Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the PILs seeking a court-monitored investigation into the Rafale deal. The court said that it found nothing wrong with the Rafale deal, it finds no irregularities in Centre’s decision-making process to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets. A bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi said nothing was[Read More…]
Tag: Bharatiya Janata Party
While nation waits for CM announcements, Congress slams PM Modi with this new memory game
Post Assembly election results declared on December 11, now the entire nation waits to know the new Chief Ministers of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. Meanwhile, victorious Congress slams PM Narendra Modi by suggesting the nation to distract themselves from the tenterhooks and instead play the new online memory game ‘Corrupt Modi’.[Read More…]
Assam Panchayat Election result 2018 LIVE UPDATES: BJP takes a big lead; Congress, AGP trail
The latest results show the BJP has taken a very comfortable lead in the Zilla Parishad, Anchalik Parishad, Panchayat Sabhapati and Panchayat Sadasya elections.
Election losses in Hindi heartland worry BJP in Uttar Pradesh
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow: With three major states in the Hindi heartland slipping out of its hands, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is worried in Uttar Pradesh where even party insiders complain about poor governance and growing lawlessness. “What if this repeats here too?” is a question that is haunting[Read More…]
BJP loses in its bastion Vidisha after 46 years
Vidisha constituency was the Bharatiya Janata Party’s safe bet since 1977. However, in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election results announced on December 12, BJP faced an embarrassing defeat against its rival party Congress in its bastion Vidisha. Congress candidate, Shashank Shrikishan Bhargav defeated BJP’s Mukesh Tandon with a margin of[Read More…]
Eight of 13 BJP Ministers lose seats in Chhattisgarh polls
Raipur: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s rout in the Chhattisgarh Assembly elections took scalps of several party heavy weights, including eight ministers, while Chief Minister Raman Singh won by a narrow margin. The eight ministers who lost their seats are Amar Agarwal, Prem Prakash Pandey, Kedarnath Kashyap, Rajesh Moonat, Ramsewak[Read More…]
BJP has ‘anti-Muslim’, ‘anti-Pakistan’ approach: Imran Khan
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has an “anti-Muslim” and “anti-Pakistan” approach and claimed New Delhi rebuffed all his gestures due to the upcoming general elections. “The ruling party (in India) has an anti-Muslim, anti-Pakistan approach,” said Khan in an interview[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh: Bahraich MP Savitribai Phule resigns from BJP, says “Party is dividing society”
Savitribai Phule, the Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh) has resigned from the party on Thursday December 6. Phule claimed that “BJP is trying to create divisions in society.” This comes two days after she took on the UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over his comment on Hanuman’s[Read More…]
Haryana CM leaves BJP red-faced, makes controversial statement over rape incidents in India
Recently, while addressing a public meet, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar made a controversial statement saying that the rape incidents have not increased, and have rather decreased over time. He went on to say that rape incidents are nothing new to the society. Such cases have been happening since[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi slams BJP over fake degree
In a yet another scathing attack on Bharatiya Janata Party, the Congress president Rahul Gandhi took a dig at Delhi University Students Union president Ankiv Basoya who recently resigned from the DUSU post after being accused of having a fake degree. Demanding fresh elections and simultaneously slamming his rivals from[Read More…]
Rajinikanth backs PM Modi, says “1 person stronger than 10 combined”
A day after commenting that BJP might be dangerous in coming time, Tamil films actor Rajinikanth on Tuesday remarked that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is actually stronger than the opposition combined. While still leaving many questions unanswered regarding alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party, the actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth said if 10 opposition[Read More…]
2017 Assembly elections: SC refuses Bhupendra Chudasama’s plea to reject petition challenging his victory
In a major blow to state education minister Bhupendra Chudasama, Supreme Court rejected his plea seeking rejection of an election petition against him pending before the Gujarat High Court. The minister had been seeking quashing of a petition moved by a Congress leader challenging his election in the 2017 Gujarat Assembly[Read More…]
Obituary: Ananth Kumar helped build BJP in Karnataka
Bengaluru: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.N. Ananth Kumar, who died on Monday, was widely regarded as an able political organiser who helped build the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka to expand the party’s reach in the country’s south. Along with the party’s state unit president B.S. Yeddyurappa, Union Minister[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections Live: Polling for 18 assembly constituencies ends
Live Updates Two Maoists killed in an encounter with security forces in Sukma. Two rifles also recovered. Voting has ended, turnout is 70% till now in the first phase of Chhattisgarh Elections. Figures will be updated later: Umesh Sinha, Election Commission Chhattisgarh elections 2018: 56.58% voter turnout recorded till 4.30[Read More…]
Polling underway in Chhattisgarh
Raipur: Polling in eight constituencies began at 8 a.m. on Monday and it was underway in 10 others in the first phase to elect a new Chhattisgarh Assembly, officials said. Amid tight security, voting for 10 of the 18 seats began at 7 a.m. and will end at 3 p.m.[Read More…]
Sivasagar: All Assam Students Union protest against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill
The Sivasagar district unit of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) protested against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central Government’s move to grant Indian citizenship to illegal migrants, including Hindu Bangladeshis. Holding a demonstration in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Sivasagar on Saturday, AASU demanded immediate[Read More…]
“Name ‘Amit Shah’ originates from Persian roots. Will BJP rename it?” questions Irfan Habib
After since Yogi Adityanath government has renamed two of the Uttar Pradesh cities, similar demands have cropped up in other parts of the country like Auranghabad and Ahmedabad. Amid this ongoing spree of Bharatiya Janata Party over changing the city names, historian Irfan Habib commented that the BJP chief’s name ‘Amit Shah’[Read More…]
Karnataka: Major blow to BJP, loses three town panchayat elections in Kodagu
The town panchayat elections results that were announced on Wednesday, came as a rude shock to the Bharatiya Janata Party which failed to get a majority in any of thee town panchayats of Kodagu district. BJP managed a clean sweep in the assembly polls of Somwarpet, Virajpet, and Kushalnagar. In[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh: BJP releases 3rd, denies ticket to two sitting MLAs
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday released its third list of 11 candidates for the upcoming Chhattisgarh Assembly polls, with the party denying tickets to two more sitting MLAs. With this list, the BJP has announced 89 candidates for the 90-seat Assembly and the[Read More…]
Bihar: BJP’s Giriraj Singh in legal trouble over renaming of Bakhtiyarpur
A Muzaffarpur-based social activist, Tamanna Hashmi accused the Union Minister Giriraj Singh of hurting religious sentiments. Social worker Tamanna Hashmi has filed a lawsuit against Giriraj Singh for proposing to change the name of Bakhtiyarpur city. Bakhtiyarpur is named after Bakhtiyar Khilji – the military general of Qutb-ud-Aibak – who destroyed the[Read More…]
Birthday Special: Lesser known facts about BJP Pesident Amit Shah
The Bhartiya Janta Party Chief Amit Shah, born as Amitbhai Anilchandra in Bombay on 22 October 2018 to a rich businessman, Anilchandra Shah, turned 54 on Monday. Also known as ‘Chanakya’ and ‘man behind Naren Mod,’ Amit shah is playing very important role in Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party. His abilities to[Read More…]
Congress worker Manoj Dubey murdered in Ghatkopar over Facebook post
Congress worker Manoj Dubey was allegedly murdered by a Bharatiya Janata Party Yuva activist in Ghatkopar on Sunday night, October 22. According to preliminary information, the incident occurred following an argument related to a Facebook post criticising Congress MLA Naseem Khan. Congress worker Manoj Dubey and a few others were[Read More…]
Congress ‘raider’ Rane joins Parrikar’s successor race in Goa
Panaji: Early local lore tells of the Ranes as feared Maratha raiders, who would ride into erstwhile Goa and plunder wealth from the region’s wealthy folks. In contemporary times, the Congress over the last two days, must have felt the heat of yet another raid — to be more specific[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi at HT Leadership Summit: From elections, alliance to religious side of Congress and more
During the 16th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on Friday October 5, Congress president Rahul Gandhi spoke on various issues ranging from demonetisation to his party’s mistakes to attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and promising certain things that he would do if voted as PM candidate. RAHUL GANDHI ON IF VOTED TO[Read More…]
UP cabinet minister, ex-MLA among PMJAY-Ayushman Bharat beneficiary list
It is not even two weeks since the Prime Minister Narendra Modi rolled out the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana–Ayushman Bharat and called it a game-changer initiative to serve the poor and the names of few important people from Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh has emerged among its beneficiaries.[Read More…]