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Congress president (interim) both Rajya Sabha members ers like Manmohan Singh or constituents the JD(U), the Government has done well in "There are immense chal- Sonia Gandhi on Sunday mak- had taken the main initiative in AK Antony may be brought in Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and checking Covid-19 in the State lenges during this pandemic ing it clear she would not con- drafting the letter. as interim chief before an elec- his party, will fight the coming saying recovery rate in the time but we could reach out to tinue as the head of the grand Twenty-three senior tion is held to the post. Assembly elections in the State state is 73 per cent. people for their welfare and it old party and the party should Congress leaders, including AICC sources said a strat- together with Chief Minister "Bihar has done a good job has become an example for now look for an alternate lead- Chief Ministers, sitting MPs egy to counter the letter that Nitish Kumar as the face of the on door-to-door testing and everyone," said Ndda. ership. and former Union Ministers has indirectly questioned the alliance. now one lakh testing per day is The BJP is to carry out a Sonia took over as an had written to Sonia calling for ( present leadership is already on "We will fight together and being done in the State,” Nadda party campaign programme “interim” president of the party sweeping changes in the organ- the cards. Various State units of emerge victorious as well,” said said giving thumbs up to the of reaching out to people in the a year ago after Rahul Gandhi isation. During the Rajasthan the Congress, including Punjab the BJP president while work carried out by the Bihar State from August 25 to relinquished the post following political crisis several leaders Chief Minister Amarinder addressing the concluding ses- Government in containing the October 2. the Congress rout in the Lok had expressed their anguish ther. ing that the "youth are losing Singh and his Chhattisgarh sion of the party's two-day Sabha polls. Dozens of over the state of affairs in the The letter was signed by confidence" in the party. counterpart Rupesh Bhagleh, State executive committee vir- Congress leaders have written party and the way it is being Members of Parliament (MP), Though Congress sources have already reposed their faith tual meeting. to Sonia to bring in a full-time handled. former Ministers and Chief have confirmed that Sonia in the leadership of the Gandhi Nadda's assertion comes "active" and "visible" president Sonia, who is likely to Ministers and members of the would step down on Monday, family. Other State-level lead- even as LJP president Chirag and go for a complete overhaul announce her decision to step CWC. the Congress chief spokesman ers have started gathering sig- Paswan has been attacking of the party and hold a fair elec- down at the CWC meeting on The senior party leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala, said, natures to condemn the signa- Bihar Chief Minister and his tion to the Congress Working Monday, has clearly mentioned have said they are unhappy "Sonia has not spoken to any ture campaign of the veterans. Government on several issues, Committee (CWC). that party members should get with "uncertainty" and "drift" in leader, nor written a letter to The most vocal in the sup- giving rise to speculation that The Chief Ministers of together and find a new chief the party, along with demand- anyone, we completely deny port of the Gandhi family was "all is not well within the Congress-ruled States of as she did not want to carry out ing "honest introspection", "col- this." Rajasthan Chief Minister NDA". Paswan was earlier for Punjab, Rajasthan and the responsibilities any fur- lective leadership", and stress- Soon after the words went Ashok Gehlot. postponing the Assembly polls & ! & , ' ( 12-1$34 (EC) is in the process to hold Bihar Assembly ihar Assembly polls are polls on schedule. & vital clues to crack Sushant's Bexpected to be held on Sources in the EC indi- !" death case — in which his girl- schedule. After announcing a set cated that the polls could be friend Rhea Chakroborty has of guidelines for political parties held sometime in October- # # been accused of abetting the campaigning, voters and election November amid demands actor's alleged suicide, the process, for holding elections by some political parties for $ % investigators grilled Siddharth during the coronavirus pan- postponing polls due to % % & % ' and Neeraj together and sepa- demic, the Election Commission pandemic. & $ rately — once at the DRDO guest house and another time 5,64 at the late actor's flat in the & afternoon. ) '( s part of an exercise to put Informed sources said )) Atogether the jigsaw puzzle $ Siddharth and Neeraj were * + of the events preceding and questioned repeatedly on the P , succeeding Sushant Singh Even on a Sunday, it was circumstances leading to the Rajput's death, the CBI sleuths business as usual for the CBI discovery of Sushant's body in on Sunday grilled once again officials — who are camping at his room on the morning of 036-4'6&3 the right fit for this role. every Congress man and - the late actor's flatmate-friend the guest house of Research June 14, only to find inconsis- “Sonia Gandhi should con- woman to stand firmly and Siddharath Pithani and cook and Development Organisation tencies in their statements pposing the bid by some tinue to helm the Congress as unitedly behind the Gandhis, Neeraj Singh, only to find (DRDO) at Santa Cruz's Kalina about what happened on the OCongress leaders to chal- long as she wanted,” he said, who had held the party togeth- inconsistencies in their state- area in north-west Mumbai — previous night and following lenge the Gandhi family lead- adding that Rahul should er all these decades and could . / 0 + ments about what happened on on the third day of their inves- morning of the incident. ership of the party, Punjab thereafter take over as he was continue to do so,” said Capt the previous night and follow- tigations into actor Sushant's During the grilling that Chief Minister Capt Amarinder fully competent to lead the Amarinder. ing morning of the incident. sensational death, which has took place on Saturday and Singh on Sunday said that this party. There was currently no caught the imagination of the Sunday, Siddharth and Neeraj was not the time to raise such The Chief Minister point- leader in the Congress who entire country. are understood to have con- an issue, given the need for a ed out that there was not a sin- could give the party that kind A day after re-creating the tradicted each other on sever- strong opposition against the gle village in India which did of strong leadership, he said, crime scene at duplex-flat in al occasions. BJP-led NDA that was out to not have a Congress member to urging one and all to put the Mount Blanc at Bandra's Carter While Neeraj was ques- destroy the country’s structure, he said, adding that carry forward its ideology of interests of the party and the Road in north-west Mumbai, tioned for the third consecutive Constitutional ethos and a unified Congress alone could upholding the Constitutional nation above their own. the investigators once again day, Siddharth was grilled for democratic principles. protect the country and its principles, rights and free- The Gandhis were the only delved deep into the roles of the second day. “NDA’s success was attrib- people. doms. The credit for that, he universally recognizable face of key witnesses in the case Sushant (34) is alleged to utable to the absence of a Terming the demand for said, went to the Gandhis, the Congress, from Kashmir to Siddharath and Neeraj. have committed suicide on strong and united Opposition, leadership change as “unten- without whose selfless com- Kanyakumari, the Chief The investigators believe the intervening night of June and the move by these able”, Capt Amarinder noted mitment, dedication and Minister stressed, pointing out that these two witnesses know 13 and 14 using a piece of Congress leaders to demand a the immense contribution of unimaginable sacrifices, the that of the five generations that more than they have revealed cloth. After registering an re-haul of the party at this crit- the Gandhi family to the coun- party would not have stood like had served the country since so far to the Mumbai Police in Accidental Death Report ical juncture would be detri- try’s progress since it achieved a rock in the path of the BJP the pre-Independence times, the case.

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