Former Congress legislator Isidore Fernandes, one of the 10 Goa Congress MLAs who have merged with the BJP, attacked his old party as a divided house in which everyone looks out only for themselves. He made the remarks in Delhi, where he had gone to meet the BJP’s central leadership. Fernandes’s remarks Speaking to ANI, Fernandes said, “We wanted to be part of development. BJP is an inclusive party,” before adding that in the Congress everybody was concerned only about themselves. The defectors and Chief Minister Pramod Sawant were scheduledRead More

All 29 candidates in the election to Parliament’s Committee on Estimates have been declared elected unopposed, after fewer candidates remained in the fray than the 30 seats on the committee. How it happened According to a notification from the parliamentary committee branch, the House adopted the motion for the election of thirty members on June 24, 2019. By the deadline, thirty-one nominations had come in, but two candidates later withdrew. Since the number of remaining candidates was below the number of seats to be filled, the 29 were declared dulyRead More

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday accused the Uttar Pradesh government of failing to tackle corruption and expressed grief over the death of Neeraj Kumar, a man who took his own life after allegedly being harassed by a junior engineer working for the power department. The case Neeraj Kumar killed himself at the Collectorate camp office in Bijnor district on July 9. He had alleged that the engineer kept asking him for money, and had recently held a press conference in which he appealed to the President to allowRead More

Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Tarun Bhanot said in Bhopal on Wednesday that the share of central taxes passed on to the states had been falling for the past few years, mainly because of what he called the flawed rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). He was speaking shortly after presenting the state Budget in the Assembly. Complaints against the Centre Bhanot said finance ministers from several states had recently met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi, and many had raised the issue of shrinking tax transfers.Read More

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said he got the top job because he deserved it. Speaking at a press conference in Jaipur after presenting the state Budget, he said Congress president Rahul Gandhi had chosen him because people in the villages wanted him in the post. His remarks came months after a bitter contest for the chief minister’s chair between him and state Congress chief Sachin Pilot. Why he got the job “Mera CM banna banta tha (I deserved to become the chief minister),” Gehlot said, without naming Pilot,Read More