Politics
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...
Modi claims BJP turned Cong ‘Loot’ East policy into ‘Act East’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday slammed the Congress, saying the party had adopted the ‘loot’ east policy while the BJP had turned it into the ‘Act East’ policy. Addressing a rally in Agartala, the Prime Minister said Tripura has witnessed pioneering transformations under the BJP government. Modi said...
EC flags low voter turnout in migrant population states
The voter turnout in the 2019 General Elections was lower in states with larger immigration rates and populations, a report of the Election Commission has revealed. The highest voter turnout as of now in India’s General Elections was in 2019 at 67.4 per cent, while almost 30 crore electors...
Phase-1 voting in Bengal marred by violence as BJP, TMC workers clash
West Bengal witnessed political violence once again on Friday as Cooch Behar, Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri seats went to polls in Phase 1 of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. Both BJP and Trinamool Congress (TMC) accused each other of hurting their poll agents and workers and disrupting the electoral process...
Akhilesh predicts INDIA Bloc clean sweep in western UP
Asserting that “winds of change” are blowing from western Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said there will be an INDIA bloc “clean sweep” from Ghaziabad to Ghazipur. He also urged the people to ensure that their votes are not divided and asked them to guard...
Modi says Mamata obstructing BJP’s Ram Navami plan
The Ram Navami debate has once again taken the centre stage in Bengal politics. After Prime Minister Narendra Modi, attacked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for “trying to obstruct BJP’s Ram Navami’s plan and opposing CAA”, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) announced to organise a Ram Navami ‘shobha yatra’ in Howrah...
Ram Navami political heat rises on eve of voting
Hours after the alleged Ram Navami clash in Murshidabad, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury met with protests as he went to a hospital to meet the injured. The Bharatiya Janata Party supporters allegedly gheraoed the Berhampore MP and started sloganeering. A clash between BJP and Congress workers was also...
TMC manifesto promises to drop CAA, NRC
The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday released its manifesto for the Lok Sabha election 2024 promising to repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and stop the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) across the country if the opposition’s INDIA bloc comes to power...
BJP MP sparks row with speech on Modi-Yogi
Days before the Lok Sabha elections voting, Bharatiya Janata Party (MP) Mahesh Sharma sparked a controversy by saying that those who don’t consider Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath as “their own” are “traitors”. “Those who do not consider Modi and Yogi as their...
