9.38 am: A Congress’ delegation of Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other party leaders is scheduled to meet the family of the Dali...
9.38 am: A Congress’ delegation of Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other party leaders is scheduled to meet the family of the Dalit woman, who was gang-raped and murdered in Hathras.
Congress MPs under the leadership of former Congress President Shri. @RahulGandhi will go to #Hathras today afternoon to meet the grieving family of the 19 year old daughter of Uttar Pradesh, who was brutally assaulted & murdered.
— K C Venugopal (@kcvenugopalmp) October 3, 2020
9.25 am: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a protest march in Kolkata today, reports PTI. The rally will start at 4 pm and the participants will walk from Birla Planetarium to Mahatma Gandhi’s statue in Central Kolkata.
9.23 am: A political controversy has erupted over an audio clip that appeared on a pro-government website and on social media purported to be of a telephone conversation between India Today reporter Tanushree Pandey and the brother of the deceased, Sandeep. Television channel India Today on Friday issued a statement asking the government to explain how a conversation by one of its journalist, who was covering the case of gangrape and murder of a Dalit woman by upper-caste men in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, was leaked online. The media group questioned why the woman’s family was under...