Newsmantra.in को मिली जानकारी के अनुसार कांग्रेस में नये और पुराने का संघर्ष की वजह गांधी परिवार नहीं बल्कि राहुल गांधी द्वारा चुनी गयी टीम है जो सीनियर नेताओं को हर बात के लिए जिम्मेदार ठहराकर उन्हें बाहर करना चाहती है. .सूत्रों के अनुसार चिठठी लीक होने और उस पर बवाल करने की तैयारी भी टीम राहुल ने ही की थी .इसके पीछे केरल के कांग्रेस नेताओं का हाथ बताया जा रहा है . कांग्रेस की सोशल मीडिया टीम की प्रमुख दिव्या स्पंदना ने तो खुलकर आरोप लगा दिया कि चिठठी वहीं से लीक हुयी जहां भेजी गयी थी यानी संगठन महासचिव के सी वेणुगोपाल के दफ्तर से और पार्टी की वर्चुअल मीटिंग कराने वालों ने ही अंदर की बातें बतायी .

सूत्रों के अनुसार अभी गुजरात के प्रभारी राजीव सातव ने जिस तरह से खुलकर आरोप लगाये उससे कई सीनियर नेता आहत है.उनको लगता है कि इसको राहुल गांधी की शह है . अब सब मिलकर तैयारी कर रहे है कि राहुल को नहीं उनकी टीम को हटाया जाये . दरअसल गांधी परिवार की सबसे बडी गलती यही है कि वो पार्टी के मामले में खुद पार्टी बन गये . हमेशा से पार्टी में विवाद होते रहते हैं लेकिन शीर्ष नेतृत्व उसे केवल निपटाता है खुद शामिल नहीं होता . पर अब हालात बदल गये है.

जानकारों की मानें तो आने वाले एक साल तक ये विवाद चलता रहेगा .राहुल को ही दोबारा प्रमुख बनाने की कवायद होगी बस कोशिश की जायेगी कुछ ऐसे बदलाव हों जिनमें सीनियर्स की सुनवाई हो और वो रास्ता प्रियंका के जरिये निकलेगा ..गांधी परिवार के बिना ना तो कांग्रेस चल सकती है और ना ही कांग्रेस के बिना गांधी परिवार .
-संदीप सोनवलकर

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The investigations will focus on the alleged violation of laws like the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), Income Tax Act, Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act by the Gandhi family-run trusts, said a Home Ministry tweet.

The special director of the Enforcement Directorate will head the committee, the Home Ministry said.

The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was established on June 21, 1991. The foundation works on a range of issues, including literacy, health, disability, empowerment of the underprivileged, livelihood and natural resource management. Its current focus areas are education, disability and natural resource management.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi is the Chairperson of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram are members of the board.

The Centre’s move followed recent allegations launched by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the Congress and the Gandhi family claiming that China had funded the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.

Last month, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, citing some documentary proof, sought an explanation from the Congress to explain why the Chinese Embassy donated about Rs 90 lakh to the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.

The Congress has denied any wrongdoing and calls the investigation “political vendetta”. the Congress had said that RGF issue raised by the BJP was a “manufactured charge” and “diversionary tactic” to deflect attention from the border tensions at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China.

Last month, the ruling BJP accused the Congress of “brazen fraud”, alleging that when it was in power, the Manmohan Singh government donated money from the Prime Minister’s National relief Fund to the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation

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Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the entire country knows the “deep hatred and vendetta of Prime Minister Narendra Modi” towards the Congress leadership.

Meanwhile Priyanka Gandhi cleared her dues of 3.46 lakhs after govt notice to vacate house .“Ms Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has made online payment of balance amount due on her. Hence, now dues as on 30.06.2020 is nil against her,” a spokesperson for the ministry of housing and urban affairs said.

The directorate of estate department of the ministry had issued a notice to her to vacate her house within a month.

“Consequent upon withdrawal of SPG protection and grant of Z+ security cover by Ministry of Home Affairs, which does not have provision for allotment/retention of Government accommodation on security grounds to you, the allotment of Type 68 house No. 35, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi is hereby cancelled w.e.f 01/07/2020. One month concessional period on the same rent up to 01.08.2020 is allowed as per rule,” the letter sent by the ministry said.

“Any stay beyond 01.08.2020 will attract damage charges/penal rent as per rules,” it added.
Cong spokesperson Surjewala said the Congress does not fear from such notices and will continue to highlight the “wrong-doings of a failed Modi government”.

“The BJP government’s deep hatred and sense of vendetta for Congress leadership is well known to all. They have now touched to new lows. The notice of vacation of Priyanka Gandhi’s house signals the anxiety of PM Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath. We will not be cowed down by these petty decisions of a frustrated government,” he said in a video message.

The government on Wednesday asked Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to vacate her bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi within a month, saying she is not entitled to the facility following withdrawal of her SPG protection.

It had in November last year replaced the Special Protection Group (SPG) cover of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, with Z-plus security by the CRPF.

Mr Surjewala said the entire country has seen how some time ago the SPG security of the family of former PM late Rajiv Gandhi was taken away.

PM Modi has also taken away the security of two former prime ministers – Manmohan Singh and HD Deve Gowda, he said.

“The Congress leadership and former PMs have been warning this failed government against its anti-people policies,” he said, adding that they will continue to do so in future.

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Enough is enough, the country needs to know what has happened, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday, even as he assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the entire nation stands with him.

Why is the PM silent? Why is he hiding? Enough is enough. We need to know what has happened. How dare China kill our soldiers? How dare they take our land?” asked Mr. Gandhi.

In a separate video message, Mr. Gandhi said, “Come forward Pradhan Mantri ji, the entire nation, all of us stand with you. The entire nation is with you. Come forward and tell the truth to the nation. Don’t get scared”.
The Congress leader also offered his condolences to the martyred soldiers.

In a separate tweet, chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala tagged a 2013 video of Mr. Modi, then the Prime Ministerial candidate of the BJP, attacking the Manmohan Singh government for being weak in the face of aggression by Pakistan and China.

“Friends, it is not because of weakness of our Army. The problem is not in our borders, the problem is in Delhi,” Mr. Modi tells the audience at a rally in Haryana’s Rewari district that has a large number of ex-servicemen.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
@priyankagandhi

Our land, our sovereignty is being threatened, our soldiers and officers have been martyred, are we just going to remain silent?

India deserves the truth. It deserves a leadership that is willing to do anything before allowing its land to be taken.

“True, the problem is in Delhi. The Prime Minister is silent and TV anchors act as his spokesperson. If there is Mr. Modi, it is possible,” Mr. Surjewala tweeted in Hindi by using the BJP’s 2019 election slogan Modi hain toh mumkin hain.

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It also alleged that the demand shows that the UP government lacks the intention to help those stranded at the state’s borders.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday had accepted the Congress’ offer to run 1,000 buses to bring migrant labourers back to the state, a proposal which had triggered a war of words between the two sides.

In a letter to Additional Chief Secretary Avneesh Kumar Awasthi, Priyanka Gandhi’s private secretary Sandeep Singh said a letter was received from the UP official at 11.40 pm Monday night via email, in which it has been stated that 1,000 buses with all documents be handed over at Lucknow by 10 am on Tuesday.

“In a situation when thousands of workers are walking on the streets and thousands of people have gathered at the UP borders at various registration centres, sending 1,000 empty buses to Lucknow is not only a waste of time and resources but is also inhuman and the product of an anti-poor mindset,” Singh said in the letter in Hindi.

“This demand of your government seems politically motivated. It does not seem that your government wants to help our labourer brothers and sisters who are facing a disaster,” the letter said.

“In the letter dated May 16, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has sought permission to run 500 buses from Ghazipur border in Ghaziabad and 500 buses from Noida border to help the stranded migrant labourers reach home. In this context, at 4.01 pm (on May 18), I got your letter (through WhatsApp) seeking list of 1,000 buses along with details of drivers and conductors. This was provided to you after sometime through email,” it said.

The state government had asked Priyanka Gandhi, who had made the offer, to provide it with a list of buses along with the names of their drivers and conductors.

“Kindly provide complete details of all the buses along with their fitness certificates, driving licences of drivers and details of the conductors to District Magistrate Lucknow at Sector 15-16 Vrindawan Yojana. The District Magistrate has been informed about this,” Awasthi had said in a letter.

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“There can be no space for violence in the land of Mahatma Gandhi, nor can there be any place in the country for forces that seek to impose their communal and divisive ideology on the people,” Gandhi said in a statement. She offered her condolences to the bereaved family of head constable Ratan Lal, who was killed in thSenior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also condemned the violence. “The violence today in Delhi is disturbing and must be unequivocally condemned,” he tweeted. “Peaceful protests are a sign of a healthy democracy, but violence can never be justified. I urge the citizens of Delhi to show restraint, compassion and understanding no matter what the provocation.”

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also urged the people of Delhi to maintain communal harmony.

Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy also said non-violent protests in a democratic country are acceptable but not violence . He says it was an attempt to dent India’s image during the visit of US President Donald Trump.

“My deepest condolences to the family of the Delhi Police Head Constable who lost his life amidst the protests in Delhi. Our @narendramodi government condemns all forms of violence and we assure a stern action against the culprits,” Reddy tweeted.

Later talking to reporters, the minister said the central government has directed the police to take action against those involved in the violence and central forces were deployed in different parts of the national capital.

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It looks after the Prime Minister’s personal security, health, communication and secures the PMO and Prime Minister’s residence. It must not be made a status symbol and its mandate must not be diluted in deploying the specialized force for the security of a particular family. Shri Shah also stressed that the Government is responsible for the security of 130 crore Indian citizens, which includes the said family.

The Home Minister noted that there is a perception that the amendment in SPG Act is being brought only for the purpose to remove the SPG security cover for the Gandhi family. Opposed to that, the Gandhi family’s security level was not being removed but was changed from SPG to Z+ with ASL (Advance Security Liaison) and 24X7 Ambulance provision.

This has been done by threat perception as per the original version of the law and the family’s security cover is at par with that of the HM, Defence Minister etc. He stressed that therefore, the there is no question of vendetta politics against one family and they have been assigned security people who have undergone SPG training at some point of time in their career.

Taking a dig at the opposition benches, Shri Shah said that the person who would be at the greatest disadvantage because of the Amendment in the Act is the current Prime Minister, who would lose SPG cover five years after he demits office. He also remarked that the SPG security cover of several previous Prime Ministers had been removed in the past, but there were no protests before.

Speaking on the security breach at Smt. Priyanka Gandhi’s residence, Shri Shah said that the visiting persons were Congress party members and the security allowed them entry based on this specific information. Despite this, Government has ordered high level enquiry into this matter and suspended the concerned 3 security people, new bill passed by parliament only PM will get SPG cover .

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Malik added that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis must realise that he does not have a majority and his government will be defeated in the floor test if he doesn’t resign.

He tweeted a message in Hindi saying, “We will succeed.”

अगर फलक को जिद है बिजलियाँ गिराने की,

तो हमें भी जिद है वहीं पर आशियाँ बसाने की …

हम होंगें कामयाब ।@NCPspeaks @MumbaiNCP

Meanwhile Congress’ Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that by disregarding the institutions and Constitution, the BJP is repeating in Maharashtra what they did after the Karnataka polls.

Blaming the BJP and Centre for offering no help even after 12,000 farmers committed suicide in the state, she asked if the party is now reaching a stage where it is ‘openly kidnapping the mandate’.

टीवी दिखा रहा है कि भाजपा महाराष्ट्र में संस्थाओं, संविधान को ठेंगा दिखाते हुए कर्नाटक का खेल फिर से दोहराना चाह रही है।

महाराष्ट्र में 12000 किसानों ने आत्महत्या कर ली। उनके लिए भाजपा सरकार की जेब से तो मदद नहीं निकली।

क्या हम जनादेश के खुले अपहरण के दौर में पहुँच चुके हैं?

— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) November 25, 2019

NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal said on Sunday night that only one or two of the party MLAs were not there at the Grand Hyatt hotel. He added with Ajit Pawar’s defection, two parties have been formed. “Pawar sahab (Sharad Pawar) is keeping his views forward and people will understand what is right and what is wrong,” he told.

Meanwhile, Jayant Patil said after Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar’s meeting that “a government formed at night will end to be at night. Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister are there, so they are meeting each other. They both will divide all the portfolios among themselves. After remaining ensconced in his south Mumbai residence throughout Sunday, NCP leader and newly-anointed deputy CM Ajit Pawar met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis late night and held closed-door discussions.

Senior BJP leaders Chandrakant Patil, Vinod Tawade and Girish Mahajan attended the meeting held at the official residence of the chief minister, party sources.

A late night tweet from the CMO Maharashtra, however, said the CM and the Deputy CM discussed various measures for rain-hit farmers.

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party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that Gandhi had received a message from the Facebook-owned messaging platform informing her that her phone could also have been targeted with the snooping software at the same time that other users in India were notified“

I want to tell that Priyanka Gandhi also received a similar message from WhatsApp around the same time,” Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, responding to a question about Praful Patel and Mamata Banerjee receiving messages from the Facebook-owned messaging platform.

On Thursday, reports had revealed that several members of the civil society in India have been the target of surveillance through a spyware, Pegasus, which was developed by an Israeli cyber intelligence firm, NSO Group. Pegasus was used to target around 1,400 users globally during a two-week period in May.

So far, 17 people, mostly lawyers, human rights activists, and journalists, have confirmed that they were targeted by spyware through WhatsApp.

Sources told that after she received the message warning her that her phone was suspected to have been targeted, Gandhi did not think much of the message and deleted it. The messages alerting the users were sent out by Citizen Lab, a Canada-based cyber security group that is assisting WhatsApp in investigating the spyware attack.

After the controversy erupted this past week when, the Congress communication team, the sources said, asked Gandhi about it and sent a copy of messages received by activists reportedly targeted, to which she confirmed that she had received similar messages. Gandhi, they added, says she also received calls from international numbers around that time but hadn’t answered them.

The Congress spokesperson blamed the ruling BJP of targeting opposition leaders with the snooping software, and said that the party suspects that many senior politicians and judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts have also been spied on.

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Singh, who was India’s prime minister from 2004 and 2014, will continue to enjoy Z plus security cover — one of the highest — to be given by one of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), preferably by the CRPF, they said.

“The current security cover review is a periodical and professional exercise based on threat perception that is purely based on professional assessment by security agencies. Dr. Manmohan Singh continues to have Z+ security cover,” a home ministry spokesperson said.

The decision to withdraw the security provided by the Special Protection Group (SPG), the country’s highest grade of protection, was taken after a three-month review involving the Cabinet Secretariat and the Ministry of Home Affairs with inputs from various intelligence agencies.

With the removal of SPG cover from Singh, the top-notch security cover will now be given by the SPG only to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Gandhis — Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka.

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