NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his letter to NDA candidates. In his letter, Kharge suggested that the tone and content of the letter indicate desperation and worry, leading the Prime Minister to use language unbefitting of his office. The Congress president emphasized that voters are…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday dismissed a plea that sought direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to disqualify Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allegedly seeking votes for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by invoking religious sentiments during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.The plea, which raised concerns about the Prime Minister…
Union home minister Amit Shah, at a rally in Ahmedabad on Sunday – and later in rallies in western Uttar Pradesh — said PM Narendra Modi has guaranteed people that as long as the BJP is in power, nobody would be allowed to tamper with reservation for members of the SC, ST and OBC communities….
KOLKATA/MALDA/PATNA: PM Narendra Modi blamed Trinamool Congress on Friday for leaving nearly 26,000 families in Bengal without a livelihood by orchestrating an alleged hiring scam that forced Calcutta HC to scrap appointments made by the School Service Commission in 2016 and order some recruits to return their salaries with interest.“Trinamool has played with the future…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC listed for hearing on Friday a PIL that seeks disqualification of PM Narendra Modi from contesting elections for allegedly violating MCC during his campaign speech in UP’s Pilibhit on April 9.The petition, filed by advocate Anand S Jondhale last week, accuses Modi of seeking votes in the name of “god and…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has told PM Narendra Modi that his attempt to insert Hindu-Muslim debate into the election campaign is a ploy to divert focus from Congress’s stress on the rich-poor inequality created by his “suit-boot sarkar”. He urged Modi to not divide the nation like “your pre-Independence allies – the Muslim…
NEW DELHI: Setting a new trend to make party presidents accountable for alleged violation of the model code of conduct by their candidates and star campaigners, Election Commission on Thursday issued notices to the chiefs of BJP and Congress seeking their response to alleged violations made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul…
NEW DELHI: Stating that PM Narendra Modi is “shaken, panicked and worried” by Congress‘s “revolutionary” manifesto, Rahul Gandhi Wednesday said the first decision of the future party govt will be caste census, which is a must to establish the meagre participation of 90% population of SC/ST/OBCs in the country’s public and private structure. He said…
NEW DELHI: Accusing PM Modi of trying to create enmity between religious communities and lying to defame the rival party, Congress on Monday petitioned Election Commission and demanded that the PM be “disqualified” for egregious violations of election laws in his speech in Rajasthan on Sunday.Congress said the PM is a serial offender who has…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that if the Congress came back to power, it would give wealth of people to Muslims citing former PM Manmohan Singh‘s statement about the minority community having the ‘first claim’ on the nation’s resources. He was addressing a rally in Rajasthan’s Banswara.“Earlier, when their (Congress) government…
