Politics
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...
Sidhu backs ‘honest man’ Mann in fighting mafia
A day after calling Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann a “puppet”, Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday called Mann an “honest man” and that he considers him his younger brother. Sidhu said he will support Mann, whose Aam Aadmi Party trounced the Congress in the recent assembly polls,...
Punjab withdraws security of ex-ministers, MLAs, families
The Punjab Police has ordered withdrawal of security cover of 184 former ministers and ex-MLAs and other leaders. Personnel deployed on specific orders of the courts, however, will not be withdrawn, stated a letter by the additional director general of police (security). The letter dated April 20 was sent...
Mamata claims business summit a ‘runaway success’
Investment proposals to the tune of Rs 3.42 lakh crore, which would potentially create nearly 40 lakh new jobs in the state, were received in just two days of the sixth edition of the Bengal Global Business Summit, 2022. So claimed Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the summit’s...
Kejriwal predicts an AAP govt in Karnataka in next year’s poll
Eyeing his party’s maiden electoral triumph in the south, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday expressed confidence his party will win the 2023 Karnataka elections, after emerging victorious in the national capital and Punjab. Speaking about alleged corruption in Karnataka while...
Sasikala to be quizzed in Kodanad heist-murder case
Tamil Nadu’s mysterious Kodanad case revolving around a heist and the murder of a security guard deployed at late chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s luxurious property, the suicide of an estate employee, and the deaths of two accused in alleged road accidents, is back to haunt the AIADMK. VK Sasikala,...
Opposition challenges BJP’s law & order weapon
Days after violence broke out in Jahangirpuri between two groups on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti, the two-day anti-encroachment drive in the area by Delhi’s BJP-run municipal corporation was stayed by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Ordering “status quo”, the court said it will continue the hearing on Thursday....
KCR’s dig at Centre’s ‘regressive’ farm policies
Persisting with his attacks on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre, Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) has expressed unhappiness over the “regressive” farm policies adopted by the union government. The central tactics are dampening the agricultural growth of the country, which relies on farming as the main...
PK meets Sonia second time in 3 days; decision soon
Amid buzz over poll strategist Prashant Kishor joining Congress, Kishor on Monday evening met party’s chief Sonia Gandhi for a planning session on the upcoming assembly polls and the Lok Sabha elections. It was the second meeting in the last three days as the poll strategist had met Gandhi...
