New Delhi: The Election Commission will meet on Wednesday to address the concerns raised by leaders of 20 opposition parties, who met the poll panel on Tuesday to voice their concerns over Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and use of VVPATs, the Congress said. “We have raised these same issues in last one and half months. […]
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No issue if Congress doesn’t get PM’s post: Ghulam Nabi Azad
Shimla: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday said his party will not make it an issue “if the Prime Minister’s chair was not offered to it”. “We are not going to make it an issue that we will not let any other leader to become the PM if the post is not offered […]
No alliance talks with AAP in Haryana: Ghulam Nabi Azad
New Delhi: Amid suggestions by the Aam Aadmi Party for an alliance in Haryana, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Wednesday that there had been no seat sharing talks in the state. “There have been no talks about alliance in Haryana,” said Azad, who is in-charge of the state. He said the Congress has formed […]
Congress refuses to comment on SP-BSP alliance
New Delhi : Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday refused to comment on the BSP and SP leaving the party out of their alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the coming Lok Sabha elections and said the party will give its response on Sunday in Lucknow. Azad told reporters here that the party is preparing […]
CBI action attempt to stall SP-BSP alliance: Congress
New Delhi : The Congress on Monday alleged that the Modi government was trying to foil an alliance between the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh by using the CBI against former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in the alleged illegal mining case. “They did not spare any of the opposition parties […]
Modi hiked benchmark price of Rafale deal from euro 5.2 bn to 8.2 bn: Congress
New Delhi | Claiming “fresh revelations” in the Rafale fighter jet deal, the Congress on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi increased the benchmark price of the deal from euro 5.2 billion to 8.2 billion, resulting in a loss to the exchequer. “Fresh revelations further expose brazen corruption practices in Rafale deal. The entire […]
It’s ‘jungle raj’ in UP under Yogi: Congress
New Delhi : Expressing alarm over the rising crime chart in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Uttar Pradesh, the Congress on Friday claimed there is “jungle raj” in the state in the absence of any governance or law and order. “There is nothing in the name of governance in Uttar Pradesh, there is nothing in the […]
Will NC, PDP and Congress sink differences to form government in J&K?
Srinagar : Political grapevine in Jammu and Kashmir was agog on Wednesday that the Congress, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the National Conference (NC) are engaged in serious parleys to form a coalition government in the state. Reports here suggest that the three parties want to stymie the efforts of the Bharatiya Janata Party […]
Unlike now, government, opposition were close in Atal era: Azad
New Delhi : In an apparent dig at the Narendra Modi government, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said there was “no distance, as it is today” between the government and the opposition in Vajpayee’s era. Paying tributes to former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee at a prayer meeting here, Azad recalled how […]
Opposition sceptical of government assurances on Assam NRC
New Delhi : Opposition leaders in the Rajya Sabha cutting across party lines on Friday expressed scepticism over the assurances given by Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the NRC updation process in Assam. Rajnath Singh had assured that the entire NRC process was transparent and the left out people from the final draft, published on […]