NEW DELHI: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday defended the party’s decision to “respectfully decline” the invitation to the consecration ceremony of Ram temple. Jairam added that Pran Pratishtha of Ram lalla in Ayodhya was a “political” event for “a political person”.Prime Minister Narendra Modi had led the rituals at the Pran Pratishtha at the…
B JP has won not more than seven of the 42 seats in any of the 10 Lok Sabha elections held in Andhra Pradesh-Telangana since the party was formed in 1980. While it drew nil results in 1989, 1996, 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha elections, the party sprang a surprise only once by winning seven…
NEW DELHI: Robert Vadra, husband of Congress general secretary, on Monday hit out at the BJP-led Centre for targeting opposition leaders and destabilising their governments in the states.“Wherever we have our governments, they try to destablise them. People are watching this and they know why this is happening. People do not appreciate that elected governments…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress leaders, who brought the battle with BJP over central agencies “harassing” opposition leaders during elections, were detained by the Delhi Police on Monday, from outside the office of the Election Commission of India here, where they were holding a dharna demanding the chiefs of the ED, CBI, IT and NIA be…
NEW DELHI: The BJP could dislodge Mamata Banerjee‘s Trinamool Congress to become the No. 1 party in West Bengal in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, according to political strategist Prashant Kishore. In an interaction with PTI editors, Kishor said: “You would be surprised as, in all likelihood, to my mind, the BJP is going to…
LUCKNOW: UP CM Yogi Adityanath on Sunday fired a broadside at Congress, accusing it of soft-pedaling terrorism, divisive politics, corruption, misgovernance, and working against Hindu sentiments.“During the Congress government, biryani was served to terrorists, while the poor kept starving. But BJP govt ensured that 80 crore people are covered under PDS and receive ration for…
LUCKNOW: BJP‘s Sultanpur Lok Sabha candidate and former Union minister Maneka Gandhi on Sunday said she was neither surprised nor upset when the party didn’t nominate her son and three-time MP from Pilibhit, Varun Gandhi, from the constituency.“BJP is a cadre-based party, and everyone adheres to the decisions made,” she said.BJP has nominated UP public…
CHENNAI: An election flying squad seized 4 crore in cash from three people aboard the Chennai-Tirunelveli Nellai Express when the train reached Tambaram station on Saturday night. Inquiries revealed that one of them is a BJP worker with an official party identity card.S Sathish, 33, of Agaram, his brother S Navin, 31, and S Perumal,…
BHUBANESWAR: In politics, there are no permanent enemies. This was evident after BJP’s Odisha vice-president Lekhasri Samantsinghar, who till the other day was a vocal critic of chief minister Naveen Patnaik, joined the BJD on Sunday and could be the party’s nominee for Balasore Lok Sabha seat.Balasore is the only seat where the BJD has…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lambasted the Congress, asserting that the progress achieved in the last ten years surpassed what had been accomplished in the 60 years following independence.Speaking at a public rally in Nawada, Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised that the Central government is undertaking bold initiatives for the nation.Prime…
