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Comments by Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide are intended to tarnish Bapu’s image, says Tushar Gandhi https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/comments-by-hindutva-leader-sambhaji-bhide-are-intended-to-tarnish-bapus-image-says-tushar-gandhi/article67158303.ece  Sonam Saigal August 05, 2023
Last week, during his tour of Vidarbha, Mr. Bhide made controversial remarks against Gandhi at a public gathering in Amravati

Sambhaji Bhide Row: FIR Filed Against Hindutva Leader For Comments Against Gautam Buddha, Phule, Periyar Naicker https://www.freepressjournal.in/topnews/sambhaji-bhide-row-fir-filed-against-hindutva-leader-for-comments-against-gautam-buddha-phule-periyar-naicker  PTI August 07, 2023,
The FIR filed in Navi Mumbai alleged Bhide of making derogatory comments on Gautam Buddha and social reformers Jyotiba Phule and

The Most Damaging Charge Against CM Biren Singh: Protecting Drug Lords Connected To BJP & His Wife https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0rZN3dQ51w The Wire Aug 7, 2023 A former Additional Superintendent of Police in the Manipur police department has levelled the most damaging charge against Chief Minister Biren Singh – that he is not fighting the illegal drug trade and illegal poppy cultivation but “He is part of it. He is part of the drug cartel. He is protecting them. He is their patron.” Thounaojam Brinda has recounted in detail a story she had earlier told to Tamal Saha of News The Truth about how in June 2018 the Chief Minister made repeated attempts, including “illegal” ones, to get her to release a drug lord she had caught in possession of lakhs worth of drugs.

'Buildings Of Particular Community Brought Down As Exercise Of Ethnic Cleansing?' : Punjab & Haryana High Court Asks On Nuh Demolition Drive https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/punjab-haryana-high-court-asks-on-nuh-demolition-drive-whether-buildings-belonging-to-particular-community-brought-down-as-exercise-of-ethnic-cleansing-234623 Aiman J. Chishti 7 Aug 2023 “The issue also arises whether the buildings belonging to a particular community are being brought down under the guise of law and order problem and an exercise of ethnic cleansing is being conducted by the State,” said the division bench of Justice G.S Sandhawalia and Justice Harpreet Kaur Jeewan. The Court took suo motu cognizance of news paper reports regarding the ongoing demolition drive in Nuh, Gurgaon which followed the communal clashes. Authorities have reportedly demolished several 'illegal' shanties, temporary shops and certain concrete structures, allegedly belonging to persons involved in communal violence which happened last week.

While noting that news item also says that the Home Minister himself has said that bulldozer are part of illaj (treatment) since the Government is probing communal violence, the Court remarked that, “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."