It was the Congress’s ‘40% corruption campaign’ ahead of the elections that led to the defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and brought the former to power. The same anti-corruption campaign – at ‘60%’ under the Congress regime, according to the BJP – has put the CM Siddaramaiah-led...
Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on Monday said the focus of the INDIA bloc is on Lok Sabha elections and it’s fine if this coalition happens in the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls. Polling for 230 seats in MP will be held in a single phase on November 17 and...
AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said the partition of India should never have happened and called it a ‘historical mistake.’ Addressing a press conference, the Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP said historically this was one country and unfortunately it was divided, which should not have happened. “Historically, this was...
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday reached out to his Punjab counterpart on the Sutlej-Yamuna Link issue, making an offer of a dialogue to resolve “any hurdle or obstacles” hindering the canal construction. Haryana is willing to engage in a dialogue, notwithstanding the Punjab government’s stand that...
In poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, where the difference in the number of seats between the Congress and BJP was wafer thin in 2018, the saffron party this time is using the ongoing Navratri week to maximise its outreach with a goal to win 65,000 booths. Starting at 12 pm on...
The Hiranandani group has distanced itself from the row that has broken out after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey wrote to Lok Sabha speaker demanding action against Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra. The corporate group gave a statement in response to a query from Moneycontrol. “These...
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann Sunday accused the opposition party leaders of running away from the November 1 open debate out of fear of being exposed for their “misdeeds.” In a lighter vein, he said the leaders, should they choose to come, will be welcomed by drinks of their...
When Priyanka Gandhi Vadra last week announced a monthly dole for one crore school children in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, she added over Rs 10,000 crore to the state’s prospective annual freebies bill, swelling the worth of the Congress’s various promises to over Rs 50,000 crore. Whoever wins Madhya...
A video of Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury riding a bike, without a helmet while his hands were off the handle, went viral on social media for all the wrong reasons. As the netizens called off the Congress leader’s irresponsible road safety behaviour, Chowdhury said “There was no one...
The Indian National Congress has released its first list of candidates for the Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana polls. The assembly elections will be held in Madhya Pradesh on November 17, Chhattisgarh on November 7 and 17, and Telangana on November 30. The results for all of these states will...