Senior Nationalist Congress Party leader and Maharashtra agriculture minister Dhananjay Munde, who is facing a likely Maratha polarisation in his constituency of Parli in the assembly elections, says there is politics at play behind the protests seeking quotas for Marathas and that the Opposition camp is involved in it. In the Lok Sabha elections, his cousin and former minister Pankaja …
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of indulging in polarisation and appeasement politics, and claimed that the grand old party upholds secularism. Asked about the BJP complaining to the Election Commission against Rahul Gandhi and him, the Congress chief said he would give his response on the issue directly to the poll panel. The EC …
The Bharatiya Janata Party has retained power in all the four States it held, of the five that went to the polls between February 10 and March 7, while the Congress lost the only one it had, Punjab, to the Aam Aadmi Party. The popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who remained the central figure of the BJP campaign, contributed …
Almost ten days ago, Union Home minister, Amit Shah took full charge of the BJP’s election campaign in Uttar Pradesh after uncharacteristically, till then, playing second fiddle to chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Claims of the BJP government’s ‘achievements’ too were made “every district in the state gets its identity from a specific product, an industry and medical college”, he said …
