Friday, May 3rd, 2019
Jaitley says Priyanka’s vote-cutting remark admits Congress is now a fringe party
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s comment about her party cutting into BJP votes in Uttar Pradesh amounted to a “confessional statement” that the Congress had become a fringe organisation. Priyanka’s remark Speaking in Amethi on Wednesday, Priyanka had said the Congress would not hurt the SP-BSP alliance in the state because it had picked candidates who would either win or draw votes away from the BJP. At a press conference, Jaitley seized on this, saying the grand old party of IndianRead More
Kejriwal asks Modi if democracy means buying MLAs after BJP claim on 14 AAP legislators
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the BJP claimed that 14 “disgruntled” Aam Aadmi Party MLAs were in contact with it, asking whether democracy, in the Prime Minister’s view, meant forming governments by buying opposition legislators. Kejriwal’s tweets In a series of tweets in which he tagged a news report, Kejriwal asked where the BJP got so much money to buy MLAs. He said the party had tried to poach AAP legislators before but that it was not easy to buy AAP members.Read More