Politics
MP govt is all about ’21 Jobs, 225 scams’, says Priyanka
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Monday kickstarted her party’s campaign for the year-end Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh with a rally in Jabalpur where she accused the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government of being mired in corruption and failing to provide jobs. She cited alleged corruption in Vyapam, ration...
Amit Shah springs a surprise with pitch for Tamilian as PM
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that a Tamil from a poor family should become the Prime Minister of India, party sources said. Amit Shah, who is on a two-day visit to Tamil Nadu against backdrop of 2024 Lok Sabha election, was addressing a closed door party...
SP slogan calls for win in 80 seats and defeat for BJP
“Assi harao, BJP hatao (defeat BJP on all 80 UP Lok Sabha seats and oust it)” is the new Samajwadi Party slogan for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav has said that if the BJP was to be removed from the seat of...
Brij Bhushan dares public conscience with plan to contest
Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Sunday announced that he would contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from the Kaiserganj seat in Uttar Pradesh. Singh, a six-time Member of Parliament who has been accused of sexually harassing women wrestlers, addressed Sanyukt...
Cong attacks govt failure to restrain airlines from fleecing
The Congress on Sunday stepped up its attack on the Centre over rising airfares, alleging that the government has been incapable of preventing “predatory behaviour” on part of airlines and has “facilitated a loot at the hands of crony airport operators”. Senior Congress leader K C Venugopal and Union...
Priyanka to kick-start MP poll campaign with Jabalpur rally
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will kick off the Congress’s campaign for the year-end Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls from Jabalpur on Monday after praying at the banks of the Narmada river, a party leader said. Jabalpur is at the centre of the state’s Mahakoshal region, which has a sizable number of...
Karnataka BJP continues to remain a divided house
Even after the drubbing in the Assembly elections and losing its base in entire south India ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2024, the Karnataka BJP unit still remains a divided house. The party leadership is struggling to foster unity and the spirit of fighting against the odds...
Opposition slams Giriraj Singh’s endorsement of Godse
Union Minister Giriraj Singh stoked a controversy by calling Mahatma Gandhi’s killer Nathuram Godse a “good son of India” and said he was not an invader like Mughal rulers Babar and Aurangzeb as he was born in India. The Opposition shot back saying if Godse is the “good son”...
Ajit Pawar says not unhappy with Praful, Sule appointments
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar on Saturday named his daughter Supriya Sule and senior leader Praful Patel as new working presidents of the party. However, Pawar’s decision to not give any important responsibility to nephew Ajit Pawar has left many in political circles surprised. Pawar said that...
Cong spikes reports of Sachin Pilot floating own party
The Congress on Friday dismissed as rumours reports that its leader Sachin Pilot may announce his own party on his father Rajesh Pilot’s death anniversary and asserted it will contest Rajasthan’s assembly polls unitedly, even as sources close to him said there has not been much forward movement on...
Shatrughan Sinha says united opposition can work miracle
Trinamool Congress MP Shatrughan Sinha on Friday said that a united opposition could work a “miracle” in next year’s Lok Sabha polls. Sinha, who is on a trip to his home town Patna, told journalists that he was sanguine about the opposition parties’ meet scheduled here on June 23....
BJP copies Cong guarantees to rain ‘freebies’ in MP
It is a promise of Rs 1,000 per month versus Rs 1,500 per month and an LPG cylinder for Rs 500 – the ruling BJP and the Congress are going all out to woo women voters in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh. Last month, senior Congress leader Kamal Nath promised the...
Shinde govt orders investigation of Pawar death threat
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday said his government has taken serious note of the death threat to NCP chief Sharad Pawar and he has given instructions for a probe. His deputy Devendra Fadnavis said such threats will not be tolerated. While Mumbai police registered a first information...
Cong appoints Shaktisinh Gohil as new Gujarat PCC chief
The Congress on Friday appointed Rajya Sabha MP Shaktisinh Gohil as the new Gujarat PCC president and relieved him from the charge of AICC in-charge of Haryana and Delhi by appointing Deepak Babariya in his place. “The Congress president has appointed Shaktisinh Gohil as the new Gujarat PCC president...
Kejriwal seeks ‘one chance’ to AAP from people of Haryana
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday appealed to people of Haryana to give one chance to his party in the next year’s assembly polls in the state, promising to give better education and healthcare facilities. The Delhi chief minister, accompanied by his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann and AAP’s...
BJP questions ‘Mohabbat Ki Dukaan’ in Gandhi family
Slamming Rahul Gandhi for criticising India abroad and his “mohabbat ki dukan” pitch to target the ruling saffron party, three BJP MPs on Thursday wrote a hard-hitting letter to the Congress leader and accused him of insulting the country in the United States during his tour. Lok Sabha MPs...
Cong pulls up K’taka minister for cow slaughter remark
The Congress high command on Thursday reprimanded Karnataka Animal Husbandry Minister K Venkatesh for his views on the “anti-cow slaughter” law in the state and asked him to stay “within his limits”. Venkatesh on Saturday had indicated that the Congress government in Karnataka might review the ‘anti-cow slaughter’ law...
Cong hits back at Jaishankar over Rahul Gandhi remarks
Congress on Thursday hit back at External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on his criticism of Rahul Gandhi for his remarks made in the US recently, saying it was Gandhi who gave him a ministerial position. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh took to Twitter and said the man who started...
