Navjot Singh Sidhu (File photo)
NEW DELHI: The Congress leadership may form a committee to go to Punjab and listen to the grievances of party leaders as well as communities to find a solution to the ongoing squabbling in the state unit.
Chief minister Amarinder Singh is facing fire from volatile MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu as well as some other legislators over different subjects, with the provocation being the recent clean chit to the former Akali government on the issue of desecration that happened during the Badal regime. In a retaliatory fire, CM Singh slammed Sidhu while also suggesting that he may jump ship.
When the Punjab and Haryana high court quashed the state government’s probe into the 2015 desecrations of the Guru Granth Sahab, it made the war between Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu more intense.
Congress leader Kamal Nath (File photo)
BHOPAL: Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and leader of opposition, Kamal Nath was booked by crime branch police on Sunday for his recent statements on Covid. He had said that around “1.27 lakh bodies” had reached the cremation grounds and graveyards in the state during the months of March and April this year and his guess was that 80% of those deaths were due to Covid.
An FIR against Nath was registered under Section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant) of the IPC and Section 54 (making or circulating a false alarm or warning as to disaster or its severity or magnitude, leading to panic) of National Disaster Management Act 2005. Police said more sections can be added in the FIR as the investigation proceeds.
Toolkit case: Chhattisgarh cops record Raman Singh s statement
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Last Updated: May 24, 2021, 03:27 PM IST
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The Civil Lines police, which registered the FIR on May 19, had issued a notice to Singh last week asking him to remain present in his residence at 12:30 pm on Monday for the recording of his statement in the case.
Raman Singh
The Raipur police on Monday recorded the statement of senior BJP leader and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh in connection with an FIR lodged on a complaint that he, party colleague Sambit Patra and some others had allegedly circulated a fake toolkit, officials said.