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Anand Sharma regrets his ‘under-utilisation’ in HP Cong campaign
Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Thursday said the party’s campaign planning for the Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls could have been “much better” with the deployment of senior leaders, and rued that his services were not fully utilised. However, Sharma said Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has led...
JD(U) leader says Nitish’s Prohibition policy a failure
Two days after Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar ordered the strict implementation of the prohibition law by cracking down on liquor suppliers, JD(U) national parliamentary board president Upendra Kushwaha caused him major embarrassment by saying prohibition had been unsuccessful in the state. Kushwaha also remarked on the role of...
DMK writes to President seeking removal of Governor
Tamil Nadu’s ruling party DMK has petitioned President Droupadi Murmu to sack the state’s Governor RN Ravi, alleging that he is “instigating communal hatred” and has violated the oath he took under the constitution. “Governor RN Ravi has violated the oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and...
Cong slams BJP for lotus featuring in G20 Logo
The Congress on Wednesday attacked the BJP over the lotus being part of the G20 logo, saying that while it was shocking that the BJP’s election symbol was used, it knows by now that the PM and his party would not lose any opportunity to promote themselves. The attack...
DMK to file review petition against 10% EWS quota
Last Updated: November 09, 2022, 19:06 IST The DMK will file a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict upholding the 10 per cent EWS quota, a move hailed by Congress MP Karti Chidambaram. DMK General Secretary and Tamil Nadu Minister for Water Resources, Duraimurugan, pointed out at the...
Karnataka BJP plans stir over Hindu word origin row
Karnataka BJP has decided to launch a big agitation all over the state over the Hindu word origin row. According to the insiders in the state BJP unit, direction has been given to launch agitations in all the district headquarters. The directions have also been given to lodge a...
Jolt to Cong as 26 Himachal leaders join BJP
As many as 26 leaders of the Congress party, including Dharampal Thakur Khand, former general secretary of the Pradesh Congress Committee have joined the ruling BJP. Coming as a big jolt to the party, the leaders jumped the boat in the presence of Jairam Thakur and BJP state elections...
Rahul courts controversy by inadvertent reference Shivaji
Bound on the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has come under spotlight for making a statement on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in which he calls the Maratha ruler “aapki history” while addressing a crowd during the Maharashtra leg of his unity march on Monday. In a speech during his yatra,...
Relief to Cong as HC sets aside order to block Twitter handles
In a major relief to Congress, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday set aside a trial court’s order to Twitter to block INC and Bharat Jodo Yatra handles over the alleged unauthorised use of music from the Kannada film ‘KGF Chapter-2’, calling it “punitive action.” A division bench of...
Kejriwal says BJP upset by people’s love for him
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said he was “the darling of the people” and alleged that the BJP was troubled by the love he was getting. Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party have come in for fierce criticism ahead of elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi...
Govt extends electoral bonds sale for 15 more days
Centre on Monday amended the electoral bonds scheme through a gazette notification, facilitating their sale for 15 extra days during the “year of general elections to the legislative assembly of states and Union territories with legislature”. Prior to the amendment, only an additional period of 30 days was allowed...
Rajnath says Cong ‘wide’, AAP no-ball, only BJP good length
Senior BJP leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday used cricket analogies to take a dig at opposition parties, dubbing Congress as a “Wide Ball” and AAP as a “No Ball”. Addressing election rallies in assembly segments of Baijnath and Balh in Himachal Pradesh, Singh described BJP as...
Karnataka Cong chief sparks row over origin of ‘Hindu’ word
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Chief Satish Laxmanrao Jarkiholi sparked a row as he claimed that the word ‘Hindu’ hails from Persia and not India. Not only this, he called the word “horrible” and asked what is its relation with India. He was speaking during an event in Belagavi...
Rahul’s yatra enters Maharashtra for 15-day leg
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said small and medium businesses suffered due to “wrong” policies of the Centre like demonetisation and poor implementation of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) as he entered Maharashtra on Monday night holding a ‘flaming torch’ (mashaal) as part of his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. Rahul...
ED claims discovery of more Young India toxic transactions
Fresh trouble seems to be on cards for Sonia and Rahul Gandhi as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is said to have found “major suspicious transactions” in Congress-owned Young Indian in its probe in the National Herald case, sources in the central agency told News18. Transactions of around Rs 4-5 crore found...
Cong says BJP’s HP poll manifesto a copy-paste job
The Congress hit out at the ruling BJP on Sunday over its Himachal Pradesh poll manifesto, terming it a “cut-copy-paste” of their five-year-old promises and in parts borrowed from the grand old party’s 2022 election document. BJP president J P Nadda on Sunday promised Uniform Civil Code (UCC), 33...
Tirupati temple richer than India’s biggest firms
Tirupati’s world famous Lord Venkateswara temple’s net worth of over Rs 2.5 lakh crore (about $30 billion) is more than the market capitalisation of IT services firm Wipro, food and beverage company Nestle and state-owned oil giants ONGC and IOC. Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, keeper of the temple dedicated to...
Rita Bahuguna convicted for model code violation in 2012 poll
A special court on Friday held BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi and four others guilty of violation of the model code of conduct during the 2012 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. The special court for cases involving MPs and MLAs later ordered their release on probation for a period...
