Year: 2022

Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh said on Thursday that the CEO of Oreva Group, which operated the Morbi Bridge was not being arrested because he had Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “protection”. He described the Morbi bridge accident as an “example of criminalisation, corruption and commission” prevalent in the Gujarat government.   “Gujarat used to be a model for administration and good governance. The Morbi bridge disaster is a clear example of what has happened to good governance over the past 27 years,” Singh told reporters at the party headquarters in Ahmedabad.  …

he Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday slammed Rahul Gandhi and the Congress after a song was wrongly played in place of the national anthem during a Bharat Jodo Yatra event in Maharashtra’s Washim. The video of a song being played instead of the national anthem for a few minutes went viral as BJP leaders slammed Rahul Gandhi and the Congress for the mistake. Tamil Nadu BJP leader Amar Prasad Reddy shared the video and wrote, “Rahul Gandhi, what is this?” After delivering his speech, Rahul Gandhi announced the conclusion of the event…

The politics in Gujarat’s Rajkot – which is known for its Kathiyawadi spicy thalis – is heating up as the electoral contest in many seats of the region turns into a fight between the BJP and AAP. Traditionally, the BJP and Congress used to contest in these regions. Politics in Rajkot centres around the BJP, with the four seats in Rajkot termed the BJP bastion. The party won all four seats in 2016, but the AAP has entered the fray and put its focus on the students. “I am a…

Abhishek Chaudhary Gurjar, who was the Rashtriya Lok Dal’s national spokesperson, joined the BJP at the residence of UP BJP president Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary. Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) leader Abhishek Chaudhary Gurjar, who was eying the party ticket from Khatauli seat in the assembly bypoll, joined the BJP on Tuesday. Gurjar, who was the RLD’s national spokesperson, joined the BJP at the residence of state BJP president Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary here. Sources said Gurjar was upset with the RLD leadership which gave a ticket to former MLA Madan Bhaiya for…

 The BJP on Tuesday named Raghuraj Singh Shakya, a former MP, as its candidate for the Lok Sabha bypoll to Mainpuri against Samajwadi Party’s   Shakya was once a close associate of Shivpal Yadav but quit his Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party to join the BJP earlier this year. He was earlier in the Samajwadi Party (SP) and sided with Shivpal Yadav after he formed his own party. The bypoll has been necessitated due to the death of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, and Mainpuri has long been a pocket borough of his…