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PM Modi is distracting people over ‘Emergency’ to hide his failures: Congress

New Delhi | The Congress party on Tuesday said alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is distracting people over ‘Emergency’ to hide his failure.

Addressing a press conference, Congress leader Randeep Surjewala said, “For the last 49 months, PM Modi’s mounting promises have been turned out to be lies. Black money hasn’t returned yet and democracy under Modi govt is dying.”

Attacking the BJP for observing 25 June as ‘Black Day’, the Congress party said, “43 years ago, Janata Party was pro-rich and pro-zamindars and Congress party fought to give access of banks to the marginalised. Even today Bharatiya Janata Party favours only the handful of rich.”

Surjewala further stated that “There is an undeclared emergency in this country for the last 49 months with opposition suppressed and PM Modi himself following them who give death and rape threats to anyone who oppose them, including BJP’s Minister Sushma Swaraj”. “Atmosphere of fear is created to suppress dissent,” he added.

Taking a dig at the PM Modi, the Congress leader said, “In the 49-month undeclared emergency, today’s Aurangzeb, Modi ji has enslaved entire democracy including his own party.”

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Indian immigrants at US detention centre to get access to meet attorneys: Report

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A US judge has ordered that 120 immigrants, including 52 Indians, be given immediate access to legal aid by allowing attorneys to meet them at the federal prison in Oregon, according to a media report.

Nearly 100 Indians, mostly from Punjab, are detained for illegally entering the country through its southern border. According to officials, around 40-45 Indians are at a federal detention centre in the Southern American State of New Mexico while 52 Indians, mostly Sikhs and Christians, are held in Oregon.

The Oregon federal judge has granted the detained immigrants being held in a Sheridan prison immediate access to legal aid, The Portland Mercury reported.

US District Judge Michael Simon yesterday granted an emergency order sought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Innovation Law Lab, a nonprofit whose attorneys have been denied access to immigrants being held at the prison in Sheridan.

“We are a nation under law,” said Simon.

“The rule of law is one of our most cherished principles. And because we are a nation that lives under law, the right to legal counsel is a right that has been recognised as required,” the judge said.

Simon approved an emergency temporary restraining order filed on Friday against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for violating the detainees’ constitutional rights to due process, the report said.

The ACLU of Oregon filed a lawsuit on Friday arguing the federal government is violating the constitutional rights of immigration detainees at the federal prison.

According to immigration attorney Akansha Kalra the largest number of Indians who enter the US illegally are from Punjab and Gujarat.

US President Donald Trump last week reversed his controversial decision on immigration by signing an executive order to end the separation of immigrant families on the US-Mexico border, following widespread protests against the move of his administration to separate children from their parents who illegally enter the country.

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