After Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Parliament, the Congress leader took to Twitter to register his stance on what many Opposition leaders, including Congress, called a dark day for Democracy. The Congress leader in his tweet wrote that he is ready to pay any cost.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in his tweet, wrote a brief and succinct reply to his disqualification. Gandhi wrote that he is fighting for the voice of the country and he is ready to pay any cost for it.

Rahul Gandhi’s tweet comes after the Lok Sabha issued a notification about his expulsion from the parliament following his conviction in Surat Court in a 2019 defamation case. The notification by Lok Sabha inspired Congress and other Opposition parties joined hands to side with the Congress leader as they criticised the Centre over the move.

Congress chief Malikarjun Kharge spoke to the media and said that the BJP tried all the ways to disqualify Rahul Gandhi. He further accused the BJP of trying to silence the ones who are speaking the truth. Kharge said that Congress will continue speaking the truth and said that they will continue to demand Joint Parliamentary Committee in the Adani case. He further added and said that Congress is ready to go to jail to save democracy.

Other Opposition leaders also reverberated the sentiments by the Congress party in support of Rahul Gandhi. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee said that in PM Modi’s India, Opposition leaders are targeted whereas BJP leaders with criminal records are inducted into the cabinet.

The West Bengal CM also said that after Gandhi’s disqualification, the people in the country witnessed a new low in a constitutional democracy.

Former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray of Maharashtra also chimed in to and said that calling a thief, a thief has now become a crime in the country. He further added that the thieves are still free, yet Rahul Gandhi is punished. Thackeray further termed the move to be a direct attack on democracy.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took to Twitter to slam the Centre as he wrote that the expulsion of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha is shocking. He further wrote that the country is passing through very difficult times and alleged the BJP of keeping the whole country scared.

However, despite the Opposition uniting on the expulsion of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, the BJP leaders celebrated the verdict given by the Gujarat court and justified that the Congress doesn’t have any ground to stand on to support Rahul Gandhi as Gandhi’s remarks went against a community.

As the hunt for fugitive Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh continued for the seventh day today, videos of the ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief private militia christened ‘Anandpur Khalsa Force’ or AKF, have emerged on social media platforms.

Visuals doing the rounds on social media show the members of notorious Khalistan sympathizers private army donning body armor emblazoned with the AKF logo, undergoing weapons training in a forested area, which is reportedly a make-shift shooting range constructed in Amritpal Singh’s native village of Jallupur Khera.

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According to the Punjab Police, Amritpal’s former gunman, Tejinder Singh Gill alias Gorkha Baba, revealed during questioning that the ‘Waris Punjab De’ supremo ran a highly organized network to train recruits in his protection force, with extensive weapons training and target practice.

Tejinder told the police that Amritpal Singh had formed a private militia called the Anandpur Khalsa Force or AKF who underwent extensive arms training at a makeshift shooting range in the Jallupur Khera village.

Singh’s former bodyguard told the cops that AKF recruits underwent rigorous arms training and target practice and were accorded ranked as per their seniority.

Meanwhile, reports today claimed that the fugitive Khalistani may be headed for Delhi, a day after his last known location was traced to Haryana.

An NDTV report quoting sources said the security has been heightened across the national capital as its suspected that the notorious ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief may be headed to Delhi after last being spotted in Shahabad in Haryana’s Kurukshetra.

On Sunday, Amritpal Singh and his associate Papalpreet Singh, had stayed at Shahabad home of a woman identified as Baljeet Kaur, who was arrested yesterday, Punjab Police said.

A video with a time stamp of Monday, doing the rounds on the internet yesterday showed the fugitive Sikh preacher dressed in a white shirt and blue jeans, trying to hide his face with an umbrella as he was departing from the Baljeet Kaur’s house in Shahabad.

On Thursday, the Punjab Police arrested Amritpal Singh’s former gunman and notorious associate, Tejinder Singh aka Gorkha Baba.

A report quoted DSP Payal Harsimrat Singh of the Punjab Police as saying that Tejinder Singh, a resident of Punjab’s Mangewal village, was nabbed by the Khanna police.

A nation-wide crackdown was launched to nab Amritpal Singh after the dreaded Khalistani leader and his supporters armed with swords and guns, stormed a police station in Ajnala on the outskirts of Amritsar city last month and clashed with police for the release of one of his aides Lovepreet Singh.

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday issued an elaborate set of guidelines regarding the use of social media by government employees in the Union Territory.

The provisions were related to the issue incorporated in the Jammu and Kashmir Employees Conduct Rules, 1971.

As per the circular issued by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, no government employee shall, through any post, tweet, or otherwise, discuss or criticize on social media, any policy pursued or action taken by the government, nor shall he/she, in any manner, participate in any such discussion or criticism on social media pages/communities/ microblogs.

• No Government employee shall, in any radio broadcast or in any document published in his own name or anonymously, pseudonymously or in the name of any other person or in any communication to the press or in any public utterance make any statement of fact or opinion:

• i) which has the effect of an adverse criticism of any current or recent policy or action of the Government of India, Government of Jammu and Kashmir or any other State Government;
• (ii) which is capable of embarrassing the relations between the Government of Jammu and Kashmir and the Government of India or the Government of any other State in India; or
• (iii) which is capable of embarrassing the relations between the Government of India or the Government of Jammu and Kashmir and the Government of any foreign State.

• Employees, directly or indirectly, shall not publish, post or release any information on social media that is considered confidential or that is not meant for public dissemination, nor shall they pass any official document or any part thereof to any Government employee or any such person to whom he is not authorized to communicate such document or information.

• No Government employee shall post grievances pertaining to their workplace on social media in the form of videos, posts, tweets or blogs or in any other form, but will follow the already established channels of complaint redressal existing in the departments.
• No Government employee shall post, tweet or share content that is political or anti-secular and communal in nature or subscribe to pages, communities or twitter handles and blogs of such nature.

• A Government employee may, for the purpose or removing misapprehensions, correcting mis-statements, and refuting disloyal and seditious propaganda, defend and explain to the public the policy of Government in his posts and tweets on social media.