Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday mounted a scathing attack on BSP supremo Mayawati accusing her of “shedding crocodile tears” over the gang-rape incident in Rajasthan’s Alwar and demanded that her party withdraw support from the Congress government in that state if she is “serious”. On April 26, the victim was travelling with her husband on a motorcycle when the accused stopped them and took them to an isolated place off the road. They beat the husband and raped her in front of him, threatening them of dire consequences.Her husband claimed…

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East Delhi AAP candidate Atishi Thursday broke down while reading a pamphlet containing “obscene and derogatory” remarks against her that she claimed has been distributed in the constituency by her BJP rival Gautam Gambhir, a charge vehemently denied by the cricket star turned politician who said he will quit the race if the allegation was proved. The BJP, on its part, charged the AAP with stage managing such incidents.Atishi alleged the pamphlets containing derogatory remarks on her as well as her family were distributed by the BJP at housing complexes.”I had…

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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday sought to strike an emotional chord with people during a road show here, saying she was born in Delhi and is empathetic towards their aspirations, unlike Prime Minister Narendra Modi who, she claimed, has been here only for five years.Holding her first road show in the national capital in support of Sheila Dikshit, the Congress candidate for Northeast Delhi constituency, Priyanka Gandhi challenged Modi to fight polls on the issues of GST, demonetisation and women security.The road show started in Seelampur, a minority-dominated…

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a “boxer” who entered the ring to fight unemployment but ended up punching his “coach” and veteran BJP leader L K Advani.The Gandhi scion used the boxer analogy at a poll rally in Bhiwani, which is known as India’s boxing nursery and has produced famous boxers including Vijender Singh, who is fighting the Lok Sabha polls as a Congress nominee in the national capital.He accused the “boxer PM” of sidelining Advani, saying the senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader…

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Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said India is headed for an economic slowdown and accused the Modi government of leaving the economy in dire straits due to its “lack of economic vision”.Citing the latest economic growth figures to suggest an impending slowdown, the senior Congress leader also said the Indian economy is “over-regulated” and the government controls and interferences are aplenty with even regulators having “morphed into controllers”. He also rued the “growing interference” of courts in the economic policies, and said the Congress would have handled the economy…

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Not farmers’ income but their debt doubled in the last five years of the Modi government, former finance minister P Chidambaram alleged Saturday.The Congress leader also expressed confidence that his party and its alliance partners will maintain lead over the BJP at the end of the fifth phase of polling on Monday.”Farmers’ income will be doubled (if the Congress comes to power). In the last five years, farmers’ income has not doubled but their debt has doubled,” Chidambaram told reporters here.Jobs is the number one issue in the country and…

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Rajamma Vavathil, a retired nurse and a voter in Wayanad, says forcefully that no one should contest Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship status — after all she was one of those on duty at Delhi’s Holy Family Hospital on June 19, 1970 when he was born.The 72-year-old, who was still in training to be a nurse at the time, said she was among the first to take the infant Rahul in her hands.I was lucky as I was first among the few who took the newborn baby in my hands.…

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Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday invoked the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 to draw a parallel with the efforts by her Trinamool Congress to dislodge the Narendra Modi government in the ongoing parliamentary polls.”Sepoy Mutiny was the first uprising against the British in India. Now the biggest threat and problem in the country is Narendra Modi,” she said at a rally in support of TMC MP Dinesh Trivedi, who is pitted against BJP’s Arjun Singh.The Sepoy Mutiny was a violent and bloody uprising against British…

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Stepping up his attack on Narendra Modi, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said even security personnel guarding the prime minister’s official residence in Delhi may say the “chowkidar” (watchman) is a “chor” (thief).Addressing a poll rally here in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh, Gandhi also reiterated his allegations over the Rafale jet purchase deal.”I can say with guarantee…if you go in front of the Race Course Road (residence of the PM) where personnel of CRPF, BSF stand with guns…and utter the word ‘chowkidar’ in front of them, they will respond…

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