Category: NATIONAL NEWS

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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Opposition Leader and sitting Congress MP Mallikarjun Kharge Sunday exuded confidence that he will win the elections and accused the BJP of building hype around its candidate Umesh Jadhav in the reserved Gulbarga parliamentary constituency.“BJP is creating a fake hype around Jadhav winning the Gulbarga reserved seat,” he told PTI in an exclusive interview at Wadi where he stopped over for lunch at the house of a Sufi priest.Kharge said despite the alleged use of money power, he would win the elections as people know him for the past 50…

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Moderate to high voter turnout was recorded in the 95 constituencies in 11 states and Puducherry that went to polls in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections which were marred by sporadic incidents of violence in West Bengal and Manipur and EVM glitches.There were also reports of EVM malfunctioning in some seats.Puducherry saw a high voter turnout of 78 per cent while in Manipur, the polling percentage was nearly 75, sources in the election office said. Srinagar, which in 2014 witnessed the lowest voter turnout in the country at…

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Targeting Rahul Gandhi on his “why are all thieves named Modis” remark, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday said the Congress chief, by making that jibe, had maligned the backward community he hails from.Addressing a poll rally here, Modi also slammed the “dynastic politics” of Sharad Pawar and claimed the NCP chief had “fled” the poll arena from Madha Lok Sabha constituency as he sensed defeat.”The Congress and its allies say that all Modis in the society are thieves. The Congress and its allies have not kept any shortcomings in abusing…

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 Asserting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often donated his personal savings to public causes, the BJP Tuesday said he has always believed in the principle of “simple living, high ideals”, as the saffron party slammed the Congress for accusing that he had given “wrong information” about a plot he owned in Gandhinagar.The BJP said the Congress has levelled false allegations regarding Modi’s property and counter-accused the Gandhi family of having acquired a lot of assets over years with little-known sources. The Congress has in the past dismissed the BJP’s…

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Senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan has lambasted the Narendra Modi government, calling it the “most corrupt” in the history of India, and said its performance has been “abysmal and deplorable”.He also accused the BJP-led dispensation of misusing the sedition law, and said the Congress wants to differentiate between the anti-national acts and opposition to the government.Chavan claimed there was fear among people now that if Modi, who has “dictatorial tendencies”, continued to be in power, the Indian democracy would be in trouble.In an interview to DIN, the former Maharashtra chief…

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