Saturday, April 13th, 2019
BJP will get votes of neither Ali nor Bajrang Bali, says Mayawati
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said on Friday that the BJP would win the votes of neither Ali nor Bajrang Bali in Uttar Pradesh’s Lok Sabha contest. She was speaking at a rally jointly organised by the BSP, SP and RLD in support of Samajwadi Party candidate Dharmendra Yadav. Response to Yogi Adityanath Mayawati was responding to a recent remark by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who had claimed that the alliance of the three parties might have Ali, but the BJP had Bajrang Bali. She said she wantedRead More
Jaitley says Rahul Gandhi got an M.Phil without a master’s degree
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday, April 13, hit back at the Congress for questioning Smriti Irani’s educational qualifications, alleging that Congress president Rahul Gandhi had obtained an M.Phil without a master’s degree. What Jaitley wrote In a Facebook post, Jaitley said the Congress focused on the BJP candidate’s education while ignoring that a public scrutiny of Rahul Gandhi’s academic record might raise many unanswered questions. He wrote that Gandhi “got an M.Phil without a Masters degree”. Swamy’s claims Jaitley’s comments came shortly after BJP MP Subramanian Swamy, in aRead More
From curses to threats: controversial remarks heat up the 2019 campaign
Campaign rhetoric in the 2019 Lok Sabha election reached fever pitch, with leaders across parties facing complaints at the Election Commission over their remarks. With six more phases of polling to go until 19 May, the trend suggested the language could get worse. The latest controversies Maneka Gandhi, a Union Minister, and Sakshi Maharaj, a BJP MP, were the latest to come under the EC’s scanner. Maneka Gandhi, contesting from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh, was heard saying that a victory without Muslim support would leave a bitter taste and suggestingRead More
Arun Jaitley says opposition has no leader, calls its push a ‘rent-a-cause’ campaign
Arun Jaitley, writing after the first phase of voting in the Lok Sabha election, argued that the opposition had no leader and no central issue, and described its effort as a “rent-a-cause” campaign. He said the opposition’s leadership situation looked gloomier than he had expected. His assessment of the first phase Jaitley claimed that the ‘Modi’ factor was visible across the country, and that BJP president Amit Shah’s call to party workers to aim for half of the votes in BJP strongholds, even where opposition alliances existed, appeared to beRead More