Kharagpur, April 4 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday joined BJP star campaigners for the West Bengal Assembly elections, hitting out at the Mamata Banerjee government for failure to check atrocities against women. “It is time to uproot politics of fear, corruption and atrocities from West Bengal and usher in the politics of development and trust under Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” said Gupta while seeking votes for the party’s Kharagpur candidate Dilip Ghosh.She said it …
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Alappuzha (Kerala), April 4 (IANS) Launching a sharp political offensive as campaigning enters its final stretch in Kerala, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the CPI-M-led Left of losing its ideological core and alleged a tacit understanding between the LDF and the BJP.Sharing the stage with former Left leader G. Sudhakaran, Gandhi said his presence symbolised a deeper shift within the Left.”He has not come here out of opportunism. Something fundamental has changed in the Left. To…
Thiruvananthapuram, April 4 (IANS) Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said he has been inundated with requests from people in Kerala to visit Beypore and campaign, but expressed regret at being unable to accommodate additional engagements, citing time constraints set by the Election Commission of India (ECI). “Thank you. We are inundated with such requests. But our route was drawn up after wide consultations and I am covering five or six constituencies a day already. Cannot add anything with…
Thiruvananthapuram, April 4 (IANS) With just days to go before April 9, when over 2.71 crore voters will decide Kerala’s political future, the campaign has entered a decisive, high-voltage phase marked by contrasting strategies, shifting optics and a late scramble to control the narrative.The Congress-led UDF and the BJP-led NDA are clearly betting on star power to deliver a final surge.The presence of national figures like Congress’s Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kerala on …
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Communist Party of India (CPI) Rajya Sabha member from Kerala, P. Sandosh Kumar, on Friday, wrote to the Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi to take action against top Congress leaders, who are named in an FIR registered at the North Avenue Police Station in New Delhi. Kumar in his letter said that the serious allegations of a cash for ticket scam involving individuals at the highest levels of the Congress leadership.”These charges have been levelled by a former…
Kollam (Keralam), April 3 (IANS) Union Minister Kiren Rijiju, on Friday, expressed confidence in the electoral prospects of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA in Kerala, asserting that the alliance is receiving widespread support across communities and is set to register “record” gains in the state.Speaking to IANS in Kollam, Union Minister Rijiju said the BJP candidate Pratap Kumar is garnering significant public backing. “I am here in Kollam. Our candidate, BJP candidate, Pratap Kumar, i…
Perambra (Kerala), April 3 (IANS) The controversy over an alleged communal campaign announcement in Perambra intensified on Friday, with CPI-M-led LDF candidate T.P. Ramakrishnan asserting that he has not received any notice from the Election Commission based on a complaint by the UDF.Breaking his silence after releasing the LDF’s constituency manifesto, Ramakrishnan maintained that no formal communication had reached him from the Returning Officer.He dismissed the allegations as attempts to v…
Thiruvananthapuram, April 3 (IANS) The political row over an alleged communal campaign in Perambra widened on Friday, with Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan accusing the CPI-M of deploying a “repeat strategy” to polarise voters, drawing parallels with the controversial ‘kafir screenshot’ episode in Vadakara during the Lok Sabha elections.Satheesan alleged that the campaign targeting UDF candidate Fathima Thahliya was not an isolated incident but part of a calculated attempt by the …
Thiruvananthapuram, April 3 (IANS) Veteran Congress legislator Ramesh Chennithala on Friday exuded confidence that the party-led United Democratic Front (UDF) is poised for a sweeping victory in the Kerala Assembly elections, projecting that it will cross the 100-seat mark and form the next government.Kerala goes to the polls on April 9 to elect 140 new legislators.Chennithala said the immediate priority for the UDF is to secure a clear and decisive mandate from the electorate.”We are confident …
Bengaluru, April 3 (IANS) Priyank Kharge, Karnataka Minister for IT, Biotechnology and Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, on Friday, criticised the Centre over its online content regulation policies, citing concerns raised in the US Trade Representative’s 2026 National Trade Estimate Report. In a statement, Kharge said the report has formally flagged India’s content takedown regime, noting that US firms are facing an increasing number of requests to remove online content and user accounts that…