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Thursday, 9 July 2020

Congress Working Committee may need to offer expansion to Sonia Gandhi

Congress Working Committee may need to offer expansion to Sonia Gandhi 


A Congress functionary said the expansion would be a specialized prerequisite according to the gathering constitution in light of the fact that an ordinary president is yet to be chosen. 

The Congress Working Committee (CWC) is relied upon to meet soon to accept an approach expanding the residency of Sonia Gandhi, who finishes a year as the gathering's between time boss on August 10. 

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A Congress functionary said the augmentation would be a specialized prerequisite according to the gathering constitution on the grounds that an ordinary president is yet to be chosen. 


The gathering likewise needs to educate the Election Commission of India (ECI) of its choice as an essential condition. 

He said the way toward choosing another president couldn't be started on account of the continuous coronavirus malady (Covid-19) flare-up, and the across the country lockdown limitations upheld since March 25 to contain the pandemic. 

"Not long after her arrangement, there were gathering surveys in Maharashtra and Haryana in October-November a year ago, trailed by races in Jharkhand and Delhi. At that point, the Covid-19 struck," he included. 

The CWC hosted named Sonia Gandhi as the gathering's between time boss on August 10, 2019, after Rahul Gandhi wouldn't reclaim his renunciation. 


He had stopped the Congress president's post following the gathering's mortifying thrashing in a year ago's parliamentary decisions. 

The Congress had figured out how to win 52 seats in the 543-part Lok Sabha against the decision Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) count of 303. 


At the crabby CWC meeting on May 25, 2019, Rahul Gandhi had pummeled the veterans for "putting the interests" of their children over the gathering and refered to that a few chiefs had even lost the political race from their fortresses. He had likewise scrutinized an area of the GenNext pioneers for craving after posts. 

Rahul Gandhi carried absolution to his choice to step down as the gathering president on July 3, when he tweeted a four-page goodbye note posting the explanations behind his abdication. 

In the letter, Rahul Gandhi attacked his gathering associates for the appointive drubbing the Congress had gotten and talked about the absence of help to him, saying he had stood totally alone in the battle against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS)

"I for one battled the Prime Minister, the RSS, and the organizations they have caught with all my being. I battled on the grounds that I love India. What's more, I battled to protect the standards India was based upon. On occasion, I stood totally alone and am very pleased with it," he had composed. 

In the August CWC meeting a year ago, Sonia Gandhi hosted acknowledged to lead the gathering by and by after rehashed requests by her partners and just relying on the prerequisite that she would remain on as the break boss till the political decision to pick a full-time president was held. 


The Congress' most noteworthy dynamic body had removed the call from yielding to the assessments of Rahul Gandhi, who was blessed the gathering president on December 16, 2017. 

Sonia Gandhi (73) had then said that her move would again give a handle to the rivals to assault the Congress because the Gandhi family was reluctant to surrender its hold over the gathering. 

She had likewise demanded that this point be remembered for a goals that read: "Therefore, the CWC collectively made plans to demand Smt. Sonia Gandhi to assume control over Interim President pending the appointment of a normal President by the AICC." 

The Congress constitution enables the CWC to name a temporary president pending the appointment of a customary boss by the All India Congress Committee (AICC), the gathering's focal unit including around 2,000 individuals from the nation over. 

There has been a reestablished pitch for Rahul Gandhi to take over as the gathering boss by and by, however at any rate four Congress pioneers said on the state of secrecy that he is as yet determined about his choice and is probably not going to expect the reins of the association sooner rather than later. 

The CWC would again make a last-discard endeavor to convince Rahul Gandhi (50) and on the off chance that he will not yield, it would consider broadening Sonia Gandhi's term as the break party president, said the gathering functionary cited previously. 


In her past spell, Sonia Gandhi stayed in charge for about two decades from March 14, 1998, to December 16, 2017, when Rahul Gandhi took over from her.

ED addresses Congress pioneer Ahmed Patel for fourth time in PMLA case

ED addresses Congress pioneer Ahmed Patel for fourth time in PMLA case 

Ahmed Patel (70) was last addressed regarding the case on July 2 for around 10 hours. He had told correspondents that the ED specialists had suggested 128 conversation starters to him more than three meetings. 

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ED sleuths started the fourth round of addressing of senior Congress pioneer Ahmed Patel at his official living arrangement here on Thursday regarding the Sandesara siblings' bank misrepresentation and illegal tax avoidance case, authorities said. 

A three-part group of the government test organization arrived at the Rajya Sabha MP's 23, Mother Teresa Crescent living arrangement in the Lutyens' zone of focal Delhi around 11 am. 

Patel (70) was last addressed regarding the case on July 2 for around 10 hours. He had told correspondents that the ED examiners had suggested 128 conversation starters to him more than three meetings. 

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"This is political grudge and badgering against me and my family and I don't know under whose tension they (examiners) are working," Patel had said. The Congress party treasurer has confronted ED examining for concerning 27 hours till now during meetings hung on June 27, June 30 and July 2. 


Patel was permitted to be tested at home after he wouldn't visit the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office, refering to the predominant COVID-19 rules that debilitate senior residents from going out. 

The authorities said the Congress chief's announcement is being recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). 


He is being examined concerning his indicated joins with the Sandesara siblings, advertisers of the Vadodara-based Sterling Biotech pharmaceutical organization, and affirmed dealings of his relatives with them. 

The office had scrutinized Patel's child Faisal and child in-law Irfan Ahmed Siddiqui regarding the case and recorded their announcements a year ago. 

The two were addressed with regards to the announcement of one Sunil Yadav, a worker of the Sandesara gathering, which was recorded before the organization. 


In his announcement to the ED, Yadav had said he bore the "costs of Rs 10 lakh" for a gathering which was gone to by Faisal, "masterminded" passage into a dance club for him and once conveyed "Rs 5 lakh" to his driver in Delhi's Khan Market on the directions of Chetan Sandesara, one of the advertisers of Sterling Biotech, sources had said. 

He had told the organization that the money was "intended for Faisal Patel", the sources had said. 

The ED was likewise told by Yadav that Siddiqui "involved" a house in Delhi's Vasant Vihar, which purportedly had a place with Chetan Sandesara


The illegal tax avoidance case relates to the supposed Rs 14,500-crore bank-credit extortion, said to have been executed by Sterling Biotech and its primary advertisers and executives - Nitin Jayantilal Sandesara, Chetankumar Jayantilal Sandesara and Deepti Sandesara - every one of whom are slipping off. 

Nitin and Chetankumar are siblings. 

The ED has affirmed this is a greater bank trick in volume than the Punjab National Bank (PNB) extortion including criminal diamantaires Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi

The sum engaged with the PNB case is pegged at about Rs 13,400 crore. 

The Sandesaras are additionally confronting separate tests by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Income-Tax division for their supposed nexus with prominent government officials and charges of defilement and tax avoidance individually. 


At present, the Sandesaras are expressed to be situated in Albania in Europe. Endeavors are on to remove them. 

The ED enlisted a criminal case regarding the supposed bank-advance extortion based on a FIR and a chargesheet documented by the CBI. 


It is affirmed that the organization took advances of over Rs 5,383 crore from a residential consortium drove by the Andhra Bank, which later transformed into non-performing resources, and the ED has claimed that the advertisers laundered the cash utilizing shell or questionable firms.