Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has alleged that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis lied on the floor of the house about the death of 35-year-old Dalit activist Somnath Suryavanshi in police (judicial) custody in Parbhani, during the winter session of the state Assembly held in Nagpur, after the issue was raised by Sharad Pawar-led NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday hit out at Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi saying that NDA MPs are very agitated over the conduct of the Congress lawmaker in the Parliament premises.
Four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member from Serampore Lok Sabha constituency in Hooghly district of West Bengal, Kalyan Banerjee, on Thursday, requested people to not allow delivery boys within homes when girls are alone there.
The West Bengal government on Thursday withdrew its affidavit in the election petition filed by Rekha Patra, the BJP candidate for Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the general elections this year.
Lok Sabha Speaker Friday warned the members that there should not be any sort of protests at the 'dwars', and said that action will be taken in case of violation.
Outgoing Union minister of youth & sports and information & broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur campaigned for BJP's candidate for Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat Raju Bista, today.
Trinamul Congress is likely to get the Jalpaiguri seat in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election, Kunal Ghosh, state general secretary of Trinamul Congress predicted today.
The TMC Hooghly LS candidate Rachna Banerjee, while answering to the media about the industrialization and agricultural prospects in Singur, failed to come out with a satisfactory answer, when she replied, “While I was travelling up to Singur I saw thick smoke coming out of so many factory chimneys, proving the existence of so many factories there.”
The manifesto is blissfully silent about the means of financing the costs of its promises, leaving the only option of high fiscal deficits (FD) and consequent heavy borrowing, though it makes a vague promise, without any roadmap, to double the GDP growth in the next 10 years ~ the underlying assumption being that the growth will find the necessary resources.
I have taken his trident in hand today and have kicked off my cleaner political campaign against misrule and corruption.
