NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday targeted the Centre for “covering up” data on declining job market and unemployment. Citing data, the Congress president said that over “82% youth are looking for a job this year, 55% said it became difficult to find a job last year.”“False claims, falsification…
Mallikarjun Kharge (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress chairman Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday took a jibe at Larsen & Toubro chairman SN Subrahmanyan over his recent suggestion of a 90-hour work week while rejecting his proposal and recalled that former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and BR Ambedkar had advocated that workers should not be made to…
Congress headquarters (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Wednesday targeted the Congress party for naming its new headquarters “Indira Bhawan,” arguing that decision reflects party’s preference for the Gandhi family over other notable leaders.Poonawalla questioned why the Congress did not name the building after former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, referring to a…
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for their alleged interference in India’s higher education system and claimed that the UGC‘s budget has been slashed by a whopping 61%.He questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the suspension of the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE)…
NEW DELHI: Multiple dignitaries including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party parliamentary chairperson Sonia Gandhi attended a solemn ‘Bhog’ ceremony for the ‘Akhand Path‘ held in the memory of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence on Friday. The ceremony, a continuous recitation of the Guru Granth Sahib, was attended by prominent dignitaries who…
Mallikarjun Kharge (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday criticised the BJP-led central government, accusing it of creating “economic turmoil” that has disrupted the lives of ordinary citizens. “Modi government has NO economic solution for the economic turmoil it has created!” Kharge wrote in a post on X, pointing to a series…
BENGALURU: Karnataka’s Congress government handed to CID Monday a probe into suicide of Sachin Panchala, a contractor who died last week after leaving behind a note alleging threats from a key aide of minister Priyank Kharge. Priyank is Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge‘s son.The decision came amid opposition BJP intensifying demands for a CBI probe and…
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday said that 2025 would focus on the party’s organisational empowerment. At the Congress Working Committee’s ‘Nav Satyagraha Baithak’ in Karnataka’s Belagavi, he emphasised that “only hard work is not and timely concrete strategy and direction are necessary.” He added that there is a need to give a…
NEW DELHI: The mechanism to select the chairperson and member of NHRC was “flawed” and a “predetermined” exercise as it did not involve “consultation and consensus”, leaders of opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi said in their dissent note. Congress had proposed the names of former SC judges, Justices K M Joseph and Rohinton Fali…
Union home minister Amit Shah (File photo) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday responded to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge‘s demand for his resignation, saying if he resigned it would not pull Congress out of the quagmire as the party “is set to remain in the opposition for at least 15 years”.Amit Shah,…
