NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi on Sunday took a jab at the BJP over Union minister Nitin Gadkari‘s recent claim that an opposition leader had offered to support him for the Prime Minister’s post ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, stating that the senior BJP leader was “using the excuse of…
NEW DELHI: When finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim budget in February 2024, many were expecting it to be full of freebies with an eye on the 2024 general election. There were expectations that the government may announce tax cuts for the middle class and extra incentives for farmers and rural areas. But the…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday constituted a four-member committee to visit West Bengal and “take immediate stock” of the post-poll violence.The committee includes ex-Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Brij Lal and Kavita Patidar, all BJP MPs, with Deb as its convener. The committee has been formed by BJP chief…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Friday said that the Lok Sabha elections results was not a mandate for any single political party to form a government during a panel discussion at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government in London.While interacting with the students and faculty members on the elections in India, the Congress…
NEW DELHI: The United States on Friday refused to comment on the results of the recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections, stating that electoral matters are for the Indian people to decide. Addressing a press briefing, US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, emphasized that the US celebrates the election that took place in India, describing it as…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose said on Monday that West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee switched off all her lights and sat in darkness during the entire swearing-in ceremony of Modi Cabinet 3.0.The TMC MP demanded that the BJP should elect a new leader and “replace Prime Minister Narendra Modi”…
NEW DELHI: Harking back to the Sengol controversy that erupted last year ahead of the Parliament building inauguration, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday hit out at the PM-designate Narendra Modi, claiming that “Modi’s pretensions” got rejected by the Tamil electorate in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.“Remember May 28th, 2023? It was the day…
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday asked all UP ministers to renounce VIP culture and reach out to the people in all possible ways.Chairing a meeting with cabinet and state ministers days after the party’s underwhelming performance in the Lok Sabha elections, Yogi underlined the need to establish coordination with people on local issues…
BENGALURU: Former Chief Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) state president H D Kumaraswamy is expected to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s cabinet on Sunday. Modi will be sworn in as Prime Minister for the third consecutive term.“In addition to Kumaraswamy, a few MPs from BJP will take the oath tomorrow,” said JDS MLC T A…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and claimed that his Bharatiya Janata Party‘s performance in the Lok Sabha elections mark ‘his moral, political and personal defeat.’Mocking the attempts of drawing parallels between Modi and former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the senior Congress leader posted on X, “Those…
