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EC asks Congress chief to clarify, rectify social media post on Karnataka’s sovereignty

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New Delhi: The Election Commission on Monday asked Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to clarify and rectify the party’s social media post on Karnataka’s sovereignty remark attributed to Sonia Gandhi.
The EC letter to Kharge came following a complaint by the Bharatiya Janata Party regarding a tweet which appeared on the official Twitter handle of the Indian National Congress on May 6.
In its complaint, the BJP has alleged, “Karnataka is a very important member state in the union of India and any call to protect the sovereignty of a member state of the Union of India amounts to a call for secession and is fraught with perilous & pernicious consequences.”

The BJP also alleged in its complaint to the EC that the tweet is violative of the mandatory oath undertaken by the political parties under section 29A (5) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 at the time of registration.
“In view of the above, you are requested to clarify and take rectification measures in respect of the social media post which has been put up on the INC Twitter handle and attributed to Chairperson, CPP,” the EC letter read.
A former Congress chief, Sonia Gandhi is currently the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson.
After Gandhi addressed a campaign rally in Hubballi in Karnataka on Saturday, the Congress tweeted from its official handle: “CPP Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi ji sends a strong message to 6.5 crore Kannadigas: ‘The Congress will not allow anyone to pose a threat to Karnataka’s reputation, sovereignty or integrity’.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP have attacked the Congress over the remark.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 8, 2023
‘Chicken not beef..’: Jamshedpur police clarify meat was not hung on Hindu flag

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Following a communal clash between Hindus and Muslims after the alleged desecration of a religious flag set up during Ram Navami, a senior police official from east Singhbhum, Vijay Shankar, rubbished false claims that it was chicken not beef which was hung on a rope between an electricity and flag pole.
Religious Hindus had protested and threatened the police to take action against the alleged perpetrators within 24 hours, visuals of which also surfaced.
Following misinformation that was spread in Jamshedpur, communal clashes broke out between the two communities with reports of alleged stone pelting.

Visuals of the burning down of at least half a dozen of small shops and vehicles, all belonging to Muslims, by a mob shouting slogans of Jai Shree Ram also surfaced.
In a statement released by the police, rubbishing the allegation, the official stressed that every piece of meat found cannot be of that prohibited.
The police officer stated that was a practice for meat shops to hang at a safe distance from the ground waste chicken meat to ensure that dogs do not spread it across.
Muslim organisations in the city have appealed to Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren for strict action against the perpetrators, failing which they will come to the streets to protest.
The situation turned violent on Sunday evening when a shop was gutted leading to brick-batting from both sides injuring six people. A mob also set on fire an autorickshaw, forcing the police to fire tear gas shells. DIG (Kolhan) Ajay Linda said that the shops and the auto-rickshaw were set ablaze by local miscreants.

So far, 59 people have been arrested in the case after an FIR was filed late on Monday.
जमशेदपुर में मुर्गी के बचे अवशेष को प्रतिबंधित मांस बताकर जिस तरह से शहर का माहौल अशांत करने की कोशिश की गई वो बेहद चौंकाने वाली बात है।इतना स्बकुछ होने के बाद प्रसाशन को इस बात से प्रदा उठाने का वक्त मिला? इसमें मुसलमानों का क्या क़ुसूर है? फ़ेक ख़बर फैलाने वालों पर कारवाई होगी? pic.twitter.com/URp7Jsnu8Y
— Ashraf Hussain (@AshrafFem) April 11, 2023

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 12, 2023
Gyanvapi ‘Shivling’: HC gives ASI last opportunity to clarify whether carbon dating will damage object

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Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has granted the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) the last opportunity to file its response by April 5 clarifying whether the process of carbon dating will damage an object, claimed to be a “Shivling”, found inside the Gyanvapi mosque or safe evaluation of its age can be done.
The Hindu petitioners have claimed the object to be a “Shivling”. The claim was disputed by the Muslim side, which said the object was part of a “fountain”.
The court expressed its displeasure over non-filing of response by the ASI despite eight months’ time being given to it.
The court fixed April 5 for the next hearing.
The petitioners, Laxmi Devi and three others, have filed the present civil revision petition, challenging a Varanasi court order that had rejected the demand for carbon dating and scientific determination of the purported ‘Shivling’, found during a court-mandated survey of Gyanvapi mosque premises on May 16, 2022.
On Monday, when the case was taken up, the counsel for the ASI sought more time to file its response as according to him, the ASI has to obtain advice from other agencies as well.
Expressing displeasure over the delay in filing response, Justice Arvind Kumar Mishra observed, “The time extension application has already been given in the garb of obtaining advice from other agencies. Further time should not be sought by the ASI, as the ASI may take advice as it thinks appropriate by embarking upon a process which would expedite the matter. It should not be allowed to go on any further from April 5, 2023.”
The court also directed the trial court in Varanasi, where this case is pending, to fix the date in the trial after April 5.

The petitioners have challenged the Varanasi court’s order of October 14 last year, rejecting Hindu worshippers’ plea for conducting a scientific probe of the ‘Shivling’.
Carbon dating is a method of calculating the age of very old objects by measuring the amounts of different forms of carbon in them.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 22, 2023
Maha: Speaker grants more time to Sanjay Raut to clarify his controversial remark

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Mumbai: Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar on Wednesday said he has accepted Rajya Sabha member and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut’s request for more time to submit a written clarification on his “chor-mandal” remark.
Narvekar said he has received a communication from Raut seeking more time for submitting a written reply. “I have accepted the request,” he said without specifying how much time has been given to Raut.
The speaker said Raut had been asked on March 1 to submit his written response by March 3.
“I have received a communication from him today. The response was sought as part of natural justice. My view was that the remarks referring to the legislature as a body of thieves’ was an insult to the House,” he said.
Earlier, Raut had sparked chaos in the House after he called the legislature a “chor-mandal” (council of thieves). His comment also prompted members of the ruling BJP and Shiv Sena to submit to the speaker a notice for breach of privilege motion against the MP.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 8, 2023
Campaign finance regulator asks Santos to clarify who’s in charge of his political accounts

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Santos told CNN on Wednesday that he had no involvement with the amended filings, saying he “[did] not touch any of [his] FEC stuff.” It was still not clear on Friday who actually filed the Wednesday amendments that bore Datwyler’s electronic signature, although the number of people who would typically have access to a congressional campaign’s system for submitting filings to the FEC is small.
Neither Santos’ attorney nor Marks responded to multiple inquiries this week about who is currently serving as the campaign’s treasurer.
Campaigns are required to have a treasurer in order to carry out most functions, including accepting contributions. Santos’ campaign was still listed as accepting contributions via WinRed, the widely used Republican fundraising platform, as of Friday. WinRed processed more than $1 million in transactions for his campaign during the 2022 cycle, according to a POLITICO analysis of FEC data.
The company did not respond to inquiries about Santos’ use of its platform this week. But NBC News reported on Friday that the company had reached out to the Santos campaign over its reports, which show the committee paying more than $200,000 in fees to WinRed. That’s a greater total than would be expected based on the campaign’s total fundraising on the platform.
Santos, who was sworn into Congress earlier this month just weeks after The New York Times reported he had fabricated much of his biography, is also facing several campaign finance complaints before the FEC.
Complaints filed by nonprofits including the Campaign Legal Center and End Citizens United allege Santos may not have had the personal funds to loan his campaign the $700,000 it reported receiving from him last year, and the complaints also allege that his campaign may have misreported components of its spending. The Santos campaign reported dozens of transactions charged at exactly $199.99, just 1 cent below the threshold that required the campaign to keep receipts detailing the expenditures. Federal and local prosecutors are also investigating Santos’ finances, but he has not been charged with a crime.
The FEC has sent more than two dozen letters to Santos’ campaign and affiliated groups in the past two years. While the agency frequently sends such letters to campaigns to correct mistakes in filings, Santos’ political groups have received more of the notices than is typical.
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

January 28, 2023