Tag: india politics
ED Vs Kolkata police after raid
A political slugfest has started between the Trinamool Congress and BJP after raids at Kolkata’s Leaps and Bounds Pvt Ltd last week, and this is now followed by a police versus police tussle. History seems to be repeating itself with the Kolkata Police st...
5-day special session of parliament called
The government on Thursday announced that Parliament will sit for a Special Session between September 18 and 22, comprising of five sittings. “Special Session of Parliament (13th Session of 17th Lok Sabha and 261st Session of Rajya Sabha) is being called...
INDIA leaders say win First, PM face decision later
Leaders of at least 26 opposition parties under the INDIA alliance held talks in Mumbai on Thursday to come up with a concrete roadmap and develop a structure for cooperation among the alliance partners to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2...
Rahul, TMC’s Abhishek meet ahead of Mumbai session
Just one day before the opposition INDIA bloc got together in Mumbai, according to sources, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee had an early morning meeting. Neither side has officially ac...
Karnataka Cong eyes migration from BJP
The Congress government in Karnataka launched its most ambitious Griha Lakshmi scheme, under which woman head of every family gets Rs 2,000 per month, in the presence of party leader Rahul Gandhi in Mysore on Wednesday. It is one of the five poll guarante...
Case against Digvijaya Singh over post on Jain temple
The Madhya Pradesh police have registered a case against Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh following an alleged misleading post on his X social media account over a Jain temple in Damoh district, an official said on Wednesday. Amid the police case, state B...
Akhilesh claims INDIA will defeat BJP in 2024
A day before a meeting of the opposition INDIA bloc, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said the alliance will defeat the BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Yadav added that his party and its allies are ready to face elections anytime. ”The c...
INDIA meet to discuss witch-hunt, governance
With the I.N.D.I.A coalition of Opposition parties set to meet for the third time in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1, its prime movers — Mamata Banerjee, Nitish Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal, Hemant Soren and others — are battling fresh cases, summons and ra...
Opposition has several PM options, BJP only one: Uddhav
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said the opposition’s INDIA grouping has several options available for the prime ministerial candidate, while the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has only one choice.He was addressing a press confere...
Lalu uses a Bihari slang against Modi
RJD president Lalu Prasad on Tuesday took recourse to trademark irreverence while asserting his resolve to fight the BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Hum log Narendra Modi ka nareti pakde hue hain……nareti par chadhne jaa rahe hain (we are catchi...
Opposition dubs LPG price cut as poll gimmick
As BJP-led Centre on Tuesday announced a Rs 200 per cylinder cut in prices of domestic cooking gas, ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections, leaders have reacted from across the pollical spectrum. Announcing the decision, Information and Broadcasting Minister A...
AAP urges Supreme Court to order ED shut down
The AAP on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to shut down the Enforcement Directorate after the CBI booked an assistant director with the federal agency on bribery charges. The CBI registered an FIR against ED Assistant Director Pawan Khatri in connection w...
Rahul, Kharge to attend Karnataka scheme launch
The Karnataka government will launch on Wednesday a scheme offering Rs 2,000 monthly financial assistance to more than one crore women who are heads of their households, in the presence of AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi...
Gujarat court Summons Tejashwi Yadav in defamation case
A metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Monday issued summons to Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav in a criminal defamation case filed against him over his reported remarks that ”only Gujaratis can be thugs (fraudster).” The court of Additional Metr...
Mamata predicts Lok Sabha polls this December
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may go for early Lok Sabha polls which are due in April-May next year. The TMC chief, who was speaking at a TMC youth...