Describing the Maoist culture of bullets and blood as the greatest threat to democracy, the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate today appealed to the cadres to shun the ideology of violence and renounce their guns for ploughs or pens for the welfare of society. Addressing a huge Bharat Vijay rally in … Read More
Condemning without naming the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as the B Team of the Congress, Narendra Modi said that the nation has never before witnessed the spectacle of the ruling party and other opposition parties uniting to defeat a contending party. In previous elections, he mused, the opposition parties would … Read More
Promising citizenship rights to Indian refugees who fled from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after the 1947 invasion and those who came from West Pakistan as a result of the wars of 1965 and 1971, Narendra Modi lamented that these refugees have been languishing for decades in Srinagar valley without rights or consideration … Read More
The six-party alliance crafted by the BJP president Rajnath Singh in Tamil Nadu seems likely to make an impressive debut in the upcoming Parliamentary elections, winning anywhere between six to 15 seats, depending on local micro-variables. This is possibly the first election in which the smaller parties in the State … Read More
Launching his campaign as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate in East Delhi constituency, Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, attacked Narendra Modi and demanded that he ‘come clean on his election funding and subject himself to media scrutiny on his so-called achievements’. Long an academic in the United States … Read More
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s decision to opt out of electoral politics and hand over his Sivaganga constituency to son Karti to nurture and defend may be counted as a pre-election victory for the BJP Prime Ministerial contender. Whether or not Narendra Modi had staged a ‘fake encounter’ with facts … Read More
Expressing uncompromising opposition to commodity exchanges in agricultural produce on grounds that it adversely affects both farmers and consumers, Narendra Modi said India needs to concentrate upon reducing the import of agricultural products and increasing exports in order to resolve some of the pressing issues in its agrarian crisis. Devoting … Read More
Calling for innovative agricultural practices including a scheme of ‘water credits’ to maximise utilisation of scarce natural resources on the lines of carbon credits issued to counter global warming, Narendra Modi mooted urgent measures to revive the floundering agricultural sector and appealed to farmers not to commit suicide on account … Read More
With as many as 37 farmers committing suicide over the past few weeks in Maharashtra as unseasonal rain and hailstorms hit 28 of the State’s 35 districts, wiping out their crops and leaving them burdened with crippling debt, and Madhya Pradesh claiming that the rabi crop of 10,000 villages was … Read More
A war of words has broken out in the media after a co-convener of the Maharashtra BJP communication cell tweeted an endorsement of Narendra Modi’s incorruptibility by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The Congress challenged the claim and on Monday the whistleblower website called the endorsement a fake. Wikileaks has since … Read More
