Category: NATIONAL NEWS

New Delhi, Jul 17 (DIN NEWS) The BJP today described Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s tweet that he stands with the last person in line as a “confession” of his reported remarks that his party is for Muslims. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra told reporters that Gandhi has not denied the comments, seized by the saffron party to accuse him of Muslim appeasement, and claimed that the Congress leader is in competition with AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi to “usurp” the legacy of Pakistan founder M A Jinnah. “He (Gandhi) has still not…

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New Delhi, Jul 17 (DIN NEWS) Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today said he stands with the persecuted and seeks to erase “hatred and fear”, breaking his silence on the controversy following a reported remark on the Congress being a “party for Muslims”. The Congress has dismissed the report in an Urdu daily as a “rumour” and asserted that it was a party of 132 crore Indians. “I stand with the last person in the line. The exploited, marginalised and the persecuted. Their religion, caste or beliefs matter little to me,”…

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Lucknow, Jul 16 (DIN NEWS) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today said that “parties are of people and not of any religion”, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Congress, saying it was a “party for Mulsim men only”. Addressing his party workers here, Akhilesh also said he would embark on a cycle yatra in the state once the Lok Sabha election schedules are announced. “The prime minister is saying that the Congress is a party of Muslim men. I want to say that parties are of people and…

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Midnapore (WB), Jul 16 (DIN NEWS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a no-holds-barred attack against the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, charging it with “throttling democracy” and running a “syndicate raj” without whose approval nothing moves. Addressing a ‘Kisan Kalyan’ rally here, the prime minister also reached out to farmers and said his government was working to double their incomes by 2022. The people of West Bengal will get freedom from the “misrule” of the Trinamool Congress within a few months, Modi told the gathering at the farmers’…

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Lucknow, Jul 15 (DIN NEWS) Hitting back at the BJP after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the previous governments of neglecting the people and not completing developmental projects in time, BSP chief Mayawati today said the saffron party too had contributed to the delaying of projects. “Why is the prime minister shying away from accepting this?” the former chief minister asked in a statement, hours after Modi blamed the previous governments by non-BJP parties for delay in completion of various schemes and projects. “The BJP governments too have contributed in…

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New Delhi, Jul 15 (DIN NEWS) Militaries of India and Pakistan will be part of a mega anti-terror drill in Russia next month which is being organised by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) with an aim to expand cooperation among the member countries to deal with terrorism and extremism. Around 200 Army and Air Force personnel from India will be participating in the exercise scheduled from August 20-29 at Chelyabinsk city in west-central Russia, official sources said. The exercise will be joined by all SCO member countries including Russia, China,…

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Gandhinagar, Jul 14 (DIN NEWS) In a sharp attack on the Congress and the Gandhi-Nehru family, BJP president Amit Shah said today that a party which “failed” in establishing internal democracy can never preserve India’s democracy. Before the BJP came to power under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, India was lagging behind other countries in most key areas such as economic growth, agriculture and on social sector indicators, he said. However in the past four years, things have improved considerably, Shah said, addressing the audience at…

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Lucknow, Jul 14 (DIN NEWS) Hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to lay the foundation stone for the Purvanchal Expressway, former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav today sought to take the wind out of his sails by claiming it was his own government’s project which was being relaunched. “This was originally Samajwadi Purvanchal Expressway, but the word Samajwadi has been dropped,” the Samajwadi Party chief told a press conference at the party headquarters here. Almost at the same time, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma called a press meet…

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Hyderabad, Jul 13 (DIN NEWS) BJP president Amit Shah arrived here today on a day-long visit to hold consultations with party leaders on the strategy for the 2019 Lok Sabha and the Telengana Assembly elections. During his visit, Shah is also likely to meet some RSS leaders, sources said. The BJP chief was accorded a warm reception by the party’s state unit after he landed at the Begumpet airport. He was scheduled to make a speech but did not do so. Shah will give a road map to the state…

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New Delhi, Jul 13 (DIN NEWS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi today cited a media report to hit out at Narendra Modi’s visit to China in April, saying never in India’s history has a prime minister “capitulated to pressure from a foreign power as this one has”. Gandhi, who took to Twitter to attack the prime minister, tagged a media report which claimed that the Army has decided to shelve all new “raisings” for a China-specific Mountain Strike Corps due to financial constraints. “Our PM’s ‘no agenda’ China visit, clearly had…

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