In a far reaching development, Sri Lanka on Tuesday signed UNSC Resolution 1373 designating 16 LTTE front organisations abroad as ‘foreign terrorists’ and freezing all their assets and financial resources. These include the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) headed by New York lawyer Visuvanathan Ruthirakumaran; Global Tamil Forum (GTF) … Read More
Indirectly alluding to the recent resignation of American ambassador Nancy Powell to pave the way for a reset in Indo-US ties, the BJP’s Prime Ministerial contender Narendra Modi said that with a strong leader and a stable government, even “foreign countries behave and want to be friends”. America and other … Read More
Narendra Modi on Tuesday set a new political milestone of 300-plus seats for the BJP-NDA and urged the people to defeat the conspiracy of the Congress-UPA-Third Front parties to avenge their certain defeat at the hustings by ensuring a weak and unstable Government at the Centre. Addressing a gargantuan Bharat … Read More
The forthcoming Parliamentary election is a battle of ideas, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said on Sunday at a large rally at the capital’s Ajmal Khan Park in Karol Bagh. Countering without naming the BJP’s Prime Ministerial contender Narendra Modi’s eloquent denunciation of the ruling party’s politics of vote-banks and social … Read More
Virtually carpet bombing the Congress-NCP bastion of Maharashtra with back-to-back rallies at Amravati, Akola and Nanded on Sunday, Narendra Modi appealed to the jam-packed assemblies to vote for a stable and functional Government that could take the country forward and overcome the stagnation of the past ten years. Berating the … Read More
Widening his attack on the corruption of the Congress-dominated UPA and its disinterest in cleaning its stables, Narendra Modi condemned its decision to field Pawan Kumar Bansal and Ashok Chavan for the Lok Sabha elections and said this was part of a mindset that refused to combat corruption. Addressing gigantic … Read More
Directly wooing the Jat belt which has been aggrieved since violence engulfed Muzaffarnagar and neighbouring districts in western Uttar Pradesh last year, Narendra Modi told this predominantly farming community that Choudhary Charan Singh had steadfastly opposed the Congress for its anti-farmer policies and fought for their rights. In back-to-back meetings … Read More
Amidst a clear pattern of violence targetting districts where he is slated to address political rallies, BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi arrived four hours late for the Bastar segment of his Bharat Vijay rally on Friday evening and sharply attacked the Maoists for bloodying the land. Speaking to large … Read More
Continuing his strategy of out-manoeuvring the Congress by raising issues on which it has no riposte and directly appealing to Congress’s traditional voters while retaining the core supporters of the BJP, Narendra Modi today called for a new ethic in India’s federal culture to ensure that the Prime Minister works … Read More
Virtually stealing the ‘dalit card’ long monopolised by the Congress while attacking its ruling family for non-performance in the past ten years, Narendra Modi continued his election blitzkrieg to thundering ovations from exuberant crowds. Addressing back-to-back meetings in Sasaram and Gaya in Bihar on Thursday afternoon (after speaking to exuberant … Read More
