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Gehlot asks Modi to meet CMs on inflation and ‘listen’
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold a meeting with all chief ministers on the issue of inflation and “listen to everyone”. He was of the opinion that all states must hold a communication with the Centre about “many serious issues”,...
Jitendra Singh debunks claims of PMO insult to KCR
Union minister of state Jitendra Singh slammed KT Rama Rao, Telangana chief minister’s son, who has reportedly claimed that his father was told to stay away from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s events in Hyderabad. Singh took to Twitter to lash out at chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao and his...
Rahul says Modi’s federalism is coercive, not cooperative
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his federalism is “not cooperative but coercive”. His remarks came a day after Modi flagged higher fuel prices in many opposition-ruled states and urged them to reduce VAT in “national interest” to benefit the common...
Lankan PM says he won’t resign
Sri Lanka’s embattled Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday said that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has not asked him to resign and claimed that they were on the “same page” to resolve the worst economic crisis, amidst reports of a rift between the two brothers in running the debt-ridden island...
G-23 member blames ‘self-Interest, fear’ for PK fiasco
Prashant Kishor’s decision to not join the Congress is a lost opportunity for the Grand Old Party and self-interest marred the election strategist’s chances of joining hands in the run-up to the 2024 elections, rued senior party leader Sandeep Dikshit, who is also a part of the rebel G23...
Prashant Kishor declines offer to join Congress
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Tuesday declined to join the Congress a day after party president Sonia Gandhi decided to constitute an ‘empowered action group’ for 2024 to address political challenges ahead. Informing about the development, Congress general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala tweeted, “Following a presentation & discussions with...
PK-KCR meeting triggers tremors in Telangana Cong
The two-day-long discussions between poll strategist Prasant Kishor and Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) at Pragathi Bhavan in Hyderabad recently created tremors in Telangana Congress. Sources say state unit leaders are perplexed as Kishor has been having parleys with party chief Sonia Gandhi on the possibility of...
Tejashwi cautions against expectations of ‘twist’
Amid speculation over political re-alignment in Bihar after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar attended an RJD-hosted Iftar, leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav on Monday cautioned against imagining any “political twist” to it and asserted that his party would keep fighting forces that remain aligned with the BJP and the RSS....
Hardik Patel rejects rumours of joining BJP
Gujarat Congress leader Hardik Patel on Monday dismissed rumours of joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while stating that his displeasure was with the state party leadership. Addressing speculations of his likely switch to the saffron party, Patel was quoted by ANI saying, “People will say a lot of...
Uddhav skips PM’s award; minister says ‘insult to state’
The function for the first Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award, conferred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has snowballed into a political row after Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray skipped the event and instead visited the home of an 80-year-old Shiv Sainik. Chandrabhaga Shinde, 80, was protesting outside Matoshree against independent...
NCP leader wants to recite Hanuman Chalisa at PM House
After MP-MLA couple’s high voltage face-off with Shiv Sena over recitation of Hanuman Chalisa, an NCP leader from Mumbai, Fahmida Hasan has written to Union home minister Amit Shah to grant permission to chant the same Hindu devotional hymn outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence. Hasan has demanded to...
BJP accuses Rajasthan CM of ‘sheltering rioters’
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) IT cell head Amit Malviya on Sunday claimed that Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot’s iftar party included one of the accused in communal riots last year, when several homes and shops of Hindus were burnt down in Chabbra town in Rajasthan’s Baran district. According to police, the...
KCR ropes in Kishor outfit to lead 2023 poll campaign
Amid speculations of Prashant Kishor joining Congress, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) ropes in consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), associated with political strategist Prashant Kishor, to lead its poll campaign for the 2023 state elections. As per reports, the poll strategist visited Hyderabad on Saturday and stayed at...
Mann govt to sign MoUs with Delhi govt
Unfazed by criticism that his government was being ‘remote-controlled’ from Delhi, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is scheduled to lead a team of his officials to the national capital on Monday and sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government to, what it claims,...
Gehlot says his ‘resignation permanently with Sonia’
Amid speculation around a possible change of guard in the Rajasthan Congress, chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday said his resignation was permanently present with the party’s interim president Sonia Gandhi. In a statement that betrayed a hint of impatience, the Congress veteran said if the party had to...
Pawar says Amit Shah failed to protect Delhi from violence
NCP president Sharad Pawar on Saturday said Union Home Minister Amit Shah could not protect Delhi from communal riots. Speaking at a rally of the Nationalist Congress Party at Kolhapur in western Maharashtra, Pawar referred to violence that broke out in Jahangirpuri area of Delhi during Hanuman Jayanti...
Rana couple refuses to seek bail in Hanuman Chalisa arrest
After a whole day of high drama on Saturday, BJP MP Navneet Rana from Maharashtra and her husband, MLA Ravi Rana, were arrested and booked for allegedly promoting enmity among different groups. But, soon after, the Rana couple refused to seek bail and told their lawyers that they should...
Nitish at RJD iftar adds fuel to Mahagathbandhan rumours
Nitish Kumar on Friday stirred the hornet’s nest in Bihar’s politics as he attended an Iftar party organised at the residence of former chief minister and RJD leader Rabri Devi in Patna, adding fuel to speculations that he was planning a return to the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ fold. The Janata Dal...
