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Opposition alleges outsider involvement in assault on MPs
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and nearly a dozen other opposition leaders gathered outside Parliament today to protest an abrupt end to the monsoon session and the alleged assault on women MPs. They also called on Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu to lodge a complaint, and alleged “outsiders who were not...
Congress says party’s official account blocked by Twitter
The Congress on Thursday alleged that the party’s official Twitter account as well as that of a large number of its leaders and workers have been blocked by the microblogging site. This comes close on the heels of the blocking of party leader Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account after he...
PM, Sonia attend Speaker’s meet on parliament disruption
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were both in Speaker Om Birla’s room in parliament when he met with leaders of various parties after the monsoon session ended on Wednesday morning, two days early. PM Modi and Sonia Gandhi sat on adjoining sofas in the meeting....
Mamata-led regional party alliance on the way
Raijor Dal chief Akhil Gogoi on Sunday said that an alliance of regional parties under the leadership of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in the making to oust the BJP from power at the Centre in 2024. The Independent MLA from Assam also claimed that Banerjee has...
Portfolio allocation aggravates Karnataka BJP dissent
Unhappy turncoat ML As continue to haunt the BJP government in Karnataka, days after portfolio allocation was done. After MTB Nagaraj, MLA Anand Singh gave way to speculations by not stepping into his office at Vidhana Soudha for four consecutive days. On Wednesday, Singh flew to Bengaluru for an...
Opposition releases video on Pegasus uproar
The opposition’s strategy of speaking on the Pegasus snooping row and farm laws during discussions of bills in the Rajya Sabha has now been compiled in a three-minute video in an attempt to make the government listen to their demands, leaders said on Sunday. The video, released by the...
Hints of farm laws withdrawal ahead of UP poll
A BJP leader has supported farmers’ agitation against the three new farm laws and said that the BJP-led central government could withdraw them keeping in mind Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. “The demands made by the farmers are right. Keeping in mind the assembly polls and anger among the farmers,...
Salman Khurshid among 38 in Cong UP poll panel
Gearing up for the Assembly polls next year, the Congress on Wednesday constituted the election committee for Uttar Pradesh, which includes state unit chief Ajay Kumar Lallu and former Union ministers Salman Khurshid, Rajeev Shukla and R P N Singh. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the proposal of...
Rahul Gandhi bats for rewards to sportspersons
Enough of video of phone calls, now sportspersons should get rewards as promised, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Monday in an apparent swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In an Instagram post, he posted screenshots of media reports claiming that Olympians in the past had not been paid...
Slug fest over renaming of Indira canteens
Amid the ruling BJP’s attempt to change the name of Karnataka’s infamous Indira canteens, named after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Congress and BJP leaders indulged in a Twitter spar on Saturday. Ex-CM Siddaramaiah asked the BJP government not to get into ‘petty politics’ over the same issue. BJP...
Bommai denies confusion over cabinet, portfolios
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said there is no confusion regarding cabinet expansion and portfolio allocation and that he would talk to all those who have issues and will resolve it. Amid simmering discontent within the party with several Ministerial aspirants not making it to the cabinet...
TN white paper blames AIADMK for financial ‘mismanagement’
The DMK government in Tamil Nadu on Monday released a White Paper on the state’s finances and highlighted the fiscal imbalance and mounting debt created by the “mismanagement by the previous AIADMK government”. Finance minister PTR Palanivel Thiaga Rajan blamed the previous AIADMK government’s “lack of political will and...
9 parties fined in Supreme Court’s big move In decriminalising politics
Nine political parties including the BJP and Congress were held guilty of contempt and fined today by the Supreme Court for not making public criminal records of their poll candidates. The Congress, BJP and five other parties have been fined Rs 1 lakh each. The CPM and the Nationalist...
UP set to include 39 castes in OBC list with eye on elections
Months ahead of the crucial 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in the State has started preparations to include 39 castes in the list of Other Backward Castes (OBC) in the State. The Chairman of State Backward Classes Commission, Jaswant Saini, has said that the...
Amarinder to meet Sonia as Sidhu barbs continue
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is scheduled to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday ahead of a much-anticipated cabinet reshuffle in the state. It also comes amid strong indications that his long-running feud with Navjot Singh Sidhu, the new head of the party’s state unit, hasn’t...
BJP leader, 5 others held for anti-Muslim slogans
New Delhi: BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay and five others have been arrested over violent anti-Muslim slogans raised at a protest held at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Sunday. Ashwini Upadhyay, who organised the protest, was questioned till late last night along with other accused. The arrests followed outrage over videos...
Nitish Kumar hints at state-level caste census
Patna: If the Central government does not hold a caste-based Census, then a discussion may be initiated on carrying out an exercise to enumerate caste data at the state level in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said today. He took the stance days after failing to elicit any response...
Congress appoints Chidambaram as observer for Goa
The Congress has appointed party veteran P Chidambaram as its senior election observer for the Goa Assembly polls due next year. AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal issued an order to this effect on Sunday. Chidambaram will oversee election strategies and coordination for the upcoming Assembly election in the...
