A reshuffle to revive Congress instead triggers discord, as ex-CM Rawat’s offer to work at the booth level is read as sarcasm and reopens factional rifts.
SC indicted ex-Uttarakhand forest minister Harak Singh Rawat & a DFO for diverting forest land for non-forest use, felling over 6,000 trees in buffer zone of Corbett National Park.
Former CM Harish Rawat & supporters say expelled BJP leader is a ‘habitual defector’ who ‘conspired against Congress’ in 2016. Second group says he has apologised, has strong voter base.
BJP expelled Harak Rawat for engaging in ‘anti-party’ activities. At a tearful press conference later, he said he will now join Congress, of which he was a member from 1998-2016.
In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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