Wednesday, August 28th, 2019
No Change in Seat-Sharing Formula With BJP for Maharashtra Polls, Says Uddhav Thackeray
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said in Mumbai on Wednesday that the seat-sharing formula agreed with the BJP for the coming Maharashtra Assembly election remained unchanged. Why the question arose In the past month, nearly 12 senior Congress and NCP leaders have joined the ruling BJP and Shiv Sena. This has fuelled speculation that the two allies could fight the Assembly polls separately, as they did in 2014. Asked about this, Thackeray said the alliance had been announced in Mumbai before this year’s Lok Sabha election. “There is no changeRead More
Yechury to Speak Only After ‘Reporting’ to Court on J&K Visit, Says CPI(M) Chief
CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, whom the Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted to visit Jammu and Kashmir, said he would comment on the matter only after returning and “reporting” to the court. The court’s order The court allowed Yechury to travel to the state to see Mohammed Yusuf Tarigami, a former MLA and fellow party member, held by the authorities since the Centre scrapped the Article 370 provisions that gave the state special status. The bench, led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, said Yechury could meet only Tarigami and mustRead More
Priyanka Gandhi Attacks UP Govt on Women’s Safety After FIR Against Chinmayanand
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Wednesday accused the Uttar Pradesh government of failing to keep women safe, a day after an FIR was registered against former Union minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand following the disappearance of a student who had accused him of harassment. The case Shahjahanpur Superintendent of Police S Chanappa said Chinmayanand had been booked under IPC sections 364, which covers kidnapping or abduction in order to murder, and 506, which covers criminal intimidation. The case was registered on a complaint from the student’s father. TheRead More
Shivraj Singh Chouhan and BJP Workers Court Arrest Over Farmers’ Compensation in MP
Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan led BJP workers in courting arrest at Pichhore in Shivpuri district on Tuesday, demanding compensation for farmers’ crop losses among other things. Allegations against the state government Speaking at a rally, Chouhan accused the Congress government of failing to deliver the farm loan waiver that was its main promise in last year’s election. “We will continue to fight till farmers’ loans are waived,” he said. He also charged the government with failing to pay the promised unemployment allowance and to halve electricityRead More
Bihar Mahagathbandhan Holds First Meeting After Lok Sabha Rout; Manjhi Softens on Tejashwi
Leaders of Bihar’s opposition ‘Mahagathbandhan’, which was almost wiped out in the Lok Sabha election, met in Patna on Tuesday in an apparent attempt to regroup ahead of the assembly election due next year. Who attended The grand alliance takes its name from the coalition that won the 2015 assembly election but broke up two years later when Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister and JD(U) national president, went back to the NDA. It now includes the original partners, the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress, along with the Rashtriya LokRead More