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During his visit to day after Prime Minister Commanding in Chief, Bangaram on the last day, a few ANarendra Modi accused Southern Naval Command, naval divers had been sent late PM Rajiv Gandhi of using rier was stationed there for paid for theirs,” Habibullah based in Cochin, boarded INS ashore for the Prime Minister’s P ! " #" " aircraft carrier INS Viraat as national security, he said. said. Viraat. Four other ships were safety,” he said. # % " & " “personal taxi” during a holiday The former bureaucrat said These reactions came after with INS Viraat as part of Narrating the sequence of am Aadmi Party (AAP) with his family in Lakshadweep as the administrator of the Modi, during an election rally Fleet Exercises. As command events, he said these official Acandidate from East Delhi this for winning elections? You ficult it must be for u. It is pre- Islands in 1987, several top Islands, he had to organise a at Ramlila Maidan here on chief, I hosted a dinner for meetings and functions were in Atishi on Thursday alleged are filth Mr CM and someone cisely this kind of forces we retired Navy officers, including meeting of Island Development Wednesday, said Rajiv Gandhi them on board INS Viraat. December 1987. The western pamphlets containing “obscene needs your very own jhadu to have to fight against,” Kejriwal former Navy chief L Ramdas, Authority in Kavaratti, one of took his family members from “There were no other par- fleet had planned its naval and derogatory” remarks clean your dirty mind.” tweeted. on Thursday refuted his claim the islands of Lakshadweep. Italy for a personal holiday on ties held on board INS Viraat exercises with the aircraft car- against her are being distrib- “I had welcomed Gambhir Gambhir challenged AAP and said no ships were divert- During this visit, the then PM INS Viraat. The then com- or for that matter any other rier much in advance in the uted by BJP’s East Delhi can- myself when he joined politics to have open debate and prove ed for Rajiv Gandhi and the had to inaugurate the Island manding officer of the aircraft ship in our fleet during that yearly exercise programme to didate Gautam Gambhir. but I never imagined that he if these pamphlets were circu- trip was an official one. Development Council. carrier, Vinod Pasricha, denied time,” he said. He clarified that be held in that part of the However, refuting the alle- would stoop to this level in the lated by him. “My Challenge Ramdas said Rajiv had “After the meeting, Rajiv it and said the protocol was fol- the statement was issued after Arabian Sea. “This was an gations vehemently, Gambhir Lok Sabha polls,” Atishi said. number 2 to @ArvindKejriwal boarded the aircraft carrier Gandhi decided to stay on for lowed on the Prime Minister’s collating email responses from opportunity for the officers said, “I will quit the electoral “I have only one question and @AtishiAAP. I declare that with his spouse and son Rahul a couple of days to take a hol- official visit. Pasricha said the his colleagues namely Admiral and men to interact with their race if the allegation against me for Gambhir. If he is doing this if its proven that I did it, I will Gandhi and denied Modi’s iday with his family, and was former Prime Minister was Arun Prakash, Vice Admiral PM. He addressed the men, is proved.” against one woman, what about withdraw my candidature right charge that some foreigners too joined by Sonia Gandhi’s sister accompanied by his wife Sonia Vinod Pasricha and Vice had ‘bada khana’ as per Naval Addressing the media, the lakhs of women in East now. If not, will u quit politics?,” were on the ship. and her husband, friends, Gandhi, son Rahul Gandhi Admiral Madanjit Singh. All of custom. I then hosted a dinner Atishi alleged pamphlets con- Delhi who are worried about he tweeted. However, there is no offi- including Amitabh Bachchan and two IAS officers, and Vice them were serving in the for the Prime Minister that taining abusive language their safety,” said Atishi in a The BJP also refuted the cial reaction from the Indian and Jaya Bachchan. None of Admiral on board the aircraft Western Fleet during the events night. And there is a photo- against Delhi Chief Minister choked voice. allegation. “The BJP has noth- Navy on the controversy. them even went to Kavaratti. carrier. Pasricha retired as Vice referred to said, Ramdas. graph to confirm this,” he said. Arvind Kejriwal, his Deputy She broke down while ing to do with the alleged Retired Indian Admi- They took the helicopter ser- Admiral. Incidentally, the air- “I would like to state Rejecting the charge that Manish Sisodia and herself reading pamphlet. pamplets. AAP has no charac- nistrative Service (IAS) officer vices from Kochi to Bangaram, craft carrier was decommis- unequivocally, that this was not some ships were deployed for were being distributed by the Sisodia alleged these pam- ter and its notoriety about Wajahat Habibullah, who in he said, adding all those who sioned in 2017 after 40 years of the case,” in an apparent refer- personal use of the Gandhi BJP at housing complexes. phlets were kept in newspapers stage managing such things is 1987 was the administrator of availed of the helicopter service service. Refuting Modi’s accu- ence to Modi’s charge. Prakash, family, Ramdas said Gambhir, in a series of and distributed in apartment well known. they can do any- the Lakshadweep Islands, of the State-owned Pawan Hans sation, Ramdas, who in 1987 who later became Navy chief “no ships were specially tweets, accused the AAP for complexes. Sisodia said he thing like getting their leaders denied Modi’s charge that some paid for it as the administration was the Southern Naval com- was commanding INS diverted for the personal use. pamphelts and said he is “never imagined Gambhir to slapped and distribute scan- friends of Rajiv Gandhi’s did not get any bills for it. mand chief, said in a statement Vindhyagiri while Madanjit Only one small helicopter was “ashamed” to have a CM like stoop so low”. dalous pamplets to be in the boarded the aircraft carrier. “Neither did we get the bills for on Thursday, “Prime Minister Singh was commanding INS left at Kavratti to meet any Kejriwal. “I abhor your act of “How can women expect race for Lok Sabha elections Since all the Ministers besides their stay at the guest house in Rajiv Gandhi and Mrs Gandhi Ganga at that time. These ships emergency medical require- outraging a woman’s modesty safety if people with such men- that they are badly losing,” the Prime Minister were there Bangaram. Rajiv Gandhi paid embarked on board INS Viraat were part of the exercise and ments of the PM and his wife,” @ArvindKejriwal and that too tality are voted in? Atishi, stay said Nvon Kumar, BJP media for a meeting, the aircraft car- for his family and the other off Trivandrum enroute accompanied the aircraft car- he said. your own colleague. And all strong. I can imagine how dif- incharge, East Delhi. in writing, if so required, to P restrain publication of the he Supreme Court consti- details of the mediation pro- Ttuted three-member medi- ceedings. ation committee, tasked with The top court had fixed the exploring the possibility of an seat for mediation process in amicable settlement settlement Faizabad of Uttar Pradesh, in the decades-old, politically around 7 km from Ayodhya, sensitive, Ayodhya’s Ram and said that the adequate fter Tuesday’s “tight-slap” Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid arrangements including the Acame the Thursday’s “sit- land dispute case, has submit- venue of the mediation, place ups.” Mounting a no-holds- Congress chief Rahul ted its interim report in a of stay of the mediators, their barred attack on Prime Gandhi on Thursday raked up sealed cover. security, travel should be forth- Minister Narendra Modi for the Rafale issue to attack The matter has been listed on Friday since the March 8 While opposing the sug- with arranged by the State linking some of Trinamool Prime Minister Narendra for hearing on Friday. order of the top court. It had gestion of mediation, Hindu Government so that proceed- Congress candidates to coal Modi, in response to his com- The SC on March 8 had said that the mediation process bodies had argued that earlier ings could commence imme- mafia, TMC chief Mamata ment calling former Prime referred the matter to media- would commence within a attempts of reaching a com- diately. Banerjee on Thursday dared had made mafia a part of its Prime Minister than me.” Minister Rajiv Gandhi tion for exploring the possibil- week and the panel would sub- promise have failed and provi- It had also directed that the the PM to prove his charges or leadership, prompting Banerjee He said that Mamata’s soar- “Bharashtachari No 1”.