kejriwal's aide has been arrested by police, many "dirty pages" of AAP's politics will become public.
If the AAP is trying to implicate Maliwal by circulating "edited" videos, it would be better for the Delhi Police to immediately take possession of the complete CCTV footage of the chief minister's residence, Sachdeva said.
He charged that Maliwal is not the first woman leader of the AAP that the party has has defamed.
Earlier, they also raised questions about Kiran Bedi, Shazia Ilmi and Richa Pandey who have all left the AAP, Sachdeva added.
