Category: NATIONAL NEWS

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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BJP MP Poonam Mahajan, Congress nominee Urmila Matondkar, industrialist Anil Ambani and actor Rekha were among the early voters in Mumbai Monday during the fourth and final phase of Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra. State education minister Vinod Tawde, BJP candidate from Mumhai-North East Manoj Kotak and Congress nominee from Mumbai-Central Eknath Gaikwad also exercised their franchise in the initial hours.Polling is underway since 7 am across the state’s 17 Lok Sabha seats where 3.11 crore voters are eligible to exercise their democratic right. Polling is being held in Nandurbar,…

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Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar Sunday asserted that no power on earth can abolish reservation and asked people to beware of those who are spreading confusion over it.Opposition Mahagathbandhan leaders especially RJDs Tejashwi Yadav, RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha have questioned the continuance of reservation if Modi government returns to power at the Centre.”No power on earth can abolish reservation. People need to be beware of those who are spreading confusion and canard with regard to reservation. I introduced reservation in panchayat polls while Narendra Modi government gave…

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Dispelling the impression that recent searches by Income-Tax department were politically motivated, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said the law is equal for all and his residence should also be searched if he has done anything wrong.Addressing a public meeting here in Madhya Pradesh, he targeted the Congress on corruption, saying it committed the “Tughlaq Road election scam”, whose money was being used for the poll campaign of its chief Rahul Gandhi. Referring to recent I-T raids at the premises of aides of Madhya Pradesh’s Congress Chief Minister Kamal Nath,…

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi will be the only person responsible if the BJP comes back to power, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday said as he slammed the Gandhi scion days after both the parties failed to form an alliance in Delhi for the Lok Sabha elections.He was speaking at the launch of party’s manifesto in which the AAP promised 85 per cent reservation in colleges and jobs for the people of the national capital.Kejriwal said the AAP would not have “dreamt” of forming an alliance with the Congress but…

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BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday tore into the Rahul Gandhi-led Congress and its allies accusing them of being soft on terror and of tacitly approving Kashmirs secession from India.Shah also lambasted the Congress for coming up with promises of scrapping the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and abolition of sedition law in its poll manifesto and declared that such moves would be stoutly opposed by the BJP even if it was no longer in power. The BJP chief was on a whirlwind election tour of Bihar where he…

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