New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who has been on a hunger strike for the past 20 days at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, was shifted to a hospital early on Saturday after his health deteriorated. The move came in compliance with directions of the Delhi High Court and on the advice of medical experts.Police personnel reached the protest site in the morning and shifted Wangchuk to the hospital amid sloganeering and protests by activists of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which …
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Chandigarh, July 18 (IANS) Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state disappointed every section as he chose to indulge in politics instead of announcing the release of state’s legitimate pending financial dues. The Finance Minister on Friday added that the people of Punjab had expected the Prime Minister to clear the state’s pending dues, but he remained silent on the issue while making political remarks.He said the Aam Aadmi Part…
Jalandhar, July 17 (IANS) Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Kewal Singh Dhillon on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has never visited Punjab empty‑handed and has always brought developmental initiatives for the state. “On behalf of the people of Punjab, I thank the Prime Minister,” Dhillon said while addressing a public gathering in the presence of PM Modi and the party leadership. He noted that even today, PM Modi inaugurated projects worth hundreds of crores of rupees…
New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said on Thursday that at a time when the BJP is committed to women’s empowerment, Aam Aadmi Party Convenor Arvind Kejriwal has suspended three women Councillors, exposing his “anti-women” face. Kapoor added that one of the women AAP Councillor who face party action includes Sultana Abad and the AAP National Convenor’s action demonstrates that Kejriwal was ‘anti-women’ in the past and continues to rem…
New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday showed solidarity with agitating activist Sonam Wangchuk at his protest site at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, suggesting that the engineer-turned-activist from Ladakh should be appointed the Education Minister to end irregularities in exams. Kejriwal’s surprise appearance at Wangchuk’s protest site coincided with his post in Hindi on social media platform X in which he said, “… Sonam Wangchuk should be appointed…
New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) BJP MP Manoj Tiwari on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal over the latter’s participation in a Sundarkand recitation and the party’s campaign over the alleged Ram Temple donation theft case, questioning the sincerity of Kejriwal’s religious outreach.Speaking to reporters, Tiwari alleged that Kejriwal’s expressions of devotion were politically motivated and claimed that his actions did not align with his p…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor on Tuesday shared on social media a copy of the apology letter that AAP Convenor Arvind Kejriwal had personally handed over to Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on March 16, 2018, in a defamation suit. Kapoor said that the day is not far when Arvind Kejriwal will once again have to apologise to Gadkari before the entire nation over the ethanol-petrol issue.The Delhi BJP Spokesp…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday said that the Aam Aadmi Party leadership must explain its political association with and patronage of ex-AAP councillor Tahir Hussain, who was held guilty of instigating the 2020 Delhi riots, murder and violence in a court. Reacting to the trial court’s decision delivered on Monday, Chief Minister Gupta said that the conviction of Tahir Hussain in the case marks an important step towards justice for the families who lost the…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The BJP on Tuesday welcomed a Delhi court’s verdict convicting former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain for the murder of IB officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 city riots, demanding an apology from Arvind Kejriwal for trying to shield his party colleague and slamming the Congress for pursuing politics of appeasement. Bharatiya Janata Party National Spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said that when the conspiracy of these riots was being hatched, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s st…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Facing flak over the conviction of former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in the 2020 Delhi riots case, the party’s national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday sought to distance himself, stating that the convict had been expelled from the party long ago.Kejriwal, taking to his X account, posted, “We expelled him from AAP long long back. Didn’t he join one of chanda chor party’s sister organization?”His reply comes on the back of scathing criticism from the BJP,…