Politics

Amit Shah derides AAP-Cong alliance for Delhi as a zero game

Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday took a swipe at the AAP for joining hands with the Congress in Delhi for the Lok Sabha polls, saying whether the Arvind Kejriwal-led party forms an alliance with the Congress or merges with it “nothing is going to happen because zero plus...

Mar 12 · >

CAA: Crucial impact on results of at least 8 Bengal seats

The Citizenship Amendment Act, or the CAA, has always been a high-stakes topic in West Bengal and Assam, but multiple surveys by the central government and the BJP stressed on the necessity of its implementation. It is likely to play a crucial role in at least eight Lok Sabha...

Mar 12 · >

Kejriwal asks women not to cook for Modi-chanting husbands

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday urged women voters to cast their vote in large numbers for Aam Aadmi Party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Speaking at a townhall event — Mahila Samman Samaroh — the Aam Aadmi Party chief told the women that if their husbands...

Mar 11 · >

Himachal police files case against Cong rebel’s father

The Himachal Pradesh Police on Sunday registered a case against an independent MLA and the father of a Congress rebel over “electoral offences” related to the recent Rajya Sabha polls in which six party MLAs voted for the BJP candidate from the state. The case against Hamirpur’s independent MLA...

Mar 11 · >

Deve Gowda accuses INDIA Bloc of making a joke of secularism

The JD(S) supremo and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda said on Saturday that the INDIA bloc is a bundle of groups who have made secularism a joke. In a veiled attack on the INDIA bloc, he reminded them that TMC leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata...

Mar 11 · >

Yusuf Pathan to contest from Adhir Ranjan’s constituency

Former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as Trinamool Congress (TMC) Candidate from Berhampore, said party supremo Mamata Banerjee while announcing the names of candidates for all 42 seats of West Bengal. Berhampore is currently held by Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and whole...

Mar 11 · >

Cong asks what stops PM from visiting ‘disturbed’ Northeast

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Assam’s Kaziranga National Park, the Congress on Saturday attacked the Centre over the “increasingly disturbed” situation in different parts of the Northeast, and asked why the PM had not found time to visit the violence-hit Manipur yet. Prime Minister Modi took the elephant...

Mar 9 · >

Shah asks Shinde to change some Sena candidates

In a major development in the seat-sharing talks between the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ in Maharashtra, Union Home Minister Amit Shah advised chief minister Eknath Shinde to ‘change some Shiv Sena candidates’ for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. In the 2 hour-long meeting, which was held at Shah’s residence late on Friday,...

Mar 9 · >

RSS meet to deliberate on Sandeshkhali, farmers’ protest

West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali and the uprising by women following the allegations of sexual assault and coerced slavery by local politicians are likely to be at the forefront of discussions in RSS’s ‘Pratinidhi Sabha’ scheduled to be held between March 15 and 18 in Nagpur. Pratinidhi Sabha is the organisation’s...

Mar 9 · >

Sukhu indicates willingness to talk to rebels

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu suggested dialogue as a way out of the crisis triggered last week by six party rebels as he headed Thursday to Delhi for a meeting with the Congress central leadership. As he softened his stand towards the Congress rebels who cross-voted in...

Mar 9 · >
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