New Delhi: Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday defended Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi over the controversy surrounding his roadshow in Kanpur as part of the campaign for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
The Congress leader said that the party was earlier given the permission to hold the roadshow, which was withdrawn in the last minute.
He said, "The permission was given to us on February 17. It was withdrawn on 19th. If the administration was concerned, they should have acted in time."
"It was very well known that it was Shivratri and then administration should have acted accordingly before hand, why in last minute?" added Sibal....
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01:26 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday defended Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi over the controversy surrounding his roadshow in Kanpur as part of the campaign for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. The Congress leader said that the party was earlier given the permission to hold the roadshow, which was withdrawn in the last minute. He said, "The permission was given to us on February 17. It was withdrawn...
01:26 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Kanpur: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday invited the Election Commission's wrath by not taking up the route it had prescribed to the leader for his road campaign in Kanpur. Kanpur District Magistrate Hari Om said that Rahul stuck to his route, despite having been assigned an alternative route by the EC. "We had allotted a separate route for Rahul's roadshow considering he would have faced traffic," the official...
05:13 PM, Feb 20, 2012
