Tag: india
Chirag Paswan joins NDA, promises win in all Bihar seats
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan said on Tuesday that his party has joined the NDA following a positive discussion with the BJP over his ”concerns” and asserted the ruling combine will win all 40 seats in Bihar in the 2024 Lok Sabha po...
No breakthrough as Opposition stands firm on Manipur
The Monsoon Session of Parliament reconvened on Monday on a rocky start as the INDIA Opposition alliance hardened its stance on the Manipur violence with demands of a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the matter while the BJP held a protest i...
Priyanka senses big wave of change in MP
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday said a massive wave of change prevails in Madhya Pradesh, where Assembly elections are due at the end of the year, and attacked the ruling BJP over a host of issues, including price rise. In her s...
AJP demands Biren Singh’s sack over Manipur violence
Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) on Friday called for the dismissal of the N Biren Singh government in Manipur after a video surfaced of two women being paraded naked in the ethnic strife-torn state. The opposition party in Assam held the Manipur government ac...
Gehlot sacks minister for criticism of govt
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday sacked Rajendra Singh Gudha as minister of state for questioning his own government’s performance in handling the recent incidents of crimes against women in the state. Governor Kalraj Mishra accepted with i...
Mamata avoids attacking Cong in Martyrs’ Day speech
Has the Opposition’s coming together as INDIA changed things in Bengal? If you heard TMC chief Mamata Banerjee’s Martyrs’ Day rally speech on July 21, you would have certainly asked yourself this question. It was a welcome change for the Opposition bloc a...
INDIA’s Mumbai meeting after Aug 15, panels likely
The next meeting of the opposition alliance INDIA is likely to be held after August 15 in Mumbai, a leader of the bloc said Friday. An 11-member coordination committee is likely to be finalised in the Mumbai meeting, the third such after the Patna and Ben...
11 parties with 91 MPs prefer to remain on fence
While 65 parties have joined either the BJP or the Congress-led coalition, there are at least 11 more with a total of 91 members in Parliament who have chosen to stay neutral for now in the high-stakes general elections next year. Three of the fence-sitte...
29-member Cong election panel for Rajasthan
The Congress on Thursday set up a 29-member Pradesh Election Committee for poll-bound Rajasthan with state unit chief Govind Singh Dotasra named as its chairman. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot, besides former Union minister...
Setback for Pawar as 7 Nagaland NCP MLAs join Ajit faction
In another setback to NCP supremo Sharad Pawar on Thursday, all the office bearers, including 7 MLAs of NCP from Nagaland, joined hands with his nephew and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s faction. Earlier this month, Ajit Pawar and eight ot...
NDA divided into 10 clusters for 2024 elections
Two days after a meeting of the National Democratic Alliance chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi, the ruling alliance is all set to take forward its plans for the Lok Sabha elections next year. The entire NDA has been divided into 10 clusters...
BJP accuses Opposition of disrupting parliament
Even though the government was ready for a discussion on Manipur, the opposition disrupted Parliament proceedings and did now allow the debate to take place, the BJP charged on Thursday as it questioned the timing of the surfacing of a May 4 video of two...
Modi walks over to Sonia Gandhi after plane incident
In a rare gesture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday had a brief conversation with Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha chamber. PM Modi reportedly asked Gandhi about her well-being after her flight from Bengaluru made an emergency landing on...
Nitish rebuts PM’s criticism of his alliance with Lalu
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sought to rebut Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s criticism of his alliance with the RJD, underscoring his old friendship with the party’s founding president Lalu Prasad. Kumar was on Wednesday asked by journalists about...
New version of East India Company, claims BJP
The formation of a new opposition alliance called ‘INDIA’ at the national level is nothing but a new version of the East India Company, BJP leader and Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje has said. Those who looted the country for 60 years have now come toget...