NEW DELHI: Congress leader and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, claimed that a delegation of fishermen, who wanted to meet him in Parliament, was stopped on Thursday.The fishermen had issues related to Sri Lanka that they wished to discuss. Rahul Gandhi addressed the media, saying, it is their right to meet anyone,…
NEW DELHI: The Opposition led by the Congress party on Thursday launched a fierce protest against the Modi 3.0 government’s proposal to amend the Wafq Boards Act. As minority and parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju sought to table the Bill to amend the Waqf Act, Congress’s KC Venugopal disrupted the proceedings and built the case…
NEW DELHI: The Parliament session on Wednesday was all about Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification at the Olympics. It turned into a political storm in the House, with opposition parties talking about sabotage and questioning officials for their alleged failure to save the wrestler from slipping up on the protocol and challenge her subsequent disqualification.Both Houses witnessed…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday tore into Congress party and former Union minister Salman Khurshid after he suggested that a violent anti-government protest similar to those in Bangladesh could potentially occur in India, despite the appearance of normalcy on the surface.Launching a scathing attack against the leader, BJP MP Sambit Patra said, “He…
NEW DEHLI: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan refuted the allegation that the Preamble to the Constitution has been removed from NCERT textbooks, calling it baseless. He accused Congress of engaging in the “politics of lies” and claimed that their actions demonstrate a disgusting mentality.Pradhan asserted that Congress has consistently opposed India’s development and education system,…
NEW DELHI: On a day Congress MPs protested in Lok Sabha over BJP MP Anurag Thakur‘s remarks in the House over caste census, which were seen as a “caste slur” on Rahul Gandhi, the saffron party strongly defended its MP and said he had not taken anyone’s name but even if the comments were aimed…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday targeted the BJP over road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari‘s letter to finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, calling it a “sure sign of internal dissent and rumblings” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In his letter, Gadkari requested Sitharaman to withdraw the 18 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST)…
NEW DELHI: Is Adir Ranjan Chouwdhury on his way out of the Congress? Well, we do not know for now, but the West Bengal Congess leader has surely dropped clear hints of rebellion amid imminent change of leadership in the state unit. The West Bengal Congress leader, who represented Behrampore Lok Sabha constituency for five…
NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday took a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his “Double A and A1,A2” jibes at the BJP-led NDA government as she reminded the Congress leader about the recent milestone reached at Vizhinjam International Seaport in Kerala which welcomed its first mothership, ‘San Fernando’. Rahul, who…
NEW DELHI: The opposition parties, including Congress, Samajwadi Party, and Trinamool Congress, criticized the BJP-led central government on Tuesday for the recent spate of railway accidents, accusing the railway ministry of lacking accountability.In the early hours of Tuesday, at least 18 coaches of the Howrah-Mumbai Mail derailed near Barabamboo in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharsawan district, resulting in…
