Bharatiya Janata Party’s national president, Amit Shah said it was only after BJP came to power in Gujarat that development happened. Shah addressed Gujarat’s youth in Ahmedabad’s Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Auditorium on Sunday. This address was ahead of the assembly polls in the state and is part of the day[Read More…]
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‘Garje Gujarat’ to be BJP’s slogan for assembly polls; PM to visit twice in Sept
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided ‘Garje Gujarat’ as its slogan for Gujarat assembly election 2017. It will be launched soon, said sources. The assembly polls in the state are scheduled to take place in December. On 24 August, BJP president, Amit Shah appointed finance minister, Arun Jaitley as[Read More…]
Watch: Amit Shah mistakenly slammed Karnataka BJP president instead of state CM
Bharatiya Janata Party president, Amit Shah has committed a major blunder on Thursday while speaking at an event in Karnataka. Shah mistakenly named BS Yeddyurappa, president of Karnataka, BJP instead of Karnataka chief minister, Siddaramaiah while slamming the opposition party in rule. While he kept on speaking without even realizing[Read More…]
West Bengal Municipality Polls: Mamata Banerjee’s landslide victory
Voting was held for seven civic corporations in West Bengal on Sunday. The TMC has won all seven corporations, with a clean sweep on three of them. The municipalities that went to polls on August 13 were Panskura and Haldia in East Midnapore district, Nalhati in Birbhum, Buniadpur in South[Read More…]
RS poll results: Will move court against EC’s decision, says Gujarat CM
The Gujarat chief minister, Vijay Rupani has expressed disapproval over the Election Commission’s decision of disqualifying two rebels Congress MLAs over cross-voting on Wednesday. He said that in the coming days, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will move the court for justice. “Don’t agree with EC’s decision. In coming days[Read More…]
Delhi HC adjourns hearing on Sunanda Pushkar case till July 20
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of the Sunanda Pushkar death case on a plea by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Subramanian Swamy, till July 20. On July 6, Swamy had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Delhi High Court, seeking a court-monitored enquiry into[Read More…]
Kiran Bedi nominated three MLAs, Congress protests
Congress party members staged a protest against state Lt. Governor Kiran Bedi outside Raj Bhavan in Puducherry on Saturday. The DMK, VCK and two other communist parties had called for a shutdown protest against Bedi’s style of functioning. The protestors were shouting slogans against the nomination of three Bharatiya Janata[Read More…]
BJP slams Congress for ‘dividing the country’ over Prez polls
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday slammed the Congress Party for ‘dividing’ the nation on the upcoming presidential election. While appreciating Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar’s, decision to support NDA’s presidential nominee, Ram Nath Kovind, BJP leader, Siddharth Nath Singh, said that the Congress has always worked towards dividing[Read More…]
Ramnath Kovind, a symbolism of BJP’s caste-politics amidst rising Dalit atrocities
BJP has been asserting supremacy over the marginalised sections of India slowly yet steadily, leaving no stone unturned. On Monday, Amit Shah the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party declared that the NDA government is forwarding the name of Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind as their candidate for the upcoming Presidential[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: BJP blames Congress for farmers’ unrest; CM to sit on fast till peace restores
Uttar Pradesh Power Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shrikant Sharma on Saturday blamed Congress for politicising the farmers’ issue in Madhya Pradesh. He said that Congress was not able to come to terms with the developmental works done for the farmers by the saffron party. The public knows[Read More…]
Babri Masjid case: BJP leaders to appear in special CBI court today
In connection to the Babri Masjid demolition case, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, and Union Minister Uma Bharti are expected to appear before a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Lucknow on Tuesday. The court had earlier directed them to appear before[Read More…]
Attacks on jawans: Congress women’s wing protests with bangles outside BJP office
Congress women’s wing protested on Friday outside the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarter in Delhi with bangles over a recent attack that claimed lives of security personnel in Kashmir. Recently, the opposition lashed out at Union minister Smriti Irani over the “barbaric” killing and mutilation of two Indian soldiers saying,[Read More…]
Tajinder Bagga: The meteoric rise of an online campaigner
Tajinder Pal S. Bagga is a popular figure on social media with a Twitter following of close to 2 lakh people. He has been in the limelight frequently for leading campaigns against several public figures for their alleged anti-national acts which earned him the infamous tag of being an online[Read More…]
Getting threats for criticising BJP, PM Modi: Ramachandra Guha
Noted writer-historian Ramachandra Guha on Tuesday said that he had been getting “identical threat mails” warning him not to be critical towards PM Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The historian also clarified that such mails were a “routine affair” and it was “nothing serious”. The 58-year-old also[Read More…]
Cong, SP, BSP exploited dalits for their political interests: Amit Shah
Going all out to woo Dalits in the run up to 2017 Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, BJP president Amit Shah on Friday accused Congress, BSP and Samajwadi Party of exploiting the community for their ‘own political interests’. In an address at Dhamma Chetna Yatra Samapan programme in Kanpur, Amit[Read More…]