As Aam Admi Party supremo and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday departed from New Delhi railway station to campaign for the party in Punjab, he was met with protests by workers of BJP’s women wing. Police officers were seen frantically scrambling around him to provide him with security cover as BJP[Read More…]
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Suspense over: Sidhu to launch political party ‘Awaaz-e-Punjab’
Putting to bed rumours over his next move after his resignation from BJP, Navjot Singh Sidhu is all set to lead a new political front in Punjab, where assembly elections will be held early in 2017. The front, Awaaz-e-Punjab, will be launched by September 9, declared a big red poster[Read More…]
Fresh death spurs tension in the Valley, as Rajnath lands for talks
Union minister Rajnath Singh reached Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, his second trip this month, to hold talks on the unrest in the Valley. However, the government maintains that its first priority is to end the violence. As part of Singh’s two-day visit, he will interact with civil society groups,[Read More…]
ULFA militants kidnap BJP leader’s son, demand ₹1 crore ransom
Terror outfit United Liberation Front of Assam or ULFA has abducted the son of an Assam BJP leader and demanded one crore rupees as ransom. In a video released by ULFA, Kuldeep Maran the son of leader Ratnaswer Moran and nephew of party lawmaker Bolin Chetia, can be seen kneeling[Read More…]
Will the ‘M’ factor work for Mayawati?
Mayawati, who won in Uttar Pradesh riding high on an unprecedented Brahmin-Dalit alliance in 2007, seems to have found a new top-up to her conventional SC vote bank. Sources close to BSP supremo tells Newsd that the party has finalized as many as 138 Muslim candidates across the state. A[Read More…]
Snake bites back: What the killing of BJP worker by VHP, Bajrang Dal cow vigilantes tells us?
Fanaticism at its peak gets alienated from the core ideology it originated and becomes volatile, violent and uncontrollable. It loses the sense of differentiating between friends and foe. The recent incident of the killing of a BJP worker in Karnataka by VHP and Bajarang Dal cow vigilantes is a reminder[Read More…]
PM Modi applauds BJP MPs for taking part in ‘Tiranga Yatra’
Tiranga Yatra, the massive week-long people contact programme envisaged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being carried out successfully by BJP MPs across the country. PM Modi on Thursday took Twitter to thank some of his party MPs for taking part in the Yatra with much fervour. Modi mentioned on[Read More…]
Congress to launch second phase of “27 saal UP Behaal” campaign
Congress party has prepared to launch the second phase of its campaign in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections from August 21. The party has made it very clear that they won’t enter into any pre-poll alliance. As part of the second leg of its election campaign, Congress will roll out two[Read More…]
In BJP’s Tiranga Yatra, ministers seen riding bikes without helmets: Are the lawmakers above law?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi when proposed the ‘Tiranga Yatra’, a massive week-long people contact programme for his party lawmakers he briefed the dos and don’ts, which included donning helmets painted saffron, white and green and carrying 8-feet-long flags. But seems like BJP MPs and ministers who took part in the[Read More…]
₹1625 for a plate and ₹14k for a thermos in Simhasta Kumbh: Congress
Simhastha Maha Kumbh-2016, the month-long once-in-12-year religious congregation in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh has been marred with controversies. The ruling BJP govt has been facing allegations of spending ₹150 crore on buying pitchers, ₹150 crore on planting grass along dividers and the cost of food being ₹1625 per plate as it[Read More…]
BJP Jharkhand chief Tala Marandi quits amid internal ‘unrest’
Jharkhand BJP chief Tala Marandi resigned on Wednesday, highly-placed sources tell Newsd. BJP president Amit Shah had summoned Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das and Tala to New Delhi following internal issues in the state unit. It was during this meeting that Tala quit. Newsd had earlier reported that Marandi’s son, Munna Marandi, married a 11-year-old minor.[Read More…]
Despite Nirbhaya, Kejriwal doesn’t seem to care about women’s safety
An RTI filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Harish Khurana reveals that Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has never called a meeting on the law and order situation in the national capital or on the safety and security of women since assuming office—February 14, 2015, to June 9, 2016.[Read More…]
Vijay Rupani is the new chief minister of Gujarat, Nitin Patel to be the deputy CM
Vijay Rupani has been appointed as the new chief minister of Gujarat by Bharatiya Janata Party. He has been chosen as Anandiben Patel’s successor, who resigned from her post citing her age and upcoming state assembly elections. Nitin Patel, who was being cited as another frontrunner, has been appointed as[Read More…]
What Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is missing on Twitter today
The Delhi High Court gave its verdict on the tussle between the Centre and state on the jurisdiction of the national capital region on Thursday. For a quick wrap of what went down, the court said Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung is the administrative head and does not need to act[Read More…]
Delhi High Court votes in favour of Lt Guv Najeeb Jung over CM Arvind Kejriwal
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government is expected to challenge the Delhi High Court’s verdict on the jurisdiction of the national capital region in the Supreme Court. Saying justice will be served in the Supreme Court, AAP leader Ashutosh said the government’s counsel will immediately file an appeal to the[Read More…]
‘(G)ood (S)ense (T)riumphs’, as does debate, deliberation and discussion in RS
Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram spoke on behalf of the party to raise its objections to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill, which was moved in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Welcoming the “friendly tone” of finance minister Arun Jaitley’s introductory speech, Chidambaram hoped the bill[Read More…]
After Anandiben, who’s the next CM of Gujarat?
With Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel submitting her resignation after a week of protests across the state following the Una incident, speculations are rife about the next chief ministerial candidate in Gujarat. Apparently, four people have emerged as the front runners in the race. Newsd tells you who’s in the[Read More…]
People chant Arhar Modi, not har har Modi: Rahul Gandhi
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi attacked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government on Thursday in the Lok Sabha saying it has forgotten its promises, none of which have been fulfilled in the last two years. On the issue of rising prices of pulses, potatoes and tomatoes, he challenged the government to[Read More…]
#NewsdExclusive: Dalits atrocities on rise since BJP came to power: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
In the wake of Dalit youth getting beaten up in Una, Gujarat, by self-proclaimed cow vigilantes, the ‘Hindutva’ bastion and India saw an unprecedented protest campaign from the Dalit activists across the country. Activists began throwing carcasses in front of municipal and administrative offices, challenging the caste hierarchy that has[Read More…]
Shiv Sena threatens to end its alliance with BJP
Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray has threatened resignation of his party members from the Maharashtra cabinet accusing Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) for not treating them fairly. He alleged that Shiv Sena MPs and MLAs were allocated less funds by the state government which hampered their work progress in their respective[Read More…]
I was told to stay away from Punjab, so quit RS: Navjot Sidhu
Addressing the media on Monday, former Rajya Sabha MP and BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu said he quit his post in the Upper House on July 18 as he was asked to stay away from Punjab. Ahead of the Punjab assembly polls in 2017, Sidhu hinted at being displeased with[Read More…]
Ex-Jharkhand CM to meet Election Commission, demand fresh polls
Jharkhand Vikas Morcha chief and former chief minister Babulal Marandi will lead a delegation to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to demand fresh Rajya Sabha polls. The non-BJP delegation includes representatives of other party, like the Congress’ Subodh Kant Sahay, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha’s Sanjeev Kumar and Janata Dal (United)’s Harivansh.[Read More…]
Modi’s bete noire likely to be RSS’ poster boy in UP
The grapevine has it that Sanjay Joshi will be deployed in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the 2017 polls to campaign for the BJP. With the entrance of Sheila Dikshit, the BJP is worried the upper class Brahmin vote bank in the state will tilt towards the Congress. Joshi’s primary task[Read More…]
Gujarat Dalit stir: Cow nationalism backfires on BJP
Gujarat is experiencing the biggest Dalit upsurge in last 30 years. Dalits this time want to challenge unpractical ideology of RSS-BJP in a practical way. After four Dalit men were beaten up by self-appointed cow vigilantes for allegedly killing cows, Dalits community has dumped cow carcasses at collector’s office in[Read More…]
Dayashankar Singh’s Misogyny: Is an apology enough?
You become a woman in India, as in many parts of the world, not through adolescence. We reach it through multiple tests by fire. As a young girl you are taught to avoid certain roads that are unsafe, wear clothes that are “safe”, ignore catcalls and eve-teasers, and aided by[Read More…]