NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Tuesday released the second list of 26 candidates for the Delhi assembly polls. Here’s the list On December 12, Congress announced its first list of 21 candidates for the Delhi polls. The party fielded Sandeep Dikshit, son of former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, against AAP convener and former…
NEW DELHI: The political faceoff over BR Ambedkar, triggered by Amit Shah‘s remarks in Rajya Sabha during the Constitution debate, has spilled over from Parliament to the streets with opposition parties trying to make the most of the controversy while the BJP launching a coordinated counter offensive to control the damage. Launching an all-out offensive…
Jairam Ramesh (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court against the recent amendments to the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, said senior leader and AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday.“A Writ has just been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the recent amendments to the Conduct of…
The controversy over Amit Shah’s Ambedkar remarks once again united the Congress and other opposition parties. (Photo/PTI) NEW DELHI: The winter session of Parliament saw differences within the INDIA bloc come to the fore with some regional parties differing openly with the Congress and some even questioning its leadership of the opposition alliance. The session…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi on Friday defended her brother, Rahul Gandhi on Friday, rejecting BJP‘s allegations of violence during a scuffle outside Parliament as “false and baseless”Speaking to the media, Priyanka accused the BJP of fabricating the claims out of desperation to divert attention from pressing issues.“This is the government’s desperation,” she said….
High drama ensued outside the Parliament on Thursday after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Pratap Chandra Sarangi claimed that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi pushed an MP, resulting in him getting injured.Rahul Gandhi responded to the allegations and claimed that BJP MPs were the ones who obstructed and pushed him whilst he was entering the Parliament…
My resignation will make no difference to Congress’s fortune, said Shah. (File photo) NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday accused Congress of circulating a “doctored” version of his Rajya Sabha speech after having been exposed as “anti-Ambedkar, anti-Constitution, anti-reservation and anti-OBCs”, asserting that BJP was exploring all legal options in response to the…
NEW DELHI: The BJP, which had the Congress literally on the backfoot for almost four days during the Constitution debate in Parliament, at the end found itself cornered by all opposition parties as it defended Union home minister Amit Shah‘s remark on B R Ambedkar which was part of his reply in Rajya Sabha on…
NEW DELHI: Congress called Union minister Amit Shah‘s speech in the Rajya Sabha “bundle of lies” and said he came to the Parliament to praise PM Modi. On Tuesday, Amit Shah addressed the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of India. While speaking at the Rajya…
NEW DELHI: A day after J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah dismissed allegations of EVM tampering and raised ‘selective’ blaming of the voting method, the Congress and its ally seem to be at odds with each other. The Congress on Monday denied Abdullah’s assertions, saying that it was the Samajwadi Party, NCP, and Shiv Sena (UBT)…
