Rahul’s fresh attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his silence on the ongoing farmers’ agitation, Congress president Rahul Gandhi accused the Modi government of only helping the industrialists. “The Prime Minister has never paid the farmers a rupee for their work. You will never see a farmer in his office. The farmers will scream and protest, but he will have time for the rich businessmen,” Gandhi said, addressing the national OBC convention in Delhi.

Stressing that “India doesn’t reward people who have the skills,” Gandhi said, “People who actually work in India are behind the scenes. In our country, one person works and the other gains the benefit. While one has the talent, other walks away with the credit.”

Taking a dig at the flagship projects of the BJP like Make in India, Skill India, Gandhi said, “Modiji says that the country is short of skills. This is not true. The truth is that your talent is not being brought to light.” Adding that many farmers and labourers are not getting any results for their skills, Gandhi said that the Congress party will open its doors for people from all sections of the society.

He also accused the BJP of running the government according to the wishes of a “selected few leaders and the RSS.” “India has become a slave to few leaders of BJP and RSS. Everyone including MPs is afraid to speak. Most them are not allowed to speak. And those of us who do speak, the BJP does not listen to. Only RSS is given a hearing,” Gandhi said, adding that the united Opposition will show PM Modi and Amit Shah that the country can only be run by its people.

Rahul Gandhi also claimed that the non-performing assets of banks have gone up to Rs 1,000 crore. “Rs 2.5 lakh crore were given to 15 industrialists. But the farmer got nothing…the loan waiver was for 15 people but not for the farmer who continues to commit suicide… his children keep crying,” Gandhi said.

A police complaint has been recorded against BJP pioneer and Udupi MP Shobha Karandlaje for her comments against Peshawar Seer. The complaint accuses her for having harmed the people’s religious suppositions by offending the seer by expressing that he “lacks knowledge about Modi’s government.”

On June 1, Sri Vishweshwara Theertha of Sri Pejawar Matt had expressed that Modi’s government had not fulfilled the desires of the people in its four-year tenure. He additionally raised the way that River Ganga had not yet been cleaned in spite of few promises made by the BJP before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

When asked for her opinion with respect to the seer’s comments, Shobha had supposedly called him a “clueless priest” who needs knowledge about Modi’s government. It is accumulated that Nataraj Sharma, a lawyer in Bengaluru, has filed a case at the Vidhana Soudha Police Station claiming these remarks hurt the religious sentiments of the seer’s followers.

In its letter to the Congress dated June 8, the commission said “from the evidence collected from the ground and the analysis of data made available with the complaint suggest that the claim of large scale duplicate, repeat, multiple, illegal, invalid, false etc entries/voters in the electoral rolls of Madhya Pradesh is not based on robust parameter and is not correct”.

It had “immediately” formed inter disciplinary teams to four Assembly constituencies — Narela, Hoshangabad, Bhojpur and Seoni-Malwa — which were shortlisted randomly from the list mentioned in the complaint on June 3.

The EC has also instructed the Chief Electoral Officer of the state to carry out “intensive verification” of the complaint in all other constituencies in a time-bound manner.

As per the reports submitted by the inter disciplinary teams, 2,397 of 2,442 entries in Seoni-Malwa alleged by the Congress to be similar were found to be genuine and 45 entries were in the process of deletion.

In Narela constituency, of 22,252 entries cited in the Congress complaint, 17,684 were found to be unique.

In Hoshangabad, no case of multiple entry was found on verification of alleged 552 incorrect entries while the EC teams found 29 of 36 cases were genuine and the process of deletion was on for the rest seven.

The commission concluded that the “allegation of large scale entries of multiple voters in these four Assembly Constituencies in not borne out”.

“In addition to the complaint of duplication in the voters’ list, it was pointed out that there has been unexplained growth in the electors in the state of Madhya Pradesh as the EP (elector population) ratio which used to be 52.76 per cent in 2008 increased to 61.45 per cent in 2018.

“This has been seen from the perspective of census data and annual increase in the numbers of the electoral roll and nothing unusual could be noticed,” reads the letter.

“From this, it can be safely concluded that there is no basis to dispute the current electoral roll.”

Former Chief Minister of Karnataka said “It is nevertheless normal for individuals nursing desires of becoming ministers to get frustrated when their expectations are dashed. It is likewise evident that there is dissatisfaction among a couple of individuals in the party. None of them will leave the party, and each one of them will be counseled,”

Addressing media people at BN Jalihala village on Friday, June 8, Siddaramaiah admitted that former minister, M B Patil, had met him and had talks. In any case, he rejected reports which asserted that Patil had shed tears at not being made a minister. “Both myself and Chief Minister, Kumaraswamy, have consoled M B Patil,” he cleared up.

When he was addressed about the inverts his party may endure in light of the disappointment with respect to M B Patil, who claims support of 22 officials, Siddaramaiah abruptly appeared to lose his cool and needed to know what sort of inverts the concerned was alluding to. He said that there is no doubt of him going to Bengaluru to mollify displeased aspirants, as all the concerned have been talked to and consoled.

In the meantime, he communicated ignorance about resignation offered by Satish Jarkiholi to the post of the secretary of All India Congress Committee. Siddaramaiah, whose attention was drawn to the call given by the president of Kurubara Sangha asking Kuruba legislators of the party to walk out of the party, he feigned ignorance about the identity of the said president.

“Operation Kamala has failed to have any effect. Nobody will leave our party. BJP has their own issues inside to deal with,” Siddaramaiah expressed.