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Mamata gears up to helm anti-BJP front
TMC MPs have unanimously chosen party supremo Mamata Banerjee as the chairperson of its parliamentary party although she is not a member of parliament. Announcing this at a press conference in Delhi, Rajya Sabha member Derek O’Brien said she has been the guiding force behind the TMC parliamentary...
Court order forces BSP to rename ‘Brahmin Sammelan’
The Bahujan Samaj Party’s “Brahmin Sammelan”, which is scheduled to be held on Friday at the Taraji Resort, has been renamed as “Seminar in honor of the enlightened class”. The National General Secretary of BSP, Satish Chandra Mishra, who has been given the responsibility to organise the event, reach...
Assam Congress demands CBI probe into organ racket
Guwahati/Dibrugarh/Nagaon, Jul 15: The Assam Congress on Thursday demanded a CBI inquiry into the recently busted human organ racket while party MP Gaurav Gogoi has written to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to initiate an inquiry to verify the ring’s links with Kolkata. Congress state unit President Ripun...
Amarinder, Sidhu to end war with tea
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Navjot Sidhu will meet today for tea in a first effort for peace ahead of the cricketer-turned-politician’s inauguration as the Punjab Congress chief. The overture came from Mr Sidhu, who invited the Chief Minister for the programme at the party office. Mr Singh...
Amarinder slams Meenakshi Lekhi for “hooligans” remark on farmers
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday demanded resignation of Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi for allegedly calling protesting farmers “hooligans”. Ms Lekhi, when asked about incidents of violence during the farmers’ protests against the three central agricultural laws, had on Thursday called the protesters “mawali” or hooligans. After...
Chhattisgarh Congress alleges Raman Singh link to Pegasus
Chhattisgarh’s ruling Congress has launched a searing attack on former chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Raman Singh over the Pegasus espionage case. CM Bhupesh Baghel and state Congress president Mohan Markam have alleged that representatives of the Israeli cyber intelligence firm NSO Group that makes the spyware...
Akhilesh predicts BJP will be wiped out in 2022 UP polls
Lucknow: Kickstarting his campaign for the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in 2022, former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday claimed that Samajwadi Party will win 351 seats in polls and BJP will be wiped off. The SP chief said the “dreams shown by the BJP to the public”...
Yediyurappa says he will focus on building party
In what seems to be the clearest hint so far about BS Yediyurappa stepping down, the Karnataka Chief Minister on Thursday said he was expecting a message and instructions from the high command on July 25, a day before his government completes two years, and from the 26th, he...
Sidhu supporters launch celebrations
Celebrations broke out in Amritsar, Patiala and other places in Punjab on Sunday night after the Congress appointed Navjot Singh Sidhu as new president of the party’s Punjab unit. Sidhu replaces Sunil Jakhar who had been Punjab Pradesh Congress chief since 2017. The Congress also appointed four working presidents...
Mumbai BJP chief wants Jinnah House converted into cultural centre
BJP Mumbai president Mangal Prabhat Lodha has met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and reiterated his demand to convert Jinnah House, the city-based erstwhile residence of Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, into a centre for art and culture. Lodha, who is also an MLA, called on Shah in New...
TMC call to defeat Delhi’s ‘authoritarian Duo’
Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that his party will not be cowed down by the BJP’s “intimidation tactics” and it will ensure that the country is “freed from the shackles of the authoritarian duo sitting in Delhi” in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The TMC...
Yediyurappa asks supporters not to stage protests
With voices growing in his support, amid speculation that his replacement was on the cards, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Wednesday urged his supporters and well-wishers not to indulge in any kind of protests or indiscipline that is disrespectful and may embarrass the BJP. The 78-year-old BJP...
Sidhu camp refuses to apologise to Amarinder
The Navjot Singh Sidhu camp has rejected Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s demand for a public apology from Sidhu, saying the chief minister should instead shed his ego and apologise to the public for not fulfilling his electoral promises. Over 60 Congress MLAs reached Navjot Singh Sidhu’s residence...
Ravi Shankar Prasad defends Pegasus use
Amid the tumult over reports of snooping in multiple nations through Israeli spyware Pegasus, former Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has questioned why only India is being “targeted” for the use of the spyware when 45 nations are using it. Mr Prasad, who handled the IT ministry...
SC stops short of striking down easing of Kerala curbs
Kerala’s move to “give in to pressure groups” and announce a three-day relaxation of Covid curbs for Bakrid (Eid-ul-Azha) has alarmed the Supreme Court which today said this was “wholly uncalled for”. However, it did not cancel the government notification that eased the lockdown in the state. “Alarming state...
Siddaramaiah denies rift with DK Shivakumar
Senior Congress leader in Karnataka and former chief minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday defied all claims of conflict between him and state’s Congress President DK Shivakumar. “We are together. We’re building the party together. There’s no rift in Karnataka Congress and the party will come back to power. Why should...
Assam ‘Population Army’ for Muslim-majority areas
Guwahati: Assam will have a ‘population Army’ to distribute contraceptives and create awareness about population control in Muslim-dominated areas of the state, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told the Assembly on Monday. A 1,000-strong force will be sent to areas in Lower Assam, he said. The Chief Minister, whose...
Telangana Cong chief under ‘house arrest’
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President and Congress MP A Revanth Reddy and several other senior party leaders were on Mondayput under “house arrest” at different places here, police said. Revanth Reddy, Congress Lok Sabha member from Malkajgiri, had alleged that there were irregularities to the tune of Rs...
