Category: NATIONAL NEWS

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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 Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday attempted to turn the tables on Congress president Rahul Gandhi, citing the Bofors scam to blunt the edge of the latter’s attack on the Rafale deal.Addressing a poll rally here, Modi indicated that the Congress chief was “burdened” with “Bofors sins” of his late father (Rajiv Gandhi) and therefore, was accusing others of corruption.The Bofors deal, signed in 1986, was believed to be one of primary reasons for the Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress’ defeat in the 1989 Lok Sabha polls. Rahul Gandhi has been attacking the…

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The Indian Air Force on Monday reiterated that it shot down an F-16 jet of Pakistan Air Force during the February 27 aerial combat and showed radar images of the engagement to assert that it has “irrefutable evidence” of downing the enemy jetThe IAF held a media briefing at the Defence Ministry where several slides of graphic captures from airborne warning and control system (AWACS) were shown to the media”The IAF has irrefutable evidence of not only the fact that F-16 was used by Pakistan Air Force on February 27,…

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 Hitting out at the Congress and the Left Front, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday the opposition parties were hell-bent on removing him from power, even if that meant singing paeans to Pakistan.Addressing a rally in Udaipur, Modi said the people of Tripura has set a precedent for the entire country by ousting the Left Front government after 25 years.”Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress has been trying its best to make inroads into Tripura, but people haven’t allowed that. They tolerated the atrocities of the Left Front, waiting patiently for the…

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More than 600 theatre personalities, including Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad and Usha Ganguli, have signed a letter asking people to “vote BJP and its allies” out of power, arguing that the idea of India and its constitution are under threat.The letter, which was issued Thursday evening in 12 languages on the Artist Unite India website, said the upcoming Lok Sabha elections are the “most critical in the history” of the country. Among those who have signed the letter are Shanta Gokhale, Mahesh Elkunchwar, Mahesh Dattani, Arundhati Nag, Kirti Jain,…

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With sister Priyanka Gandhi by his side, Congress president Rahul Gandhi Thursday filed his nomination from Wayanad in Kerala and said he is fighting the Lok Sabha polls from a second seat in the south besides the party bastion Amethi in the north to send a message of unity and that “India is one”. In a bid to reach out to the Left, Gandhi, 48, also said he wouldn’t say a word against the state’s CPI(M)-led LDF government during his campaign and that he would “absorb all its criticisms with…

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