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Modi lives for the camera: Rahul Gandhi

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New Delhi | Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi “lives for the camera” and accused him of ignoring the problems of the sanitation staff in Prayagraj, where he washed their feet during the Kumbh Mela.

“Narendra Modi lives for the camera. Once the cameras were shut, the prime minister did not even hear the problems of the sanitation staff,” Gandhi said in a Facebook post along with Modi’s picture washing the feet of sanitation workers at the Kumbh Mela.

“He made it an event and then left for another event,” the Gandhi scion said.

The Congress chief also tagged a news report saying that the sanitation staff went back to their routine job of cleaning after their moment of fame with Modi.

On February 24, Modi had taken a holy dip at the Sangam here and interacted with sanitation workers who ensured cleanliness at the mela which concluded on Monday.

The prime minister had described them as “real karm yogis” and washed their feet.

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Congress MLA disqualified after conviction in illegal mining case

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Ahmedabad | Congress lawmaker from Gujarat Bhagvan Barad has been disqualified as an MLA following his conviction in an illegal mining case, state Assembly Speaker Rajendra Trivedi said on Tuesday.

A court in Gir-Somnath district last Friday awarded Barad a jail term of two years and nine months in a 24-year-old case of illegal mining.

The 60-year-old Congress leader won from Talala seat in Gir-Somnath in the 2017 Assembly polls.

“Barad has been disqualified as MLA. The chief electoral officer and the election commissioner have been informed about it. He is no longer an MLA,” Trivedi told reporters in Gandhinagar.

The state legal department earlier sent a certified copy of the court order to the Gujarat Assembly so that action could be taken against him, he said.

Barad was disqualified as per notifications of the Election Commission and the Supreme Court order pertaining to conviction of a lawmaker in a case, Trivedi said.

The apex court last year said a lawmaker, whose conviction in a criminal case has not been stayed by an appellate court, would stand disqualified from the membership of the House.

The court in Gir-Somnath pronounced Barad guilty under Indian Penal Code Section 379 (theft) and also imposed a fine of Rs 2,500 on him.

He was accused of stealing limestone worth Rs 2.83 crore through illegal mining on a government land in Sutrapada.

The material was then sold to a local chemical factory, as per the FIR lodged against him against him in 1995.

Barad has challenged his conviction in the Gujarat High Court.

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