NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD: A member of the Prime Minister’s Museum and Library (PMML) has urged Rahul Gandhi, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, to return the letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru to Lady Mountbatten, Jayaprakash Narayan and others, which were allegedly withdrawn on Sonia Gandhi‘s orders in 2008, prompting BJP to ask what was in…
Nirmala Sitharaman and Mallikarjun Kharge in Rajya Sabha. Congress mutilated statute to promote ‘dynasty’: NirmalaRajya Sabha witnessed a fiery start to the two-day-long discussion to mark 75 years of the Constitution with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman launching a scathing attack on Congress for carrying out major amendments to the statute over the decades with the…
NEW DELHI: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis-led Maharashtra cabinet was expanded on Sunday as 39 MLAs were administered oath as ministers by governor PC Radhakrishnan at Raj Bhavan in Nagpur.In the expansion, the BJP got 19 ministerial berths, followed by 11 for Eknath Shinde‘s Shiv Sena and 9 for Ajit Pawar‘s Nationalist Congress Party. Including CM…
NEW DELHI: BJP MP Anurag Thakur on Saturday targeted leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, saying he lacks basic knowledge about the Constitution. “Some people carry the Constitution, but cannot tell how many pages it has because they have never opened it,” the Hamirpur MP said in the House.He also cited senior Supreme…
NEW DELHI: Seeking to corner BJP during a discussion on Constitution in Parliament, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the saffron party’s “supreme leader” – V D Savarkar – had called ‘Manusmriti‘ better than the Constitution and asked if BJP wasn’t mocking him by praising Ambedkar and the Constitution.Rahul invoked the legend of Eklavya…
NEW DELHI: Veteran BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani has been admitted to an Apollo hospital here, sources said on Saturday. Advani remains under observation. His condition is “stable”, hospital sources said. He has been admitted under Dr Vinit Suri, a senior consultant in the neurology department. The 97-year-old former deputy prime minister was brought to…
AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Friday confirmed that he would be contesting from the New Delhi assembly constituency in the upcoming polls.The AAP supremo’s confirmation comes amid speculation that he might consider switching his seat for the Delhi polls, especially after the party’s…
Dhankhar vs Kharge in Rajya Sabha on Friday. NEW DELHI: Ruckus erupted in Rajya Sabha on Friday over no-confidence motion against chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar. The Friday session saw heated exchanges between ruling and opposition members. After INDIA bloc initiated the motion, alleging Dhankhar to be ‘extremely partisan,’ NDA MPs accused Congress leaders of insulting the…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Thursday dubbed the cabinet clearance to bills on simultaneous polls as BJP‘s attempt to divert attention from serious questions being asked about the integrity of elections being held in the country.Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi said his party has asked many questions in the past about polls and electoral integrity. “Let this…
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge alleged on Thursday that Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar “always suppresses” the opposition’s freedom of expression by “persistent heckling”.Kharge, who is the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, claimed Dhankar resorted to “unwarranted insistence on authentication”. He further alleged that Dhankar repeatedly “criticised…
