JAIPUR/BANSWARA: Congress is in the grip of “urban Naxals” determined to execute their beliefs and convictions through the party, PM Narendra Modi said on Sunday while drawing a link between opposition party’s pitch for distribution of wealth in its manifesto and his predecessor Manmohan Singh’s Dec 2006 statement that minorities have first right to the…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that if the Congress came back to power, it would give wealth of people to Muslims citing former PM Manmohan Singh‘s statement about the minority community having the ‘first claim’ on the nation’s resources. He was addressing a rally in Rajasthan’s Banswara.“Earlier, when their (Congress) government…
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BENGALURU/HUBBALLI: The murder of a corporator’s daughter on a college campus in Hubballi sparked a row between Congress and opposition BJP in Karnataka, leading to heated responses from the victim’s father, who is a member of Congress.Neha Hiremath, 23, daughter of Congress Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation corporator Niranjan Hiremath, was stabbed to death on the campus…
KOZHIKODE: In a sharp retort to Congress‘s Rahul Gandhi, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan said he and other Left leaders cannot be intimidated by jail threat or probe by Central agencies.Rahul said in Kannur on Thursday that CMs of two states are now in jail, but Vijayan has not even been questioned by ED despite corruption…
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…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission Tuesday reprimanded Congress functionary Randeep Surjewala over his alleged derogatory remarks against BJP MP Hema Malini and barred him from campaigning for 48 hours. This is the first campaign ban imposed by the poll body in this Lok Sabha election cycle. EC had last Tuesday issued a show-cause notice to Surjewala…
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…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM/THRISSUR/MADURAI: PM Narendra Modi accused CPM on Monday of “looting the poor” and raised corruption charges against Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his family. He also targeted Congress, saying the “yuvraj” of the grand old party, who could not protect his family’s seat in UP, had come to Kerala to seek votes.In his speech…
SHIMLA: Congress seems to have further gambled its future in Himachal Pradesh by fielding two of its 34 MLAs in the Lok Sabha elections despite being already one short of a majority in the assembly. The equation has been dicey for Congress ever since the disqualification of six legislators who cross-voted in the Rajya Sabha…
