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National BJP President JP Nadda on Friday dismissed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as a fringe player while the Congress stood no chance in Gujarat, “which is an undisputed globally recognised laboratory of good governance” even as heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Gujarat Government for its “effective” handling of the Covid-19 […]
The young sulking firebrand Patidar leader and working Gujarat Congress president Hardik Patel, who had kicked up a ruckus for allegedly being slighted and sending indications of quitting, has been finally won over. The occasion was a religious function on the first death anniversary of his father Bharat Patel at his hometown Viramgam, which was […]
In his 600-slides lengthy presentation to the Congress leadership, election strategist Prashant Kishor put forward a specific route to revive the grand old party. “Forming an Empowered Action Group (EAG) to lead upcoming state elections in 2022-2023 and for the 2024 General Elections is his plan of action. For this, he needed the chairmanship of […]
After long drawn-out negotiations that lasted for months and desperate attempts to get master strategist Prashant Kishor on board, the Congress high command has fallen into its own trap — Trying to Have The Cake and Eat It Too. For long Prashant Kishor was pumped up as a veritable panacea to all ills facing the […]
With Assembly elections fast approaching, Gujarat is witnessing war of words as well as internal as well as external scuffles among major parties. A lot of reshuffling and speculations are marring the scene, leaving even political experts confused and anxious. One of the most volatile player who has emerged recently is Congress party’s working president […]
While the drumbeats for the Gujarat battle have started sounding on the horizon, Congress is in the news for once in several years for it’s preparedness. The Grand old party has always viewed such exercise with disdain but as Dylan sings : ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’” With Sonia Gandhi in active mode, Congress seem […]
With the state Assembly elections few months away, leaders across party lines are wasting no time in the prep to polls. Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Shaktisinh Gohil made an appearance in Rajkot on Monday, for the concluding day of the District Congress meditation camp. His views on several issues: BJP has taken many […]
It is a love-hate relationship between Congress and poll strategist Prashant Kishor. Neither loves the other or hates the other. But currently, neither can do without one another also rings true. Their tryst with each other’s destiny started in 2016. In the run-up to the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, reports emerged that the Congress […]
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor held a five-hour-long meeting with top Congress leaders such as Priyanka Gandhi, Ambika Soni, P Chidambaram, Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal and Randeep Surjewala at 10 Janpath on Monday. This comes amid reports of Kishor joining the party ahead of the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections. This was the second meeting held […]
As incidents of communal violence plague the country, opposition parties have questioned silence from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the matter. In a joint appeal, 13 parties have said that they were shocked that the PM has failed to speak against the communal clashes and take appropriate action to punish the guilty. The appeal was […]
After three and a half-hour-long meeting with the top leaders of the Congress party on Saturday, poll strategist Prashant Kishor is expected to work with the Congress party for the next general elections of the year 2024. According to the sources, PK in the meeting opined that Congress needs to focus to fight on the […]
Gujarat Aam Aadmi Party state president Gopal Italia said that the party would welcome Hardik Patel with open arms. This statement follows Patel’s outburst a day earlier, where he lashed out at Congress high-command and said that the leaders of the party were incapable of taking decisions. Ever since then, rumors are abuzz, anticipating Patel’s exit […]
Indranil Rajyaguru, the multi-millionaire Congress stalwart from Rajkot with the stature to contest against the sitting BJP Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on his home turf has embraced the Aam Admi Party along with Rajkot Municipal Corporation corporator Vashram Sagathia. In a big blow to Congress, the 55-year-old former Congress leader and MLA from Gujarat’s Rajkot […]
In a big relief to Congress leader Hardik Patel, a bench of Justices S Abdul Nazeer and Vikram Nath proceeded to give a verdict that will allow the Patidar Andolan leader who shook the Anandiben Patel’s BJP government in 2015, to contest the forthcoming Gujarat assembly elections. “Having heard Senior Counsel Maninder Singh and having […]
Within less than 10 days of the Gujarat Government having to stop the controversial Par-Tapi-Narmada Riverlinking Project, the State Government has been forced to eat the humble pie over the Gujarat Cattle Control (Keeping and Moving) in Urban Areas Bill, 2022, passed by the State Assembly after a six-hour debate on March 31. Both the State Government decisions have […]
Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday tore into the Central Government for diluting the MGNREGA by reducing its budgetary allocations while asserting that it was this scheme that came as a blessing for the poor migrant workers across the country during the Covid-19 crisis. It was the Congress-led UPA Government, which introduced the Mahatma […]
The former Gujarat Congress chief, who has been directly or indirectly controlling the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) for almost a decade now – Bharatsinh Solanki is now enraged by the neglect of his supporters and camped in Delhi. A day before his departure, he openly demonstrated his power by calling his supporting MLAs. He […]
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday asked the Central government to restart the mid-day meals in schools. Noting that the Covid-19 pandemic had resulted into shutting down the schools and eventually stopping the mid-day meal scheme, Sonia Gandhi said, “Schools were the first institutions to be closed and the last to be reopened… With […]
India on Friday was ranked 136th in the World Happiness Index. Taking a dig at the Modi government for this, Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi mentioned India’s performances in different indexes and said that the country might soon rank highest in the hate and anger charts. “Hunger Rank: 101, Freedom Rank: 119, Happiness […]
In Assembly Elections 2022, Congress lost Punjab to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and was defeated in the three states where it had hoped for a comeback or at least, a fighting chance – Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur. Rahul Gandhi humbly accepts defeat. Rahul Gandhi tweeted: “Humbly accept the people’s verdict. Best wishes to those […]
