Amethi: The CBI on Wednesday carried out searches at over 22 locations in Uttar Pradesh, including the residence of former state minister Gayatri Prajapati in connection with a case of illegal sand mining between 2012 and 2016, officials said. The CBI started investigating the case on the directions of the Allahabad High Court in January this […]
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Rahul lost as SP-BSP votes went to BJP in Amethi
Amethi: The two-member Congress Committee probing the reasons behind the defeat of their President Rahul Gandhi in his family borough Amethi, has been told that the non-cooperation of the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party units was responsible for the defeat. Congress Secretaries Zubair Khan and K.L. Sharma, who are UPA chaiperson Sonia Gandhi’s representatives in […]
Main accused in Smriti Irani aide’s murder held
Amethi: The main accused in the murder of Union Minister Smriti Irani’s aide Surendra Singh was arrested by the police on Friday. Wasim was arrested by the police after an encounter in the Jamo police station area here. He sustained a bullet injury on his leg in the encounter and was being treated in Jamo CHC […]
Amethi murder due to local rivalry: UP DGP
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police said on Tuesday that the killers of Surendra Singh, a former village head and a BJP leader in Amethi, were his local political rivals. It had been widely speculated that Singh was murdered because he had campaigned for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP( leader Smriti Irani. Director General of Police O.P. […]
Smriti Irani reaches Amethi, 7 suspects detained in aide’s murder
Amethi: BJP leader Smriti Irani reached Amethi on Sunday afternoon to meet the family of Surendra Singh, a former village head who was shot dead early on Sunday. Irani met the family members of the deceased and attended the cremation. Surendra Singh’s son Abhay told reporters: “We could not see the perpetrators but it is clear […]
Smriti Irani’s close aide shot dead in Amethi
Amethi: A former village head, known to be close to the newly elected BJP MP Smriti Irani, was shot dead in Baraulia village in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district on Sunday. Surendra Singh was killed by the bike-borne assailants while he was sleeping outside his house. Singh was taken to the district hospital from where he was […]
What went wrong in Amethi for Congress?
Amethi: What went so horribly wrong for Congress President Rahul Gandhi that he lost from his familys pocket borough Amethi Lok Sabha constituency? Ask local leaders and people and they cite reasons like Congress turncoats benefitting BJP’s Smriti Irani and apparent lack of interest of Rahul as well as his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra this […]
‘Rahul to re-contest from Amethi in 2024’
New Delhi: Though he was defeated on home turf Amethi to BJP’s Smriti Irani, Congress President Rahul Gandhi will again contest from the seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, a party leader said. The Congress leader, requesting anonymity, said that Gandhi will never leave Amethi. “He has done a lot of work in Amethi […]
Congress turncoats, local leaders played spoilsport for Rahul in Amethi
Amethi: A day after Congress President Rahul Gandhi lost in his home turf of Amethi against Union Minister and BJP candidate Smriti Irani, local people blamed the party’s turncoats and local leaders for the rout. Krishna Tiwari, who had joined the BJP leaving Congress in 2015 told IANS, “Several Congress leaders leaving the party made […]
A day after poll rout, resignations fly in Congress
New Delhi: A day after Congress suffered a humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha polls, party’s Uttar Pradesh chief Raj Babbar, Karnataka’s H.K. Patil, Odisha’s Niranjan Patnaik and Amethi district head Yogendra Mishra sent in their resignations to the high command owning moral responsibility for the drubbing. Owning moral responsibility for the rout of the […]