Sunil Sharma. (Photo/PTI) NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced Sunil Sharma, a former minister, to lead the Jammu and Kashmir BJP legislature party. Sunil Sharma is the MLA from Padder Nagseni constituency in Kishtwar district and will serve as the leader of opposition in the J&K state legislative assembly. “Sunil Sharma has…
NEW DELHI: The BJP Friday claimed that the opposition INDIA bloc was mulling to make the Leader of Opposition‘s post in the Lok Sabha rotational. “If the INDIA bloc feels that Rahul Gandhi is not able to handle this responsibility with full dedication, they will have to make that decision,” BJP’s Delhi MP Bansuri Swaraj…
NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Friday demanded that a FIR be filed over a purported “threat” issued by a BJP leader to Rahul Gandhi for his remarks in the US concerning the Sikh community. The Congress also called for a review of the Rahul’s security, citing his new role as a Leader of Opposition,…
NEW DELHI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Friday criticised the Centre for not respecting the position of leader of the opposition, a day after Rahul Gandhi was not allotted a front-row seat at the Independence Day flag-hoisting ceremony at Red Fort.“The Centre did not honour the post of leader of opposition,” said…
NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Thursday greeted countrymen on the 78th independence day with a message on “freedom”. “For us, freedom is not just a word – it is our biggest protective shield, woven into constitutional and democratic values,” the Congress leader said. And that freedom meant, the power to express, ability…
NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary K C Venugopal on Saturday said the extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) had unanimously passed a resolution requesting Rahul Gandhi to take the position of the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha.Hailing the Lok Sabha results as the beginning of the revival of the Congress, Venugopal said the atmosphere in…
NEW DELHI: Amid elation in the Congress camp over its performance in the Lok Sabha elections, there is a growing desire in the party that Rahul Gandhi take up the post of leader of opposition in Lok Sabha and lead the party from the front in Parliament.Congress failed to get the top opposition perch after…
