New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday made fresh allegations of discrepancies in the CBSE’s process for awarding a contract for the On-screen Marking Scheme (OSM), seeking a judicial inquiry into the decision to pick an allegedly ineligible EdTech company for the task. Sharing a news clipping on social media, Gandhi countered attacks on him by BJP Ministers for raising the issue and questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence and “inaction …
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Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) In what appears to be a widening rift within the Trinamool Congress, the party’s Chief Whip in the Lok Sabha, Kalyan Banerjee on Thursday refuted the allegations made against him by fellow MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, and said that he would now write to Speaker Om Birla seeking he provide the sanction sought by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute her in the Narada sting operation case. Notably, sanctions in the case were also sought against Trinamool MPs Sa…
Chandigarh, May 28 (IANS) Ahead of the Assembly elections in Punjab, the BJP national President on Thursday appointed a Jat Sikh face and former legislator Kewal Singh Dhillon, 75, a close confidante of former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, as the new state president, replacing Sunil Jakhar, the party’s prominent Hindu face in the state.Political observers said the BJP’s decision to bet on Dhillon is part of a strategy to project a Sikh face in the Sikh-dominated Punjab with an eye on …
Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) Four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, on Thursday, wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking his permission to file an official complaint against Kalyan Banerjee, the Chief Whip of her own party in the Lower House of Parliament and also a four-time MP.In her letter to the Lok Sabha Speaker, Gosh Dastidar, a medical practitioner in private life, has accused Banerjee of misconduct within the Lok Sabha, along with instances of sho…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday emphatically rejected Lok Sabha Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi’s allegations of impropriety over entering into a contract with a particular education technology firm. “It is erroneous, misleading, and not based on facts,” the CBSE posted on social media platform X.“CBSE has followed the General Financial Rules protocols scrupulously in awarding the contract to the agency. CBSE floated the R…
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) A fresh police complaint had been filed against the Trinamool Congress’ General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, at the Bhabanipur Police Station in Kolkata on Wednesday, accusing him of making objectionable social media statements on May 2, two days before the results of the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections, were announced. The police complaint had been filed by an individual Arnab Kanti Ghosh in the afternoon, which had been…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Congress leaders on Wednesday paid floral tributes to India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, on his 62nd death anniversary at his memorial, Shanti Van. Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi paid floral tributes to Nehru, his great-grandfather, at Shanti Van on the occasion of his death anniversary.Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge also paid floral tributes to Nehru at the memorial.Kharge took to social media ‘X’ and sa…
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) Famed author and senior Congress MP, Shashi Tharoor, set off fresh political chatter with a warm and politically-loaded social media post after meeting bibliophile Kerala Chief Minister, V.D. Satheesan, in New Delhi on Tuesday.Calling it a ‘wonderful hour-long conversation’, Tharoor said he held extensive discussions with the Chief Minister on Kerala’s development road map and assured his fullest cooperation in efforts to build a transformed Keralam.The post instan…
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) This day, exactly 12 years ago, India stepped into a new political era as Narendra Modi took oath as the 15th Prime Minister of the country at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The day was significant because on May 26, 2014, he led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a 282-seat victory, crossing the majority mark in the 543-member Lok Sabha. It marked the first time in three decades that a single party secured an outright majority in the Lok Sabha. It wa…
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) Congress leader and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s recent claim that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government will fall within a year found support from the Samajwadi Party (SP) Chief Akhilesh Yadav. “He’s right,” Yadav said, answering a question during a press conference on Tuesday.”Once the SP comes to power in Uttar Pradesh, the Union government will fall,” he added.The Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh is slated for early next year.Rahul …