Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
Gadkari attacks Congress over ‘garibi hatao’ slogan at Himachal rally
Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday accused the Congress of repeatedly promising to end poverty as a route to power, while only its own members and “the family” had prospered. The senior BJP leader was speaking at Sangla in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, at a meeting for Ram Swaroop Sharma, the party’s candidate for Mandi. Charge against Congress Gadkari said the country had seen unprecedented development during five years of BJP rule. He argued that people still lived in poverty and lacked basic facilities 72 years on, andRead More
Rahul Gandhi in Barabanki: Modi cannot pressure me, I have no past to hide
Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday that he had punctured the myth of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clean image, and that unlike other opposition leaders he could not be pressured by the Prime Minister because he had nothing in his past to fear. Addressing a public meeting at the Union Inter College ground in Ramnagar, Barabanki, Gandhi said the leverage over Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and BSP president Mayawati lay with Modi, but his own situation was different. He was campaigning for Tanuj, son of party veteran PLRead More
Mayawati hits back at PM Modi over remarks on BR Ambedkar
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Thursday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for saying that her party had abandoned the ideals of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar. The Prime Minister’s remarks Modi made the comments on Wednesday at a rally on the border of Ambedkar Nagar and Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, where he accused the SP and the BSP of forgetting the principles of Ambedkar and Ram Manohar Lohia. He said Mayawati had used Ambedkar’s name but acted against his ideals, and that the SP had invoked Lohia while wrecking law andRead More
Akhilesh Yadav targets BJP after Tej Bahadur Yadav’s Varanasi nomination is rejected
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party, a day after the nomination of Tej Bahadur Yadav, the SP’s candidate against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi, was rejected. The rejected nomination Tej Bahadur’s papers were turned down over alleged discrepancies in both sets of nomination documents he had filed. He had first entered the race as an independent before the SP made him its candidate against Modi. He had been dismissed from the Border Security Force in 2017 after raising questions about theRead More