NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday lashed out at the government’s decision to conduct former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s cremation at Nigambodh Ghat instead of a designated memorial site, calling it a “grave insult” to the late leader.In a post on X, Gandhi said, “The great son of Mother India and the first…
NEW DELHI: Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Friday paid tribute to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, describing him as “the epitome of wisdom, nobility, and humility.” “In Dr Manmohan Singh’s passing, we have lost a leader who was the epitome of wisdom, nobility and humility, who served our country with all his…
NEW DELHI: The Union government on Thursday declared a seven day-day national mourning of Manmohan Singh.According to officials, the Union cabinet will meet at 11 am Friday to pat tributes to the veteran Congress leader. Singh’s last rites will be conducted with full state honours, the officials added.Meanwhile, Congress also announced that all party official…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday levelled serious allegations of poll rigging on the Election Commission regarding the recently concluded Maharashtra assembly elections.Questioning the credibility of the poll body, the Congress MP alleged a massive addition in the voters’ list of Maharashtra after the Lok Sabha elections which was…
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday said that 2025 would focus on the party’s organisational empowerment. At the Congress Working Committee’s ‘Nav Satyagraha Baithak’ in Karnataka’s Belagavi, he emphasised that “only hard work is not and timely concrete strategy and direction are necessary.” He added that there is a need to give a…
NEW DELHI: The controversy over Union home minister Amit Shah’s alleged “insult” of Ambedkar will figure prominently in the special CWC meeting called in Belagavi to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi becoming the Congress president, the party said, as it named the public meeting to be held on the second day as “Jai…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Tuesday put out a point-by-point clarification dismissing Congress’s concerns regarding the “inexplicable” increase in voter turnout between 5 pm and 11.30 pm on poll day in Maharashtra and also ruling out any “arbitrary” deletions and additions in the state’s electoral roll.The party had approached EC after its drubbing in Maharashtra…
File photo: BJP Tamil Nadu President K Annamalai (Picture credit: X/@annamalai_k) NEW DELHI: BJP Tamil Nadu president K Annamalai launched a scathing attack on Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy for police action against Telugu actor Allu Arjun in the stampede incident and said that it is a clear case of victimisation and bullying, orchestrated by…
From (left) Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami. NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday launched a massive coordinated counterstrike against the Congress party, which has been mounting pressure on the saffron party to apologise over Union home minister Amit Shah’s remark on Ambedkar.Even…
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath lashed out at the Congress over the political equations the grand-old party shared with BR Ambedkar over the period of time. Addressing the media on Tuesday in Lucknow, the UP CM highlighted the “unconstitutional and unethical insult” done to Ambedkar by the…
