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Karnataka ex-deputy CM joins Cong after denial of ticket
Former deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi, who announced his decision to resign from the primary membership of the BJP after being denied a ticket to contest in the May 10 Assembly elections, joined the Congress on Friday. He would now be the grand old party’s candidate in Athani...
Pawar meets Kharge, Rahul in ‘process of uniting Opposition
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi in the national capital. Congress general secretary KC Venugopal was also present in the meeting. Pawar’s meeting comes as several opposition leaders including Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Tamil Nadu CM MK...
Kharge says branding people ‘anti-national’ dangerous
On the birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday took a swipe at the government, saying the “culture of forcing silence” and branding people “anti-nationals” is a dangerous trend that will finish our democracy and destroy the Constitution. In his message on Ambedkar Jayanti,...
Akhilesh charges Yogi govt with ‘fake’ encounters
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has said that questions have been raised over “fake” encounters in Uttar Pradesh and the BJP-ruled state has received maximum NHRC notices on such actions, remarks coming in the backdrop of death of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad’s son Asad in a gunfight. Speaking here on...
Confused NCP awaits next Pawar move to avert crisis
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which has lost recognition as a national party, is currently in a state of confusion. From senior party leaders to first-time MLAs, all are anxious, even as informal meetings are underway to brainstorm. As the current government of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde completes...
Modi asks Rishi Sunak for action against ‘anti-India elements’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his British counterpart Rishi Sunak on Thursday reviewed progress on various bilateral issues. The phone call comes weeks after pro-Khalistan supporters pulled down the national flag at the Indian embassy in London, raising questions over the security of the diplomatic mission. We also agreed...
Nitish Kumar meets Kejriwal to discuss Opposition unity
After meeting Congress leadership, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav met Delhi CM and Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Nitish Kumar as part of his efforts to bring other opposition parties together to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “We will unite as many opposition parties as...
Rebellion in Karnataka BJP has central leadership worried
Deeply upset veterans, growing dissent, and threats to fight the May 10 Karnataka elections as independents have forced the BJP to seek the assistance of their troubleshooter BS Yediyurappa in the state unit. “Like in the Mahabharata where Vidhura has been the Margadarshak and counsellor for both the Pandavas...
Struggle to find a Rajasthan fix as Gehlot refuses to budge
As temperatures soar in Rajasthan, the heat is on the Congress in Delhi to pilot a solution to the Gehlot-Sachin Pilot crisis. More than 24 hours after a warning that the Congress saw Pilot’s ‘anshan’ as an anti-party activity, the Grand Old Party is yet to figure out whether...
Baghel explains ‘difference’ between love and jihad
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of indulging in double standards, saying that when the daughters of BJP leaders get married to Muslims, they call it love, but if anybody else does so then it’s dubbed as “jihad”. Talking to reporters in...
Savarkar’s grandson files defamation case against Rahul
Trouble seems to be mounting for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who has been targeting Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar regularly in his speeches. Satyaki Savarkar, the grandson of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, approached a Pune court to file a defamation case against the former Congress chief. Rahul Gandhi has often accused Savarkar of “apologising”...
Sachin Pilot in Delhi for meeting senior leaders
After defying party leadership with a public protest against his party-led government in Rajasthan, senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot is heading to Delhi today, reportedly to meet the party leadership. While the possibility of Pilot meeting senior party leader is not scheduled so far, sources in the party have...
Four dead in firing at Bathinda military station
Four deaths have been reported in an incident of firing inside Bathinda Military Station in Punjab early this morning. The area has been cordoned off and quick response teams are conducting a search, the Army’s South Western Command said in a statement. “Firing incident reported in the early hours...
Pawar laments politics losing its civilized tone
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday lamented that politics today has lost its “civilized tone,” and said the kind of language used today was unheard of earlier. He was speaking at a discussion to commemorate the acclaimed 1979 Marathi film “Simhasan” (Throne) directed by Jabbar Patel. The...
Tejashwi says BJP afraid of 2024 elections
RJD leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav Tuesday attacked the Centre after his questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, saying all this will continue till the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as the BJP-led government was “afraid” of the election. He was questioned for...
AAP govt harassing Cong leaders to hide failures: Ex-CM
Adopting an aggressive posture on the summons issued to him by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau, former chief minister and senior Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi hit out at the Bhagwant Mann government, claiming that he was being maligned by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to divert attention from its...
Risk of Punjab repeating in Rajasthan as Pilot stays course
It seems a Punjab repeat happening in Rajasthan for the Congress. Sachin Pilot will sit on a day-long fast today asking for action by his own government against the ‘corruption’ of the former Vasundhara Raje government. The events seem erringly similar to the ones in Punjab two years ago...
Govt using new software to spy over critics, alleges Cong
The Congress on Monday accused the government of using a new software to spy over people opposed to it and damage India’s political and democratic system. Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera alleged that the Modi government first used Cambridge Analytica (CA), then Pegasus, then Israeli Contract Hackers led by “Team...
