Politics
Ex-UP Governor Qureshi booked for sedition over Yogi remark
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh Governor Aziz Qureshi was on Sunday booked for sedition by Uttar Pradesh Police for his alleged derogatory remarks against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his government in the state. The case was registered in the Civil Line police station of UP’s Rampur district. Qureshi was...
Row over Javed Akhtar’s comparison of Taliban with RSS
Javed Akhtar’s statement comparing Taliban and RSS mindsets is wrong, said Saamana in its editorial on Monday, supporting the lyricist over his voice against fundamentalism. But the ‘mild’ editorial has drawn the ire of the once-ally-now-foe BJP. “Why are you going around in circles when you admit that he...
Tikait asks farmers to chant ‘Allah Hu Akbar’, ‘Har Har Mahadev’
Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait urged farmers and their supporters gathered for the ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ to chant ‘Allah hu Akbar’ and Har har Mahadev’ to show solidarity. Called by Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, the mahapanchayat in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh witnessed a massive turnout of farmers, not just from UP,...
Mahants fume over Owaisi calling Ayodhya as Faizabad
The temple town of Ayodhya known for being the birthplace of Lord Ram has now become the point of interest for most of the political parties ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh State Assembly elections. Now the saints of Ayodhya have come out in protest regarding the convention of...
Mulayam back in action at party office
Ahead of the 2022 assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party patriarch and former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has once again become active after a brief illness. Known as ‘Neta ji’ among party cadres, he is a regular at the SP headquarters in Lucknow. He visits the...
Harish Rawat sweeps floors of Gurdwara in repentance
As part of his promised penance for recently comparing Navjot Sidhu and his team to “Panj Pyare”, Congress leader Harish Rawat has captured cleaning shoes and sweeping the floor at a gurdwara today. In a video posted by ANI, the Congress’s Punjab in-charge was seen wiping shoes of devotees...
NMP, note ban ‘twin babies’ to loot people, says Congress
Senior Congress leader Ajay Maken on Friday said the Centre’s recently announced National Monetisation Pipeline and the 2016 demonetisation move were “twin babies” aimed at “looting” the people of the country. The NMP, announced by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on August 23, aims to unlock monetary value in...
Sidhu camp chooses back benches in Vidhan Sabha
The fissures among the top leadership of Punjab Congress were visible even inside the Vidhan Sabha during the special session convened to mark the 400th Parkash Purab celebrations of Guru Teg Bahadur. With Navjpot Singh Sidhu and Capt Amarinder continuing to be at loggerheads, the dirty laundry was hung out...
Congress sets up panel to plan stirs on national issues
Congress president Sonia Gandhi set up a nine-member panel of party leaders headed by Digvijaya Singh on Thursday for planning “sustained agitations on national issues”. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Lok Sabha MP Uttam Kumar Reddy, Rajya Sabha MP Ripun Bora, Manish Chatratha and BK Hariprasad are among...
BJP gears up for ‘enlightened class’ conference in UP
Treading on the footsteps of the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to organize an enlightened class conference in all 403 assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh. These enlightened class conferences will start from 5th September. It will be addressed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, National Vice...
Glimpses of a brewing political sibling rivalry in Andhra
Former Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s wife Vijayamma has invited associates of her late husband in politics and bureaucrats for what is being officially termed as a prayer meet but political pundits can witnesses cracks in the family. Vijayamma personally called up all the invitees, expected to be more...
Harish Rawat apologises for ‘Panj Pyare’ remark
After sparking a fresh controversy in Punjab, Congress in-charge Harish Rawat on Wednesday apologised for his ‘Panj Pyare’ remark and said that he had no intentions of hurting Sikh sentiments. “Sometimes you express respect and use some such words which are offensive. I too have made a mistake of...
Mulayem meeting with BJP chief triggers speculations
The Samajwadi Party has got political pundits guessing after Mulayam Singh Yadav’s meeting with Uttar Pradesh BJP Chief Swatantra Dev Singh. The Samajwadi Party has claimed that its leader Mulayam Singh Yadav had invited Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh to join the SP at their meeting on...
AAP to contest in all UP Assembly seats
The AAP will contest on all the 403 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls next year on its own strength, party’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said on Tuesday. Singh, who is also the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Uttar Pradesh in-charge, said the names of the candidates will...
Rahul slams Centre’s Jallianwala Bagh Memorial revamp
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday termed the government’s revamp of the Jallianwala Bagh memorial an “insult to martyrs”, saying only a person who does not know the meaning of martyrdom can inflict such an insult. Taking to Twitter, the former Congress chief tagged a media report...
Kejriwal asserts AAP’s national ambitions
“We have changed Delhi…I have a pact with God that I will not die before seeing my country as the number one in the world,” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced at a farmers’ ‘mahapanchayat’ in Haryana’s Jind on April 4, 2021. Kejriwal urged the farmers, who have been...
India wants China border dispute solved through dialogue
Defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that India wants a solution to the border dispute with China through dialogue and asserted that the government would never allow the sanctity of borders to be violated. The Modi government has made it clear to the forces that any unilateral action...
Assam Congress breaks up with Ajmal to pursue ties with Gogoi
It took the core committee of Assam Congress five long hours to decide whether it should continue to have its key partner All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) in the Mahajot (Grand Alliance) or part ways if the beleaguered national party needs to better its performance in the ensuing...
