Politics

On the second anniversary of demonetisation, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday questioned the rationale behind the Modi government’s note ban move and termed it as “a self inflicted deep wound” on the Indian economy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8, 2016, announced a ban on then in use Rs 1000 and Rs ...

Candidate of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for Municipal Elections Madam Rajni Rawat has claimed that the party’s national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will come to support her for the Mayor post from Dehradun Municipal Corporation. However, its date has not been decided yet. There is a possibility of him coming after Diwali. Candidate Rajni Rawat met Arvind ...

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday alleged that the Narendra Modi-led government did not fulfil the promises it made five years ago and said it had achieved “nothing”. The former finance minister said the BJP-led government began its term with promises of development, jobs and depositing money into people’s bank accounts, but now it is promising grand temples, statues ...

A Congress-led government would fulfill all the commitments the party had made on the ‘one rank, one pension’ issue, Rahul Gandhi told a group of ex-servicemen on Saturday. At a meeting with the retired defence personnel, the Congress president said that if his party is voted to power in the 2019 parliamentary election, it will fulfill their demands, including ‘one ...

The BJP and the JD(U) will contest an equal number of seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Bihar, BJP president Amit Shah said Friday. Other NDA allies, including the LJP and the RLSP, will get due representation in the seat sharing formula, Shah said. Addressing reporters along with Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, he said ...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday named nine people including senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram, and his son Karti Chidambaram as accused in its supplementary charge in the Aircel-Maxis money laundering case. The other accused in the case includes S. Bhaskaraman, V Srinivasan, four Maxis companies and Aircel Televentures. CBI Special Judge OP Saini has fixed ...

President Ramnath Kovind is learnt to have dismissed a plea to disqualify 27 ruling Aam Admi Party MLAs of Delhi for allegedly holding office of profit by being appointed as chairpersons of Rogi Kalyan Samitis attached to various city hospitals. The President signed the order dismissing the plea based on an opinion given by the Election Commission (EC) in July, ...

Yesterday many posters cropped up in Raebareilly in which Priyanka was described as ‘missing’ and an ’emotional blackmailer’. Posters of Priyanka Gandhi’s disappearance were put in place late night in Rae Bareli, considered to be the Congress stronghold. There may be time remaining in Lok Sabha elections in the country but poster politics has started in Rae Bareli. In many ...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi Monday began his two-day tour of poll-bound Madhya Pradesh by offering prayers at the famous Maa Peetambara Peeth temple complex here. Gandhi reached Datia district in the morning by a helicopter from Gwalior. He then went to the temple complex where he offered prayers to the deity and stayed at the ‘shaktipeeth’ for about half-an-hour. State ...

A Maharashtra BJP spokesperson Friday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the “11th incarnation” of Lord Vishnu, prompting ridicule by the Opposition, with the Congress calling it an “insult” to the gods. “Hon PM @narendramodi ji is the 11th #Avatar (incarnation) of Lord Vishnu (sic),” state BJP spokesperson Avadhut Wagh said on Twitter. Talking to a Marathi news channel, he ...