Politics
NDA divided into 10 clusters for 2024 elections
Two days after a meeting of the National Democratic Alliance chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi, the ruling alliance is all set to take forward its plans for the Lok Sabha elections next year. The entire NDA has been divided into 10 clusters, sources said. “Ten union...
29-member Cong election panel for Rajasthan
The Congress on Thursday set up a 29-member Pradesh Election Committee for poll-bound Rajasthan with state unit chief Govind Singh Dotasra named as its chairman. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot, besides former Union minister Jitendra Singh are among its members. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge...
11 parties with 91 MPs prefer to remain on fence
While 65 parties have joined either the BJP or the Congress-led coalition, there are at least 11 more with a total of 91 members in Parliament who have chosen to stay neutral for now in the high-stakes general elections next year. Three of the fence-sitters rule fairly large states...
Punjab Cong leaders seek clarity on AAP support
With the Congress forging an alliance with 25 other parties including the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to form the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), the party’s Punjab unit finds itself in a quandary over the tie-up with the senior state leadership upset over the move as it is...
New version of East India Company, claims BJP
The formation of a new opposition alliance called ‘INDIA’ at the national level is nothing but a new version of the East India Company, BJP leader and Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje has said. Those who looted the country for 60 years have now come together for power, she alleged,...
Nitish rebuts PM’s criticism of his alliance with Lalu
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sought to rebut Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s criticism of his alliance with the RJD, underscoring his old friendship with the party’s founding president Lalu Prasad. Kumar was on Wednesday asked by journalists about Modi’s remarks at the NDA meeting on July 18 when...
Modi walks over to Sonia Gandhi after plane incident
In a rare gesture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday had a brief conversation with Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha chamber. PM Modi reportedly asked Gandhi about her well-being after her flight from Bengaluru made an emergency landing on Tuesday. Just before the House met for the...
INDIA name coined by Mamata to denote diversity
After the deliberation at the Congress’s big opposition meeting in Bengaluru, the leaders of key opposition parties decided to call their alliance ‘Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge announced. The Congress President also said that an 11-member committee will be set up for coordination and...
Cong slams Assam CM’s attribution of India to British
The Congress on Wednesday hit back at Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma who took a swipe at the opposition coalition with his remarks that the British had named the country India, saying he should tell that to Prime Minister Narendra Modi who gave names such as ‘Skill India’,...
Modi claims NDA’s vote share will cross 50% in 2024
As the Bengaluru Opposition meeting concluded on Tuesday, the National Democratic Alliance meeting (NDA) came together in Delhi for a show of strength. PM Modi, BJP president JP Nadda reached the venue. Union Minister Pralhad Joshi and BJP general secretary Vinod Tawde welcomed the leaders, from the BJP as...
Bengaluru row over ‘posterbaazi’ against Nitish Kumar
The BJP in Bihar on Tuesday accused the Congress of putting up posters in Bengaluru defaming Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The Congress hit back saying it was the BJP which indulged in ”posterbaazi” and claimed that the saffron party, which had secured a brute majority in last Lok Sabha...
‘BJP Harao, Modi Hatao’ is the spirit at Bengaluru
The opposition meeting in Bengaluru on July 17-18 is expected to be more critical and important than the Patna session as the success of the second edition will depend on the parties creating a foolproof plan to tackle their common goal of “BJP harao, Modi hatao”, senior Congress leaders...
Kumaraswamy says BJP electoral tie-up talks premature
Janata Dal (Secular) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Monday termed as “premature” talks of an electoral tie-up between his party and the BJP for the Lok Sabha elections next year. He also attacked the Congress over the meeting of Opposition leaders here, saying it’s trying to project it as...
Yechury rules out Left-TMC alliance in Bengal
With several opposition parties holding a meeting aimed at forging unity for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Monday ruled out any alliance with the TMC in West Bengal and said that secular parties along with the Left and the Congress will take on the...
Tharoor praises Modi govt’s G20 diplomacy, decries China policy
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday praised the Narendra Modi government’s success in making G20 a “buzzword”, but expressed concerns over the country’s China policy beyond the ban on Chinese apps. Speaking at the CNN-News18 Delhi Town Hall, the Thiruvananthapuram MP opined that the united Opposition must come...
Sharad Pawar skipping important Bengaluru conclave
The Opposition parties are all set to meet in Karnataka’s Bengaluru today and tomorrow to chalk out a strategy to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The invites for the meeting — conveyed by Congress — were sent out by the party’s...
AAP all set for Bengaluru trip after Cong climbdown
Ending weeks of suspense, the Aam Aadmi Party finally decided to attend the second meeting of opposition parties in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18 as the Congress declared it was against the Delhi ordinance. One of its key demands met, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party made this decision after...
BJP gets into micro-management mode for 2024
The BJP, which single-handedly won 303 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls by securing nearly 38 per cent votes, has set a target of winning 350 plus seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. For this, the party is working on several fronts simultaneously. Besides the seats on...
