Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
Priyanka Gandhi says BJP’s ’70 years’ jibe at Congress has an expiry date
On Tuesday, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stepped up her attack on the Narendra Modi government, telling it to stop blaming earlier Congress-led governments and explain what it had achieved in its own five years in office. What she said Speaking in Bhadohi in Uttar Pradesh, she said the BJP’s line of asking what the Congress did in 70 years had “an expiry date”, and that the ruling party should now account for its own term. Meeting party leaders there, she asked workers to put in hard work onRead More
New Goa CM Pramod Sawant vows to carry forward Manohar Parrikar’s development legacy
Pramod Sawant, newly sworn in as Goa’s Chief Minister, said he would carry forward the legacy of his predecessor Manohar Parrikar, acknowledging that he faced a big responsibility. Mr Parrikar, diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer in February the previous year, died on Sunday evening. A tense transition Uncertainty gripped the state on Monday after the BJP leadership’s choice of Mr Sawant, then Speaker of the Assembly, was not immediately accepted by allies the MGP and the Goa Forward Party, a BJP leader said. The talks over the succession stretched beyondRead More