West Bengal Assembly Polls: Orakandhi sentiment a ‘game changer’ for BJP in Matua belt
Thakurnagar: At a time when the ruling Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party are trying to woo the Matua voters which are a deciding factor for many constituencies, the Matua community at Thakurnagar seemed to be already saffronised especially after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Orakandhi in Bangladesh. Jogesh Haldar, a first time voter in […]
Assembly Polls 2021 Highlights | TMC files complaint with EC over violation of MCC by PM Modi during his Bangladesh visit
New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: The Puducherry administration has imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and declared a no-fly zone for drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles over the Union Territory in connection with security measures ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on Tuesday. PM Modi is […]
Only BJP Considers ‘Illegal Immigration’ From Bangladesh a Poll Issue: Indian Opposition Lawmaker
The comments from Indian opposition lawmaker Saugata Roy, a member of the regional outfit Trinamool Congress, come as Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off his visit to Bangladesh. Several leaders from India’s ruling BJP have been critical of “illegal” migrants from Bangladesh trickling into India and altering voter demography in West Bengal. Professor Saugata Roy, a former […]
Why India’s farmers fight to save a broken system
Jaswinder Singh Gill had ploughed 20 years of savings from an earlier career as a mechanical engineer into his family’s nearly 40-acre plot in the northwestern Indian state of Punjab, just a dozen miles from the border with Pakistan. He has eked rice out of the sandy, loamy soil with the help of generous government […]
Amit Shah Releases BJP’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ for West Bengal Polls
Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah while releasing BJP’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ (election manifesto) for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly polls on Sunday promised 33 per cent quota for women in government jobs, various task forces against corruption and Rs 11,000 crore ‘Sonar Bangla’ fund. The manifesto broadly covered all the areas from […]
‘Meetings like Corruption Hackathons, politics based on bullying’, PM tears into Cong-DMK
Ahead of the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday addressed a public meeting in Coimbatore where he asserted that the BJP-led NDA was driven towards ‘development-oriented governance’. Sharing the recent developmental projects in the state, PM Modi said, “The grand temples of this region and Tamil Nadu draw people from all over the […]
BJP wants double engine govt in Bengal to siphon off public money: Abhishek Banerjee
India oi-Madhuri Adnal | Published: Sunday, February 21, 2021, 8:26 [IST] Nagrakata (WB), Feb 21: Senior TMC leader and MP, Abhishek Banerjee, on Saturday criticised the BJP’s slogan of “double engine government” (same party rule in Centre as well as state) in poll-bound West Bengal, alleging that the saffron party wants this mechanism to misappropriate […]
OP-ED: The toolkit for targeting India’s youth
When there is a democratic protest, who draws the red lines? Anxiety and outrage erupted in urban India on Valentine’s Day earlier this week, when the New Delhi police force swooped all the way down to the southern city of Bengaluru to arrest the 22-year-old environmentalist (she works in a start-up specializing in vegan food) […]
Parliament: PM Modi appeals agitators to resume talks over farm laws, Congress, TMC stage walkout | As it happened
New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday appealed the farmers protesting against the three agri-marketing legislations to resume talks over the issue with the Central government. Addressing Lok Sabha, the Prime Minister said the government and the Parliament have great respect for the agitators, though the reforms are necessary to empower […]
Farmers’ protest | Radical Sikh outfits, Pakistan-based Twitter handles fomenting trouble: Uttarakhand CM
“If we [the BJP government] had the powers of Hanuman, we would have split our hearts open to show what lies there for farmers,” the Chief Minister said. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on February 6 said U.S.-based outfits such as Justice for Sikhs and around 300 Pakistan-based Twitter handles are stoking anger among […]