Congress president Rahul Gandhi, addressing party workers at Kalpetta town in his Lok Sabha constituency after taking out a massive roadshow, said his party would continue to fight Modi, his lies and hatred with love.
Rahul Gandhi, who had offered to resign from the Congress chief's post which was rejected by the Congress Working Committee, however, made no reference to the crisis in the party
Supporters, holding placards exhibiting love for the Congress president, waited in queues on both sides of the road in Wayanad for hours before their parliamentarian, accompanied by other leaders, arrived atop a truck.
Former union minister and hockey player Aslam Sher Khan has expressed interest in replacing Rahul as the president of the grand old party for the next two years.
Rahul Gandhi's three-day tour of Wayanad, which will begin this afternoon with his arrival at the Karippur International Airport in Kozhikode, will see him participating in nearly a dozen road shows and public receptions.
Navjot Singh Sidhu also said that he can't be taken for granted after Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh recently said that he intends to change the cricketer-turned-politician's portfolio
Todabhim MLA Prithviraj Meena said the chief minister should bear the responsibility for the election drubbing after the party failed to bag any of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Of the 610 parties, 80 got about 1 per cent or less vote percentage in the overall vote share while the remaining 530 got zero per cent.
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, the SP-BSP alliance could only manage to get 15 seats in Uttar Pradesh while the BJP walked away with 62 seats, while its ally Apna Dal won 2.
In this year's Lok Sabha sweepstakes, it turns out in retrospect that Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have thrown up a game-changer by looking at poverty the right side up, politically speaking.
The divide over Pratap Sarangi is deep and vicious with social media particularly exploding with charges and counter-charges.
Speaking to the media after taking charge of the ministry, Prakash Javadekar, who was the environment minister in the last NDA government for two years, said it was ‘ghar wapsi’ (homecoming) for him.
Modi, 68, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Nath Kovind at a glittering ceremony at the forecourt of majestic Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The prime minister would decide on the various cabinet committees such as Cabinet Committee on Security, Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs and Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs.
This will be the first innings as Union ministers for six Cabinet ministers and 13 Ministers of State in the Modi government.
For 64-year-old Pratap Sarangi, who once nurtured the desire to be a monk and lives an austere life, his hard work and dedication to people appear to have earned him a berth in the new Narendra Modi Government.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will have the responsibility of winning the hearts of minorities and taking forward the 'development without appeasement' policy.
A Congress team on Thursday arrived in Amethi to assess the reasons for the defeat of Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Amethi constituency that was considered his bastion.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.