Sanjay Raut is casting aspersions on an Independent body like the EC. He is also directly questioning their integrity by making such allegations. The EC should take serious note of this and take appropriate steps, says Krishna Hegde
Tamil Nadu BJP announces a one-day hunger strike and silent rally on February 21 in Chennai against the DMK government over the killing of an Army jawan in Krishnagiri. BJP State President K Annamalai to participate in the program.
Meghalaya has very poor people but rich politicians. It's happening due to rampant corruption. HM Amit Shah has promised that if BJP comes to power, a probe will be conducted, which will be led by a retired SC judge & all corruptors will be jailed: Rituraj Sinha, BJP National Secy
HD Thammaiah along with supporters joined congress at the Congress office in Bengaluru. DK Shivakumar welcomed Mr Thammaiah and His supporters.
What has happened to Bihar CM Nitish Kumar? He isn't able to handle Bihar, the state is in trouble. There is chaos in his party. Congress isn't giving him any lift. Nitish ji, you want to become like Deve Gowda or Inder Kumar Gujral (former PMs)?: BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad
The Shiv Sena vs Shiv Sena battle over party’s name and bow-and-arrow elation symbol is set to land in the Supreme Court with both sides planning to move the apex court, which is already hearing a bunch of petitions on June 2022-spilt in the saffron party.
This is perhaps the worst-ever crisis that the 56-year-old saffron party - with the mission of welfare of Marathi-manoos and pursuing the Hindutva-agenda - is facing.
The newly appointed Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais garlanded the equestrian statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Park in Mumbai on the occasion of Shiv Jayanti on Sunday (19th Feb).
Governor Ramesh Bais later participated in the Shiv Jayanti celebrations organised by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) at Krida Bhavan and listened to the patriotic songs on the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The musical programme was presented by the Sangeet Kala Academy of BMC. For the first time this year, the State song 'Jai Jai Maharashtra Majha' was sung along with the National Anthem.
MLA Sadanand Sarvankar, Brihanmumbai Municipal Commissioner I S Chahal, Chairman of the Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Smarak Samiti Kisan Jadhav, Additional Municipal Commissioner P. Velarasu, officials and invitees were present.
What HM Amit Shah says has never been taken seriously. What can we say about people who believe in buying justice & truth? Who has won & lost Maharashtra we'll show when the time comes. We'll not say anything now, saysSanjay Raut.
The party, the leader & the dishonest group that bids Rs 50 cr for MLAs, Rs 100 cr for MPs & Rs 50 lahks to 1 cr to buy our councillors. How much it would bid to take our name & symbol, you decide? My info is Rs 2,000 Crores, says Sanjay Raut, Uddhav Thackeray faction leader.
Actor and Nationalist Congress Party MP from Shirur Dr. Amol Kolhe said that he will boycott the Maharashtra government's official function marking the 393rd birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to be held at Shivneri Fort in Pune.
"For many years, despite its historic significance, there has been no permanent saffron flag installed at Shivneri Fort. I have been making repeated requests and even raised the issue in the Parliament but nothing has moved," said Kolhe.
Prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind has termed as "inhuman" and "barbaric" the alleged abduction and murder of two men by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan, and sought a judicial inquiry into the matter.
Charred bodies of Nasir (25) and Junaid alias Juna (35), residents of Ghatmeeka village in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan, were found inside a burnt car in Loharu in Bhiwani inHaryanaon Thursday morning.
Jamiat president Maulana Mahmood Madani on Saturday said, "This is not an isolated case, before this, another young man named Waris, a resident of Hussainpur village inHaryana's Mewat district, was also killed on the same lines on January, 28 2023."
SeniorAAPleaders led by party's Uttar Pradesh in-charge Sanjay Singh on Sunday performed 'bulldozer ahuti yagya' here and burnt photos of bulldozers on the occasion of Mahashivratri.
The party was protesting the recent deaths of a woman and her daughter allegedly due to self-immolation during an anti-encroachment drive in Kanpur Dehat, its leaders said.
After the yagya held at the party office, Singh said that the incident of Kanpur Dehat shows that the BJP government is following the "footsteps of the Taliban".
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, met ailing Pune Lok Sabha MP Girish Bapat at the Mahatma Phule Museum on Saturday night. Shah, who is on a two-day visit to Pune, met Bapat after attending the book launch of the Marathi version of Modi@20, by party colleague Madhav Bhandari. Bapat, the ailing MP from Pune, addressed Bharatiya Janata Party workers on Thursday ahead of the February 26 Kasba Assembly byelection here and expressed confidence of a comfortable win. Earlier, Shah met the daughters of police officers and soldiers who were martyred in Jammu and Kashmir. Shah will inaugurate Shivsrushti, the dream project of late 'Shivsahir' Babasaheb Purandare in Pune before heading to Kolhapur to attend some programmes.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday condemned the decision of the Election Commission of India to recognise the faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as the realShivSenaand said it was an extension of the Bharatiya Janata Party's "Operation Lotus". "Operation Lotus" is a term used by opposition parties alleging foul play on the part of the BJP to topple governments in states by poaching legislators and bringing about splits in ruling parties.
Union Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said those who chose to "lick the soles" of people with opposite ideologies have found which side truth was on after the Election Commission declared the faction headed by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as the realShivSenaand gave it the 'bow and arrow' symbol. Shah also said the Bharatiya Janata Party's ideological bases were being completed under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, adding the Centre was "moving in the direction of the Common Civil Code".