Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday warned that those who go beyond the party line will face action.

Mumbai BJP president Ashish Shelar on Monday alleged that the security agencies had intercepted fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s phone calls that suggest he is linked to “a minister”.

Attacking the Congress over its leader Shakeel Ahmed’s remarks that the 2002 Gujarat riots led to the creation of the terror outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM), the BJP on Monday said it was a desperate strategy for electoral gains.

The Congress and the government on Monday distanced and disapproved of the remarks made by AICC general secretary Shakeel Ahmed and party MP Rashid Masood that the formation of terror outfit IM was the consequence of 2002 Gujarat riots.

The CPI(M) on Monday hit out at Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and his growth model for the state even as it accused the BJP strongman of spreading terror in the name of Hindutva.

For Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi does not have secular credential and so he would not like to see the saffron poster boy as the next Prime Minister of the country.

BJP chief Rajnath Singh’s comments praising Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the US and raising his visa issue, has upset a section of senior party leaders.

Even as Bihar BJP leaders on Tuesday accused former ally JD(U) of trying to engineer a split among the saffron party’s 91 MLAs, JD(U) leaders dismissed the charges, saying the issue of Mr Narendra Modi was at the root of the conflict.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Monday broke his silence over charges of graft made against him and four of his Cabinet ministers by a bank scam accused saying, “A swindler’s accusations cannot be taken seriously.”

The department of personnel and training (DoPT) on Monday notified a CBI probe into the killing of Ranvir Sena supremo Brahmeshwar Singh, alias Mukhiya. Mukhiya, founder of the militia of big landholders and middle-class peasants in south Bihar plains, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Bhojpur district on June 1, 2012.