JAIPUR: Cricket was in the desert air as politics took the dais in poll-bound Rajasthan on Sunday, with PM Narendra Modi aiming at Congress’s stumps by alluding to the Ashok Gehlot-Sachin Pilot tussle with an analogy about how its leaders “forget to make runs and try to run out each other”.That wasn’t the only cricketing … Read more
NEW DELHI: BJP leader Amit Malviya has done for the Congress in Rajasthan what the grand old party’s top leadership failed to do in the last two years despite several desperate attempts.The strained relations between Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot is well known. They have embarrassed the grand old … Read more
BADAL(PUNJAB): Parkash Singh Badal was cremated on Thursday at his ancestral village in Punjab’s Muktsar district with thousands of mourners and leaders across the political spectrum paying their last respects to the Akali stalwart and five-time chief minister. SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal lit the pyre at the funeral held with full state honours. Badal’s … Read more
JAIPUR: Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Saturday sued Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot for alleged defamatory remarks against him and his late mother over a state co-operative scam in which investors allegedly lost about Rs 900 crore. Rajasthan police have been investigating the Sanjivani co-operative scam since August 2019. The society is accused of … Read more
JAIPUR: Congress’s game of thrones in Rajasthan became further embroiled in intrigue on Monday after parliamentary affairs minister and Ashok Gehlot loyalist Shanti Dhariwal alleged a “100% conspiracy” against the chief minister by AICC’s state-in-charge Ajay Maken and the former’s bete noire Sachin Pilot. “A Congress general secretary is canvassing for a person who, despite … Read more
JAIPUR: Ahead of Eid, two groups clashed in Jalori Gate area of Jodhpur on Monday night. There were also reports of stone pelting and police lathicharge. According to reports the clashes first broke out at the Jalori Gate intersection after some miscreants removed the saffron flag and put up an Islamic flag atop the statue … Read more