Kailash Gahlot (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Former Delhi minister and Najafgarh MLA Kailash Gahlot, who resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday. Gahlot criticised his former party for straying from its founding principles, accusing it of diluting the values that initially attracted members to its…
BJP president JP Nadda (Left) and Mallikarjun Kharge (Right) NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India sought formal responses from Bharatiya Janata Party President JP Nadda and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge over the complaints filed by both parties against each other, alleging the violation of the Model Code of Conduct by star campaigners during Maharashtra,…
NEW DELHI: Karnataka minister BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan tendered an apology on Tuesday following a controversy after he referred to Union minister HD Kumaraswamy as “Kaalia”, which the opposition deemed a racial slur.Though the Congress leader apologised for using the word, he defended the remarks, explaining that he has used similar adjectives to address Kumaraswamy…
Former Shiggaon MLA Sayed Azeempeer Khadri stirred controversy with contentious remarks on Monday. HAVERI:Former Shiggaon MLA, Sayed Azeempeer Khadri, sparked a controversy on Monday with his remarks suggesting that Dr BR Ambedkar, the architect of the Constitution, was ready to convert to Islam. Speaking at an Adi Jambava community event in connection with the Shiggaon…
NEW DELHI: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Sunday took a sharp jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party after it accused the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha of patronising infiltrators in the state. Soren questioned the central government’s decision to provide political asylum to ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.Addressing a poll rally at Ranka in Garhwa…
Manish Tewari (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manish Tewari on Wednesday suggested that the Election Commission of India (ECI) should consider returning to paper ballots for conducting elections, highlighting the importance of safeguarding democracy.Tewari said on Wednesday, “All across the world, without exception, even in those countries where EVMs were invented or used…
NEW DELHI: The Congress in-charge for Maharashtra, Ramesh Chennithala, on Wednesday slammed the Mahayuti alliance — comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar faction), and Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) — dubbing it “Bhrashtyuti”. He asserted that the coalition had sidelined its partners and failed to address significant governance challenges as the…
Union home minister Amit Shah (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday accused the chief minister Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government of “aiding infiltration” and said the Bharatiya Janata Party‘s (BJP) “next big target” is to form government in the 2026 Bengal assembly elections.“I have come to tell the youth of…
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde addresses Shiv Sena (Shinde) ‘Dussehra rally’ on the occasion of the Vijayadashami festival, at the Azad Maidan, in Mumbai. (PTI) NEW DELHI: Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde‘s Shiv Sena on Tuesday released first list of candidates for Maharashtra assembly elections. The list included names of 45 candidates. The list was…
Bharatiya Janata Party‘s MP Tejasvi Surya on Thursday claimed that the opposition tried to disrupt the proceedings of the joint parliamentary committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill meeting, physically and verbally threatened both the witness and the Chairperson, and tore up committee documents. BJP MP Surya wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla…
