Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
Mayawati threatens to review support to Kamal Nath government after Guna candidate defects
BSP chief Mayawati on Tuesday threatened to reconsider her party’s support to the Kamal Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh after the BSP’s candidate for the Guna Lok Sabha seat switched to the Congress. The defection Lokendra Singh Rajput, the BSP’s candidate from Guna, joined the Congress on Monday evening and declared his support for Jyotiraditya Scindia, the sitting Guna MP and Congress candidate. Mayawati’s response In posts in Hindi on her official Twitter account, Mayawati said the Congress was no different from the BJP when it came to misusingRead More
Home Ministry asks Rahul Gandhi to clarify citizenship after Subramanian Swamy complaint
The Union Home Ministry has issued a notice to Congress president Rahul Gandhi asking him to state his factual position, within a fortnight, on a complaint questioning his citizenship. The notice was issued on Monday. The complaint According to the ministry’s letter, it received a representation from BJP MP Subramanian Swamy saying that a company called Backups Limited was registered in the United Kingdom in 2003, with Gandhi as one of its directors. Swamy’s letter said the company’s annual returns filed on October 10, 2005 and October 31, 2006 gaveRead More
Column argues Shatrughan Sinha faces defeat by Ravi Shankar Prasad in Patna Sahib
An opinion column argued that actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who recently left the BJP for the Congress, is heading for defeat in Patna Sahib, where he faces BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. The writer, a fellow at India Foundation and an assistant professor at Patna University, described the seat as a battle between two Kayasthas and one of the most closely watched contests in the country. The case made for Prasad The column said Patna Sahib has traditionally been a BJP stronghold, with five of its six AssemblyRead More