Politics

The transfer of funds from RBI would serve a national purpose and therefore, Rahul Gandhi's comments are immature and showed his distorted understanding of the economy, Narasimha Rao said.

Tharoor and party leader Abhishek Singhvi had earlier extended support for Ramesh's statement that said "demonising" Modi was "wrong" and the prime minister should be praised for doing the right things.

The high power committee also revoked the Janata Congress Chhattisgarh chief's caste certificates and ordered the Deputy Superintendent of Police to seize them.

Predicting mid-term election to the assembly, the former chief minister urged Congress workers to start preparing for it and strengthen the party.

Gandhi posted a video of Saturday's events, showing authorities reading out an order to the opposition leaders that said that they were in Srinagar to 'mobilise people'.

Jaitley, a key strategist and chief trouble-shooter of the BJP and the Narendra Modi government during its first term, died on Saturday at the AIIMS here after battling multiple health issues for the last several months.

Ramesh's comment was later backed by Congress leaders Abhishek Singhvi and Shashi Tharoor. Singhvi's support was further lauded by former president Pranab Mukherjee's daughter Sharmistha.

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav dissolves all all executives for the Uttar Pradesh except state party president Naresh Uttam, including those of district and youth wings.

Although West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh denied the initiative that would begin from September was meant to outsmart TMC'S digital platform for masses, he said it is aimed at reaching out to the people in a more effective manner.

Law is now catching up with the Congress, senior BJP leader and Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said, adding that its rule during 2004-14 was synonymous with corruption.

Lawyers made it clear that according to law, the name of an accused is not required to be necessarily mentioned in the FIR which is registered in respect of commission of an offence and offenders are found during the investigation.

He was produced before Special Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar where Chidambaram's advocates opposed the CBI plea on the ground that all the other accused, including his son Karti, have already been granted bail in the case.

Karti, who arrived in Delhi on Thursday morning, said no one had been raided as much as him but the agencies still did not have a case against him.

The Congress has defended Chidambaram, with Rahul Gandhi accusing the government of using probe agencies and the media to 'character assassinate' the former finance minister.

The Enforcement Directorate has issued a fresh look out circular against the former Union minister.

KT Rama Rao, the TRS working president, also took potshots at at senior BJP leader JP Nadda, saying he had never heard his name and that his name was not Nadda, but an 'adda' of blatant lies.