Congress MP Manish Tewari (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manish Tewari pointed out on Saturday that the opposition alliance INDIA bloc was formed to “safeguard the soul of the country” and not merely to contest the Lok Sabha elections.His statement came amid growing concerns about the alliance’s coordination, voiced by Shiv Sena (UBT) MP…
The controversy over Amit Shah’s Ambedkar remarks once again united the Congress and other opposition parties. (Photo/PTI) NEW DELHI: The winter session of Parliament saw differences within the INDIA bloc come to the fore with some regional parties differing openly with the Congress and some even questioning its leadership of the opposition alliance. The session…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to respond to the two-day debate on the Constitution in the Lok Sabha on December 14, according to media reports citing Parliament sources. The debate, a primary demand from the opposition alliance for the winter session, is set to begin with defence minister Rajnath Singh‘s opening remarks.In…
NEW DELHI: A day after West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her willingness to take up responsibility as the leader of the INDIA bloc, a flurry of responses from alliance partners poured in. While the Congress played down her capability to assume a national role, Shiv Sena (UBT) adopted a different stance by accommodating…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is learnt to have offered the seating plan in the House to the INDIA bloc, excluding Trinamool Congress. Although the Mamata Banerjee outfit is part of the opposition alliance and is expected to sit within the same cluster, the separate seats suggest that TMC is negotiating independently for…
NEW DELHI: The BJP once again achieved a decisive victory in the national capital winning all the seven seats in Lok Sabha elections. This is the third consecutive clean sweep for the saffron party in Delhi. What makes this victory special is the fact that the BJP triumphed despite a strong alliance between the Aam…
NEW DELHI: A day before the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi claimed that the opposition INDIA bloc had offered the PM post to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, to woo him to join the alliance and not support the NDA.“All the regional partners were in favour of…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took aim at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, suggesting that the grand old party’s grip on power was slipping, and predicted a loss for him in the Wayanad parliamentary seat, akin to his defeat in Amethi in 2019. The “Congress’ sahabzade” will lose the Wayanad parliamentary seat this time, said…
PATNA: In a boost to the opposition alliance, Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) president Mukesh Sahani, popular as the “Son of Mallah”, became a part of the Grand Alliance in Bihar on Friday ahead of the Lok Sabha polls after weeks of hard bargaining.With his entry, the number of allies in the opposition has gone up…
