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NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday launched a broadside against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his “vote chori” after a study by the Karnataka government found out that majority respondents in the state believe that elections in India are conducted freely and fairly and that EVM’s deliver accurate results.BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla cited the…
MUMBAI: BJP has denied BMC election tickets to nearly 40% of its corporators who were elected in the previous poll of 2017. While some lost out because their wards got reserved, others were denied tickets either in order to accommodate fresh entrants from other parties or to give an opportunity to new and young faces…
KOLKATA: Former Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh‘s re-emergence in party meetings during home minister Amit Shah’s Kolkata visit brought relief to party veterans, while absence of key Matua and Rajbangshi netas underscored unease before the 2026 polls. Ghosh was seen entering a New Town hotel where Shah was staying and attended a closed-door meeting with…
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his visit to the ‘Thanthania Kalibari’ temple, in Kolkata. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist) KOLKATA: Union home minister Amit Shah urged BJP functionaries and workers in Bengal to mentally lock in victory in the 2026 assembly elections. “Dil pe likh lo, is baar hamari sarkar (Write it on your hearts,…
File photo: Union minister Amit Shah NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah has asked BJP public representatives in West Bengal to step up grassroots outreach as the party prepares for the high-stakes assembly elections due in the next four months. Shah directed MPs, MLAs and local representatives to spend at least four days every…
Screen grab from video posted on X by @SuvenduWB NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday shared a video alleging that a woman and her family members were brutally assaulted with bamboo sticks in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district.The incident reportedly took place in Uttar Bhangnamari village under the Basanti block of the…
Mumbai: After a week of hard negotiations, BJP-Shiv Sena finalised a 137-90 seat-sharing formula. Till late Monday, Sena functionaries said there was a dispute over 14 seats and said they had put the onus on BJP as the big party in the alliance to take ‘everyone’ along.Political observers said after a week of parlays, deputy…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday condemned the fatal assault case of Tripura student Anjel Chakma and his brother in Uttarakhand’s Dehradun.In a social media post on X, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha pinned the blame of Chakma’s death on BJP, claiming that the hate crime was the result of “toxic…
BJP: Cong has become asset of ‘fake’ Gandhis NEW DELHI: Congress has lost its foundation and has become a private asset of “fake” Gandhi family, BJP alleged on Sunday, taking a jibe at the opposition party on its foundation day. The governing party mocked Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge – who recalled his party’s rich legacy…
Congress MP Manickam Tagore (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manickam Tagore on Sunday stoked controversy as he compared the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with Islamic terror outfit al-Qaida, saying the BJP’s ideological mentor “breeds hatred and propagates hatred”.Reacting to Congress leader Digvijay Singh’s remark praising the organisational strength of the RSS, Tagore said, “there…
