Yet another lash comes in for Rahul Gandhi-led Congress party in Gujarat, as Mahendrasinh Vaghela, the former Congress legislator and son of political heavyweight Shankersinh Vaghela, formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday. Mahendrasinh is a former Congress MLA who had quit the party last year in a rebellion[Read More…]
Former BJP MP Ram Sakal, who was under the spotlight for allegedly misbehaving with police officials, has been nominated as one of the members in Rajya Sabha by President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday morning. Just two month back in July, Ram Sakal’s video went viral on the social media,[Read More…]
Just days before Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Jan Aashirwad Yatra, MPCC president Kamal Nath has written a letter to Lord Mahakal to end his political adversary’s ‘misrule’ in Madhya Pradesh. CM Shivraj is all set to begin a state-wide tour amid people in order to run a poll campaign[Read More…]
Despite the grooming medical science in the state, Rajasthan still discriminates against leprosy patients under section 19(f) of the Rajasthan Panchayati Raj Act 1994, which debars a leprosy patient from contesting panchayat elections. According to Section 19(f) ‘a person is disqualified if he/she is a leper or is suffering from[Read More…]
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday met Muslim intellectuals as part of party’s outreach to various sections ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha election. Those who met Gandhi to give their feedback on various issues and discuss public policy included M.S Farooqui, Amir Mohammad, Irfan Habib, Syeda Hameed, Ilyas[Read More…]
New Delhi/Ahmedabad: Former Gujarat BJP MLA Kanu Kalsaria, who had successfully spearheaded a huge public agitation against a Nirma cement plant in the state’s Mahuva, on Wednesday evening joined the Congress party after a meeting with party president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi. Kalsaria, who is a social activist and[Read More…]
Khajuraho (Madhya Pradesh): Senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday said the party will field at least 30 per cent new faces in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections due at the end of this year. Scindia, who heads the party’s Election Campaign Committee, said the aspiring candidates must have been[Read More…]
A plea was filed in the Delhi High Court against the Netflix series Sacred Games, seeking the removal of certain scenes, claiming that its content was derogatory to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The plea, which alleged that certain scenes and dialogues in the show defamed the former Prime Minister, was[Read More…]
New Delhi: Swaraj India Party’s National President, Yogendra Yadav on Wednesday has tweeted against Modi government for going after his family to horrify him. Yadav said that, “over 100 officials from Delhi raided a hospital-cum-nursing home run by his sisters on Wednesday in Rewari.” In a couple of tweets, Yadav[Read More…]
New Delhi: On Wednesday, Iran criticised India for not fulfilling its promise of making investments in expanding the strategically located Chabahar port and said New Delhi will stand to lose “special privileges” if it cuts import of Iranian oil. Iran’s Deputy Ambassador and Charge d’Affaires Massoud Rezvanian Rahaghi said “Iran[Read More…]
New Delhi: Amidst talk of a contest between the opposition and the ruling NDA for the post of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman, the government is also looking at the option of not going for an election for the post in the Monsoon Session of parliament beginning July 18, sources said.[Read More…]
Korba, Chhatisgarh: A 21-year-old woman has allegedly accused Chhattisgarh home minister Ramsewak Paikras’ nephew of raping her in Surajpur in 2014, the police said. The woman who claims to be the mother of Shamodh Paikra’s 30-month-old child, said in her complaint that he has gone back on his promise to[Read More…]
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh’s poll battle has turned virtual with bot h BJP and Congress ready to take on each other with Cyber Yodhas and Rajiv ke Sipahi respectively. At the district level, both the parties have full-fledged plans. While the BJP has planned workshops to equip and educate its cyber[Read More…]
Amid signs of discomfort between BJP and JDU, along with long going controversy around Nitish Kumar joining the Mahagathbandhan, comes the remark of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar saying BJP and JDU share a trust bond within the boundaries of Bihar, and are working together within this state ‘only’. “We[Read More…]
The Congress has condemned JD(U)’s advice to reconsider its association with RJD and ruled out the many speculations of space for Nitish Kumar in the grand alliance. After national executive meeting in Delhi on Sunday, the JD(U) had laid down conditions for opening any communication channel with the Congress. JD(U) leader[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Sunday said that it would like to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections with its coalition partner BJP while stressing that there was no question of patching up with the corrupt Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Today at our National Executive we discussed the[Read More…]
Hisar MP Dushyant Chautala on Saturday filed a defamation case against Health Minister Anil Vij for making ‘drug addict’ remarks against him, in a local court. The court fixed hearing in the case on August 14. Vij, while interacting with media persons on April 3, had said that he (Dushyant)[Read More…]
New Delhi: Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen said the lack of attention on social sectors had taken a quantum jump in the wrong direction since the BJP came to power and that despite the visible prominence of backwardness in India, the political dispensation was diverting attention from the core issues. Things[Read More…]
New Delhi: Most political parties, including those friendly with the BJP, told the Law Commission on Saturday that they are opposed to the proposal of simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies saying that it was against the constitution and would dilute regional interests. Parties that opposed the[Read More…]
Jaipur: Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction here with beneficiaries of government welfare schemes a flop show. Our PM was supposed to have a direct interaction with beneficiaries but he was shown clippings of beneficiaries in audio-video presentation. This could have been[Read More…]
New Delhi: Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of protecting the corrupt BJP leaders including Chief Ministers of various BJP-ruled states, Congress on Saturday said when it comes to power, there will be a thorough investigation on the cases against them and they will be in jail and not out on[Read More…]
New Delhi: Hitting out at the BJP and the Modi government, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said their politics of hatred and communal polarisation as seen in brutal lynchings across the country have sickened our nation. The politics of hatred and communal polarisation is irreparably damaging our social fabric,[Read More…]
Jamnagar: Senior Congress legislator and OBC leader from Gujarat’s Saurashtra region Vikram Madam on Friday threatened to resign if the party failed to address several issues worrying him. His announcement, a few days before Congress President Rahul Gandhi visits Gujarat on July 16 and 17, comes less than a week[Read More…]
New Delhi: Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the drop in the value of rupee, Congress on Friday said there seems to be a competition between the BJP and the rupee to see who will fall lower. Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari likened the country’s economy is like a rudderless boat[Read More…]
New Delhi: Union minister Jayant Sinha sparked a political storm by welcoming eight men who were convicted in the Ramgarh lynching case in Jharkhand with a garland after they were released on bail on Thursday. After the incident came to light, the opposition launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led government[Read More…]