Tag: Mahagathbandhan

With Nitish Kumar parting ways with the BJP-led NDA, speculations are rife about the Mahagathbandhan or the Grand Alliance and an united Opposition. Watch Nitish Kumar's reaction on Mahagathbandhan.

Amaravati:Targetting Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday said he addressed him as ‘sir’ to satisfy his ego for the sake of the state. The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief told an all-party meeting on the demand for special category status that he did everything possible in […]

Madurai (Tamil Nadu): Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Sunday that opposition parties were coming together over fear of getting caught for corruption. Modi said the Centre’s action against corruption has created a fear in the minds of people all across the country. All those who used to make money from government contracts are […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hit out at opposition parties, terming the ‘mahagatbandhan’ a grouping of corrupt, negativity and instability and accusing them of misleading the people. “This mahagatbandhan is a unique bond. It is the bond of ‘namdars’, bond of nepotism, bond of corruption and scandals, bond of negativity and bond […]

Kolkata: DMK President M.K. Stalin on Saturday said the “only goal” of all the secular parties is to throw out the Narendra Modi government at the Centre in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, which will be the “country’s second freedom struggle” and only option to save the nation by defeating BJP with an united opposition […]

New Delhi: With the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ of Opposition parties taking shape ahead of Lok Sabha polls, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, and TDP leader and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday said some more parties will be asked to join it. Naidu, who was on one-day visit to the national capital, met Pawar, Congress […]

New Delhi: BJD leader and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday said he wanted more time to decide on joining ‘Mahagathbandhan’, the grand alliance of opposition parties, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. “As far as Mahagathbandhan is concerned, we will take some time and think it over,” he told reporters here. Patnaik was […]

New Delhi: Terming the opposition’s efforts to forge a grand alliance ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as a failure, Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday slammed the Congress, saying it can only be the “tail” of any alliance, but never the “nucleus”. “India is not going to experiment with a failed idea for the […]

New Delhi: BJP chief Amit Shah on Saturday took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi accusing him of speaking on the lines of Pakistan and asked the Congress President whether he was trying to forge an international alliance in the name of “Modi Hatao”. “Rahul Gandhi says ‘Modi Hatao. Pakistan says ‘Modi Hatao’. Now Pakistan also […]

Kolkata: Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani on Saturday said the coming together of so many opposition leaders at TMC’s opposition rally gives a message for change in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (Grand Alliance) will ensure the defeat of the RSS and the BJP, Mevani said, addressing the massive opposition rally at Brigade Parade […]

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi-led government is working for “making India” whereas the Congress is working for breaking India, BJP president Amit Shah said Saturday. Addressing the party’s national executive meet, Shah said the party would win in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with a mandate bigger than 2014. The BJP had won 282 seats […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Popularity of BJD is on the wane as CVoter Tracker’s latest ‘State of the Nation’ survey revealed that the ruling-party in Odisha could relinquish major ground if Lok Sabha elections are held today. On the national front, the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (MGB) between Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh could […]

There is no doubt that the ‘equi-distance’ jumla has served the interests of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) very well over the last few years. On the one hand, it has helped the ruling party to keep fooling the people of Odisha with the pretence of neutrality. On the other, it has also kept the […]

Ranchi: An estimated 30.23 per cent of the total 66,85,401 voters exercised their franchise till 11 am on Sunday for four Lok Sabha constituencies in Jharkhand, an election official said. This is the third phase of polling in the state and the country’s sixth. Giridih Lok Sabha constituency registered the maximum 32.24 per cent votes, […]

Patna: The Modi lahar (wave) of 2014 has degenerated into kahar (disaster) in the last five years and the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar is all set to blow away the BJP- led NDA, actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha claimed here Friday. He said in the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh too, where his wife has been fielded by the SP-BSP […]