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The Congress has once again taken up the Batla House encounter issue. Addressing a rally, yesterday, in Azamgarh the small town in eastern Uttar Pradesh from where those killed in the encounter belonged senior party leader and Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid spoke at length about what all happened after the Sep 19, 2008 encounter.
We talked to Sonia Gandhiji, we showed her pictures of the tragedy… she wept bitterly. She told us with folded hands not to show her the pictures and asked us to take the matter to the Prime Minister, Khurshid said.
A former BSP MLA and chairman of ‘Awas Bandhu’ has been removed from his post and expelled from the party due to “anti-party activities”, a BSP spokesman said in Lucknow on Monday.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BSP supremo Mayawati has removed Malik Masood from his post and expelled him from the party, besides denying him ticket from Sagadi constituency in Azamgarh district for indulging into anti-party activities, he said.
Awas Bandhu is the housing and urban planning wing of the Uttar Pradesh government.
The spokesman said that the Chief Minister was getting complaints against Masood for long that he was not interacting…
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi declared that the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh would taste defeat at the hands of his party in the 2012 Assembly elections.
Mr. Gandhi scotched rumours of a tie-up between the Congress and the BSP in the light of the latter’s support to the UPA government on the cut motion in Parliament.
Days after the BSP extended support to the UPA against opposition-sponsored cut motions in Parliament, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi clarified that there is no pact between the Congress and the BSP. In fact, he said, there would be no pact with the…