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A massive political row has erupted over the Centre's direction to mobile phone manufacturers to install the Sanchar Saathi mobile app in all handsets manufactured or imported in India.
Article 356 of the Constitution gives the President the power to impose this rule on a state on the advice of the Union Council of Ministers.
In 2019, BJD won the Puri Lok Sabha seat with its candidate Pinaki Misra defeating BJP’s Sambit Patra.
In a petition to the chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar, the BJD highlighted that the full-page advertisement featuring Patra’s picture with Sri Jagannath Temple in the background also had the BJP’s "lotus" symbol.
The BJP leader, however, later clarified that it was a slip of the tongue and asked the Opposition not to make an issue out of a nonexistent matter.
Addressing a press conference here, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra alleged that the Congress promise in its Karnataka poll manifesto to ban the Bajrang Dal is an attempt to 'save' the Popular Front of India, an outfit banned in the country.
Patra was replying to queries by reporters on CBI summons to Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in the excise policy scam case on Sunday.
While the whole world is using good words to describe India, its main opposition leader is claiming on foreign soil that the country has been destroyed and democracy is no longer there while the judiciary and the media are in a bad shape, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra told reporters.
In a joint conference with party MP Manoj Tiwari, BJP National Spokesperson Sambit Patra said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's intent and integrity was polluted.
In a letter to Union Tourism minister G Kishan Reddy, senior AAP leader Atishi alleged that despite being the chairman of the India Tourism Development Corporation, Patra continued to campaign for the BJP which is a ”blatant violation of CCS (Conduct) Rules”.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra also accused the Congress leader of posting an old picture of farmers' protest while referring to their Sunday mahapanchayat in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, and said this is part of his politics of “spreading confusion and lies”.
This is the second time in a year that the delivery of ration scheme has been stalled due to differences between the Delhi and Central governments
The visit was necessitated as the investigators wanted to ascertain who is the right person to serve a notice, "as replies by Twitter India MD have been very ambiguous," the Delhi Police said.
The tweets can be seen on the feed of at least five accounts, such as Rajya Sabha MP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, party’s national social media in-charge Priti Gandhi and national spokesperson Sambit Patra.
BJP’s Sambit Patra has been asked to report at Raipur's Civil Line police station at 4 pm on May 23.
The objection raised by the Centre, as claimed by reports, comes a day after Twitter flagged BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra’s “Congress toolkit” tweet as “manipulated media”.
In the tweet posted by Sambit Patra on May 18, he had shared screenshots of a purported ‘toolkit’ of the rival Congress party, which he claimed was being used to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
In response to Shashi Tharoor's suggestion, Sambit Patra took to Twitter on January 6 and said R-Day parade is not just any ‘festivity’ that it ought to be cancelled.
Former Union Minister and current BJP Vice President Radha Mohan Singh has been appointed in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, while Kailash Vijaywargiya has been retained as in-charge of West Bengal, which goes to polls next year
The BJP leader has shown symptoms of COVID-19, a source said.
The journalist-turned-politician Nayak will take on BJP's national spokesperson Sambit Patra besides sitting BJD MP Pinaki Mishra, a spokesman of the regional party.
"Some people want Gandhi to become a big leader in India. Who are they? They are Pakistani leaders, and also those who stand for corruption, dynasty and politics of appeasement," Patra told reporters.
Taking a dig at the Congress, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said Kapil Sibal, a leader of the opposition party, defended this practice in the Supreme Court.
Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Sambit Patra sought to know from the Congress as to which politicians and officials Gandhi will meet during his visit to China, "his favourite country".
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar refused to entertain the PIL which also sought cancellation of the appointment of Shashi Shanker as ONGC Chairman and Managing Director (CMD).
