Vadra ‘gives up’ no-frisking privilege
New Delhi: Insisting that he is ‘not a VIP’, Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra on Saturday said he had given consent for removal of his name from the elite ‘no-frisking’
list at airports and wondered if it was not being done as part of a ‘conspiracy’ to malign his image. He maintained that he has never used this ‘privilege’ and does not need it and that he should be treated as any other normal citizen of the country.
Renuka urges Jats to campaign unitedly
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Renuka Chaudhary on Saturday called upon the Jat community, agitating for reservation under the OBC category, to campaign unitedly for their rights and suggested setting up of a core committee and formulating an action plan to meet their
goals. Chaudhary, who is the women president of All India Jat Mahasabha, said the community should “make themselves a force
to be reckoned with and a major force in the vote back politics which no leader can ignore”.
no response by Saudi embassy in rape case
New Delhi: The waiting game in the case involving a Saudi diplomat, accused of raping two Nepalese women, continued on Saturday with External Affairs Ministry yet to get any response from the Saudi Arabia Embassy here on its demand to cooperate in the investigations. Official sources said the MEA was yet to get any kind of response from the Saudi Embassy which was asked to waive the official’s diplomatic immunity and cooperate in the investigations. They also indicated that the Government will wait for some more time before deciding on any further action in the case.
Hazare suspends Oct 2 hunger strike
Mumbai: Social activist Anna Hazare on Saturday said he has decided to suspend his agitation scheduled on October 2 in New Delhi
as the Central Government allowed the land Ordinance to lapse and
implemented the One Rank One Pension (OROP) for ex-servicemen.
“I had decided to launch a hunger strike at Ram lila Maidan in New
Delhi on October 2, on birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and lal
Bahadur Shastri to press for the demands pertaining to land Acquisition Bill and One Rank One Pension scheme,” Hazare told reporters at his native Ralegan Siddhi in Ahmednagar district. The septuagenarian said he had travelled to various places across the country and held public meetings and rallies to build public awareness on the contentious issues.