NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday drew flak from BJP for her call to maintain peace during the Ram Navami celebrations, with BJP accusing her of singling out Hindu festivals, reports .“Why are similar calls not issued for festivals of other communities?” asked BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi. He said the suggestion…
NEW DELHI: All BJP and NDA candidates contesting the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 19 got a pleasant surprise on Wednesday as they received a personalised letter written by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PM Modi’s letter, written on the auspicious occasion of Ram Navami, starts with a praise of the individual candidate…
Reprising the old classic ‘bees saal baad’, Congress is gearing up to contest its lowest tally of seats ever in Lok Sabha elections. Announcing the fight plan on Monday, the grand old party drew parallels with 2004, when it had cut down on poll contests in favour of allies and gone on to remove the…
PATNA/GAYA: In a strong affirmation of the Constitution’s primacy amid claims by the opposition that BJP intends to “scrap” it if voted back to office, PM Narendra Modi said Tuesday that he was indebted to “Ambedkar’s samvidhan” for preserving the country’s diversity, facilitating equitable economic growth and enabling someone like him to “rise from humble…
NEW DELHI: Alleging that serving diplomats under the Modi govt are behaving like BJP “apparatchiks” and making political attacks on opposition parties, Congress on Tuesday demanded the sacking of Indian ambassador to Ireland Akhilesh Mishra for his “shameful and disgraceful” remarks.Mishra had triggered a controversy when he, in a rejoinder to an Irish Times editorial…
KOLKATA: From the fierce football rivalry between Mohun Bagan’s “chingri” (tiger prawn) and East Bengal’s “ilish” (hilsa) to integral roles in Hindu religious rituals, fish is more than just a culinary delight in Bengal. It’s a way of life for a multitude of Bengalis. And this election season, Trinamool Congress is attempting to pick a…
Four days before voting in Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency, police walked into the residence of Congress stalwart and former chief minister Kamal Nath to “interrogate” his aide, R K Miglani, on Monday.Nath was out campaigning when 40 to 50 policemen turned up at his house in Shikarpur, a village about 10km from Chhindwara district headquarters,…
BASHOLI-KATHUA: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday accused National Conference (NC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Congress of having “misused” Article 370 for their political benefits and asserted that the BJP-led Centre “finished” the provision to bring J&K on a par with the rest of the country.Addressing a rally for Union minister and BJP Udhampur…
NEW DELHI: Amidst the heated election campaign in Bangalore South, a complaint has been lodged with the Election Commission against a Congress candidate and some of her party workers. The complaint alleges that they created a ruckus and heckled Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya at an event, according to a statement from Surya’s office on…
NEW DELHI: While silent on legal guarantee to procurement of crops at minimum support price (MSP), BJP‘s manifesto on Sunday talked of the party’s promise of continuing to increase MSP from “time to time”.The party promised to “further incentivise” crop diversification to make agriculture “sustainable and remunerative” – a pitch it had made to protesting…
