The Income Tax department has issued a notice to Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party, citing discrepancies in the donors’ list submitted to tax officials and what had been put up on the party website. Terming the notice as “malicious”, AAP alleged that the BJP-led NDA government is harassing the party[Read More…]
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Walk the talk on party funding: Anna to Kejriwal
Veteran Social activist Anna Hazare castigated Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for not fulfilling the promise of putting his party’s donors list in public domain. In a letter to Kejriwal, dated Dec 23, Anna took a dig at the Kejriwal and said if change has to be brought into the[Read More…]
AAP announces ex-bureaucrat Elvis Gomes as Goa CM candidate
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday proposed former career bureaucrat Elvis Gomes as party’s chief ministerial candidate for the Goa Assembly elections due next year. The announcement came on Monday evening at Kejriwal’s first public meeting in Goa. The CM face will contest from Cuncolim in South Goa. “Among[Read More…]
Thand aa gayi hai. Muffler nikal gaya: Kejriwal
After the capital awoke to dense fog and an unexpected nip in the air, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) founder Arvind Kejriwal tweeted saying “Thand aa gayi hai. Muffler nikal gaya. Aap bhi apna khayal rakhe (The cold is here. The muffler has come out. All of[Read More…]
PM Modi is a saint, everyone else a black marketeer: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, backed by JD-U, SP, NCP and AAP, held a demonstration against demonetisation and ramped up attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging the country was not safe in his hands. Addressing the gathering at Jantar Mantar, Banerjee alleged that abolition of high-value currency notes[Read More…]
#PunjabPolls2017: Arvind Kejriwal and Capt Amarinder Singh engage in ‘verbal duel’ on Twitter
Polls may be away for Punjab but Twitter is already burning with allegations and counter-allegations between Aam Admi Party and Congress. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Monday alleged that BJP ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) was funding Punjab Congress leader, Captain Amarinder Singh’s, poll campaign. He[Read More…]
Ahead of Surat rally, posters of Kejriwal with Burhan Wani, Hafiz Saeed and bin Laden
Days ahead of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal’s October 16 rally in Surat, banners carrying his photographs with Burhan Wani, Hafiz Saeed and Osama bin Laden, terming them ‘heroes of Pakistan’, appeared at different locations across the city on Thursday. While AAP blamed BJP, the saffron party denied it had anything[Read More…]
Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan formally launch ‘Swaraj India’
After their expulsion from the Aam Admi Party, Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan formally announced their own all-India political party- Swaraj India. The party was initially an outfit for campaigning on “public issues and the Swaraj Abhiyan leaders, who announced the party’s name on Sunday, said Swaraj India would be[Read More…]
“Will expose this big controversy on Friday,” says Kejriwal on Satyendra Jain matter
Adding more to Aam Admi Party government’s troubles, Health Minister Satyendra Jain has come under the Income Tax scanner for an alleged hawala transfer. Reacting on the entire mater AAP supremo and Delhi chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal tweeted that cases filed against various AAP ministers are a “big controversy,” and he is soon[Read More…]
Congress claims AAP’s Mohalla Clinics a sham
The Congress Party has trained its guns on the AAP government and has called out its Mohalla Clinics. The national party claims it trained 217 workers and constituted various teams who went and surveyed 105 Mohalla Clinics in Delhi. The Congress says it has found the clinics to operate for[Read More…]
AAP lawmaker Somnath Bharti arrested for allegedly assaulting security guards
Aam Admi Party’s controversial lawmaker, Somnath Bharti was arrested over assault charges today. After Amanatullah Khan he is the second leader to be arrested in two days. He has been arrested for allegedly misbehaving with security guards at Delhi’s AIIMS hospital earlier this month as AIIMS or the All India[Read More…]
AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan goes to surrender at police station, cops refuse
Facing allegations of sexual allegations, AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on Monday went to the Jamia Nagar police station to get himself arrested but police refused to apprehend him. “We will not arrest him now. Whatever he is doing is of his own accord. We will go by our investigation,” a[Read More…]
Lt Governor Najeeb Jung visits Delhi hospitals after ‘weekend’ jibe by AAP mantris
Lt Governor Najeeb Jung visited several hospitals across the city on Sunday. Stressing on “special attention” to the elderly, he took stock of their preparedness in dealing with the rising number of chikungunya and dengue cases in the national capital. His inspection comes a day after the ruling AAP government[Read More…]
LG summons Sisodia to tackle capital’s health crisis
LG Najeeb Jung has asked deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia to cut short his trip to Finland and return to Delhi. Chief secretary Kewal Sharma had been asked to send an email and contact Sisodia’s hotel. With eight chikungunya deaths in the capital, the ruling AAP govt has been facing a lot[Read More…]
Google says you cannot die from Chikungunya: Delhi health minister
For Delhi health minister Satyendra Jain Google is the most reliable source of information as according to him chikungunya cannot cause deaths because the search engine told him so. The minister said that four of the five supposed chikunguniya deaths in Delhi were reported from the same hospital, which seems ‘suspicious’. Jain[Read More…]
“No one dies of chikungunya” says Delhi health minister as 5 succumb to the disease
As the national capital reels under chikungunya, witnessing five deaths in the past three days, an all-out verbal war has broken out between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Aam Aadmi Party. The former has accused the Delhi Government of negligence and pointed out towards the absence of its ministers,“The[Read More…]
Three chikungunya deaths in Delhi as ministers remain elusive
Delhi reels under the unexpected or rather ‘much’ expected bout of chikungunya, dengue and other mosquito vector borne diseases. Till now, chikungunya which is a “non-fatal” disease has claimed three lives on Monday and at least 10 people have died of dengue and malaria. As Delhi hospitals overflow with patients,[Read More…]
Our ‘cleanest’ party will make Punjab farmers debt free by 2018: Kejriwal
Targeting a major vote bank in the agrarian state of Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener and Delhi chief minister on Sunday promised to make farmers in Punjab debt free by end of 2018 if the party was voted to power in assembly elections early next year. Kejriwal, while[Read More…]
Kejriwal’s Punjab express greeted by black flags, bangles upon arrival
After being mobbed by protesting BJP women workers at his departure, Aam Admi Party supremo and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was greeted with black flags, “Anti-Aurat Party” slogans and bangles upon his arrival at Ludhiana. This is his ‘maiden voyage’ in the state since convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur was[Read More…]
Senior AAP leaders exploiting women, AAP MLA writes to Kejriwal
After the arrest of AAP minister Sandeep Kumar, a party MLA worried about “debauchery” in the party has embarked on a “fact finding mission” to Punjab. Bijwasan MLA Devinder Sehrawat has written to Arvind Kejriwal, saying he had heard about senior partymen in Delhi and Punjab exploiting women. He said in his letter, “I saw disturbing[Read More…]
Jung panel to probe AAP files, Kejriwal alleges “witch hunting”
Najeeb Jung, Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor (LG) has escalated the tiff between the Centre and Delhi’s AAP government by setting up a three-member committee to look into all 400 files obtained from various departments. These contain decisions taken by the AAP government without LG’s prior sanction. The committee consists of three[Read More…]
How some Delhi RWAs are taking on the powerful Reliance Group
I have been living in south Delhi’s posh Alaknanda area for three years now. It’s a peaceful area with several apartments named after rivers and standalone homes that rub shoulders from the neighbouring Greater Kailash-II. It’s close enough to the Bengali ghetto of CR Park for me to revisit my[Read More…]
Gujarat Dalit stir: Arvind Kejriwal and Rahul Gandhi to pay a visit
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Congress’s vice- president Rahul Gandhi will visit Una, Gujarat, where a Dalit family was flogged by self-proclaimed ‘Gau Rakshaks’ (cow vigilantes) for skinning a dead cow last week. The incident was captured in a video which went viral on the internet. Since the incident[Read More…]
Navjot Singh Sidhu quits BJP, likely to join Aam Aadmi Party ahead of Punjab polls
Former cricketer and senior BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned from the Rajya Sabha on Monday, July 18. He and his wife, Navjot Kaur, who is a parliamentary secretary for the Punjab government will be joining hands with Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party. Speculations are rife that Sidhu may be[Read More…]
Talk to AK: Arvind Kejriwal just loves the blame game
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s radio show ‘Mann Ki Baat’, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal couldn’t resist having a similar kind of show where he took questions from people across the country. Arvind Kejriwal wanted to know what concerns, suggestions, problems and queries people have so he could address them[Read More…]