Slamming the Uttar Pradesh government’s crackdown against slaughterhouses in the state, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Assaduddin Owaisi highlighted BJP’s hypocrisy on Saturday saying in Uttar Pradesh cow is mummy but in the Northeast it’s yummy, as quoted by news agency ANI. His remarks come in the backdrop of the UP government’s decision to shut down illegal slaughter houses in the state, although critics point out that the move is […]

Riding on the huge success in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now gearing up for one of its most prestigious electoral battle — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat — due at the end of this year. The BJP has ruled the state since 1998, a feat that has helped Modi’s rise to power as the Prime Minister of India. The duo of […]

In 2014, Modi wave did an unthinkable for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh by winning 73 of 80 Lok Sabha seats for the alliance. Less than three years later, it was a repeat in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. But, this time apart from PM Modi, there is another ‘chai-wallah’ who shares the credit for stupendous victory for the BJP. Keshav Prasad Maurya, the UP BJP president, is said to […]

In an explosive 60-page note that Kalikho Pul wrote one day before he killed himself in Itanagar last August, the former chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh has levelled serious allegations of corruption against constitutional functionaries and a host of top politicians in the state – including current chief minister Pema Khandu and his deputy Chowna Mein. The note, whose existence was first disclosed to the media by the former Arunachal […]

The BJP on Wednesday came out in strong defence of megastar Amitabh Bachchan for his association with an event to mark the second anniversary of the Modi government, despite a probe against him after his name appeared in the Panama Papers expose.   BJP leaders, including Union Ministers, said the probe against Bachchan had nothing to do with the event linked with the social issue of protecting the girl child, […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party is heading for a historic victory in the north-eastern state of Assam, one of five states electing new governments. The party is ahead in 61 of the 126 seats, while the Congress is leading in 25 seats, the Election Commission said. Assembly elections were held in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Assam and in the union territory of Pondicherry. The main opposition […]

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said it was wrong on the government’s part to label JNU students’ union leader Kanhaiya Kumar as “anti-national”. “Who gave birth to Kanhaiya Kumar in the first place? The government should think over this. He has been wrongly labelled anti-national,” Thackeray said at a meeting of party office-bearers in Nashik. If youth are branded “anti-national” in this manner, they will not be able […]

As phase two of polling is underway in Assam, one question that is perhaps on every one’s mind is how will this round of polling in the eastern part of the country pan out for BJP, especially after its debacle in Bihar. Will the Bharatiya JanataParty and Modi magic make a difference in the Himalayan state or would the Brahmaputra valley continue to see a predominance of the Congress raj. […]

If you have been following social network I am sure you must have come across a plethora of posts where either Arvind Kejriwal is slamming the Modi Government about the alleged raid of the Chief Minister’s office or BJP members snubbing Kejriwal’s comments or even CBI officials defending their move as legal. According to the CBI, they raided the premises of IAS officer, Rajendra Kumar, who is principle secretary to […]

This was perhaps one of the closely watched and contested elections in Bihar. With the pre-poll noise levels rising, the exit polls predicting a thumping victory for BJP, perhaps the final result was a rather strong jolt. But the final result, was it really that surprising? Did the BJP really expect anything better? Can we put the credit for this victory entirely to Shri Nitish Kumar’s developmental financial package? Well […]