New Delhi, Aug 8 (UNI) The Bharatiya Janata Party today dismissed Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s recent claims of electoral rigging in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, likening them to “cutting the very branch on which one sits.” At a press briefing here, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav criticised the Congress leader for adopting…
New Delhi, Aug 7 (UNI) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today came under fire from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after AAP MP Sanjay Singh questioned the impartiality of the Election Commission. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva dismissed the allegations as a sign of “political frustration”, claiming that AAP leaders are struggling to cope with…
Kolkata, Aug 7 (UNI) In a blistering attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI), All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee today accused the poll body of acting as an “extended arm of the BJP” and grossly overstepping its constitutional jurisdiction by interfering in the affairs of the West Bengal government…
Mumbai, (UNI) Criticising the BJP alliance government for fuelling controversies over closure of the Kabutarkhana (pigeon feeding zone) in Mumbai’s Dadar considering the health risks posed by pigeons, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Harshvardhan Sapkal today suggested that a model Kabutarkhana be set up on the land owned by state minister Mangalprabhat Lodha who owns…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (UNI) Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge today slammed the BJP and RSS, accusing them of endangering the Constitution by advancing an ideology that contradicts its core principles. Speaking at the Congress Legal Department’s Annual National Conclave at Vigyan Bhawan, Kharge accused the ruling party and the RSS of attempting to erode the…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (UNI) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has accused the BJP-led Delhi government for allegedly failing to control waterlogging, saying it has led to the highest number of malaria cases in the capital in the past decade. AAP leaders claim that stagnant water from poor drainage has caused a surge in mosquito…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (UNI) The Supreme Court today asked BJP leader Rajiv Babbar to consider closing the defamation case filed against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over his 2018 remark comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a “scorpion sitting on a Shivling.” A Bench comprising Justice M.M. Sundresh and Justice N. Kotiswar Singh questioned the…
New Delhi, July 31 (UNI) Hailing the NIA court’s verdict acquitting all accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case as “historic”, the BJP today slammed the Congress, asserting that its theory of “Hindu terrorism” has been completely discredited. The BJP demanded a public apology from Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for perpetuating this false narrative…
Demands to make Tehsil Pichhore as District Bhopal, A political storm brewed in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Monday as BJP MLA Pritam Singh Lodhi openly challenged his own government over the long-standing demand for granting district status to Pichhore, a tehsil in Shivpuri district. During Question Hour, Lodhi vociferously accused the government of lacking…
New Delhi, July 26 (UNI) The Congress today slammed the BJP, accusing it of double standards by showing “selective outrage” and maintaining “selective silence” in it handling of judicial issues. Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here, senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi questioned the “silence” of the BJP and the government on…
