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Varun Gandhi rejects BJP offer to fight from Rae Bareli
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and cousin of Congress leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi — Varun Gandhi – has rejected his party’s offer to fight the Lok Sabha election from Gandhi bastion Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, according to sources. Sources also added that Varun Gandhi had been “considering”...
Siddaramaiah slams Modi, defends 4% Muslim quota
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim that the Congress had transferred the reservation quota from backward classes to Muslims is a blatant lie. He also defended 4 per cent reservation for Muslims under the backward classes category in Karnataka. It stems from ignorance...
BJP Minority Morcha leader expelled after Modi criticism
Bikaner BJP Minority Morcha district president Usman Ghani, who expressed displeasure with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent remarks in Rajasthan, was on Wednesday expelled from the party for “tarnishing” its image. Ghani, while talking to a news channel recently in New Delhi, had said that the BJP was going...
SP workers welcome Akhilesh Yadav’s candidature from Kannauj
Samajwadi Party’s (SP) office in Kannauj wore a festive look on Thursday morning as party Chief and Uttar Pradesh’s former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is expected to file his nomination papers from Kannauj Lok Sabha Seat for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, amidst the allegations of ‘parivarwaad’. SP karyakartas...
Kharge makes emotional pitch at rally on home turf
Seeking to strike an emotional chord with the people of his home district of Kalaburagi, Congress President M Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday appealed to them to at least attend his funeral if they thought he worked for them even though they do not wish to vote for the party...
Gehlot aide claims Pilot’s phones were tapped
Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had ordered tracking of phones and movements of party rebels, including bete noire Sachin Pilot during the 2020 Congress crisis in the state that threatened to remove him from the top post, the CM’s former aide claimed, days before the second phase of...
Irani advises Amethi residents to hide property documents from Vadra
Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday joined in on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “wealth redistribution” jibe at Congress and mocked Rahul Gandhi along with his brother-in-law Robert Vadra saying “every person now needs to hide their property papers”. Irani insinuated that if Vadra knows Jagdishpur, he will confiscate people’s...
Shah says Rahul used ‘wealth re-distribution’ to win in Wayanad
Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah has said that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi spoke about wealth re-distribution to win the 2024 Lok Sabha election from Wayanad seat and expressed confidence that the NDA will cross 400 seats on June 4. In an interview with News18 during...
Kerala MLA remark about Rahul’s DNA sparks row
Ruling LDF MLA P V Anwar on Tuesday sparked a row by saying that the DNA of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi should be examined. Addressing an election meeting in this district, the businessman-turned MLA said the Congress leader had become a fourth-grade citizen who did not deserve to be...
Irani mocks at Rahul, Robert Vadra over Amethi candidature
Union Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi and his brother-in-law Robert Vadra over the Congress party’s failure to announce a Lok Sabha candidate for Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi seat yet. Irani claimed she ensured more work in the constituency in five years than Mr Gandhi...
Amit Shah slams Chidambaram for promising CAA repeal
Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the Congress is “hell-bent on harming” Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Christian, Sikh and Parsi communities to appease its vote bank, a day after its leader P Chidambaram said his party will repeal the Citizenship (Amendment) Act if voted to power. To change...
BJP expels Eshwarappa for contesting as rebel
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday expelled KS Eshwarappa from the party for six years for rebelling against it by contesting as an Independent from the Shivamogga Lok Sabha seat. The former deputy chief minister decided to contest the Lok Sabha elections as an Independent after the BJP denied...
BJP harps on ‘jungle raj’ during INDIA Bloc’s Ranchi rally
The BJP on Sunday took a swipe at the INDIA bloc over a clash during the opposition grouping’s rally in Ranchi, calling it a display of ‘Jungle Raj’, and said workers of the opposition parties clashed because they have no common mission and vision for the country. The BJP’s...
Wife reiterates charge of BJP plot to kill Kejriwal in jail
Jailed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal on Sunday accused the BJP-led central government of denying insulin to her diabetic husband, and alleged that it wants to kill him. She asserted that the opposition INDIA bloc will fight against the “dictatorship” of the BJP and win. “They...
CAA game plan to brand Bengali migrants as Bangladeshis: TMC
TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the CAA was a game plan of the BJP to brand Bengali Hindu migrants and bona fide citizens, who had settled in West Bengal decades back, as Bangladeshis. Addressing an election rally in Ranaghat in Nadia district, the TMC national general...
Siddaramaiah hits back at PM for ‘Tanker City’ remark
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his ‘tech city to tanker city’ remark and blamed the previous governments of BJP and its ally JD(S) for the current water crisis in Bengaluru. He even reminded Modi that former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and...
Modi exudes confidence of NDA come-back after phase-one
Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked voters for turning out in large numbers for the first phase of the Lok Sabha election 2024 on Friday and expressed confidence in the National Democratic Alliance’s big win on June 4. Taking to the social media platform X, the Prime Minister wrote, “First...
Amit Shah attacks Rahul Gandhi over Article 370
Home Minister Amit Shah, while conducting a roadshow in Rajasthan’s Udaipur on Friday evening took a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and mocked him over his earlier remarks that the removal of Article 370 will lead to turmoil in Kashmir. The BJP leader said that under Prime Minister...
