Politics
TMC to challenge EC decision to deny national party status
After losing the national party status, the Trinamool Congress is exploring legal options to challenge the decision of the Election Commission, a party source said. The EC withdrew the national party status of the TMC, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Monday. “The...
Rahul in Wayanad first time after disqualification
Rahul Gandhi will visit Wayanad on Tuesday along with his sister and AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi. This is the first time since his disqualification from the Lok Sabha that the Congress leader will meet people in his former constituency. The Gandhi siblings will hold a road show and...
Karnataka BJP leaders fail to agree on list, more delay seen
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday held multiple rounds of meetings to finalise a list of its candidates for the Karnataka Assembly polls. However, it all went in vain as the leaders could not reach a consensus, sources said. Surprisingly, when Karnataka’s top BJP leaders met Union Home...
AAP gets ‘national party’ status; NCP, Trinamool, CPI lose tag
In a big boost to its national ambitions, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday was officially recognized as the “national party” by the Election Commission. The Nationalist Congress Party, Trinamool Congress and CPI lost the “national party” tag. Meanwhile, sources said that the TMC is exploring legal options to...
New desert storm brewing ahead of elections
With just a few months to go for the Rajasthan elections, the desert storm is brewing. On a sleepy Sunday, Sachin Pilot woke up the Congress top leadership in New Delhi when he held a press conference. What appeared to be a routine media interaction ended as a shocker...
Pawar slams row over Modi’s degree as irrelevant
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has slammed those making the educational qualifications of various political leaders a ‘political issue’ at a time when the country faces bigger problems that need attention. Pawar’s statement came at a time when his former Maha Vikas Aghadi partner Uddhav Thackeray and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind...
TMC to send one crore farmers’ letters to PM
Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday said the party will send to Prime Minister Narendra Modi one crore signed letters of daily wage earners of West Bengal, who could not get employment under MGNREGA as the Centre allegedly did not release funds for the project for...
‘Illiterate with an IIT degree’, L-G’s dig at Kejriwal
Launching a scathing attack on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena said some people are “illiterate despite obtaining a degree from IIT”. “Yes, I have heard what the honourable CM (Arvind Kejriwal) said a few days ago at the Vidhan Sabha. I would like to...
BJP hopes to achieve Modi’s Kerala goal
It was a month ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his party’s dream of capturing power in Kerala where the leading players are the two major political formations–one led by the ruling CPI(M) and another by the opposition Congress. Modi announced his Kerala dream on March 2, buoyed by...
Nitish Kumar refuses to join issue with Pawar on Adani
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday refused to join the issue with NCP president Sharad Pawar, who has caused a flutter with a contrarian stance on the opposition’s demand for a JPC probe into allegations against the Adani Group. The JD(U) supreme leader, whose party, in Parliament, has...
