With the Congress doggedly adhering to a campaign based on divine-right-to-rule, Narendra Modi sharpened his attack on party vice president Rahul Gandhi for meaningless prattle, and lambasted the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party for having a tacit understanding with the Congress at the Centre while pretending to fight it … Read More
The Gujarat High Court on April 24 rejected a public interest litigation (WP (PIL) No 96 of 2013) alleging that the State Government had provided undue and exclusive favours to Tata Motors Limited via Government Resolution of January 1, 2009, which gave the company a loan equal to the gross … Read More
Deploring the loose language used against him by members of the Congress’s ruling family, Narendra Modi challenged the party president and vice president to answer his queries on big ticket corruption cases and face the nation on the myriad issues arising from the misgovernance of the past ten years. Reaching … Read More
At a breathtaking gathering of Akali Dal-BJP supporters at Amritsar on Friday evening, Narendra Modi batted for an ‘Asian century’, said India would play a stellar role in it, and Punjab would be among the States that would shine on this spectrum. Batting for Leader of Opposition in the Rajya … Read More
By issuing a Communal Award promising reservations to religious minorities (read Christians and Muslims, since Parsis and Jains are too negligible to count) on the day of the sixth phase of voting, when two-thirds of the election is over, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has effectively conceded defeat. She took the … Read More
Time stopped in the eternal city. Every school, college, establishment remained shut and the city turned out in splendour to welcome a humble Shiv-bhakt, a chai-wala turned conqueror, who has captured their imagination and their hearts. Varanasi is a chronicle of an election foretold. No prize for guessing the winner … Read More
The email by Father Frazer Mascarenhas, principal of St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, virtually asking students not to vote by the BJP, has possibly been triggered by adverse feedback regarding the performance of the Congress-NCP combine in the first two phases of voting in Maharashtra on April 10 and 17. With … Read More
Buoyed by feedback of swelling support for the BJP, side by side with the growing disarray in the Congress ranks amidst reports of president Sonia Gandhi’s indifferent health, vice president Rahul Gandhi failing to cut ice with voters, and Priyanka Vadra forced to defend her husband’s unprecedented wealth after her … Read More
In a hectic tour of four of the ten districts of the newborn State of Telangana, Narendra Modi sorted out the glitches in the BJP’s relationship with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and addressed gigantic rallies with Chandrababu Naidu in Mahbubnagar and Hyderabad on Tuesday evening. The 2014 election … Read More
Even as Narendra Modi’s march to Delhi seems unstoppable, two unnecessary irritants threaten to take the sheen off his triumph, the like of which independent India has never seen. The Gujarat Chief Minister is resented in some circles not for his non-Congress background, but because he represents the first break … Read More
