New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs plea challenging an Election Commission order in the office-of-profit case on Tuesday. The AAP legislators have challenged the Election Commission’s July 17 order rejecting their pleas seeking to cross-examine the complainant and advocate Prashant Patel. On March[Read More…]
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Expect leaders, workers to toe party line in public interactions: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: In a clear warning to some of its loose cannons, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday stressed that it expected its leaders and workers to toe the party line on larger political issues and maintain discipline in their public interactions. Sources said former Congress President Sonia Gandhi also[Read More…]
Vasundhara Raje to be BJP CM face in Rajasthan: Amit Shah
Jaipur: The BJP will fight the forthcoming Rajasthan assembly elections under the leadership of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who will retain the post as the party would come back to power with a big majority, said party President Amit Shah on Saturday. In his address at the concluding ceremony of[Read More…]
Day after trust vote, Shiv Sena calls Rahul Gandhi ‘face of Opposition’
Mumbai: Hours after it kept away from the no-confidence motion against the National Democratic Alliance government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ruling ally Shiv Sena came out in full praise of Congress President Rahul Gandhi here on Saturday. Rahul is now ‘the face of the Opposition’ that has become[Read More…]
Trinamool Congress will fight 2019 general elections alone in Bengal: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday her Trinamool Congress would fight the 2019 General elections alone in West Bengal and warned the Congress and the Left not to join hands with the BJP in the state while seeking her support at the Centre. Addressing the party’s[Read More…]
Post truth politics is the biggest achievement of Modi government
In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries declared ‘post-truth’ the word of the year in response to a rise in its usage in relation to political developments in the US for the presidential election and in the UK on Brexit. It is defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts[Read More…]
Rahul’s speech high on entertainment, low on substance: BJP
The BJP termed Rahul Gandhi’s hug to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an “immature” act and said his speech during the no-confidence motion was “low on substance” and “high on entertainment”. Commenting on the Congress president’s speech, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said, “It was low on substance and high[Read More…]
The jumlas of Narendra Modi govt, as listed by Rahul Gandhi in LS
Congress president hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his ‘jumla’ weapon. It’s the same weapon Rahul used during the Jan Aakrosh Rally in April in New Delhi. Jumla 1: Rs 15 lakh will be deposited in every person’s account. Jumla 2: Two crore employment every year. Jumla 3: Modiji[Read More…]
Government committed to quota in faculty positions: Prakash Javadekar
New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday said the Modi government was committed to reservation in the faculty positions of universities and that it does not agree with a court order quashing the 50 per cent reservation. The University Grants Commission (UGC) was forced to issue a 13-point[Read More…]
Narendra Modi has become Dhritrashtra, BJP Duryodhan: Congress
New Delhi: Accusing the BJP-led Central government of trying to create a divide among Hindus and Muslims ahead of 2019 elections to polarise the society, the Congress on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become blind like Mahabharata character Dhritrashtra in his pursuit of power. The party also compared[Read More…]
Police attacked by BJP supporters after Modi’s Bengal rally
Kolkata: BJP party workers were seen attacking police personnel while returning from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in Midnapore of West Bengal on Monday. Television grabs showed some BJP activists kicking and beating up police personnel with bamboo sticks after the latter allegedly failed to clear the roads for their[Read More…]
Modi reiterates his 2014 manifesto, promises to double farmer’ income by 2022
Mirzapur: Reiterating his 2014 manifesto, Narendra Modi promised to double the income of farmers and rich-poor divide by 2022 on his second day tour of Uttar Pradesh. “Our government visualises a new India that takes full care of the sick, the poor, the children, the youth and the farmers,” he said[Read More…]
Yogendra Yadav accusses Modi of ‘targeting his family’ after I-T raid on his sister’s hospital
New Delhi: Swaraj India Party’s National President, Yogendra Yadav on Wednesday has tweeted against Modi government for going after his family to horrify him. Yadav said that, “over 100 officials from Delhi raided a hospital-cum-nursing home run by his sisters on Wednesday in Rewari.” In a couple of tweets, Yadav[Read More…]
Government may not have polls for Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman this session
New Delhi: Amidst talk of a contest between the opposition and the ruling NDA for the post of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman, the government is also looking at the option of not going for an election for the post in the Monsoon Session of parliament beginning July 18, sources said.[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh polls turn virtual with BJPs ‘Cyber Yodhas’ and Congress’ ‘Rajiv ke Sipahi’
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh’s poll battle has turned virtual with bot h BJP and Congress ready to take on each other with Cyber Yodhas and Rajiv ke Sipahi respectively. At the district level, both the parties have full-fledged plans. While the BJP has planned workshops to equip and educate its cyber[Read More…]
Nitish Kumar stand on 3C’s is a big farce
In national executive meet on Sunday, 8th July 2018 at national capital, New Delhi, the Janata Dal (United) sent a stern message to the Bharatiya Janata Party from its national executive meet, making it clear that it would not compromise on the 3Cs of communalism, crime and corruption even if[Read More…]
Lack of attention on education, health magnified in Modi rule: Amartya Sen
New Delhi: Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen said the lack of attention on social sectors had taken a quantum jump in the wrong direction since the BJP came to power and that despite the visible prominence of backwardness in India, the political dispensation was diverting attention from the core issues. Things[Read More…]
In meeting called by Law Commission, most parties oppose simultaneous polls
New Delhi: Most political parties, including those friendly with the BJP, told the Law Commission on Saturday that they are opposed to the proposal of simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies saying that it was against the constitution and would dilute regional interests. Parties that opposed the[Read More…]
Congress will probe BJP CMs misdeeds after coming to power, says Congress
New Delhi: Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of protecting the corrupt BJP leaders including Chief Ministers of various BJP-ruled states, Congress on Saturday said when it comes to power, there will be a thorough investigation on the cases against them and they will be in jail and not out on[Read More…]
BJP not to miss any opportunity eulogising mob lynching
One needs to accept the fact, mob lynching was never a new phenomenon in India but it has attained a normalized form specifically under the Modi government. A dangerous trend of mob violence is grasping India and is becoming the normal way of dealing with displeasure. The right-wing Hindutva brigade[Read More…]
Competition between BJP and rupee to see who will fall lower: Manish Tewari
New Delhi: Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the drop in the value of rupee, Congress on Friday said there seems to be a competition between the BJP and the rupee to see who will fall lower. Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari likened the country’s economy is like a rudderless boat[Read More…]
Delhi power tussle: law, politics, constitution and legality
You come to know about politics when people are denied their rights and are treated cynically as subjects and not as citizens. The most recent example being the attempt by an elected Chief Minister to initiate a program wherein the people residing in the National Capital Territory of Delhi would[Read More…]
AAP sit-in protest: Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain discharged from hospital
New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who were shifted to hospitalised during their hunger strike over the AAP government’s standoff with Lt. Governor Anil Baijal, were discharged on Tuesday. Sisodia announced his recovery on Twitter before getting discharged. With doctor’s care and your[Read More…]
Why I am resigning from the BJP
Political discourse is at it’s lowest point in the country, at least in my lifetime. The partisanship bias is unbelievable and people continue to support their side no matter what the evidence, there is no remorse even when they’re proved to have been spreading fake news. This is something that[Read More…]
After Kejriwal, HC may be moved against Modi’s low attendance
New Delhi: Soon after rebel AAP legislator Kapil Mishra filed a plea in the Delhi High Court against state Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s low attendance in the assembly, Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh on Monday said he will file a petition seeking details of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s presence in[Read More…]