Tag: Amit Shah
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Congress asks Modi, Shah to come clean on demonetisation ‘scam’
New Delhi : The Congress on Friday alleged that the demonetisation carried out by the Narendra Modi government was the “biggest scam in Independent India” to convert black money into white and the maximum deposits in cooperative banks in just five days were in BJP-ruled states, mainly Gujarat. Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said that…
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Bank with Amit Shah as a director collected highest amount of banned notes among DCCBs: RTI reply
By Quaid Najmi, Mumbai : A district cooperative bank, which has Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah as a director, netted the highest deposits among such banks of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes that were abruptly demonetised on November 8, 2016, according to RTI replies received by a Mumbai activist. The Ahmedabad…
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16,850 villages getting benefits of government’s flagship schemes: Shah
New Delhi : As many as 16,850 villages of 484 dictricts across the country are getting benefits of seven flagship welfare schemes, including Ujjwala and Saubhagya, of the BJP-led NDA government, BJP President Amit Shah said here on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference on the achievements of Modi government in last four years, he also…
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SC asks Jay Shah, news portal to settle defamation case
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked Jay Shah, son of BJP President Amit Shah, and news portal “The Wire” to settle a defamation case filed by the former against the portal for carrying a story on the exponential increase in the turnover of his company after the BJP-led government came to power…
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Rahul’s style of politics undemocratic: Amit Shah
New Delhi : BJP chief Amit Shah on Friday described Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s style of politics in Parliament as “undemocratic” after the opposition party created a ruckus during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech. Shah’s comments came at a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party Parliamentary Party here, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar told reporters.…
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UP to top developmental index by 2022: BJP chief
Varanasi : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah on Saturday said Uttar Pradesh will top developmental charts by 2022 when the state elects the next assembly. Speaking at the ‘Yuva Udghosh’ programme of the party in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP President said the fact that 17,000 first-time…
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Reopening of Loya case inconvenient for BJP
By Amulya Ganguli, The case relating to the death of B.H. Loya, the judge who was investigating an alleged extra-judicial killing in Gujarat in which Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah was implicated, is the second legal hurdle which the party is facing. It crossed the first one with relative ease, but it remains…
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‘Re-open case against Amit Shah after comments of SC judges’
Panaji : The criminal case against BJP president Amit Shah should be re-opened in view of Friday’s press conference by four senior Supreme Court judges, Goa Congress state president Shantaram Naik demanded on Saturday. In a statement issued here, Naik also said, that the case related to the death of Special CBI judge Brijgopal Harkishan…
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The year that ended BJP’s 14-year exile in UP
By Mohit Dubey, Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh was a parched land for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for 14 long years. Ever since the then Chief Minister Rajnath Singh lost the plot in the 2003 state assembly elections, the saffron party found itself on the sidelines of the country’s politically most crucial state. In election…
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Congress should clarify stand on Ram temple: Amit Shah
Ahmedabad : Latching on to Kapil Sibal’s statement in the Supreme Court for deferring hearing in the Ramjanambhoomi dispute till after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP President Amit Shah on Tuesday asked Rahul Gandhi to clear the Congress stand on the Ram temple issue. He accused the Congress of having “double standards” on the…