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Modi Hijacks Congress Guarantees And Makes A Big Show Of It For 2024 Lok Sabha Poll
By K Raveendran In the high-stakes world of Indian politics, promises are currency. They sway voters, ignite debates, and shape the destiny of a nation. As the 2024 parliamentary elections loom large, the battle lines are drawn, and the air is thick with...
Rahul Stoops To Conquer, Sacrifices Few Seats For INDIA Bloc’s Benefit
By Arun Srivastava Pursuing the famous Marxist doctrine, one step forward and two steps backward, the Congress has relented to the demands of the satraps of the regional parties like TMC, SP and is virtually pitching to play second fiddle to them. To be r...
Electoral Funding Quagmire: No Real Progress Possible With Peripheral Changes
By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government’s electoral bond scheme has been thrown out of the window by the Supreme Court. That is certainly good riddance to an obnoxious and highly abused scheme. But in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decisive rul...
Modi’s Bharat Ratna awards stripped down to 5 Ms
Just ahead of Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a Bharat Ratna spree, awarding India’s highest civilian award to LK Advani, Karpoori Thakur, Chaudhary Charan Singh, Narasimha Rao and MS Swaminathan. While three Bharat Ratna awards ar...
BJP weighs options with both Naidu, Jagan Reddy
Ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024 and simultaneous state polls, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy paid a visit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Friday. The meeting holds significance from an electoral perspective a...
Cong ‘Black Paper’ counters BJP White Paper claims on UPA blunders
It’s black versus white – the colour code for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. As the BJP-led Centre released a white paper on the previous UPA government’s economic mismanagement of 10 years, the Congress countered it early on Thursday with a “black pap...
SP leader triggers row over Ram Temple consecration
Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary Swami Prasad Maurya has once again stirred up a controversy by raising questions on the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya. Maurya’s statement in the Uttar Pradesh legislative council on Wednesday dre...
Lok Sabha debates ‘White Paper’ exposing UPA failures
The Lok Sabha is holding a 12-hour discussion on the ‘White Paper’ presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today. The document highlighted the corruption, scams, economic mismanagement and poor policy planning in the United Progressive Alliance (...
BJP turns to former allies to bump up 2024 score
After sealing the deal in the eastern state of Bihar with JD(U), the BJP is well on track to tie up with parties across the country in the bid to secure a historic win in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Top party sources told News18 that talks are currently...
Sharad Pawar gets new name for party in RS polls
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday approved the name ‘Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar’ for the Sharad Pawar faction after his group lost the name and symbol of the party he floated in 1999 to his nephew, Ajit. On Tuesday, t...
Cong no-confidence move against Khattar govt
Leader of Opposition in the Haryana assembly Bhupinder Singh Hooda Wednesday accused the Manohar Lal Khattar government of having failed on all fronts and said the Congress will bring a no-confidence motion in the upcoming budget session. The Haryana Cong...
Odisha CM slams BJP for politicising crimes, development
Amid a noisy walkout by BJP members from Odisha Assembly, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday came down heavily on the opposition party accusing them of politicising sensitive crime and development issues that affect the image of the state and its...
Nitish promises not to change sides any more
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who joined the BJP-led NDA recently ditching Mahagathbandhan, on Wednesday said he switched allegiances earlier but now he will not change sides again. Kumar arrived in the national capital to meet Prime Minister Narendr...
AIADMK says door closed for BJP in Lok Sabha polls
Tamil Nadu’s main opposition AIADMK on Wednesday said it had already shut its door on the BJP and ruled out joining forces with the saffron party for the Lok Sabha polls. Following Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s remark that ‘the BJP’s doors are open for...
Modi ‘running away’ from caste census, says Cong
The Congress on Tuesday attacked the government over the demand for a caste census and asked why Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “running away” from the issue. In a post in Hindi on X, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh posed “direct questions” to...