Monday, April 22nd, 2019
‘Vote without fear’: Amit Shah tells Bengal, vows to scrap Article 370 and bring NRC
BJP president Amit Shah on Monday told rallies in West Bengal that a returning BJP government would scrap Article 370 of the Constitution, which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, and introduce a National Register of Citizens across the country. He spoke while campaigning in the Uluberia Lok Sabha seat in Howrah and in Krishnanagar in Nadia district. Appeal to voters and attack on Mamata Shah asked people in Bengal to vote without fear, saying BJP workers were protecting them as guardians of democracy. He claimed Chief Minister MamataRead More
People’s court will decide on 23 May if ‘lotus brand chowkidar’ is a thief, says Rahul
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday renewed his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the same day he expressed regret to the Supreme Court for wrongly attributing a remark to the court’s Rafale judgment. In a tweet in Hindi, he said the people’s court would decide on May 23 that the “lotus brand chowkidar” (kamalchhap chowkidar) was indeed the thief. The Supreme Court matter On April 15, the court had clarified that its Rafale judgment had no occasion to make the observation “chowkidar Narendra Modi chor hai” (watchman NarendraRead More
Congress releases Delhi list: Sheila Dikshit in North East Delhi, Ajay Maken in New Delhi
The Congress on Monday, 22 April, announced its candidates for six of Delhi’s seven Lok Sabha constituencies, with former chief minister Sheila Dikshit and senior leader Ajay Maken among those named. Who is contesting where North East Delhi: Sheila Dikshit, who will take on the BJP’s Manoj Tiwari. New Delhi: Ajay Maken. Chandni Chowk: JP Agarwal, who faces the BJP’s Dr Harsh Vardhan. East Delhi: Arvinder Singh Lovely. North West Delhi (SC): Rajesh Lilothia. West Delhi: Mahabal Mishra, who is up against the BJP’s Pravesh Verma. Maken’s nomination After hisRead More
2019 Lok Sabha polls are about establishing democracy, says Amit Shah in Kolkata
BJP president Amit Shah told a press conference in Kolkata that the party would grant citizenship to refugees who had come from Bangladesh, and described the 2019 Lok Sabha election as a contest about taking India to new heights and establishing democracy. Citizenship Bill first, then NRC Shah said the BJP’s manifesto, the Sankalp Patra, clearly committed the party to giving citizenship to refugees from Bangladesh, whether Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain or Christian. He laid out the order in which the party intended to act: the Citizenship Amendment Bill wouldRead More