Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
Navjot Singh Sidhu calls Modi the ‘biggest liar’ at Gujarat rally
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his home state of Gujarat, saying the land that gave India Mahatma Gandhi had also produced a prime minister who was the “biggest liar”. He was speaking at a rally in Dang district while campaigning for Jitu Chaudhary, the Congress candidate for the Valsad Lok Sabha seat. Sidhu’s charges Sidhu, a minister in the Congress government in Punjab, said Modi worked only for the wealthy and not for the poor. Addressing a largelyRead More
Shatrughan Sinha’s wife Poonam Sinha joins SP, likely to contest Lucknow
On Tuesday, Poonam Sinha, wife of Congress leader Shatrughan Sinha, became a member of the Samajwadi Party (SP), days after her husband moved to the Congress. She is expected to contest from Lucknow as the SP-BSP-RLD alliance’s candidate against Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Joining the SP The 69-year-old was inducted into the party by Kannauj MP Dimple Yadav, wife of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. SP leader Ravidas Mehrotra was quoted as saying that Poonam Sinha would be the alliance’s candidate from Lucknow and would file her nomination on 18 April.Read More
Four states that will decide the BJP’s fate in 2019, says Sandeep Shastri
Pre-poll surveys suggested that the National Democratic Alliance was ahead in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, but the open question was whether the BJP could win a majority by itself. Political scientist Dr Sandeep Shastri said in an interview that a handful of states would decide that. The key states Shastri said a pre-poll survey published a week earlier showed the NDA slightly ahead but the BJP short of the halfway mark. He identified four crucial areas for the party: Uttar Pradesh: whether the BJP could repeat the strong performanceRead More
BJP may revive ‘Operation Kamala’ but won’t succeed, says Siddaramaiah
Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah, who chairs the coordination committee of the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition, said the BJP was likely to revive ‘Operation Kamala’ to topple the state government after the ongoing general election but would not succeed. He said this in an interview on Monday. Confidence in the coalition Siddaramaiah, the Congress Legislature Party leader, said there was no threat to the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) government, which he described as very stable and running smoothly. He said ‘Operation Kamala 2.0’ would fail because the BJP was unlikely to returnRead More