KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee told party leaders Friday that her TMC was a key member of the INDIA bloc but was ready to fight all 42 Lok Sabha seats in Bengal alone if fellow constituent Congress favoured others. The comments were seen as a signal that she was fast running out of … Read more
NEW DELHI: The seizure of cash from some premises linked to Congress MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu during raids by the income tax department shows how the grand old party has kept the tradition of corruption alive generation after generation, BJPsaid on Saturday. Union minister Meenakshi Lekhi said, “The cash seized from Sahu is the biggest … Read more
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s sharp response following a discussion on the economic situation in India saw her take the “light banter” route to highlight how former finance minister and senior Congress member P Chidambaram cited the arguments put forth by TMC member Derek O’Brien during his speech on the economic situation. Without naming … Read more
The INDIA alliance has called a meeting on December 6 to revive consultations stalled by the Congress focus on assembly polls, amid a realisation that the grand old party’s rout in the Hindi heartland has seriously weakened its potential to challenge BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.Congress is set to be diminished in its … Read more
HYDERABAD: A war of words broke out between BRS and Congress soon after Election Commission stopped disbursement of Rythu Bandhu money even as both the parties appealed to EC to reconsider its decision and allow the release of financial aid to Telangana’s farmers.EC had given nod for disbursement of the amount for rabi crops on … 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
NEW DELHI: The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society, in a special meeting, decided to drop the reference to former PM Jawaharlal Nehru from its name and rechristen the institution as Prime Ministers Museum and Library Society. Though a natural corollary of an earlier decision to expand the purview of the museum to include all … Read more
NEW DELHI: Several opposition parties on Thursday dubbed the 22nd Law Commission’s decision to examine afresh the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and seek views of stakeholders as pursuance of BJP’s “polarisation agenda” ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha polls, with Congress expressing shock that the panel should take up the subject after its predecessor in 2018 … Read more
KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday said her party will support the Congress where it is strong in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. This is the first time that Banerjee cleared the air on TMC’s stand on a possible strategy for opposition unity in the electoral battle ahead. … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that the multi-state Bharat Jodo Yatra has been “deepest and most beautiful experience” of his life on the eve of the culmination of the Kanyakumari to Srinagar march on Sunday.“Bharat Jodo Yatra received a great response in the country. We saw the resilience and strength of the people … Read more