Ajit Pawar had played down the controversy and told his supporters not to pay heed to Gopichand Padalkar’s words. (PTI/File) BJP leader Gopichand Padalkar has not spared Ajit Pawar despite the latter breaking ranks with uncle Sharad Pawar and joining the Eknath Shinde-BJP government earlier this year. This is not surprising given the acrid history…
Gopichand Padalkar, the ‘Dhangar’ face of the party, with the protesters. (X) Maha Quota Stir by Dhangars: Gopichand Padalkar, the ‘Dhangar’ face of the BJP, explained to the youth what happened in the state govt’s recent meeting on the issue and sought some time, while reminding them of the case in the Bombay High Court…
A few minutes after JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy met the top BJP leadership in New Delhi to cement a deal with them for the next Lok Sabha elections, someone in Karnataka joked that JDS should change its name to JDC or Janata Dal “Communal”. Jokes apart, it was a serious statement, given that the JDS…
Lok Sabha MP Danish Ali has written to the Speaker demanding action against BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri, who directed communal slurs at him in Parliament. (Image: PTI/File) BSP MP Danish Ali grabbed the headlines in August for strongly opposing chanting of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ by BJP MLC Hari Singh Dillon in his address at…
Since Friday morning, Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Delhi Member of Parliament (MP) Ramesh Bidhuri’s name has been trending on X, previously Twitter, in India and across news channels. Reason: His offensive diatribe in Lok Sabha against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Danish Ali, which had to be expunged by the Speaker. ALSO READ | Amid…
Reported By: Pallavi Ghosh Last Updated: September 22, 2023, 13:03 IST Prime Minister Narendra Modi in group photograph with women MPs after the passage of the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. (PTI) The glaring point is that in Lok Sabha, only about 60 members participated in the debate. In Rajya Sabha, many empty seats could be…
Last Updated: September 21, 2023, 08:59 IST In the 2019 Lok Sabha poll data, the irony can be seen. Of 8,048 candidates who contested the 543 Lok Sabha seats, only 726 were women candidates. (Getty) Nothing stops parties from voluntarily allotting 33 per cent or more of their tickets to women to give them a…
Last Updated: September 20, 2023, 16:27 IST DK Shivakumar wanted to keep the momentum till the Parliament elections and deliver yet another death blow to the JDS. However, the current Cauvery crisis has dashed his hopes. (PTI) The failed monsoon has made the deputy chief minister’s portfolios a big burden and any water scarcity will…
Reported By: Pallavi Ghosh Last Updated: September 20, 2023, 14:39 IST In 2010, the choice was between the Women’s Reservation Bill and government survival and Sonia Gandhi chose the latter. Today, this is what has given fodder to the BJP. (PTI) Sonia Gandhi, who rarely intervenes in Parliament proceedings, insisted on speaking on the Bill…
Dressed in a white cotton kurta, amid a bunch of books in a room in Raipur, sits one of the country’s best performing state ministers. Oblivious to the controversy he has kicked off by praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, TS Singh Deo — Chhattisgarh’s deputy chief minister who holds a plethora of important portfolios like…