Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) President Subhankar Sarkar said on Friday that the growing factionalism within the Trinamool Congress is a “Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ploy to create a shadow Opposition in the state which will actually operate as per the instructions of the ruling party in the state”. “Previously we used to say that Trinamool Congress and the BJP were two sides of the same coin. Our conjecture was clear after the West Bengal Assembly elect…
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Hyderabad, July 10 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Friday predicted that the Congress would retain power in the state with a landslide victory in the 2029 Assembly elections.He said he believes the next Assembly elections will not be held in May-June 2029 but before the end of 2028.Asserting that the proposed delimitation would increase Lok Sabha seats in Telangana from 17 to 26 and Assembly seats from 119 to 182, he expressed confidence that the Congress would win 20 Lok Sab…
Chandigarh, July 10 (IANS) A delegation of the Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by state President Kewal Singh Dhillon, will call on the Governor of Punjab on Saturday to submit a memorandum alleging irregularities and misuse of official machinery during the conduct of the Abohar Municipal Corporation mayoral polls. The memorandum will detail the party’s concerns about the alleged high-handedness of the state government and its officials in conducting the election.The party will urge the…
Mumbai, July 10 (IANS) Senior leaders from the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition on Friday launched a scathing attack on the state government at the conclusion of the monsoon assembly session. Presenting a united front, Congress leader Nana Patole, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Bhaskar Jadhav, and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader Jayant Patil targeted the ruling dispensation over farmers’ issues, infrastructure corruption, deteriorating educational standards, and the “undemocratic” delay in appointing …
Indore, July 10 (IANS) Amid speculation over differing public statements by senior Congress leaders on the alleged Ujjain land deal, All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary and Madhya Pradesh In-charge Harish Chaudhary on Friday asserted that State Congress Chief Jitu Patwari’s allegations against Chief Minister Mohan Yadav represented the party’s official stand, while former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh’s remarks on the issue were made in his personal capacity. During a press co…
Mumbai, July 10 (IANS) Leaders of the ruling MahaYuti government in Maharashtra on Friday criticised the Congress leader and former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan following his statement regarding the NCP-SP leaders, while claiming that the Sharad Pawar-led party “may merge with the NDA”.Earlier, NCP-SP MP Supriya Sule had ruled out alignment with NDA and refuted claims made by Chavan that some of the party’s lawmakers were “disgruntled”.Speaking to IANS, Union Minister and Republican Party Of…
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The Congress on Friday mounted a coordinated nationwide campaign over the alleged financial irregularities involving donations and offerings at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. The Congress demanded a Supreme Court-monitored investigation, a forensic audit of temple funds, and the reconstitution of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust.Senior Congress leaders across multiple states accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre of remaining silent on allegations …
Vadodara, July 10 (IANS) The Congress on Friday called for a Supreme Court-monitored independent judicial investigation into alleged irregularities related to the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, demanding the registration of FIRs against those it claimed were involved and questioning the Trust’s governance and financial transparency. Addressing a press conference, party national spokesperson Surendra Rajput alleged that donations and offerings made by devotees for the construction of …
Chandigarh, July 10 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab secured a win in the Abohar Municipal Corporation and the Morinda Municipal Council on Friday. However, both the BJP and the Congress smelled foul play as they claimed that, despite the numbers, an act of strong-arm tactics was carried out by the government functionaries through the misuse of power.AAP won the posts of Mayor, President and all other key office-bearers in both civic bodies. In the Abohar Municipal Corporation, Ganesh …
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to suspend the conviction of former Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti in the 1998 Rural Development Bank fraud case, denying him relief that could have restored his membership of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. A single-judge Bench of Justice Manoj Jain declined to suspend the conviction awarded to Bharti by a Special MP/MLA court, which had also sentenced him to three years’ imprisonment in the decades-old cooperative bank fra…