Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
Tejashwi Yadav says Rahul Gandhi citizenship row shows BJP is in trouble
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday dismissed the controversy over Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship as rubbish, saying the issue showed how badly placed the BJP was. The citizenship notice On Tuesday the Ministry of Home Affairs sent Gandhi a notice about his citizenship after a complaint from Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy. Swamy alleged that a company registered in the United Kingdom in 2003 had listed Gandhi as one of its directors, and that the Congress president had declared his nationality as British in its filings. SpeakingRead More
Congress candidates in UP will eat into BJP votes, not alliance’s, says Priyanka Gandhi
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Wednesday that the candidates her party had fielded in Uttar Pradesh would damage the Bharatiya Janata Party’s vote share rather than that of the opposition alliance in the state, and predicted heavy losses for the BJP. Her strategy Speaking to reporters while campaigning in the state, she said the Congress expected to win where its candidates were strong. In seats where its nominees were weaker, she said, the party had chosen people who would draw votes away from the BJP. She insistedRead More
Congress calls EC clean chit to Modi over Wardha speech a ‘Modi Code of Conduct’
The Congress on Wednesday said it was disappointed with the Election Commission’s decision to clear Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a speech he made in Wardha, Maharashtra, arguing that the model code of conduct had in effect become a “Modi Code of Conduct”. The EC decision The Commission gave the Prime Minister a clean chit on Tuesday. In the Wardha speech, delivered at a rally on April 1, Modi had attacked Congress president Rahul Gandhi for choosing to stand from Wayanad in Kerala, a seat he suggested had a largeRead More