NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday cited the support of CM Atishi‘s parents for the campaign for clemency for Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru to allege that Aam Aadmi Party had links with NGOs who supported a terrorist whom Supreme Court sentenced to death for plotting the attack, which almost triggered a war with Pakistan. Talking…
Pralhad Joshi and Mallikarjun Kharge (R) NEW DELHI: Union minister Pralhad Joshi on Saturday responded to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge‘s “terrorist party” remarks about the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Joshi highlighted past terror incidents during the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) rule, accusing Congress of being lenient on terror convicts.Joshi attacked the grand old party for…
NEW DELHI: AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal on Wednesday upped the ante against her own party as she sharpened her attack on Delhi minister Atishi, who outgoing CM Arvind Kejriwal chose as his successor on Tuesday.Continuing her criticism of AAP’s decision to pick Aitish as the next Delhi CM, disgruntled Maliwal claimed that Aitishi’s…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party has launched a sharp attack on Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) vice president Omar Abdullah after his recent remarks regarding Afzal Guru, the man convicted in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack. BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad condemned Abdullah’s statement, accusing him of making “irresponsible and anti-national” comments in…
NEW DELHI: Omar Abdullah on Friday said that the Jammu and Kashmir government wouldn’t have approved the execution of Afzal Guru, adding that he did not believe in capital punishment. Abdullah was the chief minister of the undivided J&K in 2013 and was informed just 12 hours before the hanging. “J&K government had nothing to…
