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Wayanad(Kerala), Apr 7 (PTI) Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday claimed that the party's housing project for victims of the Mundakkai-Chooralmala landslides was delayed due to lack of clearances from the ruling Left government in Kerala. Priyanka, addressing a UDF corner meeting at Kalpetta here, claimed that the clearances were given for the project of Congress only after the township of the LDF was inaugurated. "I am sure my colleagues in the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) faced t ...Read More >
Voting for all the 126 assembly seats in the state will be held on April 9 and counting will be on May 4. Addressing an election rally at Barpeta, the Prime Minister said, "The past 10 years of BJP rule in Assam were to bring peace and harmony, take the state out of difficulties and insecurity and safeguard the state's identity. The coming years will bring more prosperity, self-reliance and make the state recognised all over the world." The PM said during the Congress rule, the minimum support ...Read More >
Guwahati, April 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Congress party while addressing a massive election rally in Patharkandi in Assam's Sribhumi district, asserting that only the BJP can safeguard the state from illegal infiltration and preserve its cultural identity. HM Shah said the BJP government has already identified infiltrators and vowed that they would be "removed one by one" if the party returns to power. He alleged that illegal mi ...Read More >
GUWAHATI: Ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma launched a scathing attack on Congress, making a series of provocative remarks targeting its leaders.Sarma said, "I show my left thumb to the Congress. For Gaurav Gogoi, Rahul Gandhi, I show my left thumb. I will make Pawan Khera to Pawan Pera".He also made a controversial comment directed at party spokesperson Pawan Khera, saying he would "turn Pawan Khera into Pawan Pera".In a separate statement, ...Read More >
Patharkandi (Assam) [India], April 7 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Congress during a public rally in Patharkandi, asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will not allow Assam to become an "infiltrator-dominated region" and calling on voters to elect a BJP government in the upcoming Assembly elections. "I declare this from here today, and Rahul Baba, listen to this loud and clear, we will not allow Assam to become an infiltrator-dominated ...Read More >
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has raised serious concerns over the inclusion of Dalit, Adivasi, and Other Backward Class (OBC) entrepreneurs in India's public works and infrastructure contracts. Posting on Facebook, he asked, "Last year, out of Rs 16,500 crore worth of public works contracts, how many contracts were awarded to Dalit, Adivasi, and backward class businesses? Their response was deeply worrying -- the government does not maintain any data on this." The issue stems from a ...Read More >
Alappuzha (Keralam) [India], April 7 (ANI): Senior Congress leader and candidate from Haripad constituency, Ramesh Chennithala expressed confidence that the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) will secure a decisive mandate in the upcoming Keralam Assembly elections, asserting that a "change of guard is inevitable" after a decade of Left Democratic Front (LDF) rule. Speaking to ANI here, Chennithala said, "We are very confident that the Congress-led UDF will get 100 seats in the ensuing ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram (Keralam) [India], April 7 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister and Congress leader A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday expressed his willingness to engage in a direct, fact-based debate with Keralam Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, amid an intensifying political exchange between the two leaders ahead of the 2026 Keralam Assembly elections. Speaking on the controversy over his earlier "dark era" remarks about Keralam, Reddy said, "I am ready to debate with Pinarayi Vijayan whenever he give ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 7 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused the Modi government of perpetuating a system of exclusion through its policies and asked why 'Bahujan' entrepreneurs are being excluded from the country's largest public contracts. The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said he asked the government in Parliament that out of the Rs 16,500 crore worth of public works contracts awarded last year, how many were secured by businesses owned by Dalits, Adivasis, and Backward Cla ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 7 (PTI) Campaigning for the April 9 Kerala Assembly polls will come to an end on Tuesday evening as the three political alliances, led by ruling CPI(M), Congress, and BJP, made last-ditch efforts to woo a majority of support from among the 2.71 crore voters in the state. The Election Commission has outlined strict restrictions to be followed during the 48-hour silence period after campaigning comes to an end at 6 pm. The measures, issued to ensure free and fair election ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 7 (PTI) Two months after she was expelled from Punjab Congress, former MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu has announced the launch of a new political outfit -- Bharatiya Rashtrawadi Party. Kaur, wife of ex-cricketer and former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, announced this on microblogging site X late on Monday night. Punjab Congress had suspended Kaur for sparking a political row with her "Rs 500 crore for chief minister's chair" remark. She was later expelled from the party fol ...Read More >
PALAKKAD: Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of promoting centralised, personality-driven governance, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged a "deliberate and strategic understanding" between the BJP and the CPM. Addressing a massive UDF rally at Fort Maidan in Palakkad under intense summer heat, Rahul argued that a lack of central action against Pinarayi -- despite sustained enforcement measures against opposition leaders elsewhere -- points to a ...Read More >
KOCHI: With just hours left for the curtain to fall on open campaigning, political parties left no stone unturned to woo voters on Monday, with national heavyweights from all three fronts crisscrossing the state, trading sharp accusations and making ambitious promises. Kerala turned into a battleground of narratives, with Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, BJP stalwarts Amit Shah and Shivraj Singh Chouhan, and Karnataka Congress leaders, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM ...Read More >
The opposition had submitted notices against the CEC. Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan on Monday rejected separate notices from the opposition to move a motion for the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar from his post. The opposition had submitted notices to the Lok Sabha speaker and the Rajya Sabha chairman against the CEC, alleging "partisan and discriminatory conduct in office", "deliberate obstruction of investigation of electoral fraud" and "mas ...Read More >
Shiv Sena (UBT) on Monday slammed the Congress's attitude towards alliance partners in Maharashtra, saying it should keep them together if it wants to return to power at the Centre. An editorial in the party's mouthpiece, Saamana, called the Congress's stance of maintaining distance from the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) partners on certain issues narrow-minded. It took exception to Maharashtra Congress chief Harshvardhan Sapkal expressing reservations about the Nationalist Congress Party - Sh ...Read More >
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra ignited Kerala's political landscape by accusing the ruling LDF of a clandestine alliance with the BJP, raising concerns about minority rights and governmental accountability in the upcoming Assembly elections. Photograph: @priyankagandhi/XKey PointsPriyanka Gandhi Vadra alleges a secret deal between Kerala's LDF and the BJP for the Assembly elections.Vadra accuses both the LDF government and the BJP-led Centre of suppressing dissent and targeting minorities.She claims Pri ...Read More >
Chennai: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday asserted at a rally in Puducherry that the ruling NDA was putting up a united and well-coordinated contest while the Opposition was divided over power tussles, even as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reiterated at a separate rally the Opposition party's promise of full statehood to the Union Territory. Ahead of the April 9 elections, the BJP leader said the NDA government had brought down the unemployment rate in Puducherry to 4.3% after it had shot ...Read More >
The walls in Ambalapuzha don't reveal their peeling paint or cracking facade. Posters of the two foremost candidates in the upcoming Assembly polls, LDF's H Salam and UDF-backed former CPI (M) heavyweight G Sudhakaran mask every inch of the walls in town. "Don't touch them," a passerby warns. Last week, a video of two alleged CPI (M) workers tearing Sudhakaran's poster and pasting Salam's over it went viral and opened layers of controversy. Advertisement Some allege it was the veteran leader' ...Read More >
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan on Monday, April 6, rejected the impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, with no reasons cited for the rejection, drawing sharp condemnation from the Opposition, which accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of "mocking Parliament." The rejections came through virtually identical bulletins issued by both Houses, stating that "after due consideration of the notice of Motion and a ...Read More >
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With just a day left for campaigning, Kerala heads into the 2025 assembly polls amid a charged atmosphere of claims and counterclaims by the principal political fronts. Over the past 22 days, candidates of the CPM led LDF, Congress-led UDF and BJP-led NDA have braved the summer heat to reach voters, offering promises that range from social welfare expansion to vision of a "Viksita Keralam". On April 9, a majority of the 2.71 crore registered voters will line up at polling s ...Read More >
Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, winding up his election campaign in Assam on Monday, launched a blistering attack on the Gandhi family and Congress, accusing them of corruption, dynastic politics, and siding with Pakistan.Addressing rallies in Barpeta, Hojai, and Dibrugarh -- just a day before the silence period begins at 5pm Tuesday -- Modi said, "The first family of Congress is the most corrupt in the country, indulging in scams of huge proportions and currently out on bail. Congress c ...Read More >
Chennai, Apr 6 (UNI) With the election campaigning in the union Territory of Puducherry reaching its business end, top Congres honchos Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Pruyanka arrived here on Monday and headed to Puducherry for campaigning in the April nine Assembly polls. They were received at the airport by senior TNCC leaders and after a brief reception they left for Puducherry in an aircraft to campaign for candidates of the Congress-led INDI Alliance. Meanwhile, BJP ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairman CP Radhakrishnan on Monday rejected the opposition's impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.It was the first time a notice seeking the removal of the Election Commission chief was issued with the signature of 130 Lok Sabha MPs and 63 Rajya Sabha members.The 10-page impeachment motion accused Gyanesh Kumar of seven counts. The charges ranged from partisan conduct of the CEC to mass disenfranchisement of voters in different states. This ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) TMC MP Derek O'Brien on Monday accused the BJP of mocking Parliament after the Rajya Sabha chairman and the Lok Sabha speaker rejected separate opposition notices to move a motion for the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar from his post. In a post on X, O'Brien also said no reason was given for the rejection of the notices. The opposition had in March submitted the notices to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan against ...Read More >
CHENNAI: In a far cry from the bonhomie shared between Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister MK Stalin during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the two leaders had ample chances to cross paths, shake hands, or exchange a hug this Monday, but appeared to avoid it, feeding the rumour mills. In the first instance, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi arrived in Chennai from Delhi on Monday morning on a special aircraft, a key transit halt en route to Puducherry and Kerala, which go ...Read More >
Kozhikode (Keralam) [India], April 6 (ANI): Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday criticised the Keralam government and the Centre, alleging that there was no development in the state for the past 10 years. She said that the public has understood that there is a collusion between the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Speaking to reporters here, Gandhi said, "There will be a change in power here. The public has understood that there is a collusion between t ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 6 (ANI): BJP leader NV Subash on Monday criticised Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge over his "you can fool people who are illiterate in Gujarat" remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stating that people of Gujarat are demanding an apology from him. Speaking to ANI in Hyderabad, Subash said that as a senior leader of Congress, Kharge should exercise restraint, especially while addressing public gatherings ahead of elections. He alleged that Khar ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha chairman CP Radhakrishnan on Monday rejected the impeachment motion against the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, who has been facing opposition's heat over the pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and the "conduct" of the recent assembly polls.It was the first time a notice was given seeking removal of the poll body chief, with 130 Lok Sabha MPs and 63 Rajya Sabha members signing the motion.The 10-page-long notice carried a chargesheet on seven co ...Read More >
Pathanamthitta (Kerala), Apr 6 (PTI) Congress MP K Sudhakaran on Monday backed senior leader Ramesh Chennithala as the chief ministerial face if the UDF comes to power in the April 9 assembly polls and said he hopes Leader of Opposition V D Satheesan will not have to go into "political exile." Responding to a reporter's question on whether he preferred Chennithala as CM, Sudhakaran said leaders are entitled to express their views when a candidate for the post is being considered. "I have said t ...Read More >
KANNUR/MALAPPURAM: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday alleged that the CPI(M)-led LDF has struck a "secret deal" with the BJP to protect its leadership and remain in power, accusing both the state and the Centre of "compromising" and suppressing dissent. Addressing various corner meetings in these northern districts as part of the campaign for the April 9 Assembly polls, the Wayanad MP claimed that the alleged understanding was aimed at shielding leaders from scrutiny. "On one han ...Read More >
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