NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is learnt to have offered the seating plan in the House to the INDIA bloc, excluding Trinamool Congress. Although the Mamata Banerjee outfit is part of the opposition alliance and is expected to sit within the same cluster, the separate seats suggest that TMC is negotiating independently for…
NEW DELHI: The third day of the Budget session is set for a massive showdown as the opposition INDIA bloc MPs have decided to protest in Parliament in the backdrop of the Union Budget, which they have called “discriminatory”.Union Budget presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharam for the seventh consecutive time on Tuesday drew opposition’s…
NEW DELHI: AAP leader Swati Maliwal, who has accused Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar of assault, wrote a letter to leaders of opposition’s INDIA bloc and sought a meeting.In her letter, which was specifically addressed to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Maliwal expressed her anguish over the “brutal victim shaming and character assassination”…
NEW DELHI: A day after Tamil Nadu chief minister claimed that INDIA bloc‘s ‘moral victory’ in the Lok Sabha polls prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bow down to the Constitution, BJP’s state president and firebrand leader K Annamalai on Sunday hit back , accusing the DMK of hypocrisy and “utter disregard for the Constitution,”…
KOLKATA: The INDIA bloc’s decision not to stake any claim to form the govt today does not mean that it is not going to stake claim tomorrow, CM Mamata Banerjee has said, adding that TDP’s Chandrababu Naidu and JD(U)’s Nitish Kumar “are also our friends”.Banerjee, who met Trinamool’s 29 new MPs at her Kalighat residence…
NEW DELHI: A day before the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi claimed that the opposition INDIA bloc had offered the PM post to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, to woo him to join the alliance and not support the NDA.“All the regional partners were in favour of…
NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Saturday said that the INDIA bloc will collectively take a call on attending the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minter Narendra Modi and his council of ministers which is scheduled for Sunday evening.After a key meeting of extended Congress Working Committee, party’s general secretary K C Venugopal said, “The INDIA…
NEW DELHI: After gaining a considerable number of seats in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday claimed that the Lok Sabha poll mandate was a ‘decisive rejection’ of the politics of divisiveness and said that the INDIA bloc must continue to work together as an united opposition in both inside and…
NEW DELHI: On the day BJP and allies sealed the deal to form the next govt, the opposition said it will take “appropriate steps” in the future to “realise the people’s desire not to be ruled by the BJP govt”, in a clear bid to create uncertainty about the coming NDA regime in which the…
NEW DELHI: Those active in stock market understand how failure to meet expectations can be disastrous despite good results. We got a glimpse of that today also as Sensex tanked over 4,000 points on failed expectations and investors lost lakhs of crores. Well, that perhaps explains the political mood after the 2024 Lok Sabha election…
