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…
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (left) and Anurag Singh Thakur / File photos NEW DELHI: The central government will be sending the bills meant for simultaneous elections to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), comprising 31 parliamentarians, including Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi, Manish Tewari, BJP’s Anurag Singh Thakur and Anil Baluni.The JPC for the “One Nation One Election”…
NEW DELHI: Seeking to corner BJP during a discussion on Constitution in Parliament, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the saffron party’s “supreme leader” – V D Savarkar – had called ‘Manusmriti‘ better than the Constitution and asked if BJP wasn’t mocking him by praising Ambedkar and the Constitution.Rahul invoked the legend of Eklavya…
NEW DELHI: There was pandemonium in Rajya Sabha on Friday as BJP MPs clashed with opposition members over the no-confidence motion against Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar who himself had an angry exchange with LoP Mallikarjun Kharge, before the House was adjourned for the day. As Congress MPs accused him of behaving in an extremely partisan manner,…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (File photo) NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha, accused PM Modi of lying about him being against reservation, saying the INDIA bloc wants to increase quota beyond the 50 per cent cap.Speaking in poll-bound Jharkhand on Monday, the Congress leader said the “election is the election…
WAYANAD: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Sunday emphasised that the primary struggle in the country today is to protect and preserve the Constitution. “The protection that we get, the greatness of our country, all emerged from the Constitution,” the Lok Sabha MP said while addressing a corner meeting in Mananthavady as part of campaign for…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its verdict on whether an accused is entitled to get at the pre-trial stage documents which are in possession of Enforcement Directorate but not relied upon by the agency in money laundering cases and questioned the agency on the justification for taking a “rigid approach” by denying such documents…
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No political party in power took this short step despite SC goadingNEW DELHI: When the Constitution was just a year-old, law minister B R Ambedkar had stoically met the charge that the Hindu Code Bill, 1951, was communal in nature as it aimed to codify the personal law of one religious community leaving aside the…
BENGALURU: Some state governors are doing things they shouldn’t and not doing things they should, Justice BV Nagarathna of Supreme Court said while delivering the keynote address at a National Law School of India (NLSIU) conference in Bengaluru Saturday.The SC judge highlighted the importance of governors maintaining neutrality, quoting Durgabai Deshmukh, a member of the…
