Cong says Rahul visit to univ cancelled amid BJP pressure, latter denies charge

Shillong: The Meghalaya state unit of the BJP has rubbished allegations made by Congress leaders that the purported interactive session of Rahul Gandhi with students at the University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM) in Ri-Bhoi district was cancelled because the Meghalaya government was “powerless against pressure” from New Delhi and Assam, reports Manosh Das.“The USTM itself has now come up with a clarification on its social media handles clearly stating that permission was denied to the Congress by local administration because of non-compliance of requisite formalities and USTM was left with no other choice but to cancel the event, a fact that the Congress found convenient to ignore,” a BJP statement said today.We also published the following articles recently