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Modi targets TMC govt for intolerance towards critics
Alleging there was no freedom of expression under the TMC rule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a jibe at the West Bengal government for “threatening” people for sharing innocuous social media posts, such as humorous videos and cartoons. His remarks came at a rally in Bengal’s Arambagh...
SC to hear Kejriwal’s plea against another summons
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging a Delhi High Court order upholding the summons issued to him in a criminal defamation case for retweeting an allegedly defamatory video circulated by YouTuber Dhruv Rathee in May 2018. A bench...
Kejriwal asserts AAP not a party, but an ideology
A day after his release on an interim bail, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal with wife Sunita by his side along with Punjab chief Minister Bhagwant Mann offered prayers at the Hanuman Temple in Connaught Place in Delhi before heading to the...
Amit Shah says interim bail to Kejriwal No clean chit
Supreme Court’s interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal is not a clean chit for him, said Union Minister Amit Shah on Saturday. He stressed that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, who is an accused in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam, will...
Modi says Cong insulted President Murmu after Ram Temple visit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday flayed the opposition INDIA bloc for “insulting” President Droupadi Murmu after her visit to Ayodhya’s Ram temple, and asserted that the Congress will get fewer seats than the age of its ‘shehzada’. Addressing a poll rally at Chatra, Modi also said leaders of...
Patnaik challenges Modi to capture Orissa in 10 years
Asserting that the BJP would not be able to win Odisha in the next 10 years, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday claimed his BJD would return to power for the sixth consecutive time after the assembly elections. Patnaik was reacting to PM Narendra Modi telling an election rally...
Out on bail, Kejriwal to hit campaign trail today
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal walked out of Tihar Jail on Friday, hours after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail till June 1. Kejriwal left the jail premises accompanied by his wife Sunita Kejriwal, his daughter Harshita and senior AAP leaders including Bhagwant Mann, Atishi, Saurabh Bhardwaj and...
Modi cites vote bank politics for Cong ‘inaction’ over terror attack
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Congress accusing the then ruling party of not taking any action after the attacks of 26/11 over fears that their vote bank will shift. The prime minister, while addressing a rally in Odisha’s Kandhamal, further said that the...
Bengaluru Police summons JP Nadda, Malviya over BJP post
Bengaluru Police on Tuesday summoned the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President JP Nadda and the party’s IT Cell chief Amit Malviya over an ‘objectionable post’ made by the Karnataka unit of the party. The Investigating Officer of the city’s Highgrounds Police issued the notice to the BJP leaders in...
Poll panel raps Kharge on remark about voter turnout data
Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday castigated Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for “obstructing” the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Taking strong exception to Congress chief’s letter to INDIA bloc leaders over voter turnout data, the poll body termed it an attempt to “push a biased narrative” under the...
Cong amended Constitution 80 times, says Gadkari
Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said the opposition parties were confusing people by claiming that the BJP would change the Constitution if it retained power, but it was in fact the Congress that had brought constitutional amendments 80 times during its rule. He also alleged that due to...
Supreme Court grants interim bail to Kejriwal till June 1
The Supreme Court on Friday gave Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal interim bail till June 1 for campaigning in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said Kejriwal, arrested in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam, will...
Rahul says Lok Sabha polls slipping out of Modi’s hands
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed on Thursday that the Lok Sabha election is gradually slipping out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hands and he will now try to enact some drama to divert the attention of the country’s youngsters. In a video message, the former Congress chief urged young...
Adhir Ranjan faces flak for defending Pitroda’s remarks
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has come under fire for defending Sam Pitroda’s ‘racist’ analogy comparing people in south India to Africans and those in the east to Chinese. Asked about his opinion on Pitroda’s remark, Chowdhury said not everyone in India “looks alike” and the country has “Proto-Australian,...
Cong leader sparks row with promise of a lakh rupees per wife
Congress leader Kantilal Bhuria, while discussing the party’s Mahalaxmi scheme on Thursday, said that men with two wives would receive financial aid of Rs 2 lakh if the party is elected to power. Bhuria, Congress Lok Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam constituency, made the statement during an election...
Haryana govt surviving on technical grounds, claims Hooda
Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Singh Hooda has told News18 that the BJP government in Haryana is surviving in minority on “technical grounds” and the Governor must take the correct constitutional step by either dismissing it immediately or chief minister Nayab Singh Saini should resign on moral...
New twist in Karnataka sex scandal saga
In a development to the sex video scandal involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna in Karnataka, the National Commission for Women (NCW) on Thursday said that one of the woman complainants in the case has accused three men dressed as police officials, of threatening her to lodge a “false complaint”....
Minister moves EC over Rahul’s ‘change in constitution’ claim
Union Minister of State for Social Justice Ramdas Athawale has said he has filed a complaint with the Election Commission, objecting to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s frequent claim that the BJP would change the country’s Constitution. Gandhi should be prohibited from making this claim, Athawale, a prominent Dalit leader...
