Politics
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...
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...
Kharge attacks PM’s ‘Rozgar Melas’ as of no significance
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue of unemployment, saying the PM is handing over some thousand appointment letters when “millions of youth search for jobs”. Kharge said Modi came to power with a promise of two crore...
Amarinder warns of return of 1980s dark days in Punjab
Former chief minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday warned against the return of the dark era of 1980s in Punjab, saying “the way things are unfolding in the state today is quite worrisome” and cautioned the AAP government against any “laxity”. He also condemned the “complete failure” on the part...
Music label sues Rahul over illegal use of KGF songs for yatra
Music label MRT Music, which owns the rights to the tracks of “KGF Chapter 2” in Hindi, filed a copyright infringement complaint on Friday against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Supriya Shrinate and Jairam Ramesh for illegally using the soundtrack of the hit South Indian film in campaign videos of...
AAP Gujarat CM face aspirant quits party, returns to Cong
Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly polls, former MLA Indranil Rajguru quit the Aam Aadmi Party and joined the Congress on Friday and alleged that the Arvind Kejriwal-led outfit was working as a “B-team” of the BJP in the state. Rajguru, who had joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) after...
Karan Singh objects to Jairam Ramesh’s ‘unsavoury remarks’
Veteran Congress leader Karan Singh on Friday hit back at party colleague Jairam Ramesh for criticising his recent article on Jammu and Kashmir’s accession to India and said the “unsavoury remarks” regarding his father were “unacceptable”. In a statement, Singh said he had hoped his views will be taken...
Sachin Pilot writes to Gehlot demanding board for local deity
Congress leader Sachin Pilot has written a letter to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot demanding constitution of a board in the state government in the name of local deity Veer Tejaji. Veer Tejaji was a legendary Rajasthani folk hero, also considered to be one of the incarnations of Lord...
More Govt-Opposition clashes over new parliament building
With Parliament not in session, the battle between the opposition and government has shifted to the parliamentary committees. At a meeting of the parliament committee of home affairs on DONER, i.e., the Northeast development project, the opposition had a heated confrontation with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led chairman. This was...
