Gorakhpur, Sep 28 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday slammed people from the Muslim community who dish out ‘fatwas’ and said the country is not run by them but the Constitution given by the likes of Bhimrao Ambedkar. “The nation will be safe when religion is,” he[Read More…]
Mumbai, Sep 28 (IANS) Jolted by the sudden exit from the party and the Lok Sabha of its founder member Tariq Anwar, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday called the decision “unfortunate” but said it did not signify the “end of NCP”. “Our President Sharad Pawar indirectly gave a[Read More…]
Rewa (Madhya Pradesh), Sep 28 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on demonetisation, saying while the exercise forced innocent people to stand in serpentine queues, it helped the corrupt to convert their black money into white. Addressing a gathering in Baikunthpur town of Rewa[Read More…]
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court ruling on the arrest of five rights activists and termed it a “victory for the Pune police and the country.” “We welcome the decision based on Pune police investigations and evidence it collected has been considered valid. The[Read More…]
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Member of Parliament from Katihar Tariq Anwar resigns from his party alleging the national president Sharad Pawar’s praising Modi government in Rafale deal. Anwar made the announcement in his Lok Sabha constituency Katihar that he is quitting from all party posts as well. The Rafale[Read More…]
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Supriya Sule on Friday demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee investigation in Rafale deal between Indian and France. She took to Twitter and did a series of tweets defending party chief Sharad Pawar and stated that “It is disappointing that people have not heard Sharad Pawar,[Read More…]
New Delhi: After the Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere in the arrest of five activists in the Bhima Koregaon case in Maharashtra, BJP President Amit Shah attacked the Congress saying the order “exposed” those politicising an issue of national security and demanded an apology. “Those who stooped down[Read More…]
Rewa (Madhya Pradesh), Sep 28 (IANS) In a setback to the BJP in Madhya Pradesh, former MLA from Rewa Pushpraj Singh on Friday joined the Congress in the presence of party President Rahul Gandhi. Pushpraj Singh is the second Bharatiya Janata Party leader in Madhya Pradesh to join the Congress[Read More…]
In a major political development on Friday, the General Secretary of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Tariq Anwar resigned from the party over internal disputes with NCP chief Sharad Pawar. Soon after the statement of former Union Minister Sharad Pawar over defending PM Modi on Rafale issue. Tariq Anwar, MP[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh assembly elections are scheduled for the end of 2018, however internal fight within the state BJP has started evolving. Two BJP stalwarts of Chhattisgarh, Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh and Cabinet Minister Brijmohan Agrawal, both are involved in an internal cold war over the Chief Ministerial candidature and experts[Read More…]
Gandhinagar: Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said on Thursday that Congress President Rahul Gandhi was “Made in Italy and has Italian blood in him”, scoffing at the latter’s remarks that the world’s tallest statue of Sardar Patel being built in Gujarat was made in China. Nitin Patel told reporters[Read More…]
Chitrakoot: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday visited the Kamtanath Temple in Chitrakoot district ahead of his roadshows and rallies for two days in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh. He was accompanied by Congress state chief Kamal Nath and party’s state Election Campaign Committee chief Jyotiraditya Scindia, among others. Gandhi will address a[Read More…]
In an opinion poll conducted earlier this year in 19 states claimed that nearly half of the voters don’t want to vote for the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi again in 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The mood of the nation (MOTN) survey, conducted by CSDS-Lokniti for ABP news suggested[Read More…]
Bhopal, Sep 27 (IANS) A Special Court here has ordered an FIR against Congress leaders Digvijay Singh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kamal Nath and Vyapam scam whistleblower Prashant Pandey on a petition filed by BJP’s legal cell advocate Santosh Sharma. Judge Suresh Singh, late on Wednesday, ordered Shyamla Hills Police Station to[Read More…]
The Congress party was in power in Maharashtra with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for 15 years in a row till 2014. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) took over the power in 2014 when Devendra Fadnavis became first BJP chief minister of the state. The Congress party is trying to woo[Read More…]
Chitrakoot: Congress President, Rahul Gandhi visited the Kamtanath temple on Thursday situated in Kamadgiri forested hill of Chitrakoot, Satna district. The Kamtanath temple is considered as a holy place where Lord Rama stayed during his exile. Rahul Gandhi started his two-day visit to the poll-bound Madhya Pradesh from Thursday after[Read More…]
Surat: Congress councillor is re-elected in Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VGNSU) in a surprise to the BJP, which has its most office-bearers in the syndicate. In a BJP dominated syndicate, Bhavesh Rabari, a municipal councillor in Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) registered his victory by getting the first preference of voters[Read More…]
SAPAKS (Samanya Pichhra Varga Alpsankhyak Kalyan Samaj) an outfit representing upper caste interest which recently organised Swarna Andolan has invited applications from candidates, who are willing to fight upcoming Madhya Pradesh State Assembly elections on the platform of ‘SAPAKS Party’. Ahead of the state assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, the anti-reservation[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 26 (IANS) The Congress on Wednesday said it will move the Supreme Court if the Narendra Modi government brings amendments to the Aadhaar Act as money bill to bypass the Rajya Sabha. The party also hailed the judgment as a big victory and said the decision to[Read More…]
Senior BJP leader and firebrand politican Subramanian Swamy has now opened a front against the Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia in the Modi led union government. Swamy has termed Adhia as a corrupt officer and written a letter to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday, seeking a demand for prosecution under[Read More…]
Brahmins (5 %), Thakurs (2.5 %), Banias (3 %) and Kayasthas (2.5 %) comprise total upper caste voters in Madhya Pradesh. During the 90s and before 2010, Brahmins were the frontline soldiers of Bhartiya Janta Party in Madhya Pradesh, however, during the transformation of BJP around 2010, BJP changed his[Read More…]
Kolkata, Sep 26 (IANS) Peeved over the vandalism during the BJP-sponsored 12-hour shutdown in West Bengal on Wednesday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee warned that police will take stern action against those who indulged in hooliganism and violence. Banerjee also directed the police to enforce The West Bengal Maintenance of Public[Read More…]
Ahead of Madhya Pradesh state assembly elections, Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP, Vivek Tankha has made a complaint in e-tendering scam of Madhya Pradesh to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), O.P. Rawat on Tuesday. Vivek Tankha has requested the CEC to intrude in the public interest as the[Read More…]
The Uttar Pradesh police has lodged an FIR against Congress Social Media head Divya Spandana for tweeting a photograph against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale deal controversy. Divya Spandana, a former Lok Sabha Congress MP tweeted a photograph of PM Modi painting “chor” on his wax statue with[Read More…]
Bhartiya Janata Party senior leader and Member of Parliament CP Thakur allege Nitish Kumar government of being more brutal than British Raj. Thakur has launched the attack against the coalition partner in Bihar. He is protesting against the lathi charge by the state police during the recent Upper caste reservation[Read More…]