Tuesday, August 13th, 2019

The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee on Monday criticised actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth in Chennai for praising the Modi government’s decision to scrap Article 370. Congress’s criticism In a statement, state Congress president KS Alagiri said he was surprised by Rajinikanth’s comments and that the actor appeared to have mixed up spirituality with religion. Alagiri said Narendra Modi and Amit Shah were like Duryodhana and Shakuni, not Krishna and Arjuna, because they had taken away people’s rights. What Rajinikanth said On Sunday, speaking at the launch of a book by Vice President MRead More

Telangana BJP president K Laxman said in Hyderabad on Monday that people in the state had lost faith in the Congress because its MLAs had joined the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), and claimed only the BJP could end what he called the TRS’s “family rule”. Laxman’s claims Laxman told reporters voters did not trust the Congress since its legislators went over to the TRS even after winning. He was referring to the recent merger of 12 Congress MLAs with the TRS, which cost the Congress its status as theRead More

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi arrived in Umbha village in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district on Monday to meet the families of those killed in a firing over a land dispute, about a month after officials had prevented her from going there. The massacre In Umbha on July 17, a land feud left at least 10 Gond tribals dead and more than 26 injured. The dispute concerned a 90-bigha plot, and the attack was carried out by village head Yagya Dutt along with hundreds of others. Her earlier attempt When PriyankaRead More

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will file nomination papers in Jaipur for the Rajya Sabha bypoll from Rajasthan, the Congress said. The nomination Sachin Pilot, the state’s Deputy Chief Minister and Congress president, said the party had decided to field Singh, who would submit four sets of nomination papers on Tuesday. The seat fell vacant when BJP Rajya Sabha MP Madan Lal Saini died in June. Rajasthan sends 10 members to the Rajya Sabha. The numbers in the assembly With a majority in the assembly, the Congress was expected toRead More

The Karnataka unit of the BJP on Monday attacked Congress Legislature Party leader Siddaramaiah in Bengaluru, accusing him of going to a “biryani party” instead of visiting his flood-affected Badami assembly constituency. The BJP’s charge The party shared photographs that it said showed Siddaramaiah eating with KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao, senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and several party legislators, including MB Patil, KJ George, BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan and Krishna Byre Gowda. In a post on Twitter, the state BJP called him a “Twitter preacher” and said he hadRead More