Politics
Fadnavis says BJP will restore OBC reservations
Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said his party will restore reservation for OBCs in local bodies if given power, and if not, he will retire from politics. Addressing BJP workers during a protest held at Variety Square chowk as part of the party’s ‘chakka jam’ (block the...
Opposition alliance incomplete without Congress: Raut
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday said that work is on to bring all opposition parties together at the national level, and this alliance will be incomplete without the Congress. He said that the Congress will play an important role in the alliance that aims to provide a...
First statehood, then polls, says Omar Abdullah
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Vice-President of National Conference parties on Saturday said that mainstream politicians of the region reject the “delimitation, election and then statehood” sequence of events as proposed by the Commission. “We want delimitation, statehood and then the election. If you want to hold...
Kumaraswamy says Karnataka will reject national parties
JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Friday said that like other South Indian states, Karnataka too will reject the national parties during the 2023 assembly polls and choose a regional party, as people don’t want the administration here to be run by high commands sitting in Delhi. The former...
Akhilesh blames Yogi govt for big jump in unemployment
The Samajwadi Party chief and former chief minister of the state Akhilesh Yadav has blamed the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state for unemployment and warned that with the economic slowdown the situation might become worse in the coming days. The Samajwadi Party chief has also alleged that...
Cousin ‘purifies’ Devi Lal statue unveiled by deputy CM
Two days after Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala unveiled an 18-feet tall statue of Devi Lal at the Chaudhary Devi Lal university in Sirsa, his cousin brother Karan Chautala on Wednesday washed it with holy Ganga water for “purification”, saying those who had unveiled it had “misused” the...
Maha Cong chief says front sans Cong will only help BJP
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Wednesday said any attempt to form an ‘anti-BJP front’ without his party will indirectly help the BJP. Talking to reporters at Faizpur in Jalgaon district, he also said elections were three years away and COVID-19 management was the priority of his party. Amid...
Karnataka Cong leaders fight over CM face
Factionalism in the Congress Karnataka unit on the issue of its Chief Ministerial face for the 2023 assembly polls, has come out in the open, with party state chief D K Shivakumar saying legislature leader Siddaramaiah will look into such open statements by some MLAs and the latter maintaining...
Rahul asked to appear before Gujarat court today in defamation case
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is expected to appear before a magistrate’s court here in Gujarat today to record his final statement in a criminal defamation suit filed by a Gujarat MLA over the former’s remark on the “Modi surname”. A week back, Chief Judicial Magistrate of Surat A N...
Bengal division movements that fizzled out over time
After 74 years of a split that spurred one of the largest migrations in human history, there is a buzz in Bengal of another rupture with political leaders mainly from the Bharatiya Janata Party demanding North Bengal as a separate union territory and Jangalmahal to be carved out as...
SC stays Bombay HC verdict cancelling caste certificate of Amravati MP
In a relief to Lok Sabha MP Navneet Kaur Rana, the Supreme Court Tuesday stayed the Bombay High Court verdict cancelling the caste certificate of the independent lawmaker representing Maharashtra’s Amravati constituency, reserved for scheduled castes. The Bombay High Court had on June 9 cancelled the caste certificate of...
Action initiated against misconduct by Alapan Bandyopadhyay
Following up on it’s show cause notice, the Center has started penalty proceedings against ex-chief secretary of West Bengal Alapan Bandyopadhyay alleged misconduct and misbehavior. A memorandum sent to the newly appointed advisor to West Bengal chief minister by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has asked Bandyopadhyay...
Mamata moves SC against HC order in Narada sting case
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court’s denial for filing of affidavits by her and state Law Minister Moloy Ghatak on their role on the day of arrest of four Trinamool Congress leaders on May 17 by the CBI in...
HC turns down Mamata govt plea on NHRC probe
In a major setback for the West Bengal government, the Calcutta High Court has turned down its request to recall or modify its directive where it has asked the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to examine all cases of alleged human rights violations cases during the post-poll violence in...
BJP launches UP poll campaign with free ration, vaccination
The BJP is getting into campaign mode in Uttar Pradesh, impressing upon voters that it is the Narendra Modi and the Yogi Adityanath governments that is sending them free ration under twin schemes, and is also offering them free vaccination in order to save their lives. The party is...
Congress says Udhav Thackeray govt won’t face any problem
Days after saying that the Congress will contest the next Maharashtra Assembly polls alone and not as partners of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance, the party’s state unit chief Nana Patole on Sunday assured that his party stands strong with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray with all its might until...
TMC-Congress alliance for 2024 Lok Sabha polls?
West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday said people voted for ‘Didi’ (Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee) because they felt she is the one who can prevent Narendra Modi of being reelected as Prime Minister in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a press conference in Kolkata...
Modi to meet J&K team in move for holding elections
IPA Webdesk Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to meet an all-party delegation of political parties from J&K on June 24 in New Delhi as part of the move towards restoration of electoral democracy in the union territory of Jammu & Kashmir. The meeting, which comes weeks before the...
