Before the last week’s unfortunate events in Jammu and Kashmir it was the advent of Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi in active politics that bothered the Bharatiya Janata Party too much. So much so that the looming general elections had sent the ruling party higher ups to the drawing board[Read More…]
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BJP veterans including Advani may contest Lok Sabha polls
By Brajendra Nath Singh New Delhi: BJP veterans, including L.K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, are likely to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, notwithstanding an informal bar on those above 75 years occupying ministerial and organisational posts. A final decision in this regard would be taken by the party’s[Read More…]
SC judgement a big loss to AAP, says BJP
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday described the Supreme Court verdict on the tussle between the Delhi government and the Centre over sharing of powers as a big loss to the Arvind Kejriwal government and asked the chief minister to apologise to the top court. The remarks came soon after[Read More…]
Maharashtra: BJP leader beats bank manager after farmers’ issues go unresolved
Beed: Taluka president of BJP’s Kisan Morcha Balasaheb who goes by alias Avinash More, allegedly beat up the manager in the state Bank and made him a hostage. On the complaint made by bank manager, police has registered a case against the accused minister. According to the minister, bank manager[Read More…]
Modi government has made Governors BJP General Secretaries: MK Stalin
Chennai: DMK President M.K. Stalin on Thursday said the Modi government was converting Governors as BJP General Secretaries and extended his support to Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy who is protesting outside Lt Governor Kiran Bedi’s residence. In a tweet, Stalin said: “Lt Governor being the reason for the abnormal[Read More…]
Sushma Swaraj: Lesser known facts about Delhi’s first woman Chief Minister
First female Spokesperson of a national political party in India
Jyoti Dhurve’ caste certificate case: No relief to BJP MP, panel upholds govt decision
Scrutiny committee stated that Dhurve does not belong to the Gond Scheduled Tribe committee and instead is from the Bisen/Panwar caste
Watch: Tripura minister gropes female colleague on stage in presence of PM Modi; accused calls video ‘morphed’
A viral video clip from Saturday showing Tripura Sports Minister Manoj Kanti Deb publically touching his female colleague on the waist while he was on stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an inauguration function, has called on outrage from opposition parties which have demanded that he be fired and charged with sexual[Read More…]
Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee links BJP with party MLA’s murder
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Monday blamed the BJP for party MLA Satyajit Biswas’ murder and claimed those who are seeking protection from central leaders in Delhi will be brought back and put to justice. Biswas, a Trinamool MLA from Nadia district’s Krishnagunj, was shot dead from point-blank[Read More…]
BJP leader Mukul Roy named in TMC MLA Satyajit Biswas murder case
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukul Roy was named in a police complaint here on Sunday in the Trinamool Congress legislator Satyajit Biswas murder case, police said. Biswas, a popular Dalit leader, was shot dead by unidentified assailants while he was attending a Saraswati Puja programme in the Nadia district[Read More…]
Modi’s farm income scheme a whimper, not a trump card: Chidambaram
Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram calls it a “whimper” instead of being a trump card that leaves out an overwhelming majority of the poor and benefits only the land-owner class. He also rejects criticism of Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s announcement of loan waivers to farmers across the nation if his[Read More…]
Congress accuses BJP national leadership of horse trading to destablise Karnataka government
Citing purported audio tape conversations allegedly involving former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, the Congress on Saturday accused the BJP of attempting to destabilise the Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka through corruption and horse trading and sought to link its national leadership – Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party President Amit Shah[Read More…]
Will campaign against BJP if mining not resumed: Goa mining dependants
Panaji: Expressing disappointment with their meeting on Wednesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Goa Mining People’s Front has now threatened to take the battle to the ruling BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha and by-polls to two Assembly seats. Speaking to IANS on Friday, Puti Gaonkar, President of the[Read More…]
Modi set for a Friday tryst with North Bengal, BJP alleges Trinamool intimidation
Jalpaiguri: Amid BJP’s accusations of harassment and intimidation by the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a public meeting in Jalpaiguri district’s Churabhandar on Friday, in a bid to give a further fillip to the saffron outfit’s Lok Sabha poll campaign in northern West[Read More…]
Surat: BJP Councillor booked for accepting bribe of Rs 50,000 from doctor
The councillor demanded money from the doctor for not taking any action against the construction being made in the residential area.
Embarrassment for BJP: MP Jyoti Dhurve caste certificate found to be fake
In the general elections of 2009, Jyoti Dhurve had submitted her candidature on BJP ticket with caste certificate of Scheduled Tribe category
Uttar Pradesh budget live updates: Rs 248 crore allocated for cancer institute in Lucknow
Yogi Adityanath government is set to present its third budget in state
Himachal Pradesh: “How many corpses will you see?”, BJP MLA slams own minister over school bus accidents
MLA from Nurpur, BJP MLA Rakesh Pathania questioned his own party minister regarding school bus accidents taking place in Himachal Pradesh. The MLA said, “It is time to be serious now, minister ji, how many corpses will you see?” Congress MLA Vinay Kumar had raised the recent incident of the[Read More…]
BJP’s Anurag Thakur summons Twitter India to ‘secure citizens’ rights’
Parliamentary Committee on Information Technology, which is headed by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Anurag Thakur summoned Twitter India officials over the issue of safeguarding citizens’ rights on social media platforms. The panel has also asked the representatives of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to appear before it during its meeting[Read More…]
Bengal: Once close to Mamata Banerjee, former IPS Bharati Ghosh joins BJP
On Monday, former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). For more than six years, Ghosh was the West Midnapore superintendent of police, after that, on December 26 last year, she was transferred as commandant of the third battalion of the state armed police. But she resigned[Read More…]
CBI conduct in Bengal a conspiracy, says senior SP leader
Kolkata, Samajwadi Party (SP) national Vice President Kiranmoy Nanda on Monday dubbed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s attempt to question the Kolkata Police chief in connection with a ponzi scheme scam a ‘conspiracy’ hatched by the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. “The Supreme Court order (asking the[Read More…]
Kolkata: BJP office in Bhabanipur vandalised
The Bhabanipur, Kolkata office of the Bhartiya Janata Party has been vandalised. Meanwhile the Twitter handle of BJP West Bengal has pointed its fingers to the “goons” of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. They tweeted, “@mamataofficial’s goons have vandalised the BJP party office in Bhawanipore, South Kolkata. Mamata represents the[Read More…]
You have guts, please talk on Rafale: Rahul tells Gadkari
New Delhi, In wake of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari’s recent remarks perceived as against his partys top leadership, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday urged him to also comment on the “Rafale scam” and the agrarian crisis, saying he was the only BJP leader with “some guts”. “Gadkari Ji, compliments![Read More…]
We want peaceful, fair LS polls in Bengal: BJP
New Delhi, A BJP delegation met the Election Commission on Monday and requested it to conduct the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal in a “violence free and fair” atmosphere. “In view of the ongoing violence by workers of the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, we requested the[Read More…]
“Will quit politics the day Narendra Modi retires,” says Smriti Irani
While making clear that she has no political ambition of becoming the ‘pradhan sevak’, Union Minister Smriti Irani said that she would leave politics the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to hang his boots, though she asserted that he would be around for “long years”. She was speaking at the Words[Read More…]