Tag: Congress

Thiruvananthapuram: Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor, aiming for a hat-trick of wins, on Tuesday sought a probe into a freak accident at a temple near here which led him to have to eight stitches on his head. “My mother, who is 86 years old, said she has never ever heard of the ‘tulabharam’ […]

Dehradun: The Uttarakhand police have arrested a Congress leader and three policemen for allegedly robbing a bag containing Rs one crore, a top police official said on Wednesday. Director General of Police (Law and Order) Ashok Kumar said all the four arrested on Tuesday night have been identified as Congress leader Anupam Sharma, Sub Inspector […]

Kannur: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for being the “most anti-national” and accused him of “dividing the nation”. Reacting to Modi’s allegation of the Congress turning anti-national, Gandhi said his grand old party has an exceptional track record of fighting forces that attack the nation. “Thousands of Congress workers have […]

Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, saying they are nervous as the Congress was ahead of its rout in the Lok Sabha battle in 2014. “Today, amid voting for the second phase, the BJP and Prime Minister Modi are nervous like the Congress was […]

Shimla: At 91, eight-time matronly Congress legislator Vidya Stokes continues to battle tirelessly to ensure victory of the party in all the four parliamentary seats of Himachal Pradesh. She is daily rubbing shoulders with party leaders, a majority of them almost half her age, and meeting party cadres ahead of the May 19 polling. “Whatever […]

New Delhi: A man on Thursday was detained by the police for hurling a shoe at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP G.V.L. Narasimha Rao when the latter was addressing a press conference about Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur joining the BJP, at the party’s national headquarters here. The shoe […]

New Delhi: The Indian government on Thursday asked one more Bangladeshi actor, Ghazi Abdul Noor, who was seen at a Trinamool Congress rally in West Bengal earlier this week, to leave the country after it was found that his visa has expired. “One more Bangladeshi actor, Ghazi Abdul Noor, who attended a political rally in […]

New Delhi: Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi has quit the party, slamming it for ignoring the conduct of party colleagues who misbehaved with her in Mathura. In a letter to Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and made public on Friday, she said that in the last few weeks certain things had convinced her that her […]

Panaji: Along with elections to Goa’s two Lok Sabha seats on April 23, the state is also going to witness by-elections to three Assembly seats, the results of which may well decide the fate of the incumbent BJP-led coalition government. The bypolls in Shiroda and Mandrem were necessitated after two Congress MLAs representing the constituencies […]

Ahmedabad: The Congress on Friday urged the Election Commission to immediately provide security to Patidar leader Hardik Patel, hours after he was slapped by a man who alleged Patel was playing politics with the sentiments of the community. The incident occurred when Patel was addressing an election rally described as a ‘Jan Aakrosh Sabha’ at […]

Bhopal: BJPs Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal Pragya Singh Thakur on Friday apologised for her remarks that Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare had died because of her “curse” and described him a martyr. Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, said she was taking back her remarks as she “felt that the enemies […]

Bhubaneswar:  With Sambalpur, the nervecentre of Western Odisha, going to polls on Tuesday, what keeps one’s eye peeled for is will BJP dig out a win after losing narrowly to BJD in 2014? As it is said victory can be made out, all the three principal players – BJD, BJP and Congress – have put […]

Bhubaneswar: As the mine-rich Keonjhar will vote coming Tuesday, mining a win from the Lok Sabha (LS) seat for the BJP and Congress looks an uphill task. While BJP has placed its faith on old warhorse Ananta Naik, Congress and BJD have brought in new faces. While BJD has pitted Chandrani Murmu, daughter of former […]

Angul: The BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today campaigned at four places of Angul district. During his public address in Ghantapada area of Talcher Assembly constituency, he slammed the Centre and BJP leaders for neglecting Odisha. The Chief Minister accused the Centre of hatching a conspiracy to stop KALIA scheme and targeted […]

Bhubaneswar:  With BJP charioting  its well conversant and nuanced spokesperson Sambit Patra to chug the saffron juggernaut in Puri, he is pulling all stops  to trump BJD’s three time MP Pinaki Mishra.  As Puri has been the citadel of BJD since 1998, will Sambit with his persuasive skills swing Puri for BJP, which he was […]