The winter session of parliament began on Friday and after obituary references the Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day till Monday. Soon after the house met, newly elected member Sunil Jakhar took the oath of office. Jakhar is the son of former Speaker Balram Jakhar. He won the by-poll[Read More…]
Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Thursday said the ruling BJP was set to lose the Gujarat assembly elections, and that the Congress was likely to get around 100 seats in the 182-member house. “Official files have already started disappearing from the state Secretariat,” he said while talking to journalists after[Read More…]
The Congress on Thursday made a strong attack on the Election Commission, accusing it of becoming a “puppet” in the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who it said was breaking rules in a last bid to save the BJP’s “sinking ship” in Gujarat. Charging the poll panel with not[Read More…]
After BJP’s attack on Congress on the “Ram Setu” issue, the party defended itself by saying “Lord Rama was “omnipresent” and BJP was trying to divert attention from the development issues of Gujarat. “Lord is omnipresent, he is everywhere, he resides in every substance and particles, Ram is present in[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President-designate Rahul Gandhi on Thursday appealed to the voters in Gujarat to exercise their franchise in the second phase of polling that has begun. “Today is Phase 2 of the Gujarat elections. I request all those voting today to vote in record numbers and[Read More…]
The second phase of state assembly polls began in Gujarat on Thursday. Voting has begun in 93 assembly constituencies across 14 districts in northern and central regions. There are 851 candidates in the fray. Special deployment of police has been made to ensure law and order. Elections are being held[Read More…]
Taking on his own BJP party, actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Wednesday asked the “one man show and two man army”, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, to return to Delhi from Gujarat if they have exhausted all their “tricks, tantrums, wrong statements and tall promises”.[Read More…]
Congress President-elect Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday brushed aside a question on whether a Congress loss in Gujarat will be a referendum on him and insisted that the election outcome will be “shocking” for the BJP. “Gujarat will this time throw a surprising result. It will be shocking for the BJP.[Read More…]
The Election Commission on Tuesday ordered repolling in six booths, where first phase polling was held on December 9. The repolls will be held on December 14. Chief Electoral Officer of Gujarat B.B. Swain said the poll panel has cancelled the results stored in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in[Read More…]
The Congress on Tuesday mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking a seaplane for campaigning in Gujarat, terming it “Hawa Hawai” and added that the ruling BJP did not understand development. “They did not understand development. It is called Hawa Hawai,” Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said in a tweet[Read More…]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday declared that his party was confident of taking power in Gujarat and said the BJP was on a losing wicket. “The BJP has lost its position,” Gandhi told the media, a day after he was named the President of the country’s oldest political party.[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday ridiculed the Congress for criticising his government over problems caused by the Goods and Services Tax and demonetization and claimed these issues had been resolved. He also took a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Modi claimed his government had initiated the unique Pradhan[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated his political bete noire Rahul Gandhi on his election as the new Congress President and wished him a fruitful tenure. Gandhi later thanked him. “I congratulate Rahul Ji on his election as Congress President. My best wishes for a fruitful tenure,” Modi tweeted.[Read More…]
Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said political parties should sit together and discuss if the minimum number of sittings of Parliament needed to be fixed, and also recommended automatic suspension of members who rush near the presiding officer’s podium in the house. The Vice President, who will preside[Read More…]
The BJP on Monday questioned why it took the Congress over 48 hours to accept that a “hush, hush” meeting with the Pakistani envoy and a former Pakistani Minister did take place at Mani Shankar Aiyar’s residence, attended by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Vice President Hamid Ansari and[Read More…]
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed grief at the “falsehood” and “canards” being spread by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “score political points,” on Monday. The former PM in a statement has said: “Modi is setting a dangerous precedent by his insatiable desire to tarnish every constitutional office, including that[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi, who is putting up a spirited campaign against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Gujarat, was on Monday elected the President of the Congress, taking over from his mother who had helmed the country’s oldest party for 19 long years. The 47-year-old Rahul will formally take over the reins[Read More…]
Hitting out at Narendra Modi for dragging Pakistan into the Gujarat elections, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that rather than talking about foreign countries in his election campaign speeches in Gujarat the Prime Minister should say something about the state. “The Prime Minister talks sometimes about Pakistan[Read More…]
Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Monday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for spinning “unsubstantiated and unbelievable” stories against political opponents. Sinha’s comments came a day after Modi said Congress leaders met the Pakistani High Commissioner. “Sir! Just to win elections anyhow, and that too at the fag end of the process,[Read More…]
Accusing the Congress of indulging in “politics of caste and appeasement”, BJP President Amit Shah on Sunday said that the Congress decision to support Dalit leader Jignesh Mewani is a pre-planned move to take elections towards this purpose. He alleged that the Congress “must be aware of Mewani’s links with[Read More…]
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh on Friday criticised BJP over the viral video in which a man was seen being brutally hacked to death and set on fire for allegedly committing “love jihad” and said that the manner in which the ruling BJP was functioning, the majority can[Read More…]
The first of Gujarat’s two-phase assembly polls began on Saturday across 89 constituencies spread out in the 19 districts of Kutch, Saurashtra and southern regions. A total of 977 candidates are in the fray from Kutch, Morbi, Jamnagar, Surendranagar, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Rajkot, Botad, Porbandar, Junagadh, Amreli, Gir Somnath, Bhavnagar, Bharuch,[Read More…]
BJP leader and union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday attacked the Congress, saying they did not spare a “single element of this earth” from corruption and “covering it (corruption) and saving the guilty has been their history”. “If we take the air waves, then there is 2G scam; if[Read More…]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced Rs 3 lakh compensation to the family of a migrant labourer from the state who was hacked to death in Rajasthan and a job to a family member. “Very sad incident happened in Rajasthan. Afrajul Khan of Malda of our state[Read More…]
BJP Maharashtra leader Nana Patole announced on Friday that he had resigned from the Lok Sabha and quit the party too. Patole, elected from Bhandara-Gondiya, said he had submitted his resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and also the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership. Meghalaya assembly’s three-day session to begin[Read More…]
