A Congress leader from western Uttar Pradesh on Thursday alleged that he wanted to contest the presidential election in the party against Vice President Rahul Gandhi but was prevented from doing so. Talking to reporters, Ayub Ali said that he had gone to meet the Congress‘ Central Election Authority chairman[Read More…]
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Fight between truth and lies in Gujarat, Congress represents truth: Rahul Gandhi
Terming the assembly elections in Gujarat a fight between truth and lies, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said truth lies with his party, and not the BJP. “This is a fight between truth and lies. On one side, it is Gujarat’s people, on the other 5-10 industrialists. Modiji[Read More…]
Mukul Roy quits TMC’s working committee; will resign from party after Puja
Rajya Sabha MP and one of the founding members of the Trinamool Congress, Mukul Roy, finally announced his separation from the party. Roy has resigned from the working committee and said he will quit Rajya Sabha and primary membership after Durga Puja. “I was the one who was the first[Read More…]
BJP surfaces as top choice for corporate donors
According to an analysis by the election watch body Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), business houses handed out a total of 956.77 crores to national parties between 2012-13 and 2015-16 with BJP getting the biggest share at 704.81 crores. The report, which analysed funding received by five national parties- BJP,[Read More…]
Cracks in AAP: MLA Amanatullah Khan resigns from PAC
AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan voluntarily resigned from the party’s PAC on Monday night, a day after 40 MLAs wrote a letter against Khan, seeking his ouster from the party’s political affairs committee (PAC) for pointing fingers at Kumar Vishwas. The incident took place when Delhi CM, AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal[Read More…]
69 percent of total income of political parties comes from unidentified sources
For more than a decade, about 69 per cent of the total income came from unknown sources, according to a report released on Tuesday by an NGO working towards electoral reforms. A recent report released on Tuesday has claimed that almost 69 per cent of the total income of political[Read More…]