s the Delhi Assembly elections are inching closer, AAP's INDI alliance partner, Congress, launched a scathing attack on the party over Delhi Liquor Scam in a press conference held today (January 23)
An appeal was filed was filed in the Gujarat High Court by the Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi demanding quashing of this FIR. The petition described this provocative poem as giving a message of ‘love and non-violence’, and said that Pratapgarhi had no intention of inciting communal sentiments.
Congress claimed that the Places of Worship Act safeguards ‘secularism’ in India and that the challenge to its constitutional validity is a “malicious attempt” to undermine secularism.
A plea filed by Congress's KC Venugopal seeks strict implementation of one of the provisions of the Places of Worship Act (POWA), which prohibits lawsuits to reclaim a place of worship or to change its character from what it was on August 15, 1947.
By picking a Muslim-dominated Seelampur constituency to launch its electoral campaign, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi apparently wants to pander to the Muslim votebank which has gradually drifted towards the other anti-BJP alternative—AAP by catering to the “minority khatre mein hai” narrative and positioning itself as the protector of the community.