Campaigning ends for 6th phase of Lok Sabha polls in 58 seats
New Delhi: Campaigning ended on Thursday for the penultimate phase of Lok Sabha elections in 58 constituencies across six states and two Union territories, including all the seven seats in Delhi. Besides the national capital, polling for the sixth round of the marathon seven-phase elections will be held Saturday in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, […]
If Cong has its way, those who say ‘Ram Ram’ will be arrested: PM Modi
Mahendragarh (Haryana): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday claimed that if the Congress has its way, it will arrest everyone who says “Ram Ram”, and accused the party of dividing India and creating two Muslim nations to appease its vote bank. Hours before campaigning for the sixth round of the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls came […]
Publishing polling booth-wise data will “vitiate” electoral space, create “chaos”: EC
New Delhi: The Election Commission has opposed in the Supreme Court an NGO’s demand to upload polling station-wise voter turnout data on its website within 48 hours of the conclusion of polling for each phase of the Lok Sabha elections, contending it will “vitiate” the electoral space and cause “chaos” in the poll machinery in […]
Why are you targeting my old, ailing parents: Kejriwal to PM
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday claimed that his old and ailing parents were being targeted to “break” him and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi by doing this has “crossed all limits”. Addressing a virtual press conference, Kejriwal, who is also the AAP national convener, said he has a message for Prime […]
INDIA bloc parties will undo work done by Modi: PM in UP’s Shravasti
Shravasti (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the SP and the Congress will undo the work done by him, taking away houses built by the government, closing people’s Jan Dhan accounts, cutting off their power connections and removing water taps. Stating that the “INDI alliance” is a disease worse than cancer, Modi said […]
Army doesn’t want Agniveer scheme, INDIA bloc govt will throw it in dustbin: Rahul in Haryana
Mahendragarh (Haryana): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Wednesday the Agniveer military recruitment scheme will be scrapped and thrown in the dustbin if the INDIA bloc comes to power, as he slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “turning Hindustan ke jawan into labourers”. In his first election meeting in Haryana for the Lok Sabha polls, Gandhi […]
EC asks BJP, Cong to desist from campaigning along caste, religious lines
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday asked the BJP and the Congress to desist from campaigning along caste, community, language, and religious lines, asserting that India’ socio-cultural milieu cannot be made a casualty to elections. Nearly a month after it issued notice to BJP president J P Nadda on opposition charge that Prime Minister […]
INDIA bloc govt will free judiciary of ‘pressure’, ensure his release from jail, says Kejriwal
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday that if the INDIA bloc comes to power, it will free the judiciary from “tremendous pressure” at present, and added that this will lead to his release from jail on June 5 as all cases against him are bogus. After being freed from Tihar jail […]
INDIA bloc communal, casteist and dynastic: Modi in Bihar
Maharajganj/Motihari: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday dubbed the INDIA bloc as a “congregation of scamsters” that was communal, casteist and dynastic to a “severe” degree, “cent per cent”. Modi launched the blistering attack at rallies in Mahrajganj and Purvi Champaran Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar, where he also predicted a big blow for the […]
PM Modi was preparing ‘communal pitch’ but we refused to play on it: Congress
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been indulging in polarisation throughout the election and preparing a “communal pitch”, but it refused to play on that and pursued its ‘paach nyay’ agenda. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh’s attack came over Modi’s remarks in an interview with PTI in which […]
