New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Congress has approached the Supreme Court to contest the dismissal of its Rajya Sabha candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination from Madhya Pradesh and is expected to bring the issue up early in the morning for an urgent hearing before the court’s vacation bench on Thursday.This legal action follows the Returning Officer’s rejection of Natarajan’s nomination papers due to objections raised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The ruling party claimed that the Congress …
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Bhopal/New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh BJP President Hemant Khandelwal on Wednesday said the BJP had no role in the rejection of Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan’s Rajya Sabha nomination and asked the Congress to look at its own issues. “If there is a lack of consensus or internal conflict within the Congress, what can the BJP do about it? The BJP is not in power in Telangana; who provided the documents from there? Now you claim the BJP did something wrong… we did nothing wrong…
Hyderabad, June 10 (IANS) Amid row over rejection of nomination of Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan for Rajya Sabha in Madhya Pradesh, Congress MP Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday lodged a police complaint against certain social media accounts for spreading what he called “malicious propaganda” against Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy. In the complaint filed with the Central Crime Station, he named ‘Telugu Scribe’ and other social media accounts for propagating on social media …
Hyderabad, June 10 (IANS) A huge row erupted over Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination for Rajya Sabha in Madhya Pradesh. The focus is on the case allegedly pending in a court in Hyderabad, which was not mentioned in her affidavit.The legal notice sent to the AICC in-charge for Telangana at the state Congress office, Gandhi Bhavan, last year shows that she was one of the respondents in a private complaint filed by a former Congress leader and a former corporator of Greater Hyderaba…
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) In the wake of the cancellation of her Rajya Sabha nomination from Madhya Pradesh, Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan on Wednesday alleged that the Returning Officers (ROs) were “compromised” and acting on the behest of the government.Natarajan was the Congress’ lone Rajya Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh, but her nomination papers were cancelled after the BJP raised a major objection against her, alleging that she had concealed information about a case pending in a…
Hyderabad, June 9 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Tuesday handed over 553 buses to women self-help groups under the Mahila Shakti scheme aimed at empowering women. State-owned Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC) will hire these buses, and each self-help group will make a monthly income of Rs 70,000.The buses were handed over at an event held at the Parade Grounds in Secunderabad amid heavy rains. The event was organised as part of women empowerment celebration…
Hyderabad, June 9 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Tuesday condemned what he termed a conspiracy by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh that led to the rejection of Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections. “After vote chori and SIR, they are now resorting to seat chori,” the Chief Minister posted on X.“This is an assault on democracy. People’s voices are being stifled. This is a dark day for Indian democracy and n…
Bhopal, June 9 (IANS) The Returning Officer of the Rajya Sabha biennial elections in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday rejected the nomination papers of Meenakshi Natarajan, the lone candidate from Congress. Earlier in the day, the party faced a hurdle at Bhopal airport while attempting to send its MLAs to Bengaluru for a “resort stay” strategy ahead of the elections. At the same time, the BJP raised a major objection regarding Natarajan’s nomination form, alleging that she had concealed informati…
Bhopal, June 9 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha poll contest in Madhya Pradesh intensified on Tuesday after the BJP lodged a formal objection with the Returning Officer against Congress candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination, alleging that she suppressed information related to a legal proceeding in Telangana.Senior BJP leader and Minister in the Mohan Yadav government, Kailash Vijayvargiya, lodged the complaint, contending that a case involving Natarajan is pending before a Telangana court and was n…
Thiruvananthapuram, June 9 (IANS) Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president K. Surendran on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Congress, alleging that making grand promises during elections and abandoning them after coming to power has become the party’s political DNA. Accusing the Congress government in Kerala of misleading voters, Surendran said the party was repeating the same pattern seen in states such as Karnataka, Telangana and Himachal Pradesh, where, he alleged, assuranc…