Countering the Opposition's charge on the now-scrapped electoral bonds system, Union Home Minister Amit Shah today asked if the Opposition parties would also describe donations they received through bonds as "extortion".
The Jharkhand High Court rejected Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's petition challenging proceedings in a criminal defamation case for calling Union Home Minister and former BJP President Amit Shah a murder accused.
Gandhi is reported to have said that despite the BJP's claim that its politics were clean, it had a party president who was "accused" in a murder case. Amit Shah was the BJP president at the time.
On Tuesday, in Sultanpur, a special court granted bail to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case initiated by a BJP leader for comments made against Home Minister Amit Shah in 2018. The case, filed by Vijay Mishra on August 4, 2018, pertains to remarks Gandhi made against Home Minister Amit Shah during a press conference in Bengaluru on May 8 of that year, amid the Karnataka elections.
Rahul Gandhi had hit out at Amit Shah over the latter blaming Jawaharlal Nehru for Pakistan illegally occupying a part of J&K, now known as PoK. | Latest News India