NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday flayed the idea of “bulldozer action” as a means to justice and called it an act of “barbarism” that requires immediate attention. The grand old party also flagged, what it called the “repeated targeting of minorities” with the use of state machinery in BJP ruled states.The opposition charge comes…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay Calcutta high court‘s May 22 judgment quashing inclusion of 77 communities, 75 of them Muslims, in West Bengal‘s OBC list and sought details of surveys determining their social and educational backwardness and under-representation in govt jobs requiring their inclusion in the OBC list.While agreeing to examine…
NEW DELHI: AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi criticised the Uttar Pradesh government’s recent directive requiring food shops along the Kanwar Yatra route to display nameplates with the proprietors’ details. Speaking after the all-party meeting, Owaisi condemned the order as unconstitutional and accused the state government of “promoting untouchability” and “discrimination against Muslims“.“We said that if any…
RANCHI: Jharkhand should treat Assam as a cautionary tale of how demographic change caused by “infiltration from Bangladesh” has become “a matter of life and death” for the state’s indigenous population, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said Wednesday in Ranchi.“In Assam, Muslim population is 40%. It was 12% in 1951. We lost districts due to infiltration…
NASHIK/KALYAN: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday claimed Congress had drawn up a plan to spend 15% of the Union Budget exclusively on Muslims when it was in office and said it now plans to carry forward the same “agenda” to “appease its votebank” and divide it into a “Muslim budget” and a “Hindu budget”.“Congress us…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of attempting to cultivate an image as the ‘Hindu hriday samrat‘ (king of Hindu hearts) in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.Speaking at a press conference, Tharoor criticized Modi’s electoral strategies, asserting that the…
NEW DELHI: The Indian National Congress on Saturday took action against Union Minister Anurag Thakur‘s claims about the “distribution of property to Muslims, ” by taking it to the Election Commission of India.Thakur during a public rally in Himachal Pradesh said, “You have to decide whether the children’s property should remain with them or should…
SHIMLA: Union minister and BJP candidate from Hamirpur parliamentary seat, Anurag Thakur on Saturday said that in the Congress manifesto, the hand of foreign powers is visible along with the Congress. Attacking the Congress on the issue of inheritance, he said that it wants to give the property of your children to Muslims and wants…
NEW DELHI: Armed with a video of his predecessor Manmohan Singh standing by his remark that “minorities, particularly Muslims”, should have first claim on the nation’s resources, PM Modi on Friday claimed vindication and sharpened his “appeasement” charge against Congress and its allies.In the 2009 video, Singh, possibly in response to a question at a…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused Congress of “stabbing Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar in the back” by giving reservations based on religion.Addressing a election rally in Madhya Pradesh, PM Modi said, “Congress provided reservation on the basis of religion in 2004, stabbing Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, architect of the Constitution, in the back.”“Our Constitution…
