HAMIRPUR: The Congress govt in Himachal Pradesh took loans worth over Rs 27,000 crore in the last 18 months, former Union minister Anurag Thakur said on Monday.Thakur also made the sam allegation while addressing public meetings at several places in his parliamentary constituency Hamirpur, including in Nadaun, the home assembly seat of Chief Minister Sukhvinder…
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge‘s remark that the BJP leadership would have been languishing in jail if Congress had got just 20 more seats in the Lok Sabha polls has drawn an aggressive response from BJP, with former I&B minister Anurag Thakur accusing him of harbouring an “intolerant and dictatorial mindset“.“The mask of love…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Anurag Thakur called out LoP Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party for their silence on the atrocities against Hindus and other minority communities in Bangladesh while expressing concern over Gaza. “It is unfortunate that the Leader of Opposition extended congratulations to the interim government (of Bangladesh) but did…
NEW DELHI: BJP MP Kangana Ranaut has not held back her attack on Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi over his proposal for a nation-wide caste census. The MP from Mandi in her social media post, shared a meme that showed the Congress leader wearing a skull cap, a yellow mark on his forehead, and a…
NEW DELHI: BJP MP Anurag Thakur, whose caste attack on Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha has triggered a storm, on Thursday doubled down on his attacks against the Congress leader and invoked remarks of former Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru to prove how his family has always been against reservations for…
NEW DELHI: Even as Congress on Wednesday filed a notice of breach of privilege against PM Modi for tweeting BJP MP Anurag Thakur‘s speech with content that had allegedly been expunged, there was little likelihood of the move making any headway, report Akhilesh Singh & Subodh Ghildiyal. Congress notice submitted by Charanjit Singh Channi, ex-CM…
NEW DELHI: On a day Congress MPs protested in Lok Sabha over BJP MP Anurag Thakur‘s remarks in the House over caste census, which were seen as a “caste slur” on Rahul Gandhi, the saffron party strongly defended its MP and said he had not taken anyone’s name but even if the comments were aimed…
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday made a strong case for caste census and accused the BJP-RSS of conspiring to hide the caste numbers so that they could keep the dalits, tribals and OBCs backward and snatch away their reservation. A day after BJP MP Anurag Thakur‘s alleged caste attack against Rahul Gandhi…
NEW DELHI: Former Union minister Anurag Thakur, in a sharp response to Akhilesh Yadav, shared an old video on Wednesday showing the Samajwadi Party chief inquiring about a journalist’s caste and name.Thakur shared the video with the caption, “Jaati kaise pooch li Akhilesh Ji? (How can you ask about the caste)” How it started?It started…
Former Union minister Anurag Thakur‘s remark that “those whose caste is not known” are talking about caste census sparked an uproar in Lok Sabha on Tuesday with Congress MPs trooping into the well.However, Thakur’s remark, made in the presence of Rahul Gandhi and an articulation of BJP‘s complaint that Congress’s embrace of ‘caste census’ after…
